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> It’s a total ripoff by a company that's supposed to be their partner.

But Amazon is not their partner.

They are a reseller and like resellers have done since the beginning of time they will take the opportunity to cut you out if your product is successful and it's profitable for them to do so.
That's wonderful! The guarantees will give the drug companies incentive to sell to these countries at a relatively lower price than the free market will bear. Since there is not enough vaccine yet, even at incredible ramp-up speeds, the price in open bidding would be much higher. (I'd easily pay $1000 if that is what it took.)

Compared to drugs that much be taken continually, vaccines are not lucrative for drug companies. If Pfizer was just money seeking, they'd focus on better Rogaine etc., even in an epidemic, and indeed many drug companies did.
Money? What money? AFAIK degree programs in German public universities are nearly free.
Well, anything that involves a monetary exchange can be described as "for monetary reasons". I explained to you that a non-monetary reason is similar to the reasoning behind similar mechanics in roguelites, which generally do not ask the player for payment.

I can even make the same argument you made instead about roguelites: "What you described is planned dopamine release you have to wait for. I was under the impression the gameplay itself is there to make you have fun - if you have RNG, you're compensating for gameplay, or more likely, are doing it for nefarious reasons such as extending the amount of time people play your game for."

Yet roguelites are not seen as morally wrong at all. Why? They're both using the same mechanic, except one lets you pay to skip the RNG-gating.
The power of Django (imho) is in how you can define data models only once, and out of them get excellent database migrations, database operations, form validation, API serialization/deserialization, and an admin interface. Is there anything in Node.js land that comes even close to this level of integration?

Last time I worked on a Node app, I had to define the data model once for the ORM (Objection), again when writing migrations by hand (Knex), again when defining the input validation schema (Joi), maybe again when defining data objects, and I didn't even have an admin.

For me, the language is secondary -- there were times when I would have liked to have a Django.js, so I could share code (validation and calculation modules) between backend and frontend.
I mean the fact that rank and file eng can’t afford PA house is not puzzling to me. More surprising is why Boulder or Vancouver have similar range of prices
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You need a lot of understanding to make a successful otome game, there are a lot of genre expectations. And of course successfully bending genre expectations takes even more understanding than just implementing them.

I've heard stories of all-male teams trying to localize a Japanese game like this and changing all the parts women liked because they couldn't take them seriously.

On the male side, there's a lot of bad visual novels that are trying to "improve on" or "take down" what they imagine are Japanese dating sim games, but have nothing to do with actual Japanese games because they've never played any of them, and so have little real appeal.
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> I am sorry but I've spent my years explaining so many strange things that nobody understands like "Guru Meditation," and it's not really funny any more when you have to keep explaining the joke.

New people are born every day and we have to explain to them a lot of well-known things, again and again. This is how everything works, not only humor. I do not want to lose great things like "guru meditation" just because some people like you are tired of explaining them.
I had to manually use a search and replace plugin for this change but this saves allot of time.
> Even still, auto update is a feature, not a vulnerability.

Autoupdate is fine, so long as it's opt-in. It is a massive vulnerability if not, amounting to the same control as a standard remote access toolkit: full RCE.

> It's the only way to get non-technical people to patch their software because people are afraid of change.

Not only is this a factually incorrect statement, it also contains a presumption that Bitwarden's developers have some right to decide for the end user what software runs on their computer, when the end user is the final authority, for better or worse, on what code is allowed to run on the hardware they own.
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Also is you want to jump to page 63 its not enough to find the place to jump to, you also need to flip each page individually and put in back of the stack to have proper ordering. You cant just take stack of 62 pages and put in to the bottom.
I feel similarly, and the text links in a sister reply were helpful. This kind of story only really needs the two images of the bags side by side to make its point.

Regarding videos, within Firefox I simply have autoplay turned off entirely, using the following setting: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

Youtube still works fine with this setting flipped, with one difference: on the first pageload, I must explicitly click play before a video starts. This is my strong preference anyway, so I don't mind one bit.
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Not chew; jump over and/or just sneak throigh. The upgrade consisted of putting more, thicker wires.
I mainly write embedded software in C and C++, but I tend to use python for non-embedded stuff. The funny thing is that I've attempted to speed up multiple python scripts by replacing lists of floats with numpy arrays, and each time it's ended up slightly slower. I suspect numpy only really starts to pay off when you're doing the same operations to 1000+ elements. For modest data sets, or algorithms that don't map particularly well to numpy's operations, the built in data types do better.

I also recently gave numba a go, and it was significantly slower than vanilla python. I was surprised because the decorated function seemed exactly like the type of code that numba would be good at (iterating through a list of coordinates doing square roots and some quirky floating-point modulo math.)
It’s just a generic notice. I don’t think it’s anything to get riled up about.

Of course European movie fans are important, in fact, you’re probably gonna get a free pitcher of beer if you say you came all the way from Europe and going to the draft house was part of your bucket list.
No. 10 years ago it was 100% fine. About 25 years ago there was a licensing issue, and the Gnome project talks about it as their reason to exist to this day (which amounts to spreading FUD at this point, IMO).
Part of the issue in my mind is that big O complexity values don't (can't?) tell you the point of inflection, if they are nonlinear. Sscanf could be O(N^10) (does the rule about ignoring the coefficient also apply to the exponent?) but if it only starts to hurt your application at the point of 10tb string reads then it's still unimportant.

I do agree that people often take "don't optimise early" as licence to not make optimisations up front that will clearly be needed (for example, implementing the buffer as a rope in a text editor), but I don't think this is the case here unless you test the function with reasonable future file sizes (something you should be doing anyway) and Sscanf profiles as a bottleneck.
The premise of the post is wrong, from what I read here and on reddit the people were rightfully complaining about the lack of reaction of Rockstar, not the initial bug that could happen to most people.
vpc data constraints

migrate VMs to GKE containers

cloud API gateway

dynamic web maps

managed service mesh

Yeah, I will need a "Google Cloud products in 4 words or less" in 32 words or less, for some cases.

On serious note, I also think it will be good for them, if they mention the 4 word explanation as a sub-title where ever they mention the name. Also applies to AWS.
Mobile games are typically erotica-free because such things won't make it past iOS app review. The closest thing I can think of is Azur Lane[1], which is a Chinese game that sometimes pretends to be Japanese and is really really uncomfortably horny but still not quite there.

[1] a clone of a Japanese game called Kantai Collection, which did the classic JP move of accidentally becoming super popular and dealing with this by refusing to improve anything and hoping their customers would go away.
If it's all about using a disclosed identity to help law enforcement solve a crime, law-abiding citizens would have nothing to cry foul over.

On the other hand, if you are required to disclose your identity when your anonymity clashes with the policies and procedures of governments, this is unfair since it stands in the way of freedom of expression and hints at fascistic intimidation tactics.
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I am not at all of the opinion that the new laws suppress freedom of speech. I was countering the previous comment using sarcasm as a means to convey the futility of their argument.
Not sure if it fits the bill exactly, but globulation2 comes close to what you describe. Sometimes it feels more of a simulation than a game.
How would a design change have clued them in about the performance difference?
Idk about Harris and the FANG guard, but he's right in that way, that we should compare lets say twitter to radio, if a big national radio (who everyone knows of (that's the important part), and has access to it) can change the information flow, they are in charge. Even when there are thousand other radios (lets say a Alaskan Country-radio) who is absolutely honest about what they report they will not be heard...and even when..should you trust that little radio-station or the only source of truth (the big radio)?
> there is no such thing s as Goats-as-a-service.

Interesting note: I went to a farm stay last weekend. In New South Wales, blackberry thornbushes are pest plants in farms. And what the smaller farms do is they rent goats from people who do goats-as-a-service for a few days. The Gaas people will come in to a farm, install small fences around the blackberry thornbushes and set the goats to business.
Because people have gotten hypersensitive in a world devoid of true challenges. These people are routinely bored and have learned that the easiest way for them to get attention, is to place themselves as an underprivileged special case, or as a "hero" to those who are underprivileged. Paradoxically, they are also unwilling to admit personal weaknesses while strutting around socially acknowledged weaknesses or something (e.g. feeling offended when someone calls them out on being overly sensitive, meanwhile strutting around a mental disorder because it gets them brownie points with the big public. It is hard to explain, can't quite put my finger on it).

Anyone not out to be offended could've told the piece was obvious tongue-in-cheek about mobile gamers falling victim to predatory behavior from big companies seeking the few whales they could milk for all their profits. If there was anything to be offended about, it would be that practice. The thread that helped cancel this piece was very in-line with the whole body-positive movement: let's not look at the obvious problem (people weak to sugar getting fat off a western diet loaded with sugar at every corner), instead, let's look at the people rightfully calling out the practice and the result (oligarchs rebranding, renaming and smuggling sugar into almost any produced good, getting people fat and unhealthy).
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Why would you be an "AI expert" to make judgements on AI?

In fact, it's more politically consistent to have equal representation. We already know what AI experts believe - make money in the end.
I am neither Ukrainian nor African, and I am not happy with the "African refugee cleaner" comment either. Was specifying that the cleaner was "African" really necessary?
> The phone "games" that company develops (again, top in popularity) had no gameplay to speak of. You click a button, something spins, over a large number of spins you reliably lose ingame currency so you need to buy more.

This is a point-for-point description of one of the most popular "game" types in Las Vegas.
Female and non-female roles in societies are assigned post-hoc.

Is having a college degree female? Owning the family bank account? The answers to these are different in the US and Japan, and they're different now and in 1990.
> Thinking you could earn a living from music sales is like living in a dream land.

Ok great, that's where I live, I guess.

What type of music are you talking about there? Seems you have a very small range of musician in mind with those comments. Like, rock/pop music or whatever you call it. "merch"? Doesn't exist for most musicians, I guesstimate 99.999%

It seems in these music "pirating" discussions, for their mental image of a musician, a lot of people imagine millionaire rock/pop musicians, signed to huge record labels, and they feel fine about screwing them however they can. I suggest they are a tiny, numerically-insignificant minority of the musicians in the world. And it seems to me that when you say "As a musician you make your money" you are thinking of these people.
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> Can you actually be faster than C?

Sometimes. I know 2 reasons.

1. In some higher-level languages, some problems can be efficiently solved with code generation. For instance, you can take some of the input data, generate code from that, then run the generated code processing the rest of the input data. Examples of the mechanism include Lisp macros, or .NET shenanigans like System.Reflection.Emit or System.Linq.Expressions.

It’s hard to generate good machine code. Possible to do in C, but you gonna need to embed C compiler for that. They are extremely complex, and were not designed for the use case e.g. relatively slow (designed to run offline on fast developer’s computers, or on even faster build servers).

If your problem is a good fit for that approach, C# can actually be faster than C.

Parsing JSON is a good example. When your goal is not just parsing the syntax, but also populating structures with the data from the JSON, good C# JSON parsers gonna runtime-generate serialization code by reflecting the structure types being populated. For an isolated program, technically you can generate equivalent C code offline. But if you’re making a general-purpose JSON serialization library that’s borderline impossible to achieve in C, need reflection and code generation.

2. Modern computers are heterogenous, they have 2 chips computing stuff, CPU and GPU. Even when these pieces are on the same chip and using the same RAM like Intel’s UHD graphics or AMD’s APUs, GPU can be still faster for some problems. Not only because more GFlops (that’s not necessarily true for integrated graphics), also because GPUs have better strategy for dealing with RAM latency. They switch threads instead of waiting for the data to arrive. CPU cores only run 1-2 hardware threads each i.e. limited in that regard.

That’s how for some problems HLSL or OpenCL can actually be faster than C.
In a project I worked on few years ago, we had persistent performance problems, present for a long time before I showed up. One of the first things I did when I joined the team was do some unsolicited statistical profiling and narrow it down to database interactions. Since we were using a custom-written connector to a graph database, we assumed it's the connector, or the JSON-based API it's using.

The issue got on the back burner, but it bugged me for a long time. I was later writing some performance-intensive number crunching code, and ended up writing a hacky tracing profiler[0] to aid my work. Having that available, I took another swing at our database connector issue...

And it turned out the connector was perfectly fine, its overhead was lower than the time the DB typically spent filtering data. The problem was, where I expected a simple operation in our application to do a few DB queries, it did several hundreds of them! Something that, for some reason, wasn't obvious on the statistical profiler, but it stood out on the full trace like a sore thumb.

I cut the run time of most user-facing operations by half by doing a simple tweak to the data connector - it turns out even a tiny unnecessary inefficiency becomes important when it's run a thousand times in a row. But ultimately, we were doing 100x as many queries as we should have, nobody noticed, and fixing it would be a huge architecture rework. We put it on the roadmap, but then the company blew up for unrelated reasons.

I sometimes think that maybe if we tracked and fixed this problem early in the development, our sales would have been better, and the company would have been still alive. For sure, we'd be able to iterate faster.

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[0] - https://github.com/TeMPOraL/tracer
> In a context where mobile players got trashed all the bloody time for being ..., or worst of all, women?

Is that even a thing? Never ever have I heard "mobile players = women" even on the worst dumps of the internet, like 9gag. But then again, I'm not on Twitter.
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If you point to writable memory (Not all programs reside in ram.)
First of all, Godot actually doesn't use ECS despite the majority of people in the industry saying it's amazing and all that. There was an article about it the other day https://godotengine.org/article/why-isnt-godot-ecs-based-gam.... So the ECS thing isn't entirely made up.

>How exactly do you think a cynical take on something that occurs widely in the industry is equivalent to conspiracy theory level science denialism?

I believe that believing we live in a capitalist oligarchy that does all the things the text says it does is mistaken and wrong, just like you believe that what I said is conspiracy theory level science denialism. From my perspective what I said makes perfect sense and it's a perfect analogy, just like for you what the text said also explains what's actually happening in reality.

This divergence in views is political in nature, and just like from your perspective saying that mobile games are bad because of capitalism is relevant, for me saying that ECS is bad because of blind faith in science is relevant. Why is my perspective any less important than yours, other than for you not thinking it's relevant?
Not sure why you're being down-voted, you're spot on. Hope one of the down voters will come and explain.
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Wow, the problems are so deep that no human should ever use sscanf again. It's just as bad as gets() because there is no way for the programmer to deal with the error case.
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I didn't realize the cancellation of the avro arrow was the beginning of the end

See also the cancellations of TSR2 and Black Arrow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow#Cancellation

“Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however, this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow”
MSRP is actually quite a bit more, almost €1129.

https://www.apple.com/at/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air

Not saying you can't find it under that on some promotion somewhere but that really depends on market timing and on where you live.

For example in Austria you can't find it under €999 and that's definitely not entry level money as Apple's entry level comes at a premium and is not representative of the entire PC market entry level.
> FAANG (minus Netflix)

You could just write FAAG
Which country built the pocket computer/communicator? Which country built the electronics, circuit boards, cables, batteries, housing and fastening screws?

Which country built the components and systems and subsystems that go into manufacturing an electric car?

Which country has lithium, rare earth metal processing capabilities critical in manufacturing all modern electronic systems?

Which country built the components and subsystems in the vaccine manufacturing plants?

Decades ago, US had the education system to move millions of people through manufacturing and engineering pipeline to build all above things.

Now, that US education system does not exist. The manufacturing base does not exist. The engineering pipeline does not exist.

We produce more dropout Tik Tok stars than Professional Engineers that develop critical cooling cores, that can withstand heat and stress thresholds in modern military aircraft, and master welders with 20 years of experience that can weld specialty metal alloys in compact designs.

It’s not just aircraft. Do you know who works on water treatment plants that provide clean drinking water to millions of people in US? These guys will be retiring in few years. Who are going to replace them? Who are going to do the hard and difficult job of maintaining these critical systems?
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Another way of framing this is that this is completely false, a house cleaner in Germany doesn't make anywhere close to 2400€/month after taxes. Unless he works all day and night including weekends without declaring any of it maybe, and even then that's a stretch.
This is why we need to reject extremism in all its forms on both the left and the right.

We need to end cancel culture, not capitulate.
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Predictions take the form of:

A: The telephone will be used in manner X.

B: The telephone will be used in manner X, so society will be changed in manner Y.

C: With wide use of phones, society will be changed in manner Y.

D: Other propositions.

This seems to me a useful organisation of predictions. Too many futurist predictions simply seem to presume that a technology will exist, and focus on immediate use. Not on the prevalence of use or availability, or of transformational effects resulting from such use.
Calculating the key may take longer for the long string

Right, that’s exactly what they are warning about.

Not typical. e.g. Java takes the hash key of an object to be its address in memory

No, that’s just the base implementation in Object (and arguably it was a bad idea). All useful “value type” classes will override it with a real hash of the content, including String.

There are some cases in Java where you do want to use IDs instead of values as your map keys, but they’re rare.
Or GAFA (glasses in Spanish) :)
This is a low quality site, without even a spell check (“ rather small niece organization”)
FAANG salaries in Germany are higher. I recently turned down a 75k offer from a German e-commerce company for a competing offer (FAANG, 88k + RSUs) that paid more. This was for an Applied Scientist role, but the software engineering payscale at both these companies are similar, according to friends who work there. This was not a senior position either - I was a masters student while I was interviewing for these roles
This article didn't say why Flutter "1" (that was just named "Flutter") couldn't just, you know... keep evolving. Is this just marketing or is Flutter 2 a new product that breaks compatibility semver style? It's confusing because almost everything they say, they said about Flutter "1" as well.