Namrog84

There is a difference between the military and government agencies.

It's like asking why not get rid of military in favor of militia, Hired guns, And police forces?

Who had what authority. Funding. Jurisdiction and related. And plenty of other things.

> After strong AIs are common, we can persue the even more interesting task of dumbing them down in fun ways

An artificially handicapped or limited smart ai in video games is often obvious and not fun.

I predict hn will have not have fixed the code block vs quote bad experience on mobile.

I disagree and think it will decrease because self driving vehicles will act as pace cars and smooth out traffic considerably

Thanks. I use unlock origin but hadn't tried that. I'll do that now. Thanks!

Thank you! I feel like I've been seeing more and more paywall reaching top links lately and its mildly annoying do most people have subscriptions or something?

> "Also, they have (recently introduced) a sync option, in which fake files are visible in your file system, but no actual contents get put on the drive until you try to open them. "

I thought that was a first in the earliest of versions and was one of my favorite. At some point they removed it and made you choose which folders to sync. At which point I abandoned using it. So maybe they are reintroducing it or I am misremembering something.

Just fyi. I thought counter strike didn't used projectiles but used raycasts for almost every weapon.

But your point still stands and applies for most shooters.

I play a lot of pubg(player unknowns battlegrounds) and you can often hear the bullet whizzing past you before the initial shot of the gun/rifle/bullet. And you can often gauge how far away someone shot because of this.

- I've been using the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 for however long its been since it replaced the 3000 or whatever predecessors. Probably close to 20 years now. I use this same keyboard at work and at home.

- I keep a small stack of napkins(between 10 napkins to about 3/4" of napkin) under my left elbow. For some reason the elbow hitting the hard desk hurts, and having a stack of napkings is both useful to use napkins from (and occasionally replace to re-up the stack). It helps a lot on the left elbow.

- I use a Razer Deathadder mouse both at home and at work.

- I use a foot rest both at home and at work (they are quite a bit different, due to different desks/chairs).

- I use monitor arms at home and at work. Also I keep my monitor up higher than most people do. Most people keep them WAYYY to low(at minimum, enough for my keyboard and typing to be able to go under them). It really makes a big difference when you can look straight on most of the time.

- I primarily only use 2 monitors. I've had up to 3 and 4 at one point, but noticed slight neck strain. But 2 does well enough for me. I use 2x 27" 1440 resolution 144hz monitors at home. And 2x 27" 4k monitors at work.

- I am super picky about chairs. When I last replaced my home one, I sat in probably 150 different chairs in 10 different stores. Ended up ordered some high end chair($1000) and it didn't feel quite right. So I returned it and ordered another a different make/model(About $600) that works for me. Extra wide, proper butt cushion(no cross bar if pushed on hard) and works for my back and neck. I don't mention name/brands here, because everyone's body is different and you just need to find something that fit/works for both your body and price ranges.

- I am also super picky about the settings on the chair. Again, personal preference.

- Lastly, at home I have a large mousepad (approximately 20"x18") and at work, I have slightly larger.

I am on either my work or home desk/computer probably 14+ hours every day of the week. And haven't had any back, neck, or joint pains since about 20+ years ago, when I first started customizing setup, finding what worked, and switched to split keyboard and stuff. If something even feels SLIGHTLY off. I make sure to change it, a lot of people can get used to things 'slightly off' but don't really quite notice how much it can wear on you after a long time.

Counter point. If this(free postage) is an easy and good proxy for detecting this type of scam. By doing this they might stop(doing free postage) . And then you and others lose their easy no effor detection?

Individual contributor.

In contrast to a lead, manager, or pm.

The IC is usually the person who actually writes software/code. (The bulk of employees at a software company are ICs)

They might be getting exactly what they're voting for. But they might not be voting for what they need or want.

It's not that hard to spin things in a way that people unknowingly vote for the opposite of what they actually want or need.

I think the site predates it? Apparently the websites been like this for many years.

You mention safari. Are you on a mac?

So it works in firefox and chrome for me on windows. Not sure, I have pretty vanilla setup.

"Microsoft has their enterprise hardware, but not sure what they're thinking about otherwise."

Do you consider the hololens exclusively enterprise?

>in error rate

I dont have source at moment. But I remember reading a few years ago that wikipedia had fewer errors than most all encyclopedias on average.

There is definitely something to be said about consistency and clustering but on average I believe wikipedia is still the best in fewest errors.

Even here at hn. Look how many people never read the article and only the comments. I'd imagine the number of people to go down into a link from an article to be quite small unfortunately.

How do GPU cores differ in that they have thousands of cores?

No criticism but just curious why you chose blizzard and wow here?

Compared to other virtual worlds you could walk around with friends?

Yes. In the US and Europe I believe.

Not every finite resource has to be used toward the advancement of civilization or for some greater cause.

Also, lots of things can have indirect positive effects. I know lots of people got interested in space and other cool things as a result of that jump.

I think sometimes it's good for humans to do a thing just to see if they can.

I see what you did there!

Although I provide no link to them. I believe I've read numerous articles and studies that even with generic anonymized data that many have been successful in deanonymozing the user behind the data.

Depending what they data is. It might take more points and samples but I think most people would be surprised how few data points you need before you can be identified.

Even from the most mundane things and especially if they have non anonymized data to compare or find you agaisnt

> So the question becomes in what instances would a person have a record/memory of the fake name but no record/memory of their password?

I have both recorded in password vault and both are random.

The benefit is it they've reset my password for some reason or it was hijacked. I've been able to recover accounts. Not because I forgot a password but because it was essentially a harder to change 2nd "secret"

I split the difference. My name namrog84 Looks like a pseudonym and number from previous era.

However it's my last name backwards. Gorman. And I was born in 84 so it's not just a random throw away. Also namrog without number is often taken.

So i still use it professionally because it's still closely related to my identity. Yet majority of people would never know if they didn't know my name.

I have this same problem. In factorio for example.

Either I use other people's efficient designs that are more optimal and then I feel like I'm just copy pasting and not playing.

Or I end up wanting to write a program or design things that can produce the optimal designs. All of which involve not actually playing the game but playing excel spreadsheet or programming dynamic programming algorithms.

I like games that allow min maxing a lot. But they need to be in such a way that there is more to the game and less copyable stuff. So that I can enjoy and play the game.

But even traditional social networks change and shift and dont really last the same way. Facebook has had some lasting power but it has decreased and died in many ways. Vine. Snapchat. And many other things have taken huge chunks of mine shares. While Facebook owns or buys some of them. Most more traditional social networks I'd argue also aren't really lasting things either. They are probably longer half life and slower churn than a gaming social network but other than the half life they suffer same problems.

And as they grow up. Other younger children will grow into being into it and wanting to play.

Minecraft is still very popular among certain age groups. Some age out as others age into it.

I take it then that there are legitimate sites that do offer this service but properly verify owners first?