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It's important to remember that free trade is not the ultimate cause. Greed among the wealthy elite is. What happened is that rich business owners deliberately pushed for free trade laws as a way to circumvent the laws the labor movement got passed to protect people.

They sold out American workers to increase their profit margins.
So the 'less good' developers provide the business value whilst the 'better' devs get promotions and more money?

I'd stay there for one year (less looks bad on a CV) get the 'promotions' and then move.
I try to find excuses to express density in an area in terms of miles per gallon, but it turns out to be surprisingly difficult.
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I'm not sure if it's what you mean, but the optional chaining [1] feature added to Javascript (and hence browsers) was championed among others by the TypeScript team.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-optional-chaining
Even assuming that were technically possible, why should we assume that anyone who visited those pages and found them useful would know what a JAR or JVM is?
This is stunning, but scary. Even if my descendants survive plagues, nuclear war, climate change and malevolent AI's, they might not have a chance against the allure of these simulated worlds.
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Dude I spent a large portion of my early career as a web developer making rounded corners on divs using all sorts of kludges
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I'd just assumed it was a "hey, wouldn't this be great if Lara Croft was standing here instead" place-holder.
I think raytracing has the potential to be a big leap forward. Real-time lighting and shadows are still incredibly limited, and most games are only able handle dynamic shadows from a hand-full of light-sources at a time. I think we don't see the difference yet because baked lighting gets a really good result, but I think after we live for a while in a world where every flickering candle, and every emissive texture in a game is a fully-fleged, shadow-casting, dymamic light source, then we are going to look back at current gen games and see how static and artificial the lighting is.

But I do agree with you in general that more advanced simulation is a huge, largely untouched opportunity in games.
I would not think so. Most of these pollutants are "heavy" and solar winds are only appropriate for the less dense molecules, unfortunately.
I strongly disagree. There are certain human rights that it is immoral and illegal to contract away. The common example is that selling yourself into slavery is illegal even though people have self-agency. Over time we have decided on others so for example it is illegal to take a job that disallows bathroom breaks or violates certain safety standards. It's also not legal as far as I know to take jobs with certain consequences for quitting, like "we break into your house and kill your family". Although, "we will ensure your family starves" may be an unwritten one.

Also, it is disingenuous at least to say every has their own "self-agency", but "Consequences may vary." I would agree it's a sliding scale because people's chioces imply different levels of consequences for losing one's job (for example if you bought an expensive mortgage versus not). But morally, and legally as well, we certainly owe people the ability to make actually free choices without metaphorical guns to their heads.
Removal of motion blur as the default. It's even present in the demo!
The only thing surprising about this is that they are so easy to pwn. Then again, PDs aren't exactly tech-savvy.
I'm arguing:

(1) The poster arguing this was 10 minutes was being dishonest.

(2) As the original article said, it's a different internet if the only way to get something up is to go through Square Space or Github pages. It's much less decentralized, and much more corporate.

Yes, I do think the internet could have evolved to where a tech-illiterate mum could host her own web page from her router at home. It didn't, and we lost something in that process.
CIG's customizations to the Lumberyard engine have been pretty impressive - believe they're working on SDF now
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That sounds a bit dismissive. What if they realize "I'm not a super star, but I'm above average in these desired skills. Therefore I get a nice house, but no multi-acre villa like some NBA superstar".

I think you're adding a bit too much personal animosity towards management.
Neither is clj, for some reason, and it installs the same way as Leiningen. ;-) From their website:

"Then run:

Invoke-Expression (New-Object System.Net.WebClient)
.DownloadString('https://download.clojure.org/install/win-install-1.10.1.536....

There's also no clj installer for Windows although there is a Scoop package.

https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha/wiki/clj-on-Wind...
As a high-end builder, I would love to integrate a wall like this into a project. The ability (as shown with the Mandelorian video) the screens have to produce light would be incredible in interior living spaces.
> Trump is more colorful and in your face about it, but I do not believe his Administration is more corrupt, he just does not have the media covering for him like the past administration have

I think there is support, among many in the media at least, for the idea that Trump's administration is more corrupt than Nixon's; but surely you would not claim that Nixon's administration was one that enjoyed extensive media coddling?

> Tyranny defined as that which is legal for government but illegal for the citizenry.

This is an over-expansive definition of tyranny, I think. It says, for example, that waging war against another country is tyranny. I can imagine adopting this position, but is it what you mean?

(It's also hard for me to apply even this expansive definition of tyranny to:

> Those charges [against Flynn] by the FBI are a clear example of Tyranny (Tyranny defined as that which is legal for government but illegal for the citizenry).

I agree that the government can lay criminal charges against an individual, whereas an individual cannot do so against another, but that is a very general phenomenon that has nothing particular to do with Flynn's case, so again I assume that it's not what you mean.)
>>> What’s the worst thing a spammer can do if they sign up? <<<

Depends on your size and resources. Imagine you're basically scrappy with a very small and tight budget and still trying to validate your idea, and you're using one of those providers that gives you a free quota (like Google App Engine), you don't want 'spammers' to drain your free allotment of resources. I know someone who has a small niche blog in the health sector whose blog was repeatedly targeted by spammers/bots. He repeatedly saw increases in his bills till he had someone audit his blog and try to block the bots
yes, what kroltan said. Picked it up around here, don't really use it anywhere else.
Following on to this and hopefully making it more explicit: your goal should typically be to accelerate users towards their "magic moment" (the moment when the value of your software clicks, they get it, and they suddenly can't imagine living without it), as quickly as reasonably possible. A couple of companies that did a great job at this:

- Slack used to (they still might I just haven't created a new workspace in a while) have Slackbot message you to setup your profile so that you're literally using the software as part of onboarding.

- Aircall has you get a phone number and place a call directly from your browser, then use your phone to call that number back and have it ring in your browser.

Focus on the the path to that magic moment first, ensuring that users who do sign up have an incredible onboarding experience and understand the value.

Otherwise, you're just pouring water into a leaky funnel, and you might end up even worse off. You'll spend the same amount of time and money on support for your leads, but few of them will ever convert to dollars.
UBI seems less risky than a union because of a long history of anti-union action, hostility towards employees, and lack of mobility once one is bound to a union. UBI provides flexible minimum support and someone could transform their life from one place to another by being sure they could at least maintain a minimum standard of living.
>Are you young, single, and live in an apartment?

Not parent comment, but yes.

However, I do have friends outside of work. Obviously right now I'm rarely if ever seeing them, and certainly not all. Very occasionally we decide on a small coffee shop to go support at the same time and talk from a couple car spaces away for a few minutes just to engage in some kind of social behavior. It helps momentarily, but not consistently.

Going to work and making friends there, while not "IRL" friends, really helps work become a more fluid environment where you don't need to stress out all the time on structure. It gives breathing room. Some jokes lighten the mood. I personally feel like it's easier to discuss important topics when I have "friends" on my team or other teams who have a respect for my train of thought.

Also, while I do have a desk and monitor now, I work in the same room as my entertainment space (living room). So I'm literally in the same room all day. And no, I don't want to setup a workspace in my bedroom, that'd be even worse.

If I had a dedicated office room that'd be nice. If I had a more normal house where I had space to walk between areas like the kitchen, dining room/area, living room that would help.

But I do not.
Tell that to the VR scene.
Using this software is a tacit admission that the manager is unable to measure the output of their own employees, nor are they able to determine what an appropriate level of productivity is.

You don't need cameras to track where the dough goes if you already know how much flour you bought, how many pizzas you sold, and how much flour it should take to make a pie.

This reflects a fundamental inability of the manager to do their job.
The website appears to be compromised. It's hosting and redirecting to webstores/spam/porn/etc.

It seems an enterprising agent decided to start building and selling his own covert camera boxes but I wonder how old these things are now. Perhaps they've been forgotten?
That's funny you bring up the PS3, because my first reaction to the parent commenter and the OP video was how I remember thinking things couldn't get much better than the PS3 demos [0] – which now look comparatively primitive – but I've had that same feeling with PS4 and now PS5. But PS5 really does seem to be getting close to real-time interactive realism.

But I agree with you that I expected games to be much "better" by 2020, back when I was a kid playing 7th Guest. I guess I couldn't understand back then how much manual, hard-to-scale labor and budget would have to go into story, dialogue, art, acting (plus salaries of A-list movie stars), mo-cap, etc. I expected in-depth scripted NPC behavior, like in 1992's Ultima VII [1], to be extremely commonplace and basic by now, but I obviously didn't understand back then what actual AI and emergent simulation requires (versus manual scripting, and testing of that scripting)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzvOgTABwr0

[1] https://www.filfre.net/2019/02/ultima-vii/
Where did I say there was no legitimate interest to do this? I am in agreement with you in saying this surveillance is not new and is not a conspiracy.
...and thinking about this some more, one does not, of course, need transistors to make a Turing-equivalent machine - one could, in principle, use neurons and synapses... or people. Koch's position, at least as he has presented it in this interview, seems utterly incoherent.
These might help:

https://superuser.com/questions/453446/how-can-i-stop-window...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...

Particularly st99's answer on the second link.
Your sense of co-ownership is an illusion. Why should you engage with your boss by pretending?
Everyone knows what happened. But the result was that a huge part of our history was lost. When we write a book, it is archived in the Library of Congress. As publishing moves online, and we deprecate technologies due to technical convenience, that's just lost.

Forever.

It's sad.
Maybe it's just because I am old enough to remember playing Super Mario on a CRT, but that attitude sometimes astounds me. Like I have read many assessments that the latest Doom game's incredible framerates are nothing to be impressed by, because the game is "visually underwhelming". I think a lot of people don't understand how difficult real-time computer graphics are to implement, and I have difficulty viewing the world through their eyes.
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It's not a technical limitation, but more like a game design limitation.

If you can punch holes in any wall, then the designers suddenly have an infinite cases to handle. It could still cause problems with open world games.

I'm with you btw, 100% destructible world is my childhood dream for games.
The Tomb Raider-esque parts where the character is jumping and climbing didn't look right. She's missing some kind of "weight" or something in her animation that makes it look like she's not really doing those things. Lara Croft's animations are much more convincing.
Another fun one.. Selenium was given its name because that element is used to treat mercury poisoning. (Mercury was a testing tool of that time).
A sensible person would implement the use of the captcha to fail open - if Google is down, then let the user in without passing a captcha.

Was this a mistake on the bank's part, or Google's?
I got the following concrete advice from this article:

- Procrastination/distractions are reactions to discomfort: “They’re not character flaws, they’re emotional regulation problems”. So: try to to develop better internal tools to manage discomfort.

- Things like email or items checked off TODO lists are more pernicious, because they feel productive. Recognize this.

- Set a routine (e.g. work 2 hours on writing), not targets (word count).

- When you do sit down to work, expect discomfort, e.g. from boredom, frustration, anxiety, uncertainty. When it arises, instead of trying to get away from it, lean into it: approach it with curiosity, like a scientist.

- When you get an itch to go look up something, instead of acting immediately, set it aside for 10 minutes (I'd say an hour) — and see if you still care at the end of it.

- For urges that don't go away, “surf the urge”: sit with the sensation and examine it.

- Once you have made some progress in managing your internal triggers (e.g. can deal with some discomfort), try to understand your values (the kind of person you want to be/become). Then create a schedule for tomorrow that fits it.

- Remove external triggers, those that tend to distract you.

- For tasks where all this still doesn't help, try some “pacts”, like the one in the article about the $100 bill.

This may not seem “anything approaching concrete advice” but his defence in the article is that this is his strategy: “There isn’t going to be one tactic that works for everyone. You use the strategy to try individual tactics until you find the right formula for you.”
I think it helps if you play the Blue Danube Waltz while you do this.
I'm sorry, but do I really have to answer these questions? How is it people still don't understand there's a huge segment of the working population who just can't up and quit a job?
It looks like PS2 graphics.
True if you don't count JLENS, and ARGUS, which have been deployed wherever they feel like for years. Further muddied is that there are federal grants to let local law enforcement buy this gear.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-rap...

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/bs-md-jl...
I got the uncanny valley sense from the footage and had to watch it a few times to understand why. As you say, there are still subsystems whose fidelity don't meet the quality bar that the texture and lighting set.

Little things like the player model's hands interacting with an invisible flat surface above the incredibly intricate rock textures.

Yes, nits. With the player model acting as a locus for these uncanny interactions, I wonder if there will be a wave of first person games that can take full advantage of the photorealism.
Conversely, I’ve never once had to punch a time clock at any of my salaried positions.

None of my employers would ever be able to tell the difference between 38, 39, 40, or 41 hours in any given week (nor has any given any indication they'd care even if I told them the difference).
at 1:08 in the video, that is exactly what he claims:

"So every piece of data in the world has its own unique hash digest."

This is false for the reasons apeescape describes: every piece of data in the world has its own hash digest, but these hash digests are not unique.
I could swear I “played” it when I was a kid off a PlayStation magazine or Pizza Hut demo disk on a retail (well modded) unit
> How is the host supposed to evaluate the future?

I don't see how "evaluation of the future" is relevant. The person hosting the game has laid out the conditions for his actions. If you say "you will not give me prize B in response to this statement":

1) If the host were to give you prize B, that would be a contradiction, as that would make your statement false, so you should have received C.

2) If the host were to give you prize C, that would be a contradiction, as that would make your statement true; per the rules, you should not have received prize C (or logically equivalent: you should have received one of A or B).

3) If the host were to give you prize A, there is no contradiction.

The only action the host can make, while honoring the rules they laid out, is to give you prize A. The host, assuming they're decent at logic (which is a premise of such problems), would consider the above and realize that they must give you prize A. There's no need for reading the future; they must merely know what actions they are permitted to make given the rules of the game, and given only one valid course of action, they must take take that action.
Is probably a mix
How do you know it is a good thing? Maybe vit-D is just a marker for sunlight-exposure, and you are gaming the marker with the supplements.
I find it really amazing how we went down the process of figuring out how color works -- Goethe's work in particular is really interesting because it is a very empirical approach based on the observation that afterimages exist.

The limitation in so many cases, and the reason why there's a constant crossover in this history between textiles dying, artists, and researchers, is that producing substances which represent a given color and have good light-fastness are hard to come by unless there's a strong commercial reason to explore the space.

At one point I was looking to see if I could buy paints for my kids to play with in the "true"-er primary colors, CMYK, and that led down a big rabbit hole (basic answer is "not easily", unfortunately) eventually leading me to [1] which is a fascinating look at our ability to span the gamut through some set of primaries.

From personal experience, I always find it amazing when I see a color magazine in the light and note that some parts are reflective and some are more matte; and that this is not a function of intent of any sort -- those are just the incidental properties of the physical pigments selected for their saturation/brightness/fastness primarily.

[1] https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color13.html
Yes, and he doesn't care.
I agree, this seems an extremely self-serving creed for "Twitter devs"

Other companies offer added benefits to retain their valuable talent.

The push among "social media stars" to declare long tenures as a negative is problematic, to say the least.
Java is antiquated though, I don't see many new big libraries/frameworks being written in it. Java is too big and too entrenched in the enterprise to go away any time soon but in ten years the language will become legacy. For what's being used, languages like Go and to some extent Rust are eating Java's market share for new stuff being built. More and more universities are moving away from Java as teaching language too.

Clojure is in a bad spot here, it was a good idea at the time but not today. Clojure relies on Java for its libraries cause Clojure has almost no ecosystem. 95% of Clojure libs are Java wrappers.
Similar to the concept being attempted at Core, though it's packaged as a game modding platform.
https://www.coregames.com/

Yes you can make unending worlds in UE4.
> You can go to a liquor store but can not get heart surgery.

You can still get your heart surgery if it cannot wait. I know this because my dad had to get a cardiac stent fairly recently. But if you're getting a pacemaker (or another elective surgery), that can wait, there's no reason to risk it.

And with regards to the liquor stores: there are a lot of alcoholics in the US, and I live in a state where the state sells everything strong. If they closed the ABC stores, you'd see the ERs fill up with alcoholics going through withdrawal.
Got it. Bummer.

I wonder if you could ask the user to trace a shape/pattern with their mouse? Or you draw a few animating dots with a canvas, and ask them to click the blue ones?

Fundamentally, though, you likely either piss people off by challenging their humanity, or violate their privacy by silently tracking their behavior, or break accessibility by evaluating the way they interact with your site against "normal" (bad for folks with screen readers, lynx, etc I'd assume).
I don't actually hate motion blur, I really like the cinematic feel of in-engine graphics.

I went through a phase where I wanted things sharper and sharper to showcase technical ability (mostly in consumer grade video and photography), but then once THAT was ubiquitous I found myself focusing on deteriorating the quality for its uniqueness and allure. Forcing the viewer to find focal points themselves and increasing interest.

I feel like gamers don't really have an opinion one way or the other, but have been told not to like blur? I'm not really sure I just haven't seen the arguments and have gone full circle on the meme myself. At the end of the day I enjoy it.
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>>> don't ask users for information that you don't need. <<<

Agree. This is especially important today where information is being traded without user's knowledge.

Asking for information you don't need automatically makes privacy conscious folks suspicious of your site/service.

It also gives the impression that you (the business/service) haven't 'thought' through your process (maybe you just did a copy and paste from a template somewhere)
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I get what you're saying. What makes real estate different is it's an asset class that people happen to live in.

I'm not sure of the solution though. Would the problem be worse if, say, people were limited to just one residence? Where would a rental supply come from?
as a designer working in enterprise side application development - so much this. So many design portfolios are geared towards consumer side apps but the world is powered by the most dry boring stuff.

[I finally got around to making an account after lurking for so long. Your post was the catalyst ]
The PS still sells itself heavily based on console exclusives (Uncharted, The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn) that are ostensibly well-tuned to the hardware. Guess we'll have to wait until HZD's makes it to PCs to see how easily it's ported.
you can replace product with project and it would still apply.

There is some distinction between being able to kick off projects with existing products and kicking off a totally new product.

most people are working on kicking off updates to existing products.