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We have four children. Without modern medicine I have one child and no wife, most likely. I’m not sure i believe in God, but modern medicine and the ability to afford it is a godsend. Pregnancy is truly terrifying for all involved.
It was considered more than something close to a giant. If anything, it was considered scarier than anything we have now.

Back then there was nobody else. We've gone from a monopoly to an oligopoly (ish) which in some ways feels less scary.

It's hard to overestimate Microsoft dominance in the 90s. If there was a wiff of them entering a category, the players in that space would be in trouble (similar to Amazon today, though Microsoft followed through more in decimating their rivals).
As someone who self-exiled from the gaming community, there are also people within the community, including journalists, who beat on the war drums in order to rile up gamers.

For the last ~4 years, everything from game reviews that gamers disagreed with, to character stencils, have been positioned as the worst things to ever happen to gaming. Some in the community liken it to actual discrimination against gamers.
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Haha that crashes chrome on my pixel 2.
How so? It's literally exactly what I said. Game journalists calling the gamers and people upset about this "toxic", "F* this guy"...

They are definitely not representing the consumer here.
> The blizzard developer quoted in the article stated emphatically that wasn't true

Sure, because it's not just a reskin. They are creating new models, too. When people say "reskin," they sometimes aren't literally talking just about skins. Rather, they are talking about making another game on top of the same basic engine that exists in other games. And considering who Blizzard is partnering with to make this game and the other games they've put out, you can see there point.
So the complaint is just that Blizzard should have framed their announcement differently? The project is fine, but just don't present it at Blizzcon? That seems so feeble to me, and the sort of criticism you get when fans can't reconcile their displeasure with the understanding that Blizzard is rational to pursue the mobile gaming market this way. As for "You guys not have phones?", that was obviously a bad look, but seeing as it was an off-the-cuff remark in an awkward exchange, I'm not inclined to hold it against the speaker.
They paid hundreds of dollars to go to an event that traditionally has had pc announcements. Then without warning the event was changed.

I already used the concert analogy but it’s good. If your rap music concert suddenly switches into techno the audience may be angry without being entitled edgelords. It’s about knowing your audience. And most importantly communicating it.
Wow, that Red Green show is hilarious. Plan to waste the rest of the morning on it.
If memory serves me Firefox cookies are stored unencrypted in an sqlite database with user level permissions. Haven't dug too deep, so I could be missing something, but last time I peaked down the rabbit hole that's what I remember.
That would also apply to the company and the media alike
The Diablo Immortal announcement was essentially the keynote of an already underwhelming Blizzcon this year. The game itself is just a re-skinning of an existing Chinese market ARPG with Blizzard's IP - Blizzard a company that has been known for axing titles for not meeting its quality standards. The game will be developed by Netease with one Chinese fan quoting "If EA is like a 2 out of 10, Netease is -2859".

Of course Blizzard, Diablo, and ARPG mobile games, have a long history so there is more context. For one Blizzcon is something this crowd could compare to WWDC and similar conventions. Tickets start at around $200, with travel, food, lodging, and other expenses pushing the cost of attendance to over $1000 for many people. Keep in mind that unlike WWDC or other conventions your employer will likely not pay for you to go - so its straight out of pocket and people expect to get what they pay for. In addition Blizzard has been pushing "Virtual Tickets" for $50, where most gaming conventions stream for free to users on Twitch or Youtube.

It's been over 6 years since Diablo 3, and there was a 12 year wait for that game after Diablo 2. Naturally seeing Diablo as the topic of the keynote, many Diablo fans hoped and prayed it was the Diablo 4 announcement.

Finally ARPG mobile games are massive in the Chinese market, with fremium and micro-transaction models that would make candy crush and Pokemon Go blush. With a blatant re-skin it was clearly designed for a starkly different marketing segment then would be present at the keynote at Blizzcon. To force your developers to pitch that game to that crowd is sheer incompetence, yielding what will surly be timeless internet memes such as "you all have phones right" [1], and "this is an April Fools joke right" [2].

[1]: Response to the question if they'd be porting long-requested features present in the mobile game back to the Diablo 3 PC version.

[2]: Question asked directly on stage by a brave fan.
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Related tweetstorm on this, which I agree on: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1058917187061252096.html
Any source for this? I see no reason why the same character can't be used in multiple places. Parser should parse the command line until it finds a command, then send the rest of the line to it, regardless of content...
There's no need to break the old stuff. Applications can signal compatibility level so that new applications need not support legacy cruft.
Diablo 2 was epic. Diablo 3 is just a shadow of its former self. Even the graphics are arguably worse, which is quite the feat.

I can’t be outraged of course. I gave up on Diablo a long time ago.

The article briefly mentioned there was some outrage when they announced the console version too. Well, that’s quite understandable, because the game is really shallow, Zynga-style.

Diablo was never a RPG with depth of course, the gameplay being basically a mindless point and click, but there was a lot of fun in character development, and there are entire websites devoted to guides for developing your character in Diablo 2 and all of that is gone in Diablo 3.
Blizzard somehow managed to completely miss the point of what made Diablo 2 awesome.

If they announced a remastered Diablo 2, I’d stay in line for it. Otherwise I don’t see the point of a new Diablo, as I know it will suck.

And yes, for diehard fans, I completely understand the outrage.
The mobile game is just a reskin of an existing Netease (Chinese) game. Mobile games are also full of microtransactions which players already protestested in Diablo 3 with the real money auction house. Players actually are angry about a Diablo mobile game.
What fundamentally different does Groovy offer?

What do you mean by "Scala is trying to compete on Java's home turf"?
Indeed. Most people have absolutely no idea what prison is, how it works, who actually suffers, the lasting secondary effects, and how little it changes anything.

Throwing around prison lightly is dangerous. For some reason data privacy gets people emotionally charged instead of thinking clearly, and it's easy to say "lock them up", but that's exactly the same attitude that led to such heavy criminalization of other things that now takes up resources, fills up courts, wastes lives, and accomplishes almost nothing.
This is a direct result of so called “cloud consultants” who are just a bunch of old on prem infrastructure and security guys who think of the cloud as an overpriced colo.

I can only speak about a AWS, but there so many services that AWS offers to help you stay secure on top of that if you know a little Python it’s inexcusable to make the type of rookie mistakes that I see.

On the other hand, AWS makes it too easy to fall prey to the Dunning Krueger Effect where people think they know what they are doing.

I’m speaking from the standpoint of a long time developer/architect that plays the role of the resident certified AWS Architect when necessary.
> cross your fingers nobody would find yet another wuftpd buffer overflow

wuftp was responsible for the popularization of format-string attacks, which were magical at the time.

We all knew about buffer-overflows, and when it was explained format-string attacks were obvious, but it was the first time I'd seen a genuinely new class of software attacks.

Happy memories!
Well every copy of the DNA doesn't make it into the germ-line and viruses generally infect differing types of cells in the first place.
They're definitely aimed at the type of student who gets into Caltech. My general advice would be to give them a go if you're interested, because they're wonderful, but be open to switching to other texts if it's not working so well.

I kind of think the whole OP should be subject to the same caveat: Susan Fowler is probably not just hardworking but very very smart, and you shouldn't necessarily expect comparable results. It may go like the guy who tried to become a golf pro on the 10,000-hours theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_McLaughlin_(golfer)
I've found it actually works to throw a little temper tantrum, Go right to the most senior person and just lay into them in a manner they cannot defend, because they are clearly treating people unfairly, taking advantage of the unbalanced recruiting situation. That's how I got my first C-Suite (reporting to the board, not the CEO) Senior Director position.
Yeah, it's true. And I personally hate the thought of my bones sitting in a box in the ground.

I really like the thought of the "sky burial"[1]. Basically, they bring your remains to the top of a mountain and wait for vultures to clean off the bones. Then the bones are crushed into a powder and mixed with something called tsampa for the crows and other birds to eat afterwards. It seems like a safe way to dispose of remains, is spiritually significant (to me), and is actually useful to the ecosystem. Unfortunately, it's very costly on time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
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Nope.

The bill defines covered entities in Sec. 2.(5)(A) and 2.(5)(B). In particular, companies with less than $50,000,000 in gross receipts and information on fewer than 1,000,000 customers are not covered by this legislation.

And even if those apply to your local coffee shop or whatever, Sec. 2(5)(B)(iii) further limits the definition of covered entity so that businesses that do not provide 3rd party access to information are not covered.

So Starbucks and other huge coffee chains/retail shops are the only organizations that would have to re-evaluate data collection from their public Wifi hotspots, and even then might be exempt depending on what they are collecting and how they are using that information. And, I should point out, these companies will need privacy experts on staff anyways, so this provision is highly unlikely to cause them to shutter their in-store Wifi networks...

Additionally, some of the more onerous requirements only apply to a subset of covered entities with yet larger gross receipts and yet larger numbers of tracked consumers.

But, unequivocally, your locally owned mom & pop coffee shop is excluded from consideration under this provision multiple times over.
I think the idea is to use the idea of future robot dictatorship as a spurn to learning DIY transistor manufacture.

Didn't read the whole thing but definitely cyberpunk
Human Inspired Memory Patterns in Deep Learning
The biggest unintended consequence I see is that more tech businesses will have to charge for their service rather than make money in opaque ways.
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There's one other place where you'll see Vista-era title bars in Windows 10: in the title bars of MDI subwindows, where the application itself (or, rather, the Windows theming engine) is responsible for drawing the title bar rather than the DWM. For whatever reason, that little bit of the theme was never updated (probably because most users will never see it; AFAIK the only program that ships with Windows that still uses that style of MDI window is MMC).

My hunch is that something similar's happening here: when you bring a Windows Console window full-screen, it disables its window decorations and the DWM stops drawing them. Through some quirk of timing, it looks like the console window itself starts attempting to draw its decorations, and, when that happens, you'll see Vista-style decorations very briefly, because that's what the theme tells it to draw.

(I suppose it's also possible that console windows always draw their title bars themselves underneath the DWM-provided decorations... they've always been a bit weird in Windows.)
That's an unfair metric because prolog was never meant to develope web apps or whatever the majority of use cases is. It's not used in AI either, but I'm glad to hear for the first time that it's being worked on so chances are there could be more I haven't heard of. And there are similar, reduced systems like kanren. I don't know how coq, lean or other theorem provers compare, but the space is hugely interesting.
i meant in a similar approach to capturing the output of each fd - i.e outside of the user’s programs
Not just yiddish, it's also common slang in many parts of the US to mean a very stupid or incompetent person. So yeah, terrible branding IMHO
No idea why you are downvoted, you are spot on.
As someone who has been reading the comments and laughing, let me explain how it works where we are

You need a panel of 8 to interview a candidate. One of the 8 must be the hiring manager, but sometimes that does not happen (very rare) so hiring manager interviews on a separate day. 8 people are split into 4 panels of 2 each, and within each panel each interviewer gets 1/2 hours (need not be exact), they want the other person to observe and provide independent feedback when the 1st person is interviewing in a panel. Now that's just the background.

Now does the hiring team have 8 people? Maybe not. Then what do you do? Get people from other groups. Even if hiring team has 8 people, are they all available? Maybe not. Again, get people from other groups. Based on the people who are available, do they have prior experience of interviewing? [ I would consider prior experience valid if they have conducted at least half a dozen interviews. ] Well, maybe not. Do they all work in the same technology area? Maybe not.

Then once the interview scheduled is laid out, usually 2-3 days in advance, you have a production breakdown issue and you can not attend. Or you are sick or working from home due to an emergency. Or there is some other conflict you can't get out of. So you find substitutes. Do those work as well? Sometimes they do, sometimes they do not. We would have done some prep in terms of which individual will focus on what area of expertise, but when you get last minute substitute, oh well how do you manage that.

Now all this is real life. People have priorities, people have life and while an interview is important, dealing with family sickness and production breakdowns is equally important. Shit happens. We / teams of course do their best to work around this, but does it happen all the time. Well, maybe not, but then what is the alternative once you have signed on the corporate / department mandate of 8 people : 4 hours interview mandate. It is usually a bunch of people trying to do their best, and sometimes the best is really bad for the candidate, but not usually.

Finally the 7 people in the panel dont have a 100% stake in the process, the hiring manager does, and he/she needs to make the best judgement based on all the feedback that comes through and if there are sufficient warning signs (2-3 people not happy with the candidate), they just move on as they do not want to take a 'brave' decision and be provided wrong later.

I would say dont worry about the process, it is shitty, but just understand how it works and play your role. The process is the same for everyone, and it is sometimes a game of odds, the odds are low to start with, but the game of odds means that sometimes you come out lucky too.
And if he felt so strongly about not working for them, why not just delete the email? You’re not obligated to apply when a recruiter spams you.

That said, I do think the big tech companies have abysmal hiring processes. It’s not horrifying, but it’s a bit depressing.
Of course I'm negative after having been spurned by Amazon and Google, but I worry about the continued success of these companies after seeing their hiring processes. Then again, they only have to be less stupid than their competitors in order to continue being successful.

I think one of the weak spots is the recruiting team. I feel like the recruiters, often contractors, get paid based on hiring rates alone. There's nothing disincentivizing them from sending unqualified recruits through the pipeline.

In the end, I landed a nice position with a 'tier-2' valley company(not FANG, but close), so I can go back to not giving a shit about the broken hiring process. Hopefully the industry wises up, but I suspect that the big companies will be staffed by people who survived the modern interview process and therefore nothing will change.
I'm fine with fines, but I hope prison time is restricted to intentional and malicious illicit behavior and not anything due to neglect or oversight. I'm not a fan of people being put in cages unless they're violent or have ruined people's lives intentionally.
In theory if tombstones are to last forever, the whole world would eventually become graveyards.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/06/24/wh...

Update: this link adds the tidbit that IBM was concerned about 3rd party utilities that made assumptions about the slash.

https://www.howtogeek.com/181774/why-windows-uses-backslashe...
An easy way around this is the `subst` command, which lets you map a folder to a drive letter; if it happens frequently, write up a batch/vbs script and put it in the right-click memu. Of course, if you extracted a prank zip file, you may want to find another method, as there's liable to be far longer paths nested in there...
Besides some potential for gambling addiction (about which state lotteries are a far more important target for your ire if that is your concern), mobile games produce no externalities whatsoever.

I don't think it's fair to claim that. Lotteries have been around a lot longer and gambling addiction has had a lot more time to be studied. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if mobile games turn out to be as bad or worse than lotteries. The sheer amount of effort into creating addictive game mechanics and leveraging of statistical methods, such as A/B testing, puts traditional casinos and state lotteries to shame.

Having said all that, you don't have to look very far to see some alarming articles about the effects these products have on young children [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-sil...
I would assume the supply part of prostitution also correlates with cost of education, unemployment and low social security and drug problems. Ie if people have more choice in how they support themselves or their family, fewer people end up choosing to work as prostitutes?
Wow, you are harsh. They replicated the control scheme from another game because it was a good control scheme. Sort of like how most PC games all use Q,W,E,S for movement.

You don't know what the monetization scheme will be but you are sure it will use dark patterns to drain peoples wallets.

You apparently didn't read the article to see what the similar GUI patterns they replicated were but you are certain it's just another pay to win game.

Your bias is showing.
Totally true. That Fogle guy was standing out like a white crow among the rest of the "geriatric ward" that US embassy in Russia was.

Moreover, to a Russia person, it would be totally unbelievable that such pipsqueak could get to the position of a "third secretary" of anything in his short, only 5 years long career.
I understand wanting something and then being disappointed when you didn't get it. But the anger and lashing out is pathetic.

If you really want something, build it yourself. If you can't do it on your own, open source it and build a community. If you can't do that then your just begging to be disappointed. Relying on complete strangers to continually entertain you in exactly the way you want to be entertained, otherwise you'll lash out - it's sick and dystopian.
I'm happy to hear that. What was useful about it for you?
That left me with a peaceful sense of my own mortality. I was not expecting that this afternoon, thank you for
sharing.
> buffer overflows are caught by essentially every modern compiler.

If you use high-level arrays with bounds-checking, which are not always fast enough, and can become a maintenaince burden. If they should be absolutely secure (like, std::vector isn't - it can be moved behind your back), they also require GC.
Apple’s Stock Will Plummet in Its Worst Corporate Decision in Years
That's already sort of the case in the investment management world with trading algorithms. Axa Rosenberg comes to mind. When that case first came down a lot of people were weary of how that relationship between the PM and the programmers would shake out. For the most part it's been okay. PMs were required to become a bit more familiar with what the tech guys were doing and allow a little bit more oversight into the process so that the programmers had time for a maker/checker process as opposed to coding it all in as fast as they could and hoping they didn't make a mistake.
I've met Jeri. I'm pretty sure this guy is onto something.

I only wish she'd get the clone machine working ASAP.
6 years since D2? Did you mean D3, or was there a re-make?
Just because there's only 1 type of buyer doesn't mean the industry is regulated at all. It just means capitalism is at work. I'm not sure how you can conflate the two. The government is massive so you can't just say because the same entity as a whole is the one purchasing the machines that they're essentially also regulating it.

To be even more clear there are almost no regulations in this space other than what the companies themselves say they regulate/control/test. That's not regulation, but government simply buying from the only options that are out there who currently poorly regulate things themselves.

You're basically saying that building a perfect voting machine is impossible so they're all faulty so we should be okay with faulty ones. You seem to be an engineer from your twitter, which is somewhat shocking for me. In engineering (mechanical, electrical, software) if you said to your boss "hey, we can't make this thing perfect so we shouldn't even bother because someone will complain about it" I'd imagine your boss would fire you and find someone that wasn't so black and white who would actually try to implement something and then make it better.

Also, your comparison to spam-free email doesn't actually help your case at all. If you went to google years ago before they created gmail and said 'I heard you were going to try and make a secure and spam-free email system, but that in doing so you'll make tradeoffs and some people will be angry with it' I imagine they'd laugh you out of the room. Moreso today if you said that to them since they have built that system and generally most people like it.

Out of curiosity, where are the 'violently angry responses from some group' happening? All I see are people fighting regulation and the use of better systems and people who are dismayed by that and are trying to make things right.