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Ever wonder why no FOSS game has taken game of the year?

Who the hell cares about an award so nebulous as 'game of the year?' I've had more fun with Cataclysm (a FOSS roguelike) and Survivalist (the very essence of XBLIG Look) than Dead Island.

From Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Daylight Saving Time - How Is This Still A Thing?

I think you were looking for "I see you" and "Are you still there?"

https://youtu.be/r_imBPDKN_M

This is neat, because you no longer need to setup a cheap double-wide for living while you build your own home by hand.
If your willing to deal with a flimsy plastic roof while your doing the rest of the stuff by hand, by yourself, in your spare time, you can get your home on with less money, less material, and less hassles.

Make it a bit more modular in design (say a wall which can be knocked out later without messing up the structural integrity of the whole building) and turn it into a garage later.

Then again... what you are describing as "doing the rest of the stuff by hand, by yourself, in your spare time, you can get your home on with less money, less material, and less hassles" is how homes are often built in the poorer parts of the world.

Only, instead of building a small home to live in while building a bigger and better one next to it - it's usually just dropping a square structure on as many square meters of land affordable to you at the time.
Then, get living inside that ground floor tiny house with no insulation and complete disregard for architectural or esthetic norms.
If you end up needing more space, such as when your kids grow enough to need their own rooms, you build upward. Add another floor. And another.
It's OK. Foundations will hold. And you can always use lighter materials for upper floors.
Plus you get the heat insulation as a bonus, and it is usually cheaper than using bricks.
What's the worst that could happen? What do you mean "land slides"?

Most "hassle" people avoid revolves around (cutting) costs and (not) following rules. Be it building codes, laws or common sense and logic.
And it might all be just fine for years... until some long ignored issue raises its ugly head - and the roof over yours ends up collapsing. Regardless of its esthetic qualities.

Ultima? WTF are you even talking about?

Early 90's Ultima (eg VI and VII) are 2D tile-based RPGs. While great games, they are neither first-person nor shooters.

Ok.. It depends.... Password rules, like anything, when used within reason CAN increase security.

There has been some research which arrive at the conclusion that yes, indeed, password rules are actually bullshit for security.

As mentioned in the summary, enforcing password rules will actually block provably safe passwords :
- a base32 encoded 128bit pure random number. It's mathematically provable to be secure (if done by a cryptography-grade true random number generated, it's a 2^128 security, which is pretty good enough). But it's a 25 character long string of alaphanumeric. So it's not mixed case, and doesn't contain punctuation so it will be rejected by most stupid rules (also some rules have size specified as a range [9 to 16 characters], not a minimum [more than 8]. This will also reject a 25-long password).

As shown in presentations at numerous presentation in conferences such as CCC :
- even a complex rule set (Mixed case, must contain numbers and punctiation, at least 9 characters long) will usually give results such as "Denver17!"
Which are a lot less secure because they follow a general pattern (The first letter is the single capitalized, number come at the end, punctuation is the last and 9 out 10 times it's a '!' ). Most of these "rule abiding password" follow one of very few such patterns, and patterns are alarmingly easy to crack.

As such, no matter what, rules are a bad idea.

On the other hand, password managers with a generation function (like the above 128-bits equivalent password) are definitely a good idea.

No, it still wouldn't be a good idea:
https://youtu.be/QXF2qcu-tFw

"How to recognize trees from quite a long way away". A bit dated, but still unmatched: https://youtu.be/Tzmp8T2xX2A?t...

Why Airbus does not include a parachute in its concepts and aircraft? Even Russian military pilots have got an ejection system for more than half a century. Here is a video "MiG-29 Pilot Ejects Two Seconds Before Crash" https://youtu.be/5MQk1yvsoKY

But we, who pay for the tickets a lot of money still do not have anything. No safety system in the air at all.

https://youtu.be/8ABa4RdNPxU

No he was doing what he does playing word games, which he consistently does in testimony. Youtube any of it. My argument why he should not be believed is that he has a history of misleading the public with issues related to monitoring of communications by American Citizens. https://youtu.be/QwiUVUJmGjs

I am calling him lair because I have pretty strong evidence he has lied before about similar subjects. Its a tautology, Clapper is untrustworthy because he is untrustworthy. He has lied before about this subject, the assumption must be that his testimony can not be considered useful evidence going forward. Which is not say its impossible he is telling the truth now. Liars don't always lie. It is however hard to see what motivation he would have to be honest.

1) He isn't under oath this time so there is no personal risk if caught fibbing
2) His statement sort of exonerates himself and his political pals, maybe its true, but it also happens to be the lie he'd want to tell if it were otherwise
3) Its what everyone expects him to say, so he can expect little push back for people other than Trump and his surrogates, who already have animosity toward him.

I mean, sure some people don't go for the so-called "hard sell" approach but then again you can kiss my ass:
https://youtu.be/X637dAm2hHM

From Nature:

The rich fossil record of virii in equine species has made them a model for evolutionary processes1. Here we present a 1.12-times coverage draft genome from a virus found in horse bone recovered from permafrost dated to approximately 560–780 thousand years before present (kyrBP)2,3. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA decoding techniques described by Erlich1 et al, [DNA Fountain enables a robust and efficient storage architecture] we recovered a total of 2.14 × 106 bytes in DNA oligonucleotides and perfectly retrieved the information from a sequencing coverage equivalent to a single tile of Illumina sequencing. The process allowed retrieval and decoding the data, reference, https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

7) What does the fox say?

The answer: "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was."

In case you want to hear some Finnish death folk metal, here you go. I find it's great music to have on when you're gaming.

https://youtu.be/-2WqQY_xSSM

In other words, a Finnish twist on Manowar (from the equally bleak, depressing town of Auburn, NY - about a half-hour from Shittycuse).

If you "don't do riddles" then I actively don't want to hire you - the entire purpose of a software engineer (i.e. not a flunky programmer) is to do riddles, all day, every day. If you don't want to do that, you don't want to do the job I'm interviewing you for.

Yeah, and I'm happy to pass on being hired by you, as well.

Long Live the Sorting Hat.

I've read electronics data sheets that were riddles, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Those data sheets are tying to tell you something, and it's probably not that you should busy yourself with becoming better at solving riddles.

Riddle me this, Batman: what do your customers want? That problem probably shouldn't be addressed with riddle-brain either.

But I will concede that there's a time and place for mastering the art of solving the Really Big Riddle. Like that time the London Whale put $2 billion up for grabs by whoever was brave enough take the other side of those positions.

An economist and a normal person are walking down the street together. The normal person says "Hey, look, there's a $20 bill on the sidewalk!" The economist replies by saying "That's impossible—if it were really a $20 bill, it would have been picked up by now."

Those are the riddles that are really worth solving.

Ivanchuk missed mate in one

Is it a riddle how this kind of thing happens, or a problem requiring deeper cognitive skills? For example, was Anand hoping that Ivanchuk would miss his easy out, because of the complexity and urgency of the rest of the board? Or were they both so wrapped up in the larger riddle, that neither person noticed the coup de grace? (Not that I've ever witnessed this in the trenches, while programming under an intense deadline.)

What does a real programmer do? He or she notices that there's a pattern to the error mode of top chess players—long moves by bishops in the backward direction are the ones most often missed, and writes a script to catch those instances. Is that a riddle? "What class of moves is missed most often by top chess players?" I don't think you can approach that question as a riddle.

Often the hardest thinking is that which allows you to escape from riddle mode.

You're Anand. You don't even know if your opponent is a lone wolf who has wandered off the reservation or a world-renown investment bank executing a deliberate strategy. Whatever he might be, he appears to be leaking $100 million bills. The clock is ticking. Your move.

Well, if you like videos, this is a great one about the PewDiePie situation: https://youtu.be/GjNILjFters

It's so secure written in the professional engineered PHP...

If I could down-vote you I would. I suppose you write all your code in C (not that C++ shit) when you don't have the time to pound it out in machine (with vi, only nubes use anything else). Or are you one of those trendy Ruby On Rails guys - oh, wait, that's old news. But never mind, I assume all your code is revolutionary and bug free...

Absolutely. I use Erlang Outlaw Techno Psychobitch like all the cool kids

Was radio ever anything other than that, in general? There have always been (and still are) DJ's that host radio programs that do hunt down "what music is best" (fyi, troll - that is an opinion-based issue). Everyone has the right to find that out for themselves and make their own decisions; there has never been a better time for that. There is more diversity than ever on the radio even if it is more corporate-focused, and with the internet and things like SoundCloud there is effectively no barrier for any music to reach any listener in such a context.

If you're willing to look a little bit, you can find all sorts of great music on the radio. I'm in Houston, Texas and I can hear straight-ahead jazz, zydeco, rock and roll, blues, and about 6 different flavors of country. I still haven't found a reliable source for opera or Finnish death folk metal (yeah, it's a thing), but radio is plenty good and worth every penny (it's free).

It helps to have an HD-radio, because I find little gems of stations that otherwise might not have a frequency in regular AM or FM.

I listen to a lot of streamed music (Google Play is my current preferred platform), but there's still a lot of life left in radio. We just need more college and "underground" stations, even though that's not likely to happen with the current administration in Washington, who seem to prefer turning the airwaves over to a handful of giant corporations, who don't know a goddamn thing about music.

In case you want to hear some Finnish death folk metal, here you go. I find it's great music to have on when you're gaming.

https://youtu.be/-2WqQY_xSSM

Your post, in slightly more yellow-tone:
https://youtu.be/pLqfXlIq6RE

Speaking of "smashing itself to bits", if you liked that video, you'll probably appreciate this one too.

https://youtu.be/uowIviSx8nI

My favorite YouTube videos at the moment are the ones by machinists. I have no aptitude or experience in this area, but for some reason I find it relaxing to watch machinists work while describing what they're doing. I also have no plans to actually do any machinist stuff, but I find the videos absorbing. I also like to watch fishing videos even though I do not fish.

Here's one that's particularly meditative for me. It's well-known YouTube machinist "tubalcain" giving a tour of his tool box.

https://youtu.be/rvM_SRrvvHo

He was deffinitly killed in Aliens, you're thinking of a different character. It's arguable in Terminator.

Here's all three in one go.

Bill Paxton - An Alien, a Predator and a Terminat: http://youtu.be/DHg6S4AYlb4

Yeah, it's weird that this is being bragged about, considering Demis Hassabis and DeepMind trained their game-playing AI so that the only input it received was the pixels on-screen. You'd think advances in game-playing / learning AI would build on top of that, not go backwards.

For anyone who hasn't seen this yet, here's footage of some of the technology behind DeepMind's AlphaGo (the AI that beat Lee Sedol at Go last year) learning to play old arcade games, eventually becoming superhuman at them. I jumped ahead to right before the demo: https://youtu.be/rbsqaJwpu6A?t...

Time to purge.

Many studies have been done on anthropic climate change, but almost no experiments.

There's one rather large experiment going on right now. Unfortunately we're all inside the test tube. So far it's turning out more or less how we expected.

You can't really compete with the concept of WWZ zombies -- they're just too fast and aggressive, but I think nearly every other invocation of them would fall away from an elliptical wall.

The other low-tech zombie fighting tool I've always wanted to see employed is a good old demining flail. These look like tanks with a combine attached on front, only the combine part is steel weights the size of melons attached to chains. They rotate and pound the ground to set off any mines.

https://youtu.be/wf6CsvAffHo?t...

If you raised the flail assembly so it just spun in the air, you could literally drive into zombie hoards at low speed and just pulp them.

My guess is that a similar apparatus on a smaller scale could probably be adapted to nearly any vehicle, probably even improvised from hydraulic sweeper attachments for Bobcats.

I've thought about doing a similar thing to this to defeat ALPRs but it seems that most of these methods don't take it far enough. most of them are trying to get some bleed into the surrounding area of the sensor. A few watts of power draw is nothing which is what most of these attempts do, I'm thinking like 100W power draw for each license plate. I'm looking for this effect but in the IR. So instead of trying to create lens flare I want to massively underexpose the image. In this case I may also get some massive lens flare as well but that isn't what I would have been shooting for. Also using some LEDs like these would be good as they are far enough into the IR that they don't have the red glow that others do.

https://youtu.be/3rUndzpdo1I?t...
Blender + Handbrake
1700X $399 vs 6800K $430+ on Intel ARK.
91.6 vs 112.1

You are correct. My listening comprehension especially on English numbers aren't the best especially when it's use names like tens (78 hundred for instance.)

20.5 seconds lower, 112.1*3/4 = 84.1, 84.1/91.6 = 8% faster if viewed as per core and if 8 core Broadwell-E would have had the same clock-rate as 6 core Broadwell-E, which realistically wouldn't had been the case.

So a very similar performance per core and clock on Ryzen vs Intel Broadwell-E and Skylake though with more cores and threads at the same or lower price than the Intel chips. Better for multi-threaded tasks, possibly worse for single-threaded.

I must admit mis-remembering concerning John Casor being white. I confused the Irish indentured servants with John Casor for some reason. I will always admit it when I'm mistaken.

However, Anthony Johnson *was* a black man and *was* the first government-sanctioned US slave owner, and the rest of my original post I still stand by.

I know many people here intensely dislike Glenn Beck, heck I don't agree with him on many topics, but he did a very good historical piece on US slavery. I believe it's worth seeing.

https://youtu.be/KnsjiIHGkbc

Strat

Anyone else think of this?

https://youtu.be/jRGPYQiBYTY?t...

Life

As you would expect, it doesn't end well.

there is definitely support for nvidia

Vgpu seems very very cool. Now how can we turn this into something commercially viable?

-dk

https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4

His firing was because he damaged the "brand".

Well in that case.. I can only assume that Disney and Youtube are the anti-Semites. Given PewDiePie's reaction if you watch the full scene.

Actually, ignore that link. It was working the other day, but now it seems to be unavailable for some reason.

He paid those guys to hold up that sign. He told them what to write on the sign. Why would I care about his FAKE reaction to what he paid them to do?

His firing was because he damaged the "brand".

Well in that case.. I can only assume that Disney and Youtube are the anti-Semites. Given PewDiePie's reaction if you watch the full scene.

Actually, ignore that link. It was working the other day, but now it seems to be unavailable for some reason.

In the same interview ( https://youtu.be/kMpQWSqQFK0 ) Gabe announces Valve is making 3 unique VR games. Not tiny a tiny experiment like "The Lab" but three full fledged games. That's a pretty big investment to make if they didn't care about VR and only making money via Steam Sales.

You can see the quote in context here: https://youtu.be/kMpQWSqQFK0?t...

He's simply saying he VR is interesting and worth an attempt even if it fails. He also announces in the same interview that Valve is currently developing 3 distinct VR games. Not small "The Lab" experiences but full games. That doesn't sound like the actions of a company who believes VR is dead.

The full unedited version of the interview hasn't been released yet but you can see most of statement responsible for these articles here: https://youtu.be/kMpQWSqQFK0?t...

"We think VR is going great. It's going in a way that is consistent with our expectations." "We're also pretty comfortable with the idea that it will turn out to be a complete failure. Simply because if you're not trying to do things that might fail you're probably not trying to do anything interesting at all."

It's pretty clear he's not saying VR is dead or SteamVR/Vive is a failure.

That poor crash beam has taken a number of hits over the years
https://youtu.be/LmTEoZJA5-w?t...

Time to work with primary sources. I assume(*) you meant video "5 Things You Should Know About Racism" (3:28 - 5:08). The point of the video was that for racism to work it need institutional support. She did not claim that black people can't possibly be racist. If you know a state where institutions are run by blacks and are discriminating against whites, that would be your counterexample. For inspiration, Chinese institutions discriminate against non Chinese. Perhaps South Africa is doing the something similar. But the point Franchesca is making is that USA has no institutions that oppress whites in favour of blacks, not that blacks are theoretically "incapable of being racist"

I agree that all races can hate, discriminate etc. We are human after all. But is two groups hate each other and only one group calls the shots, it would be foolish to assume that the disadvantaged group has as much of the responsibility to fix the situation as the advantaged group.

(*) I assume you meant this video, because your quote "incapable of being racist." and MTV lead to a reddit article, which linked to the Decoded video

A recent report on this in the Netherlands summarised it as "playtime has to be over". Big data and the algorithms that work on top it are getting a serious amount of power over our lives. Any little scrap of data is starting to influence your chances of getting a job, a cheap loan, or even a date.

If you want to know how scary this gets, check out this presentation by Alexander Nix on how he used this type of data to influence the elections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or have a look at the new "Social Credit Score" that China is implementing, in which every citizen gets a score that shows if they are a well behaved citizen or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I also highly recommend watching this interview with professor Frank Pasquale, which summarises the issue.
https://youtu.be/PDjgyTnzWuQ

(Academic students here are not allowed to cite Weapons of Math Destruction, but you are allowed to use his book)

First of all, the problem is these systems increasingly take away power from the judicial and other democratic systems, which actually were somewhat transparent. You can see the law that affects you if you want, it's public. With algorithms, you can't. An example are the 'risk of recidivism scores' that increasingly influence judges' sentencing. Those, it turned out, disproportionally called black people risky.
https://www.propublica.org/ser...

Secondly, those new algorithms are rarely transparant, for a number of reasons. There is an incredibly faith in 'neutral' algorithms and 'objective' data, and even if you break through that resistance, you still find that the algorithms are often carefully guarded business secrets. Do you know how the Facebook algorithm that shows you your news works? Can you hold its designers accountable?

The whole thing, if anything, just adds a new layer of obfuscation that is actively abused. See the Volkswagen Diesel scandal for example.

Seriously, read Weapons of Math Destruction, it's awesome. Or check out Frank Pasquale's book:
https://youtu.be/PDjgyTnzWuQ

He wasn't trying to make a joke, he was trying to see just how far people on Fiverr would go for money. When he found out he was speechless. You can see that he had no idea what to say to the fact that people would do crazy things like this for a few bucks.

You can see him finding out here: https://youtu.be/KtxXKezbQ9w?t=660

Some quotes from the video:

"I am sorry. I didn't think they would actually do it."
"I don't feel too proud of this, I'm not going to lie."

Just in case anyone was wondering, you can find the video in question here. I've skipped to the relevant part, but the whole video is him going WTF over just what people will do for a few bucks on Fiverr:

https://youtu.be/KtxXKezbQ9w?t=660

"I am sorry. I didn't think they would actually do it."

"I don't feel too proud of this, I'm not going to lie."

And your father smelt of elderberries.

Just about every restaurant and retail business has security cameras. I help run a strip mall and we've got security cameras all around the outside and along the sidewalks (on top of the cameras the tenants have inside their businesses).

Have people already forgotten the Boston marathon bombing? The FBI tracked down the responsible brothers almost exclusively through use of private security camera and cell phone footage. You already have no privacy when you are out in public. It's just that 99.99% of the time nobody cares what you're doing so the video eventually gets automatically overwritten.

The problem with using this against the police is that if there's a major police incident (e.g. fatal shooting by an officer), the police will often confiscate the videos for their own investigation. Rather than just taking a copy of the video (what they ask me for in robberies, muggings, and hit & runs), they will frequently delete the original, or even confiscate the security camera hardware. It's gonna take cloud and automatic local backup systems to thwart this.

Even if you implant the phone in your head, you still need a signal, which can be blocked.

https://youtu.be/8DbMskHnTvE?t=29m

When you goof off at work, your penalty box will be a faraday cage.

They prove who did what when the bullets fly, keep the police honest,...

Funny how, quite often, there's a sudden mass failure of police body cams and audio recording when there's a situation where the cops may look like criminals. Or, there's suddenly a 'computer problem' that loses all the video/audio and gee, backups? What are those? Sorry, we either A: didn't have the budget to implement backups, give us more money, or B: surprise, there was a sudden system failure that lost just that particular stored evidence but strangely didn't lose any other data on the same server/HDD.

You could file a complaint against the officers in question, but that may not go well for you.

https://youtu.be/jfLwdyMbSHE
https://youtu.be/FLpiK8JJJKQ
https://youtu.be/Tt_pMgGaekU

There are many, many more.

Welcome to the American police state. Legal complaints not allowed against enforcement forces (they've lost both the 'police' and 'law' adjectives/descriptors by their actions...they're now simply 'enforcers').

Strat