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>So they had her sign up for the Screen Actors Guild (everyone who has a line in a film has to be a member)

Anyone know why this is? Why a person uttering a line must be part of a guild? Is this a U.S. thing, or international?

Also, why aren't the talks of unions here on HN using the world guild? Union? Meh. Guild? Yeah! Developers would flock to be part of a Developers Guild.

Edit: Answer to first questions:

https://www.quora.com/Are-all-actors-and-actresses-part-of-t...

>SAG-AFTRA is a USA union. There are many many hundreds of thousands of actors in other countries around the world. Other countries have unions too. Some, like SAG-AFTRA are strong and look out for actors’ interests very well. They may also act as gatekeepers and insist that their members have a certain standard and professionalism. There are plenty of countries where unions have little strength and actors are bullied and have next to no bargaining power. American actors have a lot to be thankful for.

Those "pushing the boundaries" always end up using a similar logic. However, there's always going to be a large segment of society whose rules are based around non financially oriented methodologies, such as: "morals", or directly from spiritual texts which disallow certain practices, or historical "customs". Such things are not "illegal" per se, but it's largely held as being reprehensible by a large number of people nevertheless & causes a large amount of friction within society.

Then there's the issue of marketing/propaganda (which the parent mentions as "hammered") whose sole purpose it's to change people's minds in an emotional way. I wish people would learn about Edward Bernays, nephew of Freud, who instituted this. In and of itself, propaganda has never been illegal, but no one likes to admit to being emotionally manipulated. (But when you begin to pay attention to your emotions, you can spot this stuff from a mile away).

For those interested, the (linked) source article from Phoronix, which shows the code change:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-RT-100x-Improve

>...served from a CDN, and subsequently cached

Due to cache partioning in browsers now, this will still be a big issue for all clients. Don't also forget that many clients are in poor internet speed zones.

A 2MB "buy in" will be unacceptably high for lots of projects (but not all, obviously).

Completely agree. His public work helped me with some 3d game development back in the mid 90's, mainly with geometry and 3d projections. Back then, in the pre-google era there wasn't a lot of places on the web to get good information, but Paul Bourke was there. He & his sites seem timeless somehow. Great to see it on HN!

In Oz, you can often and easily find rooms in an ordinary motel that has pots and pans, a little 2 element cooktop/oven combo & a sink. They're more expensive to rent of course, but they're very widely available.

We also have serviced apartments, designed for the longer stays, but are generally only to be found on the cities.

The thing is, there's no gaurantee that google nor microsoft nor apple do anything more. With products like nextcloud, at least you can see exactly what's going on.

We already know google, microsoft and apple have unfettered access to your data too. With self hosting, at least I have a chance of knowing when my data's being monitored & I can choose increasingly severe security around that system. The big players can only offer promises with little to no way for us to verify the truth of any one of their statements.

So, unless the big players offer e2ee as a default, it's best to assume the worst from them. With nextcloud it's far less necessary if you're rolling your own (but it supports a form of encryption anyhow)

In Australia during droughts there are reminders to not throw cigarette butts out the window of cars. Lightning also plays a large role in starting fires, but I also recall, as a child, being told that rubbish (litter) such as bottles and cans can reflect the harsh sunlight in a focused way and cause an ember.

I recall not buying a diesel mazda car because it had a disclaimer about not parking on long grass because of the danger of starting a fire. Apparently, mazda finally made it to recall status:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-12-29/ford-rangers-ma...

From the owner's manual⋮

> Parking over or near anything flammable, such as dry grass, is dangerous.

https://owners-manual.mazda.com/gen/en/cx-5/cx-5_8gj1ee18b/c...

This story reminds me of the man behind the movie "Stand and Deliver" (1988), Jaime Escalante, who in the 80's made his school famous for generating students that passed the Advanced Placement Calculus exams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante

1982 - 18 students passed, but by 1991 "the number of Garfield students taking advanced placement examinations in math and other subjects jumped to 570".

I like it when teachers teach far and beyond the boring old curriculum and inspire kids far beyond what they thought capable of themselves.

> Delta passengers can opt in to the experience by scanning their boarding pass once they are through the security checkpoint in Concourse A of DTW’s McNamara Terminal. Customers enrolled in Delta’s biometric digital identity program need only show their faces to a camera at the kiosk.

At this point, despite the apparent good use case in this instance, we technologists should be exceedingly mindful of the dystopian future we're giving our overlords. I know many here on HN are aware of the great social responsibility, but all too many of us are willing to implement this stuff for the lolz or the money alone. Do I want cameras recording me and going through an increasingly disproportionate number if ML systems? What about the data? Where does it go? Who is in control of any one singular ML system running these things? What happens when that company starts failing? My data, my biometrics... all sold to the highest bidder.

Some are real head scratchers too.

My favorite, from the first book:

"Reflected sound of underground spirits" -> echo gnomes -> economics.

An easier one: "Inn sewer ants" -> insurance

How have I not heard of this? Doing a quick HN search I see it's been posted multiple times over the years, but with minimal uptake.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcryptomator.org%2F

Perhaps the problem is that the privacy conscious have already deplatformed & do their own syncing to private cloud, whereas the others are still using the platform & don't care as much.

I'm in the first group, but have become increasingly weary of keeping servers online (I self host everything) & I'm see a lot of promising results in Crytomator... but there's one inevitable gotcha: those very platforms can cut you off at some point in the future. So, you'll need to multi sync across multiple platforms for redundancy.

That said, cryptomator looks good!

Witness 2 gives detailed information, but it's completely unlike the information given by both the victim and the other 2 witnesses. The victim, Witness 1 and 3 present the same story, although Witness 3's is very sparse on details (ie least detailed, according to your metric).

You may also scroll down to the end of the PDF to check the answer. Witness 2 is the least accurate.

This is a short video showing a) how to make one b) the kinds of voltages /charge it can store as well as c) make a device to test it. I found it pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/1DR-tTU8uIM

Thanks for this and parent too! I didn't realise that this is precisely what I've been missing in my compositions: I never quite understood that poly aftertouch is actually rare!

Anyone know of weighted keys that implement this?

It's taken a decade, but it's pretty much moved back to the permission model that j2me had, which iOS and Android deliberately removed & sold as better UX. Seems like the original devs of j2me knew what they were doing - only the joe public's weren't ready for permission popups then like they are now. :sigh:

Agree. At this point I'm a little bewildered at what iOS and Android has brought to mobile development that wasn't already in j2me, at least in a preliminary way.

At the start of iOS it was "look, pretty icons" and "no more permission popups". But, most platforms had icons anyway, and all the apps now get the annoying popups for the same set of permissions (except for networking) that was the bug bear of j2me (at the time). iOS and Android got rid of all the permission boxes for a better UX.

So, we're left with the expectation of a seamless web. But it never occurs because of endless permission issues, of which the platforms try to reduce by providing a one-size-fits-all cloud solution (iCloud and Google), both of which allow relentless advertising & gamification of our personal information. It's so bad that governments all over are racing toward digital "identities".

I'll take the simplicity of j2me any day thankyou. The development environment was GBs smaller and faster and the problem set is pretty much the same. At least with j2me there was the idea of responsibility to data usage (I generally only get 3G, even now) as opposed to 40MB apps that download 100's more. All the apps I developed during that time were offline first and synced when available.

The real complexity I see is in the consumption of video and hi res images as well as the interaction with other apps (eg share menu). Unless I'm seriously mistaken, everything else was in j2me (even opengl). All the other complexity is in the tools we have these days & endless rhetoric on which ungainly monster is better than the next.

> * the real problem is getting the bloody things out again after 10 years of weathering or other age effects. *

Try putting grease on thread as you drive it in. 90% or so of the bolts and coach screws i've removed from hardwood or treated pine are reusable after 15-20 yrs in Oz climate. They were all greased up by my dad going in. The ones that failed are rusted badly & the grease wasn't coated around the shaft. The good ones have signs of corrosion (we use galvanised), but essence of grease and the thread is still there.

We don't use Pozi, but use hex drivers (coach screws & bolts) or their negative female equivalent (bugles), which an allen key fits into. We also pre drill holes.

...and yet because there's only Apple and Google providing hardware that's used by the masses, exactly how is this going to work? If the environment we're using is completely contained (pwned) then how will this not be a draconian system of control?

What happens when I buy debian mobile? I presume it will not be accepted because there will be no safe app. No app, no identity? No identity means you're suddenly locked out of society.

What phone theft? Most people's phone security is almost non existent.

What about luddites who have no mobile at all?

It seems like it's 100% about control of people. And that's a privacy matter. My body, my life, my choice.

Well, there was this guy a couple of thousand years ago who made some remarks contrary to your point: turning the cheek and loving your neighbor. He also went as far as saying to resolve conflicts before you're put in front of the judge.

Many millions of people follow his words & think it still relevant today.

He also had a special way of recognizing & calling out hyprocrisy.

Wow. Just No. What an incredibly unbaseless attack. I wish to retain my soul!

Research into this topic does not require watching porn, & definitely not disgusting black topics. There are enough victim reports and videos that show how bad the problem is. Those reports alone turn your hair white.

The alternative is iOS, a more consistent UI/UX, but you lose out on projects like F-Droid, where you can bypass Google HQ nonsense.

It's a pandora's box of horror, if you dare to begin research it. We all need to though, otherwise it won't stop.

Here's an Australian Senator talking about a list of top level government people & politicians that are on a list that so far no one has investigated. (The list was sealed from publication by a Prime Minister for 90 years) https://youtu.be/t_FsQCxfb7k

Here's an article downplaying pedos, making them more palatable (2018): https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/07/tedx-speaker-argues-that...

Child trafficking: https://globalpressjournal.com/africa/democratic-republic-of...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

I've seen videos of people laughing at the camera after having just killed a child while being raped. The man was a white American. This is happening in every country.

Agree.

I would add that even good old, rock solid assembler isn't a straight entry point into controlling the CPU, but is now just an abstraction over µOPs. Abstractions surround us these days, and for each of us, we find differing levels of what's tolerable vs what should be known about the next layer below.

I'm personally (kinda) ok with not knowing too much about the sub-assembler processes that happen inside the literal black box called a CPU, but I know that for branch optimisation, it's important.

Fantastic! Has this been shared on HN before?

> We would come back about 20 ns older compared to her [the wife who stayed behind].

≥ Or, the other way to look at it (since this is relativity after all), is that she would become 20 ns younger than us upon our return. Note to husbands: this could be a useful gift idea for your wife.

The article mentioned 100-160ft from the surface, so i'm not sure where the "deep" part mentioned in the headlines comes in. Perhaps their ultimate plan is for deep & this demo didn't try to address the deep part? That said, if 100ft below had enough forces to produce 100kw (ecological issues aside) that sounds pretty fantastic, even if just a demo.

I don't disagree, but borland c++ and turbo pascal both had excellent debuggers, the latter is still working under the guise of lazarus (but i'm not a fan of the gui). What spoiled me in vc++ was remote debugging, statement completion & type/object browsers.

Remote debugging is not new. I was doing it with vc++ back in the early 00's, & am pretty sure was there in the 90's.

DKIM in no way helps to get past the cartels' "reputation" filters. I send maybe one email every few months to microsoft accounts & it's always received as spam. My server setup & ip have been solid for a decade. It's only ever the globalist providers that block me. Google is 50/50 I get through. Everyone else (eg Protonmail) is no problem.

Perhaps this is all true in your country, but not mine.

I used to regularly take photos of cops abusing the system. I even once followed a cop going well above the speed limit when their lights weren't flashing. 20km down the road I eventually caught up with them because they'd pulled over... to set up a speed trap! Naturally, my first words were, "'Allo, 'allo, 'allo, do you know what speed you were doing?" (I'm not in UK).

I've caught them blocking traffic to book people getting around traffic jams in the other direction, after watching them speeding and going through a red light, & doing an illegal u-turn.

Double parking. Forcing cars to cross double lines, to book minor infringements. Going almost double the speed limit through a retirement village (90km/hr in 50 zone). Blocking traffic to buy food... my list is pretty long!

Police need to uphold one rule: serve the community by obeying the rules they enforce.

In my country they give themselves almost free reign, to the point where they're almost terrorists.

No amount of social and media propaganda, nor closed door review processes, will rectify the situation, unless atrocious behavior is stopped