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by vhold 6y ago
Perhaps because it could lead eventually to the most undetectable cheats yet and undermine their Skinner box cash extractors.
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by vhold 7y ago
Looking at the reviews, I see multiple people saying that the developer required paid users to write a review in order to unlock the ability to use the front camera. I think it goes without saying that is an incredibly scummy practice.
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by vhold 7y ago
It seems Scala influenced Java's functional programming constructs quite a bit.
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by vhold 7y ago
The closest I know of to a true "map" you can search for things in, put all of space into any scale, move around in, is SpaceEngine. The VR support is a bit unwieldy but still impressive. You might want to turn off the procedura
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by vhold 7y ago
That's fair. It will be interesting to see what people do along those lines, creating various materialized views, joining them at query time, chaining materialized views, and I think most important to your point, creating new kinds of
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by vhold 7y ago
According to the documentation at https://materialize.io/docs/overview/architecture/ > Streaming sources must receive all of their data from the stream itself; there is no way to “seed” a streaming source
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by vhold 7y ago
I think the biggest difference is that Materialize can do any kind of SQL join on many tables at once. Clickhouse materialized views can only reference one table. What I'd like to know is if that would enable basically implementing so
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by vhold 7y ago
I think what might be really unique here that people aren't imagining, are the new possible applications of having <100ms updates on complex materialized views. With sufficiently expressive SQL and UDF support there are whole classe
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by vhold 7y ago
Run a mac emulator to save your screen in your browser: https://archive.org/details/AfterDark2
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by vhold 7y ago
I feel like Tivo went down a very similar path. Create a beloved product and then murder it with anti-consumer software updates.
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by vhold 7y ago
Sesame street was considerably funkier, psychedelic and kind of gritty. Elmo was a herald of a much cleaner and sort of infantilized Sesame Street. The massive commercial success of the Elmo toys especially made it feel like it had become
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by vhold 7y ago
It's not a zero sum game. Improving bicycling also improves public transit and walkability usually because bicycles take up so much less room than cars so buses have more space, and it's extremely rare for a bicycle to injure a pe
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by vhold 7y ago
I imagine the countermeasure will be cameras with computer vision controlling microwave lasers.
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by vhold 7y ago
I'm not sure, I did some searching. Here is an article that contains some technical detail. https://www.xyht.com/surveying/subsidence/ "As a point of clarification, the sign Dr. Poland is holding says t
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by vhold 7y ago
People have been trying to sound the alarm for decades. Here's a picture from 1977 demonstrating how far the land in the California central valley had fallen in ~50 years. https://mavensnotebook.com/wp-content/upl
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by vhold 7y ago
An extremely cool program for showing interplanetary and star size perspective is Titans of Space Plus in virtual reality. It takes you on a tour of our solar system showing various bodies at different scales compared with each other. I do
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by vhold 7y ago
The people in this video appear to be barely exerting themselves and are going around 8 MPH.
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by vhold 7y ago
By this logic there should no copyright protection in the first place for entertainment. Why should the government use law enforcement resources to track down people and take away their freedoms because they copied a movie? Only because th
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by vhold 8y ago
Putting satellite communicating GPS tracking devices in Komodo dragons would probably be one of the best ways to locate non-super villain headquarters.
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by vhold 8y ago
Agreed, and having the button there allows for more flexibility in the future. I know some buttons that went from doing something, then nothing, then something again. Like they now will make sound when its your turn to cross for people wit
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by vhold 8y ago
If you do, you probably should use https. https://time5.nrc.ca/timefreq/bulletin_tf-b.html There's probably some really weird MITM attack possibilities here if people have automated systems fetching and using thes
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by vhold 8y ago
A product that actually uses all the features of Oracle would be naturally hilarious. Oracle's documentation is over 500 megabytes compressed. It's an alternative computing reality. Here is a 5559 page book of error codes. Imag
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by vhold 8y ago
The problem is really that sharing securely is way too complicated. So inexperienced or lazy people give up and make the bucket public so they can get on with whatever it was they were trying to accomplish.
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by vhold 8y ago
It's too much to paste here, but the reasoning they use for the copyright claim is laid out in the most detail on page 20, starting at statement 99. https://torrentfreak.com/images/epic-golden.pdf The lawsuit does
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by vhold 8y ago
As I played around with 4D toys, I did start to gain a sense of things that were "Behind" or "In Front" of me in 4D space, that is I could start to feel their presence after they had been pushed out of sight, if I knew i
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by vhold 9y ago
That's what makes this contest interesting, they're not going to just evaluate a static agent, you submit a docker environment capable of performing learning, and they'll let your agent learn on their secret levels, on their
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by vhold 9y ago
Transfer learning is what makes this contest currently unique. Usually in these machine learning contests, you hand off your model to the contest runner, and they just run it and evaluate its performance. It has to be already good at the
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by vhold 9y ago
Not enough animals? We used to be around animals all the time.
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by vhold 9y ago
The Alexa App shows every interaction, including the recorded sound that triggered it, and how "Alexa" interpreted it, so it would be possible for the author to investigate it.
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by vhold 9y ago
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they're basically saying "These exploits do have the potential to read data."

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