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I don't think Jeff had much involvement in the esports aspect. He seems like he wanted to make a game for casual gamers just having fun with friends, but Activision wanted the sponsorship revenue from an esports league. Despite all odds, they did make something that the best professionals in the world can play, while still being fun for people that have no idea what's going on.

I tried to get into Overwatch League, but found it hard to watch. All the rich colors and scenery of the game drowned out by the ugly monochrome of team colors. All the rich sound effects of the game drowned out by the world's most annoying casters. (Seriously, who hired these people!? Are real sports like this?) All the while not fixing obvious UI bugs (you will be watching first person through someone's camera and it will say "STOP THE PAYLOAD" at the top, but that person is actually pushing the payload). If they tried to make it bad, they did a great job. I don't think Jeff was at the controls pushing to erase his artists' choice of colors and sound. I think he did the minimum required to not get fired, and it shows there.

Jeff's a good dude, and I do worry about the future of the game without him. I can easily see a world where they don't even let normal people play the game, and they just make you subscribe to watching vetted pros play the game.
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Do you have something to address the well-documented points he makes? Namecalling does not advance your own point.
As my meditation teacher explained to me - consumer capitalism needs to make us feel unhappy all over again in order to sell us all the stuff. People content with their life do not need to buy stuff or experience to fill their inner void, they do not make good citizens of caplitalism.
There really was a worldwide flood. It did not recede; all the water is still there. Instead, people had to abandon where they lived and move uphill.

It didn't happen all in one day, or year. But there were many places where the water moved inland by three feet per year; any beach one knew as a child was gone by adulthood.

Millions of square miles of what was lowland is now underwater -- the region between Indonesian islands; for hundreds of miles out to sea from Viet Nam all the way up to Korea; all the space between Australia and New Guinea; thousands of square miles off India; the whole Persian Gulf; England and Ireland were not islands; from Florida to Louisiana; from Argentina out to the Falklands.

These places were prime habitat (possibly excepting near the Falklands, and northern England), so not unpopulated.

It seems significant that the oldest known civilizations, in Mesopotamia and the Indus valley, arose immediately uphill from especially major inundations. Australian oral records have precise accounts of conflict resolutions over people moving uphill into land already occupied for 40,000+ years.
I recall ster making a new account, sandbagging all of his placement matches to land in mid Bronze, and then reaching Diamond in 6 hours. [1] I think it took him another week to make it back to Grandmaster. Granted, this was in Season 2 and I quit around Season 4, so I have no clue if they made any changes that would affect rank gain much.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaORwv8dkt0
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Do you somehow record evidence that the letter reached the recipient, or at least the post office?

Where I live, theft of outgoing mail is common.
Some months back I saw footage of a lathe accident in a Russian factor (it was on Reddit but possibly the footage was linked from LiveLeak). Similar to you I have developed a much stronger respect for heavy machinery.

It's even made me more careful when I use obviously much smaller power tools at home. Tools like circular saws, mitre saws, and even angle grinders have the ability to irreversibly change your life (or worse) in the blink of an eye if not handled with care and respect.

Just thinking about that video again has made me feel slightly queasy, but there's no doubt seeing it has done me a huge favour.
What's the difference between the two views? Just row vs column?
I guess that's technically true.
> "Dude" has been a genderless term for like a decade now.

Huh.. TIL
Was under the impression that calling a couple of girls 'dudes' was gender neutral but apparently 'dude' itself is. Thanks.

> You may get responses that disagree with you.

And that is ok and expected. Enjoy the rest of your day, stranger!
Some lists of links to other static analysis tools for Python:

https://analysis-tools.dev/tag/python
https://github.com/collab-qa/check-all-the-things/blob/maste...
What is happening to this magazine? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042906
It feels too academic that none of popular new programming languages is mentioned in the "lectures" page, although it refers not only classics but relatively new papers.

Then went back to the top page:

... The intended audience consists of PhD students who will write a dissertation in the area ...

realizing that I'm not the target audience :-/
This is sort of what lost me - and I've been playing WoW for a long time. It was clear if I wasn't running Mythics, Raiding or doing Competitive PvP, I'd be both hopelessly outclassed and not have much to do. I sort of idly tinker with the stories when I feel like it, but I'm drifting away.
different elos require different playstyles

as a 4k support main I found qp games with silver friends extremely frustrating due to the extreme chaos and lack of structure (normally devolving to team deathmatch)

the tanks don't know what they're doing (e.g. rein charging on cooldown, sniper dva feeding, etc)

the DPS don't know what they're doing (mccree going for cheeky flanks and dying most of the time/getting a single pick)

the other support doesn't know what they're doing (wandering off alone to duel people)

adjusting your playstyle works, so as a support you become super aggressive, the enemy makes near constant mistakes and you pounce on them immediately

vs. a GM game where everyone knows what their role is and the game plays much more "normally", and I can't get away with that sort of behaviour
There are community efforts : https://tracker.archiveteam.org/liveleak/

Note : They are NOT the archive.org team. They are an independent decentralized archiving collective. IMO, that's the better approach.
Any reason for that, other than lack of political will?
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The thing is, those aren't "Raids", "Dungeons" or "PvP" - they're specific forms of them. You could run dungeons every day, do a fair amount of raids, and a lot of PvP and be left behind because you aren't doing rated PvP or Mythic+ Dungeons.

There's not even a "You'll have to put in a lot more time." It's just a lockout.
Video over Tor is surprisingly usable in my experience. Captchas are a much bigger problem.
Individuals suffer in many ways, so the "OK" part is all relative. Living in environment where you can get a paycheck is still OK compared to the extreme violence and destruction depicted on Liveleak. In other words, looking through the lens of a platform that curates extreme content is hardly representative of what goes on in most people's day-to-day lives around the world.
I suppose we’ll just have to download our favourite facets-of-the-world gore, to show to our children as they come of age.
Using old technology does not have to mean doing the same work. I write a lot of C for embedded systems, but it remains fun and exciting despite the language being 40 years old and the chips I program 15 years old. The systems I create are new.
I never read any of the comments on LiveLeak, but this sounds awfully similar to the comments on YouTube.
There are physical backups for important controls if touch screen fails.
And this 3 days in the office business won't work well either. If not everyone on the team picks the same 3 days to be in office, then what are you gaining? How would it make sense if there's barely any overlap among team members?

I don't think these companies have thought this through. Logically, the 3 days a week in office will slowly become 2, then 1. Or maybe teams will decide to only get together 3 days a month or something like that.

At that point, you're effectively fully virtual anyway.

These companies need to just dive right in, because the suggested format smells of poorly thought out compromise.
So if we are super-lucky, it will happen in this century, and be smaller.
Don't recall where I read it, but it resonated with me intuitively: depression is the body's way of telling you that you need to make a change in your environment. Whether it's move to a different city, get a different job, a different girlfriend; something in your life right now isn't working for you.

It's problematic when you can't make those changes, e.g. you're young and still living with/dependent upon parents, or you feel you'd have to give up too much e.g. being close to your kids, or people are telling you to just take a pill and it will be better.

IDK about psilocybin, never tried it, seems like more snake oil honestly, there are no magic answers here.
there used to be different mechanics like a win streak modifier, which are gone now

but if you have a high win rate you climb more or less immediately (once you've unstuck the MMR confidence value)
no way, browsers have a stacked deck especially in regards to accessibility, but also things like platform appropriateness and handling corner cases that only affect specific scenarios. web components tend to be the 80% that whoever made them cared about, which varies from use case to use case.
“Most” of the mountains are not active volcanos. There are only 4 in Washington: Baker, Rainier, St Helens, Adams but hundreds of other mountains. Rainier is really the only one that poses serious danger to a
populated area. Tacoma in particular will be destroyed by lahars alone in a large eruption
What a bizarre screed. "Baron Von Ripper-off"? Who exactly is Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post writing to? I'd be quite surprised if any of the decision makers in Japan give a flying fuck what she thinks. Most likely they are acting in their own self-interest, just like the IOC. Billions have already been spent; all the revenue from foreign spectators has already been cancelled. If the games are cancelled entirely, any chance of revenue will be destroyed, not to mention a huge loss of face.

The paternalistic tone here is also way off-base. Many Japanese are quite tired of being told what to do by Americans for the past 75+ years.
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Has making 17-year-olds move to a foreign country and work 12 hours a day 7 days a week ever worked well? That's what Overwatch League is.

The field is in its infancy, and some day the esports pros will negotiate like other professionals -- work/life balance, a big 401(k) contribution, and compensation commensurate with the fact that they'll be replaced by an 18-year-old when they're 22.
1. creates an insanely huge web of tax breaks, silver lining is that we would have a lot more accounting positions.

2. Replace steel? I see how this rationale works, we strive to replace X for something that generates less carbon, this ought to work to some extent until nothing more carbon neutral exist.
Not everybody follows the rules. Not everybody who breaks them gets caught.
Hearthstone just wasn't the same without Ben Brode.
Pixie gets a lot of use both within tech and outside of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie_(disambiguation)
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I really doubt it. A lot of the land West of I-5 is drumlins/drumlinoids like Fremont Ridge in Seattle. That's solid ground that has been around since the last glaciation and has come through many earthquakes just fine.

On the other hand...If somebody like Brian Atwater said it, that would really get my attention. He's one of the main geologists who tracked down the geological evidence to date the 1700 Earthquake. The force is strong in that one. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Atwater
I was lucky to have him for fundis, but sadly no other courses.
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Last I looked, the best price per TB is for buying external drives and pulling them from the cases. Might not be the case at 4 TB though. One thing that trips people up is sata power wire pinouts have changed over time; 3.3v power was removed and one of the 3.3v power pins was repurposed as a signal to inhibit spinup; if you have a power supply (or other sata power connector) that supplies 3.3v and you get a drive that uses it to inhibit spinup, it won't show up. The easiest fix is to clip the orange wire, but some people use kapton tape over the pin on the drive.

At 4 TB you also have to worry about drive-managed SMR drives, SMR has some benefits in some use cases, but they go out the window IMHO if the host doesn't know about it. This is true for bare drives and external drives, but external drives are harder to know the real specs for.
I’d argue that image lazy loading isn’t really a thing an image does, it’s a browser optimisation for asset loading. The built in functionality ensures the image is loaded well before it appears on the screen.
This is a really good article, thanks. It links to this one which is also great:

https://www.city-journal.org/html/rush-judgment-12282.html
"a literal 24/7 struggle to survive"

Doesn't this describe nearly all of human history, for the vast majority of humans who have ever lived? For far longer than capitalism was ever the basis for any kind of human society?
True. Too many people protest police actions and recommend "shooting the legs" and such. That's just one example that is readily disproved with a few liveleak videos of police shootouts, yet takes paragraphs to describe in text.

These videos help people shape their own opinions instead of trusting authority.
I wish it kept more people away.
If Excel is as popular as everyone says it is, why don't we see more of the javascript addins? Excel as a platform makes sense to me. If I'm in Excel where all my data is, I want to import more external data or publish data externally etc.

Makes sense to do it from inside Excel no?
Super, super cool project. Are you available for a small side gig building a custom animation with Pts or something like that? At a glance I love the framework but I'm not sure I can figure out how to use it to build what I want.
You didn't ask about a personal journey. You asked to expand on a concept that has a Wikipedia page.
It's not quite strace, ProcMon also does network traffic stuff too. I used it quite a bit when my job was trying to shove proprietary (usually academic, usually engineering-related) software installers into a shape that we could make silently install. ProcMon was one of our first resorts whenever an installer would inevitably mysteriously crash when it ran inside an SCCM-managed installation of windows. Which. Was. OFTEN.

Sorry, it's been over a decade now and I still have nightmares sometimes. But yeah procmon is cool.
Japan has been preparing for the Olympics for years. As much as I oppose the Olympic Games in general, the government is spending lots of money on restoring temples and preparing for a tourism boom as a result of the games. It's not an easy thing to just "cancel".
I can't imagine the difficulty of doing this in an out-of-control aircraft
It's just an opinion piece in an American newspaper. This is an odd post to be sure.
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I don't see how the answer is ever having less information. Seems that putting things on watch lists for possible future action would be more prudent.
You're misinformed. Please stop spreading misinformation.
Feeling connected to work and the fruit of our labor is largely a matter of attitude. I've mopped floors for minimum wage and still took satisfaction in doing it well.
Do you have patreon or something? This is a project I can wholeheartedly support with my hard earned money.
So What alternatives are people having success with? the 40 hour work week sucks, but what else can you do that's better?

I guess part of it depends on what you personally have an issue with. But I can't see trading 40 hours of meaningless work for 80 hours of running my own business, or dropping out and living some nomad life. Or the constant hustle and living near poverty to be in arts or academic research .
> It's not clear that Depression is "costing" us anything anymore than sleep is costing us lost labor, and it could be that a world without depression would also be a world without genius, realism, and creativity.

This might just be a semantic quibble, but I don't think the term "costing" necessarily implies that the burden has no use. For example, I might say something like "the garbage collector is costing us 20% of the clock cycles". That doesn't mean that I think we can just shut off the garbage collector off. It just as an attempt to account for how much its spending critical resources.
This is very sensible point you have made. I said something similar in another thread that not everyone is looking for in-person watercooler conversation, office politics, promotions / raise and so on. Some people like me are fine with finishing up assigned work, attend phone/webex meetings and be done with it. It is usually run-of-the-mill n-tier business application for next requirement for last 10 years. By not going to office the only thing I am missing in 2 hr commute and crowded elevators and rest rooms.
I've had some success using it in a Django app where I generate a whitelist from my main branch, and then I run vulture on my feature branch just before I open up a pull request. This way, it doesn't matter how many false positives there are because I'm only really trying to check if my changes cause any new issues. It's still not as good as other languages with better static analysis tools, but it's better than nothing.
Blizzard bailed, valve bailed, who's left, really? But then again, a PC game has to compete with not only other PC titles but the entire history of Windows games via Steam/etc. You can make a brilliant RTS experience but will people play it when Starcraft exists?
I've said this a few times in other comment threads on HN, but be careful with this mentality. Any hiring manager who sees you as a person who always "watches the clock" downgrades you to someone unreliable for the team, and probably added to a list of "first people to cut" when the opportunity or need arises.

If you are the only person in the world with your skillset, you can maybe get away with this. But "web developer doing frontend work" is one of the more replaceable jobs out there, and it's only getting more competitive.

Don't underestimate the hunger of others in the marketplace. Just because you have a comfortable setup now doesn't mean this will always continue.
After the photojournalist James Foley was beheaded by Isis, I read a thoughtful editorial arguing that we shouldn't watch it, in part because people were ultimately doing it not to become more informed, but to test their ability or willingness to stomach it. It also argued, that ultimately this was a form of entertainment.

To address the argument that we should "see how horrible the world is", I think it's worth asking why that's necessary? What will it change, beyond making it harder to sleep? Further, there's always something worse you can see, so should we go on trying to fund ever more horrible videos to watch? What is gained by watching something live that isn't gained simply by reading about it or reflecting on injustices without becoming voyeurs to people's horrors?
Often the truth value of a statement lies not in its correspondence with reality, but in its effect on people, especially in large numbers. See also: hate facts.
thanks, makes sense. Still interesting that nowadays they are not afraid to add non posix syscalls to linux and glibc (like c); i think that several years ago they were less likely to do that.

I would be afraid to use all these new additions in an application; you couldn't use that with a docker container on an older system (docker uses the same kernel/glibc as the host)
you can have "id" Generatable at application level without using GUID.
This is what twitter is doing "snowflake".

It generate tens of thousands of ids per second.
Those id fit in 64 bits.
And those id are sortable, meaning that if tweets A and B are posted around the same time, they should have ids in close proximity to one another.

See: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
Sure it is. It's just that the IOC, the Japanese government, and the various athletic orgs value the money in this over, you know, not having a global super-spreader event.
And if you have a sucky connection, it's slow has hell to load.
Aha! I was half-wrong, but it's also horrible…

(defclass tracer () ((actual :initarg :actual)))
(defun make-tracer (object)
(make-instance 'tracer :actual object))

;; But please don't.
(defmethod no-applicable-method :around (gf &rest args)
(if (typep (car args) 'tracer)
(let* ((tracer (car args))
(args* (cdr args))
(actual (slot-value tracer 'actual)))
(format t "Calling ~S on ~S" gf (cons actual args*))
(apply gf actual args*))
(apply #'call-next-method gf args)))

You can't do this with a real specialization on no-applicable-method, incidentally, because the first arg isn't special enough, it's just folded into the &rest. And that, I'm pretty sure, means this doesn't coexist with other uses of no-applicable-method properly… and you still can't do on-the-fly method names that aren't attached to a generic, and so on, but this does sort of account for the object forwarder case (and in fact you could extend it to allow tracers on more of the arguments!). It does, I expect, remain extremely unidiomatic by comparison.
Love Nick Zenter! He has a great podcast too! I’d love to see his talks in person one day.
I'm curious about who holds the rights to that image. I'm a little surprised I've never seen a version of it adapted as a t-shirt, it's so ubiquitous here.
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Aren't Shinto temples somewhat continuously rebuilt anyways as part of the religion?
They aren’t really preparing for a tourist boom considering that non-resident fans and spectators will not be allowed entry.
Agree. Speaking from experience depression is a miserable state. There is no reason to create silly rationales to justify it.

Depression is at worst a lethal malady that creates suffering not only in the depressed but for their families as well.
Most of the positions are tangibly creating something that will be sent into space. This particular role is likely just for the website.