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The developers of different kinds of games will have different motivations.

A developer of traditional games might think, "How can I make this game better in an aesthetic, or an educational sense?" Or, "How can I make this game a better FPS than the ones before?"

A developer of another game might think, "I want to make money, let me survey existing games and read psych literature and create the next billion dollar game. I don't care what form the game takes, or what players get out of it."

The claim is not that game developers for each game are creating an addictive game from scratch by A-B testing, but rather exactly what you said, that they're AB testing for smaller improvements in eyeball-retention, spending, and addictiveness, because all they care about are those metrics which drive profits (or valuation which can be converted into profits).

That a set of conscious design choices, on its own, isn't sufficient for extreme addictiveness doesn't change the fact that those conscious design choices are necessary, and those choices are being examined, analyzed, and documented by other game devs and by psychologists. So, of course you can take all the known lessons and apply them to a brand new game concept and fail horribly, but if your game is a success on other grounds and you mined other games and the literature for addictive ideas, you are much more likely to have a billion dollar super-addictive game than you would have been 20 or 30 years ago.
Theoretically, UHD (4k) blu-rays can go from 80 mb/s to 120 mb/s depending on the authoring of the disc, compared to Netflix's maximum of 25 mb/s that's a massive difference.

However... unless you have a UHD projector, or VERY large TV (60"+) then you are unlikely to see the difference under normal viewing.

Where I feel streaming typically fails, is in the audio. They may 'say' it's a 5.1 surround sound mix, but if so, why does it sound _so_ flat compared to the same film on blu-ray ? All I can think is that the audio is compression is also 4x as compressed which to our ears is quite significant.
I add that the only thing that I've seen bringing something to the table, aside from any individual variable is economic class.

I really enjoy when we hire people that didn't had the opportunity to attend to university, but to FP (~ community colleges in the US), guide their training and so on. We did this with three guys in my office and I'd say that was one of the best ideas my boss had.

But now HR is not willing to allow this anymore. Somehow hiring poor people and investing in them is not trendy, but hiring women and minorities is.
Non-narcissist here, apparently. I do find the premise somewhat troubling. If you’re supremely confident and never doubt yourself, even in situations where you should, you could be described as a narcissist. And if you’re lacking in self-confidence, and constantly think you’ll be found out, you’re also a narcissist. And there’s probably narcissists who experience a moderate level of self-doubt in between.

It’s more likely narcissism and self doubt are just independent variables.
Completely agree my friend! After taxes, insurance, principal balance on the car, and routine maintenance, my beater as described above is running me at $175 a month.

I know so many people who have a car that's costing them over $600 a month all in. That really confuses me, because that's just about the price of a bedroom in our area.

It is entirely feasible to live on $1000 to $1500 a month here as a single person and bank the difference in salary without feeling like you are truly being frugal!
Think of an under coating like underwear you never take off. It's not going to protect you for long if refuse to wash your underside.
It's notable that over the last couple decades, we've moved to where we refer to diabetics as people with diabetes, schizophrenics as people exhibiting symptoms of a variety of mental disorders, disabled as people with disabilities, the obese as people coping with obesity - but narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths are still othered, and yet still within the domain of detatched clinical assessment.

These are moral assessments of character, and ones that aren't wrong to make. But it's disingenuous to say that we have a medical definition of what is essentially an evil tendency that we can treat (and presumably, eradicate) as a disease.

The more literary theme among the obvious narcissists and psycho's I've met was they lacked self acceptance, and were pathologically actuated by the approval of others, particularly imagined others. They filtered their experiences to only ones that reflected a deep seated idea of a perfect and adorable self, and they had adapted to ferociously attack anything that threatened this perfect and vulnerable self image.

That's not a disease, it's poor parenting exacerbated by a culture that enables it.

People can learn and change, and they do it every day. The popular pseudo scientific discourse around narcissists and sociopaths is politically dangerous and in many cases, I suspect motivated by a purifying urge that is a much deeper evil.
I'm a developer that thinks he is better than most. But I also think that I'm an awesome tutor so it evens up!
Why is it called "root mean square" when you square first, then take the mean, and then the root?
And here is a quote from one of those guides that pretty much sums it up:
“Pay attention to how your kids act during and after watching TV, playing video games, or hanging out online. If they're using high-quality, age-appropriate media; their behavior is positive; and their screen-time activities are balanced with plenty of healthy screen-free ones, there's no need to worry.”

Since I work from home on a computer all day, it seemed wrong to send mixed messages about screen usage. One trick we use is to set Alexa timers when starting screen time with our preschool and kindergarteners. You can argue with mom and dad, but Alexa is implacable. Also, the play room must be cleaned up and homework done, which seems to provide the “privilege, not a right” context we are looking for. It helps we have far better behaved kids in general that I have any right to expect. I blame my wife.
I actually thought of this. You could put the key on the disc, or publish it, or include it as a file on the disc in a standard location. But no dice: it turns out the encryption is managed entirely by the replication plant. The plant makes the encrypted golden image from the unencrypted image you give them and even you, the disc author, never get to see the keys.
No. This is some unknown email address.
Age of Kings had a cool Condition/Trigger system for scripting campaigns. I thought the idea was so simple, yet powerful, it influenced me to write a scripting language based off the concept in Qbasic when I was 14. The scripting language idea consumed and while I dropped the Condition/Trigger system for something more sophisticated eventually, I worked on making my scripting language for years and learned a ton of skills.
I stated in the next paragraph that the situation could just as easily be reversed. We do not have any way to know in this situation whose mailbox was accessed, the OP, or their client.
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As a long time Erlang developer I was suprised when I first heard of Elixir, and even more surprised at how nice it was.

That said I think Elixir is very unerlangish. It’s very much Ruby ported to a new platform, it’s heavy on meta programming with macros and using a giant solve all your problems web framework (Phoenix). Compared to Ruby on Rails I think it makes a lot of good arguments. It’s faster, mix is a better package manager, and the BEAM is reliable at small to
medium scale.

Of course I recently posted about
how I was moving away from the BEAM to Rust. I think Elixir has reached peak adoption, and I think the days of large frameworks like Rails and Phoenix that ask you to program in a DSL are sunsetting in
favor of client side frameworks and smaller web services built off of thinks like Go’s net/http.

I also think the reliability of BEAM is happening at the level of orchestration with containers and serverless. The BEAM itself doesn’t fit well into the cattle
model of reliability and it has scalability issues when you reach a certain cluster size.

Erlang is also quite slow at processing data and performing computations. What it does provide is reliable latency and load as you scale, which lets you grow your build mess quickly
without buying more hardware or performing software miracles.

I’m more optimistic about Rust because it provides the reliability I’ve come to expect from Erlang. We’ve been able to scale Rust to handle the same load as our Erlang cluster with a more manageable code base, lower average client latency, and lower memory usage on the same number of machines.

I also know that people like to treat dynamic vs static typing as a matter of taste, but in my experience dynamic typing only works until you reach a certain level of scale. I’ve watched several python and erlang codebases turn into incompressible messes because of this. This is why we’re seeing things like typescript and mypy become requirements rather than nice to have. So I’d rather just bite the bullet and get a really nice static type system up front.
I mean, you still have to go and actually learn how to drive once you turn 15-16 before anyone actually gives you a license/their car. People put a lot of time into that. There's also the fact that too small of a child physically can't see out of the front window.
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On a related note for anyone who has walked around both Manhattan and downtown Chicago...

Ever notice how downtown Chicago has much less noise of honking cars than downtown New York City? A friend pointed out it's because of Chicago's lower-level streets[0] that a lot of service vehicles use for loading/unloading. That's in contrast to Manhattan where everybody has to share the same street level. E.g. a brown UPS truck that stops for a mere 20 seconds is enough for the yellow cab driver that's stuck behind him to smash on the horn with impatience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel_streets_in_Chicago
Last 7 days:
Instagram 5h 32m (insta has a 2 hour custom limit set)
twofold 2h 55m (tetris-ish puzzle game)
unread 2h 38m (feed reader)
maps 1h 59m
twitter 1h 15m
Safari 1h 13m
Spotify 1h 5m

and then it drops off into under 10 minutes on various reference apps.
Scheme was my favorite language in school back in 2006, but the only class I ever used it in was a class where we learned search algorithms and the like (it was either AI or Robotics). I was dismayed to find out there isn't a lot of software written in LISP dialects, because I would love to write LISP code all day, it's so much fun.
The jokes haven't stopped. You grew up and stopped hanging out with schoolchildren.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzaRINoe0I
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Hmm. I've been thinking for a while now that Lisp (and also FP) matches how some peoples' minds work, and doesn't match how other peoples' minds work. For those who match Lisp and/or FP, it's like a revelation, and it's very freeing. For others, not so much - it's a new way of programming, and you can do it that way, but why would you want to?

You said:

> ... the single representation carries little structural information and the meaning of a symbol is highly dependent on its containing context.

That makes me wonder if the difference is abstract vs. concrete thinking - those who by nature prefer abstract thinking will find Lisp more natural, and those who prefer concrete thinking will find it clumsy and unsettling.

Choosing the "right" programming language is not just finding the right language for the task (though it is that). It's also finding the right language that fits our minds - and our minds are not identical.
curious why you say it's strangely designed. seems pretty rational to me.
>>I think Elixir has reached peak adoption, and I think the days of large frameworks like Rails and Phoenix that ask you to program in a DSL are sunsetting in favor of client side frameworks and smaller web services built off of thinks like Go’s net/http.

Is this just a hunch or do you have numbers to back it up?

edit: This is the second Elixir/Erlang thread you have attempted to hijack by spreading FUD about them and pitching Rust as an alternative. You come across as a Rust shill.
Can we find out something from it?
IMHO the decision which methods to publish and which not solely relies upon the person who discovered them.

Some people might feel fine with the knowledge that their work might be used for evil, some not.
nah, the difference is crucial

it's like two people agreeing abortion should be legal, but one saying "it's bad, but it's still better legal" and another saying "it's not bad at all, it's a woman's right"

one is a lot more intelligent and principled, and won't be undermined by the premises it foolishly conceded early on
>The most amazing aspect of all this is that the core of Windows, its kernel, remains virtually unchanged on all these architectures and SKUs.

Is that really such an exciting concept? Maybe I have a poor understanding, but I've been under the impression that nearly every competing kernel (Linux, Darwin, *BSD) is exactly like that. The only situation where I can imagine a slight departure is Solaris and its SPARC architecture, where SPARC had certain features to specifically to tie in with the kernel but I'm sure it still compiled to foreign architectures from the same codebase.
Lawyers may have those concepts outside of their legal work, but I've dealt with enough to say its no guarantee a lawyer may care about equity,justice, fairness, etc.

And maybe we don't want some negative human emotions involved anyway like fear.
https://reason.com/archives/2016/06/23/confessions-of-an-ex-...
Actually, you can click on the name of the attribute to "lock" it. That way you can change one without changing the other!
The user experience of scrolling through and viewing lots of content on a 4" screen is honestly not great. Apple, being Apple, sees that as a problem. I consider it a feature because it's easier for me to break away from. Web browsers, youtube, mobile games etc. I don't write emails from my phone unless it's an emergency, but I like having a smartphone because it gives me the option if I need to.

A lot of those behaviors, I currently have trouble with at full-size computers. I can absentmindedly browse cat pictures on reddit for a couple of hours. But I have to sit down at my computer to do that, I can't do it comfortably on a 4" phone screen. And I like it that way.

Put that comfortable time-wasting computer in my pocket where it follows me everywhere and I'm about 99% certain that I'm have a problem.

I'd love to know if someone's studied this more rigorously.
There are a number of things here that I would quibble with:

1) There are absolutely reasons you can't raise cash with relatively inexpensive bond insurance, or by equity based capitalization. Investors get unhappy, and your bond ratings degrade. Bonds often are secured, so you can't just shaft investors by driving down the stock price.

2) Tesla's stock price is in no way discounted by standards of car companies - just startups. It's also the most shorted stock on the face of the planet - I suspect that has much more to do with volatility and downward pressure.

3) Your interpretation is "flustered" and "consequences". All sides agree that there were discussions prior to the tweet, but that the statement implied things that it ought not (Funding secured). This was a poor tweet, poorly though out. You bought into the conspiracy theory - that this author debunked - that cash management was a problem, and Tesla was about to go broke, so flustered desperate tweet. I think we can safely discount that, given the current results.

The rest of your argument is basically emotional attacks, so forgive me if I choose to ignore that.

All that said, I think Tesla will benefit by better governance - having a separate chairman role. This is just a good idea for all corporations.
This comment was regarding TCO, which Common Lisp (unlike Scheme) doesn't guarantee. Many CL compilers today offer it, but IIRC that was rare in the 1980's.
24 pickups per day.
I think rnotaro solved the whole mystery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310631
Grew up as a gamer and general lurker on the internet. Age of 24 and I've packed most of it in and focusing on the hobbies that I enjoyed that didn't involve a digital screen like reading and drawing, but still focusing on very few websites where I can stay up to date on the more educating and hobbiest content of the internet that's relevant to me and not go down a spiral of binging on instant gratification that I can't share or express in a meaningful way with other people I know IRL. Will probably still play games like I still listen to music and watch movies, but much more selective now than I used to be
I don't think farmvile translated to interest in narrative game. There is no reason for it to. Whatever appeal of farmvill to her is, it very likely not be found in completely different narrative game.

It is sort of like assuming that someone who likes guitar rock songs would like metal, because both are music.
I'm pretty sure Steve Ballmer said... something... about developers once...
here in the US, we have the financial fraud kill chain for transfers greater than 50,000 dollars. Other countries have used it as well. you may wish to contact the CSIS for methods they use to short-circuit these transactions.

https://rmacounts.com/uncategorized/financial-fraud-kill-cha...
This is fairly common fraud in the UK. See this for background:

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/oct/18/banks-to-check...
Well, it's a good thing there are alternatives to Apple. Their products are grotesquely overpriced anyway.
The first time I took it, I took two 500mg capsules and felt something similar. Since then, I have only been taking 500mg and feel fine.
Did you edit it in? Either that paragraph was not there when I replied or I'm losing my ability to read
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The FMLA covers specific things you may take unpaid leave for and must have your job when you come back.

There are a couple problems with this:

1) It's only for fairly serious conditions. If it's just "I feel like crap all the time because I've been stressed out for years" then in most states they can fire you.

2) It's unclear to me (IANAL as well) if they are required to extend non-pay benefits to you in that time, but I think not. So if they do not extend health insurance to you in that time, then you might be able to come back, but you'll be bankrupt.
> At some point maybe a decade or two it will be a smaller version of the concerns about the tobacco industry.

To be fair, the comparison is applicable, but not the best. I think it's more akin to slot-machines and other forms of gambling, themselves heavily regulated (though maybe not for much longer [0]).

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/14/politics/sports-betting-ncaa-...
This concerns me because when I was is school, hardly anything I did online was visible or stuck around very long. Now it's trivial to upload pictures and videos for everyone to see. Either people calm down and stop pretending kids are perfect and fully aware of what they're doing or we punish everyone for every single character they type and bear the consequences. Randomly screening the stuff kids upload and judging it on a similarly random basis effectively means every family has to live with the reality that schools might arbitrarily decide to smite them because someone had a bad day. Really, it sounds rather distopian...
Well if you only discharge it partially, that only counts as a partial cycle, which helps keep your battery good.

It's good to let it get completely flat every now and then, I believe...
"You got anything to back up that claim? That sounds like a pretty big conclusion that you're jumping to without evidence."

It's not a "claim". It's literally the null hypothesis: two traits are assumed to be uncorrelated unless proven otherwise.

If you want to claim that a sense of "impostor syndrome" is actually indicative of increased skill, it's your job to prove it.
my question is yes, lisp.. but what is beyond lisp?
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I've hardly ever known a single person that has ever used Skype. I actually used to really like Lync when I worked for a company that used Office 365...but hated when they Skypified it. Microsoft Teams seems pretty awesome, but I haven't had the chance to use it. Skype does have a lot of business uses that it doesn't face any competition with...but they are features most people don't use.
Seems more likely it was the client. If the OP was hacked, the thief could have sent a completely legit email with correct headers and etc.
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You raise a good point - are people multitasking because they have poor memory, or do they have poor memory because they multitask?
Thanks for sharing this. That rule is helpful
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I agree that it's a bit silly. They say:

>Plan 9 C implements C by attempting to follow the programmer’s instructions, which is surprisingly useful in systems programming.

It's like coding with -fno-strict-aliasing or -fwrapv in GCC, it's perfectly fine and justifiable but that doesn't mean that it makes sense for a compiler to default to it IMO because you're basically lulling your devs into writing into a specific dialect of C instead of the "real" language. It means that your code is effectively not portable anymore which is probably less of an issue for low level kernel code but could still easily cause issues as code is shared between projects. Again, there are situations where it makes sense to do so but I strongly believe that it should be an explicit choice by the programmer, not a compiler default.

Now I would argue that the for loop example is even worse than aliasing or wrapping-related issues because I very rarely write busy timing loops but I do very often write for loops that I expect the compiler to optimize (drop useless code, unroll etc...) correctly. So yeah, that really seems like a way to spin a limitation of the compiler into a "feature" that makes really little sense.

Also I just checked and gcc 8.2 does output the loop code when building with -O0 I guess they could alias that to --plan9-mode.
The whole website is a treasure trove for learning about system design.
Big +1 for the automation of the re-installation. Maybe even have a pxe kickstart so the kid can choose to re-image their machine if they want. Add prompts that ask them twice if they are sure.

Automate OS patches. Set up game saves to an NFS server that takes snapshots with rsnapshot or lvm snapshots.
Actually even at 1080p, Netflix streams are visibly worse quality than blu-ray. Particularly in the compression of dark colors. I'll occasionally see color-banding, which you never see in Blu-ray.
"Help" is the operative work. Modern auto manufacturers do a lot of things to help vehicles resist rusting out both in terms of the structure and in the various brake lines and so forth. So now they rust out in maybe 10+ years rather than 5 or less.
I mean hey - that really sucks. It sounds like you've met some shitty people.

It doesn't change the fact that good-natured ribbing is really common in cross-cultural contexts. I grew up in Ottawa, a really bilingual city, and making fun of each other was part of how we all bonded in spite of our differences.

Intent matters.
It's not the size of the TV, but the quality of the TV. I run a 65" OLED so it's top of the line, but I can clearly see color banding from Netflix on pretty much any TV and it looks terrible. Overall it's just a lower bitrate and compression artifacts on both audio and video make the experience suffer.
impostor syndrome is the damage caused by weaponized empathy