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For me the biggest one was not smoking on the street. Possibly it's because it happened just when I arrived (2007). Everybody and their dog would be smoking while walking down the street. One day a sign went up that showed a picture of a person with a cigarette and a child. It had a caption that read, "A cigarette butt is held at eye level for a child". Literally the next day smoking on the street stopped. I very, very rarely see it any more.

Interestingly, perhaps bouyed by the success of the cigarette sign, on the train they had signs of "Do it at home" with pictures of people doing makeup, or whatever. Everybody ignored it :-).

More generally, apparently sexual harassment used to be common in the workplace. I never actually saw anything extreme, but I did see a massive change in attitude. One day guys would be talking about inappropriate things at work without anyone ever saying anything and the next day when the same thing happened the section chief would be yelling at them about sexual harassment. It was literally night and day and it wasn't like there was an announcement or anything. It just went from being tolerated to not being tolerated.

I often see things on TV that makes me wonder if the government is kind of sounding people out on stuff. For example, one day they had a piece on Korean schools for ethnic Koreans whose family members were essentially abducted to Japan during WWII. The children and grandchildren (and probably great grand children now) for many of these people are still in Japan. Because the Japanese law doesn't allow dual citizenship, these people have to choose between Korean and Japanese citizenship. If they decided to choose Korean citizenship, they get permanent resident status, but not citizenship. This is considered a pretty big problem with a lot of people and so it's been a question for literally generations about what to do: should these people be granted dual citizenship? What about school systems that include Korean culture? How much should be paid by the government etc? It's a horrible mess and, of course, in Japanese style virtually nothing has been done about it (very weird to be born in a country and not have citizenship of that country)! But this NHK program was very sympathetic to the plight of these people, so it made me think that maybe a move was afoot (the NHK is not as arms length from the government as the BBC is from the UK government...). But not so far anyway.
You miss the point: many games have used lots of freelancers, but come out looking good because the one in charge of placing and paying for art has a good aestetic sense for what will look good together. They have an art director.

Being that they don't have budget for a new position, they just have to train someone to get better at art directing.
I agree that that's what they mean.

What I'm not seeing is how the "requisite variety" that control theory talks about, relates to "diversity" in modern usage (which for practical purposes is coeval with the political demand of hiring fewer members of certain demographics).

Let's use a less loaded analogy, intellectual diversity: the Manhattan Project, which needed to adapt to a most complex and adversarial environment (world war), hired a lot of STEM scientists, in particular mathematicians, physicists and chemists, and mostly from a few top universities, in other words, a highly homogeneous group that were educated on the same few core subjects (linear algebra, real and complex anaysis, Newtonian and quantum physics, special and general relativity). I do not believe that the Manhattan Project would have been better by hiring fewer STEM graduates, and more psychologists, historians, yoga teachers and so forth. How would modern management science convince me that I'm wrong?

The heart of the issue is the conflation of "diversity" (a political concept) with control theory's "requisite variety". The two are related, but not the same.

I partly agree that it's cargo-culting, but that's not the whole story: the Melanesians after whom Cargo Cult is modelled, would probably not have tried to fire / doxx / cancel anyone who wasn't on board
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building of an airplane runway will by itself bring desirable Western goods.
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Rimworld also shows you dont need $$ and manpower to make great looking games. Its all about Style, not quality of actual assets.

https://imgur.com/a/wS3Pt

https://imgur.com/a/xdDzg
That doesn't seem to be mainland/CCP's fault. The big real estate developers (the Lee, Kwoks families, etc) owns much of the properties. Why is mainland China the target for inequality and housing issue to blame? I have no stake in this fight, just curious.
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The Spot/Flood type are directional they only send light out in a flashlight-like pattern. These are great for recessed lighting, for floodlights, or for lighting up a specific area. These are best as "top down" lighting, where the bulbs are illuminating from the ceiling. The reason for this is that the electronics that power the LEDs produce heat, which - if the bulb was illuminating toward the ceiling, the heat cooks the LEDs and shortens their lifespan. When pointed down, the fixture itself acts as a heatsink, drawing the heat away from the LEDs.

If you're replacing a bulb in a room lamp like a torchier, you'll want the "globe" variety. These LED fixtures shine their light more like a convetional bulb in every direction, and are better suited for floor lamps and overhead lights, especially the overhead lights where they don't screw in vertically, but screw in at an angle and take advantage of a reflector.

Two Configurations Benefits and Drawbacks There are two different configurations of LED bulbs available too, and they've both got their advantages and disadvantages Large Cluster LED Bulbs these have more than ten LED's within the unit, and look like some of the UFO's in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, except the light is all white. The advantage here is cost: they're much easier to manufacture inexpensively. The disadvantage is that every LED is a possible point of failure: for each LED, there are two solder joints that can go bad, along with the conversion circuitry inside.

Single or Small Cluster LED Bulbs these bulbs use more expensive LEDs that deliver more lumens per LED (more light).
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It's pretty surprising that a service with access to all of your internal Slack conversations doesn't have a privacy policy on their website. Makes me wonder to what extent they've thought through issues like GDPR.
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It's quite likely that without the electoral college, Donald Trump would have won the popular vote. Republican turnout in NY is terrible for presidential elections, because they all know there vote won't matter. Registered Democrats out number Republicans in NY by more than 2 to 1, and yet there are more Republicans in NY that there are people in New Mexico and Vermont combined.

It's definitely not a given, but predicting what would happen is not a clear exercise. You can't change the rules without changing peoples behavior.
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Two questions

Are many companies offering 4 day weeks? I’d guess yes.

Can people afford to live off a 4 day week salary? I’d guess no in general.
Well there will always be weird people. I do not think the theory is under threat at this point.
You mean South Korea. There is no country called Korea.
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Singapore. Low on freedom, high on equality/housing. No protest.
It is a circular problem:

When you care about art, you usually got some sense of aesthetics and feel more likely unable to bring yourself to ship anything that looks simply bad to yourself.

When you don't got the eyes to see bad art as what it is, you also won't see it as a problem that really needs fixing so you care less about it than is good for you.

You have to strike a balance there. Games are visual independend of the style. Yes you play them – but before you even decide to pick a game up, you see screenshots, trailers or game-play-videos. If that doesn't look interesting, you can have the most interesing gameplay in the universe and it wouldn't sell.

A bit like in films, where the best script can be destroyed by bad acting or the best acting can be destroyed by bad scripts as a passionate creator you have to realize that this is a serious issue.

Amateur filmmakers might figure out directing techniques to get top notch acting out of people who never stood in front of a camera before or they might search very patiently till somebody crosses their way who is a natural talent.

The thing is to precisely know your limitations and do the best you can do within them, sometimes even by not copying the best, but by finding glorious short cuts that sometimes create whole new genres.
exactly the reason why my autosave period is set to 1min.
I read about this a lot a while ago, the main solution I came across was that in the diamond age when we get to that point in societal development. We'll be able to make tiny diamond bubbles with a vacuum inside, and they can be used to create airships and floating platforms. The airship doesn't have to be a single large vacuum diamond hull, but could also be made from many smaller diamonds which would help prevent a catastrophic failure. The diamond bubbles would be strong and light enough to hold the vacuum.
This has been a very useful thread.I have struggled with weight for many years. I have sufficient motivation to exercise and I am normally able to keep a disciplined schedule. But with our 2yr old daughter, sleeplessness has kind of messed me up and I struggle to keep any form of discipline now. It's hard. I am just glad to know that I am far from the only one :)
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I don't understand the logic in returning the money? Why raise an equal amount of money for charity while returning the original contribution? Wouldn't it be better to also donate that original contribution to these charities?
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China, I expect has a bigger picture view. Our small brain framing "Move Manufacturing Good", doesn't play out when you realize China is an Asian power, not just an isolated country.

China's economy benefits from most business that enters the Asian continent, either directly or indirectly, and this "economic proximity" benefit only increases as they develop infrastructure (domestically and internationally) that streamlines trade.
I couldn't even manage the other day to get Google Translate to translate a YouTube page so I could read comments mostly written in cyrillic to a Russian video about the protests over there.

Perhaps I was doing something wrong (I don't think so), perhaps it's because I use Firefox and this was a gentle nudge to get me to try in Chrome, or perhaps it's just another one of Google's infuriating and perplexing 'quirks'.
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You can open your own business and run it differently, and show everyone how sucessful your approach is.
Of course. I am saying mentioning its open source says nothing about whether some of the nodes are CIA operated, etc
This article does a poor job of explaining just how soul-crushing the shukatsu system is. For example, you're traditionally expected to hand-write your resumes [1] and application letters, in ink, from scratch, for every single company you apply to. Make a single mistake while writing it? Throw it in the bin and start again. Now repeat for every single company you want to apply to. The system is also a colossal time suck: the only way to apply to most companies is to attend their application sessions (setsumeikai) in person, and each Japanese graduate goes to, on average, 76 (!) of these. And only then does the interview process actually start!

[1] https://soranews24.com/2014/10/02/to-handwrite-or-not-to-han...
>What I find somewhat ironic is this: the author mentions working with Stephen Hawking, an amazing man who produced incredible intellectual work and enriched our understanding of reality while being almost incapable of any physicality.

Not from birth though. I wouldn't dismiss the impact of being able to interact with the world during childhood so easily.
It's funny, because I initially thought the title was about regulators as in "government regulators", not about control theory.

Even more interesting is the fact that this idea from control theory in fact completely transposes to government regulation, as in: it'd be really good if regulators had the faintest idea what they're doing (aka in a perfect world, they would have a somewhat decent model of the system they're trying to regulate).

Except ... that's very probably not the case ... (I'm looking at you economists).
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>conscious decision to go retro

Windows 3.11 16 color default palette retro

>and profitable

so profitable he cant even hire someone with basic art sense
Unfortunately I think the graphics look like that typical windows 95 style game, where the lighting is inconsistent, the style is inconsistent, the colour choices are drab and the fonts are just the first default picks from MS word.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done to pick a consistent style, because at the moment it's a mixture of everything and it all clashes.
>they just have to train someone to get better at art directing.

You're missing the point: the author is happy with the games and the success they've brought to him and his family, and he doesn't "need" random tips from anonymous message-board posters, most of whom have shipped precisely zero games.
You seem to be expecting consumers to make completely logical decisions on these matters. Past a certain saturation threshold, name recognition alone can be enough to tip the scales of consumer preference.

That's exactly why people still buy Apple hardware at all anymore - their friends/peers already have them. It's surely not due to superiority by any metric for the price point.
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> As long as a secret has static attributes (length, type of characters, etc.) it will always be vulnerable for an attack.

You always know the type of characters, it's "bytes", "char" or however you want to call a number between 0 and 255. I don't understand how you fix this.

Some (most?) schemes have a fixed session length to make the implementation simpler. At least they have some bounds. If the protocol can be break knowing the length, it's a very bad protocol.

How does the users authenticate with the central server "assembler"?

The part about quantum computers doesn't make any sense.
DNS over immutable record? What could go wrong?

I cant be the only one who just saw the article about how bitcoin is racing against quantum computers to implement quantum-resistant cryptography.

If bitcoin loses? It will be possible for quantum-equipped malicious actors to crack someone's private key during the 10 minute interval between transaction-groups and redirect the money.

10 minutes to hack DNS? Sounds like a handout to hackers to me.
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>it seems like he didn't try.

He got good at other things he cared more about it.

Maybe he should hang out on HackerNews more, so he can be an expert on everything.
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I am learning drawing. A lot of people who are beginners to drawing experience a block where they struggle to put on the first line on paper, or when they do it they are not satisfied and erase it and start again. You end up not doing anything. That's why in beginner's classes you often get exercises to help you overcome that. Such as covering the whole page with scribbles first and drawing on that. Or timed exercises where you have to finish your drawing in five minutes or a minute or less. The point is to get one accustomed to doing things and doing them again and to realise the first attempt is often not as good as you want and can.
I think digital tools make this kind of block even harder because it's so easy to draw something, undo and try again, and the fact you're not wasting film frames, paper or paint makes it harder to get things done? This is certainly my experience with writing.
I think this is a useful tool to make you think of this and also help you overcome that kind of block with writing.
Because in the current data-snowflake regulatory and legislative climate, it’s too tough to get away with monetising content sent in a ‘private’ context. Googles business model relies on being able to index and advertise to every phrase you post, but I’m sure they don’t want to run into the same issues fb has, because fb posts have an expectation of privacy. Hence google has no interest in providing a private messaging platform.
It seems Jeff has put no effort into it

While I agree with your assessment, his argument from experience seems to be that none of that will affect his sales, so why bother. I'm sure he knows more about that than I do.
I don't think you can develop more universally palatable sense of esthetic even over 25 years. You like the stuff you like. You can hire people to have sense of esthetic for you. But you need money for that so....
I tried 50000 different random seeds, and my algo only works when the seed is 32451 :)
I would be more than happy to work 1 day per week and live with 20% of my current salary.

I believe a lot of people can accept 80% salary for 4 days per week.
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I don't think people are missing the point. There's 2 aspects to this: style (retro) and execution (the actual graphics).

Gamers generally like the style. The Venn diagram of his target audience and people who like retro game visuals is likely near a perfect circle.

What makes the games look unpleasing is the execution. It's just all over the place, to the point where it looks like a mashup of free assets collected from various websites.

People are pointing out that his otherwise amazing games are being held back by their subpar graphics. Unfortunately, instead of taking the criticism fairly, he sets up a strawman to deflect any blame, claiming that anyone who doesn't like the execution just dislikes the style.

There's multiple points in the article where this shows, for example this one:

>The key problem here is that, when most people say, "Your art looks bad," what they mean is, "I want art that is good." They mean, "I want AAA-quality art."

Big jumps there Jeff.

He shows his lack of knowledge about making good art when he says he can't afford the extra man power to solve the issue. No one here would claim that, to fix bad code, you have to hire more programmers. Art works in the same way. The problems are foundational and don't require more employees or more hours to get right - just a better approach.

The argument that this is not possible with freelancers is silly. He gives the example of a freelancer creating a super niche style that no other artist can replicate. No one is asking him to create award-winning art. People are simply asking for games that are not-ugly. There's plenty of artstyles that fit all his requirements, while still being not-ugly and reproducible by other artists.

I don't doubt that it's hard to find good artists when you never took the time to study what makes good art.

The truth seems to be that after his 25 years of game development Jeff still doesn't know how to make good looking games. He has every right to do as he wants - just as anyone else is free to comment on the look of games. But this article is nothing more than one big list of poor justifications, which is why it's getting a lot of flak.
>Ultimately it was not central planning which advanced the economic circumstances of Chinese people. It was the individual acts of citizens.

Given the large disparity between China and other developing countries, yes the government from the 80s onwards has played a significant role in accelerating the development of the country. The alternative conclusion would be that individual citizens of the rest of the world are somehow significantly less capable than the Chinese, which strikes me as a odd conclusion.

And the one child policy definitely had a positive effect on the development of the country. It effectively kickstarted a middle class by enabling parents to funnel resources into a single child.
"I have to be able to swap artists out” is, in my opinion, a really bad reason as it leads to an inconsistent messy looking final product. I’d rather have repetitive art (due to not finding another artist who can match the previous ones work and therefore having to reuse assets) than an inconsistent one.

I play a lot of games with low resolution, cheap or crude graphics and that never bothers me, but I find inconsistent art really difficult to ignore to the point where I probably wouldn’t play this game.

Keeping art generic, boring and inconsistent to swap out artists is akin to using a lowest common denominator language and framework so you can swap out programmers. Maybe it makes business sense, but it leads to uninspired boring results.

I’m sorry at how negative this comment turned out, so if the author reads it I hope he takes it constructively and considers how to improve the consistency of the art.

EDIT: I don't think the art looks terrible, but it could be improved a lot with relatively minor changes (consistent shadows would be a great start).
Firewalls and DDOS protection have nothing at all to do with name resolution. These are routing concerns that require taking a deep look into the packets (DPI), while name resolution and key exchange are prior steps.

Also, what does CloudFlare bring to you? 99% of websites don't need DDOS protection or a complex firewall. Using CloudFlare for these websites means:

- CloudFlare gets to inspect and snoop 100% of your "HTTPS" trafic (because the TLS termination happens on their side)

- Users without Javascript (command-line browsers or GUI browsers disabling JS for performance/security concerns) cannot access your website

- Tor users most times cannot access your services at all because CloudFlare and Google work hand-in-hand to prevent them from using the web by serving infinite CAPTCHA loops (see #FuckCloudFlare)

- CloudFlare becomes a SPOF for much of the web, like other "cloud" providers ; accessing your website depends on the availability and good will of a huge multinational

So if you want to help people access the Internet without censorship and surveillance, please never use CloudFlare or equivalent services. They make everything so much worse through centralization. If we wait too much, it will become a HUGE problem.
Then it already starts with a failure of quality gate of what goes into std.
Offering 4-day weeks: Do you see this often? Just curious -- I feel like it's rare, so my guess would be the opposite. (I do know several people that work 4 10hr days as machinists or window installers).

My intuition is also the opposite of yours on affordability :), at least in tech...
For me the actual message is that he doesn't have money to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks, and he's not going to risk going into debt.
30 hours a day seems quite extreme to me.
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My previous company allowed people to work 4 days for 80% pay. Out of 60 people, 3 people took advantage of that.
I think Jeff is a treasure to the games industry but this discussion is nothing to do with giving him tips but critique of an article that was posted publically. It's fair to read it and disagree with it in a place specifically setup to comment on such things.