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Yeah I don't think Blizzard is going to be able to bring in scabs to replace software devs. This comment reveals how poorly the industry is understood by outsiders, or at least this one journo.
Given they show up in the channel list as "sub-channels", discoverability and moderation should be straight forward and this blog post devotes an entire section to Moderation tools, so I'm cautiously optimistic on that part at least. (Especially in comparisons to Slack's Thread moderation which was rough in what little I tried to do of it.)
I don’t disagree, however most people really didn’t have much stuff in preindustrial societies and it generally lasted a very long time. Having say a separate bed for your children was a sign of relative wealth. American plantation owners are the equivalent of local nobility not farmers.

Similarly, food preparation generally involved minimal ingredients and as little effort as possible. Women where often working in fields or tending animals even with very young children, not spending 4+ hours a day in a kitchen.
Does anyone have any more specific information aside from "widespread sexism"? It would be good to know exactly what is prompting this walkout, and exactly what changes they're hoping to achieve with it.
You could make porn a special occasion to look forward to by only consuming porn content in person, in real life, outside the home, at peep shows and striptease clubs.
Things like Hipersockets and Java Zaap processors can help collapse layers.
It’s partially a prisoner’s dilemma. Advertising reduces search costs for buyers to a certain point, after which it raises them again due to a glut of similar messaging. There is a moderate point at which buyers are hearing about enough potential options and are able to conduct a more effective search for products/vendors/sellers, and the cost is reasonable for the sellers (it reduces their sales costs, gets their economy of scale beyond the threshold needed to viable produce and serve customers.)

Beyond that moderate point is where the dilemma sets in as each company wants to increase advertising until the additional return is no longer positive—-but if every company pushes to the same point, the additional return at that stopping point becomes negative.
Nope, feel like the last major release the masses played was Starcraft 2, and that's over 10 years old now.
Interesting, I can't use Lens. Installed it, but it just says "Thank you for updating. Lens will be available soon"
Well that's interesting. What crop and acreage are you working with? I was a part owner of 100 acres of pistachios for 20 years and margins were very thin. Labor, electricity, and periodic capital inputs were the major costs. Labor and management was year round with no off season.

I in no way want to invalidate your experience, but don't understand excluding the capital input costs and claiming it is lucrative. How many years did it take to break even on your capital investment?
Yes, but "soon" in experimental particle physics means something like: probably within the next 20 years.
Very cool! It seems to me that the "disk as a contiguous array of blocks"-paradigm is simply unsuited to SSDs, and ssds have to do a lot of work to support that fiction for the OS and databases in particular. If that's a reasonable assessment, then the next question is: what is a better model/paradigm for cell storage that minimizes bookkeeping overhead?
Yes, successful crawlers might walk later, kids that learn to bum-shuffle (propel forwards whilst sitting on their bottoms) might not crawl much.

Our eldest wasn't interested in crawling really and went almost straight to walking but not until about 14 months IIRC (it was > 10 years back).

We did baby sign (a sort of simplified BSL; would recommend) and some people suggested it would retard speech - same child modified a sign before 12 months and so could tell us he needed a poo/wee and we'd sit him on the potty to do it all before he was able to talk - saved me changing a lot of stinky nappies! Longitudinally, our kids used baby sign and did/are doing well at school and have all been ahead with language skills (but that's not accounting for confounding variables).

It's curious to see infant developmental stages becoming more and more to be compared to AI/robot development.
This is just depression. But, working on an office with long commutes can also lead to depression.

We need better access to mental health care, but not (just) because of home office.
I have wondered if this is materially different from previous generations children sitting glassy-eyed in front of the TV? I certainly spent at least a couple of hours a day doing that as a kid, with the added minus of having little control over what was on, or any way to block advertising... I suppose it did expose me to a lot of things I wouldn't have voluntarily sought out, though.
After having a kid, I learned many surprising things about parenthood and about myself.

One is the absolute joy of watching my little one do... pretty much anything. It's an infinitely more powerful drug than anything social media or entertainment companies have managed to invent so far.

Two is how much less judgemental I feel towards other parents, especially how reluctant I am to draw conclusions over small interactions where I don't know anyone's circumstances.

Needless to say, this article brought up very conflicting feelings for me!
> adding Threading to Element (yes, it's finally happening!)

Arathorn: Please make it similar to how Zulip works, and not how Slack or Discord have implemented it.
Podman and Kubernetes are like a match made in heaven. Docker was a good first try for most people, but there is so much better technology that exists now.
‘The West’ industrialised with slave plantations and child labour.
Your logic doesn't add up.
That's a factor to some extent, but not as much as the CAFE regs. Many foreign manufacturers simply produce trucks in the U.S. or Mexico. Toyota for example makes their pickups in Texas and Mexico and so isn't subject to the chicken tax.

The big 3 and Toyota all used to make compact pickup trucks. Ford has the new compact Maverick coming out next year, but even that is still 6 inches wider, 4 inches taller, and 23 inches longer than the Ranger of 30 years ago. If you look at today's Ranger, it's 11 inches wider, 7 inches taller, and 35 inches longer than the Ranger of 1991.
What I think is missing here is the ROI on each Joule. Coal accessible from the surface is effectively free, as are oil seeps. It's certainly possible to bootstrap absent fossil fuels, it takes a lot more work to generate them, thus generating less net civilizational surplus. Since the natural tendency is to use surplus is to improve quality of life, it requires a tremendous amount of concentrated surplus to be able to invest in something very expensive with a very long timeline for return on investment like space settlement.

In other words, absent tons of "free" resources like fossil fuels, it will require a larger percentage of available civilizational surplus to be dedicated to space than it would today. That implies either strong wealth inequality (more than today), authoritarian central government with high taxes, or a unified population interested in long term investments. The first two seem more likely than the latter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27922841
If this is true, wouldn't it show up in the study as a positive ROI?
These are actually all very good points - thank you for sharing.
Oct 15, nationwide strike.
Zulip's search is powered by this built-in Postgres full-text search feature, and it's been a fantastic experience. There's a few things I love about it:

* One can cheaply compose full-text search with other search operators by just doing normal joins on database indexes, which means we can cheaply and performantly support tons of useful operators (https://zulip.com/help/search-for-messages).

* We don't have to build a pipeline to synchronize data between the real database and the search database. Being a chat product, a lot of the things users search for are things that changed recently; so lag, races, and inconsistencies are important to avoid. With the Postgres full-text search, all one needs to do is commit database transactions as usual, and we know that all future searches will return correct results.

* We don't have to operate, manage, and scale a separate service just to support search. And neither do the thousands of self-hosted Zulip installations.

Responding to the "Scaling bottleneck" concerns in comments below, one can send search traffic (which is fundamentally read-only) to a replica, with much less complexity than a dedicated search service.

Doing fancy scoring pipelines is a good reason to use a specialized search service over the Postgres feature.

I should also mention that a weakness of Postgres full-text search is that it only supports doing stemming for one language. The excellent PGroonga extension (https://pgroonga.github.io/) supports search in all languages; it's a huge improvement especially for character-based languages like Japanese. We're planning to migrate Zulip to using it by default; right now it's available as an option.

More details are available here: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/full-text-...
I think it has it, it's just called something else.
This book was my introduction to OCaml, and I followed it concurrently with the Nand2Tetris course. Project 6 of Nand2Tetris [1] has you write an assembler for their hack computer, and OCaml seemed like a perfect fit. Chapter 10 of this book introduces you to parsing and lexing, and it was really fun following along while writing the hack assembler.

Here's an implementation for those interested: https://github.com/senhorsolar/hack-assembler

[1] https://www.nand2tetris.org/project06
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Also where "modern" "smart" platforms decide it's acceptable to chop up a video into a dozen slices and insert the same. exact. ad. in between each segment, causing half the viewers to swear off that brand for life?
Hydrogen supercars and race cars exist. It's matter of having a high enough discharge rate battery or a supercapacitor. It's a completely pointless argument to bring up.

Hydrogen buses are already cheaper to operate than battery buses and are more reliable: https://cafcp.org/sites/default/files/07-24-2020-Foothill-ZE...

Real world testing has already proven you wrong.
> The suit was followed by an outpouring of current and former employees saying they’d been harassed or mistreated at the company.

I never understand why in the world we currently live in there are so many people willing to be silent for so long. Weinstein did his crap for years, the US gymnastics assaults went on for years.

This probably isn't a popular opinion...but when victims choose to remain silent they are complacent in allowing other people to be victimized in the future. A sexist culture is one thing, but straight up sexual assault is a completely different issue.
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Some extracts from the lawsuit: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-...
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Yeah, just Google Blizzard Activision court case files/summary

Pretty fucked situation
but you're not.. they can be in that position and some of them are in that position at rest
San Francisco might spend $20k per trash can to block garbage scavengers
I downvoted because "cybersec researchers" do not in fact routinely make 7 figures. For strong pentester types reporting the typical (real) vulnerability the VRP handles, the median is probably in the low 6's.
> is the DFEH out of line, or is the industry just that broken?

No chance DEFH is out of line.

The tech industry is strongly biased in the favor of white men in my opinion and video games even more so, considering women playing video games only became socially acceptable a few years ago. 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.

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.
I don't actually believe technology can save us, don't find the techno-utopias concocted by sci-fi authors to actually be utopias, and don't accept the thesis that we have progressed because we're better at satisfying bodily appetites to be compelling.
The sins of the U.S. are many, but I don't think anyone can credibly say, in the modern era, that the treatment of minorities in the U.S. is in any way, shape, or form comparable to what's happening in China right now. Say what you will about the U.S., no one's getting put in camps.
> The key issue is that people don't want to pay $2/month to twenty different writers. They want to pay $20/month to a single organization which has a hundred writers, also known as a "newspaper".

My experience is the opposite. I get the Boston Globe delivered every Sunday. It's fine. I flip through it. Occasionally there's a story I care a lot about. Some weeks there's nothing. I read it mostly because I feel loosely obligated to try to keep up with current events.

On the other hand, I subscribe to Matthew Yglesias's Substack and the hit rate is like 85%. Nearly every article perfectly aligns with one or more of my interests. His policy focus almost exactly overlaps my policy interests. It's kind of uncanny.

If I had to cancel one or the other it's really not even close.
Would Fox News not at least cover it? Or newsmax, or OANN?
A couple of hours a day isn't great, but it's probably fine. That leaves you plenty of time for other things. Some kids these days spend far far longer than that in front of screens.
> like all men, I do have as much sex as I possibly can

Uhm... uhhh... How can I put this... I'm not sure your universal characterisation is universal in reality. Far from all men are sex fiends and horndogs, only the vocally dissatisfied ones seem to be.
Yeah what I'm saying is that doesn't really happen in the real world, unless you go invite controversy by discussing controversial topics, especially if you aren't an expert on those topics. And even then it's honestly pretty rare and there's even whole industries dedicated to supporting people who are purposefully provocative.

I'll be blunt: I think it's very unlikely that your opinions on <insert current controversial topic> are going to revolutionize the status of the debate on that topic. The world has nothing to gain by you writing about that topic, and as you say, there's a chance you have something to lose. So just don't write about that. My advice if you want to maintain a blog is to write about something you care about and know about.

You can view my personal blog if you like, it's in my profile. I write about woodworking and video games and gardening. No one has tried to destroy my life for my experiences with growing grapevines. Sure, if I went off on a rant about <insert controversial topic> or wrote a bunch of hyper-negative invective about <insert group of people>, yeah that might come back to bite me. So I don't.

No one's going to come after you for a personal blog about playing guitar or whatever. Stay positive. Stay constructive. Stick to what you know. Don't invite controversy. You'll be fine, and maybe you'll even create something that touches someone else in a positive way.
Maybe there's some underground scene for hardcore RTS players, but as a (formerly) casual follower of the Starcraft 2 pro scene, it seems like MOBAs ate their lunch.

It's really a shame, since there was nothing quite like the intensity of a 1v1 match between two players controlling an army with a nearly unlimited skill cap...

As much as I've tried, I simply cannot make any sense of the on-screen visual overload of MOBAs like DOTA or League of Legends. Why is it so much harder to find myself engaged by MOBA battles than RTS (mostly Starcraft) battles? I don't really know.
Sure feels like the genre is mostly dead. Kind of sad
Are you sure this is the right link? I looked at this notice, and compared to the previous version from December 2020 (https://www.terviseamet.ee/sites/default/files/MSO/2020_ohut...) and they appear broadly similar... there's perhaps a bit more upfront on the need to deal with weakly positive results, but they both tell you to read your device IFU and adjust your thresholds accordingly.
Forgot to mention: at my job, Slack threads have been super useful. Three or four people can discuss one topic in an open channel (so others can join in and we can search history) without spamming notifications against everyone else.

E.g. someone could put a message in #engineering about a bug. All the engineers get that notification so anyone who knows more details can chip in immediately. They then reply in a thread on the original bug message so they can discuss without everyone else getting bothered with irrelevant notifs AND without locking the conversation into a group DM where nobody else can chime in nor can we all easily search for it later if it’s relevant.
AB actually bought them, so they're now AB employees.
Interesting. I've been thinking that based on how high up the chain of command the allegations suggest Activision's cultural problems are, it seemed a lot like the only way for Activision to "right the ship" would be to replace senior leadership (including possibly up to the CEO level).

I found that outcome unlikely, but if the employees put pressure on ownership in this way, it may perhaps create enough incentive for the ownership to oust the top-level leadership. Not sure.
I don't have a Mac, so I can't test it, but isn't Seaglass [0] a native Mac client?

[0] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/seaglass
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The admin tools available at launch seem quite robust:
- Enabling/disabling threads on a per-channel basis
- Enabling the creation of threads only for specified users/roles
- Administrative locking/unlocking of threads
- Automatic archiving

So one could setup a server with a mixture of threaded conversation and more IRC-like chat.
I don't think they'll introduce "scabs" simply because it would be a marketing _disaster_.

However, I work in the industry, and I think you'd be shocked by how replaceable American developers are. Huge amounts of artistic labour _is_ done cheaply, and in relatively decent quality, oversees in countries like South Korea, China, Japan, and to a lesser extent, Thailand.

Here in Canada, we have a thriving industry that includes both primary developers and developers who focus on outsourced work. Most of my career has been involved with shops that were sub-contracted labour from American studios.
From what I've heard of the working environment, it's borderline impossible to be employed there without at least _seeing_ what was going on to your colleagues. I mean, I remember reading about sexual harassment there in 2018, at which point it had _already_ been going on for a while.

Agree that this seems a tad late.
Interesting, I suppose another factor to consider is the quality of life afforded by that level of labor and output.
Did we learn nothing from Warcraft 3 Remastered? Don't preorder, don't look forward to it. They have to prove it's good, we can't trust anymore.

Plus, you know, I'm not buying it because Blizzard is straight up ghoulish.
> Weinstein did his crap for years, the US gymnastics assaults went on for years.

Both gatekeepers for Hollywood and the Olympics.
https://www.polygon.com/22595703/activision-blizzard-employe... quotes demands verbatim
How exactly does their logic not add up? This is actually a specific example of a prisoners dilemma taught in some intro to game theory classes, with the classic example being the tobacco companies
Discord iOS devs. Please fix streaming audio issue! That will make mobile streaming a thing
You don't have to be a victim to do something about it.

When any of us remain silent when we witness or hear about abuse we are allowing other people to be victimized now and in the future.
Not the poster but in brief using wine for your workflow implies that between version n and n+1 something may stop working potentially with a workaround or potentially forever. It's also styled funny compared to native apps.
Man, I wish Discord would let you set it to not @mention by default.
It's marginal ROI which is negative for 80%. Overall ROI for advertising is negative ROI for 2/3rds of brands (still v. high, obviously).
On the flip side, I wish EV makers would advertise range at higher speeds.

Hell, I wish ICE car makers would advertise MPG at higher speeds.

Every weekend I head up around 200 miles away, and it's on an empty mountain pass with a 80MPH speed limit.

In town, my sports sedan gets the same fuel economy as my old Tacoma, but on that trip the Tacoma consumes over 50% more if driven even remotely comparably (80+). The sports sedan has surprisingly little variance between 70-90MPH.

While the truck's aerodynamics aren't helping, I've experienced the same in other "fuel-efficient" vehicles, where the fuel economy falls off a cliff once you go above 60MPH. A Chevy Aveo I owned was actually one of the worst offenders, you'd get on the highway and get SUV-tier fuel mileage.
As a Discord moderator (discord.gg/wilbur, 310k+) who's used Threads for a few months now while testing, there's a specific Threads button that lists all open threads - even private ones, although behind a toggle - and that works pretty okay. Most large servers only use Threads internally within staff teams, not in the wider general channels yet, though!
I imagine new medical tech is usually covered by insurance, which makes it possible for people to afford it initially (and even later, when the device is more at scale), but I expect it's really hard to get insurance companies (in the US at least) to consider covering new things, especially when there is a cheaper alternative.

I imagine an insurance company is heartless enough to believe that a much cheaper wheelchair is "good enough" and there's "no reason" to pay the hefty costs for an experimental exoskeleton.
> Because if the hole exists at all, malicious actors will find a way to abuse it.

Yes, they will. So the question remains: why expand the hole?
It’s actually quite intuitive, as the force is distributed over a larger area. So although the pressure gradient isn’t affected by the discontinuity in the container size, if you compare forces exerted by the pressure on a plate in either section of the chamber you’ll observe that the force on the wider plate would be reduced to compensate for the increased area in the presence of the same pressure.
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Maybe an asshole question, but did this change in policy occur pre or post election?

I can't seem to find an article of them changing policy, only that the outcry happened in late 2019 which made me wonder.
If devs aren’t unionized, there’s no such thing as scabs right? Blizzard can just terminate all the disgruntled employees and hire other devs, perhaps more desperate or entry level or morally ambiguous, whatever.

Of course the institutional knowledge lost will be drastic.
So seems like some sort of front loading that the singularity isn't going to happen between the years 2030 to 2040 after all...

But I'm biased to think the Galaxy is already inhabited for the same reasons people think we are living in a simulation. What continues to amaze me is why people think the Earth must be so very very special and that if aliens were out there they would be paying attention to us other than at best monitoring us like a beehive to make sure we don't start stirring up the galactic pot.

As to why they don't just wipe us out, I figure any world with billions of years of evolutionary progress is valuable IP and worth preservation if possible. Or as I joked for a very long time: worlds like ours are the equivalent of reality television for advanced species. And I loved it when South Park covered that very subject.