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> And the game quality would suffer

The Witcher 3 was a pretty good game (Polish developers) - many would call that an understatement. The Uncharted series since 2 or 3 relied heavily on outsourced development (especially for art assets). Arma 3 was developed by Czech devs. These countries probably produce lower budget games on average, and don't have lots of existing infrastructure to leverage. But that makes what they have accomplished all the more impressive given what they were working with.

What makes you so confident in the class that developers in countries with lower costs of living are worse than ones in wealthy countries? Do you think that Polish or Bulgarian developers are on average worse than American ones, and it so do you have something to back up that claim?
Dumb question, but has the industry decided on what they want to call TLS/HTTPS? Majority of people I talk to still refer to them as SSL certs...
An Ai-Optimized Divorce Process
The optimal selling price for a game does to change becase developers add a fixed cost.

Suppose you have 1 Billion in fixed costs and 1$ in per unit cost and are given two options. The equation is just (number sold) * (unit price - unit costs) and that 1 Billion dollar fixed cost is irrelevant when maximizing profit (or minimizing loss).

What it would do is reduce the number of games created, as the industry becomes slightly less profitable. Which would then spread consumer spending over fewer titles and thus recuperate the burden of a union.
Your statement and the one you're responding to are wholly compatible.
Yeah, and the second paper said their GC scenario system was swapping to disk. Please read my edit to the previous comment.
The poster responded to someone saying “why would anyone not want to unionize” by saying “some unions are shitty”, is that not reasonable? They aren’t even saying it’s a good reason, but a lot of people seem to have this idealistic view of unions and I do think it is healthy to keep in mind that this isn’t the case, just wanting to unionize and handing the reigns over to people who are lazy or greedy can leave you with labor problems AND a bite from your paycheck.
Labor / Employee costs is a lot of the times the most significant costs to a company. It's not the sole determination but it's definitely one of the top 3 factors Labor (forever and growing) > Infrastructure (large but incremental) and R&D (medium and ongoing)
One string per note (as opposed to the usual 1/2/3 depending on where in on the keyboard you are talking about), not only one string.

The video the parent linked to is the Una Corda - played by the designer/builder
Software Engineers at 40s/50s, how are you doing?
Understanding the Essentials: Idempotency
Musk Sent an Email to Employees at 1:20am. Is It Signaling the End of Tesla?
Since my dad joined the federal government before Reagan he got 2%
Well that's exactly how technology market disruption works. The disruptive product sneaks into the low end of the market without any of the established competitors really noticing. Then the disruptive product gradually moves up market and eats everyone's lunch.

15 years ago Windows Server was far more advanced than any Linux distribution. What does the server OS market look like today?
Your entire idea is basically a community college.

Professors are there to teach. You get two years done and most, if not all, of your gen eds.
Help a CS Freshman on Systems Programming?
Hello everyone, I'm Ove, a CS freshman.

I've tried everything, web, desktop etc but my true interest is into kernel/device-driver level programming and I want to make a living out of it later.

Now help me to decide what should I focus more on? I know C, C++/Rust is a must but what else? Teachers are suggesting to dive into Competitive programming, would that be a great investment for systems programming? Thanks in advanced.
Neither that site, nor your quote list olive oil as a saturated fat.
Considering that the pill dries up vaginal secretions and lowers libido, another possible take on the refusal to not cover contraception (assuming that it was not cobeted) is that our culture believes women are entitled to good sex.

Last time I checked its not like sex where one could get pregnant was no longer fun

Edit: flagged for offering a different interpretation? What are we coming to
SSL added and removed here :)
A look at what’s coming in TensorFlow 2.0
Couldn't find anything about it, but does anyone know if it supports Python 3.7 yet? Just messed around with TF yesterday on a Windows dev box, and the version downgrade shuffle was annoying.
Lady who showed up one month early for her Microsoft interview
Three of the restaurants I most frequently went to have switched away. There are still other places with black bean burgers, but it feels like replacement given my restaurant preferences.
Researchers Recreate Rogue Wave in Lab, Shedding Light on How Form in Open Ocean
> If you don't need or want a union membership, don't get one, nobody is saying anything else.

That is incorrect, in the US if my workplace decides to unionize I'm forced to pay union dues. I am fully in my right to criticize unions as they can be foisted upon me without my consent.
The fact that the community has been able to use the published paper to replicate all of AlphaZero's results in both chess, go (and a number of other similar combinatorial games) and get similar performance should lay your concerns to rest.
Sandberg says Facebook must earn back trust
It's ironic that this comment saying about "hellbanning" was "autodead", and I had to "vouch" to revive it.
Waymo have been operating on public roads since 2017.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/7/16615290/waymo-self-drivi...
>This is an AI playing starcraft. Starcraft!

Yeah, it's not like computers were ever able to play StarCraft before. Oh, wait...
Getting Started with Node worker threads
Which paper? How did they address it?
I've got to say I'm not a big fan of some of these changes and I think they're biting off more than they can chew.

> Writing posix command lines inside your scripts field will work regardless of the underlying operating system. This is because Berry will ship with a portable posix-like light shell that'll be used by default.

> Scripts will be able to put their arguments anywhere in the command-line (and repeat them if needed) using $@. Similarly, scripts will have access to $1, $2, etc.

If you use either of these features your package.json will no longer work with NPM. Maybe they should call it yarn-package.json?

> Starting from Berry, we made it an explicit goal that each component of our pipeline can be switched to adapt to different install targets. In a way, Yarn will now be a package manager platform as much as a package manager. If you're interested into implementing PHP, Python, Ruby package installers without ever leaving Yarn, please open an issue and we'll help you get started!

Noooo, god no. Package management is a gargantuan, complicated task, and these languages all have their own solutions already.

That being said, it's cool that they're rewriting it in TypeScript.
I'd say safely merging YAML diffs however could be trouble.

I don't know how restricted their YAML subset is, but in my experience it's so loose a format the only way to be sure YAML says what you think it says is to run it through a parser.
It's not cheaper to sponsor population decline
...or why some of use shoot on manual-forward digital lines like the Fuji X-Series. :) I basically never look at the menus, and have never once felt like I had to 'debug' my camera.
Agreed! They replace the need for specific kinds of unit tests, e.g. making sure your functions accept and return the correct shapes. You still need to test the actual logic, and should be doing some sort of integration test on the application as a whole.

In retrospect, my original response was too terse. Static typing and testing serve the same purpose, which is to make sure your application runs according to some measure of correctness. We shouldn't be setting up one-or-the-other dichotomies — we can have both!
I am not supprised that they are doing this, if you dont like what they are doing then dont work there. Why should people who work there be protesting their own company! They should expected be fired.
Random blue screens.

Poor USB-C support (sometimes ethernet died, sometimes screens changed resolutions...). The problem kept changing from BIOS update to BIOS update.

Then the USB-C harware failed: I could use it only if my laptop stayed perfectly still.

Only a few hours of battery life.

Drunk touchpad.

Speakers died after 3 month.

The 2 first points were fixed after years of hit and miss BIOS updates. It felt like beta testing the product.

Tons of complains from many users on Dell forum, with zero help from Dell.

Given the price of the machine, it's a damn shame.
A Hacker Wiped Our Business Off Facebook
I think overperformance is a flowery term for a race to the bottom. A vernacular red-herring whose adoption implies an argument. The contention is compromising human dignity and living in the name of getting ahead of ones peers in the workplace doesn't help anybody in the end. I propose we call it what it really is, an egotistical pursuit to instill a heirarchy where one should not exist.
Yarn has this too (although it uses the NPM audit database): `yarn audit`.
Because you do want it.

Organized labor has introduced customs that you benefit from and take for granted.

All you have to do is look at the difference in quality of life that came before and after the changes we obtained from organized labor in the 1800s/early 1900s.

Most people don't appreciate the extreme asymmetry between those who control capital and those who create the wealth of nations (26 individuals have the same worth as 3.5 Billion individuals)

In fact, just look at the quality of life of a worker in a place with strong labor (say most of the EU) vs say, the US.
What would entering a union mean for the developer?

I've read that it would increase their protection (legal, and sometimes financial, I suppose?), and that it's supposed to improve working conditions (because unionized workers will have a more solid foundation to push against as they demand those conditions).

How deep does this go? Is there any other benefit? Something specific to the industry, perhaps?
What's AlphaStar's APM. Can it just move every single unit perfectly in a single frame?
The site seems to be inaccessible over IPv6. It resolves an address but never responds. I had to load it in Tor Browser in order to actually get to the content.
> Show me a Typescript codebase not using the type 'any'! In a decent system language you can't get away with that, it's just a fake sense of security.

I don't know the comparison to system languages is fair though, because the use-case for JS is quite different from system languages.

Javascript (and by extension, Typescript) is commonly used to interface between the user and the network, both of which often are outside the bounds of the type system. Add to that any code that interfaces with plain JS, such as external libraries or legacy code. When dealing with those, it's natural to use statically untyped values and type ascriptions based on reasonable assumptions.

Taking that into account, I actually think Typescript's type system is fairly well-designed for the use-case. The problem isn't really with Typescript, it's just intrinsic to the use-case of JS.
Virtually every other high paying profession has unions by another name, namely professional organizations who often are responsible for things like licensing, ethics enforcement, ect.

Should Software Engineers want to remain a part of the professional class over the long term, it would be ignorant to not push for these things and introduce further supply restrictions around who can and cannot be a software engineer just as how accountants, lawyers, actuaries, ect have all done before them.
Why should you learn the Dart programming language?
There's also, I dunno, all of the Japanese games that people love. Chinese companies are also starting to increase and market overseas, and some of those games are high quality. South Korea too. Asia is a powerhouse for entertainment software, even if we might argue they have a long way to go for business/enterprise/SaaS software.
Yes, but the reason the rest of us in the other parts of the developed world has lower salaries is because we use our taxes to buy lots of stuff we will need later on for situations you can't really plan for. When an American household gets two kids, one of whom develops a disease and the other one needs to go to day care because both parents have to work, it's not exactly cheap but in Sweden ending up in a situation like that wouldn't make nearly as much of a difference to what's left after taxes and bills. Same thing if the other provider in the household gets sick, even if that disease is rare and expensive to manage.
The DeepMind folks on stream just mentioned that Alphastar's inference speed is about 50ms from observation to action.
They've also decreased, a $60 game in 2006 should cost ~$75 today. Prices haven't kept up with inflation.
The things you listed don't have a great deal of endogenous support among the populace, either.

I'm most interested in cases where there is shear between popular opinion and The Establishment, and who wins in those cases.

It seems to me that The Establishment consistently wins, and popular opinion slowly changes to conform with The Establishment, and not the other way around. It's a peculiar characteristic of Our Democracy.

At least we've come a fair way from the original claim that pro-establishment media outlets have no "appreciable agenda," so I feel the exchange has been productive.
Yes, PG has many more usability features. Simple things like UPSERT make UX improvements if you don't need the advanced capabilities of MSSQL.

I'm sure PG can take on more of the standard RDBMS workloads today but I don't think that's really making a big dent on SQL Server as the bulk of their revenue comes from the serious enterprise scenarios.
I worked a good chunk of time in a mid-sized Italian restaurant with maybe 10 cooks, 10 waiters, and 7 bussers/dishwashers/preppers.

I doubt that right now a robot could do any of the backhouse stuff with the versatility, speed, and durability required to be better than a human chef working for easily less than 40k a year.

I think if we reach a point where one or two laborers can pre-prepare all of the ingredients the night before and the robot cook can just spit out a hot meal in 5 minutes (with one person overseeing a symphony of robo chefs), then AI/robots will win and chefs as a profession will go bye bye.

But until then, the owners will continue to spend on quality labor because that's the only way they know how to make the meals efficiently.
Why? Would the union only consist of American workers?
Of course. Drug sniffing dogs have been shown over and over to be about as effective as a coin flip in figuring out whether drugs are present or not, but they are still allowed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/...

From warrant to arrest to conviction, everything often happens on fabricated, bullshit "evidence". And of course, unless you're super rich, you won't be going to trial to defend yourself, innocent or not. If you're lucky enough to not get killed by the cops that arrest you, you can look forward to being tortured, and enslaved prison. Hell, even if you're just awaiting trial in jail you can be beaten and tortured. That's the American "justice" system in a nutshell.
Humanity may win here, but you should be careful about how you define it. Individual humans don't control much more of our environment than animals do. Like animals in a zoo, we are often born into very constrained situations that wildly limit our actual control. We are usually caged by our economic situation.

What I'm saying is, the "human" does not dominate the earth. The corporation does. We shouldn't be afraid of loosing control to an AI that will rule our world, because we have already let the companies do whatever they want.

Some of us are lucky enough to participate in this world, by forming and working for world-changing corporations, but everybody else is closer to the bacteria side of the spectrum.
The biggest problems that game developers face is working conditions (Demand for unpaid overtime), and lack of protection from capricious behaviour by management (Management promises not fulfilled, retaliatory firings, firing people so that you don't have to pay them a ship bonus).

I can't really think of anything else.
At least if the laws were less hypocritical and applied to all things that improve our living conditions (such as open source software development) then I could understand it, but right now as it is I find it unacceptable.
I'm having a hard time knowing if it's using a single agent of the five top agents or an ensemble of their five agents.
Good look using that as your defence in a court of law :)
The later is done in virtually every other high paying blue and white collar field, from construction work to all sorts of professional services. It benefits no one but the employers to not have such constraints.
It's not just being without, is updating all other services that are tied to your card.

Now I personally don't let third parties store my cards, but it's quite common in this day and age of saas everything
"year or two learning CS on their own"

Sorry, but what they are teaching themselves is not Computer Science, it is programming, which is a tiny subset of computer science or even slightly outside it but intersecting. To get a well rounded knowledge of fundamental things, such a program and data structures, memory management, analysis and design, architectures, how OSs work, cryptography, machine learning, networking and functional programming etc, takes a degree course and possibly a masters or even PhD.
This article expended a lot of text and avoided the actual useful information.

- 1 ISBN costs $125
- 10 ISBNs cost $250
- 100 ISBNs cost $575
- 1000 ISBNs cost $1000

So if you are fairly sure to self-publish more than 8 books in your lifetime, of course you would buy a thousand of them.
I work for an IT consultancy firm, and we have some customers asking for it right now (mostly in the banking sector).

The reason is Horton works deprecated Apache Flume and bundled Nifi instead.

Personally I don't like it. I prefer other ETL tools like Talend. I also find confusing the user interface.

The good part is that NIFi processed are buffered, and you can keep metadata (like data provenance) with the records which is very helpful for compliance.
Congrats on the acquisition. I love that the complete extension is open source and will stay available: "And we will continue to actively participate in the Postgres community, working on the Citus open source extension as well as the other open source Postgres extensions you love.".

As we continue to grow GitLab this Citus is the leading option to scale out database out. I'm glad that this option will still be there tomorrow.
Does anyone know any details about the financials of the deal? Is this an acquihire or more?
> The specific mechanism of withdrawing US forces from the area?

The timing, manner, and surrounding supporting activity (or lack thereof) of that withdrawal, yes.

> You can't say oh, I'd like to extricate myself from this conflict, but also force a specific outcome.

Perhaps, but you absolutely can choose the manner in which you attempt to extricate yourself from a conflict with an eye toward the likely impacts of that extrication.
IQ paranoia on the interweb
This is the conclusion from your first link.

It seems to disagree with your statements.

"In conclusion, in this primary prevention trial, we observed that an energy-unrestricted Mediterranean diet, supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts, resulted in a substantial reduction in the risk of major cardiovascular events among high-risk persons. The results support the benefits of the Mediterranean diet for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease."

Another random snippet from same link: "Thus, extra-virgin olive oil and nuts were probably responsible for most of the observed benefits of the Mediterranean diets."
I'd recommend the video presentation linked off the page, where he walks through how he actually turned mov into a machine. It's very weird and interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk
Youre absolutely right of course which is why youre being downvoted. My wife and i are catholic and use natural family planning. We started with paper charts.

NFP was mainly studied by the church and all these apps now are built mainly through research from catholic doctors.

In our nfp group, we have many couples. Most of us started charting on paper, and some havs switched to our nonprofits paid app, but nevertheless, speaking with the other husbands there, most of us know exactly when our wives are ovulating based on our perceived changes in their personality.

Through many years of paper charts we noticed my wife wouldnt sleep the night of ovulation and would be cranky the next day. Other guys noticed their own things with their wives

Its not popular to say, but its true. Women who are actually having real cycles (as opposed to those suppressing it with the pill) do often have personality changes. That does not mean women are overly emotional or not rational it just means they are subject to regular hormonal fluctuations. Men are too of course but as far as i know there are no easily observable metrics to track
There's also decent CS programs in other schools in that area, if someone really wants study CS and can't get into UT's program.
MongoDB was already under the AGPL; Amazon just replicated the API on top of their own storage engine (or an existing permissive-licensed storage engine? Who knows?).

If we're at the point where Amazon can just re-implement whatever project they want, more or less from scratch, I'm not sure there's any license that can save us. :(
They select 5 agents and then put up the professional player against a different agent in each game of the series. So it's a single agent, but a different one in each of the five games.
Well, sorta.

The cost is covered because many bottle deposits end up going unclaimed.

But nobody paid 10 cents for that bottle.
Your TV Is Now a Computer, but Not in a Good Way
would be interested in hearing about your experience building and selling saleztalk. have you written anything up about it?
i would hope not. in fact, two of the best programmers i know have doctorates in computer science and maths respectively.

these people generally do not learn computer science on their own, they learn programming instead. This is useful, but it is not computer science and there is no way that (most, modulo some exceptional edge cases) non college graduates will have the same skills or abilities as someone who has studied maths and computer science at university, as well as software engineering. there is some truth that the core (80%) of the software engineering profession will always be formed of programmers/developers/software engineers who do not need computer science skills, and simply need to be able to write code according to a specification i suppose. but the profession will be advanced by the (20%) rest who have the skills and knowledge of the underlying science...