I know the this isn't the thrust, but the "jagged pac-man" is actually supposed to be a puzzle piece, and symbolizes plugins.
The three dots at the right, for some reason, is the menu. It's labelled "Settings and more", and contains the gear icon you were thinking of, but also all of the normal menu items like new window and print. It also contains "Save page", but befuddlingly that one is hidden under another flyout menu called "More tools".
When opening a PDF file in Edge, it loads up some kind of Acrobat embedding for me, and that one has its very own "save file" button, though with identical iconography to Edge's. Thankfully, the button is visible without any further menu diving, but is also placed at the top right, with an extremely faint border delineating it from the Edge chrome.
Mmmm, thanks. I don't remember finding plug-in-related stuff under there. But I'll take a look tomorrow.
If that's supposed to be a puzzle piece, it's a disgrace. Just another symbol of Microsoft's abject design bankruptcy. They had far better icons than that at 16 x 16 pixels 30 years ago.
I never see regulatory bodies demand money or powers. That's private companies and law enforcement, respectively. Regulators seem to be staffed by skeleton crews allowing them to take on one case a year, and the Google-tier customer support that entails.
> I never see regulatory bodies demand money or powers.
It happens quite often after a big failure. I've worked in government myself as a contractor and seen huge amounts of waste while completely failing what they were supposed to be doing. I left after a few months (I was asked to stay) because I was utterly disgusted by it.
> That's private companies and law enforcement, respectively.
Law Enforcement most certainly, but private companies that just isn't true.
Maybe if you are at some large corporation, however generally waste at large corporations I've seen is due to having to cancel projects because of situations changes e.g. I was working on a large project to that was to integrate the platform with Russia, that got cancelled for geopolitical reasons.
Most private companies aren't large corporations though and most work is done by a few super stars in the company.
A few weeks after I got my first touchscreen phone, I had to google for how to answer it.
I had assumed you'd just tap the "answer" button, but that failed more often than not. It never would have occurred to me to swipe a minimum of 3cm, starting with the answer button, and I must assume this knowledge has spread to users by osmosis rather than discovery.
The accept button animates on most phones in the way you need to move it. But it's true that I've seen many first timers get confused, probably because of the inherent pressure that accompanies a phone call.
That's not so much a problem for the people who want to leave a meeting, but it is very much a problem for people who frequently toggle their mic on and off.
Shannon did not use the word intelligence to describe the mouse in this demonstration - instead, he talked about learning. That's why the second run was considered more important than whatever algorithm was used to solve the maze.
To that end, I'm curious about their cache invalidation solution. Are there timestamps, or is it a flag system?
You are being far, far, far too generous with the complexity of this design if you think there's some kind of cache invalidation. It's a purely mechanical computer, which means it is going to be very simple in abstract design, because doing anything even mildly complex would require an insane amount of space.
I can't find design documents for this, but I can make a pretty educated guess about its design.
Each square has two relays, representing the number of left turns necessary to exit the square. Each time a whisker touches a wall, a signal is sent to a mechanical adder which will add 1 to the relays in the space. When the mouse enters a square, a "register" is set with a value, based on if it entered from the left, top, right, or bottom, then the mouse is turned and the register decremented until it hit 0, then the mouse attempts to walk in the indicated direction.
Where the mice starts on x and turns the number of times in each square. You can actually put the mouse down anywhere and it will exit the maze, if the walls are left unchanged.
If my memory serves me right, you are right. I think I've read that it was implemented with two relays per cell. These encode the last cardinal direction the mouse exited the cell in.
> I'm curious about their cache invalidation solution
My guess: there would be a model somewhere (probably a binary relay map of walls) of the maze, and as soon as the mouse hits an inconsistency, this map is updated. So there isn't really a cache, it's more like a model, or perhaps you can think of collision-based cache (model) invalidation. The mouse probably then follows the solution to this modified maze, modified only insofar as it has measured modifications.
Is there a technical specification somewhere? I'd certainly be curious to read it.
This was explicitly gone over in the announcement. The short of it is that they validate further attacks by promising Trump's allegiance, assistance, and a target.
Indeed, CDC's numbers for March indicate that social isolation is reducing non-ncovid-19 deaths by twice as much as sars-cov-2 is adding them. That's short term, so not what GP was talking about, but very significant numbers nonetheless.
Weight is a weaker condition, since you can construct a polynomial weight sequence that results in linear height.
In general, height is the easiest thing to restrict, but doing so restricts dynamic performance optimizations - you can't use splay trees, for instance
> Weight is a weaker condition, since you can construct a polynomial weight sequence that results in linear height.
I'd like to hear more. The varieties of weight-balanced trees I'm aware of all have logarithmic height.
> In general, height is the easiest thing to restrict, but doing so restricts dynamic performance optimizations - you can't use splay trees, for instance
Good point.
BTW, you might be interested in Bose et al.'s "De-amortizing Binary Search Trees" <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.1665.pdf>, shows how to keep height logarithmic with "essentially any Binary Search Tree" (their phrase).
The three dots at the right, for some reason, is the menu. It's labelled "Settings and more", and contains the gear icon you were thinking of, but also all of the normal menu items like new window and print. It also contains "Save page", but befuddlingly that one is hidden under another flyout menu called "More tools".
When opening a PDF file in Edge, it loads up some kind of Acrobat embedding for me, and that one has its very own "save file" button, though with identical iconography to Edge's. Thankfully, the button is visible without any further menu diving, but is also placed at the top right, with an extremely faint border delineating it from the Edge chrome.