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Wow, quite a long-distance abstraction. Kinda blew my mind. From restaurants to relationships and speculative execution.

It’s all about the looks, indeed.

One thing that maybe fits with this is the societal hierarchy of our senses. Seeing is somehow assumed to be much more objective than hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting. If you have very good hearing you might have found yourself in situations where you perceive an unpleasant noise that’s below other people’s thresholds and then it’s not too uncommon to be seen as a bit of a loony if you bring it up.

Smelling is the most subtle, instinctive and animal-like sense. Usually people are very polite there and in our current time it’s the norm to not say anything even if e.g. someone emits strong body odor that’s actively bothering the environment.

Vision however is thought to be objective. Photography. Pic or it didn’t happen. If object classifier checks out, it’s legit. (What else could there be?!) Digital image just like retinal image, right!?

So if you get what looks desirable (that shiny tomato or that pretty partner), you have it, you have made it. You don’t have to doubt anything because you saw similar images a thousand times in contexts that clearly said “this is desirable”. A lot comes down to how well our associative brains work with visual stimuli.

The way out of this IMHO is to stand up and build confidence and trust in your senses. If something tastes off, treat it of same significance as if that steak was suddenly of green-blue color. That would be alarming. It’s probably fine, maybe these veggies are just lacking in taste, so not dangerous but unsatisfying. If you need acting inspiration, watch that scene from Mulholland Drive where the Italian guy doesn’t quite like his espresso.

And regarding trends, the tomatoes in Europe have gotten a lot better in the last decade, particularly in the last five years and that’s largely due to Dutch farmers starting to focus on producing strains with a lot of aroma. It started off as a more pricy premium option but now they’re affordable and available all year-round.

I concur, would be great if this feature could be enabled with 'Emergency Mode'.

AGAMF - Let's keep it dynamic and take the top 5 tech companies sorted by market cap.

If you want to hear more about the background and Stewart Brand as a person, Tim Ferris interviewed him recently: https://tim.blog/2017/11/21/stewart-brand/

I fail to connect the renderings shown in the article to 10,000 homes. There's no way 10,000 units fit into this building. Why are they so obsessed with building low?

Audiobooks are a huge win when commuting on the subway. When walking, changing lines, or not having a seat, you can continue to listen, whereas with a book you’d frequently have to stop.

And for all those driving cars they’re also a huge win.

It's funny how I and other people see hp and immediately think of bad business practices that lead to a bad experience with the brand.

Relates to the concept that you optimize for what you measure. Not factoring in that screwing over customers will have some impact down the line is also like some sort of debt (as in tech debt). It's like long term brand debt.

Will Swift ever be able to span all the way down to enable Rust-like performance in places where it’s necessary?

Or is it much more that it takes for a language to be a viable choice for starting new C++ type of projects with?

Skimming the flush+reload paper I see how timing alone is enough to get e.g. a private key if the underlying algorithms are known and prone to revealing what they're working on.

Meltdown however seems to be able to arbitrarily read memory (at about ~500 kB/s).

How does this work that it can read from the cache?

Thanks a lot for this comment. Very useful resources! I was looking for something like this and these pages didn't come up in my search results.

just prefix the URL with http://facebook.com/l.php?u=

Please send me an email, I'm very curious about this, it sounds amazing.

So all these clean-room precautions that you normally see when people work on satellites are what for again?

I thought that was because we don’t want to contaminate space.

Somewhat off-topic but I like how lowly Nassim Taleb tends to think about Nobel laureates.

“[Bitcoin] doesn’t serve any socially useful function.” If that's what Stiglitz said word by word than he clearly lacks the ability to consider non-American perspectives.

In bubble times like this everybody talks about it, that's what's annoying me most. Everybody is eager to predict the bubble bursting. But few people put their money where there mouth is or just be honorable enough to give more precise predictions and later speak up if they predicted badly. They'd just quietly ignore they said something.

(Which is why I'm personally interested in predictions markets where you could challenge anyone to take a bet on a quantifiable outcome. But it seems they're not ready yet and probably won't be next year either...)

Syllabus:

Week Videos Quiz / Exam PA assigned PA due

1 Course Overview | Cool: The Course Project

2 Lexical Analysis | Finite Automata Quiz #1 PA1

3 Parsing | Top-Down Parsing Quiz #2

4 Bottom-Up Parsing I | Bottom-Up Parsing II Quiz #3 PA2 PA1

5 Semantic Analysis and Type Checking | Midterm

6 Cool Type Checking | Runtime Organization Quiz #4 PA3 PA2

7 Code Generation | Operational Semantics Quiz #5

8 Local Optimization | Global Optimization Quiz #6

9 Register Allocation | Garbage Collection PA4 PA3

10 Java | Final Exam

One thing that’s usually missed is that passcodes aren’t that secure if you unlock your phone with strangers around or if there are surveillance cameras filming you.

Bikes you can put in the pool.

That would be base-9 though

Fast charging was listed as a feature

No reaction emojis? That's such a useful feature to avoid :thumbup: / yes / no / me too / haha messages. In bigger groups it's also a really nice and lightweight way to do quick polls.

Thanks for sharing that. For me, who just quit a job again, reading this was reassuring that I'm on the right path.

For me the main advantage of using Uber in Europe is payment. It doesn't even matter whether it's card or cash - once I'm at the destination I just want to get out of the car. And having to think about tipping is even worse. And I don't mind paying a fair price.

This is excellent news. Even if you don't end up using one, I think it's motivating if a powerful upgradable Mac Pro exists. Something to aspire to.

Depending on your area you might at some point have to do lengthy computations or you start working with deep neural nets and then want to have Nvidia hardware.

I think it's great if you can stay on your favorite platform and have everything on one system.

Also: continuous integration for iOS. If these machines will be reasonably priced it will result in faster test build times for many engineers out there.

So I'm very happy about this unexpected announcement.

Do you have sources for this claim?

Blender has inverted left and right mouse buttons by default which I think isn't like vim but just a very bad UX decision that's not being changed now since the old user base probably adapted.

I assume you're writing Swift and/or ObjC. Which vim plugins do you use for these languages?

>> I suspect the current issues are caused by internal organizational problems rather than a lack of product vision.

Absolutely. If they'd figure out how to scale up such that they're able to fix the most annoying bugs filed via their bug radar, macOS would be a much better product.

The sad thing is that at some point there were more and more bugs and UX problems which I didn't even bother reporting since they were so obvious that everyone using the OS should notice.

So apparently they're not able to scale in that regard. Even completely isolated apps like Preview.app are affected.

I find it implausible.

Yes, it also saddens me.

The majority of young customers was spoiled by Apple's bad decision to not offer trial versions in the AppStore, as was established practice since decades.