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Also consider that while star sign might be the stated reason for incompatibility, the truth could have been an impression or gut feeling and so the astrological mismatch is simply a way to give a reason for their feelings, whether done consciously to save face, or subconsciously to have something decisive to latch onto.

While I agree with the premise of your statement, remember that: 1) A court order is only required for a subpoena to request information that the service provider isn't already voluntarily providing. It has been common pratice for decades where telecoms and now social media works together with federal entities outside of a legal action. And this was not limited to trap/trace. 2) It's never so specific to be about protecting an individual candidate. It's about the foreign interference, and if that interference backs a specific candidate and attacks their rivals, then it will look like they're trying to protect the rivals. But at the end of the day it they have to trace it back to the foreign influence campaign if they're going to do anything with it. If Twitter jumps the gun and suspends or bans someone they're trying to work backwards from before having evidence its unfortunate but I blame that on Twitter not having stricter standards about such a partnership.

Honest to goodness the results don't seem worth it for the power usage. Pre-baked lighting, environment maps, material shaders look _really good_ and are easy to get decent frame rates out of without sacrificing artistic freedom. Why are we making it more difficult for ourselves with global illumination which just introduces more problems. It's just very difficult to realistically light things while still maintaining high-visibilty of game assets in dynamic situations.

It sells graphics cards but I just don't think it's very practical.

These exist in many different generations (sensor-based traffic control devices) but as there are state and/or local certifications each solution and implementation must meet to be deployed, plus the additional cost of installing and periodically calibrating sensors, they are not warranted unless the situation calls for it. The inconvenience of waiting an extra minute at a minor cross-street doesn't usually cut it.

If you live where there is a light that causes disruption or accidents because it needs sensors based on the traffic flows nearby, you should bring it to the attention of your local government. At the very least you could get them to do a study on it.

I really hope you forgot a /s

This is what the subreddit mentioned in the article sort of "discovered"; they spend a lot of time obsessing over the details and subtle variations they can get by working directly with factories and artisans in China. By using a real design as a template they cut out the difficult part of designing the whole concept from scratch and can work from a template but still achieve quality with some minor tailoring.

Incidentally, did you know that PowerShell on Linux respects the XDG specification? It was rather unexpected when I first noticed it and it just tickles me pink.

Only for grandfathered-in systems that are critical to keep operating that can't be replaced. New systems and lower-impact existing systems cannot use 3DES at all, unless it's only to decrypt stuff previously encrypted with it.

NSA is the entity in the DOD which sets certain minimum requirements and validates their cryptographic implementations. NIST owns the overarching standards for the whole government and sets requirements and performs validations through NVLAP that NSA doesn't, usually with their input.

When you see "FIPS", that means NIST approved/validated.

NSA approval/validation is relevant when the system has to handle classified information and often (but not necessarily) you start with components that have FIPS certification.

"[...] a bored ape is pleasant to look at [...]"

Is it really, though? Maybe the word you're looking for is striking or distinctive. Possibly-- competent. But pleasant is not the first word that comes to mind.

BAYC had first-mover advantage, there isn't anything particular about them that wasn't done better by a project that came later. That they are uniquely fugly made them stand out as a novelty.

Unfortunately, this is a reputation your organization cultivated for itself.

For gods' sake, the name is _Palantir_

If anyone truly needed rebranding right now, it's you guys.

I don't think Elon was strategically necessary to get EVs over the adoption hump, in that the market was primed for _someone_ to do it. And retrspectively it's been a huge distraction from the change we really need, which is the improvement of public transportation in our largest cities.

But I can't comment on the reusable rockets thing, I suppose time will only tell.

I think I remember "Westward Ho!", but I can't find anything that isn't the 1924 novel anymore. Do you have any more information about it?

Roomies! got rebooted spiritually as Dumbing of Age. That iteration has been going for _12 years_

The fact that people keep trotting out this idea about the future potential of NFT gaming is evidence that people know basically nothing about making video games or the assets that go into them. And neither do the founders of any NFT projects with the rate at which they crash and burn if they aren't outright scams.

I think for the layperson, "deaf" without any qualifier is treated the same as profoundly deaf. I think the term "hard of hearing" is used when someone exists elsewhere on that continuum for most.

It's a demonstration of the concept in action; I love this!

It sounds like you really just don't like being told what to do.

Which I think is more the fundamental issue of a lot of people who flip out about many things, including this issue.

Pray for the retail workers that frequently cannot wield your expected level of judgement themselves.

It's frustrating that the government doesn't step in to pay/fund on behalf of the public in situations like that. Standards organizations should want such a guaranteed income stream.

This makes me uncomfortable. Not the idea of it per se, but the narrative the GOP's anti-cancel-culture bloc builds around it. Echoes of Thiel's involvement with Bollea vs. Gawker.

I think the issue is just that NFTs solve a problem that doesn't exist. Any system where an experience is gated by user attestation is necessarily self-contained (asset, payment, user account) to more effectively extract money from participants. No one is federating this, and what would they gain to do so?

There is value in perhaps validation of proof of membership in entities where they have mutual agreements to unlock extra capabilities without having to link their backends, but there are other ways to accomplish the same things... like OAuth.

"CCP virus" -- Kind of makes it hard to take you seriously.

They explained in a related post that people were being harassed for hiding it or hiding comments... (Replace people with "brands" and we can infer their true motivation)

Related tech that got traction is BLE in servers with corresponding apps, like Dell Quick Sync. Lets you flash the ID light of a server from your phone, among lots of other things.

All of this assumes that other games will "play by the rules", in the sense that they won't let you use an item that you don't own. If I can see the resource (and in all current models, the content of the signed media/document an NFT authorizes is public) then I can use myself if my client is so configured. Most games give value to loot by forced scarcity, NFTs don't implicitly enable this at all.

xargs defaults to all whitespace because it was designed to get around the problem of short argv lengths (like, I'm talking 4k or less on older Unix-y systems, sometimes as low as 255 bytes).

So the defaults went with principle of least surprise, pretending it's like a very long args list that you could theoretically enter at the shell, including quotes.

You could, for example, edit the args list in vi and line split / indent as you please but not impact the end result.

That URL scans like something else with the protocol:// in front of that "l"

Nice.

From a Chinese web crawler...

And so they can sell you herbal supplements to keep your mind sharp.

Not quite, they're an NGO and the CyberTipline which it operates (the database Apple will use) was established by S.1738 [PROTECT our Children Act of 2008], and they get an appropriation from Congress to run that and work with law enforcement.

It's kind of like the PCAOB... private 501.3(c) with congressional oversight and funding.

I think the strategy is that the organization is able to do more for helping children internationally if they're not seen as part of the Justice department and the executive, which after the debacle with CBP and "kids in cages", was probably the right call.