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AAA here. Actually, it is a stretch, because you’re expecting an entirely different discipline of software development to reflect the trends, knowledge, and assumptions of your discipline. We are a CryEngine shop but I’ve used Unity extensively for MVP pitches, spec work, and side projects. I also left the Web vertical to do this so I still have context from your side as well.

I took the time to read what you’ve written. Just about every single point you made in that essay can be distilled to “Web developer with strong convictions about Web software engineering and expecting game development to look like familiar territory,” with only a couple exceptions. I read that essay and I walk away with “that person is going to have a hard time if they pursue professional game development,” not the intended conclusion you had about Unity’s lackings. That’s reflected in nearly every concern about Unity expressed in this thread because this is a Web forum.

Unity has deficiencies we are all aware of in the industry, but none of them are in your essay. Several of your points are misunderstandings, several are just wrong, and all of them paint a picture which also gives a lot of AAA shops pause about hiring Web folks (and that I’ve had to deal with): there’s a pretty strong strain among the Web industry of “if you don’t do software like FAANG does, you’re doing it wrong and your stuff is terrible.” Meanwhile, the stuff you call bad/terrible/worse is generating billions in revenue and employing thousands. Seriously, Unreal is worse than Unity? Nearly stopped reading there.

I’m reminded of a friend who does control development for factories and had someone come in straight from a Google internship who started trying to reimplement SCADA from first principles using Kubernetes. The Web is one way to do software engineering. There are others, and one of those others is reflected in the design of Unity.
I've seen a couple of shops that have an open doorway to the shop next door, and in fact I know some anecdotes of people skirting blue laws (which I suspect have bigger teeth than the things you're dealing with) by opening two shops next to each other.

That arm's length separation may help you with the health dept too.
If you are a lay person, as I am, you can still make judgements symptomatically. If you have good reason to believe you are probably deficient, you can conservatively experiment with taking supplements and see if it helps. If your status improves, adjust doses downward as needed.

Keep a journal. Keep a journal. Keep a journal.

If you can't manage it yourself in that manner, yes, seek testing and so forth.

Don't ever take supplements of any kind for any reason if you don't have reason to believe you in particular actually need the supplement. Period.
We really need to change the whole medicine paradigm from checking when something is wrong and trying to fix that to doing comprehensive checks regularly and adjusting the necessary supplementation and preventive treatments upfront. I think more and more people are doing this on their own, but in my experience it's still a small minority and far from being seen as essential.
This is really interesting. Thanks for all the effort you've put into this project.

I had one quick question - how easy/difficult would it be to integrate another JS library with intercooler or htmlx. For example, let's say a table is fetched dynamically via htmlx, how would we go about integrating a library that does client-side table sorting/filtering?
Skill stacking
Also inheritance rights (and to a degree ownership of and responsibility for children) in cultures where property ownership is for men [0]. In the absence of a way to know for sure who your children are, your children are deemed to be those your wife gives birth to in the course of your marriage.

A child you may have outside of marriage, no matter how obvious it is that it's yours, is illegitimate; not legally considered. Suddenly, adultery on the part of your wife is a very big deal indeed, and all the various other effects this has.

Obviously things have changed in many societies now, but historically this was a very big one.

Surprisingly recent, perhaps. See Trimble vs Gordon, of 1977.

[0] And others too, but very strongly pronounced in these cultures.
Fairly banal crimes can also lead to mugshots. I had to have one taken over a parking violation.
Not strictly related to OP but literate programming is pretty cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
It's too bad that this whole article never touches on the basics of Uber's business model, like how much money they lose on each ride, how much funding they have to ride out the current economic climate, the crazy fact that Uber Eats is now a larger part of Uber's American business than the drive-me-somewhere Uber business, and so on.

I don't see how Uber's business model is doomed. If Uber and Lyft are forced to be less efficient, they will raise prices. Yes, their business would shrink. But how could they be forced out of business entirely - would people go back to using taxis?? At the very least, Uber could charge the same price as taxis and be superior to taxis because an Uber actually shows up when you want one.
I've never felt like the community hates the big tech companies... most of us are trying to grow something up to be big one day... BUT it is controversial when we see bad behavior, or potentially bad behavior. The discussions here really become useful in forming my own opinions.
"C'est déprimant ici" is what I usually say when I enter any midsize US city.

I don't see European cities going this way, people care about architecture there. Just look south of the border how Mexico has a lot of beautiful cities.
That perception is not widely shared. Cupertino sees the reality.
Thanks! I had actually read that paper. Apparently not attentively enough.
This seems incredibly likely to break development use cases at both extremes: CI/CD systems and developers just starting out could end up pulling quite a few images per hour. Imagine if NPM, Ruby Gems, and so on rate limited package downloads until you paid!

I'm not sure if there's a better way to monetize the Docker Hub, but this seems so hostile to adoption.
Middlemen are always going to try to increase their take on both sides. It is the only way they can grow the profitability of their business because they can't add more value, they can only subtract.
Funny question I know but how effective are D supplements at improving low D levels?
In the anonymity of the internet I am not going to pretend that I've never wondered about relationships with people who are unavailable, or despite my own unavailability. It is certainly possible to find people attractive whatever one's personal situation.

I still can't say I've found a better match.
Probably true, but will that dystopia persist indefinitely? I doubt it. Yes many iconoclasts will lose their small business in the next year, but a couple years thereafter I suspect new gainsayers will arise. They may be fewer or farther flung geographically than before. But with some of the other likely consequents of COVID like a long-term rise in remote work and less commuting, more funky restaurants are likely to pop up in less expensive enclaves where more of us prefer to live and can better afford to set up funky shops of our own. It's still hard to predict the future.
What can help here is to understand that you'll never be able to do it exactly like the person you're comparing yourself to because you are not them.

Conversely, no one else will be able to do it exactly like you. So figure out what it is about how you do it that's uniquely you and try to develop that.
Best of luck. We've considered this, but ultimately chose a cheaper ELK stack.
It's nice to hear that you've found some peace! There's no point in being the best if you will crash and burn quickly.
Gig work and all that implies would be more tolerable in the US if we had a universal health care system and worked hard to craft policies to make housing affordable (not an investment).

Until that world comes to pass, the slow but growing movement to treat gig workers as employees will only get bigger and bigger.

I doubt even in 20 years we'll have fully autonomous driving cars in every jurisdiction. If I were Uber or another company who relies on gig work to exist, I would be pouring money into lobbying for universal health care. That would ease the pressure considerably.
There are not very many people with defined Erdős–Bacon numbers [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...
I had this idea to build something like this last night ! Good job.
Everything done badly of course causes the same effect. But we are dealing with a massive mess that is the worst case of both worlds.

Since we need to also provide an API going forward to our clients, for our usecase this was a great solution. However we are not doing an SPA, the main framework and navigation is still server driven. The difference is that the "create new user dialog" is now a react component that calls the corresponding api.

Running through the API also makes it easier for us to handle the caching of data at that layer instead of a mix of jquery calls and random div HTML generation.
If FSD had actually turned out to be as easy as some people were suggesting 5+ years ago then there is no way Uber or Lyft could avoid playing in that game; the first company who could mass-produce FSD vehicles would be able to replace Uber/Lyft with no difficulty at all. Once it became apparent that the 'any day now' BS from Musk et al was a lie then both companies should have dropped any efforts in this direction immediately.
It's painful to see how much disinformation (even in subtle ways or to go off the rails) some topics are getting in here.

If you want to get a better picture, also about Zfs and Fedora, read the previous Btrfs threads where the developers took the time to discuss it. And to kill some FUD.

I have no association with Btrfs or Fedora but I'd like to have a modern FS in-tree as battle tested as it can be.
For what it's worth, you may have a heavily skewed view of what's extraordinary "these days." There are lots of tech companies that are mature enough to not flog their people to death. Companies with strong engineering cultures that also highly value seasoned developers tend to be this way. Where I work, the office is (well, was pre-covid) pretty empty by 5:30.
Feels weird. I often send a message to myself using Facebook Messenger in order to take a quick note. I do this because I can easily access it on any device and I generally have the Messenger opened in the background.
I'm not sure if I want to have filtering and searching in a chat style note taking app. I don't care for organization of those quick, ad-hoc notes with short lifespan. If I want something persisted, I'll probably use a more dedicated, organized place.
Interesting. I was about to comment how well known and widespread everything on the article is, and welcome the author to the last decade... so reading your disagreement is really unexpected.

Crypto algorithm negotiation is an artifact of the 90's. Currently crypto is much more stable than communication protocols, so there is no need to negotiate them, and the negotiations are vulnerable to attack so one just can not keep support for broken clients, however practical it is to update them.

And, anyway, protocol version negotiation is still pretty much a thing.
>Are these a thing in any research area

I can say there are some that have the explicit intent but it can often fall to the wayside due to cost pressure. For example, government funded research from large organizations (think DoD or NASA) have these quality requirements but they can often be hand-waved away or just plain ignored due to cost concerns
We lived through browser fragmentation before, with IE support vs other web standards. It just meant that developers had to make a version for everything except for big critical things like banks and .gov will be 'ie-only' (or maybe 'chrome-only', now).

It's way better to have one jankier universal platform with a few good implementations.
Is there a relatively easy way to check vitamin d levels, or does it require a lab test and doctor's visit?

I live in a cloudy northern climate and tend to assume I have low vitamin d in the winter (and a supplement has a noticeable improvement on my mood), but I would love to actually track my levels and understand how much supplementation I need to say in "normal" levels at different times of year.
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If you're truly having issues with CSS and rendering different sizes, I'd recommend taking the time to really learn CSS inside and out. I find it incredibly simple nowadays to do both Mobile/Desktop (+Tablet) with CSS and media queries. I may have agreed with you in the past, but not so much anymore.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've just added a tip on the site about putting the board inside an opaque enclosure. That's what I had in mind as far as security goes. I have thought about giving each individual board a unique ID which will be verified when configuring the board.
Historic military Solent forts in Portsmouth are now for sale
Where do you draw the line? Criminal insanity? Chronically breaking laws, but otherwise competent in their fields.
> In my mind, any further public sale of spectrum, copper, fiber access should come with a neutrality clause. If any traffic they want to send over the new property must be neutral, then it could start to change things without help from our toothless FCC.

Or take it a step further and include a requirement for infrastructure sharing at regulated rates. Selling exclusive access to the rights of way for an essential service is a type of regressive taxation. The government reduces the tax revenue needed, but the costs get passed along to the public at flat rates. The poorer you are, the higher the relative cost for that infrastructure.

It should be illegal to sell exclusive access to infrastructure related resources because it’s a system designed to benefit the wealthy more than anyone else.
Since many are asking:

- notes are saved in the cloud

- currently requires Google login (but that was only because I wanted to get something out the door quickly). I'm considering implementing other login providers and also device-only notes if there is enough interest. I know there are legitimate concerns around this topic: I'm not tied to the login mechanism per se.
A friend of a friend was a baker, and to get approval to bake on her own property, she had to buy a trailer with a kitchen in it.

I have a hard time believing that a trailer parked outside on a gravel pad is safer than the domestic kitchen of one of the tidiest people I know. Things like this gives "rules are rules" a flavor similar to "boys will be boys" for me.
Any source for this statement?
If you design relying on others to constantly do the right thing, you eventually find they will get tired of it and not do so. No one has to constantly help your disabled friend, and some may resent it.
Hopped on the last thread a little late and couldn't get a meaningful discussion about this (Perhaps i'm just completely on the wrong foot):

Are these studies just showing that vitamin D is a good predictor of income (because race is a good predictor of income)? Now that the US is starting to have conversations about racial inequality, every time I see a hackernews or reddit post on vitamin D I am asking myself that question.
I have read several studies that link low income to higher mortality rates across several different diseases. [0]

And several other studies that link education levels (which are inherently linked to childhood wealth levels) to worse mortality rates as well.[1]

There is a link between lower vitamin d levels and skin color, with an obvious plausible explanation ( Melanin lowers skins ability to produce vitamin D).[2]

In the U.S. at least there is a strong link between income, education levels, and skin color. [3]

While I am hopeful that ongoing research will help us understand the mechanisms by which vitamin-D operates, I really worry that it is somehow a very well dressed red-herring. One one hand a promised panacea: vitamin d supplements, the other a complex economic and political problem that barely anyone can comprehend or are even willing to engage with.

One of the more damning studies shows that vitamin d supplementation is good enough to remove your deficiency, it has reproduced really poorly on any of the other correlated health effects.[4]

Are there any studies that someone can link that would alleviate my concerns? When these kind of population health studies are conducted (I am in no way familiar with how they are actually done), how are factors like income inequality and education level generally controlled for?

And an interesting article related to Vitamin-D health benefits that had a slightly different take on causes for supposed benefits: https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435622/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946242/

[3] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[4] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1809944
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Google crawls 24/7, so as long as you aren't relying on SEO it's fine. Google doesn't want to send traffic to servers with frequent 500 errors.

Edit: there is also more to be said about this. I'd research crawl-budget if you're interested.
I'm actually agreeing with you, perhaps the sarcastic tone didn't go through.
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See also: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. Great read (based on a previous work, Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse) on the need to play on a different playing field than the one that supposedly has a 'winner' and a 'loser.' Applies to companies, individuals, organizations, relationships...you get the idea.

To beat a dead analogy, if you're climbing to reach the top 'ledge' you started out looking for, you might not start...or you might climb with such a singular focus that you miss another path that would take you off to the side and up another, higher route.

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I wish every leader gets access to these frameworks and takeaways. The #1 issue I face with every single client I've worked with over the years as an executive coach is exactly what they are pointing out here: that dealing with our emotions and inner worlds is the biggest challenge of all. Learning to deal with that has the highest ROI on both success and fulfillment/happiness compared to any other activity for a leader imo.
I recommend the Naked Capitalism series on Uber's economics. [1] It's a 23-part series that goes back years, but the most recent one I linked you from a few months ago should be a good starting point.

"Uber announced a first half 2020 GAAP loss of $4.7 billion with a GAAP net margin of (-81%). Uber’s “official” full year 2019 result was a GAAP loss of $8.5 billion with a (-60%) margin, but these were based on problematic accounting that makes it impossible to evaluate Uber’s financial performance properly over time."

"Uber has now lost $23.2 billion in the past four and a half years."

"Nothing has happened to change the fact that after ten years, riders have always been fundamentally unwilling to pay prices that would cover Uber’s actual costs, that Uber was always less efficient than the traditional taxis it drove out of business, that its only “efficiency improvement” was to push driver compensation to minimum wage levels, and that its growth depended entirely on unsustainable predatory subsidies."

Yep, that's not a good business alright.

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/hubert-horan-can-ube...
For my first scientific article, in 2007, I created a Subversion repo with a Makefile. Running `make` would recreate the whole paper: downloading data, running analyses, creating pictures (color or BW, depending on an environment flag) and generating the PDF.

I'm going to try to find the repo and see if it still works.
The newer one (URP) is already in its second rewrite after ditching the initial version (LWRP). They also completely split the post-processing stack into two incompatible stacks depending on whether you're using URP or HDRP, then backtracked and are attempting to merge them into a single stack again.

So while maybe they'll get it all fixed soon, based on their track record I'm pretty cynical and bet it's more likely in 2021 or 2022 they'll announce yet another overhaul of the rendering stack(s), probably unifying them back into one stack or something.
But this problem isn't specific to machines. The fact that my hand hurts after touching an open flame stove doesn't entail the flame caused my pain. No amount of first-hand experience with flames can entail that flames cause pain. All we can do is increase the likelihood of this model. Experimental processes are in the same boat, except that the statistical power is greater. But our lived experiences with flames and pain and all other stimuli is a sort of low power ongoing experiment. But with enough of these poor experimental runs we can converge on an approximately true model. The same goes for a statistical learning algorithm and a large training corpus.
Latitude, local geography and weather will all play a role in how much sunlight you get. If you're living in a valley you can have much shorter days than your latitude would suggest. And if the weather is shitty enough to keep you inside much of the year that will obviously have an impact.
That point might be valid, but it could be simpler than that. It just might be too expensive to design and document for the world.

Documentation is often very complete; but at an extremely technical level, and not always translated. Japan is a nation of engineers. I think that they expect users to have a certain level of proficiency, and that is reflected in their UX and documentation.

I find that Japanese equipment can be very polished and aesthetically designed, but can be quite intimidating. They produce pretty space shuttle cockpits.

Translation is a fearsomely expensive and fraught process. I have done a lot of localization work. Chinese companies have a similar affect, where their customer documentation is often quite sparse. It's quite possible to get detailed documentation, but it will be in Chinese, from the company. I found that out while I was working in ONVIF (surveillance stuff). The docs that came with the cameras were terrible, but the engineers would be quite helpful, if I could track them down and ask questions.
> would be pouring money into lobbying for universal health care

Dara already admitted to this in recode podcast.
I don't recall saying anything about python at any point in the post you're replying to.
> It is a rare company that spends money and resources on verifying from their users' point of view that they're being delivered what was promised -- unless that company actively cares about the user.

I have gotten a check from the CA Treasurer on a few occasions because I didn’t check some box and take a tax deduction that I was entitled to. Not a company, and certainly if I underpaid the state would come after me to be made whole. But some organizations do work both ways.
The way this is written comes across as very conceited. Do you truly believe that everyone is a sheep but you based on the clothes they throw on before a university lecture?
I'm the one who wrote the article. I would actually argue that the risk of low Vitamin D has been overplayed. There are very alarmist articles out there about this epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency - which causes people to go out and buy supplements. But there is very little actual data showing that healthy people should take Vitamin D. This is where you get into the large human trials of Vitamin D supplementation, which I want to get into for part 3.
Or they were razed 'legally' for an eight lane freeway.