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I had the same thing happen in melodics (a finger drumming educational app), went over midnight, lost the streak and just mentally gave up on it. Duolingo (that I have the pro version of) does the same thing, but it 'froze' it for me after the fact, so I kept going. Weird how the motivation can switch to demotivation literally overnight.

I'd love to see the retrospective warning signs. I wonder if there's ways to see a boss at a bigCo is a dictator during the interview process.

VR seems great for folks, but you're putting your eyes' ciliary muscles into a cast and then working the rest of you out. Few activities put your eyes at a fixed 1.3m focal distance for the entire time.

I love that getting let go isn't even on the flowchart. Amateur!

Google search is shot. They need to revert the jillion microservices to pre-covid versions and just let go of whatever they've done. The changes have surely increased some key performance indicators but they've also made their service look like its always April 1st.

Former computational materials scientist here. There are groups that are using ML for finding materials to simulate, and some beginning to use it to speed up simulations. Still that said, simulating cutting, abrasion, sharpening (I suppose it would be called to some extent tribology) is still in the infancy of simulation. Steel is extra difficult compared to other materials, and it has such a history of innovation that all exists at a sort of mesoscale out of reach of contemporary atomistic simulations. Still some have attempted it: https://www.dierk-raabe.com/icme/ or more recently: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09270... Still the from Simulation/Search -> Experiment pipeline is working generally at much smaller scales that steel structures for now. ie micro instead of nano

gently triggered by someone having a PhD in stat mech and not having to do the grueling proofs of this sort of stuff that at least I did in materials science.

Liquid lithium syrup is still available (with a prescription?). I purchased some, but without sugar it doesn't taste much like sevenUp when combined with soda water. The first time I ever had it (in a mental ward) it really tasted like sevenUp, but I think that was set and setting more than anything. I love lithium (especially in comparison to newer mood stabilizers), but I do have to track my liver function with it. I generally just use pills, but in other countries the liquid is more popular. This is all for bipolar, not for recreation. I'll have to check out that book from the old library.

It was possibly overflow from the Edison which is a separate club in downtown LA. Cliftons is Cliftons

I remember getting that email from a friend (who's still my friend) and thinking nah. Same with friendster which existed pre-MySpace. Folks comparing this to MOOs and IRC are missing that this was one of those first anglings to do what MySpace and Facebook eventually did. IRC and other online environs weren't built to gather users and use their information as raw material for advertisers. Sixdegrees was, it just failed earlier and faster than most.

I use it and I like it.

Current endgame employee here. Yes. In R&D our data science team has published a few and the vulnerability research & prevention team has as well. Some of these were in the form of talks.

IIRC the most relevant to this blog post is here: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Pierce-C...

the dexed plugin allows different bit depths. There were a lot of FM synths from yamaha from the DX5, DX7, DX7s, DX7II and they all had differences in one way or another. The user Power DX7 on youtube has some really in depth looks at the sonic differences between dexed and his dx7s. He also has some great intros into how FM synth works, which had eluded me for a long while. I gave my dx7s away, but sometimes I think about getting a korg volca FM to replace it.

This fixes the exact problems I would often have with ReasonML . On top of that my coworker hcarty made some nontrivial contributions to it, so I'm super excited. I am a dyed in the wool C style programmer, but after exposure to reasonml, I felt (as odd as it seems) able to read regular OCaml syntax easier. As someone else mentioned, it becomes a matter of what you see in your mind more than what's on the screen. I read OCaml library docs and have no trouble putting them into reason code.

Thanks for your work folks, ReasonML is just getting started.

Here's a nice hacked up version, note the mkdir -p that makes the directory if it doesn't exist. Also I changed the time from 24hr to more provincial 12hr w/ AM/PM Please be careful adding aliases if you aren't sure what' they're doing!

alias journal='mkdir -p /Users/insert_your_username_here_on_mac_on_linux_change_Users_to_home_on_windows_good_luck/journal/$(date +%Y)/; vim + "/Users/insert_your_username_here_on_mac_on_linux_change_Users_to_home_on_windows_good_luck/journal/$(date +%Y)/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md" -c "execute \"normal! Go$(date +%r)\<CR>========\<CR>\" | startinsert "'

Just in time!

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What it really requires is the blind eye (or knowing nod) of a nation state, since with the level of unuttered evidence (and the private orgs named which no one seems to be mentioning here) the idea that "we won't prosecute you if you do this" is the nation-state sophistication here. In the US you'd normally face justice for this, regardless of the locale or the ease of the break-in.

"It is unknown to me why Facebook issued an Additional Grant of Patent Rights in the first place."

STOP RIGHT THERE

If you can't be bothered to do the research necessary to see why then your JD didn't teach ya much in the ways of learning about things. Which ideally should be a large portion, those big books of case law, now oft replaced with speculation and internet comments, do at least tell the story of "why". And if you jump the gun on researching the imminently googleable first sentence of your argument, how can I trust, nay, why should I trust, a single sentence thereafter.

Long and short APL has patent clauses, BSD doesn't, their PATENTS file kinda added that back to BSD without some of the apparent downsides of the APL in terms of forcing you to never ever sue about patents.

Small but not hard, I know, I just have a PhD not some fancy JD, but at least I can do the research that would've muted I imagine the entire post.

I still can't seem to write non-confusing sentences though. Oh well. Parse the above at your own peril.

The resonance with left-pad and the questions of "how exactly to we share super simple code" evolves through so many different prisms. From legal to organizational to not invented here to...

Mass amounts of historic personal health info is more of a liability than an asset depending on the jurisdiction and the litigiousness of your customers in case of a breach.

Crying tears of joy I hope... or are your friends computers?

Nah. You want the congress to be the coders writing the law that is then literally executed like a program. But what I'm saying is that what "Watson" can actually do is help focus the decision making strategies on what rules and goals you want to implement. Trace through possible systemic failures (aka 3 strikes, mandatory minimums, small regulatory tweaks, etc) then implement the best option. Right now the http://www.bls.gov/bls/infohome.htm does this with aplomb, for much economic data, CDC, NIH, etc for other areas of study. But the synthesis of that analysis into rules and goals is right now done by a group of folks elected by gerrymandered districts to serve their needs w/o any machine assistance. How do they know what to trust, what changing the timeout on a law (the sunsetting or grandfather clauses) will do when implemented. They really can't do that without assistance from consultants and lobbyists and subject matter experts and interns, etc. Why not add computer aided decision making to the mix there first as there are so many more of them to help out. Then they could actually run competing models and test them out.

The executive branch should do the same thing, but the legislature should try it first. That's what I was saying, just the order of operations.

You don't want a computerized executive branch first, you want a computerized legislature first.

Note that the A-10 was designed post Vietnam and saw its first active service in the 1991 Gulf War, not in a jungle. It happened to do well. I find the engineering management of the A-10 quite interesting. The plane has done well, it is loved, but it's also had the most friendly fire kills of any aircraft of the modern era. There is a engineering case study review of the creation of the program, the multiple attempts and successful killing of the project in the 80s here (note that was for construction, taking our current planes out of service is a work in progress since they will be flightworthy through most of the 2020s): http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a530838.pdf

React Native powers Groups and their ad manager: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html

The officially released facebook graphql query parser is written in C/C++ https://github.com/graphql/libgraphqlparser

That's the JWZ perspective, but if you add strong typing you can basically turn the "string" into "SomeType" and process records like that. If you look at languages with a |> operator they often act like that.

Yeah they were fundamental to the tuning of radio at all come to think of it. Formant filter synths were available far earlier. And even earlier than that wah-wah mutes on trumpets were commonplace in the 20s which were a physical manifestation of tunable peak low pass filters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wah-wah_(music)

Yeah tried to mention that in my comment. You were switching between 3 physical caps, but the transistor(s) in the wah circuit let you use a potentiometer to alter the way the cap reacts in the circuit by reducing the sheer number of electrons that even get stuck on it.