 Your tasks for the day are done, and you lay down to take a nap... when suddenly the enemy decides to attack, and throws the place into absolute chaos. Making matters worse... where's your gun? This trope has come to pass, and it is a massive Oh, Crap! to any poor unfortunate soldier or policeman that has it happen to them.
This trope basically occurs any time a character has to spend time looking for his weapon (and possibly getting killed in the process) when he should be doing something a bit more useful, like ya know, fighting. Sometimes however, it plays out because the gun in question is special to him, and he refuses to use anything else, even when there's piles of usable rifles at his feet.
Doesn't necessarily have to be a firearm, any time a character loses a weapon of any sort can certainly count here. A Properly Paranoid character trying to defy this trope will often keep a weapon under their pillow and/or feel like they Can't Bathe Without a Weapon.
Examples:
- The two CIA agents at the start of Act of Valor certainly could qualify. None of them even bother with making sure they have a weapon at the ready when the one answers the door. Sure, they might have been only expecting food delivery, but that still doesn't excuse them from not being ready for things to go sour quickly.
- Happens in Enemy at the Gates to the last soldier that Zaytsev shoots in his introductory badass moment. Once he realizes that Zaytsev is there, and has killed 4 of his comrades, he quickly realizes that his rifle is not within arms reach, and tries to go for it... only to have Zaytsev introduce his skull to a 7.62mm bullet before he can get more then three feet from his starting position.
- In Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, the cadets find themselves scrambling to get weapons and live ammo in the face of a Covenant invasion. Making matters worse is that the storage locker for the weapons and ammo is password protected, and the system is malfunctioning. Clearly no one in the UNSC ever thought to use a simple key and padlock system, which can at least be smashed off in an emergency... like when genocidal aliens are invading.
- In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indy is confronted by a massive Thuggee swordsman and cockily reaches for his revolver (in a Call-Back to the famous scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark). However, his smile vanishes when his hand pats his empty holster and he remembers that his pistol was taken off him when he was captured.
- Van Helsing has a scene early in the film where Prince Velcan used himself as bait to lure out a werewolf. It worked, but in the ensuing chaos that followed, he lost his pistol. While the villagers shoot at the trapped werewolf, he begins screaming at them to find his gun.  He eventually does find it, and manages to kill the werewolf in question, however he gets knocked off a cliff for his efforts, and later becomes a werewolf.
- Watch Girls Play: During the playthrough of The Forest, Renae loses her weapon right in the middle of a fight.
- Warhammer 40,000: In some sources, Guardsmen can be executed for not having their weapon with them, leading to them taking it with them even in the latrine.
- In Assassin's Creed II, Bartolomeo practically tears his house apart to find.... his Claymore "Bianca". All the while Ezio was busy cutting down their enemies just outside.
- In Fire Emblem Awakening, Vaike loses his axe prior to his first battle. Fortunately, Miriel soon arrives with it, leading to the tutorial on how to trade items between units.
- Halo: For being a cybernetic super soldier, the Master Chief seems to never have an available weapon on hand whenever trouble starts at the beginning of most of his games. He usually gets one within about five minutes of the player being handed control, but still, hasn't anyone thought to have at least a set of emergency pistols in the cryo rooms?
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary has Lara suspended in a trance when she gets all three pieces of the MacGuffin together and is shown a vision of the past that shows how Atlantis collapsed. When she returns to reality, Natla steals the artifact. Lara reaches for her guns, only to be confused when she sees that her guns are mysteriously gone before she gets restrained by Kold. Natla's goons show that they were the ones that stole her weapons.
- Sarge from Red vs. Blue is a serious offender here. While all of the other characters can and do switch weapons, sometimes on the fly, Sarge is the only one in the entire series that refuses to go anywhere without his Shotgun. Although the one time he didn't have it, when he could've used it he was acting as bait for Agent Washington (justified as Wash made him surrender it), most other characters would've picked up another weapon later instead of trying to swipe it back from Wash.
- Private Snafu: Happens several times to Snafu as a result of his general ineptitude. In "Fighting Tools", he has trouble finding his rifle, and the machine gun and howitzer are located a stupidly long way from his tent (although given everything else he has done to his weapons, not knowing their whereabouts is the least of his problems). In "Gas", it is his gas mask that he can't locate.
- Possibly one of the big triggers for some soldiers suffering from PTSD. Many soldiers in modern armies are trained to NEVER leave their weapon outside of arms reach (if they can help it), and in training are usually punished for doing so. After about three months of training, they deploy, and possibly go through about 2-4 tours in a hostile zone where they keep their weapon on them at all times. By this point, the weapon practically becomes a part of them, and when they finally come home.... the weapon is taken away from them. This leaves many soldiers feeling naked, and often leads to soldiers fearing things that they really shouldn't... but can't help it when they are not within arms reach of their weapons. Of course, coping with this by keeping a privately-owned weapon within arm's reach at all times while at home is far from a perfect solution.
- This trope is what cost a number of American Soldiers in Vietnam their lives. Not all of the time due to them leaving their M16 lying somewhere, but because the early M16s were notoriously unreliable, and as a result, often broke down in the middle of a fight. This left the soldier scrambling to try and find a working weapon, even if it meant taking an enemies weapon in the heat of the moment.


Stack Exchange is a network of of question & answer sites about specific topics. People can ask questions or answer other people's questions. Both questions and answers can received upvotes and downvotes. Upvotes on answers bring the “best” answers to the top. There are several Stack Exchange sites related to language.
Anyone can propose a new Stack Exchange site. The proposal will then go through several phases before the site can “graduate”: definition (which is mainly about which types of questions would be allowed), commit, and public beta. A beta site needs to acquire a specific critical mass (in users, daily visitors, number of questions per day, number of answers per question) before it can graduate. (On 1 August 2019, all beta sites that had been around for seven years or longer were moved from “beta” to “launched”.)
“Horizontal” Sites
The first two sites are “horizontal” in the sense that they are not about a specific language but focus on a specific aspect that applies across languages:
- Linguistics:
a question and answer site for professional linguists and others with an interest in linguistic research and theory
. - Language Learning (beta):
a question and answer site for students, teachers, polyglots, and anyone interested in the techniques of second-language acquisition
. (In spite of the description, the site is also accepts questions about first-language acquisition.)
Language-Specific Sites
Most language-related sites focus on a specific language. (Sites that have graduated are listed first. The beta sites are listed in alphabetical order.)
- English Language and Usage:
a question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts
. - English Language Learners:
a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English
. - Japanese Language:
a question and answer site for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Japanese language
. - Chinese Language:
a question and answer site for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Chinese language
. Questions and answers are typically in English. Some answers are in (Standard) Chinese. - Constructed Languages (beta):
a question and answer site for designers and users of artificial or invented languages, consciously developed instead of having developed naturally.
The site Constructed languages: had been proposed in July 2016 and went into beta in early February 2018. - Esperanto (public beta since August 2016):
a question and answer site for teachers and students of the Esperanto language
. Questions are in English or Esperanto. - French Language:
a question and answer site for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the French language
. Questions and answers are in English or French. - German Language:
a bilingual question and answer site for speakers of all levels who want to share and increase their knowledge of the German language
. Questions and answers are in English or German. - Italian Language (beta):
a question and answer site for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Italian language
. Questions and answers are in English or Italian. - Korean Language (beta):
Korean Language Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, teachers and students of the Korean language
. Questions and answers are typically in English, but questions and answers entirely in Korean are allowed. - Latin Language (beta):
a question and answer site for linguists, teachers, and students wanting to discuss the finer points of the Latin language
. - Portuguese Language (beta):
a question and answer site for linguists, teachers and learners wanting to discuss the finer points of the Portuguese language
. - Russian Language:
a question and answer site for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Russian language
. Questions and answers are in English or Russian. - Spanish Language:
a question and answer site for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Spanish language
-
Ukrainian Language Stack Exchange (beta):
a question and answer site for linguists, teachers and students of the Ukrainian language.
The site went public at the end of February 2017. (Ukrainian Language was originally proposed in December 2015.)
Finally, new proposals are continually being submitted. The following proposed sites are still on Area 51, Stack Exchange's staging area. In April 2018, Stack Exchange changed the rules for Area 51 because there had been too many weak site proposals. (Note: this list was created in early October 2016 and can go quickly out of date, as new proposals get submitted and proposals that are not viable get deleted.)
American Sign Language (proposed on 5 August 2017; deleted before the end of 2017 due to insufficient activity).Aramaic Language (proposed in August 2016; closed on 22 November 2016 due to insufficient activity).Arabic Language (proposed in December 2015; closed on 10 or 11 November 2016 after 61 days in beta; a datadump of all questions is available).Third proposal Arabic Language, launched on 24.12.2016 and closed on 28 April 2018.Bangla / Bengali (proposed on 24 April 2017 but very short-lived).Bulgarian Language (proposed on 7 May 2017 but very short-lived).Catalan Language (proposed on 4 February 2019 and closed on May 22 2019)Dutch Language (proposed in December 2015; this site would probably also cover Frisian and Afrikaans; closed on 17 December 2016 because it spent a year in definition phase). Dutch Languages: restarted proposal (17.12.2016; closed on 18.12.2017).
Dutch Languages (restarted on 16 January 2018).
Dutch Languages (restarted on 16 June 2019 and closed on 17.10.2019).- Finnish Language (proposed on 1 February 2018; closed).
- Greek Language (proposed after April 2018 and closed on 27 November 2018). Greek Language (proposed in July 2016 and closed on 28 April 2018 after a previous attempt had failed; covers both Modern and Ancient Greek!).
Hebrew Language (proposed in August 2016; an earlier attempt was deleted).Hindi Language & Literature (हिंदी भाषा और साहित्य) (proposed on 30 January 2017; removed).- Hindi language (proposed on 20 September 2017; closed on 28 April 2018).
Hungarian Language (proposed on 3 December 2016).Indian Languages (proposed in April 2016; closed on 7 April 2017).
India has many languages, which belong to different language families (Indo-European, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan). The proposal has a meta question to rename the site to “Indic Languages” (a synonym for Indo-Aryan languages, a sub-branch of the Indo-European languages). There is also a separate proposal for Tamil (see below). A separate proposal for Hindi was closed in September 2016 because it stayed in the definition phase for more than a year.Indonesian Languages (proposed on 18 October 2016; closed on 14 January 2017 after 30 days of inactivity).Jamaican Language and Culture (proposed on 28 September 2016; closed on 18 November 2016 due to insufficient activity).Irish Language (Gaeilge) (proposed on 3 March 2019 and closed on 3 July 2019)- Latin Hebrew (proposed in November 2017).
Lojban Language: proposed at the end of 2015 and closed in October 2016 because it stayed in the commitment phase for more than a year.
Lojban, the logical language: new proposal from October 2016.
Lojban is aconstructed, syntactically unambiguous human language
. (Source: Wikipedia.)Malayalam Language.This proposal was made on 29/30 September and deleted on 3/4 October.
Malayalam is one of the many languages spoken in India. It is a Dravidian language with roughly 38 million speakers.Malayalam Language proposed again on 1 August (?) 2019 but removed within days.Malaysian Language (proposed on 2 December 2016; deleted before the end of 2017).- Nordic Languages (proposed on 15 August 2017; closed on 28 April 2018).
Persian Language (proposed on 3 December 2016, after another one, proposed on 4 November 2016 had been deleted).Polish Language and Culture (proposed on 10 January 2017).- Sanskrit Language (proposed on 17.10.2019 after a previous proposal from April 2016 was closed on 26 April 2017 and another Sanskrit language proposal proposed on 17 May 2017 and closed on 28 April 2018).
Semitic Languages (proposed on 15 August 2017 and closed on 28 April 2018) would cover languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac.A new proposal, Semitic Languages, was launched on 29 April 2018- Sinhalese Language (proposed on 11 January 2018).
- Slavic Languages and Culture
(proposed on 22 January 2018 and closed on 28 April 2018).
Slavic languages (proposed in early September 2016, after an earlier attempt had failed). Swahili language (proposed on 14 May 2017). Swahili Language & Usage (proposed on 05 August 2019 and closed in September or October of the same year).Swedish Language (relaunched on 27 July 2017 and closed on 30 October 2017). Swedish Language (proposed in July 2016; closed on 2 January 2017).Tamil Language (proposed in March 2016; deleted in the summer of 2017).- Thai Language (proposed in November 2017).
Translating (proposed 7 November 2016; deleted before the end of 2017).Turkic Languages (proposed in December 2015; removed in November 2016).- Turkish Language (proposed in October 2017).
- Urdu Language (proposed 22 July 2017).
Yiddish Language and Culture (proposed on 26 November 2016; closed on 20 January 2017 after 30 days of inactivity).
Resources for Researching Language Learning Stack Exchange Questions
Below is a set of resources that may be helpful when researching questions for Language Learning. A modified version of the content below was submitted to a community wiki on Language Learning Stack Exchange.
- ResearchGate: a social network for researchers. Many researchers upload their papers here.
- Academia.edu: another social network for researchers.
-
Paperity:
describes itself as
the first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers
. - ERIC: a website that indexes research papers relating to education, including research on second language acquisition. ERIC always provides an abstract but does not always store the paper itself.
-
JSTOR
describes itself as
an online research and teaching platform that helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive
. JSTOR contains many papers but access usually requires a paid subscription. There is also a free registration option that allows you to read up to 3 papers every two weeks. - Springer Link: Springer is a big academic publisher. Some of the papers available on Springer Link are available as Open Access publications.
- Elsevier's SciencDirect: Elsevier is another big academic publisher. Some of the papers available on SciencDirect are available as Open Access publications.
- Google Scholar: a search engine that indexes scholarly literature.
- (Microsoft Academic Search probably has few artitcles related to language learning.)
- Scientillion: search engine for ArXiv.org.
-
Research Connection:
its goal is to
globally connect students and researchers in a single online community that promotes accessibility and collaboration
. -
WorldCat
is
the world's largest library catalog
. WorldCat helps you locate books in a large number of libraries, so you can find out whether a specific book is available in a (university) library near you. - TermSciences: a multidisciplinary terminology portal.
- See also: Rachel Bruce & Neil Jacobs:
Ten search engines for researchers that go beyond Google,
JISC blog, 11.07.2013. Recommended resources:
- WolframAlpha, an “answer engine”.
- CORE: an open access search engine.
- BASE: a search engine for open access resources.
- Copac: meta catalogue or federated search engine for the catalogues of university libraries in the UK and Ireland.
- Web Scale Discovery services.
- Zetoc: a research database that covers over 28,000 journals.
- Euroeana: a meta-catalogue of cultural heritage collections in the European Union.
- Mendeley: reference manager.
- Zotero: reference manager.
- Make Google searches work for you, a guide by JISC in the UK.
- Satish Chandra Satyarthi: How to use Google Search Better – Some Secret Tricks, The Personal Blog of Satish Chandra Satyarthi, 27.12.2015.
- For other databases and search engines, see Wikipedia's list of academic databases and search engines.
- Rebecca Mogg (Cardiff University Library): How to search the web effectively for reliable health information: although the focus is on health information, all of the tips can be applied to other domains. (The video is from the online course Making Sense of Health Evidence: The Informed Consumer.)


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ASN1_TYPE_get, ASN1_TYPE_set, ASN1_TYPE_set1, ASN1_TYPE_cmp, ASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence, ASN1_TYPE_pack_sequence - ASN1_TYPE utility functions
#include <openssl/asn1.h>
int ASN1_TYPE_get(const ASN1_TYPE *a);
void ASN1_TYPE_set(ASN1_TYPE *a, int type, void *value);
int ASN1_TYPE_set1(ASN1_TYPE *a, int type, const void *value);
int ASN1_TYPE_cmp(const ASN1_TYPE *a, const ASN1_TYPE *b);
void *ASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence(const ASN1_ITEM *it, const ASN1_TYPE *t);
ASN1_TYPE *ASN1_TYPE_pack_sequence(const ASN1_ITEM *it, void *s,
ASN1_TYPE **t);
These functions allow an ASN1_TYPE structure to be manipulated. The ASN1_TYPE structure can contain any ASN.1 type or constructed type such as a SEQUENCE: it is effectively equivalent to the ASN.1 ANY type.
ASN1_TYPE_get() returns the type of a or 0 if it fails.
ASN1_TYPE_set() sets the value of a to type and value. This function uses the pointer value internally so it must not be freed up after the call.
ASN1_TYPE_set1() sets the value of a to type a copy of value.
ASN1_TYPE_cmp() compares ASN.1 types a and b and returns 0 if they are identical and nonzero otherwise.
ASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence() attempts to parse the SEQUENCE present in t using the ASN.1 structure it. If successful it returns a pointer to the ASN.1 structure corresponding to it which must be freed by the caller. If it fails it return NULL.
ASN1_TYPE_pack_sequence() attempts to encode the ASN.1 structure s corresponding to it into an ASN1_TYPE. If successful the encoded ASN1_TYPE is returned. If t and *t are not NULL the encoded type is written to t overwriting any existing data. If t is not NULL but *t is NULL the returned ASN1_TYPE is written to *t.
The type and meaning of the value parameter for ASN1_TYPE_set() and ASN1_TYPE_set1() is determined by the type parameter. If type is V_ASN1_NULL value is ignored. If type is V_ASN1_BOOLEAN then the boolean is set to TRUE if value is not NULL. If type is V_ASN1_OBJECT then value is an ASN1_OBJECT structure. Otherwise type is and ASN1_STRING structure. If type corresponds to a primitive type (or a string type) then the contents of the ASN1_STRING contain the content octets of the type. If type corresponds to a constructed type or a tagged type (V_ASN1_SEQUENCE, V_ASN1_SET or V_ASN1_OTHER) then the ASN1_STRING contains the entire ASN.1 encoding verbatim (including tag and length octets).
ASN1_TYPE_cmp() may not return zero if two types are equivalent but have different encodings. For example the single content octet of the boolean TRUE value under BER can have any nonzero encoding but ASN1_TYPE_cmp() will only return zero if the values are the same.
If either or both of the parameters passed to ASN1_TYPE_cmp() is NULL the return value is nonzero. Technically if both parameters are NULL the two types could be absent OPTIONAL fields and so should match, however, passing NULL values could also indicate a programming error (for example an unparsable type which returns NULL) for types which do not match. So applications should handle the case of two absent values separately.
ASN1_TYPE_get() returns the type of the ASN1_TYPE argument.
ASN1_TYPE_set() does not return a value.
ASN1_TYPE_set1() returns 1 for success and 0 for failure.
ASN1_TYPE_cmp() returns 0 if the types are identical and nonzero otherwise.
ASN1_TYPE_unpack_sequence() returns a pointer to an ASN.1 structure or NULL on failure.
ASN1_TYPE_pack_sequence() return an ASN1_TYPE structure if it succeeds or NULL on failure.
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Why?¶
- Code Quality - Ceres Solver has been used in production at Google for more than four years now. It is clean, extensively tested and well documented code that is actively developed and supported.
- Modeling API - It is rarely the case that one starts with the
exact and complete formulation of the problem that one is trying to
solve. Ceres’s modeling API has been designed so that the user can
easily build and modify the objective function, one term at a
time. And to do so without worrying about how the solver is going to
deal with the resulting changes in the sparsity/structure of the
underlying problem.
- Derivatives Supplying derivatives is perhaps the most tedious and error prone part of using an optimization library. Ceres ships with automatic and numeric differentiation.  Not only this, Ceres allows you to mix automatic, numeric and analytical derivatives in any combination that you want.
- Robust Loss Functions Most non-linear least squares problems
involve data. If there is data, there will be outliers. Ceres
allows the user to shape their residuals using a
LossFunction
to reduce the influence of outliers. - Local Parameterization In many cases, some parameters lie on a
manifold other than Euclidean space, e.g., rotation matrices. In
such cases, the user can specify the geometry of the local tangent
space by specifying a
LocalParameterization
object.
- Solver Choice Depending on the size, sparsity structure, time &
memory budgets, and solution quality requiremnts, different
optimization algorithms will suit different needs. To this end,
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- Solution Quality Ceres is the best performing solver on the NIST problem set used by Mondragon and Borchers for benchmarking non-linear least squares solvers.
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- Portability - Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
- BSD Licensed The BSD license offers the flexibility to ship your application


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| #define | btAlignedAlloc(size, alignment) btAlignedAllocInternal(size, alignment) |
| #define | btAlignedFree(ptr) btAlignedFreeInternal(ptr) |
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| typedef void() | btAlignedFreeFunc(void *memblock) |
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| void | btAlignedAllocSetCustom (btAllocFunc *allocFunc, btFreeFunc *freeFunc) |
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| void | btAlignedAllocSetCustomAligned (btAlignedAllocFunc *allocFunc, btAlignedFreeFunc *freeFunc) |
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| #define btAlignedFree | ( | ptr | ) | btAlignedFreeInternal(ptr) |
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Lowercase “d” deaf people are ashamed of their deafness. They never use sign language, and often opt for oralism, the practice of lipreading and mimicking the movement of words in order to communicate. deaf people never associate themselves with the Deaf community. They never say they are deaf, but prefer terms such as “hearing impaired”, as they see this as a medical condition rather than an identifying characteristic.
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f=: 3 : 0 a=: 2+b=. y ^ 2 a+a*b : x*x+y ) a=: b=: 19 f 3 110 a,b NB. Only the globally assigned name is changed. 11 19As illustrated by the foregoing:
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| 3. | A name assigned by the copula =. is made local; values assigned to it have no effect on the use of the same name without the entity defined or within other entities invoked by it. A name assigned by =: is global, except that global assignment to a local name is not permitted. Locative assignment (using either =: or =.) is always global. |
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conj=: 2 : '(u y)+ (v y)' mc=: 2 : 0 (u y)+(v y) ) dc=: 2 : 0 Dyadic case : (u y)+(v x) ) (!conj% 2 4 5);(!mc% 2 4 5);(1 2 3 !dc% 2 4 5) +---------------+---------------+--------------+ |2.5 24.25 120.2|2.5 24.25 120.2|3 24.5 120.333| +---------------+---------------+--------------+Control Structures. The sequence of execution of an explicit definition may be determined by control words such as if. do. else. end. and while. . For example, a function to find the root of a function f from a two-element list that brackets the root may be written and executed as follows:
root=: 3 : 'm=.+/%#while.~:/y do.if.~:/*f b=.(m,{.)y do.y=.b else.y=.(m,{:)y end.end.m y' f=: 2 - *: b=: 1 10 root b 1.41421Such a definition may also be written on multiple lines and made more readable as follows:
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As illustrated by the foregoing, the word if. and a matching end. mark the beginning and end of a control structure, as do while. and a matching end.; such structures may be nested as is the if. structure within the while. structure. The words do. and else. break the if. structure into three simple blocks, each comprising a sentence, whereas the do. in the while. structure breaks it into two blocks, the first being a simple sentence, and the second being itself an if. control structure. Therefore, control words provide a form of punctuation.
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GServ provides a few capabilities on the server-side to facilitate this:


VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY (CGP 3754M)
Week 8: INTRO AUGMENTED REALITY
Week 9:Designing for AR / UX / INTERACTION DESIGN
Week 10:Assignment work (Non teaching)
Week 11:21/12/2020 XMAS HOL
Week 12:28/12/2020 XMAS HOL
Week 13:LIVE HARMONY LTD TALK, VR/AR CASE STUDIES
Week 14:DEVLOPING VESTIGIA SCOPE (CANVAS UI)
Week 15:MIXED REALITY AND HAPTICS
Week 16:FUTURE IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES
To day we will look at.
Assessment
AR on Behaviours
AR and Accessabilty
Mixed Reality Overview (HMD)
Players
Hardware
limitations
Considerations
Interactions
Loose links with Immersion
Applications
1. Combine virtual and real information, with the real world as the primary place of action;
2. Be interactive with real-time updates to content OR object (GUI);
3. Have virtual information registered in 3D space, in the physical environment.
4. A Report.
A. Section 1: Overview [Max. 500 words]. An overview of the existing AR types and use case.
B. Section 2: Development [Max. 750 words]. Discuss your development including any technical implementation(s) for example handling Interruptions or using audio and haptics to enhance the immersive experience. This should include a rationale behind your choice of implementation and the intended user experience.
C. Section 3: Analysis and evaluation (Does not necessarily mean your App) [Max. 750 words]. This could include a discussion on environment, interactions and patterns, cognitive tunneling, diegetic/ non diegetic interfaces and/or other
Keep your idea simple - Be Realistic
This is only half a module with 4/5 weeks development and thus we expect that to reflect in the actual developement - These are going to be Mid Fi prototypes.
“Presence is a psychological state or subjective perception in which even though part of all of an individual’s current experience is generated by and or filtered through human-made technology, part of all of the individual’s perception fails to accurately acknowledge the role of the technology in the experience”
Immersion: describes the extent to which technology is capable of delivering a vivid illusion of reality to the senses of a human participant.
Presence: a state of consciousness, the (psychological) sense of being in the virtual environment.
So Immersion, defined in technical terms, is capable of producing a sensation of Presence
Slater, M., & Wilbur, S. (1997). A framework for immersive virtual environments (FIVE):Speculations on the role of presence in virtual environments. Presence: Teleoperators and virtual environments, 6(6), 603-616.
You need identify potential ways to improve immersion in the user experience (thus strengthen the sense or presence)
Mel Slaters theory is Place Illusion & Plausibility Illusion
In “The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality” by Jason Jeral suggest 4 components to Presence.
1:The Illusion of Being in a Stable Spatial Place
2:The Illusions of Self-embodiment
3:The Illusion of Physical Interaction
4:The Illusion of Social Communication
All suggest these effect Presence (singular)
Aki Järvinen
Aki Järvinen suggests that there are a range of presences that we should design for and try to map them the ‘Elemental Theory of Presence’ - a useful model created by Kent Bye for describing the qualitative elements of a virtual reality experience.
Different presences = different experiences
SPACE: In a new study led by professor Jeremy Bailenson, using a traditional psychology method known as social inhibitions. Researchers found:
that after people had an experience in augmented reality (HMD AR) - their interactions in their physical world changed as well, even with the AR device removed.

Participants "appeared" to be influenced by the presence of a virtual person in a similar way they would be if a real person were next to them.
Their findings mirror much of the research Bailenson has done on virtual reality (VR)
Is this still true in Mobile?
Road Safety: In "Effectiveness of augmented reality warnings on driving behaviour whilst approaching pedestrian crossings Researchers the Positive effects of AR were observed"
When the AR warnings were activated, drivers started to decelerate well before the pedestrian crossing, with a low deceleration rate and high Time-to-Collision and Time-to-Crossing. This study confirmed the great benefits that AR and connected vehicle technologies could bring to the overall safety conditions on the road network
These results highlight how AR content integrates with your physical space, affecting the way you interact with it.
Heavy headsets, hand tracking, and large handheld controllers with stubborn buttons can pose immediate barriers for users with differing physical characteristics and abilities, underscoring the need for inclusivity.
In Making Mobile Augmented Reality Applications Accessible (Jaylin Herskovitz and Apple)demonstrates (with a series of 10 prototypes)that AR is possible to use for blind users and reveals a number of insights
When designing an application that uses augmented reality, Things Entertainment suggests these accessibility guidelines to keep users with physical disabilities in mind:
Spatial or Positional Sound Effects: creating sounds that mimic the location of augmented objects allow users with mobility impairments to locate objects without requiring movement.
Adjustable Location of Augmented Reality Objects: allowing users to move the augmented object that they are required to interact prevents users from requiring movement such as reaching, bending, or accessing areas that are restricted to wheelchair users.
Avoid Space Conflicts: allowing augmented objects to be unfixed forms increase options in the type of movement, the angle of movement and the direction of movement needed for interaction.
Virtual reality (VR): "Is an artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (such as sights and sounds) provided by a computer and in which one's actions partially determine what happens in the environment”
Augmented Reality:(AR)Refers to a system in which the user views and acts within an enhanced version of the real world. The enhancements are virtual (computer generated), i.e. objects, information, face or body augmentation etc.
Mixed reality:(MR) Refers to a system that combines real and virtual objects and information. Virtual content is not only overlaid on the real environment (as in AR) but is anchored to, and interacts with that environment.(line are becoming blured with gestures)
Put simply, in mixed reality you can see virtual objects just like you can in augmented reality, but these objects can also interact with the real world. Mixed Reality could be considered a more immersive and interactive type of augmented reality?
Mixed reality spectrum
Todays focus is on HMD's. Currently there are two forms of Mixed reality (HMD's):
Immersive Devices
Holographic Devices
These headsets have non-translucent displays that completely block out the real world (just like the quest headsets when setting guardian) and use cameras for tracking. Windows mixed reality headsets from Acer and HP work this way.
(Not technically Holograms - A Hologram is a physical structure that uses light diffraction - blame MS)
These headsets have translucent glasses that allow you to perfectly see your surroundings. Virtual experiences are created with the help of holograms. That’s how Microsoft HoloLens 2 works.
This will be the main focus today
Microsoft is investing several billion dollars into Hololens development (already spent 150 million on licensing hardware from ODG).
Google spent over $1 billion on the comparatively very simple Google Glass (not to mention 1.4 BILLION in Magic Leap).
Closely related, Facebook spent $2b to acquire Oculus Rift
BIG MONEY! BIGGER Development industry (More jobs for you)
FOV: 95°
Country: India
Incorporating AI, environmental mapping and enhanced 3D digital holograms
MR headset price: $1,500
FOV: 40°
Country: US
Uses Light Field Technology and comes with a wearable Lightpack (mini PC) to power the device
MR headset price: $2,295
FOV: 35°
Country: US
Uses waveguide technology. In circulation since 2016 and has already been integrated into several industries
MR headset price: $3,000M
FOV: 52°
Country: US
Latest Kinect sensor, a custom AI chip to improve its performance, a wider FOV, and a more comfortable design
MR headset price: $3,500
FOV: 52°
Country: China
Work tethered to a mini PC (like the Magic Leap One). Light and simple, they almost look like “normal” sunglasses or eyeglasses
MR headset price: $1000
FOV: 120°
Country: US
MR headset for smartphones. It offers 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF) with its inside-out tracking and, most importantly, boasts the largest FOV (120°)
MR headset price: $578 (with sensor)
Different hardware has different limitations - all these effect the immersive experience
People are now coming to expect the high image quality they get from 4K TVs with high dynamic range and by the fanciful visions that Hollywood comes up with for AR that can only be done in post-production CGI
The hardware does not allow it (yet)
Waveguide optical architect (Hololens- maybe magic leap)
The waveguide combiner, a flat and relatively ergonomic one, exceeds conventional HMDs in all parameters except for the field of view. The waveguide architecture has a very limited angular bandwidth, which results in a narrow FOV.(between 30° and 52° in a diagonal direction)
System resolution (MTF of the whole system) is typically quite low due to diffraction optical limitations.
Its expensive!
BirdBath (ODG-just gone bust)
Birdbath has a very long and rich history, while it has its pros, it comes with the following limitations:
It has a fundamental privacy leaking issue, as others can see the display content from outside, from all directions.
FOV is quite similar to waveguide technology, not large enough (between 40° and 55° in a diagonal direction)
Hot and heavy on the nose - so only good for short periods
Not good for watching porn!
Off-axis Reflector optical architect (expensive)
Off-axis Reflector optical architect. Historically, Off-axis Reflector was used in the Military thanks to its ultra-wide field of view (FOV) characteristics.
Used in pilot training program during World War 2, and was used on the F35 joint fighter information helmet, where the size and cost was not a big problem for the pilot.
the F35 joint fighter AR helmet was over 3 lbs, and cost about $400,000 each. To make it work, each pilot’s head needs to be individually scanned! (No problem as an air-force device)
All the technologies are still very expensive commercially
based on FOV
Light Field Technology (maybe magic leap 2)
A light field volume creates images taken from every viewable position within a defined space. When your head moves, the correct images are swapped in real time.
Light fields allow the highest fidelity of models, textures, lighting, and reflections which would not be possible in real time.
Light field captures have parallax, an overlap of object depth based on head movement. This increases immersion and presence, and is’t available in 360 videos.
You can mix light fields with 3D models, film, or photogrammetry to increase the illusion of reality.
(Patrick discussed focus in VR)
Light beam will always stay in focus if we don’t have multiple focal planes (at least five).
This will result in eye fatigue and generally will impact immersion.
Avegant, has recently introduced the Glyph Light Field headset. -claims that they use the light field approach to make multiple digital focus planes.
Everyone, it seems, starts with Ray-Ban® sunglasses as their starting point. As they try and solve one technical problem after another, the headset grows until it becomes a small helmet, ala Hololens (1 and 2).
Even if they use something that looks thin like waveguides, the waveguides have to be protected as they are very fragile. Adding SLAM means having to put cameras that are spread out and have to be mounted somewhere, which makes the headset bigger.
Supporting transparency while being bright enough to see the image, requires a bright projector, which in turn means battery power and heat management.
Karl Guttag (https://www.kguttag.com/)
Occlusion and depth perception
Text display and legibility
Visual differences between real and virtual objects
Registration and tracking
Bulky HMDs and other equipment
(some Hololens specific)
The current state of technology allows us to create an environment mesh almost instantaneously as the depth sensing camera captures the environment. But this can have limitations.
You first have to really explore your area to let the device map your playground.  If you don’t, the camera won’t capture all details that you want to interact with
Busy areas with people can create "ghosting" when mapping.
User intent: Information about where and what a user looks at provides a powerful context for other inputs, such as voice, hands and controllers.
Implicit actions:"eye-gaze-based" auto scroll where the user can read a long text which automatically starts scrolling once the user gets to the bottom of the text-box
"eye-supported zoom and pan". The user can feel like diving exactly toward what they are focused on.
Communications
Education
Medical
Gaming (expensive)
Manufacturing
Corporate adoption soon. Designers, construction workers, and surgeons can already benefit from AR headsets. And they won’t ask for “immersive experiences,” just some necessary and practical basics.


Spring Boot
Meetup
Ingredients of a Spring web application
war
web.xml
DispatcherServlet
Controlers, Handlers & Interceptors
ServletContainer
Thirdparty dependencies
Maven project
Application server
Goal of Spring Boot
- Get up-and-running as quick as possible
- Automatically configure Spring where possible.
But get out of the way when config diverges from defaults.
- Provide common non-functional features:
- embedded servers
- metrics and health checks
- externalized config
Absolutely no
Code generation
XML configuration


Stevawn
Stevawn is 28 years old and mother to two young boys. Currently, she is the Assistant Manager at Petco. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her family and practicing her programming skills.
Aaron
Aaron is 28 years old and father to two young boys. He is currently a Systems Engineer at Columbia Distributing.
Noah
Noah is 2 years old. He loves Mickey Mouse, Elena of Avalor, Paw Patrol, and Zootopia. He is scheduled for surgery on Friday, June 16th for an adenoidectomy.
Ethan
Ethan is 14 weeks old. He loves watching his brother and smiles all of the time. Ethan has a condition called craniosynostosis. This means that the sutures in his skull are fusing prematurely. The fusion causes an odd head shape because the skull can not expand as it normally would. This condition affects 1 in 2000 births and will require a craniotomy.


NIST has initiated a process to solicit, evaluate, and standardize one or more quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms. Full details can be found in the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization page. The Round 2 candidates were announced January 30, 2...


UC Switch is coming to your area in March 2018
Universal Credit has been introduced to give you the
support you need to find and progress in work. We want
you to be able to benefit from all the positives that work
brings. This guide will help you do that and covers the
following areas:
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{% endif %}
Your responsibilities
When you claim Universal Credit there are a number of
activities you become responsible for in order to receive
your payment. You can get more information about
Universal Credit online at www.gov.uk/universalcredit
- Complete work search activities for up to 35 hours per week.
- Complete a tailored commitment with your work coach.
- You will be responsible for paying your own rent and other housing costs.
- Report all your changes in circumstances through your account
- Manage your monthly payments and budget monthly.
- Working part-time and able to earn more? You’re required to seek additional work and increase your earnings
Your Commitment
When you claim Universal Credit you will need to complete and accept a tailored
commitment.
In most cases your Commitment will be drawn up during a conversation with your work coach at
your local Jobcentre. It will set out what you have agreed to do to prepare for and look for work,
or to increase your earnings if you are already working.
It will be based on your personal circumstances and will be reviewed and updated on an on-going basis.
Each time it is updated, you will need to accept a new Commitment to keep receiving Universal Credit.
You will be able to view your latest Commitment on-line though your account.
If you claim Universal Credit as a couple, both of you will need to accept a Commitment.
You will each have your own Commitment, and yours may be affected if your partner starts
work or their circumstances change.
If you are earning as much as can be expected depending upon your current circumstances.
You will receive financial support without any other conditions to increase your earnings
If you are able and available for work.
You will need to do everything you reasonably can to give yourself the best chance of finding work.
Preparing for and getting a job must be your full time focus. If you do not do this without a good
reason, you will receive reduced payments of your Universal Credit, known as a sanction.
If you currently have limited capability for work, related to a disability or health condition,
but this is expected to change over time.
You will be supported until your circumstances improve and you can work. You will be
expected to prepare for work so far as you are able.
If you have a disability or health condition which prevents you from working.
You will not be asked to work, and will be supported through Universal Credit.
If you care for a severely disabled person for at least 35 hours a week.
You will not be required to work.
If you are the lead carer of a child.
You will be supported in your current circumstances. What is expected of you
as a lead carer in return for getting Universal Credit will be based on the
age of the youngest child in the household.
Not meeting your responsibilities
Your Commitment will clearly state what will happen if you fail to meet
each of your responsibilities. You will receive reduced payments, known
as a sanction, if you fail to meet one of your responsibilities and
can’t give a good reason to explain why.
Payments
Universal Credit is paid monthly and you are required to budget monthly.
When you make a new claim to Universal Credit you will receive your first
payment, together with a letter telling you how much will be paid, around
6 weeks after the date you make your claim. We can’t confirm how much you’ll
get before then, because the amount depends upon your circumstances, for
example if you’re caring for someone else and/or if you have received any
income or earnings that month.
If you feel you may experience financial difficulties during this time please
check with your work coach as you may be able get an advance on your first
Universal Credit payment if you’ve recently been receiving another benefit
or you’re in urgent financial need.
Your payment will usually arrive on the same date each month or earlier
if the date falls on a weekend or bank holiday.
If you are employed, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will tell
us about any money you’ve earned.
Universal Credit is paid monthly directly into the account you have chosen.
The amount you get is calculated each month, and depends on your circumstances
and earnings during that time. This is known as an assessment period.
Your first assessment period usually starts 7 days after you submit your claim.
This 7 day waiting period may apply if you are out of work and claim Universal Credit.
Your first assessment period usually starts 7 days after you submit your claim.
This 7 day waiting period may apply if you are out of work and claim Universal Credit.
If you were previously in receipt of tax credits please note that your tax credits
will stop as soon as you make a claim to Universal Credit. For further information
see: Universal Credit:
help with managing your money - GOV.UK
Extra support with childcare
You may be worried about paying for childcare while you work. We want to help,
so we’ve made it quick and easy for you to claim back up to 85% of the cost of
approved childcare. We add this to your monthly payment. Speak to your work coach
if you wish to find out more.
Information on Universal Credit payments and different earnings patterns (Payment Cycles).
The graphics below represent the first payment cycle following your new claim to Universal
Credit; subsequent payments will be made on a calendar monthly basis.
If waiting for your first Universal Credit payment will put you into financial difficulties,
there is support available to you.
Contact your work coach if you need further information on:
- Personal Budgeting Support (money advice)
- An Advance Payment
- A Discretionary Housing Payment (via your local authority)
Payment Cycles
If you are working, your own circumstances will differ depending upon when
you get paid by your employer” please.
Full time work search
In most cases you will need to complete up to 35 hours work search activity
per week in order to receive Universal Credit. Here are some suggestions to get
you started.
Opening up work, taper and in work progression
Universal Credit is ‘opening up work’ and allowing access to a wider range of jobs by:
- helping make sure you’re always better off in work than on benefits
- allowing part-time and short-term work to act as a stepping stone into work
- providing you with support from a work coach to help you every step of the way
- removing barriers, allowing you to work more than 16 hours a week and still claim
Universal Credit
For further information see Universal Credit and work - GOV.UK.
Taper
Self-employment
Help with childcare
Universal Credit helps working parents by providing financial support for registered
childcare, no matter how many hours you work. If you are claiming with a partner both
of you normally need to be in work to receive this help. It is also available if you
are claiming Universal Credit and in re-ceipt of Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity
Pay, Ordinary Statutory Paternity Pay, Additional Statutory Paternity Pay, Shared Paternity
Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay and Maternity Allowance.
Childcare support is paid in arrears, so if you think you need help with up-front costs,
you should discuss this with your work coach. Claimants with a firm and accepted job offer
can claim child-care costs a month prior to starting work. Additional help to meet an initial
payment for childcare costs may also be available subject to certain conditions. Talking to
your work coach as soon as possible about your job offer and the support options available to
you will help with getting a routine in place for when you start work.
Childcare support is paid in arrears, so if you think you need help with up-front costs,
you should discuss this with your work coach. Claimants with a firm and accepted job offer
can claim child-care costs a month prior to starting work. Additional help to meet an initial
payment for childcare costs may also be available subject to certain conditions. Talking to
your work coach as soon as possible about your job offer and the support options available to
you will help with getting a routine in place for when you start work.
You will be able to claim back up to 85 per cent of your actual paid out childcare costs if
you meet the qualifying conditions and your childcare costs are eligible. This payment is
capped so you could receive a maximum childcare payment of:
£646 for one child or £1,108 for two or more children.
Childcare costs can also be claimed for at least a month after your employment ends, which
can help you to maintain childcare as you move between jobs.
Your childcare support in Universal Credit is paid in respect of payments to registered or approved
childcare providers. This generally means the childcare provider is registered with OFSTED in England,
the Care Inspectorate in Scotland or Care and Social Services Inspectorate for Wales (CSSIW). Approved
childcare can include care provided in school or in another place by a childminder, playscheme, nursery
or club. Your approved childcare provider should be able to provide you with a registration number.
To make a claim you will need to provide evidence of your childcare placement(s) and the actual cost of
childcare with invoices or receipts.
Other help with childcare costs
All three- and four-year-olds in England can get 570 hours of free early education or childcare per year.
This is usually taken as 15 hours each week for 38 weeks of the year. Some two-year-olds are also eligible.
From September 2017, the free childcare entitlement in England will be doubled to 30 hours a week for
working parents of three- and four-year-olds. Help with childcare is also available in Scotland and Wales.
You cannot claim Universal Credit childcare support to cover any free provision. However, you can claim
Universal Credit childcare support to cover the cost of the hours over and above the free provision.
If your child starts getting free childcare, you should tell DWP about the change straight away.
If you are working and responsible for a child, your employer may be able to help you with child-care costs
through Employer Supported Childcare in the form of childcare vouchers. Employer Supported Childcare will
close to new entrants from April 2018. From early 2017 the new Tax-Free Childcare scheme will be introduced
to support parents with their childcare costs. If you are in receipt of Universal Credit you will not be
eligible for Tax-Free Childcare at the same time, so you will need to choose between them. If you need help with
this you should speak to your work coach. For further information on registered providers, free childcare and
other childcare support, see https://www.gov.uk/childcaresupport
Sanctions


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I've been satisfied with pure tiling window managers for the past decade, but I recently used Openbox on a friends machine and I've instantly realized that it was a better way.
I'm not ready to give up on the benefits of tiling entirely however and I've tried to setup my workstation as a hybrid tiling/stacking setup which I've described below.
Openbox is a stacking window manager that comes as part of the LXDE desktop.
In contrast to widely-used lightweight tiling window managers, LXDE comes 'opinionated' with a traditional menu and generally adheres to the desktop metaphor found on OSX and Windows.
Openbox is primarily configured with an XML file that dictates both keyboard and mouse bindings, while also allowing you to control window decoration, defaults, etc.
Many larger Linux applications introduce a way to start their programs into a "start menu", categorized by application 'type'. Menus eliminate the problem of unknown unknowns - programs you've once installed but forgotten or came included with another program you installed.
If you use a distribution which frequently integrates the newest changes in Linux, sometimes you can miss new tooling if you don't have a menu which lists all the installed graphical applications on your system. As a matter of using Openbox, I found out that the firewall I've been configuring through a CLI for years has an extremely sophisticated GUI - found through a menu entry.
It's possible to get a bar in any tiling window manager, but I'm partial to lxpanel.
LXDE has gone to considerable lengths to preserve some degree of compatibility with the interface guidelines and standards set forth by organizations like the GNOME Project, which means you no longer need to get inside of your xinitrc to start up the appropriate services.
Which brings me to the final point.
From abrt to libnotify, there's a lot of stuff under the hood of a modern desktop.
If you want to go the "lightweight" route, you've got to prepare yourself
for quite a bit. You'll need to install and configure a notification daemon,
you'll need to make sure to start NetworkManager, abrt. You'll need to test
to make sure that secon notifications are getting triggered in the event
that SELinux wants to let you know something is amiss. You'll need to have
keybindings for handling 🔊
and 🔇
, not to mention the host of other
specialized keys on a modern keyboard. Using existing tooling from a
configuration panel like gnome-control-center will occassionally fail for
important pieces of your system like monitors and bluetooth.
Yes, you can write the dunst configuration, you can use xrandr, configure your keys, write the unit file to accommodate gnome-keyring-daemon, along with the shell protocol. You can dive through poorly documented code that doesn't really contain any special insights into computers.
There's something vaguely neat about learning the details of all this. I did it and I have a large dotfiles repo that bears witness to this vast network of rc files, $XDG_CONFIG and shell scripts I've assembled over the past decade.
I'm ready for another way however.
If you want to directly use my configuration, you can find my openbox configuration here
I use the symbol "🗔" below to mean Super (also known as the 'Windows' key).
LXDE includes the concept of a desktop, a workspace that isolates the windows from each other.
I maintain 8 desktops, each bound to one of the keys above the home row, with the final p key used to invoke dmenu.
Typically, I keep a particular application associated with each desktop like the following. This allows switching between unrelated applications like emacs and slack very quickly.
| Desktop | Entry |
|---|---|
| q | browser |
| w | terminal |
| e | emacs |
| t | |
| u | book / pdf |
| i | slack |
| o | irc |
Pressing shift with any of these keys causes your current window to be moved to that desktop.
For example, 🗔-Shift-o
moves the currently focused window to the o
desktop.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
🗔-q |
Move to desktop #1 |
🗔-w |
Move to desktop #2 |
🗔-e |
Move to desktop #3 |
🗔-r |
Move to desktop #4 |
🗔-t |
Move to desktop #5 |
🗔-y |
Move to desktop #6 |
🗔-u |
Move to desktop #7 |
🗔-i |
Move to desktop #8 |
🗔-o |
Move to desktop #9 |
A desktop typically has one application ("window"), but more can be split into a number of adjacent windows, toggled between horizontal & vertical splits (as well as returned to full-screen configuration).
Windows each have 'focus', which refers to which application recieved input when keys are pressed on the keyboard. Both position & window focus can be switched with the classic Vi HJKL keybindings described below.
Pressing shift with any of these keys causes your currently focused window to be swapped with the window in the direction you specified.
For example, 🗔-Shift-o
moves the currently focused window to the o
desktop.
For example, this is a desktop that begins with a window 'documentation' and a focused window 'terminal' (indicated by [ and ])
Pressing 🗔-Shift-h
swaps their position.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
🗔-l |
Switch focus to left window |
🗔-h |
Switch focus to right window |
🗔-j |
Switch focus to upper window |
🗔-k |
Switch focus to lower window |
🗔-m |
Toggle horiz/vert split |
🗔-n |
Maximize window |
🗔-c |
Close window |
The most important final key is 🗔-p
which runs dmenu.
dmenu ("dynamic menu") autocompletes system binaries and invokes them when ⏎ is hit.
If I wanted to spawn google-chrome, I might type in goo and dmenu would show something like the following.
I could hit ⏎ (return) and Chrome would start, I could also select other binaries with left/right keys as well.
| Key | Action |
🗔-p |
Run dmenu |
🗔-z |
Reload configuration |
🗔-⏎ |
Open terminal |


The news is pumping out a lot of disclosure stories especially about high level human trafficking. Distractions are at epic proportions. This David Hogg thing is amazing.  They keep pushing the story because it keeps our attention. The question is what’s going on underneath David Hogg. So, I’ll present to you today Meme the News and Qanon. We’ll see how long I can keep two morning news meme posts going.
On a side note I would add that I subscribe to the @haejin theory that crypto prices are quantized. This is a phenomina that invovles the universal consciousness. I also subscribe to the idea that there are patterns and these things come in waves. As I stare at the chart showing that the resistance line we’ve been on for the last for months, meets the support line we’ve been on for 5 months or more somehwere in the middle of htis month I think things are going to break up or down. Zerohedge has been reporting that some folks are looking for billions of dollars of btc right now. I’m betting it’s going to break upwards, but it also suggests that something big is going to happen to push cryptos back up to highs if not all time highs… What could it be? Well, I think the crypto prices are a front runner for some epic news that’s going to hit us all. This should be an amazing month to be a news hound.
Looks suspicious
David now speaks for blacks
He also said the bankers did nothing illegal
CONFUSEFACEBOOK I love it!
Oh, kids these days learning great lessons
That’s kinda ninja
Kid graduated in 2015. It’s 3 years later at a different high school. Hmmmmm
You should check out the Fifth Column. Nice news mag.
Yep, I don’t trust these things
Planned obsolesence also helps keep you poor
Thought provoking
Fascinating throughts… Starts tying Libya, to NXIVM trafficking, to Lieberman and McCain… No way I can confirm, but it’s something to look for now.
I like this tree
Easter!
Interesting… let’s see what happens to him!


Effective Field Theory
Motivation for \(\Delta M\approx -T\Delta S\) was Gravitational
Induces \(\Delta M\approx -T\Delta S\) in Black Holes
EFT Example: QED
Central Idea: Short-scale physics only has tiny imprints at long-distances
Effective Field Theory systematically characterizes corrections
Example: Light-by-light scattering [ATLAS, 1702.01625]
\[
\mathcal{L}_{\rm QED}^{\rm EFT}=-\frac{1}{4}F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}+\frac{2}{45}\frac{e^{4}}{(16\pi)^{2}m^{4}}\left
(7(F\tilde{F})^{2}+4F^{4}\right )+\ldots
\]
Modern Viewpoint: Essentially all QFTs are EFTs
Higher-dim. operators encode UV physics
Flavors of Modern EFT Constraints
Old EFT Rules: Write down all symmetric operators w/ arbitary coefficients
\[
\mathcal{L}_{\rm QED}^{\rm
EFT}=-\frac{1}{4}F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}+a(F\tilde{F})^{2}+bF^{4}+\mathcal{O}\left(F^{6}\right)
\]
In QED, \(\sim F^4\) terms have positive coefficients. Not an accident.
Modern EFT Rules: Not all coefficients are sensible [Arkani-Hamed et al, 0602178]
Examples of Constraints
- No propagation with \(v>1\)
- Analyticity+Unitarity: \(\mathcal{A}_{2\to 2}''(s)\Big|_{\rm forward}\propto\) cross-section \(>0\)
- Similar extensions away from forward limit [de Rham et al, 1702.06134]
Weak Gravity Conjecture
Multitude of string-theory-inspired Swampland EFT constraints [Vafa, 0509212]
"[W]e argue the pendulum has swung far enough..."
Roughly: consistent-looking EFTs have no gravitational UV completion
Weak Gravity Conjecture [Arkani-Hamed et al, 0601001]
- Gravity is weakest force: fundamental principle
- Consistent theories have states with \(Q/M>1\)
-
Black Holes should admit \(Q/M>1\) (In GR, \(Q/M\le 1 \))
Motivation: ST examples and BH thought experiments
\(\Delta M\approx -T\Delta S\) provides evidence for new WGC interpretation


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{% blocktrans %}Specify how the virtual machine should be configured during the initial boot.{% endblocktrans %}
{% blocktrans %}The Puppet settings don't apply to non-VL images.{% endblocktrans %}


Definitions
- CSS: Cascading Style Sheets. This is code written to control the style of HTML elements. Think of it as a "search and replace" tool. You ID a class or a tag and then define a rule for what you want to do with it, visually. The 'cascading' refers to how the rules nest within one another, most specific rule appplies.
- CSS Inheritance : Properties are applies to a specified element AND its descendeants
- CSS Selector: Allows you to target specfic HTML elements and apply style to them.
3 Ways to include CSS Styling in a WebPage
Write CSS in the head of your HTML
Link your HTML to a separate CSS file (Preferred)
- One file = HTML
- One file = CSS
- Add head element to top of HTML
- Add link tag inside the head element
- Add attributes to link
Write your style inline with your HTML. (Bad juju; results in duplicate code)
Box Model
HTML elements are boxes and boxes are comprise of four components:
a) Content. The text or image at the center of the box.
b) Padding. The clear area around the content.
c) Border. Outlines the content+padding.
d) Margin. Transparent area around the border.
- Size of an element = Content+padding+border. Does not include margin.
Getting the size of a box right can be a chore.
Two techniques can help:
- Set size as a % rather than hard set pixels
- Set the box-sizing attribute to border-box for each element
Broweser Specific Prefixes: Boxes will not render exactly the same in each browser. Browser specific prefizes can make it somewhat agnostic.
- webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
- moz-box-sizing: border-box;
- ms-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
Box positioning
- Divs are block elements and thus take up the entire width of the screen.
- Ading rule display:flex; to CSS wil over ride this behavior and allow divs to appear next to one another.
Code, Test & Refine: Basic developer practice of continuous improvement. Do, inspect, adapt.
- Look for the natural boxes
- Look for repeated styles and semantic elements
- Write HTML
- Apply styles (CSS) from biggest to smallest
- Inspect and change. Go over HTML and CSS, inspecting results and modifying code until you are satisfied.


This is a heading
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This is a div
This is a div
This is a paragraph
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Saudi Aramco IPO may drag real estate prices down
RIYADH: The Premium Residency Center of Saudi Arabia has announced the granting of the first batch of applicants for premium residency in the Kingdom as they met the system’s requirements.
The center said in a statement issued on Monday that the first batch of premium residency holders included a number of residents inside the Kingdom, and others from outside, as their applications have been studied and processed over the past months according to procedures.
The number of premium residency holders in this batch amounted to 73 people representing 19 nationalities, and their categories included investors, doctors and those willing to settle with their families, while processing is continuing for the rest of the applications.
The center said that it has received thousands of applications through its electronic platform from inside and outside the Kingdom during the past months, where specialized teams from the center are studying applications and communicating with applicants and ensuring the conformity and fulfillment of conditions as defined by the premium residency system.


Application data flow overview
BIL consists of two distinct toolchains:
Toolchain for FPGA analysis
| The FPGA analysis toolchain is used to initially analyze a specific FPGA type, thus enabling subsequent bitstream reversals. As input the FPGA's XDLRC description, a bitstream targeting this device, and the XDL version of the bitstream is needed. The results will be written into several files used by the bitstream reversal toolchain. |
Toolchain for bitstream reversal
| The bitstream reversal toolchain takes a bitstream and reverses it to XDL. At the moment only inter-tile PIPs will be recovered; intra-tile PIPs and configuration options of the primitive sites are still missing. Though technically possible, no net reconstruction is performed due to the missing intra-tile PIPs. |
Directory structure overview
The directory structure of the whole library is as followed:
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bin: Compiled programs (and all binary output from compiler and linker).
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data: Data files needed by the BIL applications bit2xml, bitextract, and bitreverse. See also Data provided with BIL.
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doc: The documentation generated by doxygen.
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lib: The BIL static library.
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project: All project files (for BIL, and for doxygen)
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scripts: Batch files (windows only) for generating the data files, creating the testbase, and running tests.
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src: The source code of BIL.
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test: An exhaustive testbase for testing the various BIL programs. See also Data provided with BIL.
The source code folder is further subdivided into the various modules of BIL:
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application: The applications bit2xml, bitextract, and bitreverse.
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bitfile: Access to the Xilinx bitfile format.
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bitstream: Model of the bitfile's packetstream.
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cfgdecode: Decoding of raw configuration data by using a bit mapping database.
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configuration: Addressing of configuration memory.
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correlation: Correlation of a XDL design and the associated configuration raw data (in order to fill a bit mapping database).
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datagen: The applications bitcorrelate, v5cfgmap_gen, v5data_gen, xdlrc_convert, that create data files needed by the three main applications.
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deviceinfo: Container for device related data as name and ID.
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exception: Very basic exception class.
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mappingdb: The database model for holding the configuration bit mapping.
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packetprocessor: Packetprocessor emulator for executing the packetstream and extracting the configuration raw data.
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serialization: Functions for serializing various classes.
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test: The program xdlcmp for comparing two XDL designs.
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util: Various util functions (e.g. CRC calculation, endianess conversion, ...)
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xdl: XDL data model and parser.
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xdlrc: XDLRC data model and parser.


How To Get Valuable Advice
Mark Suster recently wrote an article called ‘How to make sense of conflicting startup advice’.
I’m always seeking advice, whether it’s through blogs, podcasts, asking people, etc – and over the years I’ve developed my own framework for getting value out of advice.
While Mark’s points are absolutely correct, I’m going to try and simplify and apply it more broadly – how do you get value out of any advice?
The core of how to understand advice is 2 things – to know where you are & what you want, and also to know where the opposing party is & what they want.
Know Where You Are & What You Want
Frequently people that are asking for advice don’t have any idea of what they want. What they are asking for is to get persuaded in some direction or to hear an echo of their own thoughts. This is a flawed way to begin seeking advice. If you don’t know what you want, no amount on advice will get you there. Know the end destination.
Second is to know where you currently stand. That means understanding your skills, perception, network, strengths, weaknesses, etc. Someone who is coming out of MIT is starting from a very different place than someone who is coming out of culinary school. If you don’t know where you currently are and what resources you have, you can’t chart out a clear path to your end goal.
Know Where They Are & Where They Want To Go
When you need more guidance, you ask people. There are endless quantities of advice out there, and it can be tough to navigate. For every argument in one direction, there’s an equally convincing argument in the other. Blindly asking everyone for advice isn’t going to help.
What’s important is to make sure that you seek out the advice that is most relevant to you. Identify people who have not only gone where you’d like to go, but also started from a similar spot. People are prisoners of their own perspective, and they often give advice to themselves instead of doling out tailored advice based on your context.
I liken this to charting out a course on a map. To get somewhere, you need to know where you want to go. To get there, you need to draw a line from where you currently are to the end goal. If you need to ask for advice, you ask others who have gone to the same place from a similar starting point.
This is not to say that you should only take advice from people who are exactly the same. Ask a bunch of people for advice, but remember to temper their advice with their context. In many cases the advice itself isn’t important, but it is valuable to understand the framework in which people make decisions. You can then learn from that and improve your own decision making framework.
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curl_slist_append - add a string to an slist
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
struct curl_slist *curl_slist_append(struct curl_slist
*list, const char * string);
DESCRIPTION
curl_slist_append() appends a specified string to a linked
list of strings. The existing list should be passed as the
first argument while the new list is returned from this
function. The specified string has been appended when this
function returns.
RETURN VALUE
A null pointer is returned if anything went wrong, other-
wise the new list pointer is returned.
SEE ALSO
curl_slist_free_all(3),
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