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Would assume generalizations are bad to make here.

Video Games have:

- Thought me more English than I could ever learn in school especially TALKING (non-native)
- Started many projects for me that helped me later on from learning programming to analytical thinking and strategy
- Learn to work in teams and become part of a community, even though I still had the weekly sports activity and school etc also
- Got me into PC hardware and MS Windows with great detail to optimize my experience
- Made me "escape reality" without waking up with a broken bone somewhere next to the road

Guess there were many more points, some of which I maybe wouldn't attribute towards gaming but where indirectly affected by it.

But I can also see how other generations might have a different experience. You might no longer need to tinker with your OS and hardware to get a great performance.
Creating large spreadsheets to calculate game specific actions and derive decisions is also not needed for many games.

So I guess saying video games are bad is way too generic, as it is to say drinking is bad. Depending on the usage and what you get out of it.

I am more than happy to not have taken jiu-jitsu classes and I would also challenge if that had made it any better for me compared to gaming.
Joe Rogan wouldn't say "you don’t get anywhere" with programming, though.
You can also use those tools on Rust. It looks close enough that’s it’s fine. Valgrind, fuzzers, that stuff still works.
When I raised my B2B SaaS’s prices
What’s the average accident rate in the kind of conditions in which autopilot is used?
Sure, more can be said about it than "games = bad".

But at the same time, the difference between the things you list is the level of fulfillment. Or, in other words, how you feel about your time spent doing that thing 5 or 10 years later.

Even though I have good memories in some games, I don't look back on my time in World of Warcraft and think "yeah, that's definitely how I'd spend that time if I had a do-over." Meanwhile, my time spent learning language, meeting up with friends, and writing short stories are expenditures of time that I'm proud of.

Games usually suffer from two things:

1) Games tend to be cheap entertainment on the Netflix and Twitter and heroin side of the fulfillment continuum.

2) It's too easy to sink a lot of time in games, and they tend to dominate your mind when you're in them. You mention music, but people aren't just sitting at their desk from 6pm to 4am listening to music. Most hobbies don't grip you like that. It makes it easy to neglect other things in ways that, say, an addiction to hiking does not.

As a former big gamer myself, I think most people are stuck in the trap of games and only a small fraction of people are doing something particularly fulfilling with them. But my point wouldn't be that games = bad, but rather: beware.

For example, on the other hand, there was a time when I was only gaming to play online with my best friend who had moved across the country. That was some fulfilling gaming. But I wouldn't be surprised if most people were like me and found it very hard to strike a healthy balance.
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It's also the only way I know to have RSS feeds for youtube channels. I hope other instances won't follow invidio.us, that would be a major loss for me. I could run my own instance of course, but then, running an instance to generate a RSS feed to consume it would feel overkilled, better to run a scrapper from cron directly.

Anyway, Invidious was an extremely useful tool, thanks to the author for making it.
Firebase offers email login (passwordless) as an auth method. Where you are emailed a new URL that logs you in, each time you wish to.

It also offers SMS based login in a similar manner where no passwords are involved and you just copy a 6 digit or so number from a SMS you receive upon clicking 'Login'

In India this SMS based login method without passwords is the norm for almost all locally developed apps I've used (despite SMS as the sole authentication factor being not really secure due to the possibility of sim swapping, etc).

Disney Plus (Hotstar) in India has recently started mandating users to switch to such SMS based single factor auth (from password based login), presumably to add friction for account sharers.
> A game can be a complete waste of time, and equally it can be an enriching and educational experience.

There are a few exceptional games that encourage creativity and arguably provide some education. However, the majority of gamers have been playing roughly the same FPS that provides the same basic violent catharsis since Doom came out 27 years ago.

For this vast majority of gamers, games are just mindless fun which neither aims for, nor achieves, any sort of meaningful self-improvement.

> You could make the exact same argument for music, books, films or TV - it is an artistic medium.

Most popular entertainment, just like the aforementioned FPS, is just mindless diversion catering (or if you will, exploiting) our baser instincts and propensity for addiction. That applies to all forms of popular entertainment: games, TV, films, and even books.

The point of the article is that games - unlike films or TV for example - promote a sense "fake fitness". Nobody believes that they acquire some valuable fitness by binge-watching Friends on Netflix. However, gamers do tend to hold a false belief that they are gaining some valuable skills out of the huge amounts of time they spend playing popular video games.

RPGs for example directly exploit this delusion: your character gains many valuable skills, and by falsely identifying with them, you feel a sense of accomplishment even though all you did was mindlessly grind some braindead "quests" and your odds of surviving in a real combat situation are just as bad as before - worse, probably, because your fitness has deteriorated from so many more hours of sitting on your couch mashing buttons.
For the same reason I don't listen to the Kardashians for advice, I am not going to listen to an obnoxious MMA dude for life advice.

Clearly many humans have too easy a life (myself included) when we seek to fill our time with meaningless drivel produced by others who also have too much time.
I am not a native english speaker... didn't work for me.
With closed eyes I heard something like brain-needle :D and while reading both words shown, I still heard "brain-needle".
I highly doubt this is true. I've never lived in a place outside of the developed world, but I also have never lived or visited a place where the sidewalks drowned in dog/cat poop and pee. In fact, I've never actually watched a cat pee on the sidewalk in places where it cannot be covered up, simply because that's not how cats tend to act.

Where are you getting your information from?
How much have you traveled?
What is your definition of city?
Do you have some proof?
I say boy because I literally see parents being proud when their little boys play games. They are literally happy about their kids doing gender right.

It is different in adults insofar it sux for partner when he is playing all the time while she is dealing with kids and all that boring stuff.

But outside of the addiction situation, male gaming in adults is accepted as being dude doing dude activities. Trying to pretend that you massively popular hobby is making you outsider is ridiculous.
I wouldn't call it masochism, it's like puzzle solving or physical exercise. It's nice when you finish it.
>the discipline, progress, and sense of purpose offered by this kind of physical challenge is absolutely real

The discipline, progress, and sense of purpose offered by video games is equally real. If you think it's lacking any of these attributes you're probably playing something too easy. I've done martial arts before, and the thrill of winning a full-contact fight (in my case judo) is identical to the thrill of overcoming a genuinely hard video-game challenge. You even get much the same physical reaction; watch somebody who speedruns with a heart-rate monitor when they're on world-record pace.

The only advantage of martial arts is the enforced exercise, and it's a form of exercise with high risk of injury. And because the brain is a physical organ like any other, and because there's no clear distinction between mental and physical fitness, most competitive gamers realize that exercise gives them a competitive advantage. It's rare for a pro gamer to never hit the gym. Advertising this fact is probably more beneficial than advertising martial arts directly.
Implementation status for the major browsers here: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status

This, along with WebAssembly (threads, SIMD, etc), are going to be a very big deal in the next few years. The obvious use case is AAA games running in your browser, but I think once we've got 80-90% of native speeds on the web, basically all of the "client-heavy" apps (video processing, game dev tools, etc.) are going to start migrating over too. Not really an interesting prediction at this stage, since it already started happening way back in asm days. IIRC photopea.com doesn't even use WASM at all, and it has excellent performance on all sorts of image manipulation/encoding/etc tasks. Still, I think there are exciting times ahead for those hacking on the web platform.
Do you mean stuff like Medium's 'magic link' approach?

enter email address, get a link via email, click on link: magically logged in!

If so, that's exactly what I've discussed with various clients to implement for their projects, because I agree that in many cases it's a really nice and, as far as I can tell, safe approach.

Personally I really don't like it, because I have a password manager and I rarely have my email open in my browser. But for many, if not most 'casual' computer users it does seem ideal to me.
Rogan was utterly addicted to quake when younger. To the point where he had a high speed t1 line installed at a time when that cost an awful lot.

Having watched the podcast he discussed it in, I think he was more worried about the kind of default usage people slip into, where all their free time is effectively consumed by gaming as he experienced himself.
Recent?

Nassim Taleb's work is definitely driven by discussions had over wine and squid ink pasta.
Probably not the answer you're looking for but: I don't.

I don't particularly care how "well" my side projects do - I write them mostly for myself.
Mini splits are fantastic. My experience from them has been from every home / small store I've ever lived in or visited while in south east asia. Window units can be annoying because of the wind they produce while I've never had issues with former.
You can use the exact same argument for carrying a small magnet in your pocket. The satire might be going over my head though.
THe moneys all in English speaking countries and China so... do NLP in Mandarin too.
Grappling is a better outlet than boxing or MMA. Physical, real world and no risk of concussion.
A flawed assumption: A new account does not mean it's a throwaway. The heretofore anonymous user may simply have found a topic worth commenting on. Secondly, my user is over 6 years old and I've not made any comments in favor or against the CCP in my entire history. I simply commented on what I find to be a logical fallacy. So I'm curious what you base your assumptions on.
You can do that with video games as well. See: Wii fit, Beat Saber, many other vr games.
Difficult conversation topic for many, I suppose
I wouldn't write off Joe Rogan so easily. He's actually played his fair share of video games. His personal life story is also quite inspiring as he is clearly someone who has dedicated himself to self improvement.

On a personal level as someone who has easily sunk probably ~20-30k hours (as measured from game timers over the years)
into video games of all kinds of genres, I have to say nothing can come close to the enrichment or happiness I have experienced from practising martial arts.

There is something that compounds from simultaneously getting stronger and fitter while also learning a skill, all while being taught self-discipline and peace.

I have encountered meditation in kendo (mokuso), muay thai and taekwondo. (EDIT so the benefits associated with yoga can loosely also be conferred to a high quality martial arts school)

You can learn many lessons from videogames - my obsession with minmaxing and exploiting mechanics no doubt prepared me well for a kind of edge-case oriented software mindset. Games like DMC/MH/Dark Souls teach you patience. PvP games at a high level teach you about competition and mindreading/anticipation. Team based games can teach you communication and coordination.

But games are also extremely stimulating and the dopamine hit is too "cheap". There's also something to be said about incorporating your entire body into whatever hobby or exercise you do. The payoff is greater and isn't so easily substituted.
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Spending free time for enjoyment can’t be considered a waste. Don’t violate the golden rule and the hobby is fine. The only person who cares that your hobby is healthy is you. Don’t disrespect others. Martial arts is even worse by this metric because gamers don’t insult other peoples’ hobbies as often.
Not knowing something is not intellectual justification for being broadly dismissive. To come to know new things requires being broadly open.
In Rust, the way to force removal of bounds checks is to use iterators rather than a for loop.
I've noticed this when I post "Ask HN" questions too - text seems to be muted immediately though, regardless of votes. It's kind of confusing since, as you say, elsewhere this means a comment has been downvoted.
> What are people going to do in the case of no support though?

Fix their GPU drivers or OSes. In a cloud, switch to GPU instance type.

Compute shaders were introduced in Direct3D 11.0, on PCs the support for them is required for a decade now. Mobile devices were a bit later, but their upgrade cycles are faster, the support is good by now.
R290 is just propane, and it has a low Global Warming Potential. I see a lot of the new portable A/Cs use it. Apparently it's also more energy efficient. Obvious downside is that it's flammable.
I think the interpretation of "you don't get anywhere" is the crux. There are a few games I've put a few hundred hours in, and those hours were mostly fun and exciting. I gained skills in the game, some of which are transferrable to other things, but most of which aren't.

If I was to put the same time into a new programming language, I'd have gained a different set of skills, again some transferrable and some not. I think most people judge the second set of skills as more worthwhile than the first (maybe because it is tied to employability, and is seen as more "age appropriate").

Another aspect is that programming isn't designed to be addictive in the way some games are. Something like World of Warcraft seems designed specifically to hook into the part of the brain that rewards grind. In the moment, WoW is very compelling. But looking back on what was accomplished, I don't feel particularly positive about it. Compared to a programming project with a similar time commitment, in the moment it is on average less compelling probably, but the achievements are more satisfying in retrospect. Somehow this makes programming seem more worthwhile (though maybe I have just internalized the societal standards from above, and that's why I feel more satisfied with the programming projects).
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> With a proof written at machine level, you don't need to understand the rust semantics, you just need to translate the rust to machine level and then check the proof there.

This approach would only be able to verify a particular compilation result as safe. If you want to verify that it will always be safe, you need to be comparing against the behavior of future compilers, which requires some kind of contract about their behavior. “Formal semantics” is the technical term for that contract.
Looks like I mispelled the name. I was simply referring informally to Eliezer Yudkowsky and the LessWrong-style thoughts on optimization processes. You can read the initial idea here[0].

If you haven't heard of LessWrong before, then you have hit the motherload of all rabbit holes! That site is definitely worth the dive.

[0]:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HFTn3bAT6uXSNwv4m/optimizati...
Maybe worth to note this was posted in late (2019)
How deep have you gone on a physical activity/sport? I would posit the depth simply isn't there in those vr games.

Beat saber and DDR might be ok but the skill / coordination element isn't quite the same as learning various techniques well in a martial art (or sport like tennis/soccer)
Maybe just make a site for your book using Hugo (or Jekyll/Pelican/etc).

If you expect high traffic volumes, put it behind a CDN such as Cloudfront.

Offering multiple download options such as EPUB and PDF might entice more readers.
This another case that seems intuitive to me (I can't read the rest of article) since:

* Cities basically serve as a multiplier for economic output, enabling economies of scale (because of lots of people live near one another).

* That increase in population also leads to increased risk from pathogens which can spread with unsanitary conditions or over-crowding and work to reduce urban population (Corona, Queens - one of the harder hit areas of NYC during the pandemic has lower share of 1-2 person households and a higher share of 3-7 person households than the city overall).

* It's only been since the 20th century when most of the world's population has lived in cities, so their growth has likely been encouraged by practices and technologies like better sanitation and wastewater treatment, hand-washing, vaccines, and modern epidemiology.

What I'm curious about is this: could computing and the internet recreate the broad multiplicative benefit on economic output that cities create? Or will the internet in the 21st century continue to serve only the winners in a winner-take-all market?
Why are you purposely being unfaithful in your argument here? I can easily search up multiple cases where foreign companies have applied the rule of law and won in China. The rules are clear to Google and they simply chose not to follow it. They tried to follow to follow the rules with Project Dragonfly until their own employees scuttled the project, but that’s on Google.

The existence of Bing proves that it’s possible to operate a foreign search engine in China.
By googling "jquery synchronous ajax". Here is the first result: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6685294

Although I don't recommend doing this it's hardly as difficult as your comment implies.
D is dead so is Rust. You fucking propaganda assholes must know C++ is king, don't dare to replace it. Even if you did, you gonna to hit with Logical bugs. So rest in peace.
Kindle and Goodreads I think are both crap for the same reason: the goal is to kill the competition not make great products.

Amazon should never have been allowed to buy Goodreads.
Just jumping in here, but all I'd suggest is that other biological systems may be similarly complex in ways that don't necessarily impact you. And if we stopped to disambiguate every nuance, we'd never be able to have fruitful conversations.

That said, I understand why this particular nuance is important to you and I think it's a helpful distinction to make that many may have not considered, so I appreciate you making it.
It is there, just not certified for this use. However, if they manage to make a successful ememgency propulsive landing (even an unaccounted one), it will be investigated and then approved post-facto. The engines used for landing are the same engines that are used for post-second-stage maneuvreing.
The 2k exercise bike aside, this is a brilliant article. I love reading stuff like this and wish I had the smarts/knowledge to do this sort of thing.
Their project is more focused on (but not limited to) the physical layer, particularly for cellular wireless networks.

Usually in cellular (e.g. LTE, 5G) both the mobile phone and the cell towers implement all of their PHY using a mixture of custom SoCs, FPGAs and DSPs, and all the code behind of this is as closed as it gets (even the drivers).

What they are doing is basically implementing as much as possible of their cellular network with code that is open. Literally getting the signal as close as possible from the antennas, sampling, and processing everything with code that can be studied and changed.

This openess makes it easier for researchers to develop new ideas for wireless networks (just reprogram your CPU, instead of having to beg to a manufacturer to provide SDKs for their super secretive equipment).
Brazilian jiu jitsu (which is what Joe Rogan practices) is a grappling art. It does not involve any striking of the head at all. Concussions are exceedingly rare, I’ve never heard of anyone getting one.
Greg, I agree with you on this...
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The new title is more accurate (in the sense of fraudulent) although the new terms may be less immediately recognizable to readers and it doesn't mention the sheer scale of the problem. What IWF chases goes beyond the range of actual abuse to actual people too.

I don't really mind it. I'm just clarifying my rationale for the previous one I chose. The new one is fine as it's closer to the original title of the article.
It is reportedly Chromium-based, not quite electron. UI is HTML with web components. Lots more details here: https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_s...
You sound like you are talking to your parents.
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> How did you determine that the effect is negligible?

The power bill measures overall how much time the compressor spent running for the same preset, and there's little difference between two hose and one hose mode. I'd presume this is the most effective efficiency measurement I have.

> A single-hose A/C should actually blow colder air locally, because it's using cool interior air to cool its condenser.

Usually it feels as if the air _around_ the ducts/behind the compressor is warmest, rather than around the room's ventilation grills which is where I suspect you would notice warmness if there was a significant negative pressure issue (yes, this is modern France building so I'm forced to keep an aperture to the outside for air renewal, even though otherwise the isolation is topnotch).

> the compressor should be well-insulated from the room (thermally and acoustically),

This obviously makes sense, but it is much easier said that done. People still want to carry the thing between rooms (and/or carry it themselves to their homes) which is why it is a mobile air conditioner in the first place.
Heh, I knew I should have said something about OpenType shenanigans :)
Doom is one of those exceptional games that encourages creativity. Doom was the game that popularized modding, and people are still making new maps for it today.