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>Modern web apps are so much more inferior in certain areas when speed, immediacy and efficiency is required.

This is a weird thing to suggest.

It's now possible to run a complete productivity suite in an office. Web mail is WAY more usable now than it was in 2005. Dynamic web apps made this kind of thing possible. I absolutely do not want to regress back to the time when every web app change required a submit; I mean, come ON.

At the same time, it's assailably true that most apps - web, native, phone, or otherwise - are crap. But don't confuse bad developer choices with a bad platform, and don't let nostalgia convince you that everything was better in $some_prior_era.
sorry, but no. children are 100% human.
Apple is even worse:

- as a developer you don't get "a sack of money" but you get a 30% tax (larger then Epic

- as a user you don't get free games, discounts or the option to wait for the exclusivity to expire. On top of that you will never(probably) have the option to touch the game files and mod it.
> There is no way Amazon has echo / alexa out there just so it can develop a language recognition model. They could just record their customer service reps talking to customers, train it on the millions of movies and shows with subtitles on amazon prime or train using audio book narrations. And the profits from their transcription service are not likely very high relative to other services they offer.

They might reasonably believe that a generic language model isn't as useful as one specifically trained to handle customer requests. They do have an army of people manually listening to the requests and responses and labeling them as good or bad.
SDL also does other weird things (or at least did), like rendering each 2D sprite in its own draw call.

The way to handle something like setting unique pixels is to keep a pixel buffer in memory on the WASM side, set the pixels in there, and then once per frame copy this pixel buffer into a WebGL texture and render this through a single WebGL draw call, or blit the pixel buffer to a 2D canvas if WebGL is not an option (also once per frame).
KIDS TODAY AMIRITE???
Markets are basically anarchy... there are countless examples of markets inefficiently allocating resources (homes, for one). Not sure I buy this.
The only way I think investors could invest more in companies with a long term view is better margining so you could borrow money to invest in companies without getting margin called. Eg you can buy a house with 5% down, but you can't do this with stocks because normal volatility means you'll likely be wiped out.
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In a lot of cases, people play the game through first before doing follow-up playthroughs dissecting it.

And dissecting (or tangentially related, speedrunning) the game is its own fun.

I felt it when I was playing Diablo 3 a few years ago; the 'core' game is a four chapter story (5th added with DLC) where you go through it with your character. But after that you can replay it at higher difficulties - again, nothing new there. But there are a dozen difficulty levels after 'normal', so you can keep going. And the goals shift. You no longer play to get through the game's story, you start to play to find better gear, gather materials, cross your fingers and hope to find a rare enemy that gives you access to a secret area. Eventually, the levels became a blur, the story something you just skip over because the in-game writing / voice acting is pretty poor (cutscenes are on point though). Later on they added Adventure Mode, allowing you to skip through the game world out of order and pursue different goals (e.g. "kill this enemy in this area") across the maps to work towards a reward, and Rifts, (semi)randomly generated dungeons that you are challenged to run as fast and frequently as possible. Finally there's Greater Rifts, challenge modes where the global goal for all players is to get to the highest, most difficult level. They further extended the lifetime and replayability of the game by adding Seasons, where you create a new character to get through the game for unique / one-off rewards.

I'm not sure where I'm going with that but long story short, there are many ways to enjoy a game that are not limited to the game itself as it's meant to be played.

Disclaimer: I run a fan website for a long-running game franchise where some of our members have gone really deep into the game(s), destructuring it, learning to and writing code to read and edit save files, going through the internet archive and contacting people to try and find and salvage old, defunct instalments and side projects of said series (like online modes, mobile games on feature phones), etcetera. Others (re)translate the games, write down novelized versions of games and movies, create art, discuss theories, make predictions about future instalments, etcetera.

I wouldn't have met my girlfriend if I had 'just' played a game.
> Gravity is weak, but it's cheap.

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be pedantic, but what does "gravity is cheap" even mean?
Well, statistics don't work in that linear way. For a start, that 94% is a global percentage that isn't evenly distributed worldwide, let alone on HN...

Anyway in my comment I was actually saying that if you do things right it will work even for that 5%, without any JS. Maybe it wasn't clear enough?
I work as a mathematician/tools engineer in casino gaming (class 2/bingo based slot machines), so I think I fit this description (math first, software second).

People that have this skillset (knowledge of Monte Carlo methods for statistical analysis/verification) are useful in this sphere.

An example problem we deal with is as follows:

We have some arbitrary histogram (list of slot game awards and probabilities), and we wish to map this to a particular game of bingo (N ball calls out of M balls in total, 5x5 bingo card). The constraint here is that when you come up with a list of bingo patterns for awards, they are ordered in the sense that when evaluating the set of bingo patterns, from top-down, the first bingo pattern that matches is awarded and the evaluation stops.

Getting the optimal fit theoretically in the general case requires exponential time, as the chain of P(this pattern given (not-that pattern and not-other pattern and not-...)) grows with an exponential number of operations in the theoretical expansion. Each time a new pattern is fit to an element of the histogram, the probabilities of all remaining possible patterns to fit changes.

There are a few ways of tackling this problem in a more optimal way: If you can solve this with good enough accuracy in linear time with a good math/cs background, you’d be useful to any company playing in this space.
The power density for gravity storage such as this is directly proportional to the density of the storage medium.

Water is 1 tonne per cubic meter. Steel is 7.9 tonnes per cubic meter. Lead is 11.34 tonnes per cubic meter - which means that in the same amount of space, you can store vastly more energy if you use these metals instead of water.

The initial cost of set up will also vary depending on the metal you use but lead is cheap.

Also, water evaporates etc.
Slides are indeed a poor way to submit work. That feels more like a lazy way out vs a thought through curriculum. Writing is an important part of the learning process.

In our case most of the work is done on paper and they hold it up to the camera for the teacher to see or take a picture and submit it.
> I can already write decent C# applications that run in browser .. it will run fine.

It is undoubtedly technically possible, but not really practicable, unless you accept an exorbitant speed-down and much higher memory consumption than e.g. when running in DotNet. Personally, I don't find that attractive in any way, nor do I find it particularly efficient.
You're right, and I agree that such collateral shouldn't be acceptable, but it is not what I meant. In the 90's European microlenders utilized a complex web of fees, rules and penalizations to grow the debt from few hundreds today's Euros to thousands or dozens of thousands, ans in response the EU regulation of financial services came to be. That is not possible in China, the regulation regarding the structure of the product is very similar to Europe.
The Fed board is appointed by the President and approved by the Senate. The current chairman was appointed by Trump. The article doesn't even mention racism so I guess this is probably a throwaway culture war post but I have a hard time seeing how this of all things could be pinned on the Democrats. If anything it's the anti-public-health Republicans who let the pandemic get out of control and lead to a Fed buying spree.
I like to think / hope that some of the people writing for GameFAQs landed a job at the 'professional' walkthroughs that e.g. IGN and co are offering.
We can only guess without data specific to SARS-COV-2, but for seasonal coronaviruses, antibodies disappear after ~6 months and reinfection with the same strain can occur after 1 year.
Maybe not as large as possible, but we're looking at about 10m diameter and about 1 mile deep. Here's an example of existing mining tech that meets this capacity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5vAWR7rpco
Thanks for the Snopes link, as I was wondering what evidence there was for the claim.

> Rating: Unproven

> On 4 October 2016 Clinton answered a question about whether the rumor was accurate, responding that she didn’t “recall any joke … [reference to targeting Assange with a drone] would have been a joke”

Oh, well if she "does not recall" it (and I'm sure she has a great memory[0]) and if she'd only be joking about killing him then he'd have no reason to not want her becoming president.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2008/mar/25/hillary-cl...
Certain issues aren't very deterministic. Traffic laws and rules are. Wether someone is acting in bad faith is not.
My child is in awe when he sees me use the Minecraft CLI. He was excited to start kindergarten specifically to learn to read and write enough to use the CLI. I'm hoping that will eventually be his entree into programming.

It does give me some hope that future generations will still use computers and not just tablets.
Ah yes, renters, that class of people notorious for having the power to influence markets.
Bah. I was a very serious and intense user of Word 4.x and 5.0, but 5.5 stripped out its native (and idiosyncratic) interface for a character-mode and hokey version of Windows' CUA menus. I hated it, and stayed on 5.0 until I eventually had to switch to Word for Windows (which, fortunately, eventually became usable).
Some seriously willful ignorance to pretend that a scriptable scenegraph is the same as a game engine. Netcode, entity systems, loading/streaming systems, matchmaking, achievements, level editors, material/shader editors, model editors, physics, particle systems, lighting, sounds, voice chat, plugin libraries/mods,... the game engine of today is a big thing, & well integrated.

Second, who would adopt a platform specific "game engine" like scenekit? Are you going to rebuild your whole game to port it, is that the plan here? Apple is categorically unable to compete with actual game engines exactly because they dig their own hole, invent their own proprietary closed technologies (metal, scenekit) up & down the stack. They aren't playing keep up with the real tools, a game of "me too": they can't begin to compete with the real deal even if they tried.

Surely you must be joking?
Main reason for now is that the cosine similarity used as context function is not suitable for natural images like those in Imagenet. We are experimenting some extensions based on convolutions for such use cases.
So the existence of a port to upgrade the output capability, in contrast to the microphone which can not be upgraded, seems to highlight the importance of the former, not the latter.
The density of unsubstantiated platitudes in the marketing for this is high even for silicon valley. There's a good evolutionary reason human beings focus on short term thinking. We have no demonstrable ability to forecast into the distant future!

Corporate governance is eff'd, and does promote short-term shenanigans, but technology that enables shareholder governance is the solution. Not just avoiding the price discovery process.
I learned on WordPerfect for DOS because that was what my dad used at work. Then, when I was in high school, we moved to WordPerfect for Windows when we moved to Windows 95.

I always missed the simplicity of WordPerfect for DOS, but WYSIWYG always kept me in the Windows version. For some reason, I always had some kind of irrational fear of MS Word; but I switched in college and never looked back. Ever.
Or use normal magnets (non-electro magnets) The vaccuum, sure, this may take some energy depending on the insulation.
Amazon is a great counter example and I don't have an argument that says Amazon does focus on short term at all, and certainly not to its detriment.

However, an exception to the rule is not the rule.
> The irony is that Epic pays companies a sack of money to have exclusive right for a title, to have it temporarily only available on EGS.

But that doesn't require you to use EGS for anything else, and the cost of using multiple game stores is minor, because installing them is free.

And how do you mean that Apple doesn't force you to use only their own launcher and platform? If I want iMessage, I not only have to buy their phone hardware, and their platform, and get it from their store, I also have to get everything else from their store even if I don't want to. To avoid this I would have to buy two separate phones at a cost of hundreds of dollars, with two separate phone contracts and phone numbers, and then carry them both around. Nobody is going to do that, whereas installing multiple game stores on your PC is the rule rather than the exception, exactly because you can easily have more than one on the same device.
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I think the author made some good points worth thinking about, but I would somewhat disagree with the conclusion. Some of the bigger FOSS projects left out of the write-up would be Chromium which is BSD+others, and Java is GPL, so it shouldn't be surprising that corporations figured out which license would help them the most and went with that. Likewise, I think people should pick the right license for the job (Something along the lines of BSD/Apache for a system lib, and GPL for user-facing software), and experimentation in this area can only be good. License zero, ethical source, Tidelift, and some license/project proliferation with POSS all seem like they're going in different directions if anywhere, which might also make sense as there is more branching out of FOSS in general.

FWIW, I think the 4 freedoms reinforce what end users want, or maybe used to want: compatibility and interoperability. The big companies somehow managed to convince users against having those two things in the name of a few conveniences as the author himself pointed out. Gatekeepers can only be stopped if users reject them, and the GPL isn't so bad a tool for doing exactly that.
> wasm is usually quite a bit faster than comparable javascript

Even if true, it doesn't help much if you have to marshall through JS for nearly every call.

> You can write an entire front end web application if you want

One of the core benefit propositions was the possibility to write browser applications in any language, not just JS.
It may be so. But an underground pump hydro is just boring.
That would require something that is mostly missing in universities: strategy. Cooperation between departments and colleagues without direct sight on short term benefits is very slim. I'm quite close to my local university (father worked there, alumnus, wife works there, friends who are professor; it's a quite good Euro-business and law school). The thing I've learned: a university is more akin to a village than to a business even though the administrators try to run it as a business (but have terms a lot shorter than most professors). There is no clear line of control. Professors are tenured and some have super-star tendencies. Budgets are fragmented between departments, groups, and in our country are built upon subsidies for specific research tasks. There is a lot of cooperation between individual researchers in fields. But that is a response to it satisficing the demands of subsidies. Ýou could call that strategy, but I'd call that 'external motivation'. Strategy as in internal motivation: "How can we get greater research results from all our research staff by leveraging technology" is a question hardly asked.
Porsche SE was banned from certain stock indexes because they refused to publish quarterly reports. They claimed that too frequent reporting is not beneficial for companies. You can purchase Porsche SE stocks, but they are not listed in the DAX, which is the largest German stock index.
I worked in this space for 12 years, this is one of two or three “correct” replies in this thread.

OP, you’re in a pretty niche market (albeit a largish niche). standard marketing advice isn’t going to do you a lot of good here. look for the responses coming from people who have anxious experience in HIT and take whatever advice they’re offering.
OH MY GOD I remember LEWP, but my nostalgia here is fundamentally grounded in its instability. See, I kept myself in beer money by helping a few grad students recover LEWP documents that LEWP had obligingly munged badly.

Great tool -- for people who charge money to fix it when it breaks!
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Globalization is certainly a very important factor but technology also has to be mentioned. In lots of industries it has massively reduced the bargaining power of the working people. Mostly because increasing output is much less dependent on labour than in the past.
I've been trying it on small CRUDs, so nothing impressive was happening on the front side, so I didn't really notice those problems.

I think DLLs size and lack of DOM access was the biggest problem at the moment I've been testing it
I'll give a shareholder's perspective. Management, when left unchecked, frequently engages in in wasteful empire building and prestige projects. The most apparent manifestation of this is in mergers and acquisitions. Decades of evidence shows that the median merger destroys shareholder value for the acquiring company.

Imposing strong controls on corporate management is one of the most important thing that shareholders can do. This might take the form of independent boards, which aren't handpicked by the CEO. Or the removal of poison pills (which raises the threat of a hostile takeover for underperforming companies). But most important of all is the existence of transparent, consistent, regularly evaluated metrics. That means quarterly earnings targets.

Like any job, CEOs need consistent feedback to keep their incentive aligned with those who employ them (shareholders). Management has shown time and time again, that when monitoring is weakened, they go off the reservation and destroy shareholder value. The good thing about earnings is that it's they're easy-to-measure, hard-to-fake tangible proof of continuing performance. In contrast stories about "long-term value" or intangible promises of future rewards are usually BS used to justify extravagant empire building while the CEO uses the company's balance sheet as his personal piggy bank.

Lest anyone think that evil Wall Street shareholders are hobbling visionary CEOs, observe the rare cases when management does prove its credibility. Prime example is Amazon, which time and time again has scarified short-term earnings for long-term development. And nobody could possibly claim that it's punished by Wall Street for this. The difference is that unlike 99% of CEOs, Bezos has conclusively proven his ability and alignment with Amazon shareholders.
This is actually a good trend. Just compare this to the alternative. San Francisco and Seattle, where the tech elite overprice the non-tech population, decimating local communities and worsening the homeless problem. Vancouver and Irvine, where Chinese elite launder money to buy real state as investments (and leave them empty) rather than living spaces, resulting in the same problem.

This all might be a silver lining of the pandemic: combined with remote work, people are no longer confined to one place - avoiding discrimination of all sorts (from real state to immigration). The truth is that if the rich are left unchecked, greed can run rampant and create more harm than good- ex: healthcare, stock bubbles.
But the water leaking in is a feature, not a bug! You run pumps during surplus periods and generate hydroelectric in demand periods as the tunnel floods.
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That is also my impression.

And the fact that Mozilla has problems and has to realign is certainly not helping.
>All it takes is one major "trust incident" and accompanying press coverage to destroy "brand loyalty".

What event could meet that rise to that level that already hasn't happened?
There is a beautiful essay by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb titled, "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority" that bears reading. Vocal minorities do change society.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
You're so right. It is clear that monetary policy isn't enough. We need Congress to step in with a real plan for fiscal policy adjustments. The Fed can just do whatever they want so they do. Congress fights to get anything moving. The issue is that this asset bubble continues to grow and near zero interest rates isn't doing anything but inflating asset prices. We need fiscal policy to start growing the GDP and we need it yesterday.
> We have no demonstrable ability to forecast into the distant future!

Well I woke up this morning and got myself a beer!
Suppose LTSE becomes a thing, and they find some companies that they can certify as Long-Term(TM). What stops those shares from being traded on some other exchange, eg BATS?

What is it about the venue that makes it special? It seems that once an investor thinks a company has some desired characteristic, all they'd care about is where to get the shares as cheaply as possible.
OMG It looks just like OLE:

https://github.com/microsoft/FluidHelloWorld/blob/main/src/d...
The ability to say, "Google, text my wife and tell her I will be home after 8", is truly invaluable while driving.
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You're not making any sense. mgh is mgh. If you lift the blocks above or below the ground makes no difference. But you absolutely save a ton of money by not digging the expensive hole that will fill up with water.
The term for JS enabled pages used to be DHTML back in the day. You'd be talking about a static-server DHTML site. Or something like that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_HTML
> Governments do not have a history of distributing scarce resources effectively.

To be fair, "various market forces" also don't have the best track record of distributing resources, especially scarce ones. Somehow those always end up being "distributed" into the same few hands...
Facebooks Libra got released and they do a sale
Yep, as a Dance Dance Revolution player, flat screens were pretty unusable from 2000 (at least for PS2 games) until recently because of lag even on settings that "minimize" it on upscale.

Similar issue for emulation: for the SNES games on the Wii emulator, the game was much harder because you have to adjust for noticeable lag between your presses and the response. I also saw that on the Virgin in-flight Pac-Man: with their emulator, you have lag that makes the game harder. I was able to get a lot farther on the first try by playing on a classic machine.
I wish I could up vote your comment more than once.
> Isn't running a project more about the outcome than putting in as much time as possible?

As far as I understand, he's not really running a company though. It's mostly a solo endeavor.

So it seems like in this case time put in ~ outcome.