"fake" bugs? No, these are real bugs, just non exploitable ones.
I don't want software to crash or do funny things if it can be avoided. Security is nice but it comes after functionality. If it is not functional, there is no point using the software at all. It is almost like the security guys want to make everything unusable, just because things that are unusable can't be exploited.
There are different ways of doing things. I've worked with projects that do extensive logging, some with none at all. Sometimes, optimization of every part is important, sometimes, well, just throw hardware at the problem. They all work provided you have a good vision.
Adjusting to your vision of the project requires a bit of time, but 1 year sounds like a lot. The only project I spent that much time getting fully operational is a 3Mloc, 20+ year old monstrosity that did the work surprisingly well considering how messy it is.
My ISP doesn't prevent running servers. I also don't live in the US.
It is not the point however. You can rent a small dedicated server in a datacenter for $10/month or so, which is probably better for your power bill and reliability than running it at home. You can run a web server or whatever you fancy on it.
Decentralization doesn't mean every user should be on their own. I mean you can got to your local farmer and buy a milk bottle and still call thats a decentralized model. You don't need to milk the cow yourself.
Tesla is just selling batteries. If you look closely, it is at the center of everything from Elon Musk, except for the SpaceX, but SpaceX is special. Electric cars are essentially batteries on wheels, as in, it is the only thing in an electric car that is not better and cheaper than in a gas car.
Tesla make batteries and cars with batteries, hyperloop is about battery powered trains, boring company intends to make tunnels for electric cars only, solarcity install solar panels (or tiles?) that charge batteries.
Consumer data is an asset of Tesla but it doesn't look like a master plan. Selling batteries does. And such news reinforce the idea that Tesla's batteries are the way forward. It is all they need. No need for user data, they aren't Google.
That's what I has in mind too and that's why I thought the article made no sense. My parents' place have 8Mbps internet and it is more than enough to stay up late.
But if we define any thing more than dial-up as "high speed" it suddenly makes a lot more sense. With dial-up, there is no streaming, no real-time gaming, and a page can take several minutes to load so no infinite scrolling facebook feeds.
This is a study about sleep deprivation, not about telecommunications. So it is not surprising that their standards are different.
By TFA standards, DSL is high speed internet. It is not about fiber or anything like that. (I didn't read the full paper though, I didn't bother getting through the paywall)
Basically, with very few exceptions, if you have internet at home, it is high speed internet.
It is a good thing we have these kinds of "irrational" feelings. That's the kind of feelings that made us consider slaves as worthy of compassion despite the fact that there weren't really human, because they were black you know. Portraying people as less than human is an age old technique for justifying all kinds of atrocities.
While imperfect, the natural compassion we have to "things" is a good safeguard I think. In the case of robots, for the simple systems we have now, it is clearly irrational. However as we go to more AI-like systems, I expect the idea of robot compassion to be more and more relevant.
Is it true outside of Helsinki? Just being curious.
Because what you describe is what happened in France during early fiber deployment. Companies competed to install fiber in the most profitable areas, sometimes with several carriers putting their own fiber on the same building. In contrast, other areas got nothing. In order to put a stop to that madness, the government forced carriers to rent their lines for a reasonable price to other carriers after 6 months.
For consumers, there is almost no difference in price between GBps fiber and sub-10 MBps ADSL. It is always around 30€/month for your typical triple play subscription, and you get the best speed available for your area, whatever it is.
Amigas were not cheap. About the price of a midrange gaming PC in today's money. C64 were cheaper later on but that's still closer to entry level PCs than a Raspberry Pi.
Also, the Raspberry Pi is a powerhouse compared to these old-school computers. It changes the way it is approached. You can fully understand an Amiga or C64, know every instruction, their timing and addresses. A RPi is always used through an OS, with many abstraction layers and things happening behind your back. Basically, old-school computers forced you to understand the hardware if you wanted to go further, but it was easy, now you don't really need to, and doing so would be much harder.
Typical market segmentation. They charge a lot of money for features that are essential to professionals but not as important for consumers.
I don't really see a problem with that. Companies have to make money. And that way, consumers get good stuff for an affordable price and pros get the features they need for the price they are ready to pay. The alternative would be too expensive for consumers, unusable by pros, or not profitable enough for the company.
If the Chinese seller ships you anything you're better than average.
From my experience, the Chinese are very reliable when it comes to shipping you something.
I bought maybe a hundred different items from Chinese sellers, on eBay, AliExpress and Amazon. Only once I didn't receive what I ordered, and it was lost in shipping (I had a tracking number) and I didn't file a dispute on time. The other rare times I didn't receive anything, I just contacted the seller and they send me another one for free or a refund, no question asked. 1 month delays are common though.
Counterfeit goods are the norm though, if it is branded and it is not a Chinese brand, it's fake.
Also worth noting that an airline pilot has huge responsibilities. It means you can't afford not to be in perfect condition to start flying. And that's hard to keep up with all these irregular schedules. There is a moral responsibility and written rules. For example, there are mandatory health checkups, zero tolerance for alcohol, etc...
There is on-call duty too, where you have to be ready to get to the airport within an hour or so.
It used to be a demanding but rewarding job. Today, it is still demanding but less rewarding.
Latency matters a lot. In computing, that's an aspect that is too often overlooked.
Increasing speed is easy, just add more of the same, but decreasing latency is impossible. The common analogy is: no matter what you do, you won't get a baby in less than 9 months.
Have you already wondered why oldshool computers sometimes feel faster than top of the line modern machines. You have your answer. Modern machines are extremely fast, but the countless layers of abstraction between you and the moving electrons create latency that can make your experience worse.
Buying the same product again is not that rare. You may want to buy a second one for someone else, or you may need two but only buy the second one if the first one satisfies you. You may also be unsatisfied send it back and buy another brand, or stumble on an accessory you missed. These may be low probabilities but how are the probabilities that you now want to buy something completely different. Algorithms rely on statistics, they don't look tor the reason why, so if suggesting the same product you already bought correlates with a bigger number on the bottom line, it's what they do.
For example, let's say you bought a coffee machine, seeing ads about coffee machines may remind you that you now need to buy cups, so you click anyways and search for cups. You may also be thinking it could make a good gift for your parents, after all, you already did your research, and you think it is a good one, plus it is easier since you already know how it works. They could suggest you something completely different, like a hairdryer (because somehow, hairdryers and coffee machines appeal to similar groups or something), but that would be a wild guess, probably not as effective as suggesting you a second coffee machine.
Algorithms are also working on incomplete data. They may not even know if you actually bought the coffee machine. They typically have to work with small, apparently insignificant (but correlated) details. They may not even by aware of the big events (like purchases, life events,...). It leads to a mismatch between your reasoning and what the algorithm show you: sometimes, it feels psychic, sometimes completely retarded.
Excellent screen (especially important for artists), the best trackpad available, fast SSD, very good battery life for the form factor, and it looks cool.
I never bought a single Apple product, and I don't intend to do so in the future because I have other priorities, but we have to recognize their qualities.
EFF's goal is not to constraint the big five, at least not directly. In fact, they goal is to make sure constraints are kept to a minimum.
The big five are powerful, they can negotiate with governments to be included in their white list (even though they sometimes serve pirated content...). Smaller sites, not so much. By making sure access is unrestricted, it gives competitors to the big five a better chance. Same idea for DRM. DRM is an anti-piracy measure but it can also be used for vendor lock in. For example eBooks bought on Kindle are only available on the Amazon platform.
Recommendations are based on your history. I don't get much of this crap.
If most of you recommendations are clickbait it can means: - You click the clickbait - You share an account with someone who click the clickbait - You have no history - You are not logged in and you block tracking - You are actually talking about the "trending" section (the only untargeted section)
They are not collecting data directly. They are just searching for data protesters publish via Facebook. I don't know about the details of GDPR, but if you publish a picture on Facebook for everyone to see, I don't think privacy laws apply. There are other laws for data you publish, like copyright.
Ads don't need to be clicked to be effective. A big part of advertisement is brand awareness, they just want you to know that their product exist. That your actually buy stuff through the link is just icing on the cake. There are also different way advertisers pay for ads: per click or per impression. For the second one, clicking doesn't matter, advertisers just pay just to be visible, and bogus click won't change anything. For the "per click" pricing, bogus clicks may decrease the value of a click to compensate for the higher volume but that's about it.
He isn't "right" neither is she (from a game design perspective). The way you balance story and player agency is a debate that will probably never end, because there is no right answer.
Her comments are really interesting, a shame it degenerated into a social justice war. I have some interest in game dev, though not a pro myself, and the way storytelling is approached is something that I find particularly interesting. You can have a very strong story with little to no branching and well defined characters (common in JRPGs). You can introduce branching, which gives meaning to player actions, but it "dilutes" the main story because you now have to spend resources in alternate branches instead of perfecting a single path. You can use a "generic adventurer" character, a classic of western RPGs in order to help the player identify to the protagonist, at the expense of a weaker story. Jessica actually explained that better than me (she really is a pro after all).
The answer from Deroir is a hint to the idea of branching, Something that Jessica didn't mention. I expect a response explaining the weaknesses of branching, but instead we got all that crap... Too bad, it started well.
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"fake" bugs? No, these are real bugs, just non exploitable ones.
I don't want software to crash or do funny things if it can be avoided. Security is nice but it comes after functionality. If it is not functional, there is no point using the software at all. It is almost like the security guys want to make everything unusable, just because things that are unusable can't be exploited.
There are different ways of doing things. I've worked with projects that do extensive logging, some with none at all. Sometimes, optimization of every part is important, sometimes, well, just throw hardware at the problem. They all work provided you have a good vision.
Adjusting to your vision of the project requires a bit of time, but 1 year sounds like a lot. The only project I spent that much time getting fully operational is a 3Mloc, 20+ year old monstrosity that did the work surprisingly well considering how messy it is.
My ISP doesn't prevent running servers. I also don't live in the US.
It is not the point however. You can rent a small dedicated server in a datacenter for $10/month or so, which is probably better for your power bill and reliability than running it at home. You can run a web server or whatever you fancy on it.
Decentralization doesn't mean every user should be on their own. I mean you can got to your local farmer and buy a milk bottle and still call thats a decentralized model. You don't need to milk the cow yourself.
Tesla is just selling batteries. If you look closely, it is at the center of everything from Elon Musk, except for the SpaceX, but SpaceX is special.
Electric cars are essentially batteries on wheels, as in, it is the only thing in an electric car that is not better and cheaper than in a gas car.
Tesla make batteries and cars with batteries, hyperloop is about battery powered trains, boring company intends to make tunnels for electric cars only, solarcity install solar panels (or tiles?) that charge batteries.
Consumer data is an asset of Tesla but it doesn't look like a master plan. Selling batteries does. And such news reinforce the idea that Tesla's batteries are the way forward. It is all they need. No need for user data, they aren't Google.
That's what I has in mind too and that's why I thought the article made no sense. My parents' place have 8Mbps internet and it is more than enough to stay up late.
But if we define any thing more than dial-up as "high speed" it suddenly makes a lot more sense. With dial-up, there is no streaming, no real-time gaming, and a page can take several minutes to load so no infinite scrolling facebook feeds.
This is a study about sleep deprivation, not about telecommunications. So it is not surprising that their standards are different.
By TFA standards, DSL is high speed internet. It is not about fiber or anything like that. (I didn't read the full paper though, I didn't bother getting through the paywall)
Basically, with very few exceptions, if you have internet at home, it is high speed internet.
It is a good thing we have these kinds of "irrational" feelings. That's the kind of feelings that made us consider slaves as worthy of compassion despite the fact that there weren't really human, because they were black you know. Portraying people as less than human is an age old technique for justifying all kinds of atrocities.
While imperfect, the natural compassion we have to "things" is a good safeguard I think. In the case of robots, for the simple systems we have now, it is clearly irrational. However as we go to more AI-like systems, I expect the idea of robot compassion to be more and more relevant.
Is it true outside of Helsinki? Just being curious.
Because what you describe is what happened in France during early fiber deployment. Companies competed to install fiber in the most profitable areas, sometimes with several carriers putting their own fiber on the same building. In contrast, other areas got nothing. In order to put a stop to that madness, the government forced carriers to rent their lines for a reasonable price to other carriers after 6 months.
For consumers, there is almost no difference in price between GBps fiber and sub-10 MBps ADSL. It is always around 30€/month for your typical triple play subscription, and you get the best speed available for your area, whatever it is.
The issue is that people are also made of organic matter.
No matter how effective it is, I won't wash my hands with a flamethrower.
Amigas were not cheap. About the price of a midrange gaming PC in today's money. C64 were cheaper later on but that's still closer to entry level PCs than a Raspberry Pi.
Also, the Raspberry Pi is a powerhouse compared to these old-school computers. It changes the way it is approached. You can fully understand an Amiga or C64, know every instruction, their timing and addresses. A RPi is always used through an OS, with many abstraction layers and things happening behind your back. Basically, old-school computers forced you to understand the hardware if you wanted to go further, but it was easy, now you don't really need to, and doing so would be much harder.
Typical market segmentation. They charge a lot of money for features that are essential to professionals but not as important for consumers.
I don't really see a problem with that. Companies have to make money. And that way, consumers get good stuff for an affordable price and pros get the features they need for the price they are ready to pay. The alternative would be too expensive for consumers, unusable by pros, or not profitable enough for the company.
Oh, fuck sia.
Step one will be: have everyone involved learn to spell that word correctly, because currently, no one does
If the Chinese seller ships you anything you're better than average.
From my experience, the Chinese are very reliable when it comes to shipping you something.
I bought maybe a hundred different items from Chinese sellers, on eBay, AliExpress and Amazon. Only once I didn't receive what I ordered, and it was lost in shipping (I had a tracking number) and I didn't file a dispute on time. The other rare times I didn't receive anything, I just contacted the seller and they send me another one for free or a refund, no question asked. 1 month delays are common though.
Counterfeit goods are the norm though, if it is branded and it is not a Chinese brand, it's fake.
Also worth noting that an airline pilot has huge responsibilities. It means you can't afford not to be in perfect condition to start flying. And that's hard to keep up with all these irregular schedules.
There is a moral responsibility and written rules. For example, there are mandatory health checkups, zero tolerance for alcohol, etc...
There is on-call duty too, where you have to be ready to get to the airport within an hour or so.
It used to be a demanding but rewarding job. Today, it is still demanding but less rewarding.
Latency matters a lot. In computing, that's an aspect that is too often overlooked.
Increasing speed is easy, just add more of the same, but decreasing latency is impossible. The common analogy is: no matter what you do, you won't get a baby in less than 9 months.
Have you already wondered why oldshool computers sometimes feel faster than top of the line modern machines. You have your answer. Modern machines are extremely fast, but the countless layers of abstraction between you and the moving electrons create latency that can make your experience worse.
I think it comes down to statistics.
Buying the same product again is not that rare. You may want to buy a second one for someone else, or you may need two but only buy the second one if the first one satisfies you. You may also be unsatisfied send it back and buy another brand, or stumble on an accessory you missed. These may be low probabilities but how are the probabilities that you now want to buy something completely different. Algorithms rely on statistics, they don't look tor the reason why, so if suggesting the same product you already bought correlates with a bigger number on the bottom line, it's what they do.
For example, let's say you bought a coffee machine, seeing ads about coffee machines may remind you that you now need to buy cups, so you click anyways and search for cups. You may also be thinking it could make a good gift for your parents, after all, you already did your research, and you think it is a good one, plus it is easier since you already know how it works. They could suggest you something completely different, like a hairdryer (because somehow, hairdryers and coffee machines appeal to similar groups or something), but that would be a wild guess, probably not as effective as suggesting you a second coffee machine.
Algorithms are also working on incomplete data. They may not even know if you actually bought the coffee machine. They typically have to work with small, apparently insignificant (but correlated) details. They may not even by aware of the big events (like purchases, life events, ...). It leads to a mismatch between your reasoning and what the algorithm show you: sometimes, it feels psychic, sometimes completely retarded.
https://ifixit.org/blog/10279/...
tl;dr Apple implemented one of their own patents called "Ingress Protection for Keyboards".
Bury the dead with phones, like that, when 2G/3G dies, the dead will be able to enjoy it in the afterlife.
Excellent screen (especially important for artists), the best trackpad available, fast SSD, very good battery life for the form factor, and it looks cool.
I never bought a single Apple product, and I don't intend to do so in the future because I have other priorities, but we have to recognize their qualities.
EFF's goal is not to constraint the big five, at least not directly. In fact, they goal is to make sure constraints are kept to a minimum.
The big five are powerful, they can negotiate with governments to be included in their white list (even though they sometimes serve pirated content...). Smaller sites, not so much. By making sure access is unrestricted, it gives competitors to the big five a better chance. Same idea for DRM. DRM is an anti-piracy measure but it can also be used for vendor lock in. For example eBooks bought on Kindle are only available on the Amazon platform.
Right, and to make things even more confusing they put the straightjacket logo...
Recommendations are based on your history. I don't get much of this crap.
If most of you recommendations are clickbait it can means:
- You click the clickbait
- You share an account with someone who click the clickbait
- You have no history
- You are not logged in and you block tracking
- You are actually talking about the "trending" section (the only untargeted section)
They are not collecting data directly. They are just searching for data protesters publish via Facebook.
I don't know about the details of GDPR, but if you publish a picture on Facebook for everyone to see, I don't think privacy laws apply. There are other laws for data you publish, like copyright.
Ads don't need to be clicked to be effective.
A big part of advertisement is brand awareness, they just want you to know that their product exist. That your actually buy stuff through the link is just icing on the cake.
There are also different way advertisers pay for ads: per click or per impression. For the second one, clicking doesn't matter, advertisers just pay just to be visible, and bogus click won't change anything. For the "per click" pricing, bogus clicks may decrease the value of a click to compensate for the higher volume but that's about it.
He isn't "right" neither is she (from a game design perspective). The way you balance story and player agency is a debate that will probably never end, because there is no right answer.
Her comments are really interesting, a shame it degenerated into a social justice war. I have some interest in game dev, though not a pro myself, and the way storytelling is approached is something that I find particularly interesting. You can have a very strong story with little to no branching and well defined characters (common in JRPGs). You can introduce branching, which gives meaning to player actions, but it "dilutes" the main story because you now have to spend resources in alternate branches instead of perfecting a single path. You can use a "generic adventurer" character, a classic of western RPGs in order to help the player identify to the protagonist, at the expense of a weaker story. Jessica actually explained that better than me (she really is a pro after all).
The answer from Deroir is a hint to the idea of branching, Something that Jessica didn't mention. I expect a response explaining the weaknesses of branching, but instead we got all that crap... Too bad, it started well.