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It's also that Windows/Linux has many of these issues as well. It's not as if Windows 10 notifications are clear and intuitive. When I go to my desktop after a day of work, Windows will slowly replay every single slack message and email I got all day, one at a time, for almost an hour, as single notifications.

I think it's less that OS X is bad now, but more that it's finally degraded to a level of annoyance that people just have gotten enured to with Windows. It's not to say that that's a good thing, but at this point, I have known bugs and annoyances with all of the computers I work with, no matter the platform.

Some of it is also that Apple has a "real" integrated ecosystem. To what you say, you can easily move things between iOS and OS X. If you're watching stuff on your Mac, you can throw it to an Apple TV or your Airpods. Windows doesn't have a version of that that "just works". The closest you get is opting into Google's ecosystem and going Chromecast/Android, but I'd rather not trust Google with even more of my info.
Each of those studios started with a game. There are 10x many more small companies that rolled their own game engine around this time that are now dead, or bought for their engine.

The best tools grow first alongside a real product. Building a tool without a target product almost always misses the mark.
A gear-up touch-and-go has been done before though:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9v_Flight_262
Because it makes the mouse input worse. I always turn it off.
> my value to the company is greater than $150K, and $150K is a price you're willing to pay to leverage that value.

It's more about competition than value you're providing. In SF, you'll find another 6 figures very easily not so much in the middle of nowhere.
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It's more general than a physics engine in that it's predicting an expected outcome...it just so happens that the outcome here is largely dictated by physics. (At some level they all are but some more obviously than others)
There are 12 US cities that have achieved "functional zero" homelessness -- no chronic homelessness and no homeless vets.

The country of Finland has done the same, with a plan to reach absolute zero (nobody staying temporarily with friends or relatives) by 2022. Right now, over there, with 5.5 million people, 500 people don't have permanent housing of their own.

Does that count?
Other than being local-first, how is this different than roam?
This approach means one’s own deployments of Hasura can’t be immutable?
That's a fun phrase, but I don't think it's any wiser than any opposite phrase like "strike while the iron is hot".

Personally I think Xi messed up igniting this thing when he was legally going to get hong kong if he just waited patiently. He lost a lot of face, and now is facing american repercussions for pushing harder on hong kong :/

People like to attribute wisdom to those who have power but, tbh, acquisition of political power is a weak signal on leadership competence
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I think you might’ve misinterpreted the article. Whilst it does gloss over the Dataloader approach, it doesn’t dismiss it. The conclusion ends up essentially advocating for it.

The Dataloader approach gives you a potentially (arguably likely) suboptimal baseline performance for simple projects, or ones where tight coupling with the database is acceptable. But it’s one that tends to scale better and more predictably with complexity (both codebase size and architecture). A hybrid model where you use Dataloader but include some database query optimisations driven by your selection sets is likely a winning approach, but will probably need to be fairly bespoke to your architecture.
still lacks referential integrity and...i can't think of any primary store model that doesn't benefit from referential integrity.
My 2yo daughter reeeeally loves the Aladdin soundtrack, but the French version (we're in Québec). It took us way too many tries to get our Google Home to play the correct version with voice commands, even adding the language ("Ok Google, écouter Aladdin en français") wouldn't work. I now have a small note with the correct incantation posted besides the Google Home, because even forgetting a single word will play the English version instead. (For the curious, the correct incantation is "OK Google, écouter Aladdin bande originale française du film").
Unreal requires C++ and runs poorly on mobile devices and Nintendo Switch.

Unity uses C# and runs pretty well on weaker devices (dev and client side). It also crashes a lot less.

Freelancer Unreal Developers are approximately double the cost and 1/20th as plentiful as Unity developers.

And no, you can't develop a complete project in Blueprints:

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

Unity had no choice but to split into HDRP and URP, because the gulf between next-gen consoles (high-end) and mobile (low-end) is going to become enormous. High-end will be completely dominated by raytracing, replacing traditional lighting, for example.

However it looks like Unity have really mismanaged this division and have totally siloed the two teams working on each pipelines.

They also require their Asset Store creators to provide more long-term support than they do for their own official Demos:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/please-stop-with-your-madnes...
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I’ve been using a Wacom Intuos S combined with Microsoft Whiteboard. The Intuos wasn’t outrageously expensive and has been working really well for my needs (mostly just process and class diagrams during online architecture discussions).
For example: any album by Chicago which you can find several copies of in any used record store in the country?
I highly recommend all of Jack's blog posts about RabbitMQ - https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/tag/RabbitMQ

Jack works with me on the RabbitMQ core engineering team. We've been hard at work to address a lot of the issues brought up in comments here. It's worth it to try out our latest releases. The engineering team is very active with the community and takes all constructive, helpful (i.e. reproducible) feedback seriously. Feedback is encouraged via the rabbitmq-users mailing list. Thanks.
is a Prolog derivative with FOHH clauses, first post says it.
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Mostly fence nails and 100 year old remneants. Lots of ferric metal can occur naturally and is no better. Its not like garbage or trash as you are so inelequently suggesting. Cows eat nearly anything, so if you take the responsibility for their well-being by raising them, you have to plan accordingly.
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I tried this briefly but ever since I discovered Roam Research I haven't looked back.
Which will only cause more concern and disruption amongst HK citizens because what they feared was true.
I've kind of wanted to augment the backspace with some mild swearing while it is being used: "damnit damnit ughh damnit".
> Unity has more engineers than Epic.

It's funny. I see it (anecdotally) all the time. More engineers doesn't mean a better product.

In fact at my old shop, things (product, quality) really started declining once we 'rapidly' scaled the team. Communication and consistency really suffered from lack of solid processes among other things.
Unity source code is available to anyone that actually wants to have it.

It just isn't available in FOSS sense.
It's most likely an 56 volt Ego 7.5 Ah battery. I bought mine a few years ago on eBay for $200.
Not much more than an armchair flight engineer here, but even if there's a hydraulic failure, does the A320 have a failsafe mode where the landing gear can be deployed via gravity?
"Hey Siri, set a timer for 5 minutes"

90% of the time works fine, and it's essentially all I use Siri for. It's very convenient when cooking and my hands are dirty. But 10% of the time I get something along the lines of...

"I'm sorry, but you don't have the Timer app installed".

"I'm sorry, but you don't have the Timer app installed".

"I'm sorry, but you don't have the Timer app installed".

"I'm sorry, but you don't have the Timer app installed".

It's infuriating because I know Siri is dumb so I use the same exact simple phrases to avoid confusion. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It always transcribes the command accurately though! I've actually lost my temper and smashed an Apple Watch before over this. This is in my house, on a very reliable network, always with my phone within a reasonable distance.
Once when stuck on how to structure my second chapter of my thesis, and had been procrastinating over it for a week, I was sitting in the library with my computer, and I instead pulled out a pad of paper and wrote out the whole damn chapter in pen in about an hour.

It was all in my head, it just needed to come out. Somehow the words just flowed with a pen.
Show HN: The 1.0 of my Slack app – Visual Office
Hi HN,

I am happy to say the v1.0 of my Slack app, Visual Office, is ready today!
https://www.visualoffice.app/

My obsession with extending an office metaphor into Slack started last year, when I was managing a remote team of engineers at a company that is 75% remote. Despite loving my work from home days, I couldn't help but notice that I was closer to my co-workers I saw in person than the ones I interacted with remotely.

For the most part this was minor, but important, interactions. The banter when we first came into the office, lunches taken together more often, and a general awareness of what they were focused on. On the other hand, it was harder to setup social time with my remote teammates (I didn't want to ping and interrupt them) and the context I had about what they were currently working on was often based on signals that got piped into slack in the form of jira, zendesk, or sales bot messages. Not an ideal way to build a relationship, especially outside my immediate team.

Visual Office is my attempt at solving these issues by making it easy to understand what your teammates are doing and how they are feeling.

- A pixel art representation of your office inside Slack.
- Async, daily standups to provide context within and across teams.
- Ephemeral social rooms in your virtual office, so you can join a team lunch, or quick break, without needing to be in always on channels.
- A single screen to update your status, emotional state, and turn on your do not disturb settings.
- Developed as a Slack app to ensure you don't need to change how your remote company already communicates.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
But again, why not just deploy your microservice to a development namespace on a shared cluster? It's going to be the closest thing to production, with hopefully only a few flags changing.
But if the AI is functionally indistinguishable from a human player (human-like and undetectable), does it even matter really? https://xkcd.com/810/

(Conversely, if they're _not_ functionally indistinguishable from a human player, then that means it's possible to write an AI or other algorithm to detect them.)
That probably indeed varies a lot by location and demographic.

In my experience in Finland, casual spoken discussion is usually 12h but written is 24h. The xx:xx format always means 24h, whether written or spoken.

When referring to a precise minute 24h is common even when spoken - "train leaves at sixteen thirty-four" - the 12h alternative is "train leaves at four past half five" or "twenty-six to five".
Notably, one would never say "four thirty-four" as that refers to 04:34 (24h).

Also, 12h is used when casually written with letters - e.g. it would be "meet you at three" / "nähdään kolmelta", not "meet you at fifteen" / "nähdään viideltätoista".
To activate a kids imagination a program has to do something useful, hopefully magical. That’s a really high bar for assembly.

Xcode is free, as is building Swift UI programs that actually do things. $99/year is only required to sell your app to the $20B App Store market.
Bees never cease to fascinate me. The more I learn about them the more I realize we only understand a small part of their world. We still have tremendous things to learn about their society, how they cooperate, communicate.

Check this out about Japanese honeybees that I learned last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awoV5Wj9Iys They will swarm invaders and buzz their wings creating enough friction and heat to kill the enemy. European honeybees, however, do not have the same instinct.
Amazon Aurora seems to fit.
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I promise as a kid I would have learned to hack grandpas implant to order pizza. Take every digital life intergration with a box of salt.
> There is no way Apple could wait until feature parity

Why?

A startup would eventually need to start generating funds, or at least prove themselves in the market to convince investors. But Apple? They could have kept Maps in the oven for another five years if need be. Similar to how they secretly kept Intel builds of OS X in their back pocket for years.
Yes, but we expect those assistants to be a little smarter than college programming assignment...
Tooling, a deep belief that there is more than C and C++ as means to develop games and being able to target low end devices without turning them into frying pans.
My first draft of a story is always in pen. Followed by a very cringey typing it in.
> 24h time is extremely rare in everyday use in the US.

Sure.

> There are huge swaths of Americans who will literally not know what 17:00 translates to in AM/PM.

1. Same is true for most people in the world

2. Wait, you mean they don't know if 17:00 is early morning or late afternoon??

Seriously, I have a hard time to believe that. I'll believe that most Americans need to convert to am/pm, but not that "huge swaths" literally cannot understand this.

My expectations of the average USA'ian are better than that.
I think you're agreeing with my point? Those areas are hubs for hiring too, for the same reason? Albeit not to the same degree as the Bay Area.
Seems they couldn't get their nose gear down.
I'm so frustrated that Unity and Unreal are the only two real options. And it's all because of console vendors.

Unreal is just way too inaccessible, as an individual, non-C++-veteran (used it a bunch in college, but modern C++ looks nothing like what I've seen), non-games-industry-veteran. It's also fairly opinionated towards first person/third person action games.

And then Unity is of course a dumpster fire. It's much easier to get started and hack something together with, but you'll be hacking and fighting with the engine for the entire project.

Open-source libraries/engines exist, like Godot, but none of them properly support consoles because console APIs are apparently proprietary (??) because the console vendors are apparently stuck in backwards, draconian software practices from 2002.

The whole state of indie-accessible tooling is just deeply depressing.
I learned it by traveling the US on a one month Greyhound bus pass. I had to deal with the time tables, after all. It’s a rather inefficient way to learn it, but it was interesting in other ways.
Looking at its adoption by Hollywood and TV channels for 3D based animations, Unity is getting lots of stuff right.

I guess there is always Godot for those that don't feel the same way.
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I had a similar experience around the same time - still don't feel like giving that widowmaker another chance.
Tesseract is the best FOSS one I found when I looked a bit back. I don't conceive of a superior FOSS one any time soon unless a commercial one open sources, or some one utilizing deep learning comes out.
RIP high tech salaries. If you were teetering on a decision between working in a FAANG company or starting your own business, then this adds some weight for the "own business" side.

I get that high salaries are partly a result of war for talent. This demand will continue to prop up salaries to a certain level. But how much does location play into scarcity?

Line up all the people around the world who could work for a FAANG company. Eliminate everyone who can't get a visa to work in the US. Add back all the people living in the US who could work for a FAANG company. Eliminate everyone can can't or won't live in one of the most expensive cities in the world (maybe not a concern for foreign workers at this point because they have already accepted and received the visa, but it will cut out a lot of US citizens.) Eliminate everyone (mostly US) who already has a job and isn't bothering to look for another. Add moving into a city with not enough housing as friction. Add available office space as friction.

Am I missing anything?

How many more people do we now have that can compete for jobs at these companies? 2X? 10X?

If FAANG companies are now hiring from anywhere in the world, why wouldn't China create a state backed initiative to run Olympic level intensive programs specifically targeted at filling seats at these FAANG companies? It would be a national program for creating high paying jobs and it would provide a sense of national pride of having the greatest talent for the industry. Why wouldn't these countries become as competitive with providing workers for the tech industry as they have become with manufacturing?

Aside from having a greater pool of available workers to pull from, this is a major reset event. The other side of this reset could look very different than it did a few months ago. WFH is just the first big change.
I had not heard of this book but just grabbed it on Kindle and read the Preface and holy shit yes. So many bullshit jobs.

The first thing to pop into my head is a conversation with my wife a few weeks ago about a couple of people she works with. They are "directors" in the company but my wife has always commented that their jobs are literally pointless. They "champion" things but never actually get involved other than to be updated on what is happening.

Basically they spent their time flying around the world for meetings but in terms of real output they never actually had anything to show. They always claimed to be "so busy it is crazy!" but never seemed to produce any quantifiable results. It seemed the positions existed because it is just expected at a big video game company would have a lot of super talented people at director level. Why I don't know, I guess because at some point they were actually useful?

Since working from home and being unable to travel for these super important meetings a few of these people are losing their minds as they have nothing to do and surprise! everything else is going along just fine. The teams all communicate as needed. Deliveries have still been made on time, etc. Sure there has been some impacts with contractors and suppliers being shut but nothing internal has been impacted.

My wife is secretly hoping these positions evaporate as they have no demonstrable benefit to the business. For almost 3 months these people have done literally nothing and nobody has noticed.
I've actually never used it, and probably won't at this point. But, we do use Couchbase at my workplace, and it's worked well for us. The use case is very limited in scope, but it serves our purposes well.

I'd be curious to know how they compare from folks who have used both?
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For more context, the highest previously recorded was 24.9%, during the Great Depression.
I'm a full-time independent game developer who's been using Unity for the last 6 years and sadly Garry's very correct. The render pipeline debacle has been painful to watch, Unity announced that the Universal Render Pipeline (what is still planned to replace the default renderer) was 'production ready' in early 2019, and it was lacking... so much. No ability to use multiple cameras (one for the game, one for the UI, for instance - a common use-case), they've rewritten the post-processing stack multiple times. Having more than one Directional Light was supported only very recently. Some of these have been and are being addressed, but it feels like Unity is in this odd no man's land, grey-area between the old legacy parts of the engine, and the new ones that just aren't ready for prime time, with many glaring gaps in the functionality. You would expect something as straight-forward as SSAO to be available out-of-the-box, it's hardly cutting edge tech, but two (three?) years into URP's development and it's not in the Standard Assets yet.

I do sympathise, it must be very difficult to bring an old engine up-to-date, but it's quite infuriating for developers like myself to work and know when to upgrade and when not to.
We use room. Love it and the founders are super helpful if you run into issues
just search for "tesseract GUI". if you are more technical, you can write code around tesseract. for what you get for free, it's really impressive what Google has done with this in just a few years to make it something that the average person can really consider using for free.

ex. https://github.com/tesseract4java/tesseract4java
They didn't care about risking a war because there is nothing the UK could have done.

The key is that HK was very useful as a gateway with the rest of the world for import/exports and finance. They preserved it because, while they despised foreign presence, it served their interests to. Iirc, at one point something like 90% of the PRC's imports and exports transited via HK.
> but as a storage format it's hard to come up with one that's more bloated.

It's easy: xml.
That’s why insurance policies in the US usually comes into effect at 12:01 AM.
I think it comes down to power in the company. Unity was extremely simple and small before, once they got John Riccitiello it become a management/business focused company over engineering leaders in terms of power and direction.

Unreal has Tim Sweeney, and old school guy that understands how to make a game engine and has done it over and over. They learned alot from Unity, and are now doing it better than them once they turned towards simplicity over complexity.

When Unreal 4 swapped out UnrealScript for C++ it went into overdrive in terms of performance and clean.
There's a docker image that can take a configuration file as input.

https://hasura.io/docs/1.0/graphql/manual/migrations/advance...

You can choose to bring in that configuration via a Kubernetes configmaps type thing, or by baking a new image for a release (like you would have done with your source code say).
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Because of separation of powers, the judicial branch isn’t run by the executive or legislative branches. Also, the fact that the government isn’t a singular entity; it’s three distinct entities (each with their own sub entities) that are ultimately run by millions of separate humans, each with their own belief system.
Perhaps I just find him akin to a snake in the grass. A constrictor doesn't make the conscious decision to give it's pray a false sense of security; it's simply in it's nature.
There is another factor to consider which is that the 2017 gold rush when Valve opened up Steam to anyone with $100 is absolutely over.

The median game launching on Steam now will make only $1,400 (5 year gross revenue): https://twitter.com/greyalien/status/1227557601786912769?lan...

Unity's business model was selling $100 worth of starter assets to wannabe-developers then taking a 30% cut on that.

Now, browse gamedev subreddits and all you will hear are tales of financial misery. Who would want to get into that as a paid hobby or quit their job to do it?
I got familiar with Mongo because of a piece of software that we acquired last year. It was way out of date and step one was to bring it up to latest. Step two was to change the hardware configuration and indexes to something reasonable. After doing this it's tolerable, but still lacking in speed per cost in my view. We have tentative plans to migrate to a relational database.

There are probably good use cases for Mongo, but I haven't found one yet.