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> Where you get cornered is trying to pull in beta features into a game that has a hard schedule

Nope. Unity still has a lot of very important features that are or were in Beta or unfinished state for a very long time, at least until very recently. DOTS, SRP and HDRP, to give a few examples [1]. If I strictly follow your advice I would have to virtually stick with features from 2015. Thanks, but no thanks.

These problems with Unity have been going on for about 5 years and the official line by their team is that "we're rewriting stuff and it's going to be great, but in the meantime just wait".

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> Again, where are these breaking features "all the time"?

> Don't build your software, on other software, hoping to blindly chase every major release painlessly

So, you're saying that there aren't many breaking changes and updating is easy, but at the same time saying that people shouldn't even think about updating an engine mid-project because it's reckless?

Sorry, but you can't have it both ways.

Notice how you're blaming users for everything here: they can't update because it's hard, but at the same time we can't complain that it's hard because Unity is great and doesn't have many breaking changes. Also there's some whataboutism going on when you mention that Unreal and Monogame. This doesn't matter since them both don't have the crazy update schedule that Unity has where a major-upgrade is released every now and then.

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[1] And btw I fully expect an answer like like "Oh but you're not up to date on those, feature X has been finished in version XXXX.X, you just haven't upgraded yet". Well, guess what, there are breaking changes and I can't easily upgrade.
This statement makes a lot of assumptions ->

It is clear that Facebook is either unwilling or unable to effectively address the spread of misinformation.

Let's consider

What happens if Facebook stops 'misinformation'?

People go to places that have 'misinformation' because people are seeking what validates their already existing view of the world + people want to be excited and thrilled and entertained

Misinformation = way more exciting than the boring truth

It's not that Facebook is unwilling or unable to address the spread of misinformation

It's entire existence is predicated on playing to the lower instincts of humans

Facebook is set up to ENTERTAIN people and create a Beautiful Skinner Box for people where they keep chasing (likes) cheese and keep avoiding electric shocks (getting ignored, no juicy gossip, no polarizing and exciting news)

It's a Skinner Box

You do good things for the Box and it gives you a rush of dopamine

Create good content -> get Likes -> dopamine -> Skinner Box working as intended

Then against that good content, Facebook shows its ads

That's how it makes money

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It needs GOOD content i.e.

content that spreads
content that gets people to keep coming back again and again and again
content that gets people excited

Twain said -> A Lie has traveled around the world twice by the time the truth has put its pants on

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Facebook would never work if it became very efficient at weeding out lies, gossip, politically extreme content, misinformation

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Why does everybody start off with assumptions

A) Do we really think people want the boring truth?

B) Do we really think people who believe something want that belief to be destroyed and replaced with something else?

C) Does Facebook have any desire to 'fix' things? They have internal testing. Pretty much 100% sure it would show what happens if they 'fixed misinformation'

D) Do people want Facebook to 'fix' things

I don't see anyone complaining when Obama campaign was using Facebook to win elections

Now Trump is using Facebook to win elections so suddenly Facebook is the target of everyone in tech

Why a double standard? If a platform can be used to manipulate and sway people, is that dangerous only if it is used to sway people in a direction you don't like?

shouldn't it be considered wrong to manipulate and sway people in ANY direction?

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Facebook is basically a 'Appeal to People's Base Instincts' Engine

A skinner box

Everyone believes the nonsense that it is a 'social utility' or a 'social network'

It's not

It's a skinner box. Just observe how the normal people use it

Not tech people

Find some teenagers and see how they use it. Some people in their 20s. Some in their 30s

apart from the really old people (60+) who use it as a sort of communication site, everyone else is using it for really 'bottom of the barrel' stuff

- stalking their exes
- checking on gossip
- chasing likes (external validation)
- showing off
- pretending their life is better than it is
The answer rhymes with "Fuckerberg."
Getting trite at this point, but it fits here quite well:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
So the person is misusing it.
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Aren’t the numbers “business as usual” because of the actions governments took worldwide? I’m not sure about others, but Italy peaked to extreme when there were not enough beds and ventilators in some places, which is what every country is trying to avoid.
If there's a social media website with none of the problem factors of FB : ads, tracking, manipulation, selling of personal data, etc.

How much would we pay that site, on a monthly or per-use basis ?
I've built close to 30 free small sites that are all running at a loss. Costs me about $100 a month in total. It's fun, rewarding and worth every penny.
yes but it's not like they surveyed every country in the world though. I would expect China or India to have a higher number of deaths overall if the data were available. It just does not seem like a meaningful statistic given the sample they are studying.
Well sure, but then your development (and test) environment is tied to live services and you now you have two problems. It really, really sucks when an unrelated service goes down during an existing incident and you never mocked.
So you think "why create music" is an odd question too? I dont, but that's another discussion.

Back to the original question, making programing language and making music are nothing alike in there purposes. Music are specifically made to be consumed while proraming languages or any kind of software/protocol/standard are meant to be productive.

You can argue that people make languages for their own amusement, those exist. However if a language rises to some sort of adoption there was definitely some amount of effort put into promoting it and convincing other people to use it. At that point a language ceases to exist for amusement purpose and become an investment that cost individuals and the whole industry a lot. It better has a good pitch.
> what can this thing do that much more powerful computers and smartphones can't?

Inspire kids?
It's totally possible. I used to have a monthly ticket for public transport. My situation changed and I roughly calculated my expected trips. If it had been close, I would have gone for the monthly ticket again for sheer convenience and as a very minor risk insurance. It wasn't close.

I still take the subway, I don't worry about it at all. The weather is part of the decision, the 2 EUR something aren't. I don't even know how much it is, exactly.
I think it was this part:

> The Corgi Engine is recommended by Unity as part of its 2D Essentials Pack.

Maybe I read too much into it.
I think it's a Facebook problem. Facebook, and other social media, incentivise "engagement".

Content that makes people angry and get into bile-filled back-and-forth screaming matches with each other is fucking amazing for engagement, so Facebook et al push it to the top of peoples' feeds in order to get them to keep clicking, and to keep serving them ads.

Maybe Facebook hasn't really changed since it began, and "maximising engagement" has always been their main priority. But it's probably a pretty safe bet that they've put a lot of effort into that, and got much, much better at it in the last 15 years.

From the article:

> In July, Nick Clegg, a former Deputy Prime Minister of the U.K. who is now a top flack at Facebook, published a piece on AdAge.com and on the company’s official blog titled “Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate,” in which he wrote, “There is no incentive for us to do anything but remove it.”

I would disagree. I submit that hate drives engagement, engagement drives eyeballs on adverts, and eyeballs on adverts drives $$$$, which absolutely benefits Facebook, and gives them an incentive to keep hate on the platform.
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Serverless is not so shiny when compared to a cloud-managed Kubernetes cluster.

I get to deploy stuff "the regular way", that is with a constantly running application, I don't have to re-train my developers, I have extra power in the cluster should I need it, I don't depend on a cloud provider in particular, and my costs are bounded.

Cherry on top: I don't maintain the infrastructure either, there isn't even a SSH daemon running.
One reason that is often forgotten, although slightly touched upon via the ecosystem mention, programming languages are software packages, like anything else.

What companies that sell developer tools are after is building ecosystems and languages are the product to achieve that goal.

Like any product, differentiation comes into play, which is why even with standards in place, everyone ends up building their own extensions, which eventually grew up into other languages/products, where everything will be done better from the start.
Making a new language is more like making a new instrument or a new cooking tool though. You've got quite a mountain to climb in getting people to use it, to the level where there's enough usage to to be worth the effort. Sure, you can make a new language as an exercise in creativity, but there's more than a few "serious" languages that all seem to have a mix of the same set of ideas (types, immutability, lambdas, etc).
Disinformation always existed, but:

- it could never be targeted with the precision it is nowadays
- its effects could not be measured with the precision they can nowadays
- you couldn't plant information in a way that it seemed to come from a persons' trust circle in the way that you can now
- you couldn't remove differing opinions from the view of the person in the way that you can now
- you didn't have a place people are mentally addicted to to inject the content in.
- you didn't have a whole generation of people that didn't understand the basics of where the media they consume is coming from - This last point is hard to understand by a tech savvy person, but there are many, many people for which "I read it on the internet" holds the same amount of truth whether it was the washington post website or a pink-over-black hobby run website made by a random wacko.
Thank you! Which one did you like the most?
This. We live in farm country and bare land loans have gone from 20% down to 25% down in the last couple of years. You receive loans in chunks for building a custom home as the builder completes milestones. There was a "restoration" loan that came with certified builders and a government mandated architect that signed off on payment to the builder as milestones were reached. I am not sure if this type of loan is available any longer. In my opinion it is very difficult to purchase a mini farm (less than 100 acres) and make a go of it in the south. Some of our friends are building "barn" homes. Buy the land cheaply 5-10 acres. Have a metal barn built for less than $60k and then convert the interior to a home. This is very popular currently in Carroll county GA (feeder to Atlanta for jobs).
Is there a date when the existing gas plants will be decommissioned and demolished?
Not everyone wants to travel around the world to be at an award ceremony they only have a small chance of winning.
Yes, Android also has a DND-mode with configurable exceptions: what type of message/call gets through, who gets through right away, or after how many repeat calls.

Further, you can schedule it or even trigger by certain calendar events. Very convenient if you have small children and don't want the random calls from grandparents or old friends checking in at inconvenient times (apparently if they don't have children but working a lot they don't consider 9pm to be "a bad time" - how should they?).

We used Airplane mode at nights before (even before we had kids), but were stressed about missed emergencies from relatives and stopped doing that.

Disclaimer: I get approx. 2 calls per week, and this is mostly businesses calling back, etc. I still don't want to miss emergencies though.
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Another static-binary static-site generator I've recently discovered is Soupalt[1]. Which adds OCaml to the list of languages for that kind of thing, with extensibility via Lua. Has a a more unopinionated approach to thing, instead of just markdown expansion, it's also a generic HTML postprocessor.

[1]: https://soupault.neocities.org/
Yes. But the supply of the cogs is limited, and to replace one you need to stop the machine. Even after the replacement you are not sure you put the right cog in.
Cogs being replaceable does not mean that replacing them is costless.
India and China both have fewer deaths. The US is also a large and sparsely populated country. Best to suck it up and admit that the US has failed in every aspect and measure to respond to this pandemic.
They exist, but a much larger group just want to go to work with a few precautions.
I thought the biggest cost of titanium today was extracting from the oxide, not the ore itself?

2016 prices: TiO2 $150/ton; metal $3750/ton — https://www.metalary.com/titanium-price/
Diakin has possibly the shittiest knock off of ecobee firmware Ive ever seen. Enough to nope out of it if i see it in the next apartment. Its infuriating coming from being on a nest prior.
pffft while I find these sorts of profiling tools a load of crap, I'm mildly amused by my results.:

Personality Probability
INTJ 0.191244
INTP 0.163233
INFP 0.117823
ENTP 0.116617
INFJ 0.116165
ENFP 0.061458
ISTP 0.053393
ESTJ 0.034183
ISFP 0.031543
ENTJ 0.028374
ISTJ 0.026644
ENFJ 0.024270
ISFJ 0.017606
ESTP 0.010009
ESFP 0.004481
ESFJ 0.002956
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They are definitely noticeable in the UK graphs:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
The only substances that might have a chance to be profitably mined from asteroids are those that on Earth are concentrated at depths too great to be accessible and they are depleted at the Earth surface by thousands of times, or at least hundreds of times.

These elements are:
1. The 6 platinum-group elements
2. Rhenium and gold
3. Tellurium, selenium and germanium

Besides these elements, only indium might be profitable.

Indium is depleted only a little at the Earth surface, but its original abundance is very low, so additional extra-terrestrial sources could be useful.

From all the rare elements, indium is the one for which there are no good substitutes in its main applications.

Indium is completely irreplaceable in the best lighting sources (i.e. LEDs), in the best power semiconductor devices (with gallium nitride) and in the best transparent conductors (required e.g. for computer displays).

For transparent conductors there are great efforts to find a substitute and those might eventually be successful. Nevertheless until now all the alternatives have various disadvantages.
This argument is brought forward often. I just post the Wikipedia article that is actually (still) quite good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

... in the vain hope someone reads the first one or two sentences.

> They are not censoring anything.

Technically untrue. It isn't that much fun to defend holocaust denial. Maybe even illegal in my country, I don't know the details. But you do what you have to do. Ignorance is still the most potent weapon of facists.
Assuming you have some experience building simple single-node systems:

- Read Designing Data Intensive Applications. As others have said, it's a gem of a book, very readable, and it covers a lot of ground. It should answer both of your questions. Take the time to read it, take notes, and you should be well set. If you need to dive deeper into specific topics, each chapter links to several resources.

- Read some classic papers (Dynamo, Spanner, GFS). Some of these are readable while some are not-so-readable, but it'll be useful to get a sense of what problems they solve and where they fit in. You may not understand all of the terminology but that's fine.

That should give you a strong foundation that you can build upon. Beyond that, just build some systems, experiment with the ideas that you're learning. You cannot replace that experience with any amount of reading, so build something, make mistakes, struggle with implementation, and you'll reinforce what you've learned.

Backend is vast, and this helps you build a general sense of the topic. When you find a topic that you're really interested in (say stream processing, storage systems, or anything else), you can dive into that specific topic with some extra resources.

> I understand Postgres the best, and would love to know why these and others exist, where do they fit in, why are they better over PSQL and what for, and if they are cloud only what's their alternatives....It seems all of them just store data, which PSQL does too, so what's the difference?

A lot of that depends on the way you're building a system, the amount of data you're going to store, query patterns, etc. In most cases, there are tradeoffs that you'll have to understand and account for.

For example, a lot of column oriented databases are better suited for analytics workloads. One of the reasons is for that is their storage format (as the name says, columns rather than rows). Some of the systems you mentioned are built for search; some are built from the ground up to allow easier horizontal scaling, etc.
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> Software written in any programming language (as long as it targets WASM) is a lot easier to host than existing models.

For the past 20 years you have been able to target x86 gnu/linux and have it running without modification on a readily available server, either your own hardware or rented/public cloud. How does switching from one binary format to another (x86 to WASM) change anything (except maybe slowing down your code)? As I understand it, the main draw of WASM is running non-JS code in a web browser.
Living without AC will be very uncomfortable in the PNW in a 2 story house going forward. It already has been for a few years.
I think this article was posted here a while back:

https://qz.com/africa/1900035/the-lie-of-monsantos-genetical...

It's ironic how GMO has been sold as the solution to poverty and starvation and then in reality it's just been used to prevent poor farmers from reusing seeds by slightly changing and copyrighting them. Yay for humanity!
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Yes my phone was always on silent as well - until you have your kid in daycare and are supposed to really answer your calls as they arrive.
That's the new type for 2020.
> Serverless won't be profitable because the people who need it don't make money.

You seem to implying only applications with huge numbers of users can be profitable. This statement ignores a tremendous amount of (typically B2B) applications that provide enormous value for their users but don't see a lot of traffic.

I have worked on applications that are at the core of profitable businesses yet they can go days, in some cases weeks without any usage. Serverless architecture will be a real benefit there once it matures.
Very cool. Does it include battery charging/management yet? That's a complicated thing to make and it seems like a pretty important feature if you want to allow people to make cool battery powered devices.
> It's worth mentioning both. The United States is, after all, not the most populous country in the world.

The GP was arguing that per-capita deaths should replace total deaths. In context, your argument is "Total deaths are a useful metric and should be included, because the US is not the most populous country." Maybe it's true, but the argument is non-sequitur. As we all know, the real reason total deaths is a useful metric is that pancakes are delicious.

Also, the GP was explicitly arguing that the US is the largest of the 18 surveyed countries, which gives an implicit nod to the US not being the largest country in the world.

Edit: changed OP to GP.
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And if you need a dependency that has a sub dependency with a subdependency that uses a native module prepare for poorly defined -fun- hell getting it to work. A surprising amount of standard is libs do.
GP was pretty clear that they described a "goal for humanity", not a quick fix. Consider all the things humanity has done that were fairy dust and pixies right up until the point when they were done.
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The peak period of 35.6 - 40.4 percent excess is not "business as usual". Even the September 19 period which looks relatively low shows a 4.2 to 8 percent excess.
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I've been reading Craig Murray's blog, reporting on the Assange extradition case for a while now; he's apparently been managing on at best four hours of sleep a night for the past four weeks, spending his nights writing out his notes into posts. I think he'd benefit, although for him too, accuracy is important (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/).
Where is this bad, addictive content coming from? Isn't that all content from a list of people or businesses that you green-list yourself?
I recently ran into a scenario where using serverless caused a cascading failure. We have database searches that are executed directly via AWS lambdas. When we sent too many queries in too short of a time that took down the database and which then took down other things. (The fact multiple things are connected to this database is another thing to solve.) While the database was down the lambdas were still sending more and more requests.

If this was a standard service the standard service would have became overloaded very quickly, allowing the database to remain up but at a degraded performance and the only service that would have been down would have been the one that was getting too many queries. Instead, everything was effected.

I've came to the realisation that if your lambda requires something else to operate, lambda is probably not a good solution.
Ye the new algorithmic feed from ca 2014 killed Facebook usability. Since then it feels like Memebase, Reddit or something. Zuckerberg decides what you will see not your friends.
> has one of the highest cumulative per capita death rates

The paper is entirely about per-capita death rates.
Blades currently doesn't break the sitemap, but it can easily be implemented. I see that 50k pages is a maximum for one sitemap file.
Do you think it should break into separate pages only after reaching 50k, or sooner?