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> The competitors to RTSes, games like League of Legends, Fortnite, Rocket League, and Hearthstone... are enjoyable to play across the full spectrum of skill levels.

<citation needed>

I'm mostly kidding, but I do think it's worth pointing out that most (if not all) of those games have been accused of being extremely unfriendly to new players and generally being miserable experiences until you acquire a baseline level of knowledge.

I think the more important part of those games you listed is that they're designed around team play (and thus friend groups), with the obvious exception of Hearthstone (which compensates for the burden of knowledge by having a lot of randomness and a VERY forgiving ladder at the low end).

Getting destroyed in League is fun if you're playing with friends; with strangers it usually just results in a lot of angry messages.

> it is a pretty terrible game to play if you just want to unwind after work.

I think this is really the crux of why games that encourage team play will always win out: It's fun to play with friends, win or lose. SC2 tried this a bit, but at least when I used to play it was very clear that the game was completely unbalanced around team play.

Most of these games, if you want to really succeed, are mentally taxing. You have to pay attention to a minimap, you have to constantly be on the lookout for other people, you have to remember exactly what cards they've played so far.

If you can't counterbalance that with at least some socialization and lightheartedness, it's just work.
I never understood why balancing an RTS is such a difficult problem. Couldn’t you simply reduce each unit to a score that’s a combination of its cost to build, time to build, cost of buildings required to build it, speed, damage, defense, and damage per second, and make sure that all units in a class have roughly equal scores?
Still doesn’t justify what could be perceived as borderline defamation.
I'm afraid that a truer statement will turn out to be "we have not fully used a computer as the greatest disciplinary tool that has been invented to date".
> I wonder what this ultimately cost.

> That’s a lot of engineer time to develop, test, and do the data migration.

Downtime is more expensive.

EDIT: Also, the article says that they spent at least two months a year planning and executiting database upgrades, since the OpsManager tool from MongoDB Inc wasn't able to help.
> I can count on zero fingers the number of times I've used an exclamation mark professionally.

What does your preferred language use for the logical negation operator?
Several people have given several reasons, many of which alone are enough to demonstrate awfulness.

The biggest reason they are bad is that they don't work. I would happily subscribe to a concierge service that showed me genuinely useful information. However, the advertising systems we have got are not built for my use case, they are built for someone else's which is adversarial to mine. I could not possibly care less about your quest to build brand loyalty and awareness.

As noted, people often get shown ads for products which they have already bought. When I buy a car, it's a safe bet that I don't need another car for several years. Every car advertisement that I see in that time is wasted effort for both the advertiser and myself. I also notice that nobody is advertising along the lines that might influence my choice. As a single, eco-conscious male, I don't need "three rows of seating" and I need "low zero to sixty" times even less. Automobile advertising is heavily devoted to the highly profitable SUV segment. Eliminate the Chicken Tax and promote decarbonized and efficient vehicles. Stop basing advertising campaigns around stoking even more antisocial behavior.

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

And the flip side, people getting shown advertisements for products they have rejected is also wasted effort. I don't need penis pills, and every advertisement I have ever seen for them has always been wasted effort.

Stop polluting my information streams with awful crap I don't need.

Nobody likes being watched. Instrumenting the interaction that I need so that you can make wrong inferences about my preferences is pretty galling. Undermining my control over what information I do give out is worse.

https://proprivacy.com/guides/super-cookies-flash-cookies

Further, not specific to targeted advertising is the method of advertising. Advertisements in popup windows are a terrible idea. Forcing me to take an action before giving me useful information is a terrible interaction model. And that's not designed to make me want to buy your product. Advertising when it exists should be as unobtrusive possible. Obnoxious behavior sucks.
the sad truth in this story is that the former top boss hired Stebbins and did the right thing....

then former top boss gets fired due to the the CA wildfires fiasco.... which very likely accrued for a long time, well before the former top boss' got the job.

So now the hero, has no protection from the top, and new bureaucrat goes in for the kill.

Now the person that hired the hero, and the hero herself.... are out, for trying to make things better.
The good guys get grinded out of the system , by the system itself
The future of electricity is local
> the reason we can't have democracy is because then things would change.
If interest rates are kept near zero and central banks open deposit accounts, the role of the banking system disappears. Their main role is to allocate money based on their risk management framework, but if money costs zero this need is very diminished.
Very low estimate. I would be surprised if the actual number is less than 90% men.
If you were used to using mainframes, you could have said much the same thing about desktop CPUs in the 90s. "That tiny thing doesn't even fill up a room!"
They also tested a lot more subjects for Covid and detected a lot of asymptomatic ones. Their success rate is probably nearer the other vaccines that didn't test asymptomatic subjects.
That's factually incorrect. The vast majority of voters on both sides viewed Trump's election as legitimate. [0]

There is a substantial difference between claiming that you lost for reasons that are problematic (i.e. propaganda and the structure of the electoral college) and claiming that you didn't lose at all, despite being behind by 7 million votes, because of a massive conspiracy so powerful as to make our democracy meaningless.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/197441/accept-trump-legitimate-...
Looks like essentials like food and shelter are rapidly outpacing the lower class' ability to pay for them. So my guess is food stamps and housing stipends will grow as wealth concentrates into the hands of those who own/produce them.
I presume they would give you digital copies you could play on your own computer considering that is exactly what they did for the assassin's creed odyssey beta I participated in for stadia a few years ago.
I'll take it that you are right, but even so, does 60% reduced risk change the economics of the virus, if there is still 40% of the risk?

Does this give more than a couple of weeks grace on lockdown, if the critical limiting factor is ICU beds?
I don't think you need to do anything difficult you can just treat it as one big file, pretty sure online radio streams have been using this technique for ages. Though I'm not too sure about the particulars.

This is annoying to do with JSON though because you need to remember to close all your brackets, something like CSV is a lot easier because you can just write the header once and then just stream the data.

Edit: Looks like Python supports this using chunked transfer by simply providing the HTTP request data as an iterator.
Yes, stack rank risks & threats.

Yes, prioritize benefits & ROI.

Yes, cats kill their share of birds.

Yes, keeping cats indoors feels like recycling plastic (pointless).

But I still do it. Because I don't want to be part of the problem.

We make what improvements we can.
The general policy really does seem to be a core LEGO mantra. The article however talks about LEGO withdrawing an search a rescue themed v22 osprey set, after a German activist group protested. Maybe they show themselves in the foot but it was probably a calculation on the risk of bad press to their bottom line.
"Moderation" is just another word for the establishment.
ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697 (https://hackint.org/) was active last time I was at CCC, try that.

Many assemblies run their own IRC servers as well, should not be that hard to find.
As far as I'm aware, Lego have never produced models of contemporary weapons. So you have been able to get medieval, fantasy or sci-fi themed models with weapons, but not a tank or warplane.

It isn't a recent decision, and nothing to do with activists of any sort. It's a principal they have stuck to for most (all?) of their history.
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Conclusion: explicit is better than implicit, and what's more, in this case the implicit alternative was depending on a non-standard choice made in the specific tool for obscure, legacy reasons.
Because unlike Linux they don't have to, since MacOS actually defines the concept of a stable base system that can be targeted by applications. Docker exists in part because the Linux world has no such concept.
If Bitcoin becomes big enough I think central banks will make a major push to ban it because it would severely diminish their power. My concern is that in such a scenario our monetary freedoms would be severely curtailed, and we would slide further towards a centrally controlled economy.
About the dev machines, yes, many places do consider them (and they are) high risk. I'd add to your list, the source code, future plans, etc.

I do some basic steps to harden my dev machines:

- A Chrome profile without extensions for developing for the most part.

- The localhost is not 127.0.0.1 but a random IP under 127/8, with a random port. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20028108

- When creating SSH keys, add extra rounds (e.g. `ssh-keygen -a 64`) to make it harder to brute-force the passphrase.
From the article - referring to mRNA - Adrian Hill is quoted:

“Why would you take a vaccine technology that is new, unproven, maybe quick to manufacture, but expensive to manufacture - and has never been scaled up and has never been shown to protect against anything in humans, and prioritize that in a global emergency?” he asked. “It’s very odd.”
npm is full of gotchas as I encountered one recursive bug today. I realize that can put 'npm' as one of the dependency packages in package.json It did not complain, suddenly it downloaded 400+ packages.

How about a typo? malicious actors can benefit from this.
> Deregulate consumer rights and now anyone can scam you and sell you something that doesn't work with no right to a refund.

Is the right to refund really regulated? Or it's that exact case where competition and market forces do work for the mutual benefit of seller and consumer?
Companies are adapting SEC filing language to impress AI
I was surprised to find that someone left a brief "thank you" issue on one of my open source projects (a Kubernetes hairpin proxy to fix issues with cert-manager and LoadBalancers) and it feels great to know that the right people are finding it and resolving the same problem that led me to build it.

I humbly hope that sharing this might inspire more humanity and gratitude in the open source community.
In my experience many domains that seem document-oriented suddenly reveal themselves as relation-oriented as soon as you start building.
M5 is not 4WD. Just an electronically controlled clutch like my car.
If you look at the second animation closely you can see that there's a piece of spring steel one one side. In the animation it's only a 1-or-so pixel line. But that piece of spring steel open in one direction, but in the other direction it's stiff enough it will push the arm instead of bending.
If you've already given up on trying to get the money back, maybe try to book a flight that is likely to be cancelled and hope to get properly refunded. It's a long shot but who knows
Giving people money for nothing is not providing value for effort. This is doomed to fail. Every single extra dollar printed is pure inflation rather than wealth creation. All of the things people really want inflate while marginal crappy goods decline in quality and remain affordable. Housing, quality education, childcare, high quality food (think Whole Foods), good clothing and shoes - all of this stuff gets more expensive. If a UBI is ever implemented we will have a vast underclass of people barely surviving despite their “free money” and the wealthy will continue to get ever wealthier.
Agreed! I think WC3 is massively underappreciated.

After being terrible at it in its heyday in middleschool and hearing about Grubby it was a delight many many years later to discover he streams. Watching his stream fully made me appreciate the depth of strategy in WC3. Not the top player when it comes to micro but he often beats the best with brilliant and constantly varied strategies. One thing he is known for is successfully base trading his way to a win that most would have already considered a loss. That grubby does so well despite his "low" APM I think is a testament to WC3's depth of strategy and balance.
> lays the issues mostly auto the Oxford team.

Could you explain what 'auto' means in this context? I can't establish whether it's a typo or not.
Around 200 toys were stolen. More than 2k gifts were donated
For a good analysis of risks and failures associated with complex systems, I recommend "Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies" by Charles Perrow (1999).
I like to think of Git in analogy with cars.

Everyday folks aren't expected to know how their car works, much less tinker with it. Not the enthusiasts, who will find a way to grok the full specs of cars and tinker even if you tell them not to.

Normal everyday folks should be content leaving the gory details to their mechanics. I'd wager it to be the same with Git, as an everyday tool of software engineers, rather than that of layperson. This is not gatekeeping; it's a fact that Git is not your usual point-and-click stuff and UIs that attempt to do so can only simplify it so much. Real enthusiasts can always learn how to use Git if they want to, there's no need to make it simpler or easier for the 'casuals'.

The fact that people even have trouble with self-descriptive software like Microsoft Word - which is probably, in terms of UI, one of the easiest, most accessible UIs ever with years of research and iteration - speaks to the fact that not everyone will 'get' Git, nor sho uld there be a need to please or try to reach to everyone with a software that has as many complicated features as it does for the multitude of engineering problems it tries to solve.
Wuuut... I always did this instinctively and people gave me weird looks. I guess my body knew what it was doing.
Your house cat(s) probably don't do much damage.

Something like 2/3rds of domesticated cats are feral.

All told, cats kill > 1 billions birds in North America.

Like this article says, with so many factors and poor data collection, it's hard to quantify everything.

But please do your part. If your cat does go outside, please consider putting a bell on their collar.
> If a UBI is ever implemented we will have a vast underclass of people barely surviving despite their “free money” and the wealthy will continue to get ever wealthier.

That’s why there would need to be a wealth/income tax to redistribute in order to provide the UBI in the first place.
They made mistakes, but worked with integrity. It is a well known technology, safe and cheap.

Maybe another problem is that it won't provide absurd profits to big pharma companies.
Not committing suicide. and also, Meditation.
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There is a difference between difference of opinion and difference of facts. And yes it’s true popular opinion affects things irrespective of their factual basis, yet having a factual basis does play a strong and often determining role.

Trump lost the election, objectively. Elections are the basis of democracy. if you do not accept their outcome, you do not support democracy. The vocal left did not LIKE the outcome of the last election, and did not approve of the electoral colleges role. But they did not at any poin reject that the democratic process was valid . They are arguing very different things ultimately.
Ugh this is my story right now. $500 cost for a new tire. I will probably get it patched and then put on a set of winter wheels while I figure out the next step
We have the system that made sense to the people in 1792. It’s a system that is practical with their technology, and it responds to the very specific political problem they had at the time: getting 13 independent countries to surrender their sovereignty to a federal government.

That system mostly worked, but it still required a civil war to prove the Union was really was sovereign and states could not leave.

When you’re baffled by things happening over here, remember that the United States is less analogous to France or Germany and more analogous to the European Union. The individual states are more analogous to EU nations. It’s not a perfect comparison, but it’s helpful.
The Austrian answer to such a crisis has been tried early in the 20th century after the Great Depression. Spending was reduced but the government was still running a balanced budget. "Outright leave-it-alone liquidationism was a common position, and was universally held by Austrian School economists." [1] Mainstream consensus is that if the Fed had expanded their balance sheet immediately and government had reduced taxes and increased spending the crisis would have been much less severe - but this only started when WWII broke out and the war had to be financed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#cite_ref-Rand...
It's basically required in real estate. Everybody needs to sound nice and cheery!
> Static binaries are far too limited; most software requires lots of files spread all around the file system.

In my experience that is entirely and ludicrously false. That is merely how a lot of unix software does things by convention, but there are a lot of ways to make even poorly-thought-out unix software behave as a self-contained entity.
>If you're planning on living in a kind of bubble, and just ignore the wider social context, you don't really need to live in a functioning society.

Your example is also about a bubble. It's not social context but your own personal sense of happiness that you're talking about as I see it. You can have clean streets and little crime but be a dystopian society. Singapore and Japan come to mind. Muslim refugees in France would see society very differently than a native french person. Talking about others living in bubbles seems to me to be just a way to makes oneself feel better about the bubble one lives in themselves.
I find eSports bad for gaming. People are focusing so much on watching others and being competitive, not caring much in about enjoying the games they play. I see even kids doing it, just sitting back and watching others instead of actually playing the game.

When I go to a field to play football, most people are just having fun, no one is trying to be like a professional. Those people that are extremely competitive end up not wanted around. On video games on the other hand it feels like everyone wanna be a professional of eSports and play competitively, even on games that are not meant to be. It just ruins the experience.
Your comment, and the article, makes me wonder what we can do to help misc birds. Concrete actions akin to planting milkweed for monarch butterflies.
I've been saying this for years, but every post you make online, every unencrypted email, IM, text message, etc, will eventually end up getting sold off as training data for future machine learning projects.

Every company stores this stuff for ages, and the value of candid conversation data just keeps increasing. Eventually these companies are either going to get hacked, get bought, or go bankrupt, and all the cleartext data they hold is going to get passed around to various data markets and end up incorporated into GPT-12 or whatever.

The moral of the story here isn't that companies need to stop storing data, or that we need to run ML researchers out of town. It's that people really need to start using the encryption technologies that were built decades ago to protect some of their most valuable assets, their mental model of the world. Otherwise these systems, which are being trained to extract as much value out of you and the ones you love as possible, will use this data you're giving them for free against you, and it'll be to late to do anything about it then.
Does it really serve your future generations to give them enough so they never have to work?

From what little I've seen it can just as often amplify their own destruction or bad habits.
So ignorant that every implementation of socialism / communism, or any economic system that tried to control prices in some systemic way, starved or outright murdered vast amounts of humanity?

I love free societies and you should appreciate that capitalists allow the socialists to discuss revolution freely. Because if and when the socialists take over, I can guarantee they won’t afford the capitalists the same freedom.
They're pretty well balanced, just overall, not for each possible matchup.

The difference is that there is more map variation than in SC2, so a civ which is good on water maps is probably going to be below average on land maps. Also team games are a thing at the highest level, so some civs fare better in that context than 1 Vs 1.
> Even very nice SSD’s are cheap enough that 500 MB is negligible.

However a nice SSD with a respectable TBW value is not still cheap. a 860 Pro is almost twice the cost of a 860 Evo. Pro provides twice the TBW value.

> My internet connection also makes downloading a large docker image no bigger of a deal than downloading Chrome, YMMV.

Not everyone of us has pipes that fat to our homes which provide sub 10ms pings and almost LAN-speed access to rest of the world. My office workstation's network is limited by my network card but, my home has a much slower connection.

I wish that internet on this planet to be a full-fat-tree network but, we're not there yet.
There's also mockups of game UIs. Some are even real implementations. WoW's SuperVillainUI, but also more conceptual ones.
Yeah, I understand what you mean. I just wanted to point out that often this aspect is also overlooked when it comes to immigration in America. The social aspects mean nothing to me when I could never be certain about my status in the US. In fact if I'd not integrated as much socially, I'd probably be much happier in life right now after having been forced to leave. On the other hand I completely agree with you about the social aspect. I'm worried about how I will fit in to Europe once I move there, and whether I will always be considered a foreigner. I'm trying to convince myself that it's the better choice for me since I was forced to move there. But at the end of the day, I can't help thinking that Europe just doesn't have the same diversity and open culture as California did when I lived there. Who knows, maybe I will be pleasantly surprised when I go there. However, like I said before, in Europe I have certainty about my immigration status. As a highly skilled migrant, I don't have to keep worrying about "What happens if I don't get the H1B visa", "It's been 10 years, and I still haven't received the priority date for my Green Card".
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You also have a lot more obvious benefits to having cars be commonly available. Pretty much no one I know with a drone is using it for anything more than a novelty. It's not to say there aren't valid uses for a drone, but there seems to be less urgency to make sure everyone can have a drone when the downside seems right there.