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I'm Tokyo based so bunch of local multi-billion dollar companies doing Unity. Mobile games for the most part. A good chunk of their developers or either outsourced to smaller local studios, or contractors themselves.

Unreal contracting is even better. Most of the AAA studios switched from in-house engines to Unreal. Thus constant unmet demand for expertise and production on big console projects.

Granted what counts as okay money here might not match what you are hoping for. With the up side that Tokyo is never going to run out of gamedev work.
Gamer Grampz has some really good videos, and full playthroughs, if you want to learn it more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaGxTImj_nhq-EZ7VAhaukA
Redflow of australia actually makes zinc bromide flow batteries now. It has not been a financial success to put it mildly... Much as I like the idea of flow batteries I think their window of opportunity may be closing.
I do think that's a real concern...however in some ways this is an admission of failure - users like what's in the WSL enough that they want more linux, versus just some subsystem which is consumed by other apps.

Also, I think linux users (desktop/servers) who actually write code and provide updates for programs, aren't likely to pause the world for WSL. Its not exactly 'linux' nor the destination for their code, WSL stands a risk of becoming obsolete, if not properly maintained etc.

Its also good in some sense, it exposes users to linux capabilities and the like, who might not have had the guts to run a live cd or deal with modern hardware foibles.
SC4 was the last good SC game (and has mods!). SC3k has the best music though.
Any distro in particular you'd recommend?
> Lobby governments and research institutions to sponsor only free software projects.

Good idea!
A company doesn't have to destroy the shares they buy back, they can opt to retain them and use them for employee compensation or later reoffer them.
Mac is a BSD. OpenBSD exists. FreeBSD exists. NetBSD exists.

Because there are at least four BSDs, Mac therefore isn't good.

Do you see how ridiculous applying that logic to any operating system is?

Linux isn't a disaster. It's a kernel. There are Linux distributions with great user interfaces and great UX, developed by people who are great at it. There are also distributions that aren't.
Mozilla cross-compiles Firefox's macOS (and Windows) builds on Linux. Build times are much faster on Linux and build scripts for macOS, Windows, and Linux can share more common code.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921040
Currently a PM (although furloughed unfortunately), so the Coursera course has helped me have greater breadth/understanding and so many more tools to bring back to the office if/when business picks up. If my role is cut, I'll jump into the PM job search more actively and have been preparing for that possibility too.

In my previous role I was a Software Engineer, and made some great contacts that have some DevOps consulting opportunities. I'd like to take on some of this work and the AWS CSA Associate cert will definitely help. I'm about halfway through Linux Academy training and it has already been invaluable for my overall systems architecture and design thinking.

If you have any other thoughts/advice/questions, happy to chat more! Contact info is in my bio

TLDR: Currently a furloughed PM (Coursera) and have some cloud consulting opportunities (AWS CSA Associate cert)
The blog post I linked to above specifically addresses this (https://daringfireball.net/2012/09/get_the_fainting_chair). The specific consequences of delaying Apple Maps would have been either:

1. Not having turn-by-turn directions on Apple Maps, arguable the single most important feature for a mapping app.

2. Share more of Apple users data with Google in order to support Google Latitude. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Latitude)

So we have two choices: Not have the single most important feature in a mapping app, or violating one of the basic tentpole features the iOS brand, user privacy. So obviously they went with the third option, launch their own mapping service despite its flaws, and I've never heard a convincing argument that that wasn't the best choice.
You make some fair points. It's not pure charity since RH does receive indirect benefits from it, but I'd still say it's mostly charity. Maybe you have specifics in mind, but the "free work" I can think of (open source upstreams) is something that equally benefits RH competitors. It's more of a "rising tide lifts all boats" sort of thing. So while RH does receive some benefit from it, it still seems largely charitable to me.
That is an interesting and certainly very long term perspective.

I want a device I can also produce on but do most consumers really want that? I think they want something simple that does one thing. This is one of the reasons I think the switch has been so successful. I can't see my portable tablet / laptop / workstation incorporating joysticks. Also with GPUs stagnating as you mentioned high end games will still need to run on high power devices like consoles.
I don't share your issues with Catalina [1] but I have to agree Podcast app's UI design is very strange. The primary interface should be the "Episodes" tab.

Just like Twitter's UI, app developers think they know what content is best for you with a 'feed' or 'featured'... they've completely abandoned chronological ordered lists of content unless you click 2-3 buttons.

[1] Catalina has been painless for me, not sure why my experience was different than everyone else
I'm trying to decide where the line between sound economic advice and scaremongering sits. I think it may be around "You’re going to start having food riots soon enough."

At least I hope that's scaremongering. Given that everyone is doing their best to return to normal, I feel like running out of unemployment may not be as big of an issue as stated.
Aside to author: your page breaks mobile Safari hard on an iPad!

That's very weird. I haven't changed the CSS on that site since... uhh... some time around 2006, actually.
Do people have a problem opening the site?

It keeps resizing the font for every second on my iPad.
anyday now...
Forget Bash, Take Python
If you did a “man on the street” interview in Tokyo, how many people there would know that Texans don’t ride to their oil rig job on horses? I lived in East Asia for many years and many people there assumed that I had a ranch and rode horses because I was from Texas.

“Men” on the street everywhere have their ignorances. Americans aren’t any smarter or dumber than people anywhere else. If we were talking about “Chinese people __” or “Nigerian people __” we’d complain about it being racist or stereotypical, yet we seem to have no problem casting stereotypes when the subject is American. Europeans especially seem to delight in it. There is this smug superiority that comes in these conversations. But start lifting rocks in European towns and you’ll find that people are equally smart and ignorant across the world. It’s a matter of perspective.
Hopefully you're also less likely to get new unsafe binaries when disconnected. But it's all still awful.
How does mac identify a dev workflow and normal workflow?
But at Apple scale: 9% of $58 billion = $5.2 billion Mac revenue last quarter.
"Too low, gear" (and the other terrain alarms) are from GPWS, not TCAS.
I'd love for there to be some way to start experimenting with it. I understand it still has a long ways to go, but I'd like to get more of a feel for it outside of Jonathan Blow's 4 hour+ work sessions on Youtube.

I understand the likely reason why he isn't, because he doesn't want to have people bugging him for support on it, but if I could sign a "I promise not to email you any questions about it and I'm using this at my own risk, pinky swear" and get access to download the latest version of it, I would.
I tried to write stuff in Unity as someone with a working knowledge of C# and who wrote code in it professionally in the past. No environment was as infuriating as Unity as seemingly everything I wanted to do was overridden by the Unity API, and their given alternatives both didn't work as advertised and were barely documented
> So you can't build a MMO with Unity!

This has nothing to do with the skinning method,
and I agree with the other poster. It should retain the same vertex buffer in GPU RAM and simply deform it in the shader.
TIL most dinosaurs never saw a flower :(
To play devils advocate its not free and by default the cost accrues to the more successful students who may not have the financial resources to pay the additional funds and may opt not to attend despite being quite qualified. In some cases you may be trading more qualified graduates for less.

For some the truth may be that their lack of success may be external issues that can't be resolved by an additional investment of staff resources or just unsuitability for the program that can't be resolved other than by picking a more suitable major.

There is of course in the context of US education which wastes massive amounts of money so the actual answer is to stop wasting money on sports and invest that money in students but in all cases resources remain finite and some failure rate is inevitable.
You seem to have a post history of dragging any study that calls into question the use of Hydroxychloroquine so it's not hard to see the clear bias in play here. Medical consensus is increasingly becoming apparent that it's either ineffective in healthy patients or dangerous for patients with more severe complications due to the side effects.
It's too bad that such important pieces of the Linux desktop are so underfunded and neglected, though I can understand there just isn't enough revenue for even Redhat, Suse, etc. to justify hiring more developers.

But with all these little issues that cause problems for individual users on all the different scrollpads and touchpads and other non-standard hardware, nobody knows the true harm it may cause and how many users decided to get a Mac or even Windows because some esoteric hardware they owned just wouldn't work, but could have been fixed with just a small patch had the developers been available. This will become even more true as WSL2 becomes a more viable alternative.

Personally, my 'jumpy' touchpad on a new Dell Latitude I'd purchased a few years ago was my final straw in using Linux for development work. It was nearly useless with several different distros without an external mouse, and after getting used to Macbook's touchpad, I just couldn't rationalize using Linux when the touchpad is something I use so much.

Fonts are another one of these issues that I think could be solved more easily than even a few years ago - several important patents have expired and Google and others donated very high quality fonts to the community. Unfortunately, there just isn't the amount of paid developers working to ensure that things look good out of the box on every monitor, and so fonts often look horrible, especially to new users who are coming from Mac and Windows, where the issue was solved by full time UI experts a decade ago.
Nearly 400 Years Later, the Fork Remains at the Center of Dining Controversy
Depends on the laptop. I've had good experiences with thinkpads and business class Dells on Linux (and BSDs, for that matter).
I understand but for laptops it's pretty bad these days if you want all features your laptop is providing, and a good energy management.

On mobile it's much better with Android, but Android isn't adapted to laptops. I haven't tried ChromeOS but it's pretty restricted from what I understood. WSL2 on Windows is Linux and it works great for me but I understand if you don't want windows in your life.
After you've gotten used to Linux, you might want to try Arch.

It is lightweight, since you choose everything that is installed, sort of opt-in.

It has all the latest software.

It has "rolling releases" which means there is never a giant lost-weekend distribution upgrade.

It has the AUR (arch user repository) for just about any software ever.
Man, I wish Microsoft would opensource Age of Empires source code. That community is still around miraculously and would most likely rejuvenate the game.
You are correct but isn't that strange and defective?
I don't have a specific book for you, I myself learned about relational databases at school, not sure why is not being taught everywhere.

The things that you have problems with aren't really specific to PostgreSQL so if you are looking for a book while one based on PostgreSQL might be easier, there might be better books that talk about relational databases and what you learn will still apply.

About migrations, from PostgreSQL point of view you just use ALTER TABLE, CREATE INDEX, DROP INDEX etc. it's fairly trivial.

The problem comes that developers want to have it version controlled. So a framework around it is often built. Typically that functionality comes with whatever framework you are planning to use. For example if you use Python and Django framework it comes with migrations functionality, so you just learn what the framework provides.
I call this 'Outsourcing the cost of development to the user'...

Getting knowledgeable people costs money so we build more abstractions that lower the cost of development and pass the costs of development from the company to the user in the form of requiring more hardware to do the same thing.

How come I need 16Gb of RAM these days when 8Gb did it yesterday? How come my phone needs 4Gb of RAM while my 2012 tablet had 1Gb? Sure the hardware is cheaper but we're still not using the hardware to it's fullest.
Yes, you can use the alternate gear extension mechanism to manually unlock the wheel bay doors and rely on gravity to pull the gear down and lock it into place. This sometimes doesn't lock the nose wheel (you'd have to be nose down a lot for it to work) but that's usually okay.
It is THE area people have been working on in AI.

Multi-hop reasoning models have started working surprisingly well. ie. reasoning over multiple levels and conditions.

Common sense reasoning is also getting a lot better. By having huge knowledge bases, the model can actually learn some degree of human like general purpose context. Such as, returning the time at the London which has the most similarity with the user's hidden representation.
> 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.

My exact experience in France as well. “Six heure du matin” for example.
Fascinating, not surprising.
> medical consensus

I think I can understand where these sentiments come from.

People are dissatisfied with medical consensus because medicine doesn’t really speak with a unified voice. A doctor in one hospital might treat a condition differently from another — sometimes radically differently — and your family doctor might say something different from either of them. And anyone who’s been paying attention has seen authoritative recommendations from one decade be retracted a decade or two later.

The discipline is still waiting for a lot of discoveries that would dramatically change both mundane and more rare scenarios. A lot of competing theories show up in practice, which is natural for innovation.

Unfortunately, there are a number of cargo cults that have been medical consensus for many years.
Run an application from any public Git repo
Moreover, I've been running Linux for decades now, both in my personal laptop and at work, and Ubuntu has been (mostly) frictionless for me. I'm not an average user, of course, but for most users a friendly distro would work just as well as Windows (browsing the internet, using whatsapp web, watching movies). In some cases I've had a better user experience with Ubuntu than with Windows or OS X, namely seamlessly installing a wireless HP laser printer.
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 on a Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen2 and you would be surprised how "normal" it feels as a development machine. Sure there some little annoyances, the touchpad behaves a little worse than on windows, sound is a little worse. But the most important things, Keyboard and Screen are excellent. The system in general does not feel like the horror stories that people keep telling about linux on desktop(notebook). Now that WSL2 is getting Cuda even windows looks workable. Their new terminal app is amazing.
After a decade of Mac notebooks it was quite liberating and I would not switch back even if the flaws in macOS would be fixed. It is for sure the nicest of the big 3 operating systems but for development work Ubuntu is hard to beat for me. YMMV but it won't hurt to look around you what else is there.
I remember being in my early teens, ca. 1991, seeing photos of FM Towns and X68000 cases, and those systems' graphics capabilities, and thinking "holy moly THIS is surely gonna be the future!" :D
It's UX is ... not great. I couldn't even figure out how to open a project from a folder on disk. Not joking. I really tried.
> The only thing that Unity provides that has any chance of saving you time is the skin mesh animation

Unity has saved me a lot of time and I don't use the skin mesh animation system.
Or in this case, the money could end up in the bank accounts of all the employees they are letting go instead. That doesn't sound like a bad plan to me.

I get that investors want returns for their capital, but expecting employees to take all of the heat while shielding investors from any of it seems quite cynical.
I don't see it on macOS 10.15.4 (19E287). The full list of categories on my Privacy tab:

- Location Services
- Contacts
- Calendars
- Reminders
- Photos
- Camera
- Microphone
- Speech Recognition
- Accessibility
- Input Monitoring
- Full Disk Access
- Files and Folders
- Screen Recording
- Automation
- Advertising
- Analytics & Improvements

Granted I don't typically use Terminal.app (iTerm 2 user), so I launched terminal and did some privileged stuff. Had to grant Full Disk Access to, say, `ls ~/Library/Mail`, but "Developer Tools" never popped up.

Are you running a beta build or something?

---

Update: Okay, I checked on my other machine and that one does have it (Terminal is listed but disabled by default). What in the actual fuck?!?
Knowing that you don't much is not the same as discovering new things you didn't know. If the"awe and wonder" weren't there, they probably wouldn't have chosen that field.

And it IS fascinating to uncover unknown unknowns
Are you on a hard disk drive? I have bestowed upon myself the unique misfortune of running Windows 10 on a spinny disk.
If they are caching based on inode, this will not invalidate the cache. Do cp test.sh test2.sh and try again.
People please check how hot your devices are.
> WSL is not Linux

It is Linux as of WSL2, it's just also Windows, so you lose many of the advantages that would make a person recommend Linux in this thread.
Planes have a lot more combustible material on them than just jet fuel. Engine oil and oxygen canisters for a start.
What makes it tedious?
For your consideration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
main = putStrLn "Hello, world!"

No PhD required.
It depends on the amount of access to TimescaleDB the services provides.

If you're really curious, I'd be happy to chat: ajay (at) timescale.com
I guess that's the end of the road for hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.
Xcode (the UI) is able to bypass GateKeeper checks for things it builds.

The "Developer Tool" pane in System Prefs, Security, Privacy is the same power. Drag anything into that list you'd like to grant the same privilege (such as xcodebuild). This is inherited by child processes as well.

The point of this is to avoid malware packing bits of Xcode with itself and silently compiling itself on the target machine, thus bypassing system security policy.
Ubuntu pretty much works out of the box for a lot of "regular" users (I'm excluding gaming, which also works but is not as easy).

I'm sure there are other user-friendly distros that similarly let average users browse the internet, write documents, listen to music and watch movies painlessly.
A command like `terraform` shouldn't trigger the check because the quarantine system is bypassed altogether when you download and extract an archive. Maybe this is a red herring and your initial gut inkling is correct.
U.S. strikes at a Huawei prize
> Please read up on the history of open source

Not this patronizing bullshit again.

The term "open source" was marketing to take advantage of Netscape releasing their source code. Since since, everyone seems keen on trying to usurp its definition for whatever personal perspective they have that week.

To the rest of the community outside of the OSI and FSF (which is 99%+ of the software community), this is a perfectly acceptable example of "open source" that we're all that much richer for having.

The Timescale license checks almost all the boxes of the OSI definition (and I'm not certain how denying cloud providers specifically violates any of the language):

https://opensource.org/docs/osd
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine-administered patients have higher death rates
The markdown generation in ingenious. This will integrate well with static site generators, and the charts are extremely lightweight.

I posted a Show HN a while back for charting project that is also minimal (zero) dependency, in a sense: https://github.com/typpo/quickchart

It's a web service that takes a Chart.js config and renders the chart as an image. Downsides compared to this: not accessible, not as lightweight. Upsides: works in email clients (most of which disable flexbox) and other embedding situations, more customization via Chart.js
I used Arch on a server once (still running) but found the experience on Debian was more to my taste, and somehow never liked pacman. Maybe it's time to take another look. I never tried it on the desktop.
Given who's in charge of the CDC + Senate I can't say I'm holding my breath.
OCR techniques are general purpose in trying to map any conceivable text-looking shapes into actual text. Accuracy can vary wildly but the good ones will match against plausible words to eliminate low quality guesses.

Is there an accuracy optimization to be found if I can pre-train the OCR engine to look for a limited set of words instead of the entire dictionary- and printable character space?

The use case I have is OCRing shipping labels for packages that arrive at an office. The set of plausible matches is incredibly small as it is the set of employee names that work in said office.

Further optimizations include reducing the problem space by only considering computer printed glyphs and not bothering with handwritten labels, and the insight that the distribution of packages follow a power law where a disproportionately small group of people receive the largest number of packages.

The end goal is to perform this entirely on device, with low latency and high accuracy.
Godot Engine https://godotengine.org/ is much more user-friendly in my experience.
If that were possible, it would already be happening. Determining the subjective value (or even objective) value one provides is a pretty much impossible exercise.
Proof Of Concept 40 TB/s
Joe Rogan Just Blew Up the Death Star
“The president needs to stop playing a doctor on TV” – Hillary Clinton
Suicide is not such a rare cause of death. In the U.S., suicide is the second most common form of death among young people, after accidents:

> According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WISQARS Leading Causes of Death Reports, in 2017:

> Suicide was the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States, claiming the lives of over 47,000 people.

> Suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34, and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 35 and 54.

> There were more than twice as many suicides (47,173) in the United States as there were homicides (19,510).

Source: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml (see Table 1 for the statistics)