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Coronavirus could force more doctors to sell – or shutter
Since we’re talking about gamifying physical actions to produce a currency, I’ve always wondered if there was a way to gamify sexual activity such that you can influence human breeding for collective societal goals. Might be interesting to combine the idea of such currency with dating networks as well to see what happens.
The only things these things teach me is that "Platinum - It runs perfectly" is that ProtonDB creators clearly have a different view on perfect.

"Doom Eternal runs perfectly - it just have some pink flickering every minute!"

"runs perfectly - it just closes when you try to start it."

"runs perfectly - multiplayer doesn't work though."

Microsoft can change DirectX whenever they want, that goalpost is always going to change to suit them, so why even play them at their game?

Create a standard, ask Unity and Unreal Engine to support it, take a smaller cut when buying the Linux version on Steam.
In my case, procrastination is a sign of depression. It is an escape mechanism. I found myself dropping clients after procrastinating instead of completing their projects because something about them always stressed me, made me hate money or what I do for a living. 30 minutes or 3 hours of shutting my brain off, telling myself I will do it later is my way of escaping. There is something subconscious about it always after I 'meditate' enough to pinpoint what the problem was. These are episodes coming and going once in a while.
5 minutes. Sometime if I get in the flow or I'm in a middle of the meeting I'll skip the break and restart the timer.
Another direction could be a mid six figure baseline salary and the rest of their compensation in the form of stock that vests 2% each year. Now they'll really be interested in the long term health of the company, even needing to make sure it ends up in good hands after they leave. The biggest problem with these kinds of schemes is that there's always going to be some other company that will still use large quarterly bonuses for their compensation package, which most CEOs will take instead.
This person seems to be using HN as some sort of MVP validation service. That URL has pointed to no less than four different APIs in the past two weeks.
I loved 'Classical Sociological Theory'. It introduces the ideas of 8 'sociological' thinkers from Bernard Mandeville to Norbert Elias. The course uses the medium of a MOOC by providing insightful pictures and the course references interesting source material.

The course that brings me the most in terms of concepts I keep coming back to in everyday live is 'Introduction to Psychology': https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology

I must confess I always find it quite hard to take psychology very serious, but this course does a good job at cutting to the bone of what psychology is about and refrains from making unfalsifiable statements.

EDIT:
Almost forgot Astronomy: Exploring time and space: https://www.coursera.org/learn/astro. It comes with a very awesome free online book/website.
Adderall

Sorry, had to crack the joke.

On a serious note, my answer would be: take an individualized approach. Here are some examples:

- Was your motivation damaged by decades of forced boring school? You need time to relearn enjoyment of learning

- Are you a nihilist? Seek therapy and a real reason to live with passion.

- Are you depressed, PTSD, etc? Seek help.

- Are you unhealthy? Change it.

- Do you genuinely have ADD or something that neurologically explains it? Seek help.

- Are your friends unmotivated like you? Seek different friends.

- Do you sleep poorly? Improve that.

- Do you have an addiction that messes your dopamine (or NE, 5-HT) levels (porn, cocaine, etc)? Get help.
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I kept a bookmark just to come back to this thread later. Would you mind sharing your experience so far?
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Normalized by number of surgeries?
To me it seems like a kind of Wine staging, with patches not ready to be merged into the Wine mainline, yet could make some game run or run better.

Over time as the code is proven in production and/or is cleaned up to upstream standards, it can be merged to upstream Wine, reducing the difference.

Also IIRC there are some other pieces that are not (yet?) part of Wine, that are distributed with it, such as the various DirectX->Vulkan translation layers.
Proton has been fantastic for me, it finally gave me what I needed to reclaim my Windows partition and go full-on Arch! In some cases, running the Windows version inside Proton has actually worked out better for me than the native port (Dead Cells, for example. The native port crashes the Steam overlay and lacks Steam Controller support, but running the Windows version in Proton is seamless)

I highly encourage you guys to check out the tech making this possible: DXVK. It's incredible what you can do with these lower level APIs. I'm not sure if this is the right word, but "meta shader pipelines" like this are absolutely the way of the future in emulation. See also: Dolphin Ubershaders.

Ubershaders: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/
OrbitDB are p2p database instances on top of IPFS, and front-ends or users can always filter the content they display.
I have had these same kind of problems with regular Macs.

My 2010 Mac Pro won’t boot without a specific type of DVI cable and display. Certain standard USB peripherals (including some mice) don’t work or cause other problems on my 2015 Macbook Pro while they work just fine on my Linux or Windows machines.

This is not just a problem with Hackintoshes.
It's Wine + DXVK (including D9VK since they merged together) + ESync with a different Wine environment for each game. Valve also helped Codeweavers developers to implement controllers support thru Wine.
Is there source code? Somewhere we can find out more about this project?
I'd be really surprised if there wasn't fixes and configs for a lot of games in Proton, but also that now you at least can install and run Windows games on Linux from Steam. Before Proton, even when I owned a Windows game, I had to pirate it to run it through Wine.
That chart is from data collected between 1996 and 2003. It is very outdated.
As with all things, reasonable people determine what is reasonable. There is a strong element of peer review in this, with reasonable recognizing each other as peers and showing at least some deference to some kind of agreed upon norms, if not about facts, at least about methods of gathering and evaluating facts. A refusal to respect those methods will generally cause reasonable people to view you as unreasonable. This might sounds elitist, but any process involving any kind of peer review necessarily involves people respecting certain approaches to information, while disrespecting other approaches.
Wish I had this around to read for inspiration a few months ago. I recently upgraded my PC, and for the first time in 20 years of owning desktop PCs, bought a prebuilt one specifically because of size and aesthetic concerns.

I wanted a top-of-the-line gaming rig that ran quietly and took up a minimal amount of desktop space for my home office/"battlestation" [1]. Maybe I gave up too quickly, and maybe I've gotten too old for this shit, but I couldn't find anything that fit the bill without spending a lot of time on custom watercooling setups. I wonder how loud Atwood's rig is here.

I went with a Corsair One i165 [2] and love it so far - runs whisper-quiet no matter what I'm doing, and is small enough to easily fit on the desk. We'll see in a couple of years if I'm kicking myself over lack of upgradeability, but I'd hope its specs last me a long time.

Side note: it's kinda hard to find nice-but-not-gaudy components these days, I feel. Not a big fan of the RGB craze as I get older (although 16-year-old-me would have loved it).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/f4fk3h/dual...

[2] https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Systems/CO...
DXVK also works on Windows, to translate DX11 calls to Vulkan and pipe them thru the graphics card's own Vulkan driver.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVYprONeDtY
I don't have a lot of of super current AAA titles, so most of my games that didn't already work on Linux(most of what I buy) already worked on Wine. But with the Proton integration, I do appreciate that I don't have to run a separate Wine instance of steam and instead running my Windows games is far more transparent. I guess the only minor downside is that since the whole process is so transparent it makes it a bit more jarring when I do come across a game that doesn't work.
Any idea if GLAARG is in need of more VEs to conduct remote tests? I'm an extra in the bay area and know a couple others who would be willing.
I ran an alpine/arm tor node on scaleway for a while, but I had often problems with filesystem corruption and general stability. I don’t know if it was alpine or the arm server or both, but it was not a super stable setup. Their x64 boxes are more stable.
There are plenty of fun activities that involve cooperation rather than competition. Building a bridge instead of blowing it up, for example.

Kids are generally pretty enthusiastic about such things as well until it is socialized out of them.
Hiya, found a typo - couldn't see where else to mention it so adding here, maybe the author will notice.

Ch 3.

This chapter will not covering any Scala-specific

should be:
This chapter will be not covering any Scala-specific

Otherwise enjoying what I've read so far. I've just been dropped in at the deep end of a project with no scala experience, so I'm trying to get off the ground asap.
What’s the benefit of arm cloud instances to consumers?

None I can think of.
You know that Drew is the maintainer of sway, right? I don't think switching to Windows is an option here :P
The one edge case is that the bells work for all blind folks, not just those who understand the language spoken by and announcement. Of course, a blond person in that case could just count announcements …
I have worked remotely for a company that was otherwise very much a traditional non-remote environment; I have experience partly distributed teams and now managing a fully remote one.

I think partly remote will always, without an exception, create a significant information asymmetry that will result in non-remote workers becoming the leaders in the company. (plug, sorry:) I have written a small post about migrating to remote: https://blog.patientsknowbest.com/2020/04/01/51-basic-rules-... - even in _theory_ you could fully embrace remote workers if some others see each other in person regularly, the latter group won't, can't and likely, shouldn't stop exchanging information in ways that 1) are more efficient 2) excludes remote workers.
"bat soup", "diseased wet markets", "inscrutable"; some quite nasty xenophobic stuff in there ...
I have found that having a decent computer really helps my productivity. As a grad student, an adjunct, and now a full time faculty member, I have consistently had shitty slow computers in my office on campus. I have found that because it is so slow that when I grade a paper online, i hit submit and the browser takes so long to load the next paper that I get distracted by checking email or twitter or facebook. Now that I'm stuck at home, I have noticed that my personal computer is so much faster that the next paper loads almost instantly and I get less distracted even though i have tons of more things here that could distract me than in the office.
zsh, HISTORY_IGNORE is a regex what are you talking about... and there is history_ignore_all_dups so I'm really not following...
Please see my comment below about my 1.92L computer.
It's alot more convenient then wine as it's built into steam. You could get a lot of games working on wine before but setup could be a bit of a pain. With Proton you just install and play on steam like you would with a native Linux game.
Yes, it will also use a known good version of wine for a particular game. Switching versions manually to find one that worked for old or newer games had been a headache; that work is now done by proton.
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

― Cicero
I think a lot of this discussion is missing the forest for the trees. Here we have people arguing whether it’s better to make powder out of these psychoactive mushrooms and use that as a drug vs extract pure psilocybin and use that as a drug.

I know little of pharmacology but I can see one use of pure compounds: further research. Analyzing how psilocybin affects serotonin receptors could potentially help design other drugs that act on those receptors without psychedelic side effects. It could also help with creating other psilocybin analogs with different effects. And of course having the ability to study in detail the effects that other substances in the psychoactive mushrooms have might help identify other areas of study.

As a software analogy, this is like the debate whether it’s better to have Google Maps vs mapping software and all the underlying data. Of course it’s better to have the latter even if some romanticize the former.
How Nintendo killed the ‘best’ version of Tetris
In theory, price.
I know this statement is false, because I've read thousands of discussions.

I challenge you to attempt to prove your assertion with evidence. If you make an attempt, you will quickly realize that you are objectively incorrect.

And then, in light of that realization, perhaps there may be value in reviewing and contemplating, at length, your earlier statement:

> Think about why these kinds of arguments are made on different topics which you disagree with and then rethink why you are making them here.
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People are also protesting in CO. It didn't snow everywhere.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/video/4519624-hundreds-gather-at...
Proton worked decently for VR last I tried 6 months ago. But I started it up again recently and everything is broken now, partially due to steam updates and partially due to updates to Unity. The entire reason I moved to Linux was because I loathe forced updates >:(
Aside from the flow technique mentioned below, I think it is pretty common.

If I'm acting as the non-flying pilot, my job is to talk to ATC, set radios, load flight plans and instrument approaches, etc. As an example (slight variation), if ATC gives us a flight level change, I would dial in the final altitude on the altitude pre-select. Typically, I'd repeat the clearance back to ATC, put my hand on the dial, change it and leave my hand on it until the flying pilot says "I see FL230".

I sometimes use the point technique before changing something, or after while repeating "I see ..." or "I did ...". It's really effective at making sure you don't do things mindlessly.
I wanted an monitoring host, which would just run HTTP/SSH/PING/FTP tests against my real infrastructure. So I googled providers with decent reviews that were cheap.

I ended up with an ARM instance, which was just fine for me. Since my monitoring application[1] was golang based it was a quick cross-compile to get a binary I could deploy to the host. The host itself ran Debian , and all the packages I'd expect were easily available.

TLDR: Cheap and easy to deploy to.

1 - https://github.com/skx/overseer/
If you don't want to modify your /etc/hosts file manually you can always use https://selfcontrolapp.com/ which will do it for you.

Pomodoro technique has really helped me as well. I feel it forces me to just start right away and get into the flow. The only thing you have to build the habit of is actually starting the timer.
They shifted the conversation away from mental laziness to conformity and then provided a remedy that cures neither serving as a distraction from the subject at hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformity
Your heart's in the right place but that's not enough.

Do this for me: suppose someone's taking prozac for depression. Given that St. John's Wort is also an antidepressant, how well would it work to have someone take both at the same time? How much will they complement each other?

Please answer that WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP, just based on common sense and logic. I'll explain why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzCdkkG4Gnk
Outside the US, I don't know much about top universities beyond Oxford, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne, but my point really was pretty specific to the schools in the US that have big names—not big-name professors, but the schools themselves have names which, for whatever reasons, are well-known and confer prestige.

A university having a prestigious name is not synonymous with having Nobel Prize winners and influential professors. Hell, one of the professors at the small liberal arts college I work at is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
Have you used Spotify on Amazon echos? A travesty. Every song I requested was a bad cover or obscure version.

We had problems getting them to play Beatle songs and Frozen sound track! Repeatedly.

We switched back to Apple Music, and the voice commands worked fine.

So clearly Apple Music integration was far superior to Spotify at least with Amazon.

I read others had this problem, any idea what it was?
I'm sure it's been said many times before, but there's a special irony to reading an essay about procrastination in order to avoid doing work.
The most interesting blog I've read recently about building a new system was (the guy who wrote the Doom and Wolfenstein black books) Fabien Sanglard's:

http://fabiensanglard.net/the_beautiful_machine/index.html

He built a neat looking, entirely passively-cooled machine.

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501462
Is that really a matter of age, or of experience? Surely your own code didn't deteriorate since you were 21 year old yourself. Or is this largely about newfangled things that didn't exist back then?
Didn't they already discontinue these?
Sounds to me like you benefited specifically from what I mentioned: not the education you gained at the unnamed Top 10 school, but its reputation and connections got you where you are.

I want to be very clear that I'm not saying "you shouldn't go to these schools"—I'm saying "if you go to these schools, recognize that what you're getting that you won't get anywhere else is not a better education, it's the school's name."
I've found the 25 minute timer to have multiple benefits:

1. If I'm struggling to start, telling myself I only need to spend 25 minutes on it gets me started

2. I can pretty easily hold myself back from checking slack/email or context-switching when the block is 25 minutes - I can always peek at messages after to make sure nothing important happened.

3. It gives me a target - frequently there is something concrete I think I can _complete_ in 25 minutes, and that gives me motivation to push to get it done by then. If it goes a little over, that's fine

4. Because these periods of 25 minutes are really intense, I can't do them back-to-back all day. I have found switching to an interesting YouTube video for 5 minutes during a break (and trying to completely rest the brain during this time) re-energizes me more quickly, and lets me do more pomodoros without needing to stop for a while
Who are the "peers" to a CEO of a company the size of Carnival that will be making the "peer review"?

Will anyone be willing to take the job at the price this peer review will be setting?

There's a wide range of possible answers to those interrelated questions. I don't have one particular answer in mind. Just pointing out that as nice as your post may sound at a conceptual level, fleshing it out in detail is decidedly non-trivial.
> I also use VIM because it feels like the best case of voice integration or braille integration

Check out Emacsspeak: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

It’s written by T.V. Raman, a blind engineer at Google by way of Cornell.

Among other things, with it you can just use the built-in Emacs browser!
I share your criticism, but just "Create a standard" is maybe a bit hard to do. Game devs need a market. The linux market is not really the biggest one, neither in numbers, nor in money. It only became a bit relevant, because Valve used linux, to threaten Microsoft, as they tried to get a big cut of game sales, with their own market. So good for linux, yes, but the normal linux game market is still quite uninteresting (mildly put) for publishers.
I am in high school and it is true that I have been learning and doing a lot with free ressources (competitive programming, cybersecurity, webdev and advanced high school maths). But the problem is I still need to attend the same boring classes which means I don't really have enough free time to satisfy my curiosity but instead I learn things I have already understood.
Although there are some efforts to engage students in school, it's difficult for teachers to go further in the curriculum when I ask them questions because they simply don't have time to answer me and halt the rest of the class.
I don't really know what to do...
I completely agree, as someone who was diagnosed at about the same time in my life. It was one of the best and worst days in my life the first time I took medication: best because a mental fog had lifted for the first time ever, worst because how different would my life be if I'd been diagnosed sooner?

Fifteen years later, I am still stably medicated, and life is what I had always wanted it to be: productive and fulfilling. I hope anyone reading this does not let a stigma of medication bar them from talking to somebody about it if they've faced years of frustration over not being able to do what others seem to do easily: just getting shit done.
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OP, could you support SRT? Listener mode would be really interesting.
Regarding your cooling solution https://www.reddit.com/r/shittybattlestations/
This browser seems more customizable to me:
https://next.atlas.engineer/

Based on iCab's homepage, it's unclear why would I want to use it really.
From the email they sent all consumer:

> As of December 1 st, 2020, our C2 and ARM64 Instances will reach their end-of-life. The physical servers hosting them are indeed randomly affected by several stability issues, which prevent us from fully guaranteeing the overall quality of service
What happened in Germany is weird. The Italian outbreak seems to have originated there, but for some reason it was much worse then the German one, and I don't think Germany had the kind of widespread testing back then that they do now and the total number of cases they were reporting seems a little low for them to be exporting cases.
>> Microsoft can change DirectX whenever they want

They really can't. Software that uses DirectX will require a specific version of DirectX in order to have the correct ABI so that it can dynamically link against the DirectX libraries. Those versions and therefor ABIs are set-in-stone. Not to mention that a huge cross-section of the DirectX software library also distributed the required version of DirectX with the software.

Microsoft can change any FUTURE version of DirectX, but the deployed versions in the wild are out there and can't be changed.
In addition to the what others have said (DXVK, pre-configured WINE, D9VK), the Steam client integration is also a MASSIVE quality of life boost and a serious lowering of the barrier to entry.

With Proton, the Windows versions of games appear in your library [1] and you just click to download and install [2]. And then that's it! No faff, no managing wine versions. If someone is intending to play a whitelisted game then for all intents and purposes their UX is exactly the same as playing the game on Windows - which is to say "very straightforward".

[1] By default only whitelisted games appear. While this whitelist is expanding, it's also possible to enable Proton to automatically run for all non-native games.

[2] A warning window will pop up to inform the user that a compatibility layer is being used, but otherwise it's identical.
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