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Have you used a switch? There is no commodity tablet on the market with the attachable controller form factor & dockable with HDMI passthru that the Switch has, at the Switch pricepoint.

number of people * hours taken per person

For people who believe the marketing: why would a legitimate sysadmin tool include a cryptocurrency miner and a feature to turn off the webcam indicator light?

This was used to exploit people, plain and simple. While I don't think blanket arresting people who downloaded it is reasonable (someone may have fallen for the marketing and used it for legit reasons), shutting down the C&C servers to disable it from working and aiding in exploitation & blackmail is a net good.

I never thought of financial logs as an angle for history, very interesting.

Funny to think that in the future this might be done with the default-public Venmo transaction feeds. "Here we see Handel paid his friend with the message ";)". The meaning is unknown."

My hacky solution to doing this for free is to use the iphone accessibility "speak screen" feature. With the high quality Siri voice downloaded, it sounds just as good as this. And in BookFusion it will read through an entire chapter without requiring you to turn the page or anything.

Not to be a "just use rsync" commenter, though. This is a cool service. Just couldn't justify $5 a book, myself.

Unfortunately a lot of these models are trained more on white faces and end up lightening everyone's skin as a result. My photographer friend is constantly fighting with photo-retouching tools to not whitewash their subjects.

Murakami is a great author. One of his most famous pieces is A Slow Boat to China, which is definitely worth a read. It's not too long, and touches on very interesting social themes resulting from Japan's rapid post-war industrialization and the failure of the 1960's anti-ANPO student protests / riots.

Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4384180, also works in sci-hub if you don't have access.

You can't, and it sucks. That's why the web is better, or at least why it's supposed to be better.

the scraper = the person doing the scraping

> Your software is your product. The primary cost of software is NOT the initial development: It is the ongoing maintenance. When you cut corners, you are taking out a loan against your future sanity and time. Higher quality code bases and better practices lead to stability, ease of extension, and more money.

I want to agree with this attitude, I really do. But with how crowded the indie game market is right now, I understand the urge to move fast and loose. Games already take years to develop and are incredibly expensive, and hiring additional developers is incredibly expensive. Considering the tiny chance your game will be successful and make its money back, why would you spend tons of time frontloading work to avoid future maintenance? In all likelihood, nobody will play your game and it won't matter! And in the off chance it does get popular, you can go back and clean things up later... definitely... right?

Can't some service dogs predict seizures? If so, an AI probably could as well (maybe with the right sensor input).

Yeah I highly recommend DBT, I've done it as well and it's very effective for those kind of sudden onset extreme moods -- it was developed for exactly that.

It was awhile ago, but IIRC I just called around to a bunch of places. The best way to get information unfortunately ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Every good mental health professional I've had has understood this. Effective treatment treats the individual, not the diagnosis -- the diagnosis is only to get authotizarion from insurance and government agencies to get the necessary resources. My insurance paid $1500 for psychological testing that "confirmed" my severe ADHD -- which was completely obvious to my psychiatrist, she just wasn't allowed to diagnosis it -- just so I could get authotizarion to try stimulants... and find they didn't work for me at all.

Psychiatric diagnosis is at the level of pre-scientific symptom-based diagnosis, for the most part. Imagine if you went to the doctor for a cough and, without any tests, they prescribed a month long course of antibiotics with no idea how effective they would be. A friend of mine was prescribed powerful antipsychotics to "fix" a problem that was actually being caused by another psychiatric medication they had been prescribed earlier to fix something else. Their mental health kept getting worse and worse, and what finally helped was starting a DBT (dialectic behavior therapy) program, and now they're in the process of getting off all those meds that turned out to be more harmful than helpful.

We need to stop pretending that a point-scored questionnaire is a scientific way to distinguish a diagnosis, or that we understand the chemistry of the brain well enough that medication can be the first line of defense.

Using the Steam client to run other code at an escalated privilege level.

I don't see why this is a big deal -- a native app can also be distributed with malicious patches or dlls, and those are common methods for e.g. game modding and cracking. If you're worried about the integrity of a program, check the hash.

Back in the day I used to build single-shot logic using sand supported by torches holding back water. Water knocks out torches, sand falls releasing more water, etc. When redstone came along everything got much simpler :-)

Yeah, but how does running a Windows game on Linux = cheating? I understand the need for modern multiplayer games to have anticheat (however unfortunate, and I still refuse to play games that use literal rootkit-esque anticheat [1]), but just trying to run a game on Linux isn't cheating in itself. Does Wine help cheats cloak themselves?

[1] e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard

Among others that have already been mentioned (Applied Science, Bon Appetit, Food Wishes, etc.):

* Game Maker's Toolkit -- in depth analysis of game mechanics and game design (from a journalist / player perspective, not so much a technical one -- though he does host yearly game jams -- my point-and-type entry last year was https://vgel.itch.io/themengi </shameless plug>)

* NativLang -- (Mostly comparative / descriptive) linguistics videos

* Historia Civilis -- very in-depth takes on (mostly ancient) history, military, & politics

* Clickspring -- professional clockmaker, has a series of him building a mechanical clock, and is currently working on a series of him recreating the Antikythera Mechanism with investigations into the original construction methods

* This Old Tony -- videos on hobby machine shop projects

* Steve1989MREInfo -- showcases old military MREs, talks about their design / development, and eats & reviews them... including 40+ year old ones. It sounds weird, but it's strangely interesting and calming.

Yeah, but barely anyone uses it. That doesn't really disprove the usability issues.

One thing this article didn't mention is how crowdfunding also exacerbates existing inequalities: for example, racial biases [1].

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2837042

Definitely interesting -- I haven't read the paper so I can't comment too much, but I remember from my phonetics class in college that (IIRC) there isn't a language that pronounces labiodentals with the bottom teeth against the top lip, even though it's totally possible. The trend of overbites could help explain this?

Definitely nothing to read into wrt the deeper development of language, though -- having a greater variety of sounds doesn't actually correlate with any higher-level information density or anything (languages with smaller, easier to distinguish sound inventories that are less information-dense on a phonetic level are in turn pronounced faster -- see http://rosettaproject.org/blog/02012/mar/1/language-speed-vs...)

Javascript should really also be connected to Scheme. Sure, the "JS = Scheme" meme is not true, but Eich was certainly inspired by Scheme.

I'm typing, not yelling.

I think it's pretty obvious that they were talking about the "manifest destiny" genocide of native people, considering that "freeing up" that land was considered pivotal to "completing america's destiny". though i guess they could have been talking about the genocide of african enslaved people through forced labor. or the genocide of people in the Philippines during the Spanish American war, which birthed the American empire. lots of genocide to choose from, actually, so i guess your confusion is understandable.

there's no evidence that immigrants are more intolerant than the general public. most domestic terrorism against minorities is committed by people who are not (recent, obv if you go back far enough white people are immigrants too...) immigrants. and in my anecdotal experience as a trans person, i have never been harassed by someone who immigrated here, just by white-bread WASPy nazi types. I'm sure it happens, but so does tripping into the garbage disposal and losing a finger, it's really not common. And when it does happen, conservatives hype it up in their anti-immigration rhetoric even as they use their actual structural power to strip away my and other queer people's rights! Like Trump talking a big game about how much he wants to "protect LGBTs" from immigrants (implying immigrants can't be queer...) while under his administration documentation changes for trans people are getting harder to get, LGBT people were removed from the 2020 census... don't get me started.

cool pointless pedantry, irrelevant to their main point. native americans were seen asa homogenous group by white colonizers, despitr the fact that they weren't actually. quibbling about technicalities doesn't change the fact that america was built on genocide of a group of people seen as different and inferior.

so whats your point? yes people going back 10 generations can be intolerant fucks, meaning there is no difference between the people who've been here for a long time vs people who just came here, proving my point. the segment of people who are intolerant, in my experience, is much more people who have been here for a very long time and not immigrants.

what happened to native americans was a genocide, yes. smallpox blankets, the trail of tears, forced adoptions, resedential schools -- it literally ticks every box of the genocide definition and then some. arguing not is willful ignorance of history.

just because the US infrastructure can't handle that number of people all at once. i think the rate should increase exponentially year over year to completely open borders.

how does our stance differ? i want tk borders to transition to completely open and you don't... i think it's obvious

If no country will take you, what is the difference from not being able to leave, in impact to the person wishing to emigrate?