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You don't follow games recently (meaning 10 years at least). There are few publishers that put pretty nasty DRM protections inside that run constantly, take few % of the CPU and do constant full memory checks (among other things). Performance drop is visible unless you have obscurely expensive hardware.

This is kind of expected for online gaming due to many folks fucked up mentality of using cheats and playing with rest of the crowd (some psychologists could probably go quite deep on breaking this down to mostly childhood issues). If you play on your own, its just a pain in the a.

Many people buy the game and then play pirated version, just to avoid this kind of punishment of the lawful citizens.
In contracts that our lawyers gave us (and that we use) the state whose law will govern the contract is specified. It's always Delaware.

The corporate charter, and the bylaws of the corporation are all explicitly governed by Delaware law. These documents control what powers different share classes have regarding corporate ownership and operation.

TLDR: Delaware law is almost certainly the controlling law regardless of where the shareholder lives.
These kind of questions are not really suited on this site. Take your time reading the guidelines and lurking around to get a feel for the kind of content people welcome.
There's no difference, many believers doesn't make the idea sane.
"The board/company has to maximize shareholder value by maximizing profits" is the myth you're referring to. That's not what this is about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht
I'm not sure what you're implying. Are you saying Sony and Microsoft should just make less money?

It's entirely possible to lose money on consoles. Microsoft wrote off such a huge loss on the first XBOX, between $5bn and $7bn, that counting inflation on the losses they probably still haven't made a profit off it.

The other problem with that is it would make it flat out impossible for any other company ever to enter the console market. The up front cost is device losses would be staggering. It was bad enough for Microsoft as it is.
Insanely wide means that you can have two inputs on the same row without vertical impact. That's how it used to be.

(I think the omnibox is the right UI though)
Agile was created for assembly line work, not big development projects. Hence it does not concern itself with overall plan and architecture, only with the day to day, week to week, work of implementing it.

Understanding this, agile works fine. But zealots without practical experience want everything to fit the agile religion. And so you get the confusion about how to plan an architecture, how to develop overall system requirements, when everything must be incremental and in sprints.

We had pretty good solutions to many of those things twenty years ago, but that is "waterfall" now, the tarnish used to denigrate everything agile acolytes don't understand.

Agile is a product now, sold by ignorant business consultants. I've never seen a more ridiculous mess than watching a non-software organization trying to transition to 'agile' in the whole organization. Sales, marketing, business process management, doing sprints, with scrums and epics and story point estimation, etc. Yes, that is what the agile industry is selling now, agile for the whole organization, in any industry. The horrors this will produce we have yet to fully enjoy.
That's partly because many plugins won't be updated and if you need to revisit a project and didn't bounce stems back then you'll be out of luck.
You contribute to its popularity. People want their software to be used.
Inkscape is great but not if you are working a lot in CMYK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
Actions > Words.

Such a simple concept yet many ignore it.
Nowadays it's trendy to call such concepts "mental models".
What! That's quite a bit more than I expected. I suspect it have to do with your niche?
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I'll admit I'm not an expert in this area, but why are apps using Bluetooth useless? Because people turn Bluetooth off?
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It might be easier to force people to stay at home than to let them come out but force them each to carry a specific phone.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for teenagers to all sneak off and mingle at this time. But they are going to do it anyway, regardless of what I think, and this app isn't going to stop them.

The college, however, can pat themselves on the back and call it a victory.
Databay is a Python interface for scheduled data transfer
Very true, my wife discovered by accident 10 years ago she is fructose intolerant, didn't know before about it, and was basically always in pain as her family was focused on eating healthy by eating lots of fruit...
I've seen the reverse happen at some companies.

Managers getting taken advantage of by allowing people to do anything in the name of 'technical debt' 'code quality', resulting in more bugs, lots of needless refactoring, tons of layers of abstraction and tests that actually do close to nothing.

Result is they are then surprised it takes a long time to develop new features where competitors do it faster and eat their lunch.

There needs to be some sort of balance, companies need to make money to allow for proper code to be developed, second is also valuable as long as it makes sense financially as well.
Won't companies get around this rule by just having these contractors become employees of "staffing agencies". Happens all the time in the software world
Over 60% of software projects go over budget, and often by a lot. What's unprofessional is giving estimates for anything that is not small enough to get done in a couple of weeks. You should also understand why someone asks for estimates. They are trying to manage risk. There are far better ways of managing risk than "Brad said it would take three months". Start out by calling it what it really is. It's not estimating. The end goal is risk management.
I'm all for contact tracing, but that doesn't appear to be the core purpose of this app. It's about enforcing a social bubble through what is essentially house arrest. That's why the app is creating alerts about when a student goes off-campus:

> In addition to having to install the app, students were told they are not allowed to leave campus for the duration of the semester without permission over fears that contact with the wider community might bring the virus back to campus.

Tracking location isn't necessary to conduct contact tracing, as demonstrated by Canada's "COVID Alert" app:

> The app is designed to notify users when they’ve been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.

> However, it does not track a user’s location itself, or use GPS.

> Instead, the app produces random codes, and uses Bluetooth to ping other users’ phones and exchange these codes whenever two people who have the app are physically near one another.

> https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-privacy-w...

So let's not conflate the issues here. This app doesn't exist primarily for "contact tracing"; if it were, they would not need to collect location data. This is about geofencing students.
Oh believe my I know, I've been a boat owner for the past few years. Boats are money pits, no doubt, but also a lot of fun. The feeling of going out early in the morning in calm seas, as the sun is rising – it's hard to beat and makes you forget all the work and money involved in having those moments.

Obviously it depends on what you're going to use the boat for, but for me personally it's all recreational. Boating makes me happy, and as much as I'll cuss and swear every time I have to do maintenance and upkeep I still think it's worth it.

I'm sure you know the old adage of the two happiest days in a boat owner's life: the day you buy the boat, and the day you sell the boat. Still, we never learn. :o)
Would one expect the average size to change?
This event took place 15 times in the last century. How can this be yearly?
Half of US adults are women.

Men, after aging for the last 10 years: "No, it hasn't gotten harder."

Women, after aging for the last 10 years: "Yes, it has gotten harder."
> Yeah I do not understand why the author waited so long to disclose

The author might have a Google account which, if cancelled, would disrupt their life considerably.
it would be interesting to know from that 450M revenue what % is iOS only and from that how much profit (revenue minus operating expenses) is left for shareholders.

I guess my point was, if what is left for shareholders is not "that much" compared with the opportunity cost (the loss of not being doing something else) then it might make sense to put the iOS on hold and let the lawyers fight.

But I'm speculating, I'm just trying to understand the incentives in play, becuase I don't buy the 1984 video, pretending they care about what is fair.
Here in France we usually buy whole chickens to roast (yellow chickens are sold at a premium, although I'm not sure there's a big difference in taste).

When served it's a kind of battle because the thigh go first, then the sticks ("pilon"), and the breasts last. Nobody wants them; sometimes they simply get thrown away as they tend to be dry and flavorless.
Show HN: A song leaderboard curated by people on the internet
You already contribute by growing the community. Software benefits from network effects. E.g. a large hurdle for Libreoffice adoption is the fact that many documents are in the MS proprietary formats. Messengers like Signal or Telegram are in the same boat. As the community grows, the chance increases for someone to contribute by coding or money, or hiring the lead devs for support contracts. It doesn't have to be you, but if you (and others) hadn't used the software before them, that person might not have used it in the first place.

Yes, you can increase your value to the project thousandfold with more direct contributions like coding, bugfixes, donations, community work, etc, but already being part of the community is of help.
There are definite ways to test for versions of simulations, but the point is thinking outside the box and then working your way back to scientific hypothesis you can test is the scientific process. You could make many testable predictions based on many different simulated universe hypothesis. Not to get even stuck on one example, my point was general that we cant know there aren't wildly unintuitive universe structures.
From that page. w3engine: "Firefox will be abandoned in the next year" 34 downvotes. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338
Adobe stagnation is not surprising given that they've switched to a subscription model.

Perpetual licensing means that software vendors are essentially competing with the previous versions of their own products and have to provide compelling improvements to their customers for them to upgrade. Ongoing revenue, and with it, vendor survival, depends on continual improvements.

In contrast, subscription models combined with cloud-based vendor lock-in allow software vendors to extract economic rents from their victims indefinitely. There are no previous versions to compete against and victims must pay in perpetuity to access their own data. Vendors get paid without needing to do work, so they do no work, make no improvements, and reap disproportionate profits.

Software subscriptions are a perfect example of rent seeking, with all that implies about the relationship between vendor and victim and the prospects for ongoing product improvements.
I think it is qualifiable if not quantifiable in that brush is building up. Perhaps more fires are starting, but the net effect would have to be less frequent burns of a given area for brush to build up there.
For those not in the USA and with a Revolut card, you can activate a virtual card in the app, register with and then dispose of.

I did this for the free month of linkedn gold or whatever its called.
Have you talked to the person who made the not? They might not realize how distracting it is. Maybe they'll move it to another channel as a compromise.
IIRC 'eternal' used to imply both outside time and outside space; this was an everyday understanding 300 years ago, say.

According to this[1] 'eternal' is now ambiguous enough to suggest either "outside of time and space" or "persistent through all time."

On nested-simulation views I suppose it becomes necessary to clarify which clock domain(s) we are talking about, in terms of persistence or time.

[1] https://iep.utm.edu/god-time/
See this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox_1.0.png

In firefox preferences there still is an option to switch to old layout with two bars. Sadly it does exactly the same thing as adding search bar manually, that is gives you second redundant search bar and does not turn off search support in the original url bar.
The reason dual hose are more efficient is mainly that single hose portable A/Cs pull the air used to cool the radiator and compressor (and expel hot air outside) from the same room they're cooling.

That air has to come from somewhere, so it's going to pull warm air from everywhere it can, door, windows, any creaks/holes/openings, etc. And the fans have some serious airflow/CFM.

Dual hose designs pull air from outside and expel it back outside.

So technically it should be capable of getting your room colder and keeping it that way with less compressor usage.

The cold part of the A/C just circulates air around the room on any model.

Looking at my model, I could turn it into a dual hose design - it pulls air from the rear, right below the exhaust vent. That seems to be the case for a lot of these. Creating an attachment/adapter to connect another hose seems easy enough.
So true. The thing I find bizarre about youtube is how bad not only their recommendations but their search is. This is a Google company but somehow if I search for a specific episode in a specific series (eg one episode in a game walkthrough or whatever) it can't get the ranking right?

I also still don't understand why yt recommendations are as poor as they are. I've tried taking the time to try removing certain things from the "recommendation history" (or whatever they call it), flag recommendations I'm not interested in etc and it does improve things a bit but still it recommends things I would never watch in a million years (eg right now I have 4 Joe Rogan recommendations on my homepage even though I've literally never watched any of his things and have zero interest in ever doing so, and click on every one and say not interested etc, for a while it was obsessed with trying to get me to watch MMA content even though I can't bear watching other people hurt each other).

And the whole issue of recommending videos where it knows I've watched the whole thing, I just don't even know where to start.
No one ever got fired for going with IBM/Oracle/MS/Amazon. I suspect there is an equal and opposite statement to be made for the ire displayed against the same companies. If I were to make a stab at such a statement it would be, "no one ever paid attention to the ire expressed against small company".
Assuming the mean is close to the median, they are reporting ~10B requests daily with a median response size of around 1KB. 10TB daily is a little under 1Gpbs. Traffic is spiky, but this isn't particularly complex once you consider they have multiple data centers/servers. Of course, I may have misread something as daily that was hourly or something like that...
You may need to hire people with less experience but the potential to grow into the role. I'd say the biggest advantage to working at a startup is the ability to advance up the career ladder faster than you can at a traditional company.
The 450 is iOS. The rest is trivial to look up. You don't have to "buy" it. Everyone else is. You can verify the numbers yourself if you care to.
Other countries (for instance the UK) with laws absolutely banning slavery and indentured servitude manage to include community service sentences.
If you're suffering just get the single tube and look for a dual tube unit some time in the future. Singles aren't as great but they still do the job well enough that you're not dying from the heat.

I went years without any AC and my bedroom wall faces south. My room would get so hot in the summer I couldn't get any sleep. Tried an evaporative cooling unit because they're cheap which did absolutely nothing for me. Eventually broke down and got a portable AC which unfortunately was a single hose unit. You really need to look carefully at what you're buying because the whole single/dual tube thing doesn't seem to be something the sellers put out there. Even though it it was a single it still made a world of difference. On really hot days it doesn't get super cold but cool enough that I don't notice the heat.
Interview behavior is certainly a reflection; presence of a whiteboard, on the other hand, tells you absolutely nothing about the quality of the workplace.
Sometimes you click even when you don't want to. For example on youtube on ipad it's very difficult to click on the vertical three-dot hamburger icon on a video (that you need to use to tell them you're not interested in a video) without clicking on the video by mistake. The hitbox on that icon is all wrong.
> side note, Final Cut is better

For anyone not doing professional video editing work I can definitely recommend DaVinci Resolve. The basic version is completely free and is extremely powerful.
ShapeUp TLDR;
>> Backlogs are big time wasters too. The time spent constantly reviewing, grooming andorganizing old ideas prevents everyone from moving forward on the timely projects that really matter right now. <<
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Depending on what you need Blender can be a replacement for After Effects. Blender can also replace Premiere so then you will have one workflow in the same program.

InspirationTuts has a nice comparison of Blender, After FX and Nuke which you might find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3jArcnGr3E

As a replacement for InDesign I used Scribus a lot. It has some unpolished edges but gets the job done. It includes industry standard PDF exports.
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They can't change the terms on a product they have already sold to you, but new versions of the OS and dev tools are new products with new features. If you want the new features, you can choose to accept the terms, but you don't have to.
These type of people morel likely to succeed in life, unfortunately.
If you already signed a lease, you don’t have to agree to new terms for that lease. It’s already a valid lease that can’t easily be terminated, and Michigan has pretty good renter protection laws (I used to live there). Not a lawyer though, but a lease is a binding agreement that they can’t just arbitrarily change and force you to accept
very good point

very good example
I also fell for Adobe's "monthly subscription". The only saving grace was that I by chance happened to cancel 11 months in, only to be suprised that I actually was on a yearly subscription. Lost one month of fees, could have been worse.
" Agile blinds you from seeing the whole product and causes bad, segmented, low-focus mistakes. If you are TOO agile you may build a DB/API/Logic/Data structure that is too narrow and limiting of the eventual goal."
I disagree, your goal should be agile too!!!
It has to always change !
>> so really we have to go for immersion therapy

>No thanks. You are free to travel though.

I am referring to large organisations having hiring policies that encourage or force more diverse hiring.. immersion in a more diverse workplace (but still representative of the area you live in)

>> if our daughters dont see their mothers working in IT

>Honestly I think the situation got worse for women in the last 10 years. Through expectations placed upon them by others and themselves. Formerly it was a rarity but few really noticed it. Now their actions would be put under more scrutiny. Here bias does indeed play a role and some discussion emphasized that it apparently isn't normal for women to be in IT.

So its bad but we wont bother trying to do anything about it?

>> we just have to kind of force a more diverse group

>I fundamentally disagree that anybody needs to be forced. Freedom of association and that thing... Plus, that already happened countless times before and it will happen again.

You totally have the freedom not to work at IBM though? whats your problem, just find somewhere that doesn't have and diversity policies, is roaring sausage fest then dive right in and never look back!

its not like any of this really restricts white males, its just some companies saying that's not what they want so there is an extra value to hiring something other than a white male.

You cannot persecute those with huge advantages, that's not persecution that's more like regression to the mean. calling it persecution is kind of embarrassing imho. i'm a big boy i can handle that someone who is less skilled of experienced but has a different perspective could be a better investment for an organisation - after all its possible to gain skills and experience.
I used to play on anguish.org in the 90s. What a wild time that was.
Another nice thing about Capture One is the speed.
> The Nazi faction, led by Hitler actually 'won' the election because their party got the most votes, but not enough to have an absolute majority

The coalition Hitler lead had around 240 of 580 seats. They didn't have an absolute majority because they weren't even near having any kind of majority. Of course a hundred of the other seats were held by communists and those went up in flames after the Reichstag fire and the subsequent ban on left leaning political organisations.

> A similar thing could easily happen today.

The last time a German government tried to outlaw an opposition party it ended up with the courts throwing the case out for involving too many law enforcement moles.
$630k/yr is definitely not among the highest paying jobs in the world.
Good luck reading anything in latin script with a one-character wide vertical search bar. This would works for Chinese (that’s the traditional writing orientation) but definitely not for most other languages.
Don't compete on salary / money alone.

Make the company attractive by providing other advantages, such as an interesting problem to work on, interesting technology, being part of a great team, the excellent experience the engineer will receive (not just closing bug tickets), a closable door office for each engineer etc.

If you are going to compete on salary / options alone, you are also going to get candidates for whom that is also the only criteria evaluating a job.
I still feel like "sucking" is misleading because it doesn't change how much heat you radiate, only how much heat is radiated on to you. A better analogy would be like a curtains for heat.
Funny seeing this here, I just switched to Vivaldi yesterday because of this.

I really wanted to use mouse gestures and Vim-like controls again, and the WebExtension version of those addons is not nearly reliable enough.

The problem seems to be that those control extensions can only work by injecting Javascript into webpages, which (1) takes a moment to work when the page is loading, and (2) doesn't work in New Tab page. The effect is that even basic shortcuts like "next tab" fail to work often enough that I'm willing to switch browsers.
Ben Goldacre talks about this in Bad Science. Well worth a read.
Title is Penquin, not Penguin.
It feels a bit like the sea in that respect. Forms a massive part of the world, both in area, depth, biodiversity and climate and we know relatively vert little.