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Definitely agree and a lot of the popular WoW content creators (Bellular, T&E, etc.) seem to agree. They don't always mention casuals, but lack of progression is a major issue, particularly in Shadowlands. As a person spending too much time playing, you are basically forced to do non-LFR raiding, rated PvP, or mythic+ dungeons to actually progress your gear at all.

Not to mention they seem to hate flying yet keep creating terrible zones unless you can fly. There aren't clear routes between common locations like roads in Skyrim. That can be ok, but in that case they really need to have a flatter level design like in Oblivion.
I used to be trapped in those icky Skinner boxes, and feel so much better to have moved on. While I have some good memories of my time in WoW, especially the early “wonder days” of shared social space and learning how to communicate with people online, and fewer good memories relative to time spent in Diablo 3, Heroes of the Storm, and Hearthstone, I feel like there are large chunks of time missing from my past. From what I’ve read about alcoholism it feels similar. Thanks to The Blindboy Podcast and his sharing the mental-health tools (CBT, TA & others) that helped him crawl through crippling anxiety I feel much more in control of my time and actions. Very rarely now do I feel like hours slipped by with no lasting benefit. Escaping responsibilities with games I wasn’t refreshed, but drained. Multitasking will elicit this drained feeling still. Reading or listening to a good book (and I’m more and more willing to not finish books that aren’t “good” for me), going for a walk in the woods, gardening, making music, and making useful things are how I’ve replaced the videogame Skinner box.
Maybe it's not that it lost its way, it's that they made very good games that people wanted from 1998-2005, made reasonable followups, but what people want from games has moved on.
I didn’t attribute any sort of moral value to said thing, but it is a biological fact.

And as a society we should overcome these biological “laws”, or at least what we find immoral. Like healing and caring for weak/ill children, etc.

But I don’t see any solution to this problem that would not infringe on women’s freedom, which should be upheld even at the huge price psychological harm of a few. And attributing this harm to women should similarly be condemned, because one gender having biologically favorable chances of mating is a fact just as much as males having more muscle mass on average.
Also cryptocurrencies/telegram/signal/ya hell instagram/twitter/tiktok... seems like thousands of tiktokers also have an onlyfans..
Is there a way for me to go back and delete my offending comments? I'd like to do so, because I don't want to be a part of diminishing the community, and would like to make amends.
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It's interesting that Hearthstone is the exception. They're regularly releasing new content. I still play daily after 5 years.
Overwatch is quite sad in a certain sense in that it's kind of drifting, when it's probably one of the most approachable, fun, and stable games I know. I've played a few seasons in an esports team in a rival FPS, and the game is just full of annoying issues that I don't get in overwatch.
I didn't like how obsessed I'd become over Hearthstone. When this happened, I took it as an opportunity to delete the app and I haven't played it a single time since.
Or, just go with w3.css and be happy you have nothing to do with Jack Dorsey.
> I can see people using this information to reinforce and perpetuate biases instead of treating it like a factoid

The only place I can think of is that it might tell you the probability of finding what you're looking for when dating.
Alas it is just another battle (not initial, there have been others) in a war of escalation.
It shouldn't be excluded because that pattern doesn't match any of the files.

If you run `git check-attr --all public/locales/foo/send.ftl` with the current .gitattr file, you'll get no attributes.

If you update the attr match to `public/locales/**` or `public/locales/**/*.ftl`, then the `check-attr` command above will match it and show 'linguist-documentation'.
Something like "ATX for laptops" is long overdue IMHO. Specify the exact dimensions of the board, mounting holes, power hookup, location of the CPU (for cooling configuration), video connector spec, even a side panel that fits into a cutout on the case.

You could separate the screen and keyboard purchase from the motherboard purchase. And honestly, I have a lot of old laptops with perfectly usable screens and keyboards that are gathering dust because the CPU is hopelessly obsolete. Had they been built like this I could have significantly cut back on e-waste and saved money on the upgrade. You could even have enterprising people building thin clients or dumb terminals out of them. Having a unified spec would enable a lot of niche products. Imagine a Raspberry Pi board that you stuff the Pi into that has the right hookups for a standard laptop case for example. There would be a whole industry for cheapo SBCs that you can stuff in a used laptop case to make an ultra-cheap web browsing machine.
For the particular example, I'd think the scene in Pretty Woman is there purely for a particular storytelling reason -- the point is to illustrate how, if you suddenly become powerful, you can use that power to hurt people who were mean to you when you were small. So there's a scene where some people are abusive to Julia Roberts because the writer wants them to be, rather than for any in-world reason, so that she can come back later and take revenge.

In Breakfast at Tiffany's, Tiffany's represents how Audrey Hepburn thinks about the world of the rich, and is shown in a more positive light.
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Because I can? I said nothing about anonymity. Odd...

I'm from an age when anominity was a good thing. But do encourage all the current folks to move away from it, because I want to see them fail.

Lol I dont support any social media company. Social media is a net negative for the human experience, but that's just my opinion. I'm just a person who found the internet more fun before it needed to be safe for day time television watchers.
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> Further, one of their most cherished metrics is how much time people spend doing a certain activity. Instead of making those activities more fun and rewarding, they made them take longer to complete and with fewer rewards.

This is basically Goodhart's Law.
There's so much stuff in HTML that's almost good enough to replace things we use Javascript for. We should also have had built-in pagination and sorting on tables, like, years ago, with some kind of (optional, if your data aren't all available on the initial page load) back-end spec for how the requests will be shaped and for delivering the data.

An awful lot of "AJAX" Javascript use could just be frames and iframes, if they were somewhat better.

Form validation should be built-in (with optional light JS for defining non-built-in validators). The browser should supply a lot more input types, including some kind of payment integration. It's absurd those things have to be built over and over and delivered by the website.

I could go on. It's a damn shame.
Actually, participating in your local government is a pretty effective way to ensure that your viewpoint is represented.

It's true that "any number of people" in this tread believe that the consortium's efforts towards skin tone variants are a good thing. Is anybody here calling for more work to be done in this area? Those are the people who I'd make a similar recommendation to.
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Yep. Emulation is good, but using the real hardware is magical.

Fun fact: the reason why macflim had no sound originally is that my SE30s have bad caps (like most), and no sound. So many people asked for sound that I had to recap those surface mount caps (ouch my eyes!) so I could actually hack a version with sound :-)
Then you have not provided enough information to validate your claim. For example, the EU imposes price controls as well, while in Japan it can be expensive.

However, there's a much simpler route: Amazon is a US country, so you can simply use notorize.com for $25.
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There are two "renewable" sources of power: solar (wind and hydro are there with solar, but their energy potential is smaller and their downsides larger) and nuclear*.

Solar makes a lot of energy, but:

- you need a lot of land to make energy

- energy generation scales poorly with materials required

- you lose efficiency because you have to transport the power from the optimal place to every other place

By contrast, nuclear can be built anywhere regardless of climate (greatly reducing transmission loss), fuel is fairly widely distributed (i.e. every big political bloc has a good source of uranium), it provides continuous power, and material costs are low to build massive plants. And there is a lot of energy stored in the world's nuclear reserve. Way more energy than is stored in coal/ng/oil. Because of the energy density of nuclear fuel, if you add a little bit more material input, you get a lot more power. Not true with solar or any other source.

You can't run an entire advanced economy on solar, or even majority on solar. By contrast, you can have a 100% zero emissions economy run entirely on nuclear. My main point would be that if we want to continue to grow technologically, energy production must be centered on nuclear, with enhancements to efficiency provided by solar energy. Energy is the ultimate constraint on human development.

That's not what we have, though. Most people think that we can completely de-carbonize using solar energy which is false. Running an entire grid on batteries at night is a pipe dream -- the US grid has 3 seconds of energy storage total. By contrast, the technology for a completely de-carbonized modern economy exists right now with nuclear.

* I consider nuclear "renewable" because there's so much energy that in the short term, it may as well be.
If men by a razor thin margin are more inclined to doggedly pursue something to the exclusion of all else I don't understand why there aren't more men publishing romance, which absolutely requires that level of dogged pursuit.

Nursing requires continued certificate renewal and continued education. It's also competitive to get into any nursing program, so much so that you indeed need a lot of dogged pursuit to get in.
I used my first salary to buy WC3 on 2003, so I may have an "exaggerated" emotional connection with that game. Two months before the release it was clear that they could not polish the (many) rough edges that the remaster had. Removing features like ladder and tournaments was something so unprofessional and unreal that even today I can't digest it.

Looking at the screens for the Diablo 2 remaster, it looks like that they are using the same outsourced art company to create the new models, as its style is way too similar to the WC3 remaster - I believe that it will flop too.
Well, a simple use case would be when deciding on policy that interfaces with gender. All else being equal you would expect that in each industry there would be a roughly equal division of men and women, and if it is not, you might conclude that there is a broad scale social problem. But if all else is not in fact equal then you can no longer support that conclusion, and a naive target of 50/50 representation no longer makes sense as a goal.

I'm not trying to say that there are no problems, just trying to point out that there is utility in a frank conversation about stuff like this.
I agree with you but it turns out billing is a hard, unsolved problem.

Basic monthly SaaS subscriptions charged automatically to a credit card? Simple. Selling physical products with a shopping card system? Harder but plenty of existing systems that do it well. Anything else is surprisingly hard, especially at enterprise scale with the level of customization that introduces.

IMO there's a good startup opportunity for a no code billing system that is highly customizable, auditable, and testable. Seeing the level of customization that's often needed I don't know if it's even possible.
I don't align with the top tier player opinion about WoW. I feel that this is who they have driven away from the game. I personally spent a large amount of time in that top-20 guild environment and have only progressively seen them care less about the edge case of boundary-pushers and more about the day to day player.

The latest systems encourage time sinking less than they did in Legion, where there were infinite diminishing returns for playing, now there is just a full-stop end to your week. Legion was the most abusive expansion with regards to a player's time. The latest expansion fixed a lot of that for me and others, but it isn't enough to keep me sustained.

WoW Classic actually kept me enthused and is extremely enjoyable, however if you were on a streamer server, there were artificial queues for ages and it was exhausting living around a queue when trying to be competitive at that top tier of play.

If TBC fixes that (doesn't have the queues at release), I will be a lot happier with it.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27037667
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AR and VR are both solutions looking for problems today. The technology is already there for a killer app but no one has figured out what it is yet.

I think AR/VR is that it's being used like film was in the early 20th century. There are obvious technical challenges to overcome, but what it lacks is an industry of creators and auteurs to define new forms of art. The mistake is that the revolution will be driven by artists working out of garages and warehouses, not VC funded startups that only focus on technical challenges trying to corner the markets.
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which sadly isn't supported on M1, and who knows if Blizzard will ever release a patch for that.
First off, I've been a big fan of Oil shell for a while! Love the blog. :)

Fig currently works with bash, zsh and fish. Since we are operating at the OS level rather than in the shell, we can get around the inflexibility of readline/bash.

In theory, this approach would work anywhere. What we do currently on macOS is especially 'involved' since we need to provide the completions UI in a separate GUI app that we don't control. But, in general, integrating at the OS/application level should be possible on Linux and Window as well.
except these people do go to other places and then people tell ISPs and the such to block those websites...see 8chan.

Look at the controversy over platforms like parler and gab as well.

This is why I think the ultimate solution is to have platforms that are fully encrypted, anonymized (TOR) and decentralized. This is the only way to ensure people can exercise their freedom of speech without harassment. Basic implementations have already been built, bitmessage, for example but that technology needs to be expanded into more of a reddit-like website. Make posters/comments/upvotes burn CPU cycles to participate and pay rewards to the people hosting/mining.
It's going to get real awkward when he realizes his comment was flagged, thus prohibiting his "free speech"...
My intended meaning with "pet" was not that I invented the theory, but rather that I do not have strong evidence for it. I have observed the data and this I think is a reasonable theory that fits the data. However I have not tried to strenuously falsify my own hypothesis, so I wanted to indicate that.
Should the same principle imply we should abolish the minimum wage?
IMO video games are fundamentally unstable and everchanging things, because the customer base is continually growing out of it. Not to say adults wouldn't love to play, but how many people do you know that realistically have the time to get into videogames like the did in highschool, playing wow until sunrise fueled with energy drinks? Practically no one, especially people with families or a 9-5 job that punishes lack of sleep, and it's hard to get good enough at a video game to have a fun time that doesn't suck without having time to practice the mechanics. So even if you do squeeze in an hour here or there, that's not enough time to get even halfway decent at a new videogame, let alone understand anything about any meta that everyone else in the community will use against you in every game you play. It quite literally sucks to suck, and you end up not really playing video games as much because you just get slapped every match and you know you don't have the time to practice and actually get better.

Publishers need to continually cater to a fresh generation. They risk alienating their existing playerbase when this happens to a firm degree, which makes this an art. Blizzard has failed to compete at young peoples attention as well as other distractions on the market, for this new generation at least.
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Yes, I have assumed they meant something more specific, like "every building and road west of I5" (I live only a few miles east, so I doubt I'd be unscathed myself, somehow).
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> There is no way the Fed can make them disappear.

There's no US precedent, but US government could do something like India's 2016 Demonitization: require new notes, exchange current notes for a limited time only, also limited per person. This might not completely wipe out foreign physical USD holdings, but it would probably make a dent; logistics alone for replacing all the bills would make a dent.

That said, I don't think there's any reason for the US government to do such a thing, and it would most likely lead to significantly lower confidence.
You seem to be using "founding pillars" to mean "what the founders claimed or intended the founding pillars to be." That's not what I'm talking about. For an actual physical building, it doesn't matter what the architect claims or intends are the parts of the building which are necessary for its structural integrity. Removing a chunk of the building either causes it to collapse or doesn't. Looking at the architect's plans and intentions may be useful, but it's clearly not the final source of truth.
unicode itself is a terrible can of worms. There are so many edge cases that adding black emojis is hardly a big deal. Black emojis is not complicated compared to some of the languages out there.
Just want to chime in and say I'm actually personally very affable and I do not rant and rave online. I just have no issues with those who do.

Smells to me we're a couple of crying fat kids away from banning people for pulling a Leroy Jenkins.
I think this has something to do with the repo being a fork.

The parent repo doesn't have this issue. The "languages" list doesn't mention Freemarker on https://github.com/mozilla/send
I've been thinking for ages it'd be great to be able to rename multiple instances of the same app in the taskbar, so finally got around to doing a search and found Taskbar Renamer.

I'm using it to rename multiple instances of the CAM software I run for our laser cutter.
How do twin studies separate those children from the culture they're raised in?
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> They probably resigned because DHH decided that, because the discussion had made him uncomfortable

That's completely understating the entirety of what happened; the culmination of which seemed to be frivolous HR complaints. Has anyone disputed the details of the fuller context available through David's blogs and other sources?

> no one should be able to discuss anything "political" at work anymore

Can't they though? Here is what Jason had to say:

> 1. No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account...People can take the conversations with willing co-workers to Signal, Whatsapp, or even a personal Basecamp account, but it can't happen where the work happens anymore.
They've already done this... with WoW. Having dipped back into it in winter, it's more or less an single player game now, with more effort put into phasing players into whatever type of game they want to play and getting them there as quickly as possible. Leveling is laughably fast, and the endgame is mostly done with arbitrary people that will have no investment in decent socialization within the game.
Huh? That's what HEAD requests and correct HTTP headers are for, surely?
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The Oatmeal gives a good response to this.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure

As others have said, your argument is popular with business owners trying to avoid paying money to workers, but in reality it largely just excludes anyone who is not from a privileged background.
When I pick a new helmet, I pick from brands that have spent years earning my trust. This I will never buy; I just can't deal with a company that from the outset feels grubby.
Netflix is certainly capable of mildly pressuring production companies to follow guidelines like paying their workers in order to get the contracts.
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A fantastic off-the-shelf solution is already available: https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/

It can emulate a floppy or hard drive. I tend to use a 2GB hard drive image which makes hacking on classic Mac a delight.
Or PureCSS https://purecss.io/
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It's pretty amazing how evergreen the CS formula has been considering how simple it is.
Like which sex you might statistically be more compatible with?
Strategic shifts are the only reason mass layoffs exist. If it's a slow shift according to market pressure, then you expect the ratio of incoming:outgoing to drop slowly. If it's stable, you expect the ratio to be stable. If someone decides to a do a re-org, or a new strategy and this whole department is no longer necessary in the new model, the ratio drops fast.

Otherwise, why would you drop a whole slew of people suddenly? For the fun of it?
Was it 2018? Wow that was fast. It must suck for them since that fiasco, losing online players during pandemic when we're all stuck at homes, doubles the pain at least.
I think they have actually struck a pretty good balance when it comes to paid content. There isn't really anything (except maybe some of the hero skins?) you actually have to pay for and can't get for free. You can be top-level competitive without spending a cent, so long as you play enough and spend your gold & dust wisely...
Wealth creation is still tied to land and natural resources (and bounded by those), and is thus finite, by we conveniently ignore the issue and pile up extenalities.
That is where it becomes a question of preference, not doggedness.
This type of thing prevented me from starting playing anything Blizzard at all.
No. Even in Powershell type fidelity and other data loss is inevitable when objects are serialised (what most people call "parsed").