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Quixel is free for use with Unreal. The pricing structure for all other content tools is the same as it was before Epic bought Quixel.
There is another aspect to this. Many employees need guidance here and there. A manager told me once that he'd often find his team members working on something that wasn't the critical path, and he'd have to nudge them back on it. Every day. Team members may also be working inefficiently, and the manager observing it can help with that, too.

It's not always an adversarial thing.
why not? PS5 can download/delete as you go.
Switch to Firefox. It has gotten much better.
> maybe the argument you're making is that these populations with lower Vitamin D were already sick and thus more prone to COVID-19?

No, he's making an observation unrelated to covid. At any time you're sick your vitamin D production stops so you're deficient and then on top of that you don't feel good enough to go outside so your further deprived of vitamin D.
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Full disclosure - I work for the Eclipse Foundation. We are a vendor-neutral, membership-led organization with global reach. The primary motivations for this move were that ⅔’s of our members and ⅔’s of our committers were based in Europe, and we saw an opportunity to become even more relevant to our stakeholders. We think that being based in Europe will be an interesting differentiator, but we are in this to help foster worldwide collaboration, not get bogged down in politics.
This is sad but they're just responding to market hysteria on permissions.
This comment did not add to your argument. It can be summarized as "I like different philosophers than you" and misses the point. I'll remind you that one's ideas should be based on the merit of those ideas and not where they lie in history or along a political spectrum. Also, to have a discussion you need to bring something more than "I'm right, you're wrong, your guys are old." Otherwise you will continue to not be taken seriously.
Law is not really "rule-based" in the sense engineers tend to expect it to be
Snapcraft fixed that
I think programmers especially like to view law through the lens of rules they could implement in code. Often they think it can be hacked by violating the spirit of the law while upholding the letter. Law in reality is a much more human thing that takes into account intention on the party of both legislators making the law and the people it is being applied to. Good thing too.

Is this that makes me think attempts to codify law on some blockchain is a doomed exercise most of the time.
Does chrome already offer features like PushBullet? Firefox somewhat does with Pocket, so I assume chrome has something similar.

If they do offer something of the sort, or start to shortly, this seems like a perfect antitrust case.
FF 7 remake comes extremely close though. That's the best looking UE4 game I know. It's expected that real games do not have demo levels of visual fidelity.
> For far too long has this negotiation been highly in favour of the employer.

Henry Ford had to double the pay to lower employee turnover.
> let’s not forget that completing the signup is not the goal in itself

Good point....unless you're someone who's been incentivized by a higher up to optimize for this metric because that person or someone above them (maybe a VC) forgot this!
Better than where I started out. Rewind me to childhood and I'll take the trade.
One of the moths related to the genus you linked that is also really cool to see fly and pollinate is the five spotted hawk moth. Unfortunately, as cool as these moths are to watch fly since they really can make you think they're some sort of hummingbird, their larvae are among every gardeners worst nightmares: the tomato hornworm. These can defoliate a whole tomato plant in just a few days, it's insane how much they eat, and how reviled the larvae are as pests compared to how cool the adults are.
Fair point. Big frameworks and dogma go hand in hand, and I suppose Erlang without OTP is at least as practical as any other language.

I wonder though if Erlang might have been a footnote in programming history if it weren't for the mindshare that OTP generated. "Simple functional language" is attractive, but "simple functional language with world-class platform" turned out to be a game-changer.
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Agreed. "Integrated information" is intrinsically substance independent. Yet for some reason he doesn't grasp the obvious fact that a Turing machine running the right program would exhibit the same level of integrated information. His argument seems to require an extra ingredient to exclude programs running on computers but it goes unstated. I have yet to see something that resolves the obvious incoherence.
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My company (large consulting firm you have probably heard of) gave us essentially the same guidance from the top. The culture was already one that discouraged micromanaging, but they flat out said they don't expect us to be as productive. Most of my team is realistically working 15-20 hours a week, and that's ok because our clients are doing the same and understand when we miss milestones.

I've actually been impressed at the amount of empathy that's been going around, at least when it comes to adjusting expectations. Hopefully it sticks around.
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Are you saying famine can't happen today? I don't get it.
I don't have much experience with hCAPTCHA, but my biggest complaint with reCAPTCHA aside from the privacy aspect is that it quite literally tells me I'm wrong on a puzzle when I've done it correctly. It forces me to go through sometimes a dozen or more iterations before finally allowing me through.
> Vitamin D levels are severely low in the aging population especially in Spain, Italy and Switzerland.

So.... all old people are unhealthy? Across the board?

And are you saying that sunbathing makes you healthy? That would be the closest link to Vitamin D, but I'd suggest sitting around outside doesn't actually mean you're healthy.
Can you give a concrete example of the kind of code you'd like to write that you can't write in Typescript?

Types absolutely are a first class citizen in TypeScript. Especially coming from Go, which doesn't even support generics, Typescript is really quite powerful. It even has support for ADTs via discriminated unions, which gives you the same power of enums with associated types that you'd get in Rust/Swift.

Is it possible the reason you feel like Typescript doesn't have Types as a first class citizen is because it leverages structural typing rather than nominal typing?
No, it is relevant because "a cause and effect relationship has been established between the dietary intake of vitamin D and contribution to the normal function of the immune system" & "The (EFSA) Panel considers that the role of vitamin D in the functioning of the immune system applies to all ages, including children."

European Food Safety Authority:
https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/j.efsa....

Worth noting that in general and very roughly, at least 85% on average, of old people survive infection with Covid-19 a group which includes those in their 90s.
I actually prefer Eclipse over IntelliJ for java development.
I (too?) felt the pretty colours and the pointless mini-pics were patronising.
I guess this is about me.

I spent nearly 27 years at my last job. I must be terrible.

I ran a small, high-functioning team of engineers with over 30 years' experience each, writing advanced image processing pipelines in C++.

When our team was finally disbanded, the person in my team with the least tenure was ten years.

Nowadays, I am "refactoring" myself back to being a full-time coder (as opposed to a manager and part-time coder), and, most likely, a teacher and author.
People say this isn't what BEAM is intended for an it excels elsewhere, which yes I'm sure it does.

But why can't it be both? Why can't you do everything that BEAM does... and then also have an optimising JIT for the straight line maths code? Couldn't you leave all the other parts of the system the same and keep all the existing benefits? Improving one doesn't damage the other does it?
Looks intriguing. But I hit quite a skill/learning barrier.

So perhaps start by showing a traditional video game key mapping and ui summary? Or better, since the interactions are so unfamiliar, perhaps a program-demo screen-capture video? Made with a tool that shows the keys pressed and mouse movement. Which would also occupy the initial half-minute load time.

My experience was one of baffled struggle, repeatedly trying things, and thinking "Well, that didn't seem to work... Is it not supposed to? Am I doing it wrong? Did I almost have it but hit slightly off? Is it modal? Does some key need to be held down? Was there a bug? ... I've no clue, since I've little idea what to expect." Thus the idea of a demo video. Answering "what does skilled use of this ui look like?".
This is really cool, I just wonder for this particular demo, would it be cheaper to film in a real world location! :)
My (semi)local credit union, A+FCU [1] threatened to shut mine down because of Coinbase verification deposits in 2017.

[1] Yes, their name has a + in it, I was dumbfounded that the super-conservative banking system allowed that.
Keep in mind that Mountain Lion is a lot older than Mojave. If I go to SSL labs and test DarkSky.net, it shows a "protocol mismatch" for Mountain Lion and older, which is exactly what I saw with the widget:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=darksky.net&s... (scroll down to "not simulated clients" and click "expand).

I don't actually understand that much about the internals of https, but my assumption is that there weren't any cipher suites supported by both DarkSky and Mountain Lion.
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Yep, an obsession with (the appearance of) "hard work" and "frugality" combined with hardcore nepotism is the Midwestern way.
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Chrome extension developer here.

Google ripped my Chrome extension off the app store about a month ago.

I got a similar cryptic message, and then I scrambled to fix it, like you're doing now. Somehow my extension reappeared the next day.

Email me pat [at] trypigeon [dot] co and I can send you some of the things I did that maybe have helped.

Tweeting my support as well: https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1260638967793242113
There was an article here just the other week suggesting that vitamin D could very well be not a supplement to, but rather a marker of, good health.

If it is true that Vitamin D is a marker of good health, and people with high levels of Vitamin D do well against the virus, this study suddenly turns out to be a lot less interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211
Depends what you define as up to speed
You kids are spoiled nowadays with all your fancy graphics that substitute flash for performance, I played Warcraft Orcs and Humans for weeks, in all of it's beautiful pixelated, 8 bit glory. Now get off my lawn, zug zug.

mild \s
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Ah I see what you mean, I changed Democratic to Democracy-Driven. You are absolutely right that most people would assume the political party. Thank you for the support!
> Please, keep the confirmation email. I get tons of email sent to one of my account because people register for some mailing list or other service and enter MY email address as theirs. If I get an email to confirm, I can safely ignore it and be done with it. Otherwise, it is a major annoyance.

Seconding this. As a holder of firstname at a-mainstream-email-service, I've had to unsubscribe to mailing lists far too often.

If a service doesn't offer me a way to unsubscribe, sometimes I have to recover the offending account's password and request for the account to be deleted.
Not in the industry, so pure speculation.

Unreal Engine's old business model were exactly that, get you excited with demos and sign up ( paid ) for their engine. And it was the same with UE 3 and UE 4. But in 2015 all that changed. It was open sourced on Github, it has a very sustainable revenue model due to the explosion of Mobile Gaming, the Gaming industry as a whole is now bigger than Movies and Music industry combined.

I think it is fair to say EPYC no longer has the incentive to do that with UE 5. And because it is / will be open source, they can now actively work with many different partners ( Hardware such as Sony and Microsoft and other publishers ) to make sure those technology works as intended.
Any screenshots? Cameras are busy.
https://archive.md/o07Eq
To be fair, Epic wanted to have real-time global illumination for UE4. They even had a lot of the work done, but it just never quite made it. The performance impact was too great. I imagine several years later they've been able to deal with most of the issues, especially since we have a lot more computational power available.
Nothing like looking at truck numbers for things that you know how to do but hate doing to motivate you to find a new job. I've left twice when we hit 2, because I knew if we hit 1 I'd feel guilty about quitting, and then resentful about staying.

It's like a bad mix of Musical Chairs and Hot Potato where nobody wins.
Amazing, the future of this tech is just exciting
I wonder if it says they wear a lot of sunscreen. They’re on the equator and much of the country is at a very high elevation so the sun is particularly strong. When I was in Ecuador for a few months I went through more sunscreen than I had in my whole life up to that point. Without sunscreen I would get burnt to a crisp on an overcast day even when I didn’t spend much time outside.
Oh that's odd. Are you referring to /case-studies/tinder-monetization/ ? It is visible on my side (incognito mode)… I'll look into it. Thanks for the heads up.
In the US the only dosage I see available in the stores is 4000IU so what I usually do is take 1 every 2-3 days.
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Zero chance this will happen without a much bigger party involved
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is it the mid-month effect or are submissions for coronavirus lower now than they were in Feb? is this a rolling number?
Incredible. Replace green screen with real time rendered scene. Truman Show IRL.
Human color perception is three-ish-dimensional I think would be more accurate.

There are no three colors that can be mixed to produce the whole gamut of colors that humans can perceive. That is, there are shades that are visibly distinct that can not be produced by the closest pigments we have to primary cyan/magenta/yellow, and similar cannot be produced by mixing of monochromatic light.

Our perception is a window into the infinite dimensional space of frequency/intensity that can be very well-described by three parameters, but that is not adequate to completely describe colors even as perceived by humans.
This is awesome! What kind of bias would we expect to see in the training set?
Social constructs are real, but somewhat arbitrary. There's no genetic difference between Catholics and Protestants. If you were Catholic as a child, you could become Protestant as an adult.

Religion is socially constructed, but its differences still matter to people. Someone could legitimately ask why there were no Catholic US presidents prior to JFK.
Rent-control doesn't incentivize a tenant to constrain supply.

Tenants are incentivized to vote for rent control (for obvious reasons), and rent control has the unintended consequence of restricting supply — on average developers construct less housing in markets with rent controls than those without, relative to the demand.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24181
They were doing it in the 80s for music when samplers first became big.
Bank transfer and I got a big FU.

I would rather deal with Booking/Expedia and get a voucher, than deal with assholes.

Airlines will be forced to give you options, but private hosts will do fuck all. Do you know why? Because the host is still giving me the right to come to Croatia... it's not his problem that the borders are closed.

These middlemen are insurance for the consumer. Be it Booking, GrubHub, AirBnB, Uber, etc...
Yes, it is more work. And doing it doing it once every month instead of once a year is yet more work. But is it valuable work? Does that work accomplish anything? Or is that effort wasted when I could have been doing other things?

I was not a sysadmin -- I kept trying to avoid that, but got sucked in, as a programmer (my title), with the reasoning I have been doing "web stuff" for a long time, as well as the sysadmin duties that were required for setting up websites "back in the day." I could have been programming and solving real problems on a more permanent basis, but here I am, carrying water with a hole in the bottom of the bucket. Once the DevOps wand got waved, I got out.

If people are truly concerned about security, even the much-disliked sysadmin duties foisted upon me could have had the time more wisely spent then flipping certs around.
100% agree. Spoken like a user and not a PM.
I think it's fair to say that famine can't happen in areas with access to modern agricultural technology. (Which is a very real difference; until modern times there was no country so rich or productive that it didn't have to worry about famine.)
Wow, that's really cool. Googling around it appears that Mountain Lion wasn't upgraded to TLSv1.2 so any website that upgraded to TLSv1.1 broke on pre-Yosemite. I didn't realize this. Very interesting.
Thanks a tonne!!
And as you sunset FM radio, you cut huge swaths of humanity out of yet another communications channel. FM radios are cheap, well-established technology, perfectly suited to mass communications (as in emergency alerts, etc). It survives suboptimal conditions (fuzzy broadcasts are still intelligible, receivers can be operated on hand-crank power, replacing equipment can be done at a dollar-store, etc). The amazing new technology that replaces it is without exception more complex, less reliable, and requires more infrastructure, and the associated costs invariable lock some segment of society out of participation.

On the web side of this analogy, we're so fortunate to have people like Neocities trying to rebuild those bridges to the beginners, the resource-deprived, and the other edges of society, but with every crank of this ratchet we (literally!) excommunicate another set of our species, and that's depressing as hell.
Url changed from https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#the-dead-sea-effect, which points to this.

Please follow the site guidelines. Note this one: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This isn't an article but reading your post reminds me of the presentation by Gary Bernhardt titled "Boundaries", https://youtu.be/yTkzNHF6rMs

I would be interested in looking at the article(s) if you can find them again.
I think you're being down-voted because your comment doesn't really add anything to the discussion at hand.
You can be contributing code in a week or less, but if you're getting fully up to speed on any moderately large system in under 3 months, you probably should take breaks for meals and sleep more. Or you're not getting fully up to speed and are just ignorant. It could be less for a trivial or entirely greenfield system, but then you're worrying about other things like requirements/constraints/etc.
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I can confirm this 100% with Charter / Spectrum. They use MITM to alter HTTP content to display their TOS you have to agree to in order to stop redirecting the content.

The only workaround is to use a VPN since so many servers still have not moved from HTTP to HTTPS.

Tech support states unless I accept the agreement this will not stop and may connection will be disconnected which is complete BS since HTTPS prevents this from working properly!

So yes, even ISPs are bad actors when it comes to HTTP.
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I imagine with the advancements in consumer level tech with portrait mode in cameras and zoom backgrounds that the tech ILM has could make easy work of this.
A video signal contains the assumption that color can be represented by three parameters. But those three parameters are not capable of expressing the complete gamut of visible colors. It's just close enough that there's really no point in pursuing it further.
This is a very ignorant comment.

For some tasks, ray tracing already outperforms traditional rasterization.

All "photorealistic" 3D renderers are trying to produce output on par with a true ray tracing renderer, and because the computation required is so high, tons of bodges and hacks are employed to approach that level of quality. The resulting complexity of a traditional rasterizer is astronomical compared to the complexity of a ray traced renderer.

Ray traced graphics has been the goal the entire time computer graphics have been a thing; for the past 40 years, at least. That's always been the goal. I can't remember a time when it wasn't.

It's only now that hardware fabrication technology has put us in a place where we're able to slightly open the door to the rendering techniques we've desired for so long. It's an exciting time.

It is not a scam. It may not perform well in most situations currently, but I can promise you, that will change significantly as time goes on.

Just like how early CPU hardware was slow and expensive, early ray tracing hardware is slow and expensive. Over time, CPU hardware has gotten cheaper and faster, and the same will happen with ray tracing hardware.
> drab boring win32 applications

For example?
I think I understand your concern as the foundation is arguably old. But as someone actively following Erlang and Elixir the sentiment feels absurd. Elixir is very recent, very modern and Erlang/OTP has a very strong track record.

There are drawbacks of course but having worked with Python, PHP and JS. I haven't seen any real drawbacks. I wouldn't choose it for minimal overhead or the fastest compute maybe..

Edit: typo
Psh! I never trust a program with my hashing; pen & paper is your friend here, much more secure.
> But there are supply constraints, there is a finite amount of land to build on as well as a planning system and a cabal of builders banking land.

While you're right that there is a finite amount of land, we haven't even come close to reaching the practical limit of how much housing we can construct on that land: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/la...
It was Buy ‘N’ Large and the creators of Wall-E said they modeled the brand after Costco. Not that it doesn’t apply to Amazon. Maybe even better.
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Toss a handful into the next soup you make. It's got good texture, and goes well with nearly anything.
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you can, using react-native-reanimated, also, the upcoming fabric work will enable this as well.
And there's also a Pushbullet add-on for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pushbullet/

Not sure whether the functionality is the same.