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> Yeah I don't think Blizzard is going to be able to bring in scabs to replace software devs

The game industry is overflowing with college educated, computer science degree wielding, software developers eager to work on a big game project. Few will ever touch Engine code - the rest are easily replaceable.

This is part of the reason companies like this are able to get away with things that other industries aren't able to. Everyone wants to work on the next AAA title - few want to toil away making ads more clickable...

So yes, they'll replace the walk-outs with "scabs" in short time, and move on.

Not to mention - this is a tiny percentage of Blizzard employees - and seems to have morphed into a beef with the binding arbitration agreement - not better employment treatment. "As of Tuesday, signatures surpassed 2,600 current and former employees" - and later on the article states "A group of roughly 300 employees across Activision Blizzard". That's out of 9,500 employees at Activision - you can find 3% of any workplace that's outraged by anything. My guess... wait it out a couple months and everyone forgets this ever happened.
@tptacek -- you're so awesome. I keep meaning to reply on some of these security threads but then I see you've made the relevant points of sanity in a well reasoned manner.

For what it's worth, when I was setting up the culture and values of Google's first bug bounty programs, I hammered "be magnanimous" into the reward committees. i.e. look for reasons to reward more, not less. Find the value in the information provided, even if the person is being a jerk. etc. I don't think this culture has changed. There are teams of people rooting for incoming reports to succeed, and they get excitement and joy from issuing large bounties (because this means Google security is getting stronger).
> But there's room for thoughtful implementation of these features that users want.

Yes, there is. And that's exactly the position of both Firefox and Safari: don't rush in and implement stuff just because you can.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of porn that is created without using real actors, like drawing or writing, which reframes the commodity as something the author did because they like drawing or writing, not because they sacrificed their physical body and entered an actual industry. Many of these works have themes of sex positivity and belonging, and so my mind creates an exception for them, because I make the excuse that "it's not pornography at the lowest level, it's art with the occasional pornographic content."

Maybe those artists sacrificed something too, but I don't see how it's any different from any average author sacrificing his life to write an all-ages novel.

The worst thing about porn addiction is that there are no physical dealers or substances involved. As long as your body is intact, all you need to become addicted is a screen and enough privacy, two things that are almost always available right before you go to sleep. And even without a screen, you can still use your imagination. Getting past that means finding other things in life to do that are more satisfying.
I misread and thought the author meant that folks working from home would do so because they could not bathe. I found the thesis... interesting?

One notable fructivore tried it.
Walmart will cover 100% of college tuition for its workers
Talk about impactful work. I wonder how many lives you've changed.

Well done. This is something close to miracle tech, at least for the people wearing it.

I can't help but feel curious whether they're a viable alternative to wheelchairs, or if it's a temporary feeling (kind of like riding on a rollercoaster, in that you go and do it for the experience and then return to your normal life). But that's just my ignorance talking.

Also, fuck the US insurance system. You won't find many topics that make me talk that way, but as I get older it feels something closer to pure evil. I've met so many people who have been screwed over by that system (and personally experienced my share of it).

There's a woman I've been texting with who I met at a gas station. She was clearly in distress, so my wife and I offered her a ride home. To cut a long story short, she spent her fourth of july miserable, and when I raised the idea of getting prozac or some sort of antidepressant (my own "miracle tech"), she said "Oh, I used to be on that. I can't afford it because no insurance" and I practically flipped my phone onto the concrete. She could be living a normal and happy life.

I can't imagine how much worse it is for parents who otherwise need to spend $thousands for alternative solutions like this. If you can make it in any way affordable, it'll change countless lives, I'm certain.
All of this. It’s such a good operational experience that I will actively fight against the introduction of a dedicated search tool unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Blizzard is done for. Everyone important left. There's no one to work on StarCraft 3 / WarCraft 4 and their reputation is deservably not what what it used to be only a few years ago. Like almost until the "you all have phones, right" moment.

Activision ruined the company. Sure, the market changed but Blizzard was doing much better under Vivendi.
> sophisticated linguistic and feature scoring pipelines to optimize your search quality

You CAN score results using setweight, although it's likely not as sophisticated as Elasticsearch's

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/textsearch-controls.html

Disclaimer: I use Postgres fulltext search in production, very happy with it although maintaining the various triggers and stored procs it requires to work becomes cumbersome whenever you have to write a migration that alters any of them (or that in fact touches any related field, as you may be required to drop and recreate all of the parts in order not to violate referential integrity)

It is certainly nice having not to worry about 1 additional dependency when deploying, though
Exactly. Weekly ballet practice is very repetitive. Sure it might be nice to watch the first couple times but soon it’s not very interesting. Are you actually going to remember every single one?

It’s much better to have a variety of experiences with kids than to amass sheer quantity of hours. I look back on my childhood and I remember the special things my parents did with me, I don’t count up how many hours they watched my random activities.
Jack Dorsey is a pinko commie faggot.

Go back to China Jack - we're stripping you of your citizenship.

Fucking fascist fuck!
Yeah, it's almost like people keep silent because of the power imbalance that leads to the abuse and blaming the weak because they aren't able to stand up to the strong is the wrong thing to do.
That's dementia
Also work in the industry (but in the US as an employee, not a subcontractor), totally opposite opinion. Outsourced labor is similar to Associate-level responsibilities. The reasons assholes don't get fired in the games industry is because experience and skill is so difficult to find.
Having worked with overseas contractors on a number of projects, I can say my personal experience is that the work product varies wildly in quality, shop to shop. I wouldn't say it's "relatively decent quality" in any universal or guaranteed sense.

Not that American developers are necessarily more skilled, just that the lack of a culture and sometimes language barrier is pretty evident in the resulting work product, in my experience.
have you already tried the instructions here? https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=tweaks#display-r...
But I think most people and tools consider "containers" to be volatile storage, like RAM. Non-volatile storage would be volumes.

Honestly I think there is a lot to be said for making the writable layer of a container read-only. It makes sure that things like logging, if you care about them, go somewhere safe, or if you don't, get turned off explicitly. And also prevents gotchas like "oops wrote important data to /var/lib/notavolume when I meant to write to /var/lib/therightvolume" that show up at the worst times.
> I'd rather it be called UB and work as intended anyways.

Personally I disagree. If you want to write freely aliasing code, I think it's better to use &UnsafeCell or &Cell or &RefCell, perhaps with an Arc (or my AliasPtr crate) instead of trying to convince rustc that &mut isn't exclusive.
A 50 man raid group forming outside Blizzard to take on the final boss, blizzard management.

No king rules forever, my son.
"As someone who have very little faith that black countries and people ... " oh, that's horribly racist, but it's OK to say that about Arabs?
In IRL chat you have physical modifiers to indicate threading though (volume, posture, gaze).

Seems like threading but with a UI option to collapse to a flat presentation suits both sides?
We shouldn’t make parents feel guilty about stuff like this. Are we pretending that they are somehow mistreating their children because they didn’t watch their lesson? If they are happy with their choices why judge them.
To my mind, the hardest part of scabbing a game studio is picking up where dev teams left off.

Game engines and pipelines are savage beasts, and often heavily customized and under-documented (everybody using them "just knows how they work;" internal cultural knowledge and on-the-job training are the standard operating procedure). You'll need a particular type of developer or artist to come up to speed quickly on the pipelines and toolchains studios in-house develop, even given the relative standardization of the Activision space.
To my knowledge, Supreme Commanders Forged Alliance Forever (FAF) community has been updating the game and has a fairly active community. It seems to be in a fairly good state, wish I was in the position in life to be able to relax and dump some hours into playing it. Was always a fun game.
>My experience of people in China-- admittedly a long time ago-- was they are generally very patriotic or nationalistic, like Americans. They appreciate the CCP and what it has accomplished. They have a strong domestic arts industry making movies, books, games. Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn't that they want a western liberal democracy.

Having been on the inside, it's not that they don't want a different system, it's that they see the real or perceived problems of our system as highlighted by their domestic media and generally from their point of view. This makes them substantially less enthusiastic than we think they would be.

The only way to convince them is to show them that liberal democracy does indeed yield better results, with people feeling more secure and leading happier lives. In order to do that we need to ensure that our democratic processes lead to solidarity and not division. That's why the last 4 years have been so damaging to our system, the fabric of the system has been damaged by extreme partisanship, without considering that standing together with our neighbours is in many cases more important than being 'right'.
> So how can I as a pedastrian be responsible for the situational awareness of the SUV driver?

The same way you're responsible for anything you do around other people. Pay attention to who and what is around you, how exposed to danger you are currently. I don't walk around parking lots or other busy areas assuming drivers can always see me, do you?

> I don't know where you live...

It's fine if folks want to regulate their cities like this, by all means. Make vehicles over some size/tonnage illegal in the city limits, do whatever in the city. But why choose a pathway that effects people who live far from them? I struggle to follow the logic.
Trump is president, Fauci supports him
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/01/metro/dr-fauci-says-h...

Biden is president, completely different story:
https://www.vox.com/2021/1/21/22243155/fauci-trump-shade-cor...

We have here a man that willing participated in a piss poor pandemic response, despite on multiple occasions offering a half hearted contrarian view but still ultimately supporting the president publicly. As soon as Trump is out, turns tail.

He is a coward, as soon as his job was safe his story changed. Could have, should have done more and didn’t. Ultimately we have an octogenarian who wanted to protect his job more than the American public. I have no respect for someone like that. It’s shameful.
Streaming data ingestion is the biggest. If you’re constantly writing data to be searched, this is where ES really outshines everything.
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JD Vance is 100% on point.

The "liberals", you can't even call them liberals anymore - more like CCP enemy combatants, in tech, are out of control.
Company of Heroes was an outstanding release, and its sequel is a good game with a still living, active community.

Company of Heroes 3 was recently announced, and its launch will probably get a lot of old players back into the multiplayer lobbies.
Title is critically incorrect.

It should be:

> The ROI analysis shows negative ROIs at the margin for more than 80% of brands, implying over-investment in advertising by most firms.
You're missing the point. Between increasing belt-lines, fatter pillars, thicker doors and smooth/aerodynamic and rounded shapes modern cars have less space than older ones of equivalent exterior dimensions. Because people want a baseline amount of interior space in any given class of vehicle the vehicles have grown. Look at the new iterations of compact cars and compact trucks (and their counterpart SUVs) for a good example. They have nearly identical interior dimensions and have grown a couple inches in every direction and a couple hundred pounds. Just because you feel your car is a good deal for what it is does not mean it is not also subject to the same regulatory treatment. An '03 Ford Escort wagon is 10" longer and the same width and weight as your car and blows it out of the water in terms of usable interior space (I could only find a spec for the 2dr coupe but it has 92.x cubic feet vs 97.x for your Fiesta hatch). It's slower and gets worse fuel economy and doesn't have bluetooth but that's just a reflection of the state of tech at the time.

Pretty much every product line has received this treatment over the last 20yr. Your car would exist without modern safety/fuel economy regulation. It would just look like a 2003 Ford Escort that puts down performance numbers that are more befitting the year 2021.
Sickening comments so far.
>It's still common for men to talk down to women on video games, to the point where the overwhelming majority of women do not use voice comms or make their gender known.

Gamers talk down to everyone on video games and have since they have been invented. This sounds like a new group of people entering an existing space and not understanding the dynamic (namely incessant shittalking). I can't even count how many strangers have not so kindly informed me of their sexual adventures with my parents. Am I missing something here?
It's amazing what different people take from articles. That someone would read through this page and instead of appreciating the effort and craft their response would be an absolute textbook example of tedious internet pedantry.
> I disagree; they appear to need general spacial and physics AI, but they don’t need general linguistic or emotional intelligence.

I don't think it will require general AI, but it will require a pretty good model of what is in the mind of each person in the road, specially pedestrians and cyclists. Simulating other minds in general requires general AI, but maybe we can get away with a facsimile.

I say that because self driving needs to adapt to unpredictable stuff happening in the road and this might require a higher understanding of the intentions of other people.

For example, when I'm riding bicycles, I have a rule that if a car stops for me to cross I need to establish visual contact with the driver first. It's too dangerous otherwise. Can AI establish visual contact with me or have some other signaling to pedestrians and cyclists? (now I see this specific example is simple; I want a light on top of self driving cars that will reliably signal some stuff like "I stopped for you to cross")

Another situation is when the road is partially used by business and people, partially used by cars. Some roads are pedestrian-first and it may be hard for even an human driver unfamiliar with its dynamics to traverse.

People keep saying that everything about driving can be done with "dumb" AI using essentially iterative current methods. I used to think that way, but it isn't working out today. Right now, AI is severely overpromising and overstretching itself. Maybe this will lead to an AI winter and we will only get self-driving cars with new methods. Or maybe, after some years, we will get good enough self-driving cars.
What would, "Blizzard is done" look like? Are you suggesting that the IP (Overwatch, Warcraft, Starcraft) would be shut down, all employees laid off or incorporated into Activisions other departments?

I could not imagine any business abandoning billions of dollars of IP like that.
I'm not going to preorder, but I'm looking forward to it - what they've shown is good, and I think they recognise W3R was a mistake.
> Think about all those men complaining that a video game _dared_ have a female character or even more so, a non-conventionally attractive one gasp. That was in 2018... That's the _average_ person who is making a video game.

What game are you referring to?
_O_ my god, _who_ cares?
I couldn't agree more...but many people chose to remain completely silent when abuse happens. The culture surrounding this has changed a lot in the last 20 years yet we keep having these types of events that people pile on only after one person comes forward. Then all of a sudden it's a pattern of abuse and a way bigger issue to fix.
> Where you can't measure response rate directly.

You can never measure response rate directly. There will always be people who see your ad and then respond later (possibly by some other ad on a different platform that they wouldn't have responded to in the first place otherwise). This might or might not matter to you.

The large companies who buy ads have statistical departments tracking their ad response. They know how well the ads work to close enough for their purposes. Those departments don't need the direct response rate because there are better measures.
How have I never tried this. Nice project.
They're desperately trying to push the apps as those allow for much better user tracking.

I actually like how limited the mobile website is, if I need to solely get some information I can generally get it from Reddit. But I absolutely am discouraged from posting. To my shame I wasted much of my twenties on a Reddit ,angry arguing with people. The moment I deleted it I found myself much happier.
I've been a part of teams that were hired to "finish" certain major products, and I definitely agree with your perspective.

We usually ended up ripping out much of the original development code because it was too brittle/broken/undocumented to bother continuing forward with. Rewriting from scratch was often faster and had more predictable results.
US customs never had concentration camps holding children, they did have places for holding illegal immigrants though.
I'll rephrase my previous comment: because being a notary is a protected profession in most country, it's hard (probably impossible) for a kid to become a successful notary.

Sometimes "hard" means "other people make it hard". It doesn't mean that it's hard in the sense that you have to discover new things or go to other worlds or be able to read binary code fluently while it's scrolling down the screen, Matrix-style :-)
That's exaggeration of course. Many but not THAT many.

Story from my step-grandfather:

He was a village school director and teacher in Ukraine at times of 1932/33 famine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93...).
With students from senior classes he developed piece of farm land just to feed junior classes - make real breakfast at list for them.

Each day he walked to school with knapsack - prepared for detention, as all agricultural surplus should go to collectors. All that was real, indeed.

...

At WWII, he served as an artillery lieutenant, literally walked by foot from Voronezh/Russia to Berlin/Germany.
They were crying "for the Motherland, for the Stalin" all way along. And that one was also real.

Later he was a father of an academic and two doctors of science in USSR.

History is really not that black and white.
I think that maybe highlights another difficulty here: there isn't really a one-size-fits-all solution. Some people will need full support, and others will need more of an assist. Not sure both of those things can (or should) be served by the same device. But as soon as you have to build different things for different cases, that drives the cost up, both in R&D and in manufacturing (it's cheaper to build 1000 of one thing than 500 each of two things).
I find shaving pleasurable. Something about the ritual and the smoothness and clean feeling sensation of my face afterwards.

That said, I often grow a beard during ski season. Because I just enjoy the mountain man look to go with my telemark skiing, winter clothes, accompanying border collie covered in snow, and beer belly.
50% is tiny.
I'd estimate most YouTube product ads only sell to <1% of the population.
Thanks Phil, this is awesome. I'm sure I can leverage AWS API/cli. Also could be a great fit to use Github Actions along with Abbot
> So, from their perspective, a wheelchair and some pain meds can do the job easily.

And not even a good wheelchair. For my wife recently diagnosed with MS, they would only approve of a basic, featureless, uncomfortable one after I would pay the $3000 deductible plus 20% coinsurance. Instead, I got a light-weight folding electric wheelchair with nearly full-day worth of battery (15 miles), with a spare battery, adjustable headrest for $1300 off Amazon. Add an octopus-tripod fan with 10hr battery, golf-cart umbrella, bendable cane holder, bottle holder, and an A/C fan jacket for a total of $200 and now she is able to spend a few hours out with our kids at museums, aquariums, and zoos.

It was literally cheaper for me to buy all of this cash than try to spend 40+ hours getting insurance approval.

I absolutely love how practical and solid your product is. I cannot comment on the pricing because I have no idea what your costs/market is but if my kid needed $999/mo to walk, I would do literally anything to be able to afford it. Hopefully the costs keep coming down for those with a smaller budget. Good luck!
All we can do now is hope the Taiwanese don't ratify their constitution to get rid of their claims to mainland China. If they can manage to stay the course, the US will remain unentangled with Taiwan's fate.
The problem with advertising is that I waste 80% of the budget. The real problem is that you can’t determine which 80%.
Link didn't work for me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210727183853/https://www.axios...
That seems plausible - being able to wear a gas mask with a tight seal was a matter of life and death in WW1. When a habit like that can save your life, I don't imagine you'd be quick to give it up after returning home.
> The tech industry is strongly biased in the favor of white men

That's debatable. CS was overwhelmingly male and wasn't prestigious until recently.

> video games even more so

I wonder how much of that we can attribute to DOOM. The DOOM devs wanted to make an hyper-violent game centered around Demon and heavy metal, and that reflected in the culture at id (not the violence). And they made a bunch of money which spurred copy-cats and got investors thinking game devs had to look like this to be profitable.

> Think about all those men complaining that a video game _dared_ have a female character or even more so, a non-conventionally attractive one gasp.

Links?