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GP is talking about the Google onebox features, like maps, local reviews, weather, sports updates, movie tickets, etc. which show up on the SRP before competitors like MapQuest/ESPN/AccuWeather/Fandango

Well the back of my Chase card says chase.com.

If you tend to use search engines to find websites, you are trusting the search engine to give you the website for Chase Bank.

You used to defraud the US Government back in the day? For pagerank? Did you get in trouble?

>264 APM

Actually 792 APM. They limited their AI to 264 "things" (choose unit+ability+target or change view) per minute. Each "thing" can be counted as between 0-3 actions by starcraft. So it really has a peak APM limit of 792.

From the article:

>Agents were capped at a max of 22 agent actions per 5 seconds, where one agent action corresponds to a selection, an ability and a target unit or point, which counts as up to 3 actions towards the in-game APM counter. Moving the camera also counts as an agent action, despite not being counted towards APM.

But from replays it has an average APM of 248 at the highest, so nothing crazy going on. Plenty of pros have peak APMs during fights that are higher than 800.

> What could have happened instead? Many things.

Yes, yes, many things, certainly. Obviously, fix-forward is very bad because of these many things.

As a highly compensated software engineer, of course I know what these things are, but, just checking, what would you say they are?

I have been using a 5th gen X1 carbon 1080p with Linux for work for over a year. I would say it's slightly inferior to the mbp except in the weight category.

The screen is dimmer (maybe the 4k is better), the webcam/mic/speakers are worse, the battery is slightly worse, and the trackpad is much worse. The trackpoint is nice, and the proper keyboard is nice (though karabiner on Mac os enabled me to get productive with fewer keys). The USB-A ports are nice, and the HDMI is nice. The build quality is great.

Software is great. I just miss the trackpad gestures.

It's a different form factor. Slightly lighter, smaller screen.

It's not possible to replace fiat currency with bitcoin because the transaction rate (# of tx/s) of the bitcoin ledger is far too slow (5tx/s).

https://hackernoon.com/the-blockchain-scalability-problem-th...

The Amazon locker still makes non Amazon packages safer just by reducing the thief's reward. For example, if I forget my bike lock, I feel better leaving my bicycle in a locked bike cage with cheaper bikes that are all well locked with chains than with a bunch of pricy unsecured bikes, since there's less incentive for a theif to cut the cage fencing and take all the bikes.

I've had the experience of needing to book 4 airplane tickets through a reseller, and having a hunch it would be cheaper to book in 2 goes since there were only "2 tickets left at this price". Since they had 24hr cancellation, I took the chance, booked 2 tickets, and was right, after a few minutes, 2 more tickets were available at the original price.

Well since you bring up heated seats, the TM3 does not turn on the heated seats automatically based on temperature / butt-in-seat and changing it requires 3 touchscreen taps, two of them high-precision taps, where as the Volt has simple tactile controls. Though I will say the Volt has some of the worst climate control UI I've ever seen.

Similarly the defrost is not automatic and the button requires a precision tap.

There are a couple of reasons you might need to actually use the controls in a car with some regularity.

It's unnecessary to create a filesystem-level support I think, since you could make a circular buffer holding a video stream in a file with some constant size that is approximately n hours of video. With some clever tricks you could even keep the format compatible with existing video container formats.

No, it's usually more like 5 minutes

Confession of judgement is what the clause is called.

I assume they trap bacteria to the cornea, and reduce the tear-flow that normally reaches the cornea you get with each blink.

An option is a contract that sets a price that you can either buy or sell a certain stock for at a subsequent time.

They have a certain value, and therefore prices, but are different from actually owning the underlying stock.

I believe the parent poster is referring to the second episode [0], where people must earn credits for cycling on exercise bikes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits

At the bottom he writes, "the stationary distribution is actually independent of adding a constant diagonal (identity) matrix," but I'm not sure how that could be true (intuitively it doesn't make sense, but I don't know the math)

edit: A identity matrix wouldn't affect the stationary distribution, but if you had the actual "stay" probabilities they wouldn't all be the same, and thus not an identity matrix at all.

The repetition of the word 'underwhelmed' seems intentional, but the reason for it is unclear. It's distracting to the point that the actual content of comment is lost on the reader.