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I don't think SaaS and "potentially harder science companies" are necessarily opposed. I think there are still a lot of un-discovered niches that marry the two. Anything hard is going to take longer, but also result in less competition.

RISC-V doesn't offer the same advantage over ARM that ARM has over x86, so that's unlikely to happen.

I think the de-facto ARM desktop is already here. It's the M1 Mac.

The delayed-choice quantum eraser and the Triple Phasor Paradox might be the "glitches" of today's physics.

How do you measure impact?

You forgot the link... would like to read.

No. WSB is not "a regulated entit[y]" that "disadvantage[d] investors or otherwise unduly inhibit[ed] their ability to trade certain securities". Robinhood is and did.

This isn't so much a case of allowing a baker to make a gay wedding cake, as that's discrimination.

This is more like the bar kicking out an unruly patron, which is a terms-of-service violation.

It's a big distinction, unless you want to argue that discrimination is ok.

It's not so much being a strong brand, but becoming known in a small niche that is key to avoid becoming reliant on Google. You only need to be reliant on Google if you don't know who your audience/niche is. Once you know that, you don't usually need Google to reach them.

Thank you for Empire! I definitely played the Intersel version on my Amiga in maybe '89, and then on my IBM-PC 386, but I believe I also played via Zenith terminal on a PDP-10/11 on Compu-Serv (my Dad was an early employee), in the early '80s.

I loved the game, and made several attempts and coding my own version. Naturally, I went on to love Civilization as well, which has similar game play.

Having turned 50, I feel the same way about many strategy games I play now... it becomes less about the fun and more about the optimization, and how to optimize via program or AI. But I've always been that way... had pages of formulas for optimal planet management in MegaWars III for example.

For example, electric drag racing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_drag_racing

The Logitech 920 is still a GREAT webcam. I'm not sure what there is to improve?

Because the health care system is built with those estimates in mind.

It's the same with electricity infrastructure on climatologically hot days. The infrastructure is only built to handle a certain normal peak load. COVID-19 like a heat wave, is abnormal.

PyPi has 2FA for user logins to the website, which:

"safeguards against malicious changes to project ownership, deletion of old releases, and account takeovers. Package uploads will continue to work without users providing 2FA codes."

They are also working to enforce 2FA on uploads:

"But that's just for now. We are working on implementing per-user API keys as an alternative form of multifactor authentication in the setuptools/twine/PyPI auth flows. These will be application-specific tokens scoped to individual users/projects, so that users will be able to use token-based logins to better secure uploads. And we'll move on to working on an advanced audit trail of sensitive user actions, plus improvements to accessibility and localization for PyPI. More details are in our progress reports."

From: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/06/pypi-now-supports-two-fa...

What was the vector by which they gained access? I have fail2ban, password login turned off, key access, airtight firewall, etc. and now am worried.

Your assumption is that a company with 300,000 employees would be able to only hire A players. The larger the company, the more it will naturally HAVE to trend towards average. Most successful large companies are successful because they know how to organize their company so that average employees are productive.

Technically, it's not death rates that matter, but occurrence rates. Death rates could decline because of better treatment outcomes.

Globally there has been a lot of wage stagnation at the worker level. Anecdotally, a lot of folks in my social circle have traded working hours for salary. They used to work 50-60 hours for the same salary they are working 40 hours for now.

Or perhaps there is less hope or belief that working hard will result in getting ahead. With most of the gains post-crisis going to the top and income inequality growing, perhaps there is less worker incentive to work hard.

Why can you see the Instagram logo on Android if it doesn't support wide color?

Don't need the wayback machine, this is currently available here (and a great article):

http://www.thebookoflife.org/how-we-end-up-marrying-the-wron...

The MOST exciting time will be when it hits 2147483647.

I remember having recently survived Y2K having to go through all our code and databases again before UNIX time went from 9 to 10 digits in September of 2001.

>What distinction are they trying to make between "free to play" and "free"?

I think the distinction is that Android Platform is "free". The Unreal Tournament Platform is "free".

Both give you usable functionality out of the box, and free. Both give you the opportunity to purchase additional functionality in a "store".

"Free to play" generally means the developer will add more content, or cheats, or whatever to purchase, whereas "free" in this case means they will offer a platform and a store where they will take a cut.

It's the same one referenced there, only non-obfuscated and commented. From the OP:

An obfuscated version of 8086tiny (condensed into just 4043 bytes of C code) was a winner of the 2013 IOCCC contest. Significant interest followed for a documented, commented, maintainable version. The result is the distribution presented here.

Correct... my mistake, I put "+" when the original code was "*".

Right, the reason it won't ever emit F is because RND(1) will never return 1, it's implementation will return 0<=X<1, and INT() is a truncation, so INT(RND(1) + 15) will return an integer between 0 and 14. Adding one gives 1 to 15, and since F is in the 16th position of the string (Apple BASIC indexed from 1, not 0) it will never get selected.

If you are interested in a more "conventional" Forth chip, check out the J1[1]. It's 200 lines of verilog, so you can put it on an FPGA pretty easily.

But it's even easier than that because the J1 is the basis of the Gameduino[2]. The Gameduino is a shield for Arduino that gives you a VGA interface, sprites, and graphics.

[1]: http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html

[2]: http://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino/

I used an Xacto knife to create an extra notch in Commodore 64 5.25" disks back in the day so that I could take the single-sided disks and make them double-sided.

I would take one disk flipped over the other, mark the notch with a permanent marker, then cut out the outline. Most disks, like Elephant Memory, would work fine. You just flipped the disk over and inserted back into the 1541 to read the reverse side.

In the past three years I've seriously used Gnome 2, awesome, xmonad, XFCE, Openbox, KDE, and Gnome 3. For window managers without Desktop Environments I generally rolled my own, but used GNOME DE under xmonad.

What got me started on all those was that early Gnome 3 had major problems with multi-monitor, and in general lack of finish/configurability.

I am using Gnome 3.8 on Fedora 19 now, and it is great. I'm very productive in it, and in my opinion it's the most polished UI. I run a three-monitor setup and program mostly.

That said, I would have chucked it without gnome-tweak-tool. GNOME 3 has brought back some of the configurability it lacked originally. Personally I use it to set Sloppy window focus, turn off dynamic workspaces and set 4 static, and make keyboard shortcuts for just about everything.

As for command-line configurability, I run 'gsettings list-recursively | sort > gs-before.txt' before running gnome-tweak-tool and then after to compare to see what the settings names are. I then use that to create a 'post-install' config file so my changes are documented and if I reinstall I don't have to manually flip buttons. For example, to set sloppy window focus mode:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode 'sloppy'

Anyway, so far so good with GNOME 3.8, and am looking forward to Fedora 20 and GNOME 3.10.

This is awesome. I'm going through the Elements of Computing Systems book/course (a.k.a. From NAND to Tetris) http://www.nand2tetris.org/ and it's been great in helping me understand how CPU's are constructed.

The course actually has you make a ALU from logic gates, so you understand at a deep level just how it's done.