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Which is why, if the objective is to improve, you simply don't play unless you are in good conditions to play. The higher your ELO the better your opponents, the more you are set to learn.

I understand this used to be harder in the past, if you are to meet a guy at 5 to play a match then that's that, but in today's age there is really no reason to have a subpar performance in competitive matches.
Well I am also from the game industry and that is how we actually treat players.
Most important players are are called "whales". They have money and no self control. The industry is always targeting them. We spend sometimes months looking at numbers just to increase the spending margin of those players, usually 90% of players are "idiots" because they don't spent more than necessary.

And we focus on the other 10% that have diminished mental capacity for self control or other issues that would hinder their self control. If they are not addicted to our product, they will get addicted to a competitors product anyway.
I think you are being too hard on "adult beginners". I'm not sure if it is relatable but I'm learning guitar, just finished my second year self teaching it. I can't see myself as a guitar player just yet but I'm starting to have a clear perception of the stuff I have to learn and more importantly the stuff music players around me know and I'm pretty sure I can reach and overtake them. I'm thinking about "average level skills", there will always be a 8 years old kid with better abilities but I find the idea of comparing oneself to the whole world is unhealthy and far from fair. This doesn't apply only to music: the mere existance of Fabrice Bellard should prevent me from ever reaching a computer keyboard ever again.

I live in Italy, here there are two kind of musicians: 1) conservatory majors, with really really strong "fundamentals" but none to zero improvisation skills 2) other people who followed a learning path of anglo-saxon derivation, usually they have some degree of play-by-ear and improvisation skills but they show a severe lack on fundamentals skills.
By "fundamentals" I mean sight reading (meant as sight reading on first sight, everyone can read with enough time), ability to sing what you want to play in tune before playing it, strong inner sense of time and subdivision, knowledge of theory and harmony.
Side note: if you ever see musicians perform in Italy (maybe this applies to other European countries like Germany and France too) there is a very easy way to recognize if they have a classical / conservatory background: look at their feet. If they tap a foot there is a very strong chance they have no classical background as it is seen as the kind of baby wheels thing that prevents solfege from developing a strong inner sense of time.

Back on topic: as you can see there are these big two big subsets of music learning. What I'm doing is simply mix them: I study sight reading and solfege (trying to sing in tune) but at the same time I spend time transcribing by ear and following improvisation methods. There are some very strong sinergies in this: the ability to sing (in tune, not mumbling it) makes transcribing orders of magnitude easier. Same applies to knowledge of harmonic motions. Doing progressive reading exercises vastly improved my ability to play and understand odd rhythmic patterns to the point I can actually sense the lack of precision they have when I play in a garage band with my friends (not professional musicians but they have been playing for more than 20 years).

To make an even simpler example: I can play without looking at my guitar, a lot of people can't. This feel a lot like seeing people unable to type on a computer keyboard without looking at it.
Electronic toys have much more potential for modification. It just takes a more advanced skill set.
The Yggdrasil Screen Reader Project
Obscure, and yet technically superior in all ways...

Bitwig == Ableton++, after Ableton management vetoed engineering's desire to do a major and much needed architectural rewrite. As I understand it, they didn't see how tearing down all the legacy code and building something more stable and modular would help them sell more licenses the next year. Hence, we have Bitwig.

I like it as one of the rare examples of engineers wanting to fix problems and create something great winning out over the desire for predictable annual returns.
I’m with you. I understand the theoretical problems of Google’s business model, but I get great value from their products, and until such a point as I experience or perceive direct harm, I’m okay to roll with them.

(I deleted Instagram within of two weeks of joining, and Facebook many years ago.)
Even if I have time for more, around 4h of focus is my limit, and after that quality is lost very quickly.
Yeah I guess it won't make sense without more context, I.E. understanding the rest of the graphics systems on a computer.

It seems like it's a standardized interface for a windowing library like wayland/x11 to talk to a graphics driver, specifically for setting up regions of the screen which will be rendered into by something (opengl etc.)? So there were non-standard ways before?
Yes. Homelessness. It's a bit of a barely worth saying, but it's there.
The statement "the software we use is up to 100 times slower than it needs to be" is not OS overhead (which is relatively small) but about user-facing application software written to optimize development speed/cost and not performance.

A reasonable game is performance focused and is spending most of the computing power directly on itself (even if perhaps not optimally and not utilizing specific GPU hardware to its full extent) and not in OS routines, so an OS providing a specific "game mode" with only the bare minimum amount of OS the game needed to run can perhaps bring a 5% or 10% performance improvement, but not 50% and definitely not 100 times performance increase.

For software that was written in a performance insensitive way (i.e. not games) you perhaps could achieve a 100 times performance increase by a full rewrite avoiding various overheads. However, you would not really need an OS change for that, the main performance-relevant changes would be in the app itself and you can get almost all of that by running the optimized app on a standard OS - but you would need a rewrite of all the actual software.

The example of this article about UnrealEngine and Vulkan is a good illustration - a game targeting the specific hardware directly could achieve the same performance (and more!), however, they are not going to, nobody is going to rewrite the game because that's expensive, so getting an OS abstraction layer like Vulkan - which inevitably adds some extra performance overhead, not reduces it - is the only reasonable way to go.
God, IPv6 got the shaft hard. People complain that it's too complex and that it solves too many problems at once, but that's because they've become used to the ancient stack of random protocols that make IPv4 work. There are also a lot of people who have it out for IPv6 because their ISPs aren't handing out static addresses, somehow equating IPv6's problems with the shittiness of their ISP.

It's not widely implemented because hardware support is lagging behind (Ubiquity being a notorious example in the prosumer space), hardware support isn't being developed because it's not rolled out widely, software support is lacking because of a lack of rollout which is then used as an excuse not to roll out IPv6.

I bet that if people learned IPv6 before they learned about IPv4 the conclusion would be that IPv4 is a mess. In my opinion, DHCP is a stupid protocol for assigning addresses that shouldn't have been necessary, but we've managed to staple some kind of management ideals on top of it (as if someone couldn't just set a static IP on their device) and using SLAAC feels like giving up control for some. Imagine trying to convince people that they have to set up a USBCP server on either their computer or their flash drive to make USB work without address conflicts, or to make Bluetooth work, they'll laugh at you and ask why that stuff isn't done automatically by the underlying protocols instead. DHCP is useful for many other settings, but address negotiation should've never been a problem it needed to solve in the first place.

We've accepted NAT as a fact of life because of ISPs being stingy to hand out addresses years ago when multiple devices started appearing in home networks and now people treat it like some kind of firewall (which it usually isn't!) or absolute necessity because they can't imagine something else.

Ask any console player about what type of NAT they have (NAT type 0? Type 1? Type 2? open? moderate? strict? I've never been able to figute out what these classifications even mean on a technical level!) and they'll shudder with flashbacks of getting basic connections to work with their crappy ISP router. This should never have been a problem, but everyone kept dragging their feet and eventually we decided to accept this mess.

I think part of the reason is that many schools still only teach IPv4 in their networking classes, so when people encounter IPv6 in the real world they're scared and confused by concepts, protocols and mechanisms they were never prepared or trained for.
Definitely. Alas I’m not in a position to have that. Just yet, at least.

Nevertheless, in terms of optimization in the context of going it alone, having resources on _how_ to learn rather than _what_ to learn is great.
The post touts writing and publishing regularly as the most important factors in having a blog, as many posts of this style do.

I figured I'd give it a shot, so last summer I set myself the goal of writing one blog post each week, for at least a year. So far, I've never missed the deadline. The audience/reach of my blog, however, didn't change significantly, and it gets progressively harder to go on since it feels like I'm writing "to the void."

A lot of people talk about consistency, but I have come to realize that after a certain point, "marketing," (e.g. spreading your stuff) is even more important. I'd love to see a post talking about that.
What motivates me to create is a vague memory of what the process gives me back - especially in tough times.
A fairly simple approach for all is to up the price based on contention. Regularly auction out the lease f.ex

Allowing “ownership” of such resources just leads to rent-seeking.
Which PHP frameworks do you have in mind?
You mean the lab in the same neighborhood as the epicenter of the outbreak where US gain of function research moved to a few years ago. Where the US had been investing a lot of money?

And its China that is getting away with it right?
Also Ardour (which is GPL'ed and runs natively on Linux as well as Windows and Mac) is currently growing Ableton-like features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiwUN7hz6eU
Online Dating and Involuntary Celibate Women
Interest rates continuing to fall can only push valuations higher. Investors expect less in return in terms of a dividend (actual or theoretical) since bond returns are lowered. The price of risk gets higher.
If you have a great idea but no resources to realise it, you create a limited liability company, issue stock to the market to raise money to create your business. It's just a way to raise money to create products, inventions etc. Like crowdsourcing except you get a share in the company instead of giving it as a donation for a sticker or a t-shirt.

Edit: a ponzi scheme would be if the company is constantly issuing more and more stock at an ever increasing price, and do not have any other actual revenue but somehow is faking this for the market to believe.
Yes, plenty of correspondence still happens, but it's usually a receive-only basis limited to, again, legacy applications.

You wouldn't vote via email, but you can definitely vote online in multiple countries. And again, that's a legacy application for interfacing with an "important" entity (the government).

> It is the only way to deliver a message to the person residing at a fixed physical address.

Fixed physical addresses are overrated, and they change (tenants, recent home buyers). If you want to ensure you can deliver a message, you need to know how to contact them in other ways too.
Facebook hasn’t worked out yet they need to be paying a lot more money to Apple. Much more.

Tim’s going to keep thrashing Facebook till it learns to start paying up.

It’s more important than the metaverse.
The millions of Australians who aren't employed, nor considered 'unemployed'
Yes, I recently was investigating USB keyboard/mouse usage on a microcontroller and found out it's not too difficult to implement: https://www.networktechinc.com/usb-prots.html
having met some people wrapped up in drugs, i can tell you that sometimes people who sell drugs are doing it to support a habit, i’ve met people who started out on prescription pain pills that they got prescribed from their doctor due to a surgery.

the pills were then eventually stopped and they got desperate because for many it was the first time in their life that they felt happy, many were in extreme poverty or had mental illness before getting hooked to prescription drugs, they got locked up for something dumb or less offensive, the system put them on probation, where it made them toxic to employeers, so they turned to selling because they were already doomed as it was, the drug war just reinforces a separate class of people.

i don’t agree with people using drugs like heroin but, ive met many people who actually said that oxytocin and oxycoden is way better than heroin, and that they prefer it.

and i am almost certain that more people die from prescription opiates a year than heroin yet, whenever someone mentions it, the whole conversation disappears with hush money. the drug war really seems like a tax on the most vulnerable in which was fueled by big pharma and paid by the average worker (us).

johnson and johnson got called out on it and got a tiny slap on the hand, and later on was trusted enough to make a vaccine. which i am pretty sure johnson and johnson also had a baby powder lawsuit over their baby powder giving newborns cancer, but the problem is, the accountability is only on the people who cannot afford to pay the bill, the real criminals work for these companies, own these companies, lobby for these companies and or pass laws for profit at the expense of a healthy society.

it’s just weird, we lock up the poor but don’t punish the source. it’s legal patchwork, but i know some people on here probably work for someone like johnson and johnson and nobody wants to bite the hand that feeds them.

the system here in the states needs to be fixed. it doesn’t have to be law based but it definitely has to have a better framework than what we have going on right now.
Are Stored Procedures and Triggers Anti-Patterns in the Cloud Native World?
Crazy numbers. Is there something comparable in terms of show format in the US/Europe? Or is this something to swap over from China and which Amazon will pick up on in the next months/years?
JCB digs up a green future with hydrogen engines
I don't see any closets or space for a dresser on those plans either. Where are students supposed to keep their clothes? Under-the-bed drawers?
We made these creatures; we can't shy from what they are.

In this particular case I think the dog may have more integrity then the substitute person can see.
I think most people's objections to Google and Amazon are macro objections to harm their business does to the world, not the individual consumer.

I shop on Amazon like I eat steaks. I get individual value out of Amazon and the steak, but at macro scale, Amazon is harming other businesses, and my steaks increase carbon emissions (amongst other things).
> everything feels very fragile and I get freaked out anytime I have to touch the Android or iOS code for fear of breaking it. The plugin ecosystem is also a bit of a quagmire of abandoned repos

That is exaclty how I feel about my RN app ;-)
The Gates foundation is a 501c3, not an LLC.
What does it even mean that the data was 'superior'? Google has no proven workaround. It was affected as everywhere else.
Kubernetes Logging in Production
It is not enough to just take the corporate earnings of companies in the quater after the apple change and claim that every cent facebook / google made or did not make is due to this change.
Google’s New Architecture Pathways, Claims to Solve Limitations of Today’s AI
Ok now start 52 jobs, collect the first weeks' pay, and take the rest of the year off.
Most comments seem to focus on active security testing. My experience is that this is just 20% of what companies call Security.

80% of the effort is compliance, regulations and getting "holes plugged".

For one to be successful in corporate security, you better be good at PowerPoint and selling ideas / wishes.

Currently my role is managing a bug bounty program for a largish company. Getting a service on-boarded (explaining the benefits and expectations) is 40% of the work, agreeing with the service owner on the CVSS scoring 10%, getting a service fix a finding about 20% and the rest of the work is the cool stuff (validating findings, communicating with the hackers & setting a bounty).

So my "advice" to you would be, figure out what exactly you want to do "in Security". If you like to get your feet wet in the technical space, sign up to a Bug Bounty program and start searching. If you want to be administratively involved, by all means apply for any of the "looking for security officer / manager" job offerings.
Rome, London, Berlin, Paris and Milan in the past 2 months. I haven’t seen a used needle in decades (I saw a needle only once when I was a child)
"Programming" as a technique of problem solving can be taught and learnt by anybody just like Mathematics. Now whether they will become good at it depends on various other characteristics like Interest, Aptitude, Effort and Persistence. There is no inherent limiting factor since it is a function of "General Intelligence" which all of us "Normal" folks are imbued with.
Not sure how to interpret your comment. What made you come to that conclusion?
Yeah, but have you tried the alternatives to amazon? Got to say the competition is really not doing itself any favours.

Same price / more + $6.50 in postage arriving in 4 days time. And you are going to harass me with emails because now you have it...
Not sure what you mean. The original had no electronic parts. It was basically a hand-wound music box with interchangeable discs.
Cyrano: Peter Dinklage film explores 'human need for connection'
That’s a false issue nowadays. Basically any cheap router supports Avahi/Zeroconf/Bonjour … and allows you to reach any other machine of the network directly by its host name instead of its IP. There is not any reason to learn the IP address of your first MySQL server when you can reach it through « mysql-1 » or « mysql-1.local ».

You basically just need a router and an OS from the last two decades and your machines to have a defined host name (which your OS installer takes care of).
The same is true for functional programming fans, except that Haskell is hyped a lot more than Forth ;)
> all the innovations in the M1 Macbooks

What are the innovations in them? From everything I've heard, they just basically reverted all the changes most people hated for the last few years and slapped a new chip in there.
A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure
A similar format has been running on cable television in the US for years as the Home Shopping Network or QVC.
I'd look into health or sleep habit related things potentially causing this. I don't think that is normal, unless maybe you're addicted to caffeine.
I think we are talking past each other. I'm trying to understand what is the value of one stock apart from speculative valuation. It seems to me you agree that there is none beyond what someone else is willing to pay for it.
> still supports the OpenGL 1.1 ICD that they rely on?

On Windows 11, it’s OpenGL 3.3 on top of DX12, because Qualcomm doesn’t provide an OpenGL ICD at all.

> crappy drivers

Special mention to the Intel OpenGL graphics driver on Windows. If you thought that the AMD Windows one was bad, the Intel one was somehow significantly worse.
Not quite the same, but along the same lines in terms of showing what tracks are made of - https://www.incredibox.com
I wonder, how many people will give themselves RF burns or permanent laser damage to their eyesight trying to replicate stuff they see in these click-baity videos?

YouTube is full of content that tries to give the impression of a random, edgy, not-quite-knowing-what-they're-doing guy just messing around with stuff in their parent's garage, woefully ignoring all safety concerns on camera.

I'm sure many of their viewers don't realize that in reality they are highly skilled, do in fact take care of safety behind the scene and basically run a successful business off videos attacting millions of views.

Seems unethical to me.
The split personalities of shell usage
Billionaires back new media firm to combat disinformation
No, but they matter on the other side. If I am selling to a nonprofit to save the world, I'll give a different price than to a for-profit.

There ought to be a meta.com shareholder suit.
https://archive.md/ipmPE
Apart from speculative valuation, it's the value of the goods and services produced by the company + it's assets etc.
>Doesn't it? I guess it's a matter of age and class and nationality. If you're too young to earn money, it's a barrier. If you're in the lower classes of your country, 20$/month can be a lot

I was comparing the payment to buying or operating a server (even a free old server has costs, e.g. for electricity). In truth, a proper modern comparison should be to a free plan from one of the cloud providers which is likely to be 0/month.
NAT was a thing much before ip addresses became scarse, is a key enabler in the "internets" ease of use as well as the principal ability to connect nearly double-digit billions of devices with about 200mio live addresses.

the end-to-end principle is mostly undermined by stateful firewalls and a total lack of secure-by-design in software developement, this will not change with ipv6
Which are the "mainstream" outlets?
If you're going to try something out, better to do it on a small scale first. Build weird housing for a couple hundred students before scaling up to 4k+.
DeepSukebe – ИИ-рычажный нудификатор. – Лучшее приложение Nudifier
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002441
Metaverse is just a word. And what it will be used to describe is a VR game owned by Facebook. And it will be bullshit.

The internet will include VR/AR elements eventually, but it will not get a new name. It will still just be called The Internet by some and by most of those who are young now they’ll continue to call it what they are calling it now which is Wifi.
What baffles me is how this could be cheaper to manufacture than the original design. It was literally just music box tines in the head of the arm, and it was plucked by the bumps on the rotating record, just like a music box. This new version even contains a silenced music box! How does this make any kind of sense?
That's very good advice if one's well disciplined. The trouble is many of are not and it's why we need a good teacher to keep us on the straight-and-narrow.

My teacher was forever nagging me to "play what's written, not my interpretation of it". She'd also tell me to "go home and practice the actual lesson", boring Czerny scales or such, "...and not muck around and waste time playing songbook stuff that I liked the sound of".