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The thesis _almost_ makes sense. Then the article does nothing to support it.

The history of D&D is an example of capitalism commoditizing creativity.

Initially, there were some very thin rules about character stuff to accompany miniature wargaming. This was not terribly interesting to most people. Wargamers or otherwise.

That grew into some still thin and permissive rules and more of a focus on playing a role and storytelling. The onus was on the players to do most of this. There wasn't much in the way of example or instruction. This attracted the crowd we think of today as makers - self-directed problem solvers who like to greenfield.

That all seemed sort of interesting but not approachable enough, so, in typical capitalist fashion, there were more and more manuals and rule sets and published scenarios. There was a lot more hand-holding for the creatively needy.

Meanwhile, simple algorithmic dungeon crawlers were created on computers. There was only a thin whiff of role playing as theme in combat-mechanic- and metric-heavy CRPGs.

Then we bounce back to TTRPGs who've learned from CRPGs and they become something a bit like CRPGs with slightly heavier theme. Almost all the creativity is sucked out of it. What we used to call "munchkining" prevails. The only meaningful decisions are in character creation, itself a strictly bounded system.

How did this happen? At every step along the way decisions were driven by profitability, economies of scale, and the general commoditization of creativity, turning every game into the same pleasant McAdventure.
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So just a gov cloud DC?
I went Mac->linux too. I took the notebook route when apple wasn't making anything compelling 3 years ago. I did the pay to solve compatibility problem (I bought a system76). It really has been pretty flawless in terms of upgrades and install. A fan broke after a couple years, but I replaced.. It even runs Steam very well.

Its not great with power unless I switch to "intel graphics" from Nvidia. (The intel graphics don't drive external monitors though..).

Very happy with it.
Plant-based vegetarian diet, bicycle-friendly cities and towns, anticonsumerism, locally-grown food, 4 day work week.
When you combine it with shell scripts, I'd say that ls is an API to itself.
This sounds like my neighborhood (Coolidge corner, Brookline)

Where are you?
> What you seem to not understand is that normal people don't speak up when they only have a canned response they were told to say, to say.

I never mentioned a canned response they were told to say. You've invented this.
No. Astrology is a somewhat mystified, ritualized form of useful reflexive and social activities, namely thinking about personality and long-term thinking about life decisions.

Just like how a funeral at a church is a somewhat mystified, ritualized form of the useful reflexive and social activities of remembering and grieving.
That's actually a great idea! Thank you
what do you mean by flipped-classroom work?
man, why not spend time with your wife during this exciting time instead of this?
Subverting the nfc key would count. Or if your car is unlocked/controlled by an app, subverting that app.
Can you elaborate on how you design your board games? How do you approach it?
No, JSX in AssemblyScript with the same dev experience is very far away.

AssemblyScript is awesome, but right now it's more similar to C (with TS syntax) - it's not a TypeScript runtime on Wasm, it's a lowlevel language that looks nearly the same, that hopes to integrate Wasm GC etc when it comes (not yet).
Some totally rural fjord town in north east Iceland. I like being left alone.
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Eh. Astrology is obviously bullshit, but on the whole it’s much less harmful than other forms of misinformation. If we’re going to spend public and private credibility haggling over misinformation, I’d rather focus on the forms that have a much higher body count. I’m fine with leaving astrology in the category of “not subject to any moderation, but openly mocked by other commenters whenever it comes up”.
Two days and so far it's worked. Drops 1% power overnight (compared to 8% per hour pre-change), and connects straight back to wifi upon wakeup.

Note hibernation is still disabled. This is just sleep. And I didn't hack anything AFAIK to disable the connected-standby that Dell/Windows forces. So, pretty happy! (Of course, was looking forward to trying out a Mac, but oh well).

The following sleep states are available on this system:
Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Disconnected

The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported.

Standby (S2)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported.

Standby (S3)
This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported.

Hibernate
Hibernation has not been enabled.

Hybrid Sleep
Standby (S3) is not available.
Hibernation is not available.
The hypervisor does not support this standby state.

Fast Startup
Hibernation is not available.

Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Connected
Connectivity in standby is disabled by policy.
All solutions to all problems were at some point just 3 years away.
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> What you're describing is real, but it's not called the overton window.

Its usually not something worth discussing on its own, but I don't know why you wouldn't call the exact same thing that is called “the Overton window” for any other size set of people “the Overton window” for an individual.
LA. School activities and procedures, which are a big part of life for families with kids, are still heavily restricted.
I’m very sorry to hear this and I’m going through something similar. My mother has been diagnosed with late stage cancer a couple of months ago. Here’s what I’m doing:

- I’m taking time of work. To look after her, but also my role as primary caregiver is impossible to combine with work

- I’m personally seeing a psychologist specialized in oncology. She taught me a useful self-care framework that consists of four pillars: autonomy, physical well-being, social support, and doing meaningful things.

- My mum is also seeing a similar person to talk about the disease, its implications and possible death

- My role as primary caregiver and only child is complex. We involved a mediator to set mutual expectations

- I’m using the time to learn how to take care of myself both physically and mentally. For instance, I’m experimenting with light therapy and nutritional supplements

- I am learning about cancer. This is sometimes emotionally tough, but I like that I can now better help my mother navigate the medical complexities. Cancer is also an interesting gateway into immunology. I recommend “Elegant Defense” by Matt Richtel

- I spent a lot of energy organizing professional care (e.g., nurses, food l). This means that my support for her now feels of a higher quality.

- I am helping my mum keep track of her medical condition over time. This relates for instance to pain, side-effects, complications etc.

- I am trying to figure out what she finds difficult from an emotional and energy perspective. I outsource this. She needs to focus on getting through the therapy.

- I didn’t read all the comments, but it’s very true that outsiders often don’t know what to do but want to help. Make a list of things that need to happen and share it with them.

I wish you and your mother lots of strength.
As a young Brit visiting his American girlfriend I once said out loud in an Olive Garden, "Don't worry about that old cunt." My girlfriend practically died on the spot. [I was talking jovially about a friend of mine who would not in the slightest mind being called a cunt]
A Distributed Capacity for Violence: Brief History-Weapons,Tech,Political Power
My father in law passed earlier this year from cancer. We ended up taking him into our home for the last week and a half of his life. Lots of good advice in this thread (imho chief among them: therapy, asking for help from people you trust) so I'll just add some of the best advice I got, which was to be flexible. Things can change quickly, for good and bad, and it's good to take it as it comes, to remind yourself that you can't see into the future, to do the best you can right now. It's not easy, but for me personally, it made me calmer and more adaptable, especially for a situation that was largely out of my control for numerous reasons.
A portion of parents are very worried about Covid in their children. These parents have sway with school administrators and local governments. All I am saying is that I doubt we get total easing of Covid restrictions until these kids have had ample chance to be vaccinated. I'm not making any arguments or claims about what you are taking about.
I was frustrated with the verbosity of ASP.NET Core, especially as an F# user. Don’t get me wrong, it is insanely powerful, performant and customisable web framework. And it is also one of the most USER-UNFRIENDLY things I have ever encountered in the web development.

Therefore, I decided to wrap it in some helper functions to make it as pleasant to work with for the new F# web developers as possible. And ... I’ve got somewhat carried away. This is the true origin of this project.

Before F# I was primarily into the Python, and I had really good experience with Django. I wanted to make my helper look more like Django but more I wrote, more it resembled Flask instead.

I have recently open sourced it under the MIT license on GitHub. I hope this will help with making other web developers more interested in seemingly niche language of F#.

I use it for a side project (some SPA app) I work on over the weekends. Therefore, I frequently change and update it as I encounter more missing things or parts that do not please me.

So, all the feedback is welcome! I am especially interested if you find the framework API intuitive enough for non-F# folks.

Thanks for your time!
Technology should work in a predictable way, no IA

User shall always be able to postpone unsolicited interaction

User shall always be offered the choice to ignore future notifications of a given kind

UI shall provide a way to undo any action and never ask for confirmation

UI shall never use drag and drop nor gestures

UI look may change between versions but not widget placement and behavior

Search shall be able to read user's mind
There is free trial of World of Warcraft, download the game and make a warrior character.

You start with 5% critical strike chance, see how often that happens.

You will be seriously surprised.
> I may be open-minded

You're not. If you were you will understand that astrology and other esoteric beliefs are culturally anchored to the human experience of many people in the world. In particular the self-development that many people seem to get from astrology. I don't need to believe in astrology to understand its cultural role.

I think it's completely fair to build a business around a cultural idea and use that idea as a thematic glue to teach people about self-development and self-care. If you donwload the app, you will quicky realize that's exactly what they are doing. Personally not my thing, but I respect what they do and their approach to building a business around this.
I think of it like this. If a number n has a factor f, f cannot be a factor of n+1 or n-1 (unless f is 1, but we can ignore that for primeness). The next numbers to have f as a factor are n+f or n-f.

If a number n has loads of factors, all of those factors are excluded from n+1 and n-1, so there are not many numbers left to be factors of them and they are likely to be twin primes.
Facial recognition is ethically and morally reprehensible technology?
In agreement. Far too many "debaters" do not acknowledge this truth. Identifying a problem and proposing a solution are two different things. I get that actionable statements are appreciated, but they aren't a requirement. Conflating the two rhetorically sophomoric.

Another way of putting this is the burden of proof to also provide on a solution is not on the problem identifier. Asking as much is implicitly making the argument that the problem doesn't exist because the solution doesn't yet exist. We can all agree how absurd that is.
If you guys aren't born yesterday, you have realized by now that it's a step by step process.

If too much resistence, back away for a few months, then implement it again. The wheel goes round and round.

Tech is building our 1984 or brave new world society and there is nothing to be done about it.
How lightweight can a desktop environment based on QT be? I thought QT is a rather hefty dependency.
Haha, I guess this is what every programmer does when they have a kid. I wrote an ELO ranking program when I had my first kid: https://github.com/cortesoft/BabyNamer

Give it a list of names, it presents pairs of names to voters who choose which they prefer of the two. Allows many people to work together to narrow down a name choice.

I took the site down after a while because I didn't want to keep paying for it after both my kids were born.

It worked ok, although the app basically just confirmed that we had clear favorites for our names.
Tokyo!

Pros:

- Safe almost everywhere even at night and generally very clean

- Infinite amount of things to do, you'll never finish exploring new restaurants (with delicious food) and stores

- International events happen there: conferences, concerts, etc.

- Very walkable (including the metro), especially around city center

- Reasonable housing prices - high, but comparable to cities in the US

- Politeness is baked into society and unpleasant interactions with strangers are very rare

- Rest of the country is fairly accessible by train for a weekend trip, and there's plenty of beautiful nature if you get out of the city

Cons:

- Difficult language and few people speak any English

- Fairly closed society/culture, you'll always be an outsider (but there are plenty of expats)

- Toilets in restaurants often suck and public trash cans are rare

- Bureaucracy is quite bad and inaccessible if you aren't fluent in Japanese

- Work culture is bad, though being remote could make that a non-issue

Some runner ups:

- Lisbon (excellent weather, low prices)

- Copenhagen (super safe, great quality of life)

For me though, the top 3 criteria by far are 1) a lot to do, 2) very safe, and 3) don't need a car, and Tokyo is pretty much the only major city that meets those.
I've noticed that, Waitroses and doctor's surgeries seem to be the last bastion of English mask-wearing. I wonder what the correlation actually is fundamentally? Waitrose's clientele are wealthier and therefore older and more concious of COVID?
Haha yes it is. We have to do a ton of manual testing to ensure consistency and compatibility across many devices, browsers, and screen readers.

Some of my tweets showing how we do this:

- https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1318600389462126592
- https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1270410802395111424
- https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1318676759080968193
Microsoft Endpoint Manager adds support for Linux desktop
> mathematically inclined / advanced: Where do you feel your interest in math was mostly developed?

I did pretty bad in primary school, mostly because I never did/turned in any of the homework. Whenever we took tests, I did well, but enough of my grade depended on homework assignments that my test scores didn't make up the difference. I always did well on the standardized aptitude tests (back then it was the CTBS tests) - well enough that they had to place me in the "gifted" program. That didn't actually mean anything at my school - you didn't go to different classes and weren't separated from everybody else; it was just a label applied to everybody who scored above a certain percentage on the standardized tests.

And man, did I hate math. I hated doing the never-ending worksheets of long division and thought math meant miserable drudgery. About halfway through 8th grade, I had the opportunity to start taking joint-enrollment classes at a community college. They taught me algebra there and that was when I started to enjoy math. I think a lot of that had to do with being able to move at a reasonable pace through the material rather than spending an entire year on long division.
Having been to many parts of Asia before Covid hit, masks were indeed not unusual, but were never worn by _everyone_ or even the majority of people, even in crowded places like subways.
Fake parity ram was a thing back when parity ram was also a thing. Fake ECC ram could also become a thing. It's easy enough to calculate the values on the fly.
I think this would have depended on the teams/individuals you worked with. I recall some devs being completely clueless about environments - my code (that depends on dozens of other files) in uat is producing different outputs compared to my code in dev, why? Some didn't know how to debug. Many went on to FAANG as senior engineers (including Uber when it was the next big thing), hedge funds (citadel, 2s), startups (twilio, is twitter still a startup?). And as far as python knowledge is concerned - I recall attending a number of python talks given by my former colleagues at Python conferences, various PEP discussions around whether a given PEP would help or be detrimental to qz. As a matter of fact one of the qz core engineers is now also a PSF core engineer. Quartz was polarizing, but there was/is plenty of talent among the engineers.
P.S.: fwiw, when I left baml, the migration to 3.6 was nearing completion, and the migration to 3.7 was in progress. I guess at some point we realized python and qz were not going away, we must to migrate, so infra was built out to make future migrations easier.
> I know one of the founders, and she has a deep background in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, as I do as well. Astrology as a contemplative and epistemological practice has deep roots; the idea that astrology is "real" in a physical causal sense goes back to Ptolemy and only persists because of the historical influence of the Christian church. I've written a bit on the topic here: https://listed.to/@simpolism/27322/what-is-astrology

Sorry, how does this justify lying and deceiving people for profit?

> she has a deep background in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory,

By "deep background" you mean she got a BA in psychology?
Straw man. I never said don’t release the drug or delay it decades, I said “the risk is always there”.

And funny you should say 10-25 years. 10 years is pretty typical from initial molecule discovery to FDA approval.
Synchronous: The thread will block until the I/O operation is done. No work is performed in this time.
Asynchronous: While waiting for the end of the I/O operation, the thread can continue to work, e.g. by handling other requests.

So, it's not a problem when the thread sleeps while waiting for the end of the I/O operation, but it's not optimal.
We do this. We have a scale of how in-depth we expect people to get based on their level. We ask candidates questions about specific projects they've worked on and we ask them to be more specific until we feel we have a good understanding of how deep and wide their understanding is. We dig deeper for more senior folks. It seems to work pretty well.
And yet...

> We've once had to scrape Amazon product pages because they have a lot of API endpoints, but those didn't contain the data we needed.

...only a couple of comments up.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. They're tedious, predictable, and usually turn nasty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I thought the vaccines don't stop or even really slow spread that much, especially with Delta variants. At least that's what authorities are saying. My understanding is that the point of vaccines as now explained is to prevent hospitalizations.
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To me, IHP provides so many great features for making type-safe robust web apps, I have forgotten about GraphQL.
I very strongly hope that it doesn't become socially normalized.
> How lightweight can a desktop environment based on QT be? I thought QT is a rather hefty dependency.

Hefty when compared to what? In a world of webview-based apps, Qt is extraordinarily lean.
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TIL the Internet once ran on a shared text file.
"This data base is an
extension of the old ARPANET Hosts.txt file, and is being
maintained by the NIC to provide continuity during the
transition and expansion to the internet environment."
I'd like to see the pull requests please
And there's no reason you can't blame the Amish for global warming, but that doesn't change that the blame is misplaced.
being contrarian doesn't mean you are right
it's broken.

- FAANG makes you jump through hoops because they are screening people out.

- 30 engineer companies adopt it. Then complain they can't hire, or can't hire Sr. Engineers. They should be screening in.

- "bad hires cost too much". What does it cost to have 15 hours of interview time, multiple times a week, for your engineers doing the interviews? Learn to hire cheaper and fire faster.

- All new grads post 2010(or whatever) spent the last 2 years of their degree doing the rote problem memorization and continue it throughout their career as they job hop every 1.5 years leaving a pile of tech debt behind them. its normalized. you see it in these comments here.

- its just 2 leetcode medium questions. THERE ARE 2000+ LEET CODE MEDIUM QUESTIONS. What are you really trying to gauge here? You want me to recurse a tree? Tell me ahead of time? Oh, that would be memorizing? So the solution is...go memorize a lot more? What happens to anyone with anxiety or OCD when they run into that?

- just a saw a job for a "CI/CD Engineer" first requirement? Full stack distributed systems engineer. Job? Write jenkins pipelines

- just as a job for a "QE Automation Architect" first requirement? Debug distributed systems in production. Manage AWS. "What you'll do? Write test frameworks". Uh...right.

- Why are we hiring house painters to do plumbing, and vice verse. Different jobs actually require different skills.

it's broken and i'm salty
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This free and open source CMS has been an interesting challenge to build - it brings together in-page editing and static sites. Thanks for taking a look and please let me know what you think.
No it's great to track and record every human around the clock and completely automated. That way, we make sure everyone stays in line and don't try to organize themselves to get rid of dictatorship.
> DJI and FPV are two different hobbies, IMO

Yes, but the DJI FPV that the GP mentioned is an FPV quad.
Why should it be flagged? Seems like a perfectly reasonable comment, just like how in day to day life I think less of people when I learn that they are religious.
> JSX is not valid JavaScript, it doesn't extend the language in any meaningful way

It's semi-directly related to (subset of a) JavaScript standard which it evolves some of the more useful syntax for some modern needs. It's just not an "active" standard currently targeted by browsers today (in part because it need evolution): ECMA-357 aka E4X aka ECMAScript for XML. [1]

There's currently no interest in adding browser support for JSX (either from the JSX spec itself or any browser makers), just as E4X support waned very quickly when Firefox was the only browser interested in supporting it, but that doesn't mean it is impossible to see browser support at all in the future. It was standardized once, it might be standardized again now that we have a better idea of what it might be used for in the wild. (I don't think it will be, mostly because there's an ecosystem of interesting non-React usages of JSX that would be hampered a bit if it wasn't just a transpiler step.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML