Is there a link to the specification and the resulting generated code ? I skimmed through the article and the author's github profile, but couldn't find anything related.
Seems like a serious oversight if this is your selling point.
Sorry, I meant the spec and code of the toy project described in the post.
I don't necessarily expect their secret sauce to be openly available. But given the grandiose claims made there, I do expect something to back it up other than a corpospeak "trust me bro".
Because Iraq or Afghanistan weren't threatening the man in power. Just take a look at what is currently happening in Iran if you wonder what happens when the local authority fears the crowd.
I would say Iran is a much better illustration of what happens when your citizenry is disarmed. The crowd isn't very scary. They don't pose a real threat. There's little risk in crushing them. They can't fight back meaningfully.
Color me unconvinced. Google can't even figure what language I speak even though I voluntarily provide them the information in several different ways. I can't understand half the ads they serve me.
Google doesn't choose what ad to show you. Google serves up a platter of details and auctions the ad placement off to the highest bidder.
That platter of details is not shown to you, the consumer.
What you are experiencing is that your ad profile isn't valuable to most bidders, ie you don't buy stuff as much as other people do, or your ad profile is somehow super attractive to stupid companies that suck at running ads who are overpaying for bad matches.
It is not evidence that google knows nothing about you.
Google is pleased that you think they don't know you. It helps keep the pressure down when people mistake this system for "Perfectly target ads". The system is designed to make google money regardless of how good or bad their profile of you is.
It's not just the ads though. Am I to think that Youtube helpfully replacing a video title (whose original text I understand) by a half-assed translation into a language that I don't speak is actually Alphabet playing 5D chess ? If so, hats off to you, Google. I totally fell for it.
Yeah, I would have been interested in the diff too.
That said, the article does mention replacing basically all the hardware and still encountering the issue. FWIW, my personal experience with Apple software so far is that the usage expected for Average Joe is well tested and polished. But stepping outside of that, it's "Here be dragons" territory very quickly.
It doesn't seem to be just Steam. From what I see (from Switzerland), other online stores relying on PayPal seem to be impacted too. Though if the store let me try to use PayPal anyway, I can just switch the currency of the purchase to USD instead of using the currency of the credit card (CHF in my case), thus having my issuing bank do the currency conversion. It seems to work fine so far.
The timing of this problem is weird. Hard not to see a link with the recent troubles with Visa and Mastercard, even if Valve claims that it's not the case.
I wonder if this is actually more related to some EU lawmakers probing a few big online platforms for the abusive conversion rates they impose. Amazon is guilty of this, all the budget airlines are guilty of this, and so is PayPal.
They “offer” to charge your card in its native currency to avoid exchange rate fees, but they do so with an abusive exchange rate. They also always go out of their way to show the inverse exchange rate that nobody uses, and is hard to evaluate.
I just checked on Amazon, and they now display the “usual” exchange rate (still with an insane rate). So it definitely looks like something is getting tightened in the industry.
Indeed. As far as I'm concerned, the touchpads have been the killer feature of the Steam Deck. Emulating a mouse using a stick or the gyros doesn't click for me. The touchpads are just so much better when you need both speed and precision, be it for games (specially shooters and strategy games), or desktop mode (for navigation and web browsing). Plus, it works pretty well for typing text with the virtual keyboard.
I don't understand why none of the other manufacturers implemented those. I wish the Steam Deck had just a little bit of extra power, but I'm not willing to part with those pads. I'm eagerly waiting for the Steam Deck 2.
I suspect you have an issue in the way you select the top 2 when they are several elements with the same value.
I tried an implementation with the values being integers between 1 and 100, and I found stats close enough to yours (~51% for 10 elements, ~64% for 100 elements).
When using floating point or enforcing distinct integer values, I get 50%.
My probs & stats classes are far away, but I guess it makes sense that the more elements you have, the higher the probability of collisions. And then, if you naively just take the first 2 elements and the female candidate is one of those, the higher the probability that it's because her value is the highest and distinct. Is that a sampling bias, or a selection bias ? I don't remember...
You're correct! When using floats (aka having much less chance for collisions than hundred numbers with hundred participants) it's practically unbiased. Thanks for exploring this with me, a fun little exercise.
It will never cease to shock me how enslaving men for military purpose is still considered an acceptable thing to do in developed countries. Always with the same excuse "It's necessary for the common good". More like "I won't be part of the conscripts going to the battlefield, but will benefit from it, so I'm ok with it".
Even pro-equality and "My body, my choice" people seem content to just pay lip service on the matter, if even that.
Equality, rights, and all of that tend to go away when Russia invades and occupies you. If you want to preserve that, along with your homes and the people you love, your options are to fight or flee. Life is imperfect, so the ways we have to address the problems life throws at us are imperfect.
It's the difference between having an ideology in Silicon Valley, and family in Sumy.
Having an alter-ego is one thing, but I strongly suspect that he had at least one sock puppet here during the drama with HN [0]
* a brand new account suddenly appears, defending Marcan's behavior (the only comment/post ever of this account) with a very similar writing style
* Marcan immediately "notices" the new comment while doing "random search" (how ? he claims he doesn't browse HN, and even posted a screenshot of news.ycombinator.com being routed to 0.0.0.0 to block his own access to it the day before)
* Marcan highlights the comment in question on his media account [1], praising them "at least [this commenter] gets it"
Only circumstantial stuff, but sure smells very fishy to me.
Seems like a serious oversight if this is your selling point.
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