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All their games have been reactionary, though? It's not like Diablo was the first hack and slash, nor Warcraft the original RTS. Blizzard's strength have always been refinement - take an existing genre and make the very best version of it. I think they succeeded with that in both Hearthstone and Overwatch.
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In these escalation scenarios either both sides commit to non-escalation or it doesn't matter. I don't know if current US policy had a nuclear retaliation for a strike against a carrier group, but it is such a high probability that any adversary likely considers is as true.

China or whomever attacking a carrier to destroy it with anything other than 1945 style surface warfare tactics leads to nuclear war, even if it's not the final decision point. The response to such an attack leads to nuclear war in enough projections.
Having competency launching classified payloads that could possibly be part of a missile defense system requires about as much competency in building missile defense systems as a driver who transports vaccines has in developing vaccines.
There is already dozens of studies about kgCO2e/kwh for batteries, thanks for linking to a studies where it is shown that electricity use is actually lower than older studies and in line with the most recent, and all the most recent studies agreed is that the kgCO2e/kwh is decreasing fast with industrialisation making EV better than fossil cars in about 16000 km.
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It shouldn't be a question of cost of living. Companies pay significantly more (or less) in local markets because of supply and demand in those local markets.

Historically those markets have been localised due to the fact that few companies employed full time remote team members, and relocating countries is intentionally made difficult and expensive.

If we see a sustained transition where a significant percentage of companies (even in just particular industries) support full time remote work, we should expect to see supply and demand for talent in that market to become less localised (time zones are still a thing, and full time remote is different to full time remote _and_ distributed).

If that plays out, you'd expect locations with historically lower compensation to get a bump (regardless of cost of living), and locations with historical higher compensation to get a reduction (again, regardless of cost of living).

Companies don't care what your expenses are per se. The valley is an intensely competitive hiring market which forces up compensation, which in turn forces up cost of living - housing supply is very finite and many people living there have lots of disposable income.
You can negotiate on any basis that you want; I’ll just turn that back into whatever it means to me and see if the deal makes sense. If it does, we have a deal.
Do not forget Starcraft. :D
It's a shame we have a headline proudly announcing that the M1 is 2x faster, when the reality is it's about 8% faster when doing a similar real world test for longer.

What's also hugely impressive is that under better cooling conditions, it's also 25% faster.

None of these numbers capture headlines like 2x sadly, but that's still massively impressive.
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$400k, parents generation is retired with plenty of money. My point is more broadly that in a family where everyone can comfortably afford to live alone, living together can be massively more fun.
The slower under water submarines would have a hard time searching for moving surface ships in a radius of couple hundred miles.

Satellites are very good at focusing at narrow strips of area. Searching over a wide angle of field of vision still is a hard problem.

You have to get close to the CBG to start the overwhelming campaign. The delivery platforms are likely to be destroyed long before they get close enough.

The CBG itself has a massive arsenal. It can deliver its own overwhelming firing. Besides carrying planes the carrier is a huge missile firing platform.
I agree that once it becomes feasible many would prefer autonomous (hell yeah, a cheap ride home when I'm drunk? Or a sleep on the way to work? Ideal) but given the timelines we should look elsewhere for the time being.

I think "find ways of charging them away from their homes" does not scale given how long a charge takes and the numbers involved. If you've ever seen a petrol station at peak time you tend to get an idea of just how impractical that is.

I don't see any way round a truly colossal investment in infrastructure in order to move to fully electric in the UK (or any country), which maybe is necessary - but govts need to openly say this and then start actually taking action on it, not haughtily act as if it's not the case.
I believe used notation (complex exponential) is confusing for most people. In physical implementation physical waveform will be computed I+Q (writing I+jQ seems to exclude this). I found this very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7d-m1ehoY
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Podcasts are still mp3 files. They don't know to check for DRM before preloading the mp3
> The US has shown it will impose sanctions on Iran no matter what, so yes it does make sense to divert away from the only resource they ever have a chance to sell.

1) The country was far less sanctioned before the nuclear program.

2) Iran has a huge oil glut, no need to divert.

3) It's absurdly without economic sense even then. The expenses due to sanctions and diplomatic conflict are 1000x of any profit. If there's any profit compared to available imports from Russia.

4) It's a country with past weaponization program.

We know what it's really for.

>They've made very clear what they mean by the statement.

Yep, very clear. Just examine their attitude to Israel which gets the same statement.
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> nothing material has happened in the last 4 years

The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020.

It happened and the world didn’t fall apart.

Negotiations are taking place in the way they always do, and a deal with the EU will be reached at the last minute as everyone expected it to.
> there is no moral obligation for employers to pay a wage that's fair, based on the value of the employee work, perhaps above ~subsistence levels.

is there moral obligation to do your job well instead of let's say watching youtube and doing bare minimum not to get fired?

It's funny how people expect moral behaviour from other people but not from companies made of these people. Somehow it's fine for companies to be jerks.
So does he propose that people always spell out the full name of all components? To me it comes across as selfish, he only wants people to use acronyms that he personally knows, even when they're not talking to him.

For instance I work on aircraft. Basically every component has its acronym. Yes, it's hard when you're new to the area. But nobody is going to take the time to write or say "Integrated Drive Generator", "Power Control Unit", or "Over-Pressure Shut-Off Valve" every time. Everyone spends their day referring to components.

Most documents have a lexicon however, and there's a web interface to search them.
> Writing an OS (and the rest) in Pascal (I'm thinking of Oberon specifically) is no harder than to write it in C.

You can't because it is impossible to escape the type system. Without the ability to cast pointers you can't write a memory allocator. You can't write a function like dlopen()...
Perhaps I haven't been clear what I meant so you've assumed I've meant coasts.

I have no detail knowledge of the fallout radius or radioactive decay, I would assume an ICBM hit would render the valley and Manhattan unliveable, but I haven't been in both places for more than five years so I might be wrong.
Is that really true? Doesn't the employer save money because of office space, electricity, maybe even equipment etc.?
Let's take a page from graph theory, because I think it applies to large scalable systems as well. Some comments are alluding to the same issue from other perspectives, but I'm going to talk a bit about graph theory, because that's where I first encountered it.

On a piece of paper, draw 5 nodes and make a fully connected graph. What shape does it have? Well, whatever way you drew it, the shape is quite recognizable and distinct.

Now on a piece of paper, draw 1 million nodes and make a fully connected graph. You can use a computer if you want. What shape does it have? You can't tell, because all the lines are in the way? Alright, well what if we make 5 clusters, and represent them as nodes, and since it's a fully connecte graph, you can just connect those 5 nodes fully. It has a recognizable shape again! Nice :) There is the tiny little caveat that you now have a cluster of nodes represented as one node, but what could go wrong?

More layers of indirection, that could go wrong. The more concrete stuff you have, the more you need to abstract away in order to maintain a high level overview, but the tradeoff is that while it is high level, it is less concrete (more abstract).
Yeah it's like saying that Apple is doing forced obsolescence because modern Macs can't run PowerPC Mac software. PCs can run even very very old software because at least the architecture is the same. There is no good way to emulate the CELL cpu of the PS3 on modern x86 architecture, and even emulating PS2 architecture is very very difficult and full of caveats. That's not forced obscolescence, like you said - it's just obsolescence.
So buy an android phone AND a pinephone? Without support, they won't make it far enough to bump the specs.
This definitely goes in the TIL pile. I'm fairly well traveled
E.g. I've visited most of the Balkans, Sarajevo, Mostar, but I had not heard of Transnistria.

Also ++ for the use of jingoistic. :)
> Nintendo knows to capitalize on their history far better than Sony or Microsoft.

Compared to Nintendo, Microsoft have no gaming history and Sony is not that better.

Nintendo is the oldest of them, with a huge IP for pre-Playstation area (NES, SNES, GB, GBC, etc).

Nintendo is the first to had the opportunity to provide its old games to its console (Wii virtual console). This implies it is the first to have to deal with retro gaming emulation from a financial standpoint.

Nintendo platforms tends to be the most emulated ones with very good emulation. Also dev community tends to focus on Nintendo emulator far more.

Neither Sony or MS had those problems.

I suspect things are moving slightly for the Playstation world, but even with that Sony don't have a such big IP they can control and distribute them-self.
There is a rapid cheap test for covid-19 infection. It consists of checking whether a person has cold/flu symptoms and/or a temperature over 37.5.

This test may sound ridiculous but it is part of the reason why Taiwan has had hardly any deaths from the virus and yet did not have to have a lockdown.

In Taiwan, checks are made at entrance to work, school, transport, shops. Those who have symptoms as above are excluded. This, combined with other measures (below) has been enough to produce successful control of the disease.

Some numbers Country, deaths/million, GDP fall Q2/2020

Taiwan,0.3,-0.6

Australia,35,-7.0

Germany,158,-11.2

Sweden,167,-8.3

USA,767,-9.6

Belgium,1278,-14.5

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-health-economy

Measures Taiwan took

1. Close borders as hard as possible very early.

2. Strictly and competently managed mandatory quarantine of overseas arrivals.

3. Mandatory facemasks. Initially supplies were rationed until supplied caught up.

4. Health checks as above.

5. Competently managed contact tracing.

Some of this strategy may be difficult to duplicate in certain countries. See the steps with the word "competent" included.

Also the Taiwanese public appear to trust the government's competence and good intentions, something that does not seem to be true in some other countries.
> You paid for your computer, too, and Facebook, Google, and many other companies track that.

To my knowledge neither Gigabyte or Intel (though TPM etc has other issues) pre-installed ad tracking in my system that I can't remove.

It's entirely about the price of the phone, if the thing I paid for is tracking me for ads.

Whether I use free web services that sell my data on my computer or not is, while interesting, a completely separate issue.
Yes, there's many people who would be interested in another explanation of quadrature sampling and why it is essential in modern communications DSP.

A few that I think are useful or have interesting components are:

* https://pysdr.org/content/sampling.html#quadrature-sampling

* https://visual-dsp.switchb.org/

* Understanding Digital Signal Processing by Richard Lyons
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That's strange actually. They do have 13 representatives from Taiwan. And many times people (mostly public figures, such as actor Jacky Chong) from Macau and Hong Kong register as representatives in their origin (where their parents or grand parents from) rather than representatives from Hong Kong or Macau.

Edit: I was talking about people's representatives, not CCP representatives. If it is about CCP representatives, communist party is illegal in Taiwan.
With remote work employers in SF aren't any more competing with talent pool of SF, but national or global pool. Supply and demand in action. Supply has increased, demand remain stable or lower. Means prices(wages) are going to go down.

Ofc, if they want people to come and sit in their SF office they have to pay more. On other hand if they can get replacement for their ex-local resource for remote for cheaper they might do that.
My thoughts on this are a mixed bag.

First, naturally, is skepticism at far off dates. OOH, these things do really need time to work. OOH, the zero-emissions date is 2050, post-singularity

Second is coordination. If the plan is "Once there are electric cars, we'll buy some." The industry's response will be "once it's cheap enough, we'll make some." That days seems to be coming anyway, but that really makes this a weak policy.

My third thought is "industrial policy." That is, a policy that actually affects the availability and price performance of electric cars. If the policy is agreed, but doesn't meaningfully change what engineers are doing now, then it's not really affecting much.

An actual industrial policy probably needs to act across a bigger market than UK only in order to actually affect timelines.

All that said, I like it. A ban bootstrapped by cross subsidies is a far better way to go than carbon consumption taxes.
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On the one hand lying about your location to an employer seems sketchy. On the other hand COL adjusted pay seems pretty much equally sketchy.

Employers trying to adjust salaries based upon COL really isn't much different to printer manufacturers software disabling printers and selling them at a cheaper price. It's an attempt at price differentiation - in the opposite direction.
There's a secular right and wrong too. It's not that murder is OK, with a fee of life sentence. It is wrong and should never be done, and backed up by legal penalties.
> "industrial heat, and residential heating "

For decades Russia has used distruct heating using waste heat from nuclear powerplants, its the chealest heatsource known to man.

More modern approach is probably hydrogen and heat pumps, but either works.

Range anxiety is a brain bug for folks that have never driven electric.
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First of all, problem with fentanyl is that it's ~100x more potent than morphine, or ~20x times more potent than heroin. While many people read this as "it's got 100x times stronger high", it doesn't mean that (actually it has shorter acting high, more adverse side effects and slightly less enjoyable high compared to heroin). It's just means you need 20x times lower quantity for comparable effect. Given that into account, you need 20x lower quantity to smuggle. It's physically impossible for ANY agency to control millions and millions of postal shipments containing small amounts of contraband. It's one thing to push 100kg containers of heroin, and whole another game ordering 50 grams from Dark web. It's incontrollable in that way.

Second, what you're basically asking for is MORE WAR ON DRUGS. Addiction is public and mental health problem, and should be approached as such. DEA is the last agency you should plead for help in times of crisis such as this opioid one. Harm reduction programs are proven as best way to tackle such problems, proven time and time again around the world.

Third, calling fentanyl "Chinese fentanyl" is reminiscent of recent declarations of "Chinese virus". It's fentanyl. It doesn't have nationality.
Ideally, I would like a rolling average of monthly death per capita on a year to smooth out seasonal variation on a suffisently large time span to substract any long-term trend.

Sweden publishes enough data to do it actually [1] so I did [2]. There is a very strong downward trend in 2018, stability in 2019 then a literal a cliff in 03/2020 suddenly bringing you back to the 2017 figure. The average of deaths per capita (given per 10000) which was generally stable in 2019 jumps from 7.18 in february to 7.24 in march, 7.49 in april, 7.63 in may, 7.69 in june and then is more or less stable until september at which point I have no more data.

So yes, the HN submission title is worthless and most likely intentionally misleading. The statistica data from 2020 are on 10 months. 2020 is going to be an outlier as soon as november and december are added. It's obvious even if you just multiply by 1.2 (december and november typically have more deaths than summer months).

[1] https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tovNw9RReZ-8eF8y-Jbn...
> At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

Only thanks to emulation or the fact that modern hardware is still able to boot into some flavour of DOS.

Plenty of people buy their movies multiple times, Betamax, VHS, LaserDisc, CD-ROM, DVD, BlueRay, HiDef BluRay, streaming service,...

Or their music, tape, cassette, LP, CD, mini-disc, mp3, streaming,....
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I don't believe the main problem with gaming on mac was the architecture or their anaemic graphic cards but rather their non-standard mac-only graphics API (metal), their deprecation of OpenGL, spotty support of Vulkan (if any) and removal of 32-bit support (for older games). The first three are not really a problem for big engine makers, as they can afford to implement additional backends but it is an issue for smaller studios and indie makers. 32-bit support is probably going to be less important (unless Rosetta can also translate x86 only code). It's good that they packed a decent graphics subsystem in their new chips but that's only part of the solution.

I believe their main concern is to bring iOS games to macOS rather than bring new games into the platform. Let's be realists here, iOS games bring in the cash. If they can run it in another form factor with potentially better graphics then even more money in the long run.
I think that workflow is available in almost any terminal file manager now.
I would be more worried about North Korea. They have already shown their lack of respect for human life by the treatment of their own people and their overt threats to South Korea. They even make propaganda showing attacks against the US and other countries.

In a rational world we would not need a military except we are far from living in one. Worse we live in a world where we accept nations like North Korea and worse prop them up all because of the threat they project. This will simply encourage them further.

Iran is a threat to its neighbors and a lot of this is from purely factional religious differences. Reducing the world's oil usage could actually make things worse as we end up with a larger humanitarian issue, similar to Venezuela where the economy needs that money
I believe Bill Joy lived in Colorado during his time at Sun Microsystems, working on Solaris and Java (if I recall correctly, I believe he worked with Gosling, perhaps it was other Sun projects). I would think he didn't suffer a COL adjustment. The most valued engineers have little to worry about and always have/will. There is rarely resistance to their interests. Everyone else is expendable. Your expendability increases porortionally to the problems you create versus solve.

This reminds me a little of the 2008 recession where a lot of analysts at investment banks that were making a lot of money without much experience were fired and those jobs didn't return after the economic recovery. I believe that brought about increased algorithmic trading. It's tough to find sympathetic people to this issue.

I imagine displaced tech workers, now living in lower COL areas will have trouble finding sympathetic ears as well. I would certainly prefer to be the employer versus the employee in this contest.
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That's not necessarily an invalid comparison. From a technical perspective, NVIDIA's NVENC encoders for example have been able to compress H.264 with similar efficiency to x264's slow preset at several times the speed for a few years now.

And there's also the fact that for many purposes, it simply doesn't matter. Filmmakers often don't want an impeccably compressed, low-bitrate output ready for streaming directly, they want an output with the highest quality they can get, as fast as they can get it and don't really care how high the bitrate is as long as it's reasonable.

In use-cases like that, a faster render/encode is what's valuable and it doesn't really matter which processor is used to produce it.
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Yes, agreed, that's a sticking point.

I'm objecting to the critique of COL-adjustments on moral grounds: that it is wrong, according to some metric, to pay people differently, based on where they work remotely from. I don't think it is wrong. Maybe impractical, and maybe we agree it's a nuisance, and as workers can force the employers to reject that. But fundamentally fits in with what employment is.