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The first paragraph question "But I wonder if it’s ethical to play anything from [company], these days?" probably is the most discussion-worthy topic of this article.

I'd argue that the answer to that question is "yes", no matter if it's Blizzard or some other company. It's completely ethically valid to boycott a shitty company with shitty leadership and shitty culture (as OP puts it), however, it's also completely ethically valid to not boycott such a company and simply pick the best product. There is no ethical duty to participate in every fight; it's ethically good (and better) to "fight for good" but it's also completely ethically acceptable to not put effort in any one of the near-infinite of those fights - it's only unethical if you're actually harming others or doing evil, and just living your life is not that.

Guilt by distant association is an abhorrent concept that should not be validated - using someone's products does not imply supporting the company's policies or leaders/owners personal behavior or political actions. If you want to make a point of ostracising someone, sure, go right ahead, but there's a very high bar to pass to state that it would an ethical requirement for everyone else to participate in that ostracism - IMHO it might be debatable if it would be a an ethical requirement in case of clearly convicted murderers, and even more so in cases which are (a) less severe than murder and (b) the particular culprits less clearly proven.
They're not competing with each-other... Ableton's a pro tool. Garageband for iOS is a fun app aimed at beginners, which allows one to experiment, record, have fun and maybe even produce some tracks. It's surprisingly capable, although it's focused on loops and presets.
To me the witcher 3 had the feature of collectible women cards from sex as a game mechanic, which really takes away from the notion of a deep or compelling story.
TDD has some excellent philosophy behind it, but I struggle to implement it because I get discouraged by failure, and move on to other topics.

If the TDD approach said "thank you" for the good parts (code structure, not breaking 500 other test cases), that would make the 13 errors less scary. One of the things I like about software is that it's "soft" - it should be possible to make changes without the fear of getting it wrong, and be able to fix them now while I see the problem, rather than procrastinating until later when I've forgotten about it.

The same "thank you" system applies when working with external contractors (e.g. language translations). We can assume they tried their best, and therefore might not know what else to say. Reporting 19 problems will get us a reputation for being nitpicky, hostile, even toxic. Rather, we should thank them for the 730 that they got right, and suggest improvements for the 19 that we think might be better.

With thankfulness and encouragement, TDD could really change the industry for the better.
You’re not wrong, but do consider that while real life is, well, real. Part of a parents job is to prepare the kid for the real world, but also (maybe more importantly) provide this child with the tools to create the world they would like to exist in (which starts with the parents of course). I’m not saying it’s always possible, but i think its something a lot of parents consider.

Real life for me consists of very little time for friends, nature, or my community (if it wasn’t obvious my life is pmuch my family and my job), yet while my children will inevitably learn through my actions, I can try to use my words to express to them that there is another form of existence possible where they have time for those things I don’t.

Parenting can also a pretty fun exercise on cognitive dissonance at times... :)
You mean how qualified dividends* are taxed like long-term capital gains already?

* - which is almost all of them
The problemn with PoE is that it's too amateur, yes the skill tree is big but the rest is very not much on part with diablo in term of animation, sounds , muscis, combat feeling, gameplay, ui etc ...
Working in the strategy back office of a one of the worlds largest producer of renewable power, I feel I have a reasonable grasp of the problem here. Not sure what background you believe I am missing.

The point I was trying to make in my second paragraph is that when hydrolyzers get sufficiently cheap that you can buy enough to cover your peak over-production and let them idle when you are missing power, then you have effectively moved the elasticity from the production side to the demand side -- and then slow baseload does not require you to derate down your renewables.

This is far from the situation today where hydrolyzers are so expensive that you need to run them at pretty high utilization to make the economics work out.
Civil war is the goal of the ultra rich. They are attacking freedom itself because they know the response is war, and no response is slavery.
I like your attitude.

I've always preferred carrots over sticks.
I think that's intended as sarcasm, and uncharitably ignores my point was order of priorities, not absolutes; but sure, things like that Should be discussed - e. G. My ex-father-in-law was Insistent that kids MUST be taught cursive. When challenged why, he gave no particular reason other than to repeat it a lot.

More to the point though, Kids ARE taught speech FIRST (as is my point with an instrument)! They in fact DO learn complex sentences and language patterns and communication way way before we teach them writing. We are not even contemplating teaching 1 year olds writing before we teach them language. So you are 100% making my point for me :).

Similarly in languages, I once went through 2 years of learning foreign language by rote memorization of tenses and rules and declensions and it was awful (this was not in North America) . Got nobody in the class anywhere. 10 A-plus students couldn't make a conversational sentence after 2 years. Much more success is accomplished by teaching people here to speak and understand language first.

And again to address different part of your comment and my point: I claim staff notation for people who WANT to understand patterns and theory In music can be counterproductive. Get the feel for relativity of keys first, before we smash C major up your throat. Alphabets by and large aren't that counterproductive, so it's a bit of a false comparison on that level too, though we can have a good discussion of phonetic alphabets vs whatever the heck English has. Staff notation is not inherently logical and representative of patterns in 12 note equal temperament. It's just an archaic system we are stuck in though others have been proposed. It's qwerty! :)

Through all of this tough, I don't see an actual counter argument - this seems to always get people riled up and upset, But why SHOULD an adult wanting to strum or jam and have some fun, be taught staff notation FIRST? What goal does it accomplish, why is that a beneficial order of operation, other than "that's how I was taught"? Let's have a charitable, productive honest discussion :)
This is very clever satire of the sad state of internet discourse, well done.
Thanks for posting this comment, I searched for sources on this topic after reading it and was very surprised to see corroboration. Here’s a quote and few links for those interested:

In the US in 2019, a high % of adults reported reading a book recently

https://www.markinblog.com/book-sales-statistics/

…who is reading in the US?

In October of 2019, over 80% of adults, age 18 to 29, have read at least one book in the previous year. Older adults, possibly because they are not spending as much time studying and more time working, read slightly less.

Lockdowns may have increased reading in the US

https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/02/aap-statshot-sees...

Political polarization in the UK appears to drive book sales

https://www.theguardian.com/books/datablog/2017/mar/18/the-f...

(edit for formatting)
Signal-LTS
Basically it is just a worthless and meaningless event. "Bla-bla" as per Greta Thunberg.
Weird choice to put everything into 1 airflow run when they could have just instructed it to schedule runs for all months from 2013 up to now.
I am not aware of any smart TVs you can actually control, and that are not user hostile.

I think "Vote with your wallet" is just an excuse to sit around and do nothing. It did not stop companies spying on you, selling your data, electronics becoming unrepairable, schematics disappearing, etc. Vote with your actual vote, we are meant to be a democracy first, capitalism second.
And did the general conclusion change that wind wouldn't be able to provide more than even half the energy we need for transport?
> To me it seems like the worst case is probably human deaths in the hundreds of millions, not extinction.

I think this underestimates the societal repercussions of an initial set of hundreds of millions of deaths.

Millions of deaths probably means billions of refugees looking for new places to live, probably in places that are already struggling with the changes themselves.
Roku basically benefitted from 2 things:
1) The constant battles between Apple, Google, Amazon, where removing or not adding their specific media distribution channel to each others platforms was used as leverage in all sorts of unrelated negotiations. This meant that Roku was for the longest time the only device that supported AppleTV, Google, Prime Video.

2) Google’s insistence on it having a physical remote for their Chromecast players which in itself was likely a result of the fiefdoms which led to Chromecast and Google TV being separate products for the longest time.

Both of these things are not true anymore. Roku is no longer a neutral platform. And Google Chromecast now comes with a remote.

I see very little reason to pick a Roku over the Chromecast with Google TV and I suspect that Roku’s disadvantages will only worsen with v2 of the Google device.
They're not saying that. They're assuming that Amazon (or the seller on their platform) buys at a wholesale price below what the manufacturer charges as retail on their own website. So the manufacturer loses out on the difference if you buy from Amazon instead of direct. That's broadly going to be true whether the Amazon retail price ends up being higher or lower than the manufacturer's retail price.
Working out or running purely for exercise are contrived from an evolutionary perspective. For millions of years of the homo genus we only ran or exercised because it was in the context of a useful task, like getting dinner, clearing land, or being playful. In these forms of running or weight lifting your mind would have only been focused externally on the tasks it's connected to.

Does it make it difference? Since mind and body are interconnected, of course it does.

I'm weird but I do sometimes run and imagine I'm actually persistence hunting an antelope, and that some hypothetical tribe would be thrilled to have it. It does supply a boost of energy and makes the run easier. Evolution hacking I suppose.
Ideally, shouldn't zink query the vulkan driver for what capabilities the hw has, and then expose an appropriate OpenGL version?

Unconditionally exposing the latest GL version by emulating missing GPU functionality sounds like a recipe for applications to fall off performance cliffs.
You've probably spent that on a vacation. Is your life so profitable that you can spend that money on a vacation? Get some perspective. This is also his hobby.
> It's plainly Dorsey's tweet, not mine, and not yours. Dorsey wrote it, published it on his account, has the ability to destroy the tweet,

I think that's the point. With a baseball card, I clearly own the physical card, and can put it in the spokes of my bicycle if I want to.

You mentioned the owner of the tweet is the Dorsey and I agree. If so, then what right did the NFT owner purchase? None as far as I can tell.
Intel still developing VISC architecture 5 years after Soft machines acquisition
I find that when I remember, and remember to keep on focusing on a visual metaphor I have for running form and economy the perceived effort doesn't change but suddenly you're going 1 or 2 minutes per mile faster. It's absolutely magic.
> Out of interest, have you ever worked with equipment like this? Or in an environment that contains this type of equipment?

Yes.
"Vague" systemic exploration is interesting, having live prototypes to modify and refine gradually, to gain knowledge and maybe readjust the substructures.
I remember reading a Perl 6 design document back in the day that made a convincing argument that operator precedence should be a partial instead of a total order. The language was supposed to have user defined operators. The idea was that you would make some declarations that your new operator would bind e.g. "between * and +", or "tighter than *". The system would build up a minimal partial order that satisfied these constraints.

One of nice things about such a system is its compositionality: If you mix and match custom operators from different modules, you wouldn't get a conflict or a random precedence order, instead, you'd simply be forced to disambiguate using parentheses.

Contrast this with Haskell, which also has custom operators, but only a fixed number of precedence slots (10 IIRC), and some libraries really suffer from the fact that there's no "good one" available that works for the intended usage.
While I agree with you regarding the political dimension, the technical, especially regarding safety may not be underestimated regarding cost implications. But the right political setting could imply cheap, mass produced plants, e.g. SMR's. The problem is that were too late, would take several decades to scale up to where we we should be already...
I live in Iceland now (but I'm American, and this is only a few years old move). We have state-run healthcare, but the quality is seriously lower by I'd say an order of magnitude than what I experienced in the US. I don't know if it's possible to get the quality of care without individuals paying. Yes, there's obviously some bloat in the system - a lot of bloat, but people tend to forge the US has world-leading health care. It's just really expensive.
Yes, I have been wondering what that even means. So many idioms and phrases don't make sense (ignoring the fact that some are historically outdated which is the cause of some of them not making sense)
Google's "plane ticket in the inbox" logic is extremely handy, but it's also not very clever. If a family member forwards me their itinerary so I can pick them up from the airport, for example, Google will still remind me that I have to depart soon, even though I'm just at home.
StryoPyro is 100% aware of the ratings for his goggles.
For native app development you might want to try Flutter.

Don't try to build anything to show it off. Work on things that interest you the most and share these instead.
"Please point to one law or government policy in the US in CURRENT_YEAR that systemically discriminates against a specific group, so people are aware of it, so we can fix it."

Sentencing disparity between powdered cocaine (whose usage skews towards white people) and crack cocaine.
.... you can't check out PoE2? There isn't even a playable beta. From their website:

"We don't have a release date for Path of Exile 2 yet, but we're unlikely to start a Beta until 2022 at the earliest. In the meantime, we are continuing to release Path of Exile expansions on our regular three-month cycle. "
My deep seated fear is that some fundamental infrastructure will fail, Database, dns, DDoS, there are so many things that can go wrong. Esp with big old code bases.

Many developers really dont care what happens in production, leaving a subset to stress out. Perhaps the solution is just be like the people who just expect problems and accept it.
Does owning 100% of a good company have economic value, even if literally no one else wants to buy it from you?

If it does, why wouldn’t a fractional share of that company have the same quality?

If you owned all of Coca-Cola, Amex, Disney, or Tesla, anyone would think you were spectacularly well-resourced, even if stock markets didn’t exist or if selling portions of companies were outlawed.
Specifically for the velociraptor drives however, it was a 2.5" form factor drive that needed to be mounted in a 3.5" form factor heatsink, so you weren't gaining anything in drive density.
I have the latest and most expensive Roku that was available as of a year ago.

The thing struggled to keep sound and video in sync every time I disable or enable captions and then requires a restart to fix the issue.

That’s literally the most basic function this device is supposed to support and it cannot. I have never seen such a problem with any other device I’ve used, including a variety of chrome casts, a fire stick, an Apple TV, an XBox/XBox One, and even XBMC (installed on the original XBox), a variety of RPi solutions, etc.
The first person to build a safe, economic, waste free reactor will be a billionaire. But so far that hasn't happened.
Plastics – Searching for solutions to a crisis decades in the making
I actually found nier automatas story beats so cringey that I was turned off on the playing of it, honestly. Pretty early on a pile of robots start an orgy that creates a human-looking clearly-not-a-human villain. It felt totally directionless and random at the time. I didn’t really want to continue if I was just going to get weird shit happening with an overlay of philosophical hand waving.
While it is bla bla it is necessary. How else would you establish political pressure in a democracy? Many green transition tech would be feasible if co2 taxes were established, even within the eu.
People cringe at Zuck but what he’s doing is nothing compared to what’s happening on the crypto scene.
> “nuclear isn’t quickly dispatchable, which is what we need”

> something needs to turn on in the next 5 minutes or streetlights start going out. Right now, nuclear isn’t capable of filling that niche.

Depends on the reactor. A single ~1GW reactor should be able to adjust its output up by 150MW or so in 5 minutes. If you have multiple that number multiplies obviously.

For example a typical reactor in France with a max output of 1300MW can be adjusted all the way down to 400MW within 30 minutes (and up to max 1300MW output from minimumn 400MW in the same time). If they could not do that there is no way France could generate 70%+ of their electricity with nuclear.

(obviously the reactor has to be designed with the goal of being adjustable for it to be able to do this. France started to do this in the 80s)

edit: Though because the vast majority of the costs of running a nuclear power plant is in building/maintaining it and running it at max vs min output costs the same amount of money most owners want to run their reactor at max output always.
Who do you trust more?

Someone who never makes mistakes or someone who deals with their mistakes openly and directly?

We know the first one doesn't exist. Some people like to make us believe that, but it's bullshit.

However, one big caveat: Owning mistakes, being open about them doesn't absolve us from making them, especially not in the future. We still _made_ the mistake. Should we dwell on that or get punished? Likely not. Severity, intention and so on matter too. But should we simply not feel bad about it? "Embrace mistakes"? Not so sure about that either.

When we say "embrace mistakes", what we really mean is "embrace learning". Mistakes are opportunities to learn for ourselves and others indirectly.

We shouldn't be victims of our bad feelings and beat ourselves up. I did that for years. It crushed my confidence and well-being into submission and years after I'm still recovering from that. But the solution is not to try and make us feel good about ourselves regardless. It's not _just_ a psychological problem.

Mistakes happen for a reason, even if they are as simple as "I didn't write that down". They happen all the time, we can't prevent that, but what we can do is decide what kind of mistakes we want to face and ultimately what kind of problems we want to solve, be able to solve - for us and others.

Don't get bogged down, don't beat yourself up and don't let others beat you up for your mistakes. But make yourself aware that you can actually learn from them and decide for yourself when you want or need to put the energy into doing that.
Video games have existed for over 50 years now. Video games have had as much time to mature as film had had by the early 1940s. And by the early 1940s film had produced numerous mature works of art displaying mastery of the medium that are still avidly watched and viewed as masterpieces today. The excuse that video games are a young medium may have held 20 years ago in the PS2 era, but it does not hold any longer.
Note the difference between the below two items:

1. Title:
A 29-year-old marketing expert used a weird resume to ___get 30,000 interviews___ in a week

2. A subheader bullet point:
Vidal's bot was used 30,000 times, and he ___got 14 online interviews___ and 11 job offers as a result.

Does 30,000 somehow equal 14?

(Answer: only if you equate 30,000 self-service chatbot conversations ("interviews" as claimed) as as meaningful and valuable as an actual human-to-human interview. Basically, this article has a deceptive clickbaity title.)

(I emailed BusinessInsider's corrections account about this.
corrections@insider.com)
in regards to updating your firewall rules..

Having an outbound allow any and incoming deny any should be sufficient for home use (as it is with IPv4).
I had no idea that "game movies" existed. I'm going to have to watch a few. I was obsessed with playing games as a kid. I'm now 40 and every so often get excited about playing a game I see (most recently Deathloop) but when I actually play it I am underwhelmed by the experience and never play again after the first sitting. The only exceptions are arcade games that I don't need to invest heavily in and are a mindless escape. On the other hand I still enjoy watching the reviews and gameplay videos. I think what is lacking for me in the playing experience is that the actual gameplay never feels novel or interesting to me and usually feels like a huge amount of drudgery to extract the core ideas and highlight experiences. Open world games are overwhelming to me as I can't stop thinking about the real-life opportunity cost of the time I'm spending meandering around (strangely I don't worry about the opportunity cost when reading books...). What I enjoy from just watching is experiencing the ideas and aesthetics in a more streamlined fashion. You might say that I should just stick to movies and books, but I honestly believe games are a unique art form with great promise, so I'll keep revisiting!
The European Central Bank has also maintained low
rates, and many European sovereign yields are lower
than U.S. Treasury yields, but European equity
valuations are not as high

The reason could be cultural. When I talk to Europeans, they often see investing as "gambling". Which has a negative, scary connotation.
This is the 26th agreement to do nothing about the problem. And that doesn't count a bunch of separate but related agreements like Paris.

It's time for local adaption and mitigation. Forget saving the world, save your own corner of it. Or move to a saveable one.
Whenever I start something new, I accept failure immediately. It frees my brain to enjoy my mistakes; the more mistakes, the more I learn. The worst thing that can happen with something new is I do nothing wrong.
And it never will if people who are afraid of it remain in charge.