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The whole discussion of phone games reminded me that more and more developers are porting/revamping older games for mobile devices, and some of them aren't busted like the Chrono Trigger PC port. This is honestly pretty excellent. I just recently learned that Ys 1 and 2[0] and a bunch of older Square Enix games[1] like Dragon Quest and Secret of Mana were on Google Play for Android. I'm always surprised when games that are legitimately enjoyable, work properly on a phone/tablet or support some kind of controller, and have zero transactions outside of paying for the game come to mobile. I've been pleasantly surprised by casual games like World of Goo and Greed Corp, plus there's emulation of certain old consoles, but full-size games on mobile are a huge step forward. Haven't tried casting, though I've read it's possible; proper casting would be a game changer.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotemu.ys1... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotemu.ys2...

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=802601025697058988...
How is the market going to account for externalities, such as climate change in the case of coal, without nudging from government policies or tax incentives (or anti-incentives)?
I have a 2016 MBP that’s had one keyboard replacement, I am living with the stuttering that I now have in the replacement. I have refused to upgrade and will continue to do so until they fix this (and the T2 issues, and the audio issues, and the overheating issues).
Maybe, but you have to know to do that in order to get around it.

If you don't know much about the page and get a 404, maybe you just roll on.

If you know to circumvent it, then you probabbly know a bit more about the page anyway, maybe not the person they're trying to filter it from.

At least from UI testing we know that a thing not working, or just working slowly is enough to turn away a lot of people.
Conferences as easy places to publish is highly field-dependent.

It's true in the biosciences (ask me how i know!). It is not true in, say, theoretical computer science.
I didn’t think he was lying, just wondering what your own assessment would be.

I think you’re right that motivation has a lot to do with it, but there are other factors too. Being 32x seems like too large a gap to be explained by motivation alone, unless the situation over there was extremely dire. We have to entertain the possibility that you’re also much better than they are. Attribution to motivation alone makes it sound like your mental model is based on the idea that intelligence and aptitude is equivalent in everbody.

I’ve always said to younger folks new to the workforce that the way to get above average performance reviews is to simply give a shit. That alone seems to put any minimally competent person ahead of half the competition.

And to what extent is the ability to maintain focus and motivation a talent on its own?

Edit: I just want to say, I found the article extremely enjoyable. I am a little bit surprised by some of the feedback in HN comments. I’ll be blunt, you sound like you are bragging and have an elevated sense of your own worth. I do not think that is actually the case, but your writing (or maybe just your accomplishments) seem to trigger that heuristic. In my estimation, you seem to just be presenting facts and laying it all out, and I’m not sure how to do that when those facts happen to be flattering. As a clinical psychologist, maybe you have insight into why someone perceived as bragging gets downvoted. Since you expressed an interest in writing and motivating people, you might want to think about how to present that information without it distracting the reader by triggering their insecurities (if in fact that is happening). I generally struggle with that as well - although not on this particular issue, because I do not really have any great accomplishments to brag about ;)

Although I like the article, my biggest issue with it is that I would like for it to be true, but I am unconvinced that it’s a recipe for success with most people. I’m not sure how many people you have managed, but have you really not seen anyone’s performance drop without deadlines?

You’re getting shit for going off topic, but I’m glad you did, because I would not have clicked on an article about narcissism.
Great, thanks. I wasn't focused enough while reading :)
well, until someone vouches for you.
You falsely believe that it is a binary choice. Cost-cutting allowed by this fast and creative scanning is not the only way to help more patients.
I don't understand what is wrong with the folks over at Mozilla. Are they stupid, or are they taking bribes?

How about an option for, "No, I don't want notifications from any website, ever!"

How about an option for, "Don't auto-play video, including silent video, ever. Not audio either. Never. Just don't."

How about an option for "I know what cookies are. Never, ever warn me about them again. Ever."

I don't know if the devs are just young and inexperienced, or if they are truly brain-damaged, or if they are corrupt and some advertiser said, "Here's a million dollars to leave those notification prompts in, heh, heh, heh".

At this point it's like smoking in movies. There has to be some cigarette maven with a pallet of cash going into the production office on the back lot somewhere, because otherwise why does every young director show all the 'cool' people puffing away on something that's going to waterboard you with COPD for the last 40 years of your life?

Mozilla, we don't want any of that shit. Fuck that shit.
That's completely tangential to the fact that code blocks should not be used for prose, because it makes it difficult to read.
A vim user who doesn't use caps lock

To be real though I don't like the touch bar either.
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Sorting between two or three bins is fine, but there are like seven codes for recyclable containers— as a purely practical matter, it would not be realistic to place seven different bins at the curbside.
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modern china is definitely odd as it proclaims to be socialist and capitalist, but its a lot like 1920s America. Off the rails capitalism that ate the peoples gubment.
Background: I have been playing video games for 25 odd years now. It has highly reduced, I revert to a bunch of youtube let's plays now.

- Equating games to watching football is disingenuous at best. Games tire you out mentally. I liked games because it gave me a thousand things to track at once and optimize (big fan of cataclysm DDA/Aurora/factorio/rimworld). But that came at a cost - am a zombie at the end of the session, fully drained. (Definitely happy). This is a big reason why I switched to watching videos instead. I definitely don't have the mental bandwidth for this.

- equating videogames to outdoor activities is again disingenuous. Outdoor activities have a definite social component to them (NO - eve didn't replicate this to even a small extent). Not to mention the health benefits. I know the general world is going towards more of a 'controlled experience', but I am still a strong believer in outdoors and semi-controlled experiences.

- Video games and books are definitely escapism. But fiction just doesn't engage your mind in the same way. Most non-fiction books either I will have to dedicate study time for it OR just fall asleep 30 pages in. All the motor function engagement and quick dopamine hits are just not the same in books.

I am not against video games, my thousands of steam / youtube hours should make that clear. BUT diluting the effect of them just makes the argument muddled.

IMO Video games are essentially alcohol without the liver-effects. Yeah it's a lot of fun in moderation if you are in control (OR if it doesn't pull you in like it does to addictive personalities) but they can pull you down a rabbit hole too deep to climb out of.
It's not a huge problem if you consider the Mac an expendable part of the eco system, as Apple does.
>> * switch default search engine to DuckDuckGo (one can still use the !s bang when one wants to see what Google has)

I switched to Bing Search last year to earn Microsoft rewards, and I was surprised to find that I only need to go to Google for supplementary searches less than 10% of the time. I thought switching to Bing was going to be much worse.
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> which is wrong for google to behave this way, as the focus of university is to produce _new_ research, and a business's focus is to produce sustainable service for profit. Google should have a graduation mechanism for a product they launch, where they publicly announce that a product is out of beta, and can be depended on to exist.

This is a surprising claim, that a business "should" be any particular thing, particularly when the business under discussion is one of the most successful of all time.

It would be like criticizing the skeletal design of a lion. It's a lion, who are you to say what it should look like?
If you put UC into a debugger, you see a function with a very telling name "blocklist" pointing on a code with strings containing some github urls and, surprise, some defunct urls at microsoft.com and adsense cdn.

It's 2019, and people still keep forgetting stripping debug symbols.
Evolution works in mysterious ways. E.g. Whales aren't very intelligent but use their very large brains to keep themselves warm.
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In theory, it could. Depends on whether the particular RFID standard used is supported by KeyMe or not. At a glance, they didn't seem to have much info available on what is/isn't supported.
Another aspect to consider is platform support. Look at Google's newest successful platform, Google Assistant. If developers weren't excitedly writing integrations for it, wouldn't it be dead already, with Alexa in the room? Since many new tech services are built as platforms, developer interest and support also becomes a key requirement.
I'm a Vim user whose caps lock key is mapped to ctrl.
> so I think it actually already encodes our bias and general lack of skill at distinguishing violet from purple.

> Similarly many people don't really make a distinction for cyan and just call it blue or green when they see it.

Isn’t there a difference here between poverty of naming and physiologic limitation? Most people call cyan something else because they don’t have a name for it, but they can be trained to distinguish blue or green and cyan. OTOH, the point here is that certain violets and purples are metamers and although they have different spectra they cannot be physiologically distinguished.
The simplest solution for this is to feed packaging back to producer, unless it can be biodegraded in place. They will quickly figure out how to produce less waste. This is one of the methods using in Lean manufacturing to reduce amount of waste at factories.
Another vote here for paper and pencil for notes on the go.
Well it is important to name functions clearly ;)

Good for them I guess!
Streisand effect. Now everyone will know about those two websites, get curious and visit them from behind a VPN.
That was fantastic. Thank you
I'm one of those "just plug in a keyboard" folks. Took it to an Apple Store and they couldn't fix it. We have AppleCare and I will send it in, but its such a pain since I have to blank the drive before sending. I guess I will put my stuff on a Mac Mini until it gets back.

Not buying a new Mac until they get this actually fixed.
> For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won’t allow DRM in an open source project.

It can too be completed, you're just not gonna have DRM'd content. I have a browser that has the same problem, and I just leave pages that can't do video playback (which doesn't include YouTube because they use WebM). There's still value in a non-DRM'd browser for most of the web, and hey, if enough of us use one maybe sites will start being more liberal in the licensing of their video (but let's be honest, probably not).
As long as you are very clear you are not directing your anger at the government, it's usually ok to protest in China. For example, there are often mass protests if wages are not paid to factory workers, etc.

https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-migrant-workers-protest-un...
The article is about faster scanning, not making a diagnosis.
I think Google doesn't care for most services as they do not depend on any of those. Sure Android, GMail, and YouTube will stay, because they serve their core business: ads. Everything else could be over at any time.
This is supported by their recent push for China. Suddenly employee voices aren't worth anything anymore (remember the drone story, that was over after employees pushed back).
Maybe they have realised by now that diversification isn't that bad after all and will continue to push GCP but I wouldn't want to bet on GCP's life-span.
> The FINAL straw was falling in love with a PixelBook that I bought during the Black Friday sales, as I moved into a role in an org that was 1) deeply invested in G Suite and 2) allowed me to do all my work from the browser - making the Chrome OS concept finally fit for me. THEN Google closes that part of their hardware division.

The PixelBook isn't going to stop getting security updates any time soon, so if it was a good machine before the division was closed, why is it a less good machine now?
Whenever changing things on a large scale, it's important to do cost/benefit analyses and watch for the consequences of changes made. Quebec and Denmark both considered banning plastic bags but decided not to after studies were conducted about the effects of plastic bag bans. It increases litter, increases energy costs, among other things. Plastic bags generally see 77% reuse, and without their ready availability people tend to use full on garbage bags which are a much heavier plastic and they end up using more as they don't want to keep it around (often dog waste) long enough to fill the bag. Given the cost of production and transport, reusable trash bags need to see somewhere between 400 and 2000 repeated uses before they start showing an energy benefit and it's hard to change peoples habits to use reusable bags.

I would love to see bans on plastic straws and utensils though, as the research on the consequences of those bans and substitution of biodegradable options is much more positive.
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My wife and I have been studying nutrition for several years. Processed unnatural "foods" having bad effects on humans is an undeniable pattern that shows up over and over again.

The reason for this is simply because of evolution. Our bodies evolved eating natural plants and animals. Our bodies have never before been exposed to the huge number of food additives that have been invented in recent years.

You probably hate that we have to talk in generalities. But food studies are expensive and hard to get right, and there's a LOT that we don't fully understand about nutrition. We're nowhere close to understanding all the different ways that all the different food additives are affecting our bodies.
I second this. What I expect from someone to help is : just listen and show compassion. Compassion in its literal sense means : "suffer with". I don't ask people to suffer, but just to be with me inside my suffering, ie, recognize that I suffer, recognize that this suffering is true, and that staying in that suffering for a while is ok. By not acting, one comfort the other in its own view of the world, make him at peace with it.

Once that bond has been made, then one can start to work on improving things.

All of this requires time and a lot of energy.
And yet no conservatives seem to be clamoring to rescind oil subsidies or coal subsidies, but the raucous roar comes up at the Republican rallies when something is said about rescinding renewables and bringing back coal. It's literally the platform the President ran on. I don't think it's political to be able to say that the platform a party runs on is something that they support. Am I misunderstanding something here?
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Have you tried getting it serviced under https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m... ?
A lot of the replies are making true statements, but not getting to the core of your point.

First, there is a whole class of improvements that evolution can't do because they involve a non-local refactoring that therefore can't happen through random variation plus selection.

But you're right, as a general rule, any simple local improvement that turbocharges capability like you've described is something we should expect evolution to have already done. There's a name for that heuristic, but I can't find it at the moment. That's why it's so hard to find a single chemical that costlessly improves intelligence.
IDK. I'm in the process of switching, and so far everything has been pretty smooth. I'm currently weaning myself off Arch, and honestly, OBS has been a sufficient replacement for the AUR, and Tumbleweed is reasonably nice to use. I'm also switching my servers from FreeBSD and Debian to Leap, and again, it's pretty smooth.

My only major fear is that BTRFS is going to eat my lunch, but it's also improving as well, so that's becoming less and less of a worry. I'm watching ZFS on Linux as well, but neither SUSE nor RedHat seem interested in jumping on the bandwagon, so I'm holding off.

openSUSE seems quite nice, and I agree with most of the decisions that they make. Honestly, I don't know why I didn't use it until now...
The greatest strength of technology is the exponential gains in capability at constant cost over time, or alternatively the exponential decrease in cost over time for the same capability.

Sometimes that exponential gain gets partially squandered to provide for greater productivity or lower cost development or marketing gimmicks or tiny little improvements in the fringe UX which can offer subtle delights.

Other times the product is something constant and perfectly standardized like MWs or kWh (generation or storage of energy) and we can sit back as a society and watch the prices fall, fall, fall.

The endgame is abundant electricity at a fraction of the ecological cost used pervasively to power every aspect of the economy.

Electric cars aren’t sci-fi anymore. Now we dream of flying through electrical power alone, which is about as ostentatious as it gets.

It’s perhaps not the popular opinion on HN, and obviously a lot is at stake, but this is the making of the carbon-neutral economy, and it’s being done in a technologically and market driven approach that doesn’t involve trillions of dollars of taxes or regulatory burden.

I do not believe it will prove to be too little or too late. I absolutely believe that technologies will continue to evolve and be discovered that allow us to move our global ecological impact from the red (deficit) to the green (surplus) and in the very long term from a political sense, but in the blink of an eye for our planet, this 21st century panic will seem really quite overblown.

It’s crucially import for people to care. For people to dream up new ways to stop damaging the planet and even heal the planet. I just think time and again we underestimate human ingenuity and overestimate calamity.

Global climate [change] indeed impacts millions of people every year and carries a massive economic cost. I have absolute faith in the scientists and the inventors to constantly push us toward a healthy, clean, efficient, and abundant future.
I map caps lock to control OS-wide.

And I'm trying to train myself to use jj instead of ESC.

But still. I miss my ESC / hardware volume / hardware brightness buttons etc.
I disabled the allow push notifications checkbox in Safari, but still get prompted with the native Safari modal. I'm not sure how this is done, and it's infrequent, but I'm guessing Safari left a hole in their notifications web API that is being exploited.

Safari's implementation could also be improved. The modal forces you to chose without the ability to cancel, and saves the website into your preferences, even if you just want to immediately close the tab.
French here. My understanding is that we have a nationally powerful publishing industry (books, movies, music), thus a powerful pro-copyright lobby.
I had similar thoughts about the touchbar, but then i discovered you can change the touchbar to always show the old function bar buttons (brightness, volume, etc) or to show F keys instead of allowing whatever program you're using to control the touchbar.
> You have to understand that the Go compiler does not look for the best optimized code, it's a balance between performance / compile speed and "debuggability".

Passing arguments in registers doesn't help "debuggability". There is a debugging advantage to not using registers at all (though there really shouldn't be; spilling all locals to stack for -g -O0 is only necessary due to design problems in LLVM). But there's no debugging advantage to having a calling convention that spills everything on stack. If you your debugging infrastructure can handle locals in registers at all, it can easily handle arguments in registers too.
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Slow down. There is life pretty much everywhere on earth. The probability the life is on a rock ejected into space is nearly 100%. Only when we get to life surviving the journey that we have and doubt, but even then there are a lot of different single cell lifeforms on that rock and we only need one to survive. If that one survives the space journey odds are it can survive on mars as well.
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I didn't upgrade my 2014 MBP but instead am using a Dell Latitude. Linux desktop very nice except the machine reboots whenever I close the lid. Sound works, video works (!). Zoom has an excellent conference call app.

Aside from the reboot problem, I'm happy Linux at least comes with up-to-date tools. Apple's GPLv3 phobia meant I had to continually install Brew and Continuum (Python3) to have modern tools.
I have tried my best to educate people around me to care more about environment to no avail, because to them "it's another guy's problem if we litter on the street, so keep doing it". What the government is doing ain't helping either, people want to make more money, to buy a car, bigger house etc... why should they care about some random monkeys in a forest that they will never see in their life? It's really depressing, maybe I should find an NGO and join them to protect the wild life.