Readit NewsWhat changed? It's not like there's a lot of money in film, so I struggle to understand the motivations there.
Though we might still want to restrict the subset of PostScript that we allow. The full language might be a bit too general to take from untrusted third parties.
I suspect PDF was fairly sane in the initial incarnation, and it's the extra garbage that they've added since then that is a source of pain.
I'm not a big fan of this additional change (nor any of the javascript/etc), but I would be fine with people leaving content streams uncompressed and running the whole file through brotli or something.
I've got so much other stuff I'd rather learn and code I'd rather write (C/wasm backend for my language), but I've also started job hunting and probably should understand how this latest fad works. Neural networks have long been on my todo list anyway.
I’ve turned it off on my phone, via the accessibility settings. But it’s clear Apple doesn’t test the UI layout much with the new glass look turned off. Lots of controls are subtly misaligned now. I regret updating.
I have a Linux workstation. On Linux, nobody has the power to foist new ideas - good or bad - onto all users. All the arguing and bike shedding is one of Linux’s big weaknesses. But it’s also a huge strength. The desktop experience hasn’t gotten worse over the last 20 years like it has on windows and macOS. Programs start more or less instantly, as they should on modern hardware.
I turned it off and the keypad buttons for screen time passcode became white on white.
The reason they sell sets is because the people who buy these are parents, uncles, grandmas, and other people. The sets make it easy for them to identify something that seems like kids would love it and possibly intersects with some brand the kids like, such as the Marvel crossover sets.
Once the bricks get in the kids' hands, they can do whatever they want with them.
As a family, we have a couple of the ninjago city sets, those are largely intact, but the kids play with them.
The minifigures can be a little bit of a problem, they seem to trigger an instinct to collect unique items. My kid will ask for a set so they can get one (or more) of the minifigures in it.
I haven't looked into the implementation. But taking a brief glance now, it looks interesting. They appear to be translating Prolog to Java via a WAM representation[3]. The compiler (prolog-cafe) is written in prolog and bootstrapped into Java via swi-prolog.
I don't know why compilation is necessary, it seems like an interpreter would be fast enough for that use case, but I'd love to take it apart and see how it works.
[1]: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/ [2]: https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Document... [3]: https://gerrit.googlesource.com/prolog-cafe/+/refs/heads/mas...
Suppose I want to uniformly randomly shuffle a deck of cards in a single pass. I stick the deck on the table and call it the non-shuffled pile. My goal is to move the deck, one card at a time, into the shuffled pile. First I need to select a card, uniformly at random, to be the bottom card of the new pile, and I move it over. Then I select another card, uniformly at random from the still non-shuffled cards, and put it on top of the bottom shuffled card. I repeat this until I’ve moved all the cards, so that each card in the shuffled pile is a uniform random selection from all of the cards it could have been. And that’s it.
One can think of this as random selection, whereas the “forward” version is like random insertion of a not-random card into a shuffled pile. And for whatever reason I tend to think of the selection version first.
Often not in my experience. Abe and B&N.
I believe Baen sells some DRM free sci fi books, but it's a smaller catalog.
The code decrypted itself, which confused debuggers, and then loaded a special sector from disk. It was a small sector buried in the payload of a larger sector, so the track was too big to copy with standard tools. The data in the sector was just the start address of the program. My fix was to change executable header to point to the correct start address.