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My biggest advice is to recognize that while one can learn a substantial amount of the basics of web development in 3-6 months, the same is less true for games. Because you could spend 3-6 months learning basic 3D modeling, or 3-6 months on the game programming part, or 3-6 months on game networking.

So there are games you can make over 3-6 months that will give you a tiny foundation in a bunch of different areas, but it's just way easier to get a little taste of React and taste of working with a database and a taste of a backend framework and a taste of HTML+CSS over a few months than it is to get a taste of all these different parts of game dev. Or at least it felt that way to me. So easy to get sucked into the wormhole learning about just one aspect of game dev for months, or letting scope creep or an over-ambitious design distract you.

So even though everyone says to aim for the world's dumbest, smallest project first, and then everyone immediately ignores that advice, I still have to look at my own experiences and pain from that lesson and recommend doing so for you as well.

There are a lot of courses that take you through creating an entire small game and hold your hand through the process, and I would recommend doing one of those first. Whether its an Unreal or Unity or Godot thing or whatever. Because jumping in head first and learning what you need on the fly from google and youtube can be easier from a motivation POV but putting in the work to follow an entire course that teaches you how to make an entire game will give you a broader view and help you avoid getting bogged down writing shaders for 6 months. Ofc, if you want to just follow passion and get sucked in, then off to those types of rabbitholes you go.
I really do no appreciate background, they look too fake to remotely beat a lousy room for my taste.
Glad you like it! Etherpad is a big inspiration for me, and I hope to read into the code someday. They have a more sophisticated OT algorithm for rich text.
Cicero used humor to charm audiences–and humiliate opponents
Adding Mass to a Rotating Apparatus Does Not Slow IT
When adding mass to a rotating structure such as a Ferris Wheel, all things being slightly ahead until slowing to drop mass in the bench seat, IT DOES NOT SLOW THE ROTATION!! Until GEEKS LIKE SHROEDINGERS DEAD CAT —- IT DOES NOT SLOW UNTIL GERKS MEASURE EVERYTHING ACCURATELY THEREBY CREATING ENTROPY CAUSING IT TO SLOW BC MOVING MORE THROUGH LESS TIME OBSERVED BY DUMBASS GEEKS THAT NEVER BROUGHT UP THE EMF QUIET ZONE IN WVa AND SEEK TO END THAT CURSE BY CREATING NEXT GEN ALL ULTRA-CLEAR FIBER OPTIC DEVICES ALL POWERED BY A SINGLE LED ETC IN FIRST ARTICLE ON THAT. WELL NEILS DE GRASSE TYSON ??? Measure it then it goes slower!! Physics is STUUUUUPPPIIIDDD!!!
Out of curiosity, is there a particular programming style that does fit more naturally in your brain?
Its been a while, but basically horrendous UI/UX, unintuitive way to create jobs and manage variables, things like that. I don't know if it was completely rewritten in the last 2 years but it was dogshit awful before 2019.
Live migration is when they move you to another system.

They have to do that when hardware fails (if you're lucky), but that it's happening so often suggests it's part of regular software maintenance or something like that. Which is pretty unacceptable to me.
I'll be curious to see how these companies with these super expensive to build and maintain campuses are going to react. If nothing else, it seems like the sunk cost of having a multi-acre campus will force some companies to stick with the colocated in an office model.
The open floor plan was cheap.

Seriously.
I think what I did was first try to learn as an investor. To do what most people were doing, which was to take their crypto out of the exchanges like coinbase, binance. So I moved it to the BSC network, which is still binance but I can have my tokens in my own wallet. Then I learnt about how to exchange using BSC network, which is with pancakeswap and similar uniswap clones. Next the hacker mindset started to see the many opportunities that are all there, because it is such a nascent tech but with so much money running through it since the beginning.
I'm also curious about CRDTs, but after making this project, I agree that OT seems to "just work" performance-wise and are super simple.
Part of the agreement is that you have to have $10M in profit in that country before the rules apply.

So that would never happen. You’d have to make a ton of money there before you have to file taxes. And it’ll be worth it by then.
This is getting flagged, I suspect because of the contents of the tweet.

I think this is a discussion which needs to be had, though.

Not a discussion of anything related to trans biology, which doesn't belong here, but of Twitter meddling in the politics of other nations by enforcing a California Democrat's idea of acceptable speech on other people.

Twitter has accounts like @10DowningStreet and @POTUS, which are de facto government organs. It has become a global commons for politics, and this is a very awkward fit for enforcing rules which are primarily designed to keep frog emojis and rainbow-flag emojis from yelling slurs at each other.
As Electric Cars Become Mainstream, the Corn Belt Ponders a Post-Ethanol Future
His comment: The controls are whacky as hell and it took 5min of practice but it's just a tech demo

...
PineCone BL602 Talks LoRaWAN
>India has outgrown Bangladesh overall since 1980, but its growth has been less even, and looks to be hitting a serious slump in recent years

Demonetization seriously messed up everything that could in a economy that runs primarily on cash. Around 90%+ of the indian economy runs on cash basis. Removing the rs 500 caused a panic in the streets.

Followed by the most botched GST implementation ever.

Followed by absurd NRC/CAA implementation.

And followed by the high handed approach of farming laws that severely disadvantages small farmers.

And taxing fuel to death. The prices of petrol in India is higher than in US, Canada or Australia. Also electric cars are not subsidized like what China did.

Now with covid: An abrupt lockdown that accomplished nothing.

And the worst move ever: Running an election campaign and organizing a festival of 12 million people all cramped up next to each other. Even without covid, Kumbh mela is famous for disease outbreaks.

Top it off by bullying any social media that dares question the government.

Yeah no. Not a serious slump. This is a slam in the wall move.
Apple Watch supports this - lock upon getting a certain distance from the device.

I believe 1Password also lets you lock itself after a period of time which can be very short.
Submarine Cable Map 2021
Everyone I know trades in stable coins. It's the safest to park overnight or to keep coins in when you don't want to be exposed to crypto.

Most exchanges do not have true USD. Coinbase and binance yes, but only because they do the KYC work. Anywhere else like Probit, KuCoin, any DeFi - there will only be stable coins.
Domesticated cats have completely eradicated several United States bird species nobody called for eradication of cats
I think something that's not readily apparent with the success so far of remote work during COVID, is that organizations are operating on the organizational 'shared context' that was created before remote work started.

It's why I think outsourcing often doesn't work out. Outsourced workers lack an understanding of this shared context which makes for a high level of friction and impairs their ability to deliver the work as imagined by the organization.

Right now, IME we're still in the sweet spot of being able to work from this shared context, which I think means the benefits of working from the same physical space are not appreciated.

It'll be interesting to see how things play out if remote work becomes the norm. I do think remote work can be successful, if the effort is put in to make sure that collaboration etc. still occurs. However, if companies stay remote and try to run on the fumes of the previously held shared context from pre-COVID then I think it will mean disaster for them.
Well, if they had said “skip”, how many of us on the other side of the language divide would have known what they meant?
This is not true for the standalone version of 1Password.
We use Webex a lot in this way, personally, I get very little or no value from seeing video. The novelty of seeing people in the grid wore off pretty quickly.
I’m mid-career living in the Bay Area and am eagerly looking forward to returning to the office ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
well according to this https://www.statista.com/statistics/1011424/el-salvador-bank... only 30% of adults have a bank account to begin with. Probably a lot easier to setup a bitcoin wallet
Elon Musk Targeted by 'Anonymous'
The Apple Donut has a very slightly larger outer diameter than the Pentagon. It's the mother of all sunk costs.

It would be cool if they just packed the whole thing with servers, kept a few conference rooms and the theatre, and called it a day; but something tells me they won't.
Of course, the argument here is that as a natural person I cannot be taxed on a profit basis, nor depreciate the house I live in.
If you want to define the median in a way that generalizes to other situations, this is actually not the way to go! Here's a more general definition: a median of the numbers {x_1, ... x_n} is a number m that minimizes the sum of the absolute deviations, |x_1 - m| + |x_2 - m| + ... + |x_n - m| . Medians are generally not unique via this definition, but they can then be defined for things like sets of points in the plane, in space, etc. (cf. geometric median); the traditional definition is the average of all of the medians under this more general definition.
'An Empty Bliss ' Turns 10: How the Haunted Ballroom Defined a Generation
Take some of that time and think on how well it is you can laugh about such a thing and find it so light and airy a topic you don’t feel bad considering the circumstances that would lead to someone putting anyone’s child in a Dumpster.
OS X/Hydromac: New Mac adware, leaked from a flashcards app
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To play the advocate, I will state that this is a conversational thread, where people talk about things. So it's no surprise that you see someone talking about a problem and not inventing a solution where the selected medium supports only the former.

Invention is sometimes a lonely and quiet endeavor, conversation is much the antithesis.
Description of fixing a broken Mac

> "As I was looking in it I saw capacitors that were broken. I had soldering guns there and I had radios and alarm clocks, so I took parts out of my father's radio alarm clock and I soldered them into the circuit board."

Were computers that repairable back then, that you could swap in bits of old alarm clocks to make them work?
I thought of "If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

If anyone with experience says something can't be done, you shouldn't necessarily take it as the final word, but when someone says something can be done, or can be done better, that's where experience pays off.
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Actually, it might be helpful for you to understand that an overwhelming majority of good interviewers are evaluating you on far more signals than just the literal correctness of your answers.

The interviewer's job is to assess whether you're going to work out and be an asset to the organization. They also assume that what you're showing in the interview is a much rosier picture of yourself than you'll normally be.

So if you're late for an interview, the interviewer has to assume you're gonna be late to stuff all the time. If you can't solve your connectivity problems, the interviewer has to assume you're gonna have all sorts of other problems that will drag down yours and the team's productivity. It also shouldn't surprise you if you bad-mouth your old employer, the interviewer is going to assume that you're insanely negative and divisive. etc. It's not "being judged" - the company has to make a high-risk high-impact decision to hire you, and your behavior may just "leak" the information that you're not a good bet.

You may think this is unpleasant but it's just fact of the decision making process. If you make it harder for people to say "yes" to you, you will get "no" much more often. Simple as that.

>> to do with respect to their time and money

I don't understand the "money" part. Are you paying companies to interview you? This is a sure sign of a scam.
"My first real programming language was Julia"

Such a 2021 moment! Kind of envious. The first programming language follows you through your career. Mine (C++) has been a curse and a blessing at the same time. Wish you luck, sincerely. People like you define the next decades.
Just read the stories, what is the point of statements like this
I always wondered who came up with that slowly pulsing light on sleeping first generation ibooks. It seemed like someone had put a lot of thought into that: It was very calming.
In a democratic society, as an entity grows in power, so must the level of transparency. Otherwise the will of the people cannot be a real check on that power. Whether through standard journalism (which seems to be lacking lately) or other means this is still true.

Would you personally be (as) worried about mass surveillance if you could somehow guarantee that every use of that power would be reported on to the public; and that any abuses of power would come to light? With the underlying assumption that those abuses of power would also have consequences.
Short stories are excellent fiction
I think it could be the same but it doesn't have to be. "What problem does this solve" is a bit more generous as at least, on the face of it, it may offer an opportunity to provide an answer that will be received in good faith.

But I think this is less about specific phrases one might need to be careful not to say, and more about the kinds of default attitudes that can turn into ongoing impediments to the free flow of ideas. It's definitely possible ask "what problem does this solve" without becoming the "What Problem Does This Solve Person", and the same goes for the other phrases too.
The “space ship” campus is not nice to work in. I was working at Apple when it was built - nobody wanted to move there (other than execs) because it was open-office plan whereas most full time employees in other campuses in Cupertino all had individual offices.

Also, if you significantly above average contributor you pretty much can dictate when and where you work even before the pandemic (with some common sense limits). A famous example - intel based mac were initially developed by someone working remotely.
If FAANG goes remote, rest assured that many highly capable engineers in cheaper cities like mine are willing to work for them at a discount as we would still come out way ahead compared to local rates.
It's really concerning that the Navy had serious accidental collisions years after that attack. It suggests that it's still alarmingly easy to get close to a destroyer without anyone noticing.
You can do that today if the capacitors are the right type and value. Components are components, they're used on all sorts of products.
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I have a fancy microphone, but when I’m away from home in a low bandwidth situation I often phone in audio to zoom because it lags less. Lagging video and non-lagging audio seems to bother people less than both lagging.
Horribly meandering letter. I guess it makes a case, but I'm unpersuaded. Not something I would sign my name to.
The warnings around using a second monitor and centering yourself are very real. Even if your interviewer is trying to not be biased by video quality or your video background, there is a subconscious bias to avoid.

Failing to make eye contact will make you seem less trustworthy and less engaged in the conversation. Being low in your frame is the Zoom equivalent of being slumped in your chair, and makes you look like child-like.
Are you suggesting that I should feel bad for the person who threw a baby away in the trash? The circumstances surrounding an act that heinous is that the person was an absolute monster. There are so many other options than literally throwing away a baby. Jesus Christ.
Coming from writing OOP-style code in Python and C++, I initially disliked R quite a lot. My code is becoming more functional-style by the year and I'm now finding myself enjoying R more and more.

There are issues with R: lots of weird quirks; many different ways of doing things, often just supported for legacy reasons; poor error messages; to name just a few. But on the positive side, it really encourages functional-style programming through the use of apply functions and many of the new tidyverse packages. The resulting code can be very neat and less error-prone than equivalent python code.

The S3 system of OOP initially struck me as very weird, but now I see it as essentially just single dispatch, not really much of OOP at all. It works quite well and is extremely simple.

I guess my thoughts are: approach R as a functional language, and I think you'll find much to like. Try to write C++ or python-style OOP in it, and you'll just find it very strange.
I really admire "Julia" for not being that, for basically saying "yes, this is a programming language by and for people focused on other things because just because you aren't in the bike industry means you are best off commuting on a 1960s Huffy". At the same time, I wish a few more people had bothered to "be the bridge", because I think it's worse than I could be for not being super up to date the PL literature.

So love the idea, but regret the execution.
This is also a problem since some businesses have very high nominal revenues and very low margins.
the nazis constantly obstruct the future they're imagining with their own bullshit, this shits hilarious
Bangladesh has to worry about rain-fed flooding on top of coastal flooding
"OK, understood, these perpetual motion machines don't work. So once and for all let's do away with the motion. Luckily we have a new project which doesn't involve motion: we just have to ship a device which produces more electrical energy than one has to put in. Is 4 weeks enough? "
Your friend sounds like he has PTSD from some sort of mistreatment.
> nobody wanted to move there (other than execs) because it was open-office plan whereas most full time employees in other campuses in Cupertino all had individual offices.

Yuck. I have a cube at my office and even though it has an open "door" space, it has high walls and just that little bit of privacy is so nice.
Admittedly the drone crashing is more than a sighting, but it still stands that that is less than what a real predator would do. I just cant imagine these birds surviving while they abandon all that en mass every time a falcon attacks them. Seems like there has to be more to this story
Effectively they're paid by the customers though. Investors will want to get their return on the money they invested regardless what happens. If they can't get their return they will simply invest in something else and the business never gets off the ground.
Will it, though? I'd have thought advancing technology would advance both sides (creating odd new flying objects, and identifying the same)? These days everyone's carrying a high rez high frame rate camera in their pocket, back in the 50s we relied on eyewitness accounts.

Edit: Whoops, sorry for the necro. I have to watch out better for old tabs...
>> So... 4 solutions which each amount to "have gobs of money to drop on maybe fixing an issue"?

I don't understand this attitude. If you're "working from the office," you need to make sure you can get to work. Which means moving within walking distance, moving where you can use public transit, or having a car. You can say all of those translate to "have gobs of money" but at the end of the day you need to make sure you're available to do work if you get the job.

In work from home scenario, your connectivity is a basic requirement for your "getting to the office." You are literally unable to do many jobs without it, so yes you need to get it fixed same as you'd have to figure out how to get to the office.

>> I'd hate to see your advice on dress codes.

My advice on dress code is to dress appropriately for the interview and not have your outfit be a distraction to the interview. Which is the same as my advice for having your wifi work.
Two companies with $100M in revenue, one with 2% margin and one with 50% margin.

You’d fine then the same amount?
> I would think a treaty requires all parties to it to think it's a treaty.

Well, even the US agrees that "international agreements" are "treaties" in the international law sense, despite not being "treaties" in the US domestic law sense.

> Any idea where I can read a bit more about the fundamentals

A lot of what I know about this topic I learned from reading the Third Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States – https://www.ali.org/publications/show/foreign-relations-law-...

Unfortunately it isn't easy to get your hands on. You can buy a hardcopy for US$173 plus shipping. Or you can do what I did, and read it for free in a university library. (It is also included in Westlaw subscriptions, but unless you already have access to one, buying the hardcopy would probably be cheaper.)

The international law on this topic is mostly contained in the Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties of 1969 – https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventio...

> That term has a different, and as I understand, more nebulous meaning under international law?

The most common way to make an international agreement not legally binding is to put a clause in there explicitly stating that it isn't legally binding. When the agreement explicitly states it isn't legally binding, then it clearcut isn't.

If an agreement is in the usual written form of a finalised formal agreement, it is generally going to be assumed to be legally binding unless it explicitly states it isn't.

Generally speaking, to be binding under international law, the parties have to have "international legal personality". That basically means the parties must be the national governments of sovereign states, or international organizations established by treaty. An agreement involving private corporations, private individuals, subnational governments, non-governmental organisations, etc, generally isn't going to be legally binding under international law, even if it also includes national governments among its parties. Occasionally, dependent territories are granted power by the national government to sign legally binding international treaties on certain topics (such as Hong Kong and Macau), but that is an exception to the general rule.

There are grey areas which lawyers and scholars will debate, but it rarely turns into a live issue in practice.
It always was. “Collaboration” was a weak excuse given by managers who want a panopticon and companies that need to densely pack floor space to save money.
I think the same thing whenever I pair with my colleagues
Show HN: Team Video Conferencing App for Scrums
Does making governments less stable really not make economies less stable?
All sorts of weird stuff happens. I worked for a place that used awful body shop contracts and people would play all sorts of games to sell fake candidates.

Usually the company would underbid to get some placements, and have a small, smart team back in India or Russia do the actual work remotely. The guy on site would be a fake person who would say yes to anything and ship work to the guys in the backroom.

The interviews were… interesting. People with disguises, dark rooms with grainy video feeds, etc.
The open office has a chilling effect on collaboration. People go to meeting rooms to collaborate, and that's the biggest sign that the open office isn't working out.