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My hypothesis is that many game designers have actually forgotten what makes a game fun. Games have become a cargo cult of sorts. Games have character levels, level ups and skill trees but why exactly? Does it make Project Warlock more fun? Certain game traits are replicated without thought.

In my opinion games won't "grow up" as a medium if game designers let others shame them into implementing stuff that doesn't make games better. Like, meaningful moral choices, versus a game letting you play in a number of creative ways. Making a fuss about non-lethal approaches to challenges. The more cutscenes and story you add to a game, the more it becomes a graphic novel. Games aren't about telling stories. They're about generating them. That's what games do best and no other medium can come close - not radio, not movies, not books. The best games are the ones with a ton of mods, with a vibrant community, speedrunners inventing challenges and categories by themselves rather than relying on a programmed system of achievements. No one complains about lack of a story in basketball, chess or soccer!

Games are more about acting than theatre (playhouse) is. Only a few people act in a play, the rest are watching. In a game, everyone expresses himself through actions. The core of a game is acting, in a simulated world or within a set of rules. Games are not about immersion - you can get immersed in a book or a movie. Immersion is just something many best games do.
> a change as small as a naming convention

This "small" change had to be split into 29 parts, so that each part stays below 100kB. This means nearly 3MB of changed code. How many hours did developers have to spend to consider what needs to be changed, make the change and then validate it? In my opinion these are hours wasted, that could be better spent on some real problems.
Most practically used GMOs are engineered to increase resistance to herbicides, leading to their environmental proliferation. It aims for the common profitable agricultural practices, which are destroying the topsoil, to be turned up to eleven.

I don't know of any truly sustainability-oriented GMO research, without serious intellectual property baggage. I consider golden rice to be just a marketing gimmick - an exception that confirms the rule.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/27/donald-tru...

https://www.epi.org/indicators/state-unemployment-race-ethni...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/14/the-pr...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/report/the-black-lives-ma...

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

https://www.amazon.com/Alt-America-Radical-Right-Trump/dp/17...

Really, dude. The Republican party shucked off all moral rights to Lincoln’s name after 1965, when it chose to sell out its principles in exchange for naked power. There’s nothing left now but a cancerous soup of proto fascists, theocrats, oligarch bootboys, and full-time professional liars, lying to the millions of Americans who want to be lied to. Which I’m not, so you can cram your GOP beer goggles where the sun don’t shine, because you’re just not that good at it.
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Should companies like these be allowed to operate?
> if Disney claims it bought the rights but not the obligations of the contract, then who does it claim has the obligations?

That’s not really Disneys problem to figure out, is it?
I feel exactly the same way. My 2019 MBP is probably the last Mac I will buy, it's my 3rd MBP since 2008. Each time, I have upgraded, it's felt like a worse experience.
well, hmmm... I think you can tell a good story just by painting a picture of the situation.

(and I think of computer makefiles - you don't need to know times, you just need to know what depended on what, and what things combine to cause something)
> forgets about a tiny thing: they are absolutely _awful_ tanks compared to modern stuff.

The USSR beat the much better Nazi tanks through sheer numbers, at some point the numbers advantage overcomes the quality advantage.
Maybe I missed something, but what is that 3D model supposed to represent?
that's a shame.

I liked the quote in the article:

Imagine a flashy spaceship lands in your backyard. The door opens and you are invited to investigate everything to see what you can learn. The technology is clearly millions of years beyond what we can make.

This is biology.
Yes, the 1900s were a great century for anti-trust, the 21st century has not had great anti trust cases. yet.
I'm not sure precisely when we decided that intelligence gathering wasn't a part of all diplomatic relations?

I expect my government to be spying on everyone to some degree or other, friend or foe. I have to assume the same is therefore being done to us. The US simply has more money and more resources allocated to doing so.
You may call it an ad-hominem attack, if you like.

However, what I am doing is calling you out .. I honestly don't know if you are a deliberate propaganda mouth piece or just an unfortunate victim of it.

Either way, the moment you mentioned international law in relation to this issue, and even had to nerve to declare that the truth of your convictions are factually undeniable, you yourself were the one who pretty much shoved all-in and closed the door for any meaningful discussion. Maybe you should take a look in the mirror first, if you want to blame someone for being called out for that.

I have a pretty decent track record of being rather respectful (definitely beyond and above average) towards to opinions of other. Just maybe not for people who talk like you. You can take your (abuse of) political correctness and ..

EDIT: I see what you are trying, but you still don't get it (regarding international law). Good luck and goodbye.
Benford’s Law Does Not Prove Fraud in the 2020 US Presidential Election
> why not just condense into typing the style as a class name in the HTML?

Because the style may change, but the underlying data won't. I know that nowadays everyone default architecture is to have data coming from some json API and that will have to be processed and rendered in the client anyway - but it is not just because something is the common case that it is the only case.

By looking at the discussions, I am starting to realize that most of the people that are okay with mixing HTML and CSS have only to work with one application to be worried about. If that is the case, then yes, it gets obvious why people want to treat everything as object code.

Consider different scenarios, though. Think of how many APIs could've been avoided if we actually looked and said "HTML is data content and structure, and CSS is presentation, so why can't the HTML be the API? The microformats people have been clamoring for this for decades already, yet no one listens. How much fragmentation could be reduced if we had half-dozen frontend developers saying "we are going to build a JS component library that is strictly about behavior so that anyone can style however they want with CSS"? All of those man-hours wasted reinventing wheels just because there is an unnecessary coupling between component structure and styling, penny wise and pound foolish.

It's almost as if companies don't want to have their data easily accessible outside of their own sites and if developers actually want to spend their time reconfiguring databases and creating ever-growing Rube Goldberg machines for their own fun and profit...
Supposedly, it would be difficult to set up for space exploration there given the Americans are [apparently, allegedly, rumoured to be] using it as a covert military missile silo[0].

[0]: https://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm
I think your arguments in linked posts are reasonable for a tech forum. I am not so convinced of their relevance for political discussion, especially american politics where being "nice" versus "confrontational" has almost been an implicit political stance for democrats versus republicans in the campaigns, and one which could almost entirely explains Trumps popularity.

Political discussions will always messy and confrontational because its about real people issues.. Only rich and priviledged people can afford being nice about it because they dont care.

Maybe you should just ban the political discussions altogether on HN if you want to avoid the drama.. no one will blame you
The problem is that people misunderstand "international law" and interpret it as something similar to the more familiar national law. It's not. Why do you think the US can bomb a hospital or school, civilians be damned? That's a war crime but the justification "but terrorists" or "but democracy" wipes it away. How many war crimes do you think were committed in the Middle East and how many were condemned by that "international law"? How much outside interference do you think the elections in Ukraine got and how much of it was condemned? There was no "innocent side" in the whole Crimean issue. Whether local or on the other side of the world, all parties involved played the same game to try to gain something. Civilians as usually took the brunt of the conflict.

Russia doesn't get sanctions because it "guilty" while the US does not because they're "innocent" in the eyes of the law. International law is as negotiable, debatable, and esoteric as it gets. If you have enough power and support from others you claim it's on your side and do what you need to do. And that support is critical, it's why the US needs the EU on their side: legitimacy. That's why the EU could contribute pocket lint to the NATO budget and still benefit from US spending.

Google "civilians dead in the middle east" and you'll see how "international law" works. Let's not play with words. Superpowers go to extreme lengths to maintain their status. The bigger the status, the longer the lengths, because they can afford to do more and more of that.
Okay the reply got deleted but I already did all this math so I'm going to post anyway.

> [only able to use the cap from 4V to 3V]

> (C * 1V * 1V)/2

> [you'll need 1000mF]

Wrong equation. That's the energy from 0V to 1V. Each incremental volt stores more power than the last. 0V-3V is 9x that amount, and 0V-4V is 16x that amount, so 3V-4V is 7x that amount, and you'll need 140mF.

But also it shouldn't be connected directly in parallel to the battery; so I'd think of it more as 4.2V to 2V of supply. That would mean you need 74mF.

So put in two and you'll more than hit the target.

Even better, if you expect the battery to contribute some, you only need the one.
> Indies aren't stupid

He didn't say that, did his quote say that? No it didn't, please don't spread falsehoods on HN
Yet another data mining front parading as an application, the exact same problem the entire internet is in heated discussion about how to solve. "We will never sell your data" sounds very "don't be evil" and the terms and conditions would no doubt have a clause that they can be updated without notice. Tl;dr: The timing couldn't be worse to launch a product like this.

(edit: I just checked the privacy policy and at the bottom of the list of "how we use your data" they state this as one of the uses - "for any other purpose for which the information was collected." which could be literally anything)

The fun part is if anyone I know ends up using this and tracks me as a contact in their application, then I have no say in my personal information and relationships being slurped up from their end.

Like this, I do not.
Backblaze S3 API is having some downtime
Biology is awesome!

I have an older sister who majored in biology long time ago. The some time later while visiting her I borrowed one of her university books (introduction to zoology or something like that). It was actually written in the style suggested here, and yes, it was just amazing to read about people having studied and eked out mysteries of life. For instance, why do you have a front side?

I think I ended up reading 5 of her books. If you're the kind of person who could pick up a book on physics just because you're curious about the world, this will definitely appeal to you.
You've been gaslighted into believing that DooM is primitive and archaic. Simply put, DooM perfected what it set out to be. No one ever bested it in the visceral, action-packed shooter category. Maybe a game will do in the future, but the path doesn't lead through denialism. You could say Quake 3 was a pinnacle of the fast, brutal first person shooter, but it was a duel game at its core.
I have bought a computer, I have now bought a chair. I don't need to buy a new computer or a new chair if my development takes longer than a year.

I don't know what you mean about a social security system, I don't think anyone is talking about that so it's a bit nonsense.

The point is it is a gatekeeper. Your first app that you build doesn't make $115? Then you didn't break even and you are down, and are taxed another $100. Considering that Apple then billing you 15% on your takings, it is another bar to clear.
Yeah but with Obama and his predecessors it was just about money, everyone knew the score. This could be bargained at diplomatic level with other stuff. Trump looked willing and able to actually do the unthinkable and redeploy away, irrespective of strategic considerations, and his closeness with Putin and Erdogan was unsettling.

Biden will likely mark a return to the old haggling, but in 4 years' time the US might get another strongman and we'd be at risk again. Democracy will always need an arsenal, and it's not a given anymore that the US really want to be that arsenal.
Any one to post on twitter that 'scrum master' is offensive?
Especially when there are people of minorities in scrum?

So that I can grab some popcorn and have fun watching the world going full speed to Idiocracy world!
Microsoft’s Gender Pay Gap
Presumably, you had a phone before your current one. If so, you evidently have a preference between slower phone and no phone at all.
Epic Games founder likens fight against Apple to fight for civil rights
tl;dr: https://twitter.com/k8em0/status/1329245284149256192
This sounds like a problem that 'real democracy' or 'direct democracy' pretty much diesnt have.
> corporations are tabula rasa with a single directive, "grow"

Perpetual growth without moral bounds is a recipe for paperclip maximization, and effective net evil. See: climate change.
No, I don't expect allies to spy on each other.
"The boiling frog is a fable describing a frog being slowly boiled alive.

The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.

The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly."

In the case of Apple, at some point when they do something you really dislike you might be too invested into the ecosystem and it will be easier to just accept it instead of leaving.

But if you were not on their ecosystem already and were thinking of switching to Apple you would just think "Yeah, I really dislike that new move, I'm not buying into it".
Actually I had a desktop computer before my current phone. So my preference is faster, even if it spends more time on the cord.
I think that this is wrong. It is easier to remember sequence of events in logical order then arbitrary dates. You really dont need to remember exact date of when Caesar crossed the Rubicon in order to understand his motivations. You need context in enough details in order to understand motivations.

> It sucks, but you really do need to know a lot of whens to help you contextualize the why.

I always managed to memorize those dates in high school and elementary school. And then I promptly forgot them after test. I blamed my bad memory, but later when I learn how human memory works, I started to blame the way they taught us. People remember stories and systems well. Our memory works on relationships between facts. Most people sux at remembering unrelated arbitrary numbers.

All that done to me was that I seen history as boring pointless class. Historical characters came across as somewhat inhuman, absurd unrealistical creatures. Their behavior made no sense. Yes, they were actual real people, but the way history was taught made them sound like badly written characters from mediocre fiction.

It was only after I started to read history that was focused more on context, motivations and reasons I both starterd to long-term rememeber times+places and also like it.
Parents always worry like this. Mine used to worry I was "addicted" to programming on the home PC. I'd say, no mum. I don't go outside and frolic in the fields like a Victorian-era child because we live in the middle of a giant housing estate in the North West of England where it's always cold and pissing with rain. My friends live a car drive away and we aren't into football, which is the only thing available to do outside around here, plus I read most of the interesting books in the house already, I've grown out of cartoons, the computer is more interesting than children's TV and definitely more interesting than homework, most of which is of obviously marginal utility when I become an adult.

Or at least that's what I would have said, if I'd been articulate enough to know how.

The child in this article doesn't sound "addicted" to her phone. It sounds like the wealth of social, creative and interesting activities available through it are just far more interesting than playing dolls with her mum. Maybe it's tough for her mum to accept that her daughter is growing up, but she had to grow out of that at some point - it was inevitable that something would replace it. Would she prefer if it had been TV, like it was for prior generations?
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Which NYT articles were blocked on Facebook?
I was thinking of the same. Tying critical services to a Google account feels like walking with some nitroglycerin in your pocket. Accounts get banned with no recourse and there's no law or regulation holding Google accountable yet.

The court of public opinion is not a real deterrent especially for a company with such power to shape it, to the point where the only way to even be aware of what they're doing is to be very tech-educated and interested in the particular topic.
Hey! Actually, this was investigated previously by Dennis Giese here (https://recon.cx/2018/brussels/resources/slides/RECON-BRX-20...). He also has a number of related talks (https://dontvacuum.me/talks/topics.html).

Seems like quite a number of things including WiFi SSID and lat/long info are sent.
I had no idea he wrote Star Wars novels but this thread reminded me of him so I bought a few others to reread :). Hope he can get what he's entitled to.
David OReilly wrote a nice essay covering the 'less is more' philosophy in 3d art ('Basic Animation Aesthetics' -pdf can be found here: http://www.davidoreilly.com/downloads)

He's done a bunch of great animations (eg The External World, The Horse Raised by Spheres - youtube) and games (Mountain, EVERYTHING - steam/consoles) that epitomize it imo - very worth a watch/play
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ok, but although HTTPS has some drawbacks, I think HTTP has many more drawbacks.

I think this is sort of like "lock you car doors". Yes, a dedicated thief can bypass the locks and open your car, but you don't have to leave your car doors unlocked and let anyone enter you car at will.

I think a reasonable middle ground might be to maintain HTTP and do HTTPS using letsencrypt. If one of the CAs does something to limit your freedom, you could redirect https to http and turn it off.

Anyway, it's good to see you're basing your argument on your principles, many people cave early and easily.
It's 2020, you don't need tank to tank when you can simply deploy tactical nuclear warheads against large numbers (strategic too but there's no need for that in this scenario).
It makes my favorite trick of editing SystemVersion.plist no longer work for when Xcode says you need to submit your app from a non-beta OS :(
Not all schools are like that. Vote with your (children's) feet.
Teach a man to write on paper and he will tire his arm out, but teach a man how to blog and he will spew nonsense all day long and gain followers!
Perfect Dark is a clear descendant of Goldeneye I would say
Parler – Ownership and Links to Russia
That just seems so... wrong.

Why can't we just talk and discuss with each other like normal human beings? Why do we have to result to all this deceiving, tricking, spying each other?

Why can't we just act... nice?

Guess I'm just too naive for this world.
Its not russophobia but the truth.
On the other hand the pro-russian channels are propaganda as they spread fake news(that Russia is good/right).
Signing is only required for native code. If your parser is a native binary, it needs at least an ad-hoc signature on it before it will run.
There's always been low hanging fruit. There were video games from the dawn of computing. I played games and did programming, sometimes more gaming, sometimes more coding. My mother worried generically about 'computer time'.

Many of my friends had games consoles, or computers but they only used BASIC to load games from cassettes. They turned out fine. None of them ever expressed the slightest interest in creating anything but they went on to do other useful things, like teaching or social care.

We are way, way too quick to assign complicated sciencey sounding explanations to stuff earlier generations would have described as common sense. Games are fun. Reading is fun. Talking is fun. Parents used to despair at the hours their daughters would spend on the expensive telephone instead of doing more child-y or creative things, and so what? They all worked out fine. The world is not short on creative people.
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People don't use mms, they send stuff using their sms app, which decide to use an mms or not. In fact, long text messages are often turned into mms under the hood. People just don't know about it. As long as it works transparently, they don't have to.
That makes a lot more sense than my suggestions.
GCompris Celebrates 20 Years
Can't back their claim, but..

> How do you explain that Android smartphones has grown even more than iOS, despite the fact that they allow you to install whatever apps you choose?

1. Android is free for OEMs, iOS is unavailable. If you want to make a phone then its a great choice, and a free one.
2. Most flavors have a dominant store built in (android store, amazon store, Chinese-oem stores like Xiaomi) that are "safe" or offer that illusion. The important thing here is the built-in-trust of the default settings
3. Piggy-backing off point 1, cheap phone OS means people can make cheap phones -> Cheaper leads to more available for more people, and most of the world is poor compared to US iPhone users
> with the inability to enjoy Jim Jamush movies.

I don't believe I did. Only mentioned them as something I like and think of as prime example of "slow movies" where you could potentially switch off. The article goes well beyond the Emily in Paris itself.
I don't hate Apple, I recommend it for certain users. But it cannot really supply me with anything that isn't available to me while maintaining more freedom and flexibility. I also don't like to develop against their environment since I think it to be too restrictive.
>A big German army isn't the thing anyone in 2020 worries anymore.

A really?

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article210474071/Waf...

Would you be happy if DEVGRU/Sealteam6..whatever they call them now, consist of KKK Members?

>Germany is something like 3% and Europe is at 20% and going down.

That 3% cannot be true, Germany is at least 1/3 the European economy, and you know since i live in Europe...i worry about Germany.
Is there any way out of that site's pagination? Even the print button doesn't help.
Platform effects
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Not really a fair comparison when the population density of Greenland barely even registers