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It didn’t really strike me as looking that terrible. I certainly didn’t have the visceral reaction the article describes. I had to watch the trailers again to understand what they were talking about... it’s a film about human-cat hybrids that communicate through interpretive dance and overblown songs, what the fuck do people expect!?

Mind, I really enjoyed the Lion King remake. It didn’t tarnish my childhood memory of the original (which would be quite difficult, since my parents could only afford a poor quality pirate VHS copy, and not the cinema trip). Apparently people hated that too.

Cats looks surreal enough that it’d probably be a good date flick, nothing to actually take seriously. Definitely a memorable moment. Same as watching the Twilight films.
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Without listening to this podcast, I must say I loved everything about the banana: the piece, the context, the actual banana and tape (which somehow managed be even worse than expected), but most of all the slew of criticism, which, if you ask me, is what really makes this piece. It's been a while since I've heard this many people everywhere discuss art, its boundaries, and try to define it. For that alone, I would say it's the most successful work of art in a long time.
If you actually read that report you would see they include environmental costs from climate change and things like road usage and congestion.

Sure, we shouldn't subsidize big trucks on highways - but it's deceptive to call that a fossil fuel subsidy.
A Reusable Scalable Intelligent System (e.g. for pain management or dementia management) is not a human equivalent.

You didn't give any reason why you think that technology in the preprint cannot be implemented by 2025.
Sometimes, it is completely justified: Taking on responsibilities, or just getting work done that should be done, requires time, efforts, followups, etc. While such work is often menial, it frees up the organization keeping systems alive and breathing, avoiding firefighting and hero-saving episodes later.

Then some manager tells you, "we need Kafka, can you provide our solution for that early next week?"

THEN, you say "I need training!" (necessitating relief from other duties).
When a website asks for a phone number i treat it as "please provide a DNA sample and birth certificate in triplicate" and close the tab. Its ridiculous to what ends consumers will go and accept as "privacy compromises". Hopefully GDPR will make these practices costly enough.
I know what you mean, but you are thinking in cloud applications.

Well, this app works offline and allow export backup data, so I don't think this is a concern if you backup regularly.

A non-blocking automated backup to Google Drive would be nice though.
Great post! Informative and interesting
Perhaps the isolation is planned to be only temporary, though voluntary.

As I read the articles, the "disconnection from the internet" seems to be one more tool in the toolbox for internal control. A disconnection will also prevent possible "outside influences" from amplifying problems during any sensitive periods (e.g. the time following Putin's eventual death).

President Vladimir Putin may hunt shirtless, fly with cranes, cuddle with tigers, etc. but he is not (yet?) immortal.

Once Putin dies, the people running the show need a successor for the supreme leader of the Russian Federation to step in fast and assert legitimacy, with force, if necessary.

Any dissent against the successor needs to be squashed quickly, otherwise any displeasure in the form of rioting runs the risk of spreading and giving the currently oppressed opposition chances to grow their influence.

Also, opportunistic power grab attempts by lesser players and regions need to be contained.

Edit: to be clear, I assume Putin will somehow keep his power even after he is officially not the President (after the 2024 elections).
Columbus, Edison, and now Galileo. Turns out a lot of icons of Enlightenment don't survive the light of historical nuance.

That's not a problem as long as we use that opportunity to give some forgotten heroes a bit more limelight.
My understanding is this is basically what happens in the bay area, but since you can only work at one company at a time due to employment agreements, many people work the minimum time to get some options and then hop to the next employer and do the same, building a portfolio of options where hopefully some become worth something.
Think you can't dunk? Think again
Here's a short little video I found helpful in understanding the Particle Filter algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUkBa1zMKv4
My personal advise: don’t waste time dicking around with a tech stack. Just write the code for your application as directly as possible. Write what’s important first to make it work then incrementally add features.

A tech stack is like a cookbook. Commercial cooks don’t dick around with cookbooks because if they ever want to make money they must be able to ship a product fast and scale their effort across multiple orders simultaneously. Cookbooks are written for a home user to slowly slave over a single entree as a cooking passion. Likewise a tech stack is for a corporate developer who has more time to burn and would rather dicking around with configuring things than making tough product decisions.

Not investing in a tech stack will force you to question your basic assumptions of architecture so that you focus first on the areas most important to your application. That puts your product first. As the application grows refactor as necessary.
The main thing that Epic appears to be doing is taking a big pile of Chinese money and using it to bribe users with free games as a carrot to go along with their stick of exclusivity agreements.

Even that isn't really novel; EA's Origin store did the same thing, until they gave up on trying.
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> I for one have never seen a JVM desktop

> or business app

Practically every large site you use (Google, Amazon, FB, GitHub, Apple, Twitter, and many more) are using Java/JVM in the backend in some non-trivial capacity.
Casual games are the ones that use hitscan? Name a single competitive shooter that uses any bullet system other than hitscan.
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In the Marine's defense, there was no bowling alley.
Tribes didn't support more players than other games of that time, didn't have a build system beyond placing turrets, had no special world interaction, and maps weren't _huge_ (and for competitive play, mostly short maps were in the rotation)
Our Government wants to subjugate us. So do a number of “friendly states”.
I bet hovering meant a tight circle and those are winged (or maybe even blimps)
... if the sixers owned it
https://vertshockguruji29.blogspot.com
It's kinda hard to believe this is possible but they've been doing it for years and are finally pulling back the curtain on the system they've been secretly developing.
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Just FYI: Your domain doesn't seem to work without www in front.
Yes, casual games also use hitscan. Given the sentence follows a paragraph mentioning several other shooters that also at least partially use hitscan, it's fairly clear that they do not claim that only casual games use it.

The article also provides examples answering your second demand.
PUBG is not hitscan. Fornite snipers are not hitscan. I’m sure there are plenty of other examples, but there’s two competitive ones. I would agree though that most FPSs are hitscan, at least for “fast” (e.g. bullets rather than rockets) projectiles.
Plausible deniability must be assumed with morally controversial actions on the part of institutions, especially government security institutions.

One way to deal with this is context. In this case the pattern of Russia with regard to electronic free speech is pretty clear, so it's reasonable to assume these actions are at least partially motivated by something other than emergency preparedness.
I'm not sure the exact definition of "competitive shooter", but I thought Fortnite used a mix, and this old Reddit thread seemed to confirm that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/73ar5d/the_guns...
Here’s maybe one attempt at answer https://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/10/04/from-design-patterns-to-cat...

As I take it the hope isn’t that all programmers would learn CT but rather that those who work on progressing the craft and our tools get at a proper formalism to work with for certain aspects that until now has been rather “soft”
I think they meant "casual" as opposite of "immersive and realistic" (same sentence in the article), not as "non competitive".
> Never been a fan of localisations, this idea that audiences can’t understand things outside their culture seems a pretty low view to have of your audience

Did you hear how many changes they had to Harry Potter to make it understandable to an American audience? And that's the same language even!
I'm not sure what you mean by "competitive", but there are many non-casual games that don't use hitscan. Off the top of my head, Arma and Red Orchestra.
You're equating a democracy with a totalitarian state.
I think you misinterpreted what was written.

> "A lot of “casual” games end up using the hitscan method as it simplifies the learning curve for most beginner players. But what about games that aim to create an “immersive and realistic” shooting experience? They cannot achieve their goals within these constraints. We need to use an alternative method."

It's not saying casual games are the only games to use hitscan but it's usually easier and quicker to implement hitscans than projectiles (and more intuitive for casual gamers).

Half Life and Halo both use the hybrid system depending on the weapon, as written in the article.
Users != people
I see Pollock-like depth visuals every time I am incredibly hungover. So given the context I had always associated them with this deep, wisely accepted sadness which comes after realising your own mortality and limitations.

It's such an engineer's opinion, that life somehow owes you a clearly-defined meaning and forms.
Many competitive shooters use ballistics calculations, Battlefield, Apex Legends to name a few.
51% of the world has never used the internet (according to wikipedia, 2017). I doubt they have a car or a shower or retirement plans, either.
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I would argue that both counter strike and Call of Duty are casual arcade games, despite them being played competitively. Battlefield and Arma instead are not (as) arcadey games and thus do not use hitscan.
There is not as much history of state inference in companies in the USA as there is in China
Maybe the modded versions where different?

I remember games with 50-100 players and maps that were multiple square kilometers in size.
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> You've got to wonder if simply sharding by either player or game would have worked well enough, even with MySQL. Worked well enough for Blizzard for over a decade!

With all the respect I have for blizzard, I would not take old Blizzard as an example of scalability handling. I remember a time where there authentication system was well known to give up under load after every update.
I believe the GP was joking about great-GP's typoing of "homophones" as "homophobes" :)
Not when we're discussing the effects of threshold doses vs. placebo. Placebo reactions can easily mimic threshold effects.
I actually used social buttons without tracking for my own projects:

https://sharingbuttons.io/

Problem is that most of websites just use default solutions that FB and Twitter provide that do enable invasive tracking.
Russian forums have all sorts of nice software/hacks for smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc. Only place I could find a programmer (and a ton of firmware) for washing machine and dryer boards.

Chinese forums/websites seem to be even better, but harder to get into (translation issues, have to sign up/log in to a lot of them).
It's not about the threshold of validity. It's about the threshold dose used, whose psychoactive effects are generally placed at higher doses.

There is no value in anecdotal data when this is something that can be properly measured, especially when it has to do with medical science and people's lives are involved. OP is making bogus, unsubstantiated claims and does not need to be defended.
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I'm working on the bullet system for a game right now and another advantage of hitscan I think, that wasn't explicitly mentioned in the article, is that you can get objects behind objects to then determine if the first object should absorb some of the bullet damage. For example, an enemy behind a wall may still damage but not as much as if the shots were fired directly at the player.

When you send out the raycast and get a list of all objects hit, you can iterate over the objects hit and reduce damage value until the first enemy object is hit (pending any distance restrictions).
This is great! Thanks!

I've had a related idea a while back - I wish there were walkthroughs for university fields of study. Like a class that discusses the tables of contents (not so much the actual contents!) of courses of other fields at a level that would be understandable to prospective students of the field.

This would reduce unknown unknowns.

As someone who has studied CS, at times it would've actually been useful to know what areas electrical engineers and mechanical engineers are studying, and what the major topics in each course are. Be it to work closely with people who did study those fields, find the right people in the first place or possibly even as a seed to be able to learn just enough of their field to help myself.

Of course for such technical fields I can read the course descriptions myself and make educated (hah!) guesses, but if I turn to some unrelated fields (e.g. veterinary studies) out of sheer curiosity I'm lost.
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Minimalism isn’t a metric, because as you say, there is no object or method of measurement given. Might as well say that your metric is “betterness”. Better what?
The riches already gave back, because they got rich making things people want.

>We need more civic-minded leadership across the population, not less. The greed is just excessive.

This is the wishful thinking that statists will always use. the state will be fine if only people would be better. Well people are not better and never will be, so we need a system whereby we do not grant people, who will never be better, power over their fellow men.
> Just because they develope their own chinese-based open-source ecosystem doesn't mean they have to cut themselves off from the english-based one. But by using the english-based one, they are cutting themselves off of their potential native chinese-based one.

So does using one language cut one off from the ecosystem of another or does it not? In practice, this depends on the prevalence of bilingualism: few English-speaking developers know Chinese, but most Chinese-speaking developers know English. So using English doesn't cut them off (because they understand it) while using Chinese cuts everyone else off.

> You can translate code from chinese to english and vice versa.

And who do you think is going to do that translation? Someone who understands the program in question and knows both human languages well enough to translate between them. In most cases, that will be the developers. They're saving themselves a lot of hassle by just writing it in English to begin with.

> Also, there would be more code overall if programming didn't have an added hurdle of having to learn english in the first place. If people around the world could code in their native language, we'd have more programmers and more code.

People around the world can code in their native language. I linked to projects that are all about programming in Chinese. That there isn't more Chinese code should tell you something about the priorities that Chinese programmers actually have.
When I fly a personal drone I have to keep it within line of sight, I thought if you were doing otherwise you’d have to register with the FAA.
Cannot read it. I get lost in some "respect your privacy" nonsense.
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> and secondarily a way for attendees to launder company training budgets into paid time off.

That's the only reason I still go, making sure that the hotel has a rooftop pool at least!

it also happened at a conference that some speaker showed some of my experiments as an inspiration for the topic they were talking about ,without crediting me, even though it wasn't hard to find me

Quality is so low nowadays that the guy was speaking there on the stage, showing my code, while I was in the audience knowing that it wasn't talk material, or I would be the one presenting it at a conference!
I wonder if mainstream games will at some point evolve out of the shooting-and-killing focus.
> Anybody who believes in the placebo effect is not to be taken seriously.

Uhhhhhh no, sorry. Anybody who believes placebo is not a real physiological phenomenon is not to be taken seriously, because they have not done their basic homework.

> what did you use as your control in your double blind study?

I didn't do one, because I am not here claiming that 1mg of CBD is enough to feel. The responsibility is on OP, not me. But to answer a hypothetical, what would I use as my control? The same solution I would be placing the CBD in, sans the CBD. It's not hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Mechanisms
Read a book called valueable by Roger Montgomery. Every few months buy shares in a small number of quality companies. Repeat until dead. Weigh up renting vs owning apartment of course, depending on your situation and location.
You can do that when simulating each bullets trajectory as well. For example straightforward setup for collision detection would be a raycast per bullet per tick and as such can work much the same way.
It isn't just the exclusivity deals, but the manner in which those deals are brought about, often with release promises broken, releases yanked and backers being outright lied to; I do not wish any success to such a business. As a gamer I don't like what the PC gaming landscape is turning into with Epic Games at the forefront of it. As a developer I would expect to consider a wider scope than a revenue split, a big part of which is an ecosystem, platform and tooling.
Not at all. And if someone is offended ... So what?
In a sense it is an integrated development environment, just in the sense of developing a photograph instead of software :) And their names both allude to the same analog photographer's or animator's tool, the light table[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_table
Start with the smallest piece that gives you motivation, might not even need a backend component.

For example, a tiny widget that shows you an artist page or whatever, that can be embedded.

Then ship that, show it to HN and all around. This should boost your energy and motivation.

Tackle a slightly bigger project afterwards. Loop a few times and voila! You're over the hill.
If it is a react native fork, I wonder if they plan to acknowledge that. Seems like that is the first thing you'd mention.

I can't see a reason not to mention this unless you're trying to fool someone.
FIFA, Mario Kart, Pokémon? Mainstream is a lot more than just shooters...
Damage control campaign to restore some of his rep after the Tencent deal?
We don't need to get into international politics to answer this question. Security audits are good ideas on any open source project you want to put into production. They are a good idea even if you wrote the code yourself, to make sure you didn't leave vulnerabilities in your code by accident. Securing an app, and preventing data breaches, is simply good practice as professional software engineers.
In the way books and films have evolved out of shooting and killing?
Reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1831/
Indeed you can, but the idea is that a raycast is still needed. I should've been more specific in that it doesn't mean the projectile system can't do it but the idea of raycasting allows for that additional advantage cheaply and easily.
Are there any good resources for people interested in how multi-player networking/state management works?
Cheers, I'll take that as a compliment.

Before I studied computer science, in another life as they say, I studied art. I took history of art courses and I was taught the official explanation for Pollock's work, that it's really a study of human motion.

I bring up the Artemission bronze partly as a counterpoint. _That_ is a study of human motion. Not what Pollock did.

There is real knowledge and understanding of the world that we can acquire. Obviously not for everything. Obviously the world doesn't "owe" us anything. But we can study, and work, and learn what there is to learn. Pollock did none of that. He just moved his arms around and pretended to do it, like a magician without magic, like a conductor without an orchestra.

Edit: it is Pollock's work that is cynical (referring to what the GP said). Its premise is that nothing is really worth it. That you don't get anything out of working hard to try and understand. So embrace your limitations and wallow in the cheap and effortless, because you can never do better than that.

Well, that's -sorry for the easy point but- bollocks. You can do much better than that. People have done much better than that for thousands of years.
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I'd highly recommend searching for 4K77 if you haven't already. It's well worth seeing if you want to relive your memories.
The problem with brave is that it takes away creators freedom of choice when it comes to revenue for their content. It's nicely summed up in this article:

https://practicaltypography.com/the-cowardice-of-brave.html

TL;DR: Creators have to sign-up to brave's BAT system in order to get revenue for ads that Brave embeds on the creator's website. And even then there is a competition upon creators for users to spend money on them which is not correclating with the time users spend on creator's content.
Yeah the key differentiator is a trade off between cost and simulation fidelity.
What do you guys use for on call managent?
That's a bit like saying "I wonder if movies will evolve out of the defeating the villain focus". Sure there's plenty of that but the medium is so massive you can find something to suit any taste. I like shooters and they were still only about a third of the games I played this year.
Back in college I had this course during which we were supposed to design an object-oriented app in Java using concurrency and networking - games were the usual use case.

Our professor asked us how would we implement hit detection - there were a few answers, but none touched the underlying idea that when there's no agent(user, AI) input, objects move in a predictable way, so the distance between them is some function of time.

For example the distance function of two objects moving in a linear fashion is (IIRC) a squared parabola, so you only need to sample three points in time to get the whole function.

And, of course, you only need to recalculate this function for objects that changed direction.
At least LR does not lock in your edits; I'm fairly certain Capture One doesn't either. You can export either XMP sidecar files or DNGs with the edit history bundled in along with the RAW data. LR's centralized catalog is just an SQLite database, I believe, but I don't think the schema is documented publicly.
To be fair you have to pretty heavily retcon at least the implied ending of Highlander 1 to even have a sequel at all.
This question is ambiguous and poorly stated. What does "best" mean? What websites are not indexed by Google?