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A decent translation, but maybe not quite idiomatic. Herantasten or annähern instead of schleichen feel more appropriate.
German unemployment benefits are conditional on showing evidence that you're seeking jobs. So it's still founded on the assumption that everyone able should be working.
But dodging is just a subgoal and margin is not all that relevant. The actual goal is to defeat the player, if dodging by a slim margin happens to be the best strategy then that should not be penalized.
Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @02:15PM (#18339723)
For drive-managed SMR drives, yes, but these seem to be host-managed ones. So the filesystem has to be aware of the zones.
As long as we don't have UBI there's a need for a job to feed yourself.
Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:48PM (#18338645)
ZoL 0.8 will have sequential resilver which should be able to restore a disk in a few hours.
Re:15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:23AM (#18337416)
Copy on write filesystems can probably be optimized for SMR by using TRIM commands to punch holes and rewrite the content sequentially in a new zone. Afaik both zfs and btrfs have plans to do this.

That way they can be useful for more than archival.

Re:Building a fly brain in a computer on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:53AM (#18337021)
Section 3[0] of the paper says that they modelled their NN based on the visual system connectome, albeit with several simplifications and omissions.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Re:Building a fly brain in a computer on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:23AM (#18336708)
Unlike the other processes mentioned thought is computation and it is perfectly possible to run computation on wetware or on an emulator and get the same results.
Re:Building a fly brain in a computer on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @05:19AM (#18334955)
The headline is misleading, they built a neural network based on fly visual neurology, not a whole fly brain.

And even if it were a full brain, effective societal consensus seems to be that insects don't have a right to humane treatment.