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> The films you watch on TV or at the cinema were not created (edited, VFX) using a web browser for a start

to add on this, the reference UI toolkit for building VFX tools is Qt. Maya, DaVinci, Lightworks, Nuke... are all Qt-based.

https://vfxplatform.com/
They were worth exactly what he got for them.

Its a freaking definition of worth.

If you think your paper comic is worth 20000 cuz its first series in plastic wrap then its worth 20000 as long as someone pays you that for it.

How about a piece of canvas with 3 colours? Is it work millions?
TODOS are great documentation. They often reveal design decisions, suboptimal implementations and the thought process of the creator.

This information is often completely lost in issues that noone will ever look at again.

I also like to do TODO sweeps, but with a bias towards rewriting the into documentation or leaving them in if the are actionable.
In my book the third example is also bad, only the simple indentation is good.
Anyone who even remotely looked at the numbers and followed the situation can tell Dream cheated. The only people I see claiming otherwise are either infatuated with his cult of personality or otherwise just don't give a shit, "It's just a kids game who cares"? I care.

I am heavily invested in speedrunning culture, but myself am mostly involved in the Halo community. I have a couple of world records of my own, and I also do routing and other technical things for the community.

Halo has its own long history of cheaters, many of whom were also pivotal founders of the community. In the wider speedrunning scene there are many examples of similar situations. I do not think that speedrunning necessarily has a higher percentage of cheaters, if you compare against other competitive sports and activities the rates would likely be comparable. But that number is far from zero.

I am working on developing TAS (Tool-Assisted Speedrun) tools for the Halo games. With the tools you can create frame-perfect recreations of gameplay that are indistinguishable from actual play.

I am honestly at a stand-still on whether I should ever publicly release a working version of the tools. The main worry is that the tools will be used to submit "fake" runs passed off as human gameplay. I have built in basic safeguards to deter the most basic cheaters, little things that you would never see as a casual player but if you know what to look for would stand out in a video. But there is always the chance a sophisticated user could reverse those changes and fly under the radar.

On the one hand it could open a floodgate of awesome content, tricks, and discoveries. On the other it could potentially completely ruin the integrity of the leaderboards. I am quite conflicted on how to continue with this project if anyone has any insight that might be helpful.
not suddenly, but within a decade, yep
Looking at the stakeholders section at the bottom, this looks like the typical academia project that is, currently at least, far removed from the real world.
And then you buy it, and the functionality that it claimed was completely misleading or doesn't work, and it was actually worse than the product you were previously buying.

Then you go back to the product you were previously buying, and it doesn't work any more because they had to cut costs to spend more on marketing.
The comments here lack so much nuance that if it wasn't HN, I would wonder if they were not made by a trolling farm.

A few years ago I created a SaaS product, and as a newcomer in the market, I was happy that (online) marketing existed so that people discovered what the advantages of my tool are compared to more established products that people already knew.

My question to you marketing-haters: what exactly are your suggestions here? Let people use only what they know? This doesn't incentivise innovation. Let an ideal unbiased search engine do the magic? One can argue that it is still marketing, but in the hands of someone else.
Why are you writing this to me? You already commented on (another) comment of mine which explained what is meant by indentation with tabs and alignment with spaces.

A function call has an indentation level (depending on where it resides in the code); if for whatever reason you split the call on multiple lines, all the lines should have an equal amount of leading tabs to signal that level of indentation – different arguments in a function call do not have different indentation levels. If you choose to align the contents on the lines, for example to the opening parenthesis, you do so by using spaces.

In your own words, this is "all those shenanigans" but you can't possibly try to convince me it is that hard to understand or would not work. Of course it does.
The problem is not marketing. The problem is deceptive, invasive marketing.

As soon as a customer has made a choice between two suppliers, then any marketing for the other one will be considered invasive. By definition it isn't wanted because the customer chose not to use that supplier. Consequently any marketing will always be seen as invasive by some people, unless the market is a monopoly, and therefore all marketing is problematic (or "evil").
Larger blocks means that they take longer to propagate across the network, meaning there is a much longer period where two or more miners might find alternative "next blocks", which could be exploited by tricking miners into including a different transaction in each split of the chain. This means that you basically have to wait much longer before you can be sure that your transaction will not be reversed.

On top of that, larger blocks also means that home users, or small businesses can no longer run their own fully verifying nodes, meaning that we have to move to relying on larger businesses to take care of attacks on the network, and not to collude to change the ruleset.

In reality, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV have not taken off in popularity, due to these issues as well as serious character flaws in their most vocal proponents, meaning that for now their blocks remain small, and the possibility of these attacks isn't actually realized. But if they were to become more popular it would not last long.
Woow I get Cash App $750 in this website
I'm still holding a faint hope for that
Bombs are used to mine stuff or build roads, they aren't evil either.
Thank you for sharing your story, it helps a lot.
Hope you come back to full fitness soon and resume your regular swims :)
If you're using bitcoin for international money transfers you're using exchanges on either end of the transaction to convert to bitcoin and back.

You may as well use an International money transfer service like Transferwise (which essentially is similar to a bitcoin exchange but currency to currency), that performs the same function without the bitcoin in the middle... Transaction costs will be lower and it will be faster.
I started working on a Datalog-based authorization library called EACL, short for Enterprise Access Control Library: https://github.com/theronic/eacl
If you want to buy a house, how are you going to find out what is available and what they're like?

If your plumbing is leaking, how are you going to find out what plumbers are available nearby to fix it?

How are you going to determine which movie at the cineplex you prefer to see? How are you even going to find out what's playing at the cineplex? Or even if there is a cineplex and where it is?
What's the benefit though? When combined with the many, many studies that show that consistently working long hours significantly impacts productivity (to the point where it's a net negative), why would you ever do it if it additionally is bad for your health?
It's one of those tradeoffs we make to save time. I get practice tracing program logic by reading poorly organized code written by others, but for my own purposes, I have a standard, consistent way of organizing/formatting things that saves a lot of mental overhead.

People make the same argument about static vs dynamic types -- "if you were a better programmer you wouldn't NEED to rely on type information!". Sure, I can juggle type information in my head just as well as anyone, but static types let me focus that mental effort somewhere else, and make context switching much easier.

What is language syntax but a visual aid that we all use to avoid writing assembly?
I spent a lot of time in Berlin where there's no industry, just software. I can imagine that the attitude is much different somewhere in the west or in the south.
Indeed: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E...
So go to a physiotherapist. Not someone that also serves a dose of magic woo.
The proper answer! thanks.
High income tax rates vs taxes on capital earnings do that, irrespective of how progressive the income tax rate is, no? I assume the point you are making is that taxing income at a higher rate than returns on capital favors earnings from already-accrued wealth over wealth accural.

As to heritability of earnings, I think there are a number of potential causes:

* Parents pass on knowledge, skills, and values that are valuable.

* Parents pass on actual wealth, or social standing that can help accrue wealth (like helping their kids make business contacts or find internships).

* Parents buy their kids improved education or similar (e.g. childhood nutrition, college test prep, etc).

* Structural biases (racism, classism) tend to reflect attributes that are somewhat or fully inherited (ethnicity, accent, perceived social class).

* Earnings reflect things that are
biologically inherited (intelligence, greed, etc).

I don't find the last point very compelling but I'm including it for completeness. But what I think this list demonstrates is that it's somewhat hard to understand just how pernicious the causes of low intergenerational social mobility may be—the first and last points seem kind of "working as intended" (in a meritocracy); the second and third points are troublesome, and the fourth point is deeply problematic.
An example of safety razors marketing themselves "properly" is Gillette, where the product became more expensive and of a lower quality, yet they dominate the market. Too much marketing by competitors is what's causing people to miss out on amazing products, not too little.
That's a trick question, because the only way[¤] to amass enough wealth to become a billionaire, is to be amoral and callous in the first place.

[¤]Excepting the exceedingly rare few who win an exceedingly rare 1+ billion lottery prize.
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It's a balance between the (evolutionary) advantage for of the group vs the advantage for the individual. Some lying may be beneficial for the individual as long as it doesn't harm the group too much. Lie too much though, and the group gets less likely to survive as a whole, meaning individuals within the group are less likely to survive as well.
Have you tried increasing the log-level in /etc/systemd/system.conf? You can also set LogTarget=kmsg if you have issues with the journal. You can also control this with the kernel command line if you prefer https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.htm... You could try a kernel command line like this 'systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=kmsg' for instance

You can also look at systemctl list-dependencies local-fs.target to see if it has any failed dependencies

You can also use systemctl show local-fs.target to sanity-check it to see if there are any local modifications to the target that are breaking it
Another really great example which works exactly the same is shaving soap. Shaving soap is more environmentally friendly (because it doesn't require an aerosol can etc) lasts way longer and is therefore tons cheaper than shaving creme. It also actually gives you a better shave, which is why if you go to a barber and get a shave it's what they use. But the vast majority of people use shaving creme because that is marketed and shaving soap is not. As a student I had a bar of shaving soap that literally lasted me more than a year shaving every day. Presumably companies realised they can make a much better business by encouraging people to buy an inferior product with higher margins that doesn't last as long.
I can sympathize to some degree, but I certainly don't hate it. I like programming/software, I like people, I like solving problems. Most industries that make huge amounts of money generally have their issues. I take advantage of the money to do stuff I enjoy in my spare time, when I was your age I travelled a lot for several months (very cheaply). I learnt new things and did different sports etc.

If I could go back in time I might be a teacher or hospital worker, but actually if I'd done that I would have missed out on a lot of cool stuff. If you're earning a lot as you suggest you should easily be able to earn enough to take some reasonable time off and still be employable when you return which is one of the big benefits of software engineering.
What is something worth if not the collective judgments of how much it’s valued by the buyers and sellers?
Very nice, and you might like these lists too:

The Best Books For Understanding The Video Game Industry
By Doug Walsh (who wrote over one hundred officially licensed video game strategy guides)
https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-video-game-industry

or

The Best Video Game Narrative Histories And A Couple Of Others
By Harold Goldberg, he is an author/journalist in the industry and wrote 'All Your Base Are Belong To Us'
https://shepherd.com/best-books/video-game-narrative-histori...
"Remember, good marketing usually doesn’t feel like marketing at all!"

Yeah, that's my problem. Marketing is essentially all about manipulating my thoughts to benefit someone else. If you are deliberately trying to manipulate people without them realising, that can never be ethical.
It’s (a little) easier when angles are not discretely jumping. For a 2d person it would also be hard to get the idea of a drill bit from few random cross sections.

Btw, this drill bit example (basically a twisted ribbon) made me think that we could represent not only straight sections, but also rotating ones, to get a better feel of what goes on.
> Dream hired a statistician to debunk the numbers in the first video.

This is addressed in the video. The report from the anonymous statistician hired by Dream does not actually dispute the incredibly low odds.

I've never heard of Dream before and I have no horse in this race. But the probability of this actually having happened by chance on an unmodded set of runs is so low I cannot believe it. At the same time, the someone who has made a career out of running Minecraft with mods having a great run of luck with the help of mods and then claiming that it was fair does not seem very unlikely.
I can't find 3 examples written prior to today of people demonizing the marketing of products they hate. Who collects critiques on specific marketing campaigns?
There are always risks, and ignoring a novel approach is also a risk. The issue is to gauge risk intelligently, based on extensive prior medical, biological and physicochemical knowledge and modelling, and on sound clinical testing using randomized controlled trials (the kind of trial that proved dexametasone and disproved ivermectin, hydroxyquinoline etc. as a therapeutic for covid).
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> and in fact most 2D graphics you see today are in large part rendered on the CPU

This is pretty misleading. Most 2D arbitrary paths are rendered on the CPU but there's a lot more to 2D graphics than that and run on the GPU today already just fine.
The vision and model here seem excellent. Jolie as a language seems to have strong roots in academia and Europe. The one alarm is the lack of information on real world use, case studies and non-trivial adopters or users.

Anyone know of any large scale use of Jolie?
Not just mainframes, there was and is even RAM and CPU hotplug x86 hardware (but rare and expensive). Sun hardware (enterpricey, but not mainframe per se) had CPU boards you could pull and replace while running. Network cards and HBAs are other more typical examples of things you could hotswap. But the trend has favored software based solutions providing redundancy on multiple cheaper servers. Imho rightly so.
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There is plenty. People hate drug advertisers, but I am pretty sure they think medical drugs are important etc.

https://healthcareglobal.com/procurement-and-supply-chain/da...

If you want more examples just search for it, isn't hard to find at all.
When you find yourself starting a comment with "No offense but", perhaps look at why you felt your comment might cause offence. Then rewrite it in a kinder and less mean way that doesn't need a disclaimer.

Your comment would have come across better—as trying to help, not trying to mock—without the first and last lines, which seem to break the guidelines.
Because the entire field is nonsense and pyramid schemes. Ethereum derives their smart contract langage from JavaScript for fuck’s sake. That alone should tell you that their interest was always to disregard everything in order to maximise adoption. And then they added pitfalls to JavaScript because it was not broken enough for their tastes.
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Marketing has a lot of facets. One of the things which has happened was that goods which were generic and mostly identical like flour and soap have gotten brand names and all kinds of artificial distinctions invented. That didn't help mankind.

A lot of marketing is simply based on exploiting people's feelings and encouraging them to desire something they don't really need.
A few hot takes of mine:
- Something small is throwing off someone's calculations ... Perhaps some small fact about the RNGs that is not common knowledge
- I'm a 31 year old and followed the events and was thoroughly on Dreams side, and accepted his (handwavey despite hiring a math person) explanation, mostly on character and verisimilitude
- The consensus of most people seems to be that he cheated and is a convincing liar, sort of a magician in a way
- The fact his cheating is the crowd consensus among adults made me question my initial beliefs
- I don't have time to go down the rabithole but I also don't really care if he cheated as his achievments as an entertainer stand alone. If he did cheat, he's just loveable scum

In summary... He cheated?
I have never accidentally hit tab when I was meaning to hit the space key.

I constantly have problems with positional issues with spaces because every one uses a different number of spaces and its too easy to miss click three spaces in a block of 8 instead of 4 spaces.

I don't understand how every one else has issues hitting the tab key but no problem clicking on space 6 out of 10 spaces.
The only kind of people I've seen defending marketing are those who work in marketing.

I have a couple of highly educated friends working in the field and it's kind of sad watching them trying to defend and/or explain the need for the industry.

But they do have a point: if you have just one company "marketing products", the others are at disadvantage, so the net result is that you need some marketing in almost every industry to stay afloat.

This is not an acceptable excuse though.
I'd rather have all marketing banned.
As chaorace above you suggested, it was so structured by the arrival of the technology to keep track of everything you ever did that was bad and put it online for future reference.

The tendency to do it was already in place, it is likely that you see someone from high school that was a jerk and you think that jerk once did this, even if it was 15 years ago. That's a sort of normal human tendency.

Some people are so notorious for rather innocuous things that they are outcast - Monica Lewinsky is an obvious example - I believe she was ostracized for a little more than a decade.

Legally there is already the habit of judging people unfit for crimes, even if they have served their time. American society is structured to make people with felony convictions harder to employ.

Now add in technology and imagine being able to treat anyone you have never met like that jerk in High School forever.

The final step of structuring is then provided by people who can see ways to profit off of the fact that people who have done non felonious things might still have done things that society will find objectionable, and that the technology exists to keep this in people's eyes.
I think this is common in the rest of the US/EU as well. The difference between how "tech" companies treat software engineers is very different from how "normal" companies treat software. Tech companies "get" that the difference between good and bad software is enormous and that it's worth doing the work to get good people to build it, other companies usually don't.
Why do you believe that?

And if you believe that, how are you so sure that it hasn't already happened? If you're a software developer making $100K annually, you are already in the global 1%. Should people like you exist? Have you signed any sort of giving pledge, as many billionaires have? https://givingpledge.org/
> I wonder if and how they managed to properly control for things like obesity or stress.

You wouldn't want to control for those things if the mechanism by which working long hours affects your health is that it causes you to be obese and increases your stress levels.
How did you get to know what they told the client? Your bosses wanted you to know, so you didn't say the wrong things, if the client asked something? (eg so you knew to day yes if the client asked if you had two years experience)
> I think Ethereum 2.0 is currently demonstrating at scale that proof of stake works fine and can be secure against hordes of very incentivized hackers trying to cheat. That should hopefully bury the whole proof of stake is centralized argument.

This is really shakey ground to prop up an argument in favor of cryptocurrency: AFAICT no cryptocurrency ever dies until people stop trading it, which virtually never happens.

I’m reminded of the saga of “stable coins” — stable coins of the non-IOU sort. Every major example of one has imploded at least once during times of high market volatility, no exceptions. Including as recently as 2020. You’d think after enough of these implosions the concept would be disproven on a fundamental level, but no.

(Many have considered these unstable stablecoins theoretically unsound ever since the concept’s inception — bitUSD IIRC — with clear parallels to PoS.)

Developers and VCs have been deeply invested in PoS consensus for many years now, mostly because they were attractive financial bets to make. There’s no use in my even opining on the theoretical flaws of PoS, because implosions of cryptocurrencies seem to not even matter to investors.

Anyway, at some point, the people funding and developing these PoS systems evidently shifted into abject promotion mode for obvious financially motivated reasons based on really nothing aside from investor expectations. Nothing has ever been proven about PoS aside from the fact traders are willing to hold speculative positions in these coins — no different from the reasons they’ve held any other cryptocurrency. And even if PoS were a fundamentally discredited concept disproven as many times over as “unstable stablecoins” have been, it would change absolutely nothing about investor behaviour.
The entire trend was started by Andrew Wakefield, who was planning to roll out his own fake vaccine product. Almost everybody who actively attacks vaccines is selling something.
I wouldn't like to be the one filing his tax return ;)
What makes me sad about Go is that the verboseness comes not from the language but from its formater.

If the formater allowed to write in one line if err != nil { return err }, it would drop the number of code lines by the third.
I guess that each data point is a commit and they just made more commits in the 2014-2016 period than in 2011-2014. But it's just a guess.
Is your entire martech stack becoming one big virtual “platform”?