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>"I fully shaved once and I looked terrible." //

So? Why is the aesthetics important to you? If it's functional and useful but looks ugly, then I consider it a mature and developed response to choose that nonetheless.

Your, and others, preference for appearance doesn't need to be weighed into your decision, unless you wish it too.
> I can't think of any reason why this needs to be a hash of a phone number instead of a randomized string that's attached to your account.

That’s what came to mind to me when I read this article. iMessage already uses per-device public key encryption, it seems like per-device UUIDs hashed with the user<->user connection could be used to make the sniffed hashes non-reversible without knowing the UUIDs of the sharing phone and one of his contacts
I think it comes down to budget and what you're trying to develop. Developing your own full-blown engine with all the bells and whistles; scene management, physics, animation, ik solving, audio, video, asset importing, networking, scripting, UI, VR and so on is what used to be one of the biggest investments a game developer would make. ID software's engine generated a lot of revenue for for them back in the day - because was cheaper to pay 250k than do it yourself. At the end of the day as a gaming company you're trying to provide a unique experience - and as you say - a custom engine can be a way of doing that - but after you've created the engine, then you've got to create the game on top of that. So I think these generalised engines have satisfied a market need that wants to focus on the game itself rather than engine development.

As mentioned below in the comments - tools are also extremely important. If you're going to support standard tools (e.g. Maya etc.) for asset generation there's more work involved. The entire art pipeline has to be considered. It's a huge job. Making your own editors etc. again lots of work. If you have your own engine - you've probably got your own GUI and asset management system at this point for artists.

So this is a long way of coming around to "should you develop your own game engine?" If your use-case means that it's cheaper to do that than extend Unity or Unreal - and you've got the capital and talent - I guess it makes sense. But if you look at the majority of really successful games these days - they're using 3rd party engines. Even rockstar started with using Renderware - and now they have their internal engine with probably really good reason (super deep pockets and use case). But I guess if you're not Rockstar - and you're trying to make something AAA - it's expensive enough without trying for your own engine. Let's not even get started on making the engine cross-platform.

Of course, if you're making space invaders and know how to talk to the graphics API directly - none of this is required ;-)
Just my IMHO.
The core architecture is not done yet. I put this out in the open in the hope it will get more contributions, since I will be working on to a next project. An enthusiast would certainly be able to play with it and maybe experiment with the core architecture.
Thanks for considering it already! I don't really have any WP knowledge but maybe you could just slap it in an iframe?
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Good idea, it might help you to get more than 12 users on your fork.

Also I think you know this already, but the claim that the original document was a valid GDPR request is horseshit. That document didn't even have authors listed, and yet you believe a paragraph with further unanswered questions should be seen as a request for specific personal data about two users from New Vector? Get real, you're just looking for a way to claim that the request took more than 30 days.
I recalled seeing a flagged comment by this account in another Go thread. Took a minute to find it:

> For me, the best way to optimize a Go program is to write it in Rust.

That, along with other anti-Go comments, explains things.
Can you point to the pure Go re-implementation of Sqlite? I was looking for such a thing but never found it. Instead I had to go with a k/v store like Bolt.
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I don’t think permission is the main problem here, it’s the volume of people taking the exact same picture.

I wouldn’t want a stream of Instagrammers at my door “asking for permission” to take a photo either. That’s also annoying.
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Well - the eigenvalues (of the adjacency matrix), which are used in the proof, correspond to eigenvectors. Which are fixpoints (or at least fixed linear subspaces) of the corresponding linear function. So there is some "lexical" connection. But apart from that I'm not sure that I share your sense that this is "some generalization of a fixed point theorem". Can you give us more insight?
Damn, I've noticed it too.

At these point I feel compelled to remember that quote from Socrates about how the kids are all rude and disrespectful these days. So maybe nothing ever changes and we're just getting old and grumpy.

But your comment definitely rings true. It's something hard to pin down but I notice it all the time.
By US law companies are obligated to reveal any data they are ordered to and many times do that illegally also.
How do you determine if they're harmless? I had a spider bite a couple of weeks ago that gave me a welt the size of a dime (and super itchy).
Don't forget his book "Why Zebras don't get ulcers" [0]

[0]https://www.amazon.in/Why-Zebras-Dont-Ulcers-Stress-Related-...
Which village, if you don't mind my asking (fellow Mainer here)? I grew up in a beautiful area that has never (and probably won't) seen the effects of tourism due to accessibility (read: The County), but have since moved to Southern Maine.

Maine has done a pretty good job of keeping tourism in check (I would say) despite being labeled the Vacationland, but I wonder if that has to do with our state having a more "plain" natural beauty? For example, Mount Katahdin is obviously impressive for the area, but it is nowhere near as dramatic as mountains out West. Then again, perhaps the strict enforcement of Baxter's vision for a forever "wild Maine" has served us well.

Or perhaps we are fortunate to have fairly brutal winters that give us a break from those who don't snowmobile!
You are the one conflating dividends and earnings. Even if a company chooses to reinvest retained earnings instead of returning cash to investors [1] it’s good to be profitable. Not just “to prove that you could”, but to avoid being just a money-burning machine (not Amazon’s case, mind you; they do not have “occasional earnings”, they’ve been consistenly profitable for the last 15 years).

[1] Either through dividends or through buybacks. The second option has some advantages relative to dividends and results in capital gains for the investors that choose to sell.
Which is ironic because some of the reasons Brits want to leave is because of the French, e.g. why does the EU parliament have to spend 100million+ EUR to have the parliament in Strasbourg for 3 days of the month?
Have you got some handy links?
She knew the type of spiders they were, but I was only assured after I wasn't bitten for a few days
>it's mostly just a way for appliance companies who are already overcharging me for non-repairable planned-obsolescence-ridden products, to overcharge me a bit more.

I agree, but I think the goal is to overcharge you “a lot” more. It seems like no matter what the product is, once it’s “smart”, the price floor is $50.
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You're from USA? Your current president is partially bald, surely, he has some sort of intricate weaved toupee.

That aside, I'm not sure what your point is?
Got any recordings? Always nice to see Monotribe in action.
There were a few webs in the corners, but she didn't view it as a sign of dirty old carelessness like I was taught to through cartoons as a kid
"I should have said, I'm the sort of person who likes to speak my mind. Yes, that's the thing about me I'm afraid, I don't really hold with political correctness, I mean when you think about it why should I have to filter what I say because someone else might not like my opinion? Now I just called a spade a spade."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAMHBlt_CQA
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I suspect it's nowhere near live yet, but it's relevant to this topic. There will be a massive new database and it's a terribly unlikely that this data will not be leaked or shared at some point.
The article mentions that they hope that this will be useful when understanding 'pathological hyperactivity of the noradrenaline system, which is associated with anxiety and panic disorders'. For those interested, I wrote a paper on how the fall of Norepinephrine during REM dreaming can help diagnose the precise way to reduce this stress: https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz Worked for me.
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Which is a newer invention than pottery.
>Most of the value of Unreal or Unity is that the tools are already there and they more or less Just Work and a lot of people know how to use them

This is a very good point I missed above - people - the fact that lots of developers and artists are already experts with the tools lets you hit the ground running and focus on the game. With a custom engine you've got all the training involved to use your custom toolset.
Is the cost of GCP/Azure also deducted from GSuite/Office profits?
Do you know of any good articles on this. I.E. futures for the small family-run farm?
Only recently it was the the best source of the whole VLC issue.

Sure twitter has it's issues, anything of scale with that level of user-base will and you get truths, lies and twisted statistics.

Why the better media outlets have standard about two independent sources (BBC one example), however I'm mindful that you can get second sources that are just an echo-chamber of the first and it steam-rolls from there - VLC a good example again upon that.
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So much this.

I remember how rabbid the python, perl and php fan boys all were back in the early days of their existence and how irritating they were to every one else.

I think its a sign of a language with a growing user base, and I suspect is that languages that don't generate this kind of fan base die off much earlier on.
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I use NFC tags as a trigger. I simply hover my phone over a tag and an action happens in the background. It feels much better than dealing with separate apps and always-on microphones.

> If IoT wants to move away from the current status as expensive, unreliable gimmicks, companies need to stop focusing on the idea of separate smart things and start thinking in terms of smart homes

Why would they do that? They do want to offer you a smart home, but a home that's entirely under their control, using either their own gadgets or compatible ones (so that they could charge other companies for the compatibility stickers).

There are plenty of protocols, and plenty of apps that support a protocol or two, but not every. Home Assistant and this project from Mozilla attempt to bridge that gap. I don't understand what Mozilla sees in an attempt to fight an established open source project like Home Assistant, but they probably have a reason or two. Such reasons are not yet obvious to me, so I'm going to continue using Home Assistant for my purposes. Every device I've purchased works locally, so I have one device that hosts the server, one interface that controls it (Progressive Web App, to be more precise), and NFC tags plastered over my apartment that trigger stuff without the need to even look at that one interface.

That's the sweet spot for me and it really feels like the future is already here. My choice of gadgets is rather limited (since I refuse to purchase any IoT device that can't be made to work locally), but so far I've yet to face a problem that I'm unable to find a solution for.
I tend to agree with you.

To play devil's advocate, assume you are Google or Apple. You have (quite literally) 100 Billion dollars in cash equivalent securities sitting around. You could do what amazon does and reinvest those into the business, but there is risk, and decreasing returns on that. Alternatively, you could just invest that money (in which case its not profit, so taxed differently, I believe), or you could pay your employees more.

Those second two are, in the long run, potentially worse for investors. Is that good or bad? Unclear. Is that even how the calculus works? Unclear. Is this line of reasoning obviously wrong? No.
Average software developer pay isn’t 70k in Germany. It’s way lower.
Gawd I don't think I've ever seen something as silly on HN as 'travel depresses you'. You are missing out on something, you should do it, and it wont depress you.

Sure there are people who seem to travel with the intent impress people, but traveling is a character-building in a way that everyone should experience. Its not the kind of spirit-quest that some people make it out to be, but it will give you interesting stuff to think out for years.
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Whoever did/does Zuckerberg's hair did a good job in hiding his baldness.
Cartographers know they'll never need that extra crayon only when all relevant regions are contiguous.
See if the same companies are hiring in New York. Salaries will be roughly comparable but living in New York is vastly better in almost every way IMO.
Indeed it is! I actually clicked through but clearly wasn't paying attention.
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"though the dependency on an SQL db makes it a bit harder to install"

There's only one table..."users". SQL seems like a bit of overkill for this. Maybe there are future plans to save more state.
You're largley right, and it infuriates people who actually got it that it isn't taken seriously because of people like these. To be clear, I think they are crazy, not sick. With that said, spme cases are legitimate. The distinguishing factor is this utter bunk about "chronic" lyme disease. You can absolutely get it and have a serious problem, but once it's gone, it's gone (so long as it was treated thoroughly and you didn't stop antibiotics as soon as symptoms stop, but this is true of most or all bacterial illnesses).

Sadly, I think many of these "famous people" (which, funnily enough, I hadn't heard of) are simply attention-seeking d-list personalities.
I was looking for something like this when I was asked to get an FTP working on kubernetes...

Don't ask why...
It doesn’t get used very often these days to my knowledge
> The entire idea that losing your hair is bad is socially constructed by the mass media and advertising industry

Going bald means losing something you're not getting back (generally speaking). This is symbolic for something not being good/right in your life, either by your choices or not, whether by stress, diet, exorcise, genetics, whatever. I think this symbolic nature is also a reason people consider it bad.
It is easier to understand the problem with another question: Where should sunlight be?

The power of sunlight is approximately 120W/m^2. The surface of the skin of a person is approximately 2m^2. Let's assume that someone sunbath naked at noon for 1 hour. The energy s/he get is 120W/m^2 * 2m^2/2 * 3600s = 432000J.

Let's assume the weight of the person is 100kg=220pounds, then s/he gets 4320J/Kg ~= 5000 J/Kg.

Getting 5000 J/Kg of gamma radiation is lethal. Getting 5000 J/Kg of sunlight is safe [remember to use sunscreen to make it safer].

The graph is in Sv (Sievert) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert . The conversion of J/Kg to Sv is not straightforward, but for gamma radiation (IIUC) the conversion coefficient is 1 (assuming an uniform distribution, some parts of the body are more sensitive to radiation than other).

Getting 5000 J/Kg of gamma radiation is equivalent to getting 5000 Sv/Kg. The highest level in the graph is "10 minutes next to Chernobyl reactor" = 50Sv. So 5000Sv is about 1000 minutes next to Chernobyl reactor, that is approximately 16 hours, that is approximately half day. You ded.

Transforming 5000 J/Kg of sunlight to Sv/Kg is more difficult. The problem is that different radiation frequencies have a different conversion coefficient to Sv/Kg. For gamma-rays and X-rays the coefficient is 1. I can't find the coefficient for UV but let's assume that it is close to 1. The coefficient for visible light is close to 0. Infrared is closer to 0 because the photons have less energy. Radio waves are closer to 0.

The idea is that the photons in gamma-rays, X-rays and UV chave a lot of energy and can kick an electron and f you are very unlucky create a mutation. The photons in infrared and radio waves have very little energy and they can't kick and electron, so they are safe. You can accumulate a lot of infrared and radio waves photons and heat you, but they don't produce mutations.

So the 5000 J/Kg of sunlight is probably very close to 0 Sv/Kg. I guess a less than 1 uSv (in the blue region), because 1 hour of sunbath is (probably) safer than an X ray in the arm. I'd like to see hard numbers, but 1 hour of sunbath per day is safer than 1 x-ray in the arm per day.

Just in case, remember to use sunscreen that blocks the UV so sunbathing is even more safe. You should use sunscreen to block the UV that is a very small part of the radiation of sunlight, but they have some chance or making a mutation. You don't have to block the infrared radiation that is much bigger but it can't produce mutations.

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Back to your question: Try to get the power of 5G in a nearby area (100 foot away from the tower?), multiply it by 24hours to get the daily dose. Is it more or less than 1 hour of sunlight. Now remember that sunlight have UV, so sunlight is more dangerous than 5G.
Even if I can understand some Brexit fatigue, I believe this is a short-sighted view, even if they are out of the EU, geography won't change, so the UK will have to keep cooperating with continental Europe.

A weak UK, that would become the pawn of another super power, would be bad news, for both UK and EU.

I think this is sad that UK is leaving but no matter what, they will remain our ally and partner.
This is the crux to my imposter syndrome. Luckily, I work with people that specialize in this, but it limits my personal growth quite a bit.

I really need to figure this portion out.
Qualify for what? There isn't some sort of objective arbitrator who decides whether Microsoft offers a discount to particular organisations. It's really up to them.

For the record, I also did my PhD at CERN, but they just provided facilities (offices, computers, accelerators, detectors etc) and not academic guidance/teaching/assessment: that was the job of my University.
It could all get very messy - I think it is is highly likely that Scotland will want a second independence referendum as a major argument for staying in the union the last time was that it meant Scotland would stay in the EU. However, I also think the current government is also unlikely to allow a second referendum, and it wouldn't surprise me if the Scottish Government decided to have one anyway.

Edit: To be clear: I mean messy legally/politically - not anything worse.
> Usually, you can only talk to your IoT gateway over the web, and then tell it to control its children. Thread simplifies all of that and lets you directly talk to any child via its IPv6 address[1].

But I don’t want every one of my potentially buggy IoT devices to be directly addressable on the Internet.

Ideally they’d each be isolated, with the minimum connectivity needed to the hub.
When Western intellectuals like Chomsky say they have been "censored", they mean that that their publishing house asked them to leave out or add stuff because they felt that such changes would help the book sell better, as their goal was to make money off authors they published. That's quite a bit different from the threats of jail time that Eastern Bloc intellectuals faced.
Cant mention the history of Visa without mentioning Dee Hock [0], who analysed the ecosystem and deliberately structured it in a way where it could thrive despite the mixed incentives of all the parties that contribute to it [1].

This quote on why he resigned as CEO just as it was proven to be so successful:

>> "It’s the organizational concepts and ideas that were essential. I merely came to symbolize them. Such organizations should be management-proof.”

If you have dealt with large, completely incompetent organisations and wondered how the hell they actually keep going - theres your answer. If built correctly it's genuinely difficult to mess things up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Hock

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/27333/trillion-dollar-vision-dee...
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This is intense, and I don't listen to classical music regularly.
Maybe just sabotage some federal aspirations but also did a lot to enhance and enlarge the free market aspects. What did France meaningfully contribute so we have a baseline for comparison?
I never thought it was an "illness..." Of all the issues to solve in the world I'm not sure where this one ranks as a priority. Are they gonna tackle shrinking as you age next?
I have Hunter Douglas Pirouette blinds in my room, controlled by Control4. They are very quiet when going from open to close or vice versa, but loud going up to down. Look at a video to understand the difference. Recommended, but not cheap.
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Great question. Then it follows, if yes, that the state cryptographers may even have solved this long ago but can't disclose it.

With all the leaks lately from inside those places, it would be nice if some basic math results could make it outside.
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I'm not a native speaker and maybe overstress my understanding of "being hard", but CSS and especially HTML are famous for their simplicity. One can start basic markupped text with a basic text editor in minutes. Of course any advanced features require some learning. But I don't like people calling basic web publishing technologies (which are decades old) to be "hard". Because they are designed to be simple and that's one reason of their huge success.
It's almost as if the EU has 28 members, none of which should have an authoritative say in any of the things the bloc does.

Want something changed? Build a support within a bloc. Don't pretend your opinion is any more valuable than an opinion of any of the other 27 members.
I didn't even have to check. Anywhere warm and moist, land is being cleared for palm oil.
I was told the decision to use a one-time seeded cryptographic key to sign over the original card partners (when they adopted PKI) and then destroy the private key caused some ructions when the tech execs wanted to keep shards of the destroyed hardware in lucite: sombody was concerned key recovery would be possible.
--- table via google ---

Firm Employees (Year) Revenue (Year)

McKinsey & Company 21,000 (2017) $10.0 B (2017)

Boston Consulting Group 18,500 (2018) $7.50 B (2018)

Bain & Company 8,000 (2017) $3.8 B (2017 est.)

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BCG is the only one that should have as much headlines provided they are similar in nature to McKinsey. If they are, then your hypothesis might be correct that the NYT has a lot of McKinsey sources. But how could you rule out that newspapers simply like to bash the #1 instead of the #2 or #3 if the industry leading companies are behaving in a similar fashion?
Like Jeff Bezos?

https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a19525957/amazon-je...
You can't commit treason against another country, since you never owed them allegiance in the first place.