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The promise of alpha/beta era UO really died quickly. Even more rapidly not long after that once EQ showed up and redefined the genre.

There were other cool ideas beyond the ecology that got the axe pretty quickly. For instance originally NPC shopkeepers kept hours so you had to show up when they were around. Player didn't like this as it was inconvenient so they made them permanently stationed.

Similarly there was a live economy, shopkeepers would only buy things that they needed/wanted, and prices were tied to supply/demand. However players demanded the ability to dump all of their junk to shopkeepers as a way to generate money. A common pattern was that players would have mountains of skullcaps due to building their tailoring skill, but were then upset when no shop would buy 3000 skullcaps from them.

Ultimately it became clear that more would be players preferred "a CRPG where other people happen to be playing" than "a virtual world", so be it.
Hey thats cool, as an arch user myself I sure want to come. How can i contact you?
That sort of thing did happen but also quickly was removed.
Surprised this article doesn't talk at depth about the one obvious reason why American cities are shaped like something a deranged computer spat out.

Racial segregation, obviously, is the biggest reason and perhaps the source of all other reasons. City planners in the early 19th and 20th centuries had racial segregation as their overriding goal to the detriment of common sense or logic.
It's 100% as useful, but much more difficult to mock and inject.
That’s not your conclusion that’s Peterson’s conclusion and it is highly erroneous.

You can’t just redefine God and then state that you believe in Him. You clearly do not believe in the popular conception of God so don’t pretend you do. You believe in a highly niche and specialized definition of God that literally zero religious people agree with. You don’t believe “God is real,” and you’re definitely not Christian dude. What you just stated is heresy to even the least religious of Christians.

Don’t kid yourself, You’re not religious , you just like Jordan Peterson a lot. Lmaoooo
> It prevents the natural segregation into people who are rushing and people who are not, but is probably still worth it

People who are really rushing can always take the stairs.
Walking on elevators does not cause more cue than standing on them. Two people can step onto an escalator and if the one in front then takes a step forward because the one behind was inside his personal space, the one behind is not impacted.

Furthermore since stepping onto an escalator necessarily involves walking up to that escalator, if the minimum distance between people walking were causing a throughput limitation that would manifest whether or not people on the escalator were walking.
Do we also take down all the signs telling people to take the stairs instead of the lift because it's healthier?

And do we force people to allow machines to do all the walking?

How about it's a bad idea to force people to be lazy in their daily routine if they don't want to?
This is a really nifty insight. Mathematical objects aren't physical, but that doesn't mean that there aren't objects that are neither physical nor mathematical. I wonder what those objects might be like!
My understanding was that part of the problem was that they expected more of the RPing MUD crowd to show up, not the typical gamer crowd. Whether or not their calculations would have been similarly incorrect even if their userbase predictions were spot on is another question altogether
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-tim...
I read it on its own, on an ebook reader where the annotations don't work (bad android app). Generally I only have to look up the occasional word or two to get some of the word jokes (my favourite being "[making his exam by] a single dento-dermal layer", meaning "the skin of his teeth")

I am reminded of the foreword, the author of which I forget, who said that it clearly isn't a breeze to read, you have to put in actual effort to understand the damn sentences. This is totally true, if I let my mind wander as with any other book, I have to go back and re-read it.
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Marriage is a completely different matter. Most people date an order (or several) of magnitude more people than they marry and they frequently don't do it with that aim.
IMO, it is just misogyny. They don't target the equivalent esports and gaming personalities (mostly male) who do the same thing, and it's couched in the language of "thots" instead of, you know, something thats not a derogatory term for women. Plus, I find it really hard to believe that most of these people actually care about fair taxation -- are they also informing the IRS about the kid on their block making money mowing lawns, or their server friends not reporting their cash tips? Give me a break.
I use Amber when I have to do something Rails-like. Maturity wise they are a bit ahead Lucky, and since all I really do is API servers because of my newfound love of SPAs, it gets the job done perfectly.

The language does change now and again, but upgrading has been fairly straightforward thus far, and I manage a number of open source crystal projects in addition to my closed source production code. You always have the option of not upgrading until you are ready, which is more than enough at least for me.

Debugging represents a unique challenge. I plan to eventually write an adapter for sentry.io for error tracking, but I haven't gotten around to this. Amber has very informative crash logs, so thus far I've been OK just looking through my Google App Engine logs when I need to track down an error. Cloud function debugging is a particular pain in the ass because of https://github.com/sam0x17/gcf.cr/issues/1, but I have a feeling the new 0.27.0 release resolves this, I just haven't had a moment to check.
Thank you ^_^,
Greg Weber from PingCap mailed me and I told him that I'm planning to support TiKV :)
This feels like a scene straight out of Idiocracy. The brands must be pleasantly confused.
Another similar topic is the "moving walkways" at airports that give you a big speed boost if you actually walk on them, but are slower than walking if you just stand on them. There seems to always be a group of people standing side-by-side on those just chatting away, making it so others can't walk past them. Those are wide enough to stand on one side and let others pass, but they rarely do.
Maybe that is part of the disconnect then. If some people either aren't responsible for the design portion, or don't include it in the "development" process, then I see how TDD could work pretty well. High level design has to come before specifics, and I don't think writing tests is the way to do that (unless you are counting things like acceptance tests, which seem like a different beast to me)
A related puzzle: Should you recharge your
transport card before or after riding?
https://trefethen.net/2018/03/25/metro-mean-and-variance/
1. larger customer base means more angry customers to deal with

2. they have more money to throw at the problem

3. any problem that makes it into the wild gets blown out of proportion, so pre-release testing is part of their PR budget
The classic latency/throughput trade-off.
AFter having spent a year learning so many front-end technologies which ones were your favorite? You also have some backend/db stuff listed. Same question for those. Which resources did you use to learn them that you liked?
Please do not post in the flamewar style to Hacker News. It's beyond tedious, and we're hoping for something more interesting here.

It's good to remember that authors of magazine articles don't pick their titles. We've switched to the subtitle above (shortened to fit HN's 80-char limit).
> What kind of dad was this man then? What kind of connection did he build with his daughter?

I'm not sure whether you intended this, but (since we're discussing biology here) this is really two possible connections. One is that she grew up with a dad who was (apparently) a gigantic asshole. The second is that she got 50% of her genes from a gigantic asshole. Or more charitably, from someone who wasn't emotionally a great fit for 20/21st century capitalist society.

Before any study counts such things as evidence of weird epigenetic effects, it had better do a really solid job of taking these (19th C) effects into account, to see if there is anything left. And that's pretty hard to do.
No not yet, it's a hole in my knowledge that I'd like to fix, got any suggestions ?
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I played it only for a few days because they had high level players going around killing newbies for fun. My first step out of town some guy kills me in one shot. I went back to continue and he does it a second time and third time. Eventually gave up in frustration.
> Worth noting - Amazon has nothing to do with this

Oh but article saying "Socialist party website claims investigator for $INSURANCE_COMPANY_NOBODY_KNOWS overstepped their bounds by touching someone's hand" is not going to gain as much clicks as fashionable Amazon-bashing! No chance to get to HN either.
I remember supporting these modems in The Netherlands in 2010, when some of them were already 5 years old. So basically, it’s an almost 14 year old design...I’m really surprised people still have these things in active use.
This year I learned Elixir and Phoenix and made a stub server (like Mountebank): https://github.com/yawaramin/stubbex
> Any language with named tuples has a type system that is sufficiently expressive to handle joins without any sort of impedance mismatch

Incorrect. Named tuples will give you nothing back but a result set; the impedance mismatch refers to the mismatch between result sets and a domain model; getting tuples back doesn't remotely address this problem. I'd suggest you don't understand what the objection relational impedance mismatch problem actually is.

It's not a type system problem, it's fundamental mismatch between the relational paradigm and the object oriented paradigm. If a domain model has customers and addresses, and you do a relational query that joins the customer table and address table to return only the customer name and address city, the resulting set (name, city) doesn't map to the domain objects and isn't enough data for the domain model to load either of those objects which may contain various business rules. This is what the impedance mismatch refers to, relational projections of new result sets simply do not map to the OO way of doing things. Joins that create new projections are a relational concept that have no place in the object oriented world view: objects don't do joins, and object queries don't return differently shaped objects.

Hacks like partial loading of domain objects are attempts to mitigate the impedance mistmatch, but they do not solve it; they cannot solve what is a fundamental difference between two different ways of seeing data. Data is primary in the relational model and its shape can change on a per query basis, this is incompatible with the object oriented view of the world in which whole objects are primary and data is encapsulated and thus hidden.

The object relational impedance mismatch does not refer to a language problem, it refers to a difference in paradigm between OO and relational. It exists in all language regardless of the languages abilities and it's not a problem that can be solved, only mitigated, if you want to use both paradigms. You can solve the problem by avoiding using two paradigms, by either bringing the relational model into the application and not using OO or by using an object database.
A friend of mine did this himself, a wireless router with TLS security and a double TOR circuit.

Meaning he doubles the first circuit over another circuit. I have no idea if that increases security but I'm sure it affects performance.

He's built these little routers for over a year for himself and others but never published anything.
At least in Helsinki most subway stations have an escalator, and an elevator for wheelchairs and trolleys, but no stairs (apart perhaps from a separate staircase somewhere for emergencies).
She told me she doesn't love her dad and she thinks he's immature.

She visits her dad since she went to the country where her dad lives for studies.

She asked her dad for money for her studies but he refused, saying that he doesn't have any.

He also sometimes joins her in shopping and buys stuff for himself and never pays for it.

All while her mom supported her.
But she believes it's because of her, her mom has never progressed in like her dad. (Read: finding a different life partner)

The biggest problem is that she feels as if she's burden for her mom. She tried sucide at 16.

Now she's 18 and doesn't feel sucidal anymore but negative throughts have never left her.

I convinced her to go to a doctor who prescribed her Mirtazapine 15mg. It worked for a few days then stopped working.

Now, she's avoiding doctor.

He depression is very severe. Racing thoughts overload her brain to point where she's not able to think clearly anymore.

Feels tired all time.

All her friends have left her without saying anything.

Only i am left now. I don't like seeing her like this.

I've read a lot about depression so, that i don't end up making it worse and not hurt her in anyway.

She says, stop trying for me, I'll never be cured.

But I've a strong belief to see her cured one day.

I wonder what can i do from here.

It's a decade of depression.
Again and again when this comes up, people look at the wrong metric: throughput. Walking on the left is not about optimising for throughput: it optimises for customer happiness . It is like a priority queue: in a hurry? Walk. Okay with waiting? Stand. To people who are in a rush, the ability to walk is worth very much. To people who are not, having to wait a few more seconds matters relatively less.

Standing on the right, walking on the left is a form of "rush discrimination".

If you just look at throughput, you're measuring the wrong thing. Try to measure how people feel! The fact Londoners would flip experimenters the bird when asked to stand on the left, should tell you what you need to know.

Of course, my perspective crucially ignores one category: people in a rush, who can't climb an escalator. They are disadvantaged by this. How many of them there are, I don't know, so perhaps I'm being incredibly tone-deaf.
Hopefully they release it in RDF.
So I need a physical token for each of my bank accounts (3 bank accounts), each of my investment accounts (2 investment accounts), each of my e-mail providers (2 e-mail providers) and one for every other service which might want to offer 2FA. Or, instead of that, I can have one smartphone, which has an app which handles all of those 2FA codes for me. Can you understand why I would prefer the smartphone option?
1. Xamarin Android because I wanted to develop a native Android app and I prefer Visual Studio

2. Xamarin Forms because my new job requires it

3. UX Design because I want to improve usability of my systems

4. Software Project Management because I want to move to management

These days I try to avoid learning new technologies. I focus mostly on improving what I already know. I only learn a technology when I want to use it and there will be a benefit for using it compared to what I am already know.
Can you share a screencast of how you use doom Emacs. As a vim person, it looks very interesting but the docs are very basic.
Currently I didn't create commands for that, but you can easly do the following:

- Backup: Copy the storage directory as it.
- Restore: stop the server, move the previously backup data directly to redix storage.

It is very simple, but I may add commands that will help you with that operation.
But as the OP stated it's already there by default. I don't have that plugin yet I see a reload icon in my Firefox. So I'm like the OP, wondering what the point of that plugin is.
Sounds like the spawn system in most games.
Which industries take photos at multiple locations
I am trying to identify markets where i can develop photo-management application built over a map-environment, i.e. visualize photos in context of location...

for example the shipping industry might take photos of packages before delivery at a persons house, construction industry take photos at multiple construction sites, etc..

which other industry takes a large amount of photos where geolocation is important?

thanks in advance!
What do you do at the gwasanethau?
If everybody steps onto the elevator at a set rate, momentarily stands still, then some of them begin walking forward iff there is space to do so, how does that cause reduced throughput?

To be clear, I'm not talking about some sort of "walk on the left" convention, which plainly reduces throughput. I'm talking about the "walk if you want to no matter what side you're on" convention, which seems to be far more universal.
Foxboron on IRC, else you can ship me emails on foxboron@archlinux.org. If you are into GPG, there will be some ad-hoc keysigning on the meetup :)

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-events/2018-Decem...
lol owned
No, but I deleted it in 2017, and didn't really miss it in 2018.
I just watched the reinforcement learning video and was very confused -- where did the reinforcement learning happen? I thought reinforcement learning was giving an agent positive / negative signals to learn without example output data, but in the video the network was just retrained with more data? Is it an overloaded term maybe?
Because it's feature complete.
Think you mean oOooOO OooOoOOo
UO was such a cool and open experience. I enjoyed it over the next generation “turn in quest” rinse repeat MMOs. In UO I played a blacksmith and a beggar. My friend played a miner and a fanatical priest. We never set foot in a dungeon and saved up enough virtual money to buy our own house.
What this have to do with single-payer? Under single-payer system, there would not be worker comp fraud? Or it won't be investigated, because who cares, it's other people's tax money? I am not sure what your point was here. As long as disability/worker comp fraud happens (and it happens, a lot), it would be investigated. And that's a good thing, because alternative is just common funds (either employer's or taxpayer's) raided by fraudsters without any risk whatsoever. Such system can never be viable.
Probably not. Mozilla will chime in sooner or later. They had a problem with Debian distributing a modified version of Firefox and ended up forcing Debian to call it something different - Iceweasel. Everything got sorted out years later.
Well no, Java isn’t the best of languages but my criticism stems from other issues, such as weak type system, certain inscrutably bad decisions about the runtime libraries and other, but this code is bad also according to any self respecting java developer.

An untyped (that is, it cops out to int) bunch of public static’s that should’ve been an enum. Daft combination of builders and constructors. Magic numbers. Adapter methods that should go into their own class. Validators that should also go into their own class (and even there, implemented differently, not as a parameterless method). Transformers that could be modeled as their own class (all these “in their own class” are for testabilty.) some of the names in these adapters suggest some other domain concerns (UI) are leaking into this model class.

IOW, it’s a mess by any standard
I am stealing this quote from you. It is print worthy. On similar lines I have started to feel that happy life is not necessarily a good life. Often they don't gel together well.

Unhappy struggle for the principle is way better than living a false Facebook Happy Life.
And that could potentially cause catastrophic consequences.
The neat thing about big data is that there are massive diminishing returns on the amount of data vs. model quality.

What's more important is data quality (e.g. structured and unbiased), and an incumbent with the right approach can have a strong impact.
Same boat as you. I used to boast about learning 2-3 languages a year. Now I aim to improve on what I already know instead of learning new technologies just to tick a box.
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We get it, you use reddit.
I deleted Instagram early 2017 and Facebook/Twitter/Google+/LinkedIn/etc in 2016.

Most/many of the contacts I then migrated to email and birthdays to my calendar/reminders. I’m happier keeping in touch with people this way.
So... Like I just saw some JS and nothing happened? But I'm on mobile...
Interesting, I wasn't aware of this feature. Thanks
The Catskills server was the roleplay server and it had actual die-hard roleplayers, the Origin storytellers (counselors? I forget) did a lot of work to help them with events, etc. For instance an entire clan (Shadowclan Orcs) took over the NPC owned Yew Orc Fort. There were big Pirate groups too in Buc's Den. I remember the Paladins of Trinsic, Yew Militia and the Undead (they may have been called something else? They had the Necropolis).

It was some of the most fun I've had in a game ever.

The servers really had different cultures. I really loved Siege Perilous while it was doing the Color Wars. The map was 4 castles with 4 different teams, you'd spawn inside your team castle surrounded by chests full of GM weapons/armor that made you immediately become a GM of that item (say Grandmaster Halbredier) then run out and fight the other teams. It was almost like a Battlefield game. Then they changed it to some boring mode for beta testing.

I was 11-12 when I got into UO in 1996. I could talk about it all day. I miss it.

The 2nd Age I think is when I quit. Whenever they added riding cockroaches and neon colors and all that other stuff.

http://www.shadowclan.org/about.html
Flutter. It is so convenient to be able to create a good-looking app that run fluently on both iOS and Android, while having high quality widgets that you can customize very easily… The learning curve is quite easy to climb, and you can inspect how anything is made to create your own, specific widgets if you want.

The only weird thing at first is Dart, but it is so close to any common language that it never was a problem for me. And it is so good to use a language with both AOT compilation and a quick reload mechanism!
The earlier economy you describe sounds a bit like Dartmud. I think they gave in eventually too and started supplying the shopkeepers with new money every so often, however some of them still retain in-game "opening hours".
> packet manager

Hate to nitpick but package manager.
US is far less prudish than median. If you compare it to other developed countries, sure, it's on the more prudish end. But if you compare it to most everywhere else, it's a whole different story.

For example, Sayyid Qutb - the grandfather of modern Salafism - became radicalized after visiting US in 1940s, and observing its culture. Here's how he describes it in his writings:

"The American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs -- and she shows all this and does not hide it."

"They danced to the tunes of the gramophone, and the dance floor was replete with tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists, lips pressed to lips, and chests pressed to chests. The atmosphere was full of desire."
it defined the way i think about ... everything.

and every year again while reading it i put my experiences (business and private) again in the form of systems and leverage points as outlined by donella. and every year again its an awesome learning experience. simply the most important book i have ever read. (i read a lot)
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