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I feel like there’s been little going on in RTS land. Did I miss any significant releases?
Knowledge and the theory of it should not be based on absolute truths but on what we know, how we k ow it and the limits of that knowledge.
Anybody knows if this is going to affect the release of the remastered Diablo?
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As someone who have very little faith that Arab countries and people can co-exist with other cultures or religions, i think Israel should pursue peace.

If that means giving up some or all settlements in the West Bank, then so be it.

But if I had to choose between Arabs or Israelis, then I'd choose the latter every time.

Sorry to say that Arab culture and religion is just not very compatible with other cultures and religions.
When that someone smart creates more resources, isn't is likely that they're in a better than average position to plan for its distribution, specifically including placing those resources under the control of smart people to utilize them?

I trust the creator of wealth (small, medium, or great) to allocate it intelligently far more than I trust a bureaucracy to do so.
At least this UX of Discord's makes it easy to do that: the article points out that opening the thread from the list below a channel will open it in the main chat view instead of the sidebar. At least from the article it does seem that Discord was paying attention to flaws in Slack's UX.
Why does an audit have a Twitter account? Can they not go through existing news media?
ok, so it happened to 1 guy, and it was such a novel thing that you happen to know about it because its an interesting factoid. it's not common. realistically it's impossible for most people. I know someone who is white, born in japan, has lived there for 40+ years, native japanese speaker and she does not have citizenship.

my wife and extended family are japanese. she is actually half japanese, so i get a special view of all the weird racism embedded into their society. she even has citzenship as well as my kids, but she still is not treated as japanese because of her appearance.
I think you're broadly correct. With regard to China, a lot of people's understanding is driven in large part by wishful thinking, which is a serious weakness and vulnerability.

> Sure lots of people disagree with the party, but that doesn't that they want a western liberal democracy. So lots of people will speak in favor of a benevolent elite and against populism or what they see as western chaos or oppression. When people are against the government, they aren't wishing for a different government system, just less corrupt or more benevolent authoritarians.

I think it's important to note those views are in large part created an reinforced a deliberate propaganda program. For instance, I believe one of the ideas the Chinese government pushes is the Chinese people "aren't ready" for democracy (while carefully preventing anything that could make them ready). When educated Chinese people were better exposed to ideas about liberal democracy, they were very clear that they wanted it (e.g. 80s leading up to Tiananmen Square, the Liberal Studies curriculum in Hong Kong), but the government has learned from those episodes and has taken action to get the ideological results it desires.
Rust does lazy evaluation, and has functors, monoids and monads:

https://docs.rs/functional/0.0.5/functional/trait.Functor.ht...

https://docs.rs/functional/0.0.5/functional/trait.Monoid.htm...

https://docs.rs/functional/0.0.5/functional/trait.Monad.html
>> Power. Batteries more specifically. We just don't have a way to power anything

There is progress. Japan has been developing assistance exoskeletons as an answer to elder care problems: power assist devices to allow not-strong people to lift/carry elderly people. Interestingly, much development has gone into pneumatic devices as they are inherently more waterproof than electric.

"In Japan, the commercialization of exoskeletons is already underway. Innophys, a startup founded in 2013 at the Tokyo University of Science, has already dispatched about 1,000 units across the country, in particular to Asahi-Sun, an elderly care supplier. Lighter than ActiveLink's AWN-03, Innophys' Exo-Muscle is a little less quick but offers more flexibility for a similar lifting capacity of 22 to 30 kilos (48 to 66 pounds). But Exo-Muscle uses an entirely different technology: compressed air, which is injected into rubber valves that inflate and contract."

https://worldcrunch.com/tech-science/an-aging-japan-turns-to...
This is a blast from the past. All the SCO Open Server 5 sys admin tools are tcl, both the curses and gui front ends. I haven't touched it since then. I had no strong opinion about it either way at the time.
Honestly it's more the lack of sidewalks and spread-out houses. I used to walk everywhere as a kid, but we lived in a dense semi-urban area. Now I live in a spread out suburb, where no one bothered to have sidewalks, where the road has steep hills on both sides in many places, and where the cars drive very fast and don't expect to see people.

(I don't mean to be defending SUVs here. In my view most people who need that size of vehicle would be better off with a minivan. But I was unable to convince my own wife of that...)
Perhaps because the vast majority of points in the article are obviously false or exaggerated out of context?

Needless to say Matrix servers and clients don't send any data (private or otherwise) by default to central servers. The only central services we have are the identity lookup service (i.e. map phone number & email to a matrix ID), which is strictly opt-in and various anonymous stats reporting (which is also strictly opt-in).
Historically children are actually safer. The large front end distributes the force over the entire body of the child.

That being said,

* better to see the child and not hit them

* people should get training in how to drive trucks. They are not cars. Requiring a special license will make the lazier ones think twice at least
If he wants to put up a donation link with that as a goal I'll give 20$ right now
So why isn't this a problem for other open source software? Or is it? Is it only because of the high demand for a cheaper/free Photoshop alternative?
the fact that it is technically possible does not mean that it is a common occurence
I feel like threads are a solution to having an enormous continuous channel. Zulip solves this by not having an enormous continous channel. I think it makes sense to have topic-oriented discussion threads, and then have discussion within those threads all in the same continuous stream.
> Starlink doesn't support roaming between ground stations

That's mostly a beta problem and Starlink is saying they plan to allow roaming eventually. From what I've seen it sounds like right now they only look for your dish in whatever cell it's registered to and don't do any discovery of dishes, it's all preprogrammed.
There is speculation that China is clamping down on soft tech (social apps, ...) to encourage people to work on hard tech (hardware, ...).

China's semiconductor company spiked today on the stock market.
This reminds me of inventors of bulletproof vests who demonstrated their product by being shot by their assistant.

Can't wait to see Musk get a full night's sleep in a Tesla going Austin to LA.
Lots of people respect the FSF, Stallman, or both, and put a lot of effort into talking to them, but I have seen no evidence that any US legislator is among them.
Advertising is at its core a prisoner's dilemma. If every competitor in a certain space puts in $100 in advertising, they can all expect $0 in returns. However if a single company put in nothing they would be in a worse place because their competitors' returns would automatically become higher.
As a customer, I'd be okay with dev teams being blocked for their next 2 sprints if it meant security I can trust.

Google Docs, Search, and Mail do little in 2021 that I need that they didn't do in 2016. There's a lot more churn than bona fide improvement. Most tech just doesn't change that much. Heck, I'd take an online version of WordPerfect 7 from 1996 if it was trustworthy. That's a quarter-century. There's nothing Google Docs does, aside from collaboration, that I need that WP7 didn't do.

On the other hand, I strongly distrust Google to maintain my data securely. As far as I can tell, aside from backwards compatibility/legacy reasons, the major reason people use Office 365, for better or worse, are issues like compliance and security.

Security bugs ought to be sold to Google, found, and fixed. They shouldn't be sold to a ransomware gang or a government.
Addiction to devices is real. If that is the main criticism of this article, then I agree that it requires vigilance.

But I think it’s unrealistic to expect parents to be fully present 100% of the time. It is important to be fully present enough of the time.

I wonder if the author would equally criticize the use of novels or sketch pads.

In my mind, there is a big difference between being fully present for a performance / competition vs being fully present for a practice. The first feels important. The second feels like being expected to attentively watch your kid playing in a playroom.
Well "to do mainframe development" is more than just the casual learning part.
+1000000000.

Judging a project by its number of open issues is like judging a book by its number of pages.
Ah, rookie mistake, thanks! 20th place for Germany vs 4th for USA, even though the absolute difference in the coefficients are pretty small.
yeah because they genuinely have lower expectations of you as a foreigner
Does anyone know how he creates these animations? I like the representation and would like to create them as well.
> Why it matters: Walkouts are a drastic measure for developers in a largely non-unionized field, a testament to just how angry employees currently are.

It sends a message, but I wouldn't say it's _that_ drastic considering the demand for developers and difficulty hiring in the Orange County area.
Does it make sense to have strong principles and not be guided by financial incentives alone? Sure. But would it make more sense to have a solid regulatory framework to start with, as opposed to being loosey goosey for a very long time and then course correcting in a way that evaporates billions in value overnight from domestic and foreign investors?

Countries and companies have a lot in common. Consider this analogy: would you want to join a company that has an excellent business model and is poised for strong growth, but the CEO is a nut case and has done several mass layoffs that have completely blindsided internal and external people?

I, for one, am happy that China is tripping over itself and will give us a bit more room to breathe and figure out our own mess, so that when the inevitable takeover of Taiwan and all the other shit storms happen in the future, we'll be at least a tiny bit more prepared.
thanks for prompting me to learn more: https://wildalaskancompany.com/blog/can-you-eat-raw-salmon

"still wriggling" should be fresh enough
Nor for Linux.

Very hard to debug if you're not on MacOS.
Not if publishing FOSS with bad configuration defaults makes you the defendant in a multi-million-dollar class-action privacy-invasion lawsuit.
What about frequency of charging?

I once commuted on a motorcycle with the range of my daily commute (about 120 miles). Despite how ubiquitous gas stations are, and how fast I could swipe by VISA and pump 2 gallons, it was still incredibly annoying.

Those daily 4 minute pit stops were infuriating, I can't imaging having to spend half an hour at a EV charging station twice a week.
Unlikely, since the remaster is being done by a different company (contract).
Its different for every country combination and at different times depending on how Tencent/CCP feels
messages don't get shared with the whole world, but only the users and the homeservers the users choose
Nice effort. However the HN-based ranking system make this lean heavily towards 'software' tagged blogs.

Having a filter for specific tags (e.g. 'add/remove this tag') would help the blog discovery process.
Our big project has moved from physical servers to Openshift. Its taken a lot of work, much more than expected. The best thing is that developers like it on their resume, which is a bigger benefit than you'd think as we've kept some good people on the team. For users I see zero benefit. CI pipeline is just more complicated and probably slower.

Cost wise it was cheaper for a while but now RedHat are bumping up licensing costs so now I think is about the same costs.

Overall it seems like a waste of time, but has been interesting.
Happy customer here. Bvckup2 is one of the most polished pieces of software I've ever used.
I know the writer of the article and the bouncer in question. While hanging out with said bouncer I've seen him catch fakes from some young looking adults who later revealed themselves to be cops running this very scheme. Regardless of whether this is a good use of anyone's time, I can confirm it happens.
As much as I do support them, Blizzard employees frequently strike me as obsessed with social media perception and staying woke rather than doing what's right even if it is inconvenient for them personally.

The ones who are actually affected don't work at Blizzard anymore. The time to walk out was _years ago_. There's no chance it was wide-spread knowledge that one of the executives was assaulting people at work and yet no one was frustrated by that fact.
That seems like one for the philosophers. If you completely rewrite a Flash site in HTML5, but it looks the same and has the same URL, is it still the same site?
> Threads make it harder and weirder for people to chime in halfway through or to catch up on what people have been saying

I’m of the completely opposite opinion.

If I want to contribute to a prior discussion that happened a few minutes ago but another one is taking place now, then we have two separate conversations in the same linear chat stream. With a thread, I can respond to who I want without interrupting anyone else. Without threads, you’re reading through all the messages and trying to figure out which are relevant.

Most of the Discords I’m in are game or mod related, and I’m often using their help/questions channels. There’s usually only one or two of these channels, so if multiple people need help at the same time you get scattered conversations and it’s confusing to follow, especially if you step away for a second.

Direct replies to the messages help but they still exist in that linear main chat stream, so there’s still a lot of clutter that everyone has to navigate through. With threads, you can have multiple questions asked simultaneously and each one has all their discussion in their respective threads, making it very obvious which messages are meant for which question and making it easier to navigate.
A blog post we recently published talking about scaling up our operations. I love using standard tools (Django, Python, Postgres) to achieve this. Definitely shows that you don't need fancy tools until you get huge -- and here is a longer version of that story.
Not if the host aborts
Upvoted for a number of interesting and unconventional opinions.

Rolling your own JSON, XML, etc parsers raises some eyebrows. I guess it's sort of okay if you expect to only be reading your local config files versus arbitrary web content. Maybe then it's okay to trade off raw speed for not handing a ton of formatting and syntax edge cases.

Writing GUI apps against the native framework. Yup, it'll be a major pain to ever port to another platform. But if you don't care to do that, nothing's as fast and clean both to develop and for the end-user to use as every platform's native framework.

Unit tests are sometimes overrated. IMO, they're much more suited to building apps in dynamic languages. Unit tests are a lot less important if you have a good type system and compiler checking things already. I've heard it described before that half of the benefit of unit testing in these languages is forcing yourself to structure code in testable modules with clean interfaces. But if you can just do that anyways, the actual tests are less important.
Sure but quantity doesn't tell the whole story. Most of them are relatively tiny, in terms of die size. (obviously not so in the case of the more advanced end of the market such as Tesla, but rather the more common vehicles most are currently driving) So the point still stands that automakers aren't an out-sized user of silicon as the parent claims.
I don't give a fuck about their pussy drama tbh. Get back to work.
Society has been going to collapse in 50 years for the last 500 years.
I see. I know they pulled this off with Warcraft 3 and it failed spectacularly. Let's hope it works out better this time. Thanks!
I hope he's wrong since my brother is quadriplegic, but I wouldn't bet on it. Either way, this guy is an inspiration.
Good, walkouts are an effective way to drive organizational change. We had massive walkouts at Wayfair due to our policy of selling furniture to US Customs concentration camps that held tens of thousands of children. Only took Wayfair a few years to somewhat change their policy in a roundabout and nondescript way, but at least some movement took place.
To easily relay information?

"existing news media" is saying there is no such thing as voter fraud, so they are not covering it.
For what it's worth, I think the argument that bounty participants are gig workers is pretty silly.
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Safari handles date only time different to other browser (the time zone). Your date is going to be off by <time zone> hours if you don't append a timezone on it to force it parsed correctly.
Ouch. Never thought of it this way. I know it’s borderline anti-American — but when you have such compelling incentive structures at what point should we demand government regulation? If 80% of advertising is not helping consumers discover products — arguably the primary functional purpose of advertising — then isn’t this in a way an economic sickness wasting the resources and stifling innovation?
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> would the concept of me and you as separate identities actually mean anything to us anymore?

Clearly yes. If your body is destroyed, I will stop experiencing your thoughts and your senses, and vice versa.

> You anyway go to sleep each night and awaken after a discontinuity. Why would this be significantly different?

I'm more interested in why it would be the same. As it stands, there is no account of what is the thing that persists through deep sleep, or more broadly, of why there is sentience to begin with. I'm perfectly ok with conjecturing that sentience is not physical, given that we can't observe it, like we can with the physical. And I don't expect we will find some physics redefining discovery in the brain that will allow us to see us. Some philosophers hold that the more interesting question is why do neuroscientific accounts of the brain seem insufficient to us, but at that point the jig's up, you're doing philosophy and not science. Which is the problem of mind uploading, there's no scientific surety to it, believing in it will be conditional on not thinking too much about it, or on taking the position that "the philosophy is settled!".
Nokia owns Bell Labs, so maybe Nokia has the most Nobel laureates and Turing award winners per employee :)
This seems to largely match a lot of the same things that happened with Riot Games over the last couple of years. I am hoping that these actions can help spread awareness of any issues that may be present at Blizzard and past, current, and future employees won't face the same issues. It is a long road to be traveled to get there.

I hope that the current WFH situation doesn't detract from the walkout. A lot of the visibility raised when Riot went through this was outside of the Riot gates where employees were congregated.

Without speculating on the claims, I do find it interesting that the DFEH has lawsuits against both Riot Games and Blizzard for similar issues. I recall reading that Riot's response was that the DFEH was not working in good faith: are both of these companies aligning their responses, is the DFEH out of line, or is the industry just that broken?
Is it a Mom and Pop if it's not named after the owner?
We recently did what we called a Mom & Pop hop and noticed every restaurant was named after someone’s name.
Why does interstellar expansion seem feasible? Unless special relativity is wrong, it's just going to take too long to get anywhere.
They technically can, but then you'd have those satellites spend a ton of their time over nearly unpopulated areas doing nothing.

If you instead launch at about a 60 degrees inclination, you spend all of your time between N60 latitude and S60 latitude where it's a lot more populated. This lets you have more coverage in populated areas with fewer satellites.

Additionally, there's no satellite to satellite link capability yet, so for an uplink to work you need a base station in range for the satellite to talk to (you can see these as a "wifi" symbol on the map). It's too expensive to put base stations pretty much anywhere in the artic.
Its hearsay, but my brother in law works with someone who has known Sahin and his wife (and cofounder) for a long time and according to them, they actually couldn’t care less about money. Cloths, cars etc are of little concern to them. They are research addicts and they only see money as means to do more and better research. So I guess it just makes sense to pick diseases where the impact of their work is maximized.
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The effect that emotions have on their behaviors can be shitty. Worse, they can be self-reinforcing, such that their emotions cause them to seek out ways to deepen that emotional state, resulting in an increase in shitty behavior.

Those feelings are valid, but the effect they have on other people is not. Dealing with valid emotions in a way that doesn't harm other people can be incredibly difficult, especially when those emotions put harm front and center.

Our emotions are valid, but our behaviors are not. It behooves us to mind our emotional states when they cause problems for other people. Often, that will coincidentally bring about an emotional state we prefer as well, but often with unpleasant transitions.
As a parent, I had to learn not to pay much attention. Some, yes, but my son did better, focused more, and was less emotional if he knew I wasn't watching. Like with all things, it's a balance. You want to enjoy what you can, because they grow fast. You want them to become independent, so you need to not pay attention all the time. You want them to know that you love them, so you want to pay some attention. You don't want them to believe they are the center of the world, so you honestly need to ignore them, too. If you don't give yourself some downtime, you become a worse parent over the medium term. The worst part is that the specific weights for the various options are always changing as they develop.

Parenting is tough, and the only key indicator I've found is that if something is difficult to do, it is more likely to be the better course of action ;)
We (the west) may see this as shocking, but I believe this isn't equivalent to the U.S. gov't doing something that would crash the NYSE or NASDAQ. If the Chinese gov't did something that undermined real estate value, where most Chinese citizen's savings are parked, that would be more comparable.
The editorialized title here should probably be changed...
It's bizarre to me that the government hasn't stepped in to regulate/ban medical advertising in America. Nobody wants it – not consumers, not doctors, not even the drug manufacturers themselves.
I genuinely hadn't realised you could resize threads to be wider and found it really annoying how narrow they were. I don't think I'd noticed any visual cues you could resize them either (assuming the cues exist).
Union, Yes!