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I'm fortunate to be working for a company that requires everybody to work from home. You need to request to come to the office. They did this before the Dutch government recommended it, and will probably continue this until well after most companies have gone back to the office.

That said, the lockdown in April when he had to basically homeschool our kids was tough. It was tough despite the fact that our normally one-evening-every-two-weeks babysitter was helping out three days a week (she lost all her other jobs and couldn't go to university, so this helped her too), and we've got a big house. I can't imagine what it must be like for families in small houses without this kind of help.

This week we're keeping our youngest home from school again because he has a cough (probably just a cold, but you can't send him to school this way), and again it's incredibly disruptive to our work. But you've got to deal. There are people who have it much worse, we just need to be understanding towards each other until this is over.

Maybe this is a badly needed course in empathy.
The YouTube music app is just okay.

What I hate is that now, regular YouTube keeps recommending me music and mixes based upon my music preferences. I cannot stand this. I don't watch YouTube for music!

Previously it would have recommended music videos, mostly rap and hip-hop (which I do not and have never listened to) and there was no way to turn that off. But it was relegated to it's own section which I just ignored. Now the mixes they keep recommending are just getting to be way too much.

I have YouTube premium, because I hate ads. But these music mixes, the rap recommendations that I can't disable, and the YouTube movies recommendations that don't allow you to select "not interested" like normal videos - are really lowering my opinion of YouTube and I can't be the only one.
Yes.

If you want a more elaborate answer, then yes there's really no question about it.

Everyone points to the use of racial epithets in Blazing Saddles as a reason that the movie couldn't be made today. Ignoring that Quentin Tarantino regularly makes movies with racial epithets today.

Blazing Saddles is profoundly anti-racist. It shows racism and bigotry in a negative light. The racist characters are boors or villains or both. The black sheriff is the hero and shown to be in the right nearly every time. Why couldn't it be made today?
Sometimes I genuinely forget that these aren't exactly recognized glyphs these days.
People have been making sexual references in song lyrics since the dawn of time, and that's perfectly fine.

As mentioned in a sibling comment, it's not the explicit lyrics but the extremely low quality of the entire production that puts me off.
Our tools automatically add an emoji at the beginning of commits for PRs that were approved, unapproved, or work-in-progress. I would say it's pretty beneficial because you can just scan down the git log and get an understanding of what's happening.

We also have the bonus of knowing exactly what web and git clients the whole team is using, but for more open projects it might be an issue.
They would, because there are countries where iOS has 0% market presence, and they also offer Web variants of those apps.
> - Do less but better. Whatever you do shitty now will come back

As everything else in life. This was a life aha moment.
Yes, the SPARC processor went under development in 1984ish, IPO in 1986, market "correction worst since 1928" in 1987, but SPARCstation 1, the first commercial system with SPARC, was not released until 1989 and SUN drifted sideways because of the difficult transition to RISC (and System V?) from CISC (and BSD4.2) until the Internet taking-off (due to Vincent Cerf releasing async-PPP as Microsoft RAS) generated massive server demand beginning around 1996 (followed by dot-com bubble, crash, nuclear winter, rise of free software particularly LINUX and ultimately death of SUN). Drifting sideways after 1989 on the remains of DEC's high-end business (with DEC's low-end aka "departmental" business going to the PC's running Windows NT "server") was preferable to what happened to virtually every other major computer manufacturer of that era (including IBM --those monsters simply laid off hundreds of thousands of Americans, sold off their PC assets to ChYna and opened massive plants in Bangalore to write code in SUN's Java set-top-box language).
This is true, although I don’t resent anyone for it - it’s mostly just demoralizing.
I also don't think that a fishing pole is useful, but that's because I don't like to fish. With a gun I could

* defend myself

* rob you

* murder you very effectively

* enjoy target shooting

* hunt wild game

* provide peace of mind in troubled times when law and order break down

The fewer guns there are per capita, the more useful they become for criminals. They are so useful, in fact, that people will spend a lot of money and subject themselves to costly and invasive regulations just to buy one gun. If no one found them useful, no one would find it necessary to ban them.
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I ran a half marathon on sand with no training, find a pace you're comfortable with and stick to it. Knees were fine, delayed onset muscle soreness the next day was extreme but passed. (had I not had to turn back because of a river mouth I would have gone further)
We better start launching apps for Pinephones and asking MNT Research to make a phone, then.
The church of satan was at least edgy and made some good points through abrahamic satire and didn't champion racial quotas. That was formerly restricted to completely distinct political groups that were completely irrelevant until recently...
The first Civilization game sold 1.5 million copies across all platforms.

There were about 50 people in my year at school playing pirated copies taken from one original. The kid with an external disk drive and a copy of Cyclone was very popular.
Yeah they pulled that with one of the more recent SimCity games. I used to enjoy laying pipe, running electricity and setting up zoned grids on tiny squares, but they streamlined and oversimplified way too many of the enjoyable details from SimCity 2000 (best version in my opinion). Maybe modern game designers thought those were empty chores but I felt they added to the sandbox feel of the game.
It is like vaccination: "look, there is no smallpox or measles, why do we need a vaccination for?"
I for one, perceive stories published in mainstream media outlets to be less trustworthy
I'd guess our machine overlords didn't like it
If Amazon tried and wasn't successful, I doubt Epic would. The market is meant to be taken by a few players, it's such a huge undertaking. The hope is that those few players play fair.
Except on Multics it was supposed to be not at the file level but at the segment (think block) level. In theory it was one set of segments not all accessible at the same speed, with “filesystem” just a thin layer grouping some sets of segments together.

I’m not sure that design actually survived to the real world; files seemed more coherent to me, but that could have been me projecting: I was pretty young back then.
Germany is already investing into power to gas infrastructure for both hydrogen and methane. What you are talking about is already reality albeit at a small scale.
I think most of the players playing Grand Strategy are veteran players who have been playing since the early Civs. I think Meier's point is that if grand strategy wasn't already an established genre then he wouldn't be able to make Civ today
I'm sure you worked hard and thought a lot about the security of this, but you have to be really arrogant to think that this will be fine because you thought about everything. I'm pretty sure this will open up a lot more possibilities for malware, viruses, harmful web pages than the convenience it will provide.
This is a side effect of urbanization. Economic opportunity is increasingly concentrated in cities and the increased demand inevitably increases the cost of housing.

If that cost becomes too high relative to the income increase gained by living in, say, SF, people will certainly move elsewhere. But they'll still largely move to cities, and the cycle will just repeat there.
I don't think this is supposed to secure against someone with physical access.

If they have physical access and are replacing the BIOS, they could just replace the CPU at the same time with a fresh unlocked one that will lock itself to the replacement's signing key on first boot.
As a counterpoint here's something Franz Kafka wrote in a letter to Elli Hermann 1921, badly translated by me.

> Parents have an animalistic, senseless love for the children, which confuses themselves with the child all the time, the educator has respect, and this is much more valuable for education, even if there is no love present at all. I repeat: valuable for education, because even though I call parental love animalistic and senseless, that does not value it lowly, it is just as much a unknowable mystery as the artful, creative love of the educator, only in the context of education however it cannot be valued low enough.
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No it was a tagged architecture but not a capability system. In fact everything ran in a single address space.
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I totally agree. Thanks for putting your perspective out there. It is indeed an assault on kids. Where I come from, school is mandatory. I think there is an obligation of the government to ensure that school can continue, with the same level of quality as perviously.
Nice that you are using WP on dosemu2 on Ubuntu on Windows. I once spoke to someone active in research into keeping data (formats) and programs available for very long time (like centuries) and I always thought it was a no-brainer because one could just run X on Y on Z on A on B on C to get ancient software D working.

Allthough I also have to admit that this approach didn't work for my favorite game [0] but now that I'm googling, I does seem to work! So someone got DirectX 9 or something working?

[0] https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=3140&letter=A
This will put a lot of smaller/indie movies out of contention. Particularly from non-minority foreign countries. Meanwhile, recent best picture winners were rather homogeneous: Parasite Won in 2019. Moonlight in 2017.
“You are blocked from following this account” guess I got hit by one of the old school block lists?
Are you sure?

COD sold 75-80 million copies [1]. Getting 30 million regularly implies that one of third of them are actively playing at the same time. That seems rather unlikely

[1] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/call-of-duty-warzone-sees-...
I've been playing Civilization V for ten years. I'm skeptical they're going to be able to build a new Civ that will pull me off of it. I consider it the nearly perfected version of the franchise (opinions widely differ of course). Maybe in another ten years. Everything I've read about Civ VI indicates the overall gameplay is inferior (although obviously not graphically), there's no great reason to move on to it.

I'm still playing Age of Empires and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, so I may just be trapped in a time vortex.
Unfortunately, Vitamin D submissions are now in the same systematic group on HN as posts from NY Times, Zettelcasteln, Rust, Haskell,'Greenland is melting', 'Tesla is bound to fail', etc.

I understand that dang cannot stem the tide with the resources at his disposal, and the coming November looms over everything else. Still, one can hope for higher SNR here.
Capability systems have been an area of research since the 60s
> "What would you propose then?"

The proposal is right there: everybody should go home at 6.

I do not feel guilty for going home after I put in 8 hours of good work. The employer should be feeling guilty if it's demanding more than that.
The same citadel demo made for Flash C++ support.

Apple didn't need Epic support, the only other phone that actually had hardware support for GL ES 1.0 was Nokia N95.

And mobile games have been a thing since J2ME, Brew, Symbian, Windows CE/Pocket PC, with stores getting commissions all the way up to 80%.

Maybe Epic would rather develop games against the early 2000's store model from mobile operators.
> There isn't a point in the last 30 years that that movie could have been made.

Why not? Pulp Fiction was made in that time frame, features roughly as many racial slurs and even won awards.
I'm not so sure about that. Throwing layers between content and delivery seems to be pretty popular among developers that I work with. Particularly younger ones.
What are the possible use cases here?
You just want to have a look at non-editable mind-map version of your notes?
> reproduction as exclusively good and necessary

If reproduction was bad and unnecessary you, me, none of us would exist. Reproduction is fundamentally essential and necessary for life itself. Bananas indeed.

7/10
> I think sometimes if a future without borders/capital/currency/poverty/war/etc is even possible...

Sheesh, I hope not. The only way I see that happening is if all the people are either dead, or functionally identical. Neither seems like a food future to me.

I wouldn't mind less of those though.
Shouldn't be that on the company policy? No meetings outside the working hours? People could setup meetings at 7PM also while in the office I don't see the difference here sorry.

> resolving complexity, disambiguating problems

Can you elaborate?
I actually like it the way it is now. You don't hear our arguments, you only want to be represented in that court without us. But conscious apple users are not all pro-sideload.

if the App Store is such a tremendous value, why don‘t you ask users to pay for access to that App Store directly

Because the value is not in the appstore itself, but in an inability to push uncontrolled spy/trick/crap-ware through side channels, so that thieves and con artists have no way to trick or force a user out of safety.
Yes, this sounds nice, but even if you build the actual right thing, most of the time they wont come.
>The best part is that I'm paying for that privilege when I'm not on WiFi.

Datacaps are some of the best examples of the worst kind of rip-offs.

How they're tolerated is beyond my imagination. Here I can get a 100/50 4G consistently, it's for ~20€/mo and the operators have no complaints
It appears I could use this to ask a victim to "select your downloads folder" to save files to and then steal or overwrite any file in it.
U made me think integration approximations on GPU might be a valid optimization.
Here is my favorite example of "put every page element behind a JS call":

https://www.scmp.com/

A news site. It does precisely the same thing as news sites did a decade ago.
On my machine, it loads slowly. Then, it needs to re-load every time you scroll. It's extremely slow. Indeed, on Firefox, it doesn't load everything consistently.
If you click on an article, things get even worse because it needs to reload text when you scroll. This website is what I would call "barely usable".

Let me reiterate: This site does nothing new compared to old news websites. There is zero benefit to the user. It simply is slow.

I don't know who is to blame for this. But if even your text loads slow, you are building a bad website. I am sure, some frontend developer got paid for making this website. I am not sure they should have been.
IOCCC winners would require a lot of goodwill from a typical iPhone owner: "I'm going to try to find this interesting because it's supposed to be an app."

https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2019
Because we haven’t gotten to being a colour blind world yet.

The Oscars have a long history of being biased towards white people. What is worse since winning a Oscar allows you to vote on the Oscars that bias has been perpetrated.
> Clive Stafford Smith said he had been “profoundly shocked” by the crimes committed by the US government against his clients. These included torture, kidnapping, illegal detention and murder. The murder of one detainee at Baghram Airport in Afghanistan had been justified as a permissible interrogation technique to put fear into other detainees. In 2001, he would never have believed the US Government could have done such things.

This is odious, and it's just one of the things in just this article. The amount of human rights violations going on seems staggering.
Really starting to get sick of this moral posturing. 1 year isn't a "mild inconvenience", the lockdown have been absolutely devastating to many many people, but of course you wouldn't know that because you probably WFH on a comfy salary for a tech company?
I stopped playing Civ, not because of it's """complexity""", but because it's lack of polish in its complexity. Yes, on the surface when you play it there's a lot, but it's not unique in that regard.

What made me stop is that after understanding the base meta and how the systems work with each other, you realize how woefully unbalanced the game is. The moment two advanced players try to play a game, the starting position determines the result. It has such an absurd snowball effect that the game gets reduced to rock paper scissors.

Complexity is fine, if you can manage it and use it to enhance the player's experience (e.g., Dota) by using that complexity to give dozens of viable routes to play the game in and have a chance of winning. But complexity thrown in just to have these amazing "systems" that totally unbalance the game makes no sense.
I think I know what you mean. I try to wrap at 80 col. and I often need to go back and edit a paragraph, which breaks all my wrapping.
US can really do whatever they want and get away with it, for now. What a shame if the UK allows the extradition of a journalist.
It should be illegal to lock devices like that. Pure corporate greed. It is sad that as soon as AMD restored its glory they gone for a cheap cash grab. It should be easy to tell that device is running unsigned boot loader without blocking it (e.g. a jumper on the motherboard). If attacker is able to switch a jumper, then you have bigger problems than a boot loader. Community should nip this in the bud and out AMD.
I hear what you are saying but don't agree that "let's brush it under carpet" approach would be a mature one. My assessment is that current religious problems in India exist because there was no closure on hindu-muslim issues which started with Mughals and ended with partition. No political or religious leader addressed this issue with genuine concern and acknowledgement of history. Instead, all (including Gandhi to current politicians) took ostrich approach to deny the rift with slogans of unity, while pressurizing Hindus to forget-and-forgive since it appeals more to Hindus. This eventually gave rise to "pseudo-secularism" in India which is essentially anti-Hindu but pro-Islam stance. It is my opinion that due to this, distrust between Hindus and Muslims still lingers on and always will. Better approach would have been a proper closure of all the violence, conversions, atrocities, etc of past and then focus on moving on. And finally, mature approach would have been to figure out what is proper closure?
No one's stopping you from using only Apple store. Why force your choice on other consumers? Let people decide what's best for them
As far as I understand it, the policy disallows listings in the short description, and the algorithm wrongly categorized the sentence as a listing because of the Oxford comma.
No, it's about stopping BIOS-level rootkits from being installed when someone remotely compromises the machine.
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I really enjoyed watching that series too for a while, although it was sometimes moving along a bit too slowly for my taste. I also hear it's not really going anywhere even after a few years in the making now (?!).

One thing I always find amusing about such endeavours is the discrepancy in the level of difficulty when presenting their contents. Often you see (or read) them explaining programming concepts on a kind of baby level ("imagine a variable is like a box that you can put something in...") but then when it comes to video games math, they have no trouble assuming people know advanced concepts from linear algebra or even calculus. Cute.
Did I read it right? Child-free people are not normal?
see my above comment in this thread for a counter-example.
Really? I feel like any damage mobile could do has already been done at this point. Mobile is no longer novel and has been saturated for many years. I haven't built a new PC in years but recently with the fantastic AMD chips and some great titles that I want to explore, I plan on doing it soon. Plus it would be nice to have a system I could tether a VR headset to if I want.
Right, it actually contains two game engines:

2D => https://developer.apple.com/spritekit/

3D => https://developer.apple.com/scenekit/

Alongside lots of other game related goodies, https://developer.apple.com/games/
Like I mentioned before, China does pursue dissidents beyond its borders. Look up Operation Fox Hunt.

China bans dissident websites and internet platforms that don't comply with their censorship, they actively censor dissenting speech and amplify propaganda on social media like Douyin (owned by ByteDance, whose CEO also publicly pledged to work towards "Strengthening the work of Party construction, carrying out education among our entire staff on the “four consciousnesses,” socialist core values, guidance of public opinion"; oh, fun fact, ByteDance owns TikTok), they also monitor private communications on WeChat and ban apps that don't allow this, remove protesting apps from the Chinese iOS App Store (eg. HK), bans foreign journalism, arrests heads of publications critical of the regime (eg. Jimmy Lai), tracks and detains ethnic religious practitioners (eg. Uighurs) and seizes authority over local religious chapters (eg. Catholic church), declares that it is the “basic responsibility” of schools to strengthen students’ sense of national identity (said by the Education Bureau, reported by SCMP) and revises the history curriculum to omit embarrassing sections of China's dynastic history.

So when someone leaves China to go abroad, they've just left a country that controls what information they can consume online and from mainstream news, controls what they can publish online and say on social media, mandatorily monitors and punishes what they say in private to their own friends and family via p2p services like WeChat and Zoom, controls what religions you're allowed to practice, controls religious authorities, and ensures your education builds up your nationalism.

Sure, they don't control what they say outside the US (sometimes). They just control everything else that forms the very foundations of thought, speech, identity, and character.

Seems pretty total to me. Maybe I'm just not with the times enough to understand your convincing argument that they're not totalitarian because they allow people to travel.

I won't mince words: there is zero legitimacy to the public support of a totalitarian regime by the subjects inside the totalitarian regime that controls and grooms them.
Possible but DEC wasn't known for that level of BS --I think some of the confusion may have come from the fact that SUN acquired a storage vendor in Colorado during that time that had massive revenues but was drowning in debt and that company did file bankruptcy on Holloween, 1985 --perhaps not because SUN needed a storage vendor in Colorado, but because they got the the cash infusion without the debt. Can't really be sure what the competitive marketing folks were referring to, just be certain that I am accurately recalling the summary of what was on Easynet in those dark years. I am a polaroid head and held the top technical position over thousands of engineers as a teen...for me, the attention to legal/business/politics came later in life.
There is a more interesting piece on this at https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/chance-encounters