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Re:Meta-Perceptual Helmets on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:12PM (#31299535)
Just have only one person wearing a camera and blindfold, and the other watching a tv feed.

Watching someone else's VR view on a TV isn't too bad.

Re:Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect on Saturday March 13, 2021 @06:19PM (#26451115)
As a non physicist, this always seemed to be the most logical explanation of the double slit experiment. The particle by default carries out all possible variations weighted by their likelihood of happening, so you get the wavey pattern like a normal distribution. By measuring it at an earlier point, we restrict ourselves to the outcome of only one of its possible pasts.

Measuring something doesn't change its behavior, just the range of possibilities.

Re:Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley (2020) on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:05PM (#25886581)
Nobody really doubts that some art fails because its just not good. Differentiating art that is technically superb to art that really resonates is a more interesting conversation.

I do game dev. It's very easy to think "this animation could be better". It's a lot harder to figure out "could this be made more fun". Tactics vs strategy.

My impression is that aside from some crazies who generally get downvoted unilaterally, you rarely see antagonistic opposition to saying Tesla is overvalued. This doesn't hold if you instead make a meta observation that claiming it's overvalued would earn antagonism.

It's not that surprising. The former is voicing an opinion. The latter is effectively just a pre-emptive insult to everyone who disagrees with you.

Similar arguments hold for any popular unpopular opinion.

Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:32PM (#25017204)
No. Biden is likely to win across multiple states by a large margin, notably in PA where he is above the point that would require a recount.
Looks like this game features some neat procedural animation. Nice
Re:Selling Data to Hedge Funds (2017) on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:56PM (#24974874)
What do you mean by this? I'm imagining, say, rainfall per day, with a column for date, and a column for rainfall. What's useful about getting the data as it was vs. just having a total dataset with accurate dates.
Re:Rethinking Attention with Performers on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:55AM (#24896793)
A lot of protein folding work is brute forcing folds. A 35% heuristic is probably pretty good.
How do you plan to handle players that others don't like? That's a fairly common problem for TTRPGs. You'll see a question every other day on rpg stack exchange about a troublesome player. Off the top of my head

* Players who don't play fairly

* Players who are rude

* Players who break game norms, like always wanting to detract from what the group wants to do ("It's what my character would do in this situation")

* Players who role play too hard in boring ways (e.g. overly philosophical debaters)

* Players who are overtly sexual

* Players who make off color jokes

* Players who aren't engaged enough

* Players who are selfish or antagonistic

* Players who others cannot understand due to language / accents

* Players who are racist/sexist/make unwanted advances irl

Sounds pretty clear to me that you can download the app and, in several weeks, be allowed to use the service?
The gums are full of nervous tissue. It's a straight line to the brain.
I wonder what kind of controls they have to ensure you actually have the right to evict tenants before hiring a crew. Or heck, that you even own the property.
Re:Ask HN: Are you friends with your manager? on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:01PM (#24378843)
Sounds like bad advice to me. My manager is my friend and is generally a strong advocate/influence on my success. If forced to make a decision that favors the company over me, I don't see any need to consider that a betrayal or a forfeiture of friendship. To put it at an extreme, I don't require unbridled nepotism to be happy with a manager's treatment of me.
Re:Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond (1983) [video] on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:22PM (#24343462)
I enjoyed listening to her, but I don't know if I understand her point here. There was something intuitive about why certain processes require a large number of nano seconds due to physics. But I have a tough time thinking of any process besides financial trading that can't spare a microsecond.
McKinsey DS here. I don't think I've ever heard such a claim about data science whatever, although I would probably believe it. I do hear such claims a lot in the context of big transformations.

These claims are usually high level and based on surveys or whatever. Failing usually means leadership gave up. As far as high level awareness of project success rates, it's probably accurate enough to justify the point: companies are generally bad at doing X. This tends to be true for many different kinds of X, because business is hard.

I generally don't agree that people make up destined to fail projects for selfish gains. I'm sure it happens, but that seems bottom of the barrel in terms of problems to fix. With DS specifically, leaders just don't know what to do. So they hire data scientists, and the data scientists don't know anything about the business, so they make some dashboards or whatever and nobody uses them. It's really not easy. Business is hard.

Re:Unity Software Inc S-1 on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:57AM (#24261879)
Sounds kind of mixed to me. What's going to enable them to turn an annual loss of ~$150M into a profit?
Re:Unity Software Inc S-1 on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:50AM (#24261796)
I'm surprised by this perspective. I see Unreal as leading the charge for indies and Unity struggling to follow suit.

* Vastly better free content to throw in your games

* Source available engine

* No fees on the first million dollars of gross revenue

* Clear communication on roadmap for engine development and what's going to stay vs. change

It also depends on interconnectedness of social networks. If the 30% that had it is highly concentrated in one sub group, then you might see low rates now, but high rates when groups start intermingling. Herd immunity at a national level won't save nursing homes, because almost by definition, there won't be herd immunity in that local community.
Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition on Thursday August 20, 2020 @07:33AM (#24222147)
I think you're being really unreasonable here. He's not saying he went to a flood of people at the beach. He's saying that should not be allowed, and is asking why he should not be allowed to go jogging on the beach alone. Emphasizing the word AFTER doesn't make any sense.
Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:45PM (#24214401)
Personally I think the larger concerns are that if you provide UBI to everyone (not 120 random people) you're going to see severe distortions on the local economy that will encourage outsourcing wherever possible. Basic economic reasoning states that income has declining marginal utility, so wages will need to rise to incentivize people to do the work they were doing previously. Or it'll just leave.

Feels unsustainable to me.

Re:U.S. Stocks Rise After S&P 500’s Record Close on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:18PM (#24212978)
I don't think that's likely. The US has enough guns and control of major tech players driving things that it will hold its staying power as the major currency. But let's say you're right. What would the move be to diversify risk? Gold? Real estate?
It's more likely that a real time editor for spreadsheets just doesn't make sense for more than a few people.

The low hanging fruit would be adding a read-only view of a static copy, because that's what people actually needed.

What exactly is your problem with this letter? He's asking Hitler to be peaceful.

> That I address you as a friend is no formality. I own no foes. My business in life has been for the past 33 years to enlist the friendship of the whole of humanity by befriending mankind, irrespective of race, colour or creed. I hope you will have the time and desire to know how a good portion of humanity who have been living under the influence of that doctrine of universal friendship view your action. We have no doubt about your bravery or devotion to your fatherland, nor do we believe that you are the monster described by your opponents. But your own writings and pronouncements and those of your friends and admirers leave no room for doubt that many of your acts are monstrous and unbecoming of human dignity, especially in the estimation of men like me who believe in universal friendliness. Such are your humiliation of Czechoslovakia, the rape of Poland and the swallowing of Denmark. I am aware that your view of life regards such spoliations as virtuous acts. But we have been taught from childhood to regard them as acts degrading humanity. Hence we cannot possibly wish success to your arms. But ours is a unique position. We resist British Imperialism no less than Nazism. If there is a difference, it is in degree. One-fifth of the human race has been brought under the British heel by means that will not bear scrutiny. Our resistance to it does not mean harm to the British people. We seek to convert them, not to defeat them on the battle-field. Ours is an unarmed revolt against the British rule. But whether we convert them or not, we are determined to make their rule impossible by non-violent non-co-operation. It is a method in its nature indefensible. It is based on the knowledge that no spoliator can compass his end without a certain degree of co-operation, willing or compulsory, of the victim. Our rulers may have our land and bodies but not our souls. They can have the former only by complete destruction of every Indian-man, woman and child. That all may not rise to that degree of heroism and that a fair amount of frightfulness can bend the back of revolt is true but the argument would be beside the point. For, if a fair number of men and women be found in India who would be prepared without any ill will against the spoliators to lay down their lives rather than bend the knee to them, they would have shown the way to freedom from the tyranny of violence. I ask you to believe me when I say that you will find an unexpected number of such men and women in India. They have been having that training for the past 20 years. We have been trying for the past half a century to throw off the British rule. The movement of independence has been never so strong as now. The most powerful political organization, I mean the Indian National Congress, is trying to achieve this end. We have attained a very fair measure of success through nonviolent effort. We were groping for the right means to combat the most organized violence in the world which the British power represents. You have challenged it. It remains to be seen which is the better organized, the German or the British. We know what the British heel means for us and the non-European races of the world. But we would never wish to end the British rule with German aid. We have found in non-violence a force which, if organized, can without doubt match itself against a combination of all the most violent forces in the world. In nonviolent technique, as I have said, there is no such thing as defeat. It is all ‘do or die’ without killing or hurting. It can be used practically without money and obviously without the aid of science of destruction which you have brought to such perfection. It is a marvel to me that you do not see that it is nobody’s monopoly. If not the British, some other power will certainly improve upon your method and beat you with your own weapon. You are leaving no legacy to your people of which they would feel proud. They cannot take pride in a recital of cruel deed, however skilfully planned. I, therefore, appeal to you in the name of humanity to stop the war. You will lose nothing by referring all the matters of dispute between you and Great Britain to an international tribunal of your joint choice. If you attain success in the war, it will not prove that you were in the right. It will only prove that your power of destruction was greater. Whereas an award by an impartial tribunal will show as far as it is humanly possible which party was in the right. You know that not long ago I made an appeal to every Briton to accept my method of non-violent resistance. I did it because the British know me as a friend though a rebel. I am a stranger to you and your people. I have not the courage to make you the appeal I made to every Briton. Not that it would not apply to you with the same force as to the British. But my present proposal is much simple because much more practical and familiar. During this season when the hearts of the peoples of Europe yearn for peace, we have suspended even our own peaceful struggle. Is it too much to ask you to make an effort for peace during a time which may mean nothing to you personally but which must mean much to the millions of Europeans whose dumb cry for peace I hear, for my ears are attuned to hearing the dumb millions?

That's not how it works. If you had 100% immunity in the young, the old would still be at relatively similar risk because of homophily in social networks. That is, old people spend most of their time with old people. Herd immunity for the general population requires a homogenous mixture of social interactions across those infected.

Keeping the vulnerable protected sounds good and all, but in the case of, say, children, the vulnerable is the teaching staff.

Re:Two Years to Make $10 in Software Revenue on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:10AM (#23791597)
I can't tell who their target market is. Sounds like it switched from B2B to B2C but maybe they don't think B2C can actually scale so long term it's B2B? The author writes with a level of irony and self-awareness but it feels like he just wants to give it his best and see what happens without a particular need to be successful. And maybe that's fine. But I'd rank this particular approach as low probability of success and low potential of profit given success has been achieved and jeez running forward with this with one year of leeway in this economy is a scary idea to me. The again I'd never run a start up so not my idea of a good time to begin with.
Re:USA buys up world stock of remdesivir on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:33AM (#23701110)
What are the other kinds of methods
He literally referenced the insults as a justification for his actions. So no, this is not media deceptiveness.

Quotes from a different article:

> "“Do you see why we oppose social media like YouTube, Twitter, Netflix, et cetera.?” Erdogan asked in reference to the alleged insults of his family members. “It is imperative that these channels are brought under control.”

> Erdogan said: “Turkey is not a banana republic. We will snub those who snub this country’s executive and judicial bodies.”"

BLM, a peaceful organization trying to earn attention to civil rights groups; anarchists who want to overthrow the government; and white nationalists, who want to enforce policies of racial supremacy against other citizens.

Which do you think is different?

Mostly I think it's just he started dating Grimes and doing a bunch of drugs
Re:Not all young people are ‘digital natives’ on Saturday March 14, 2020 @07:09PM (#22579480)
I'm surprised you say this. I have no problem touch typing with one, or two thumbs on almost any phone displaying a qwerty keyboard after orienting myself to it.

I'm wondering if you have very specific muscle memory outputs for your fingers vs. an intuition of where each key is relative to each other. E.g., I'm typing this sentence with only my pointer and middle finger on my right hand. Would that cause a problem for you?

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