For a fascinating alternative interpretation of the interference patterns, check out Jacob Barandes' ideas on indivisible stochastic processes. There are several interviews with him on YouTube.

Just watched this last night.

It's just insane to me that their design was failing every single test, including the real-time audio monitoring system that was listening for pops, and yet Stockton pushed ahead anyway. Like, dude, why waste money running tests if you're going to ignore the results? There are faster and cheaper ways to get yourself killed.

I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people who chose to walk away, and by the first pilot's willingness to burn his own money to fight Stockton in court. Sadly he ran out of money and had to drop his complaints. Such is the state of litigation in our country.

Stockton just couldn't accept a reality in which his business had failed... so he continued as if it hadn't. Fire the nay-sayers, do whatever it takes to keep the company looking strong.

Indeed, it was hard to find, because the Tool Options pane was not turned on by default. Maybe they've fixed that by now? But it was also not to be found in the "Tools" menu, which was the location which made the most sense to me.

It's the simple things. I had to update GIMP recently, and the UI changes were so significant that I ended up having to Google search just for how to customize the brush size. One of my most commonly used features was just hard to find.

I'll give the new UI a try, but it's rather painful to throw years of experience out the window. It'd be easier to justify if I used the software more often, but I don't... I pull it out, rarely, for "quick" jobs, and it sucks having to relearn stuff in that context. I was expecting a 2 minute session, not 20 minutes of looking up tutorials.

I appreciate the suggestion and I may try that approach for a while.

But yeah, I do like to scan the entire list (close to 100) sometimes because my kids are getting old enough to be interested in some of the older titles; stuff that I've all but forgotten about, but they've never experienced. For example, we stumbled on Magicka in my library recently and had a blast. I'm not necessarily looking for anything specific in those instances, so categorizing things doesn't help.

All I really use the Steam interface for is to display my library as a compact list. It's quick and easy to skim for a particular title. This update made the Small Mode view worse IMO because it fits fewer games on the screen. I'm not sure if they increased the font size, or the vertical margins, but it's obnoxious. And I really don't understand why they messed with it anyway - it was doing a fine job before, and I don't see any new information added to the list.

What happens in controversial topics is that you might have a 55/45 split on a particular issue, but if there's 10k users throwing votes around then the 45%ers end up at a score of -500 and the thread looks like a one-sided echo chamber. Eventually the 45%ers stop sharing altogether. They might create their own echo chamber in a different subreddit with their own moderators.

Reddit works fine for discussing gaming, hobbies, and other non-controversial stuff. What kills it is when users abuse the downvote button to hide stuff they disagree with.

SC2 is the only video game I've spent serious time watching. I still enjoy it. But I definitely need good commentary to make it interesting; the raw game feed isn't sufficient for me. The game is volatile enough that an advantaged player can fall behind from a single poor engagement. From a spectator's perspective this means that the game is still worth watching even after one player appears to get ahead. Mind games and hidden information also play a big role, and that keeps spectators interested because it's dramatic; will player A discover player B's hidden plans before it's too late? OTOH the game's complexity probably makes it harder for new spectators to immediately enjoy it if they've never played before. There's a lot more to understand than just kicking a ball into a goal.

Isn't this wrong, though? If you only declare an array of length 6 then you shouldn't be writing to substring[6]. If you want to store 6 characters plus a null-terminating byte then you ought to allocate an array of length 7, not 6.

Except with a bank we know they don't have everyone's money. They loan it out to earn interest, and interest payments fund the bank's operational costs.

Crypto exchanges aren't supposed to be loaning out customer funds, or using customer funds to pay their workers. Transaction fees keep them afloat. So when an exchange is forced to halt withdrawals it looks really bad; there are multiple examples of exchanges running out of money because of fraud.

Probably customer support? Not too long ago Coinbase was hiring like crazy because they couldn't keep up with all the new customers signing up and needing help with their initial bank transfers, etc...

It's like a variation of the the classic Security comic. The kid thinks nobody can touch him because his math/crypto skills are too good. He beat the system!

No, what he failed to understand is that the world is not run by math nerds. It's run by lawyers, politicians, and the rich folk who own them. They're going to hit you with legal actions until you buckle.

I doubt it? I can't imagine the Italian police have the bandwidth to sift through every single YouTube video. The article says they were alerted by his wife's YouTube activity.

This reminds me of the procedural generation technique based on wave function collapse.

Once it's "all mined", there's still profit for miners because they receive transaction fees. The volatility has less to do with the mining rewards than it does with the amount of speculation (lots) vs. actual usage (almost zero). Speculators are constantly jumping in and out of the pool based on headlines: an exchange was hacked (bad), Elon Musk tweets again (good), etc... It's the same pattern you see in the stock market, just magnified and accelerated a bit.