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Master Of Magic was and is such a masterpiece (and MoO 2 as well). Some of the older games, while often heavily unbalanced with clunky user interfaces, have so much better atmosphere and setting than many of the newer games. Maybe it's that it used to be much more about craftsmanship and telling a story, than just trying to make as much as money as possible.

My all time favourite game is Alpha Centauri and I would have loved to be around to see how they designed the tech tree among other things. It still feels like an excellent sci-fi novel wrapped as a game. Wish newer games could attempt something like that. Although I have to say many times an RPG game attempts something like that, the quality of their story leaves a lot to hope for.

Darkest Dungeon is one of the newer games that has successfully created great atmosphere, similar to those older games. Yet sadly I at least got very quickly tired playing it, with dull grinding of the characters who would keep dying by random crits.

I guess also because multiplayer has become so prevalent that it's not even necessary to create great storylines anymore. People will be satisfied by the interactions they have playing other humans and its never-ending challenge by the changing metagame and such.
I'm pretty sure that Shockley, the founder of Shockley Semiconductor has them both beat. His management style was described as autocratic, erratic, and hard-to-please as well as domineering and paranoid. Not to mention his questionable views on race and eugenics.

In 1957, eight of his researchers (the "traitorous eight") had enough, so they left and founded Fairchild Semiconductor, (co)invented the integrated circuit, and essentially started Silicon Valley. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, two other members of the traitorous eight, went on to found Intel. If Shockley had been a nicer guy, Silicon Valley might not exist.
That's fair, but I do personally have a stance that compiler-checked documentation is the ideal documentation because it can never drift from the code. (EDIT: I should add: It should never be the ONLY documentation! Examples, etc. matter a lot!)

There's a place for type aliases, but IMO that place is shrinking in most languages that support them, e.g. Haskell. With DerivingVia, newtypes are extremely low-cost. Type aliases can be useful for abbreviation, but for adding 'semantics' for the reader/programmer... not so much. Again, IMO. I realize this is not objective truth or anything.

Of course, if you don't have newtypes or similarly low-cost abstractions, then the valuation shifts a lot.

EDIT: Another example: Scala supports type aliases, but it's very rare to see any usage outside of the 'abbreviation' use case where you have abstract types and just want to make a few of the type parameters concrete.
Typically with ph sensors like this you also get three ph packets(4.01, 6.86, 9.18) which when mixed with distilled water get you a baseline ph for calibration.
Honestly I never found PG’s writing that insightful and ANSI Lisp was a bit of a pain to read

That doesn’t take away from any of his success, which has been immense (anybody who has made over a billion is obviously amazing and had the ultimate life) but he has become too much of a cult figure in comparison to others in that stratosphere
Some that you forget: BSD (Net, Open, Free, Dragon), macOS, OpenVMS, Haiku.

And hey, I’m sure if you work on implementing one maybe others will be interested in writing software for it. And that’s kind of the point, I guess: it’s a huge undertaking with little financial value for a business as opposed to extending on existing work. Standards give us a common language.
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Even you say that pirates aren't contributing nothing, I don't know why you think I need to use gymnastics to justify something.
Hands up who else is thinking "last days of the Empire"?
You know, I've considered it so many times but have never done it. Laziness. I'll make that change today. Cheers.
Thanks for the reply - I might have read motivated reasoning into your comment that wasn't there.

I think it's fair to point out that there are fewer actionable startup advice essays recently, but 'highfalutin pseudo-psychologizing' is just dismissive without talking about any of the ideas, and he did have well-liked essays like What you Can't Say and Why Nerds Are Unpopular that were of a similar type - so that kind of thing was something he's always written about (though he also wrote about more actionable advice alongside it too).
I have a lot of French and Indian friends that we have met in the Bay Area in the last seven years. 7 out of 8 of the French tech workers we met here have gone back to France within 5 years. Out of the 40 or so Indian immigrant tech folks I know, there have been very few recent immigrations, a lot of the flow dropped off about three to four years ago, all preferring to go to Europe or Canada. Of those who did come here before that time period, around 5-6 have gone back to India, as the number of unicorns in Bangalore have increased and salaries in tech giants there are pretty good now. Another 2-3 left for Europe. All of them are elite school grads from India.

The reasons cited are mostly (1) random lottery to move from f1 to h1b, with less than 50% chance of making it, (2) the decades long queues for h1b to green card with lots of process overhead, low certainty, random restrictions on travel and arbitrary changes in immigration laws.

The queues will still be long for years to come, as the old applications clear out... But the trend downward has already started.
It may be suspended in water indefinitely, but the rated lifespan is four years. Hmmm..
He literally lives in an ivory tower?
The algorithm is public knowledge. This post shows 2 hours ago now and 10 points while the one you linked still shows 1 hour (meaning it's a little younger) and is already at 37 points. If you look at the algorithm small differences early on have a much bigger impact on rank.

But this thread isn't the place to discuss this kind of thing so I'll leave the off topic at that unless you want to make a separate post to continue the conversation.
This has been repeated many, many times.
I also found it expensive for a poor kid to learn along with the Amiga. So expensive - plus in the UK expansion hardware was ridiculous. In fact, in later life, through a coincidence, I met the marketing person who decided a 1MB RAM upgrade should cost £800. Thank God times have changed. That whole Amiga sales channel was very sketchy though - and now that I'm older and more experienced, it is obvious.
I don't want to blame "most people". But had they read the agreements (!) and understood them (!!) they were told they were being tracked.

So I blame the people a bit, but I blame a media culture that didn't make it clear, and an educational system that prevented them from understanding what was happening.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy to spread conspiracy theories is extremely meta and wonderfully ironic.
I don't think Seattle's CHOP (née CHAZ) is very relevant here — it was a protest occupation, more in common with Occupy Wall Street than a serious attempt of any kind of secession. (Of course, participants' own ideas for what it should be were varied.)
It doesn't matter to them who wins the next election. If Trump stays in office they aren't getting contracts anyway, because of Jeff Bezos and his ownership of the WaPo.
Why is Microsoft better for taxpayers?
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This is only true, if you do not value your free time. In your example, you've spent 4h to save 200$, so your work was worth 50$/hour. A freelancer with a 100$/hour rate might do 2 hours of work instead, spend the money, and gain 2 hours of free time.

There are other factors of course, but in general, many people come up with a rate for their own free time (which is often higher than the actual rate they charge clients)
I am more and more coming to the conclusion that a huge portion of susceptibility to groupthink even seems to be a central requirement to be a "good" trader (as in: one who outperforms the market).

If you just go with the trend most of the time, you take part in a self-amplifying hype cycle that pushes all participants' equities higher. Whereas if you try to "outsmart" the group, you will fail most of the time, even if you might be right in your skepticism, because stock prices aren't strictly based on actual objective reality, but more on the perception of reality by most market participants.
That's less good than not-commuting and choosing when to have exercise time, unless you have low willpower
But why is general asset inflation problematic? There's a pretty clear reason consumer good inflation is bad.

> Asset prices seem to have diverged from the real economy because assets are primarily funded with debt

Or maybe it's because with rising productivity, capital has become more valuable over time.
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That is nonsense. You might want to check again what's a rainbow table and how it's used, because it's not what you think ^^

It's possible that another service use the same hashing method and email as salt and password. It's irrelevant at best when it comes to security. If the password was cracked it would make it's way to dictionaries, the password is compromised irrelevant of the salt and the hashing method.
Yep, I liked those too.

I think it was harder to narrowly categorize those as in-group vs. out-group than the newer ones though.

Maybe it's because people are more polarized now and there's less room for talking about interesting points that don't clearly fit into an existing political group? Maybe if those were written today people would find them similarly 'disconnected'?

I don't know, but I agree his new stuff isn't that different from the kinds of topics he's historically written about.
They told what you they were collecting. It wasn't "all of your inner secrets", but it turns out that it's enough to infer what those probably are.
this is hardly an interview
This reflects poorly on Amazon. Contesting the initial award is one thing. Continuing their protests after a year of legal proceedings ended in favor of their competitor demonstrates a sense of entitlement.
Your password must contain at least one special character. Except !, that isn’t allowed.
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I think this is meant to try and make it more of a political issue. Of course the problem is I don't think most regular people care at all if Microsoft or Amazon get the contract. Actually many regular people would probably prefer nobody get the contract.

In other words, this comes across as a hail mary.

To be fair, Trump probably did cause the contract to go to Microsoft.
It could hurt their margins big time. They’re public now - investors want cash flow.
Wouldn't it take hundreds of millions of years for it to lose it's atmosphere without the magnetic field? It's probably much easier to just top it up a bit every few million years.
I’m reminded of some research I tried to get published a while back. One editor comment came back with a suggestion to reject simply with “this appears to contradict the EMH.” No further explanation.

Well, no shit. It said so right in the introduction. I think this is what’s called “theory induced blindness”
I don’t remember that time, for as long as Siri existed I always recall there being a way to prevent my phone from auto-reacting to words (which I hate) during OS setup. Maybe I am mistaken.
I noticed that there is something there about vocal compared to visual. Some years ago while messing around memorizing/reciting pi, I always thought I imagined the numbers visually and recited from there. I'm bilingual and a friend asked if I can do it in my mother tongue. It was weird, I was surprised I was struggling. I definitely recite(in my head) in English, then I visualize the numbers than I translate.

It was surprising because when I was even younger I thought I had a photographic memory, I noticed it got weak over time and with memorizing some of pi I thought I was bringing it back. And here I find it was mainly vocal. With the points brought up here for oral tradition, it makes sense that vocal memory has stayed strong.
Not only is inflation extremely low, but we were at serious risk of a deflationary spiral without all the funny-money that the feds are pumping into the economy. Central banks introduced liqudity to make sure deflation did not happen.

Foreign demand for the dollar is at all time highs. People forget this and don't think about the impact that this has on currency prices.

Also, the "inflation is actually happening they just don't measure it right" crowd are delusional. Maybe they were right before covid, but they're extremely wrong now.
I have an archive of an inbox considerably older, if I have the time I’ll run a script against it and see.
I love the idea of software museums. We need more of these. In the future we will have to have something like software archeology to keep our aging legacy systems running in perpetuity. Imagine a large, critical legacy system built on ancient software continues for 100+ years, and the cost to replace it with modern technology is devastatingly expensive and close to impossible?

Oh wait, we already have systems like that in the US Federal government! Okay they’re not more than a century old, but ai can imagine scenarios where they will be. The programmers for these systems are in now their sixties and early seventies, with very very few younger engineers learning the old stuff, especially recent graduates.

We need a specialized CS program
just for this.
I am biased but you are definitely missing out by just listening to your friends on this one. These days MongoDB is pretty mature and the “MongoDB sucks” meme is getting pretty long in the tooth.

It turns out it takes a decade to build a new database that’s half decent and has all the features people want. It’s really hard! Ask anyone that’s tried. The path is littered with skeletons.

Of course, there are those databases that are “perfect” from the start and never made any mistakes but is anyone talking about them today? Even Postgres gets it wrong sometimes.
The knowledge it gains the end user is the confidence that the service I am using actually knows what they are doing. I have often found that if someone uses imprecise terminology, it is a symptom of a bigger issue.
Many comments complain how Troy explains about technical stuff like encryption vs. hashing and the users don't care about or understand it. However, don't forget that many readers of his blog are the technologically literate and can appreciate the nuances of this content. In fact, I find this particular post quite easy to understand for any beginners who want to learn about about password security.

The distinction between encryption and hashing can never get too much education, both for the end users and the more technical developers/sysadmins.
I'd guess there is there is too much money in it due to the fact that central banks killed interest rates and started buying government bonds as needed - where pension funds would hold those they now need to search positivie returns and there's just not enough good bets there - would explain why the valuations are sky high
Amazon's complaint actually is that Trump corrupted the acquisition process in favor of Microsoft.
I had a friend who was once a heavy Marijuana user. After smoking a couple of times a day, everyday he stopped dreaming. As I understand, dreaming is important for deep sleep. For some reason, which I am not sure has been really studied, Marijuana affects sleep. While it might promote sleep, I wonder if it promotes the kind of sleep that is most beneficial for our bodies. These days, living in a legal state, Marijuana is often promoted for sleep. It might make you sleep, but if your body never reachese the state needed for deep sleep, I would hardly call it an effective sleep therapy drug.

Once my friend stopped using Marijuana (he had used regularly for 10 years) his dreams suddenly became intense and overwhelming. This is a common occurance among heavy cannabis smokers once they stop using. Marijuana is not just THC, CBD or CBN but some combination of these chemicals and more.

I would be weary of CBN for sleep therapy. While it might promote sleep, does it really promote the deep restful sleep that we are learning is extremely important for good health, longevity and optimum functioning? We have much to learn about Cannabis. Hopefully the changing laws and attitudes about cannabis will enable scentists and researchers to better understand this drug.
But Eric Weinstein asks of his guests to practice difficult words listeners have to find in a dictionary. He practices difficult words with an ANKI spaced repetition system himself.

What I find intriguing is that Peter Thiel has yet to appear on the Joe Rogan podcast while he clearly bankrolled that operation.
Are there methods of peeking at the long term safety of a vaccine without waiting for a long term?
My opinion is that the F35 is the 21st century's version of the 'Brewster Buffalo'.

Supposedly great but found wanting when put to the combat test, and a death-trap for pilots.
In other words, the "impracticality" of compact, safe terrestrial reactor designs is almost entirely created by an immense mountain of bureaucratic hurdle that the military is excepted from? I can see the need for safety and careful documentation of contingencies but the scale of what you describe is simply dismaying.

Thank you for that answer and link. checking further now.
This is totally incorrect. Individual options contracts are indeed written against 100x of the underlying asset but this has absolutely nothing to do with the relationship between the price (premium) paid per contract and that of the underlying share. To given an example, you could find a put option whose premium is actually equal to the current market value of the underlying (i.e. a merely 1 to 1 relationship) or one that's so far out of the money that it's a 1 to 1000 relationship. Without knowing more details about the precise options SoftBank bought, we cannot infer how much market cap in underlying shares the $4bil corresponds to.
Why is disincentivizing the accumulation of massive wealth in a small subset of the population bad for society? What is the advantage to society of an individual accumulating tens of billions of dollars worth of wealth?
I honestly didn't realise the Raspberry Pi isn't open source. Why isn't it?

The Foundation's charitable objective is education, so sure, it's not necessary, but there really seems to be no reason for it to be closed - I suppose it's just 'closed by default'?
Here in Eastern Europe retailers are surprisingly stubborn and almost never drop prices of obsolete generations of tech. :(

I'd also love to read a guide about WSL2 + Docker.
The "Mongo DB is Web Scale" video just turned 10 years old. I'm pretty sure that was a big factor in MongoDB not being taken seriously by many people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Choosing a contractor out of personal preference of the president is why the laws around federal bidding were created in the first place - contracts paid by taxpayers are intended to be based on the merit of the bid.
How do guys afford quarterly pen-tests as a start up?
Unless our lightcone starts growing faster than polynomially, compounding can't happen for very long.
Amazon throwing a little tantrum and complaining about the lack of "a fair and even playing field" is basically pure karma.
Can a QR code convert to JavaScript like that? i.e. instead of opening a webpage it just executes some JavaScript.
Well it's not that hilarious, you would hope that the DoD actually does have some kind of justification than "uh no" and "tough" about how its spending 10 billion dollars.
You're not even seeing all the sites that truncate your password down to 6 characters.

Hi Westpac.
Really, it’s the price and mass market availability more than anything else that makes the Raspberry Pi a Raspberry Pi, moreso than the exact featureset (especially considering the difference in capabilities between the original and v4). No word on that, it seems?
The Foundation doesn't make the SoCs, Broadcom does.
Nah, the real goal is music companies want money. Bags and bags of money Facebook clearly doesn’t want to pay.
The (strong form) efficient market hypothesis (EMH) doesn't state or require that there be no bubbles. The EMH means that bubbles are extremely hard to predict/see, largely because of the market's feedback loop.
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We did some calcs to that effect since we were operating in Australia, and they had a $25/ton carbon tax at the time. If my memory serves, it would increase natural gas costs by ~25%. So it'd likely still be right around $0.10/KWh.

Actually I take that back - our calcs were all based on ~$4/mmBTU gas but I just looked and gas prices have been below $3/mmBTU for years. So $0.08/KWh is probably a worst case even if we had a reasonable carbon tax.
This does seem questionable but the VA and DoD are Microsoft shops and imo AWS' offerings for Windows are a bit lacking...
Do you mean <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_password_proof>?