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Damn, you described by way of thinking to near perfection. Spatial memory and relational graphs.

I too spent a huge amount of my childhood with Lego and board games.

I never became great with history, but found my way to computer vision and ML through a background in mech engg. (basically applied physics)

Still in school, so don't have an end to my story, but it is great to know others whose thought process coincides so well with mine.
Unlike the Google CEO who used a Blackberry for at least 5 years after Android was introduced.....
Your list is excellent, but wanted to throw one more out there: Cyberpunk 2020.
Finally, an explanation for the existence of Tyler Cowen!
Exactly. Somebody I know with scientific training and depression was offered Lexapro (escitalopram) to replace a citalopram script: "It works better for some people." She wasn't so depressed that she didn't explain the scam to her doc, who accepted the explanation and stopped prescribing the new version with a reduced concentration of the ineffective stereoisomer.

But this doc wasn't getting visits and kickbacks from Allergan.
So you're suggesting Ansible's issue count is also unmanageable?
Imagine you're trying to find someone in a city you're both unfamiliar with.
You can see where both of you are and walk towards each other.

Or let's say you're fearful of your safety. You can send your live location to someone so that if you go missing they know where you are.
Even if Sci-hub were murdering a few people a year, the service they provide would still be worth it.
It is a single market. That's the whole point of the EEA.

Your personal interpretation of the situation is irrelevant.
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Can someone offer some perspective on why opening up all this knowledge to the web would be an effective attack on western civilization (as is speculated in the comments of the article)? I'm not concerned about the legality of their operation, just curious that if, some larger criminal institution is behind this, why would it be an effective attack on Western civilization to publish tons of research, journals and articles for free?

My view on it is probably wayy too naive, 'free and open-access is better', but I see non-academics and enthusiasts all over the web using sci-hub for all kinds of research.

Who's being hurt here?
Unfortunately it's a free product. So whatever they decide you have no choice to go along with it, if you want to continue using that feature.

WhatsApp has the same feature, if you want to give your data to Facebook instead.

I presume there are other providers that have similar functionality.
Can't create an omelette without cracking some eggs. I have little sympathy for most of the arguments presented here, some are claims of rampant criminality attributed to individuals without evidence.

Regardless the overall benefit to humanity is undeniable and I doubt history will look favourably on articles like this.

The big publishing houses can dig in if they want, the writing is on the wall for their ilk, adapt or go extinct, it's happened in a multitude of other industries, why couldn't the gatekeepers of worldwide scientific effort see that coming?
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It's not so much that Pathfinder was too late; Pathfinder has been incredibly successful and has even outsold D&D in a couple of years. But D&D has and will always have the biggest brand recognition outside the hobby, and will therefore always be the game with the largest number of new players. And the largest number of old players too.
There’s even this thing where they use lasers to burn away chunks of your eyeballs, because yeah, losing unnecessary weight and all makes you see better. I had it done a few weeks ago and it’s life changing!
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Warhammer (Fantasy Battle and 40K) is a beautiful but incredibly expensive hobby.

But Cubicle7 Games has just published the 4th edition to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, so that aspect of Warhammer is back too.
Here's a list of books I have compiled as a fairly fresh PM (just getting started with the reading). The intention with this list is to built up a good mental tool box to succeed in product management (coming from SW+chip design).

PM:

- Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love

- The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

- Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

- What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Service

- Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age

Marketing:

- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

- Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company's Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible

UX

- Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

- The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

Organization / Business

- Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World

- Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

- Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It

- The Thank You Economy

Personal

- Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

- TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking

- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- How To Win Friends and Influence People

- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

- Thinking in Systems: A Primer

- Thinking, Fast and Slow

Also, blogs:

- Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
- Aha! Blog
- Inside Intercom
- Mind the Product
- PMHQ blog
- Silicon Valley Product Group
- The Accidental Product Manager
- The Product Bistro
- The Product Guy
- The Secret Product Manager Handbook

Edit: Formatting
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There's a paragraph that talks about Sci-Hub doing a dictionary attack against a university and then downloading 45k PDFs.
The same paragraph then talks about unknown criminals changing data and planting malware.
There is no correlation between these incidents other than that the author puts them in the same paragraph, implying that they are related.

Same in the next paragraph: The author is implying that Sci-Hub uses keyloggers, but upon more careful reading there is no relation.

Then a few paragraphs later the author talks about articles being stolen as well as social security numbers and other personal information. "Sci-hub must have thousands of these" - pure speculation. Also no evidence that Sci-Hub sold them.
Literally had this song playing by pure chance from a big shuffle playlist, and did a double take.

How's that for chance :)
How is this better than https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pa... ? Oh! You've got other yummy things rolled in there like graphviz and more. Thanks! I've got an important presentation coming up on Thursday, I'll give this a go!
The author puts Gödel's Incompleteness and the Continuum hypothesis on the same level, which is misleading. The continuum hypothesis is unprovable in our current mathematical foundation ZFC, but there are extensions to ZFC that either make the continuum hypothesis true or false.

Incompleteness is a property of every sufficiently complex formal system and thus poses a general constraint in logic.

That a particular learning problem is not provable in ZFC is not that surprising. Connections between learning and Incompleteness are way more interesting (and there is a lot of pseudo-research going on, "proving" that humans are not simulatable by computer etc.)
This is just a hit piece on Sci-Hub.

> bulk theft of intellectual property from academic institutions

Is a most apt description of scientific publishing, but is instead being applied to Sci-Hub.

It recommends libraries block access to it, on spurious technical grounds, but never stops to wonder why people would be accessing it even from within university libraries.

I imagine it might be because sci-hub has a better selection of academic content. Content that is produced, reviewed, and curated for free by academics, then appropriated by publishers due to their historical usefulness. I imagine it also has a nicer interface than most publishers' websites, which generally do not set a high bar.

What librarians should be doing is lobbying to stop free peer reviewing for paid journals and then unsubscribing from them as the dry up. Academic publishing is a racket.

Also, if you were caught, erm, donating content to Sci-Hub, you might lie and say your password was stolen...
It's possible I read incorrect information, but I thought he died from that cancer because he spent time mucking around with "magical" remedies before trying the medically-proven treatments.

Also, pancreatic cancer has a terrible mortality rate, so it's possible he would have died soon regardless.
Back when I was in university (during the 1990s) everybody in the CS department played Magic: the Gathering. There were always people playing in the coffee room, we held plenty of tournaments.
Very cool, I never realized that the boardgame Neuroshima Hex! (very recommendable, recently also "reskinned" as Monolith Arena) is actually based on an RPG :D

Poland is a great boardgame nation,
Ignacy Trzewiczek is one of my favorite developers :)
That is such a useless quote.

I throw a ball to my friend. The ball doesn't turn in to chocolate and fly away etc.

What happened to the ball? Caught or not?

To take the quote literally, neither. The rarest bird on earth capable of catching the ball swoops down and lifts it away while I win the lottery and so on.
People on unemployment benefit are denied those benefits if they turn down employment?

Oh no!

While I'm not saying these gigs are exactly long term careers it's better for the state and for the person than not working.
"if machines take over the economy, and earnings and capital are therefore increasingly concentrated in a few hands, should resources be distributed? And what, if machines are doing the work, does everybody do with their time?"

I think this is an important point; there will not be one solution to this; some of the gap will fill with misery, some with generosity and family, some with hobbies and fun, some with hedonism and self destruction and some with quiet, small lives of local interest and self respect.
> brew link --force will not link software already provided by macOS.

An explanation for this change would be useful.
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It's normal to fall out of love with /anything/, IMO. I fell out of love with playing guitar - I moved to a new city over a year ago, and left my most expensive guitar in its case. Then last month, I bought a bass guitar (I'd always wanted one), fell in love with that, and started playing my guitars again.

I think it's natural to reach a plateau with whatever interests you, where you understand enough that the original challenge is gone, and/or you meet a new challenge that you can't overcome. Change something up, come at it from a different angle and you will probably regain your enthusiasm.

And can I just say, you are the first person I have ever heard say that 'talking to customers' is in any way 'fun'... :)
...and TFA doesn't seem to fare better either:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/08/the-wsj-calling-t...
Well, the XR sales claims are BS...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/08/the-wsj-calling-t...
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Meditation and other “mindfulness “ practices will help you to stay focused. When meditating, you are often distracted by various thoughts and the point is to put down those thoughts as soon as you realize you’ve picked them up. Doing that over and over again will teach you to be aware of when you get distracted and to refocus.
maybe important/interesting for you: the pdf export.
There is a fabulous (but sadly not well-known) RPG in the UK called "Clockwork & Chivalry" set during the English Civil War in an alternate 1640s.

This pits the clockwork machinery of Parliament's New Model Army against the magick of the Cavalier-Alchemists commanded by Prince Rupert (of the Rhine) fighting for Royal Absolutism.

Clockpunk Fantasy in a world of gunpowder, political machinations and fanatical righteousness.
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They are calling it Starship, so the parent isn't entirely wrong.
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And that’s where the money is. Apple isn’t trying to sell $40 phones with no profit margin.
Or even buy a small compact camera with a decent lens, thereby decoupling photography from mobile computing.
Pip is easy once you start using requirement.txt files and virtualenv/docker/jails/whatever.

it all boils down to "pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt"

Where most people start having trouble is when they install some packages through rpm/apt/pkg and then install others through pip, and there are shared dependencies between the two sets of packages with different versions.
I fail to see how your alternative way of phrasing differs in any meaningful way from "citation needed"
I was always curious how someone with a developer/freelancer background transitions to product management or developer evangelist roles? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to do this transition internally rather than as a new hire?
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Can it really not include images in the output though? I didn't see an example in the showcase.
One aspect which is often not considered with alcohol is that it’s one of the few drugs where you’re not just taking it to experience its affect – to get drunk. There are so many fantastically variable tastes and mouth feels with drinks that for many the majority of the pleasure is actually in consuming them. Wines & beers are a pleasure to drink and can go extremely well with food, often adding another layer to the enjoyment of the meal. Sipping spirits and cocktails can be a fantastic sensory experience, there is a whole world of flavours to explore and enjoy.

The getting tipsy / drunk part is, of course, part of it and some people do go too far. It also has a lot of other problems but don’t lose sight that there is so much more to it than just getting drunk.
Except the nationalities you listed are not EU while Romanians are.
Thre's plenty of things wrong with Romania starting with the corruption, but I wouldn't say everything is shit.
Othwewise the local tech hubs wouldn't be full of westerners working here. I also miss the above average wages and the above average women. :)
Seeing the wages in Germany vs the property prices makes me feel poor.
If I had to guess. Probably to prevent tainting the base system.
I sympathize part of your sentiment.

I have been coding for like 10 years now. I feel it has become more .... routine? Coding itself starts becoming a tool for me, a modeling tool that realizes when I speak to it, like I know soundly winter will freeze the water into ice, and fire can turn woods into ashes.

But I think that means for me that coding itself is probably not going to provide more challenges or growth I would expect into next stage of my life. Coding has to been associated with the problem I am trying to solve. After all, understanding a problem then dissecting it into solvable pieces is what is fun. I would try to seek problems at a bigger scale, and maybe that would bring new perspective of coding to me by facing ever growing complexity.
Ahh, that should probably go into the documentation...

but for now: the `showcase`[0] gets rendered from the `examples` folder, here[1].

[0]: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/

[1]: https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck/tree/master/example
I am merely suggesting popular open source projects can have a really large number of issues.
I'd disagree that 4e was far from D&D's roots. D&D evolved from miniture-based wargames, and it remains a combat-focused P&P system. In my view 4e had two primary problems: combat was complex took a long time to resolve, even by D&D's standards, and it was different to what people were used to.
"Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%"

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> Year after year, followers of respective patron saints attempt to outspend and outdo their neighbouring parish in a contentious crusade for showmanship

It looks like a set of very bad habits. A place where signalling power and wealth is more important than self-growth.

Malta is a tax haven and famous for the assassination of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.*

All that does not hint a healthy society, but a society that needs to get away from tribalism and embrace better ways.

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/daphne-caruana-galizia
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So the image of it in 2 pieces outside in the desert.

I have visions of rockets being constructed in clean hangars. That looks more like some mining set up.

They wouldn't have constructed it outside, unprotected already would they?
The cost of lawyers he's sued is the same no matter the legislation. I assume that different laws give different ways to sue, but I don't think that cost depends that much on the cost of firing someone. If the employer does everything according to the norm (e.g., if the workload diminishes and he cannot take on the employee anymore, he needs to have the numbers that prove that) nothing should go badly.
The OGL was a big deal and hugely beneficial to the pen and paper RPG community as a whole. A lot of small publishers got their start publishing OGL supplements and then branched out into their own original games. That plus cheap digital publishing, and a one-stop-shop to buy PDFs in the form of DrivethruRPG, Kickstarter, plus the rise in geek culture generally through things like Comic Con has lead to a huge resurgence in gaming. It's never been better.
The word cloud and the stick figure are taken from the `assets/img` folder; you can reference ANY file you want, as long as it is located somewhere within the `assets` folder.
I wonder why Linux users would want to use Homebrew? Are the packages not available via the normal Linux package managers?
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Seriously. I worked in research for a while and we would weight data to fit demographics but there were limits to how much weighting you could apply before the data sample was considered insufficient.
I really wonder how much this algorithm is ignoring general sampling rules like ‘n > 30’ to crank out this list.
In which case Americans who haven't broken American law by ignoring GDPR requests from their EU clients should not be surprised if they are arrested if they ever go to Europe.
It's still very popular in Germany with new adventures, boxes and also a lot of novels set in the universe being released.

As an aside: I also really like the old PC games "Das Schwarze Auge: Die Nordland-Trilogie" (Realms of Arkania in English iirc) but it's a very unique/strange adaptation. It's very close to the game system but has been criticized quite a bit for the gameplay content (I actually liked the storylines). When you selected the complex rule system it was very fun to just level the characters and try all the spells etc.
The round based combat was also very unique/interesting (imo)
> {{ .BindVar "name" .Input.user_name }}

Now, this definitely looks like a programming language construct. How long before this project gets loops and conditionals? See for example ansible.
I guess it depends on the country. Where I'm from, people were used to push payments (like free wire transfer), or cash on delivery payments, when shopping online. Banks worked hard to change that in the last decade+, so now debit cards are used much more than before. Credit cards are used very little (10% of online purchases).

I only guess that this leads to a feeling where when you give a card info to someone, it's like giving them access to your bank account. But 1 in 2 users can't tell a difference between debit and credit, so who knows.

Users don't like giving card info to companies and almost no companies, including very big online stores, handle card info themselves, or use single-page purchase flow. I rememeber only two local websites that didn't redirect me to some payment gateway in the last 10 years. Amazon is not a thing here at all.
D&D 5 has a lot less of that than say 3.0 and 3.5 or Pathfinder, they're gone a long way to streamline the system. The general trend in RPGs over the last few decades has been towards lighter weight, more story driven games. I'm not personally a fan of D&D and it's tropes, and even then I'd go for something lighter like Dungeon World, but for what it is D&D 5 hits the nail on the head.

If you're interested, Meetup has a lot of local games groups listed you can try out to see if you can connect with a like-minded bunch of people.
What is the mechanism by which step 4 is accomplished, and why would this work for the EU and not one of the other myriad of legal systems with mutually exclusive laws?
> You realise this is equivalent to "the decentralised social web cannot be allowed to exist"

I'd put it as: the decentralised social web cannot be allowed to exist unless and until a way to do robust privacy enforcement on it can be found.

> and heading in the direction of "the public cannot be allowed general purpose computers"

Slippery slope fallacy. GDPR exists not out of some abstract desire to regulate but as a response to the massive privacy breaches that have directly affected the general public. If and when general purpose computers are shown to have a similar negative effect on society, we can have a conversation about whether regulating them is appropriate given the costs and benefits of doing so.
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Consider someone writing a guide on how to install packages on multiple platforms. You only need one guide and not three based on brew. Especially interesting for Windows 10 IMO.
Shades (a very early MUD) used to have a Deaf/Blind Player and she used to come to eyeballs with her Guide Dog.

Indra Shah (booker prize shortlist author) wrote a book called Cyber Gypsies that covers this late 70's online community
No, he's suggesting thousands of open issues on successful projects are common...
It's a pity in my opinion. But I understand magazine business is hard and you cannot give an alternative ad free format, more expensive, in kiosks.
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> believes the problem with most consumer-facing augmented headsets on the market is their bulky size

Problem is the nausea, Virtual reality sickness to be accurate.

Addressing the bulk alone wouldn't fix the issue of long term VR use. Audi showcased VR entertainment[1] for passengers, reporters who tried out said the moving vehicle didn't produce motion sickness. Though a moving vehicle for VR wouldn't be the scalable solution, I just want to point out that the motion sickness is a definite inhibitor.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rce5e7iBjiU
Issues have a status one presumes -- 1000 "requests for new features" or minor BS complains don't matter as critical issues.