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> If IBM had loudly (and correctly) proclaimed that mainframes were the place to run web services, everyone and their mother would be running mainframes right now instead of Linux boxes.

No, they wouldn't. I could take one Linux box, get a domain name, and have a web server. I wouldn't be able to afford a mainframe, though. And if your alternative is renting a fraction of a mainframe, the answer is no. No, I will not trade a Linux box that I control for renting a piece of a mainframe that I don't control. Just no.
Most websites that have RSS have a meta tag that identifies the RSS feed, you can just put the normal URL to the site/blog into your RSS reader and it will pick up the RSS feed URL from the meta tag.
a friend told me I should get WC3 a few years ago so we could play together, so I bought it and the expansion from Blizzard's website, but never got around to playing it. after the remaster came out, I thought to myself, well, now's as good of a time as any to play the originals. then I discovered that anyone who had a copy of the originals had their copies replaced with a gimped version of the remaster, and you had to buy the remaster to remove said gimping. absolutely deplorable, I won't buy another game from them again.
In today's culture wouldn't this be considered "ableist"? Aren't we internalizing the idea of being "disabled" to this kid and thus dehumanizing him by building a machine that "corrects" his inability to walk?

I've seen similar arguments from the deaf community about hearing restoration as "correcting" something when nothing is "wrong".

FWIW I think this invention is awesome.
The horror when cassie realised she was using the wrong calendar. They should have said something.
Seek is AWESOME. We discovered it late in 2020 but it raised the bar for all our outdoor excursions with the kids. Even a routine walk around the neighborhood is an enriched experience as the kids careful observe their surrounding looking for a new bug or flower.

The only downside is when we get to a new place I have to remind the kids we can't stop every minute to 'Seek' something otherwise we'll never get back home!
Quest 2's install base confirmed as “About 4M” due to face rash recall
First half of the title got my hopes up as a Magic: the Gathering player, but alas, it was not an argument in defence of hard counters costing only two mana.
How do the tax write-offs factor in? It seems almost impossible that advertising doesn't provide benefit when you consider the money would have otherwise gone to taxes.
Yes, I was surprised to see a note on the home page that "It currently runs on Windows 95".

But I also noted that it says at the bottom that the same page was last updated in 2017 so still somewhat active I guess?

I never got into any of this, despite a friend at work describing what X10 was to me in 1997 and being totally fascinated at the time. I think the take away there is that there are literally thousands and thousands of interesting things to do with computers but never enough time to try them all.
Blizzard is not the only company in CA.
> Are you actually going to remember every single one?

You won't, but many kids will remember that single time their parents weren't there for them, or that single time that something did happen that they didn't like. Or that their parent was always bored or checked out whenever they came to events. The solution isn't to pretend kids are okay with anything, it's to be realistic about the trade-offs you choose to make.
Funny this showing up here -- fractons are one of the first things I came across in pursuing my strange belief that fundamental particles are manifestations of defects in some "space-time crystal". But where Seiberg says “Quantum field theory is a very delicate structure, so we would like to change the rules as little as possible,” -- I have the exact opposite view: we'll probably need to tear down the vast majority of mathematical structures that are the foundation of QFT and QM, and build from scratch on a discrete combinatorial foundation. Luckily doing that is turning out to be a lot of fun and involve some interesting new mathematical ideas. But more often old mathematical ideas, like curvature, holonomy, and gauge symmetry, but resurrected in new forms.
> Matrix is a centralized / federated system

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix
It's generally enough to just not be an asshole. But if that's too difficult to you, sure.
Even if they were testing people that were all externally known not to have COVID, if only 0.5% of people are testing positive, that's the false positive rate.

All the data we have indicates that false positives on PCR are extremely rare. The only place it gets fuzzy is the definition of positive. People who were previously infected can test positive, and people with very mild infections can also test positive. People who have never been infected though essentially do not test positive.
The claim was: "67% (2/3) have negative net ROI, and so would presumably be better off with zero advertising."

If they truly have negative net ROI, they would be better off with zero spending than their actual spending. The claim holds.

> The thing to measure is the marginal ROI at zero advertising spend. Derivatives are not bounded by their average value across a range.

OK, so if we're going to get super pedantic... the derivative could be negative at the current value, and at zero, and there could be a positive ROI for some value of spending (between 0 and the amount spent, or even for some value more than what was spent). But it's not really likely, nor relevant to the point the person above made.
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Parents spend significantly more time with their kids today. Almost twice as much vs. the 60s https://ourworldindata.org/parents-time-with-kids

I get that people love a preachy guilt trip but those moms were doing just fine.
It depends on the actual evidence about what is going on!

Also, accusing him of planning a coup is different than fearing he will attempt one. There were valid reasons to be concerned about that.

You're doing the exact same thing you're accusing me of, which is choosing what to call a conspiracy theory based on politics! You think it's ridiculous that he would plan a coup, so it is convenient for you to call it a conspiracy theory to try to make your argument work.
That's maybe true when young people in China first learned western democracy ideas. Nowadays I think most of educated Chinese believe democracy is not suitable for China. They didn't get the whole picture of western world, but who does nowadays. They see signs of culture revolution in western social movements and rejected those wholeheartedly.
My guess would be the poster is referring to The Last of Us Part 2, where criticism of the storyline was presented by most mainstream media as people hating the female lead character. But one could also easily argue that it's the actions taken in the story that cause people to hate her.
> Source: Been on the leading edge of marketing and advertising for over 12 years

Would you say that might be a source of bias?

Look at SpaceX and Tesla. They barely advertise and have huge brand recognition.

I'd buy Sennheiser over Beats. Krispy Kreme over Dunkin. Costco.

My partner loves Zara.

I don't have a high opinion of brands that advertise.
It is extremely possible that DFEH is either not the authority, ill equipped by the legislature to be the authority, and or bungled their own case, while it being simultaneously possible that the companies are problematic and that individuals are marginalized and hurt in a way unrelated to doing a good job
So eventually, we're going to have a Web based version of Visual Basic 6, and the circle will be complete.
it was fixed but here's the one this person was referring to https://web.archive.org/web/20210727142303im_/https://lh4.go...
It may be a step up for many. What's a shit-job for you might be a step-upping stone for someone else, who's opportunity selection is more limited than your own.
> 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

There is daylight between unions and anarchy. In that daylight are California’s general labor laws and the NLRA.
> bike brake cable

Funny you mention that, this guy [1] made an actuator/arm recently doing that technique. Does work but accuracy/flex can be a problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahSS5HUylT8
Exact phrase searching works in PostgreSQL full-text search - here's an example: https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=%22nosql+database%22

I'm using search_type=websearch https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/a5b53a24b00...

That's using websearch_to_tsquery() which was added in PostgreSQL 11: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/textsearch-controls.html#...
I was looking at the videos, and realized that maybe we don't need small exo-bones (societal expectations and normalcy aside), maybe it's easier to go the other way and make exo-robots, since they'd be bigger with more room for batteries, could balance on their own and a human could be sitting/standing inside, driving the legs with some input method - either with legs, or hand gestures.

I'm picturing the robot in Avatar [1], but with an open top and much less threatening and not weaponized [2], like big robotic pants. If I were to quit my job, it would be to make human robot minotaurs a reality, but then again, what do I know about robots?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ttDZFmGqg

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/toyotas-latest-humanoid-robot-can...
Mac is certainly on the roadmap, and iPhones' screens seem a tad small for something like this to be honest.
Aside from the other comments here, another thing to consider is that it's usually incredibly painful to relive abusive treatment, let alone potentially having to endure the humiliation of having it dragged out into the public, where a million and one disinterested onlookers will potentially pull the victim apart and blame them for what happened. Unless you've been in such a situation yourself, you can't imagine what it's like.
Pardon my ignorance – what is exact phrase matching and why doesn't it work with tsvector?
Yeah the parent's comment is just a person refusing to have any amount of tact. Harassment isn't defined as an isolated incident, nor is it immediately a huge deal. Almost all rational humans have some amount of tolerance for ambiguity, if you really can't possibly fathom what would or would not be offensive to a person, you have absolutely no business working alongside other people.

Not to mention, a lot of what was reported couldn't possibly have been ambiguous. Commenting on a coworker's breasts (the report of a woman repeatedly being questioned on whether her breasts were real, and then having a manager demand to feel them to verify) is just totally unacceptable.
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While CBT is certainly related to changing habits and behaviors, and while it's conceivable that Internet use by some individuals might become so problematic that a therapist needs to get involved, CBT is not necessary to be intentional about things.

My general point was: the Internet has changed, so if you're still using your old habits, you'll probably need to change those. If a person finds they cannot muster the will to do so, perhaps then they should see a therapist and consider CBT, but this also doesn't need to be that complicated. Sometimes awareness is all that is required.

> While I don't know your personal situtation, and don't want to be rude, or 'diss' you in any way, 4 years seems harsh. I would long have quit that, because it would seem ineffective to me. Like talking to a wall, parking meter, or something like that. Maybe change therapist?

I've seen a few therapists during that time, and each has been really instrumental in my progress. I'll probably be seeing someone for the majority of my adult life.

I've spoken about this openly in other threads, so feel free to dive deeper into my comment history if you are curious, but I'm working through deep seeded issues stemming from complex trauma that spanned the entirety of my childhood.

One does not unravel decades of trauma in a year, or four years, for that matter, and I'm eternally grateful for the trauma-aware therapist I'm working with now - someone who I will probably continue seeing for many years to come. I'm a very different person than I was four years again, or even a year ago. These things take time.

Please take this in the sprit it is intended, but I would recommend not handing out recommendations related to mental health without understanding the situation. I'm concerned at where this thread started (mis-application of CBT) and is ending. Again, please don't take this the wrong way, but I'd be careful not to derail others who may be earlier in their journeys, not yet sure how to navigate all of this.
If I remember correctly, the gamergate controversy was about a female indie developer dating a male indie game journalist. I can imagine why that would make people search for conflicts of interests.
U.S. sells one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album forfeited by Martin Shkreli
And for these reasons hard if not impossible to measure or control for confounders - but that doesn't mean it doesn't work!!

One of the ways that advertisers and marketing people stay employed is they say that the output of their effort and money spent is not quantifiable.
Pain != consciousness though and while I agree that in principle we should strive to reduce total pain, I also think there is a strong nonlinearity in how much we should weight nervous systems of different complexities. I would say the UK legal cutoff for lab animals (where we care about vertebrates and octopuses but not invertebrates) is about right. It is a complex issue - the presence of an isolated, active, nociceptor (or even thousands of them) isn't of concern to me. But somehow the conscious readout of them is...
> If one does not trust upstream programs....well that is a bit out of scope of this issue.

This was actually the whole point.

People say "trust us because you can check the code" but checking the code is so complex that you need trust because you can't verify everything.

> As I said earlier, many of the Mobian devs are the same as the Debian on Mobile team, so assuming you don't trust the Mobian devs, you probably shouldn't trust the packages we put in Debian proper as well.

This is where the trust comes in. Not in the availability of the code.
I think he was trying to break through the barricade that was blocking the people's ability to travel freely on the land they were born on, the cops had the choice to step aside...
Nheko: A Matrix client written with Qt
Why does IBM sell both POWER based systems and Mainframes? Why do they sell both a mainframe OS and AIX?

It seems like they sell some products that might compete with themselves.
Sorry, should've been more specific.

It's not trash talk. I can handle trash talk. It's stuff like "Ah, a f_cking girl. Cool guys, now we are going to lose", before the round even starts, or "Get back to the kitchen, B_TCH" or just harassing me until I leave the game, either through team-killing or preventing me from playing.

And if everyone is "behaving", I get treated differently in PUGs than just another team member. I don't want that. I don't want special attention or treatment. And then you get harassed for your social media or phone number or get incessant in-game messages or get asked if you're hot or some other variation of thing that isn't "Yo, you, we are doing X, Y, Z. Sound good?" like you are just part of the team.
Submitted title was "Advertisement has a negative return on investment for more than 80% of brands", which broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.". We've fixed it now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I honestly don’t think it’s that bad. Wood has a pretty big ROI. It’s not even underground, you just chop it down. But it’s also not hard to accidentally cut down all your trees on your island or whatever. As long as you can maintain some fairly sustainable fuel harvesting practices, trees can provide cheap and high energy ROI, enough to bootstrap hydro and wind from which hydrogen can be made and any manner of modern energy (although nuclear and solar and batteries are even more efficient). Biomass can serve as a feedstock for chemicals via steam reforming to syngas and then Fischer-Tropsch to anything else, and biomass is abundant enough for that non-energy purpose even with 8 billion people as long as your prime energy comes elsewhere.

Gotta realize that the fossil fuel energy surplus is often highly wasted on authoritarian regimes and such. Industrious nations can & do find other sources of energy, and there are many to choose from (hydro, wind, biomass, geothermal, nuclear fission, tidal, photovoltaic, solar thermal, ocean temperature gradient, even space based solar, nuclear fusion, etc).

Simply wind energy and hydrogen electrolysis would work. Both are relatively simple.

I think we have a kind of fatalism when it comes to energy sources which isn’t helped by the fact that advocates of one energy source often invest a lot of time in downplaying other energy sources, but we actually have a LOT of good, economic-surplus-compatible options to choose from, and fossil fuels are just one.

The real key is knowledge and precision. From that, and nearly any mix of energy sources and raw materials, comes abundance.
Does anyone have a recommendation for blogging platform with Latex + code highlighting support?
Really happy for this, threads are a life-saver and a completely required tool for conversations. The linear conversation works, but then when you have 10+ people all vying to speak to each other and you have six different conversations it become a mess to keep up with. This is a happy change.
> And for these reasons hard if not impossible to measure or control for confounders

Are you saying that you don't know if long term brand advertisement works?
I had the same question. (Putting this here so that I can come back later.)
> the state eminent domained their water rights without compensation.

To be fair, the water rights in California were asinine, to the point that if you could connect to the aquifer you could take as much as you want, regardless of your size of land or need, and the collapse of the aquifers during overuse in drought caused entire cities to lose access to water as their wells dried up, and the farmers that could afford to dig deeper wells to access more water did so. Much of this was in support of farmers switching to more water intensive crops that were worth more (like almonds) because they could take advantage of the lax water rights of the state.

This has been a long time coming and reported widely and loudly for a decade now. Farmers in CA knew they had a choice over that time to either try to be part of a solution by switching to less water intensive crops and try to help (and possibly not be entirely caught unprepared as a major resource went from essentially free and unlimited to definitely not) but lose out on the additional income that granted them, or to continue to try to cash in on the status quo and make the problem worse but as a gamble because they could be caught out if it changes from under them, or to remove themselves from that market and do something else.

I don't wish death or suicide on any of them, but it's not like this isn't a problem they had no part in bringing about, or like the entire state should suffer because they wanted to keep the status quo, so my sympathy is offset to some degree by those facts.
To be fair, looking at the guidelines now, it's forward facing car seats through age 7 and booster seats through age 12. I think my brother and I were only in car seats until about 3 and boosters until about 5. We once rode with an extended family member who insisted on putting me in a booster at 7, and my parents thought that was ridiculous. Twelve! Imagine.
Or else what though? Get fired? I mean for instance, it's not like a man can just offer to have sex with their male supervisor to keep their job if they're straight. So the dynamic is also partly brought upon by the woman herself. It's very unfortunate but lets not act like she had 0 autonomy and no consensual actions involved here.
Facebook, the Metaverse and Building Bridges
And fifty years ago it was incredibly female dominated - the "male shift" in CS is easy to observe and pretty handily defeats any of those false claims you'll see about "men's brains being wired" for programming. It's important to remember that men muscled women out of programming initially once the field became seen as something more than a secretarial position.
I'm not an MBA nor even a math person really, what is the "I" in this equation when the ad spend is zero?
> I do find it interesting that the DFEH has lawsuits against both Riot Games and Blizzard for similar issues

Yes, because Riot's C-level executive was literally dry humping interns and shoving their ass into faces and still has their job? Clearly "visibility" has not worked past creating PR articles.

Does DFEH have the same problem with any other major game studio there that isn't embroiled in this type of behaviour?

I've played League before. The player base is ludicrously, absurdly toxic, and if they are hiring anything from there, then, well...

Sexism:

[2018] https://kotaku.com/inside-the-culture-of-sexism-at-riot-game...

[2018] https://twitter.com/MiniWhiteRabbit/status/10269232332814213...

[2019] https://www.vice.com/en/article/evyz7p/over-100-riot-games-e...

COO specific:

https://www.businessinsider.com/riot-games-suspends-coo-scot...

- tbh just google riot games farting

CEO specific:

[Feb 2021] https://www.wired.com/story/riot-games-ceo-culture-complaint...

[Mar 2021] https://www.dailyesports.gg/alienware-has-terminated-its-spo...
-c and -e. They're not security holes, they're useful features which like most powerful tools can be misused or abused.
Yet, ironically, time and time again, studies have shown that when allowed to work from home, most employee's productivity increases.
The dirty secret is that a lot of students work at Walmart to support themselves through their degree at a local university or community college. Walmart doesn't pay for that, but they do pay for a number of really shady online degrees. SNHU is a straight-up degree mill. Let's file this program under Public Relations.
Why are fully vaccinated people testing positive for Covid?
The first study I found on google seems to suggest that biochar lasts for a pretty long time but also decomposes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00380...
Since nobody has figured out how to integrate loot boxes or gambling into RTS yet, other genres are currently much more profitable.
Ghost[0]. Seriously, from a user perspective, it doesn't get any simpler than that. You fill a few variables in settings, you write, that's it.

I've toyed around with WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo, etc etc and spent more time making shit work as I want it to than I did actually writing things. Ghost is amazing and I won't look for anything else for a long time.

[0] https://ghost.org/
> 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.

Mrs PacMan? Samus? Peach? That was all before 1988