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Not sure exactly what you mean, but I run a setup where everything is mostly containers, except for HA which runs in a VM as a native install. I would prefer to run other services that connect to it separately (in their own Linux VM+Docker).

I didn't see anything with a cursory glance but are they considering allowing Eagle libraries to be used? This would be great but something I would assume that Autodesk would hate.

The corrolary of an alarmist report is a dismissive viewpoint. Theres evidence here that FDM printers emit toxic fumes. If you want to believe it's really not so bad, fine, close your made up mind. If there is a chance that filament fumes are harmful, people need to be made aware. They're setting these things up in grade school STEM/STEAM programs; there is potential for real harm here and not pursuing more research is irresponsible.

The author is the one "peddling" the idea that loss aversion is a phalacy but at least he seems to (ironically) recognize that his argument is in itself part of the social/argumentative part of science. Even so, this article seems to draw conclusions as if they were widely held beliefs (I'm not qualified to speak to these claims until I do my own research).

Right, seems like a better way to describe this is to say "Watching sports activates the same neural pathways as playing sports".

It's disappointing that you have to take it there but you're probably not alone and Amazon/Twitch have probably considered something like this and decided against.

This is incredibly disingenuous, throwing the entire services credibility into question. If streamers realized they were being manipulated, you can bet the backlash would be huge. It also creates a slippery slope; "data shows that if there is an uptick in users at their 3rd hour of streaming they're more likely to continue streaming for another 3 hours and pick up roughly 10% more viewers". These are people -- tricking them into helping to increase your websites monetization is just unethical and wrong.

Now, if you could provide this kind information to streamers and offer guidance, well, then it is their choice and done in good faith (no manipulation required). Companies (and the people behind them) don't have to default to the 'let's be evil' approach to be successful.

Where is that quote from? I've read Thus spoke Zarathustra and am considering which of his texts I should read next.

Enjoyable read but quite the dire ending. Of course that's the point; this essay wasn't meant to bring you happiness.

It's another Window tethered to your trackpad. Probably my cynical side talking but I don't see how this will save me much time from using Spotlight, Alfred or Launchy. And yes, I have a touchbar and feel much the same towards it.

On the flip side, having all keys as little oleds that can be remapped to anything I want is something I would likely use constantly.

Completely borked on mobile (Safari); views are squished with main circuit view being impossible to make out details.

Trying to understand the cloud strategy here; does Github run on Azure, GCP or AWS?

I've just started using Signal and was surprised by how good the call quality is. For those that aren't aware, Signal calls are encrypted, so you effectively give nothing to the cell carrier when you make a call through it (except that you used some data).

I too have experienced cyber-ennui, mindlessly half entering website addresses into my navbar. Cn-enter. Ha-enter. Fa-enter. Eng-enter. What am I even reading, I don't really care about the latest drone or how to optimize my website using Lambda and API gateway, and yet, despite keeping my IDE open so "there is no excuse", I just can't help but succumb to the mindless ether...

I've thought about this a bit and I feel like anything worth doing requires hours of my concentration, which I don't usually have. Bite sized chunks of knowledge 'productivity' feels like an accomplishment, or, at least serves as a facsimile. The internet is, in some ways, like an artificial sweetener -- it tastes sweet but never actually satisfies you.

Not true -- this is substantially more portable (the GNU compiler for instance will even give you fallback instructions). I number of years ago I wrote PPU intrinsics (so not Intel, but similar) wrapped via macros that worked on both the Xbox360 and PS3 PowerPC processor. On one instance I can remember (frustum culling in a complex scene graph) I saw a 3ms frame time delta. This was a few days of development time well spent.

I'm guessing these intrinics map 1:1 to some AMD equivalent. Oh, looky here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh977022.aspx

The other attack they described ("DolphinAttack") is intriguing. I've yet to read the paper (but plan to), but the idea of Voice control being ever more present and likely extending to control of more parts of our lives (Banking, Vehicle Controls, Home Security...) could make this a pretty effective attack vector.

At first I assumed this was a stack ranking type "cutting the dead weight loose" move but doesn't appear to be so. The article cites "too much staff for the work" but that seems strange; Amazon has never been bereft of ambition ("Think Big"). What would be the real strategic impetus for slashing hundreds of positions? How does this jibe with leadership principles like "Hire and Develop the Best" and "Insist on the Highest Standards"?

Haven't seen much coverage on how this affects game consoles like the Xbox and Playstation (which use AMD CPUs). Does anyone know if they've talked about patching it and how this would affect game performance (which is a pretty big deal for gamers who expect a consistent experience)?

Nope, that was possible, but the boolean operations could lead to numerical instability if you didn't align your brushes to the grid at a reasonable granularity, which could still lead to leaks. The flooding code was generally pretty well done but developers had to bandage issues like this in every Quake-engine game.

FYI Unreal still had leaks (which lead to major performance issues if uncontrolled, due to the PVS being too inclusive), but it was not as pronounced as the negative space still allowed the map to finish building the BSP (Quake just failed, sometimes without a clue as to why).

Different unit I believe but perhaps same customer service dept. Either way, isn't their mobile division now owned by Google? https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/21/16343342/google-htc-deal-...

I did something similar a few years back, except instead of Lava lamps, I used a Geiger counter module connected to an Arduino (scrap from a project I was working on to make something economical for civilian use after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster). Basically, the background radiation is used as the PRNG number (not just as the seed). I found out later that someone at Sparkfun already did this: https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/132

It works quite well (at least on me). Responses usually go from "well, I was already feeling like one of those so might as well get some points" to "why would I want a Frappachino when it's so cold out"? I assume their algorithms are under heavy development and are basically random A/B tests at this point, perhaps primed with some basic data and stars added as an enticement.

In the future, I could see it evolving into something where it sees what the weather is, looks at what websites I'm visiting (via data brokers), analyzes historical trends, extrapolates my likely mood and finally uses all of this to figure out what sugary comfort drink I'm mostly likely to bite at. Perhaps I should take comfort in how utterly predictable I am and how easily open to suggestion...

On a similar note, if you haven't seen it; https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...

Sid (and others) did much the same thing that F2P games do now; make the odds 'flexible' using accumulators, counters and other tricks. For example, the odds displayed may be 66% chance of victory, but over time, that number changes based on a number of fuzzy factors (number of consecutive victories/losses, time since last victory/loss etc...). He even had a random coin flip in there cause 'randomness is what makes games fun'. So even though it said 66%, there's something like a 1 out of 10 chance that you'll just lose, to spice things up. I mean really, how fun would it be if tanks always beat archers. :-)

In the pursuit of making a fun and interesting experience, it's not as bad as it sounds since it leads to a rewarding experience (though getting 2 hours of sleep because Civ is so addictive could be construed as negative). When providing questionable reward to the player and in a money grab via psychological manipulation, well, yeah, seems pretty exploitative and not so honorable.

What's most interesting to me is the wildly different perspectives that gamers on different platforms will tolerate. Zynga/Facebook gamers seemed to never care. Mobile gamers follow suit but some are a bit sensitive to this manipulation. Console gamers are familiar with these tactics since the horse armor days but have a red line (Destiny 2 just crossed). PC gamers have zero tolerance and will go up in arms as soon as their precious games are violated with F2P mechanics (though Ubisoft is doing pretty good here since they're doing it somewhat respectfully).

So with most companies employing an open floor plan isn't there a tremendous amount of audio overlap. Are all the devices linked and Alexa now smart enough to differentiate between multiple users?

What kind of work is really practical when done via voice vs secure authenticated terminal access? I talk to my co-workers to exchange ideas and come up with new ones. Talking to my computer or my office space seems awkward and aurally intrusive since people are trying to work and not hear you asking Alexa to, I don't know, make you a coffee?

As a huge fan of Neal Stephenson I found Seveneves to be one of his worst books. Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Snow Crash; some of my favorite books so the length of the book has nothing to do with it. The characters were flat, unbelievable and unlikable. The dialogue was weak and awkward. The scenario felt contrived and uninspired (the moon blew up, earth had to evacuate; yep, Cowboy Bebop already set a high bar for this story).

I listened to this one in the car (10+ hours for books a week thanks to my drive). Maybe it was a rough week but I had to stop halfway through because it completely lost me. Maybe it gets better but having read the spoilers I really can't imagine how.

But hey, your mileage may vary.

Not sure how I feel about the premium model's name. Is it pronounced as in the letter 'X' or ten/10? I'm guessing ten, as in the 10th anniversary edition iPhone (which will certainly confuse things in 2-4 years).

A find it humorous that this is a real world equivalent to mobile game speed boosts, where you pay to save time. It's interesting to ponder the monetization model this could open up. Imagine paying extra to unlock another 10 MPH on the highway (or unlock the speed limit governor). Before going on a long trip you pay for extra distance. Level 3, 4 and 5 Autonomous AI can be toggled via in-app purchase on your mega-screen.

One step further; the car is free and self driving, but you're bathed in a 360 degree never ending stream of advertisements, targeted to you based on where you've been, and where you're going (not just your digital/google footprint but real world).

I was hoping this was going to talk about the problem that Beamdog ran into 'enhancing' Icewind Dale 2. They can't find the source code and doing the reverse engineering to make improvements was deemed too costly; http://www.pcgamer.com/icewind-dale-2-cant-be-enhanced-becau...

As far as this article; not my cup of tea but the author seems to have put a lot of time into it. If you like data science, dive on in.

Is F.lux open source software? I don't see a link to source code on their site and a quick web search didn't turn anything up. I wonder why they would lock down development when they could get a lot of great community support (not much to lose; it's free and they just ask for a $5 donation).

Wanting to make games for the NES over 30 years ago was the reason I became interested in programming in the first place . If the author is lurking, thank you for this!

It's probably not a discrete number or even heuristic (like number of years you've been in good standing). Rather it's probably another part of their machine learning backend that tracks trends and user behavior as a whole.

But as a guess, if you're a new account, maybe 2 or 3 times. For every year you've been a member, probably 1.5 times that number per year up to some max (let's say, 7).