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> Wipe them out, all of them. The ecosystem will survive mosquitoes' extinction.

Reminds me of the Chinese's brutally misguided attempts to stave off the famines during the Cultural Revolution. One of their worst ideas was to eradicate sparrows, thinking that sparrows were eating crops. No, sparrows were eating insects that were eating crops. So with sparrows gone, the insect population exploded, resulting in even worse destruction.

Just a reminder that when it comes to ecosystems, we really don't know what the fuck we are doing. There are hundreds of similar stories, e.g. destruction of wolves, bison, pigeons, and other organisms we consider "pests". It's a wonder that the worldwide ecosystem doesn't consider us the pests.
Maybe, but AAA as a positive value descriptor is a misnomer.

I've come to realize that AAA gamedev is a way to replace actual artistic taste with "output" that can then be scaled deterministically via the normal corporate software engineering levers we all know and hate.

You can make an absolutely beautiful game as an individual or small team. This game can be 2D or 3D or anywhere in between. You can pass on things that AAA games can't because you can have good taste & artistry and AAA doesn't even try to have those things.

It's just programming & digital art - people mythologize shit like this way too much. Can you replicate a AAA game on your own? No ofc not. But you can make a game as visually stimulating and enjoyable.

So overall..I just ignore any talk that acts like "AAA" is anything of value or meaning besides an org chart turning labor into $60 products.
This comes across as very defensive and reactionary. I didn't draw any of those conclusions from that reading. I don't think op is necessarily proud of not being able to relate to people, much the opposite in fact. Rather, you seem quite proud of your social abilities and the riches you have mined from these social interactions. Good for you. I think op's point is that he can't derive the same rich experiences from these interactions. No need to attack him.
Could you please stop creating accounts to break the site guidelines with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, I personally know three and have seen many videos of others who feel that the risks outweigh the benefits for healthy people who have natural immunity.

So, that's more than one.
Can you tell more about your job? I love Tokyo, but the work environment seemed to have a lot of drawbacks (general long hours, presence over productivity restricted days off) Did that change, or are you good with it, or did you find a different niche?
Democrats aren't the "left" by any stretch, the two parties are both wings of the same bird and it's amazing to see people pretend otherwise. They have the same corporate donors and belong to the same class. You have a center right corporate technocracy party and a far right blood and soil party. That's the best your "representative" (no universal suffrage until ~50 years ago when native women were allowed) democracy can offer as choices: slow violence or faster violence.

If you think people can meaningfully be racist against white people in America, let's put aside the semantic nonsense and get into the difference between discrimination (something anyone can experience) like "haha crackers can't dance" and racism, such as being 3.64x more likely to be arrested for drug possession despite nearly identical usage rates (and being a minority of the population).

Black and brown communities /are/ more vulnerable to COVID. Because the US is still de facto segregated, including in the "left" cities. We live in the consequence of redlining, and it's why "minority neighborhoods" have incredibly underfunded hospitals. Not to mention the very recent (one could argue still continuing) medical experimentation on minorities, like the Tuskegee Syphilis study, and maybe that would lead one to empathize with a hesitation to trust this country's medical institutions.
> For some reason, tech people have a superiority complex about their intelligence

I also think there's an urge to flaunt that intellect at all times, Especially when among non-peers. I think it's like someone driving their Mercedez up to the middle of the impoverished neighborhood and Counting loads of cash in the public.
The big clue is that you could swap out books/reading/learning for videogames/watching/playing/learning or TikToks/watching/making, or LEGO/building/designing, or any other hobby and the article and the experience wouldn’t change at all.

The distinction between the author and others is not the intellectual pursuit, but the dislike of parties. My bias is to think they’re attending parties with the wrong people, or of bad design (yes, design/engineering is something that social gatherings benefit from).

I like a good party plenty, but I’ve slipped away to read books, and I don’t consider myself to be a voracious reader of books.
That's funny - I enjoyed Ubuntu until Gnome 2 was replaced with Unity / Gnome 3 which were then far less capable. Then I was back onto Windows.

Maybe the lesson is not using Ubuntu.
Ah, quoting in cmd is its own kind of hell. Not so fun fact and actually the only part of Windows APIs that I truly hate (and I've worked with many of them): command-line arguments are passed to the program as a single flat string. Splitting into the argc,argv array is left to the CRT startup code.
Following my creative desires has taken me out of my corporate engineering job and through waves of wonder and waves of and disaster (including financial, for awhile), and now after all of that, to a project I'm perfectly suited for and deeply passionate about, with some of the smartest people I've ever met.

The thing about sayings like this - they're not just a thing you do, they're a practice you develop and a flow that you become more skillful at adhering to. I've been through hell and back following what's felt true to my creative instincts, and as brutal as it's been, along the way I've by necessity internalized what meaningful work means to me and what freedoms I'm (not) willing to sacrifice.

It can be a brutal path, but (at least in my experience) every level you become more skillful at it and the flexibility and sense of trust in yourself translate in powerful ways to creative and professional potency. If you intentionally hone them in that direction.

My 2c, at least. It's a worthwhile journey.
Attracted by the title, clicked thru and interestingly found the website is named "Windows Central".

It has been the fact for me since 2003, not for gaming though ;-) Don't get me wrong, I do think gaming on Linux is cool and it helped at picking up new "Linux desktop" users.

What's more interesting is, with WSLg it is even possible to run GUI (X / Wayland).
> This whole process was a little chaotic, but I'm happy with it. I like that CentOS will be a closer downstream from Fedora. CentOS was always too far behind in Kernel and package version compared to other distros.

To be clear, CentOS Stream won't get any updates that RHEL doesn't get (including kernel updates), it'll just get them a few months sooner.

But the more streamlined and open development process may allow RHEL (+derivatives) to move a little faster, and get bugs fixed sooner. It's still too early to tell though.
If you're at a beach, on a hammock... put that phone down, son. (:

The news.yc crowd may not be all too different from your managers and co-workers. They are but a similar people in a different setting.
We've changed to that from https://newsconcerns.com/santander-accidentally-put-millions.... Thanks!
I'm assuming that you are talking about the practice of meditation.

If you are an avid practitioner, I have a question for you. I have attempted following some one-size-fits-all solutions before, Headspace and others, and only when I broke through the time limitations, and managed to meditate for over an hour, have I seen any progress.

My issue is that my ability to focus is not constant, and on most days I can't manage to get in the zone for more than an hour. Do you think there is any benefit to short bursts of meditation, or is the real treasure buried deep, and you essentially have to live in an ashram or a Buddhist temple and meditate daily for multiple hours to get to the level you are mentioning in your post?
No it’s not because the risk of getting serious illness is/was much higher compared to any vaccine. The risk of death is certainly higher. Again getting vaccinated is a no brainer on the face of it.
> don’t dismiss it by calling it privilege

There are literally millions of people who deserve / have "earned" this privilege, but aren't given it. The word lucky comes to mind.
>In fact, just looking at ProtonDB...6 out of the top 10 games are 'borked' on Linux.

You have a point but also if you switch the type of games there from "All Games" to "Single Player", situation changes a lot. So I'd say for the group of people who don't play multiplayer games much (like myself) gaming on Linux is pretty viable. The problem nowadays is more with anti-cheat than comparability.
Well once TikTok memes us into acting like zombies…
If airlines did not make money from flying, then it seems like a no brainer for them to stop flying in order to avoid wasting time and effort for no gain.

I assume the people the operate airlines have at least some brains, though.
Right, because nothing else we already use has any chance of causing permanent damage. Nothing at all.

Leave your bubble, I’m talking about relative probability, I’m not saying that it’s “impossible.” We accept far greater risks in our daily life than this.
The problem with books is that, while there are a lot of good books with good content, 5% of it is good content while 95% is filler material to get the book to a certain amount of pages in order to sell it.
I agree with all your criticisms and am pleased to inform you that Ubuntu actually addresses all of them.
Sorry I can't find the article, perhaps drowned in covid articles however:

There is a well known research paper from years ago showing that both exposure to cold temperatures and exposure to cold virus could cause cold symptoms, if I recollect right 30% probability when subjects were intentionally exposed to virus, 10% when exposed to cold temperatures. I don't recall the control group results.

This is consistent with covid appearing as an outbreak out of nowhere.
The original article was published a month or so earlier, and sounded a bit like the angular resolution for whatever machine was already determined, and they worked their way back to suitable bugs and the use case, rather than having a specific issue in mind and designing the setup around.
Agree. I've never used any drug recreationally, other than alcohol. No interest in it, and definitely don't want to wind up on any long term prescription meds.
When someone writes "More extensible than XML", you know they've never truly seriously studied and used XML.
Walter, it would be great if you could share your list of good books!
> In fact, just looking at ProtonDB...6 out of the top 10 games are 'borked' on Linux.

This is almost all due to incompatibility of the anticheat software with Linux. There might be improvement on this front very soon because Valve wants them working on the Deck.
If this happens, and SteamOS becomes one of the main distributions that people know by default, I will be quite happy.

With the amount of polish that Valve put's on literally everything they release, I'd be willing to give it a try at least.
Unless it's an error that is plausibly paying down a loan, in which case the error might actually work in your favor, depending on how Citigroup's appeal against the hedge funds goes.
From what I've seen, there is no risk in being vaccinated when you already have prior infection, and there are benefits to doing so. So I don't see why prior infection would constitute a good medical reason to avoid vaccination.

(Aside: it is worth noting that vaccination also induces "natural immunity", as it introduces viral units [via various mechanisms depending on specific vaccine type] that cause the immune system to work more or less the same way as it would if presented with a regular viral infection. So using the term "natural immunity" when what you really mean is "prior infection" smacks quite heavily of chemophobia.)
HHG is satire, which is judged differently.
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Not just draconian; the rules seem almost calculated to cause pain and suffering to actual ADHD patients.

And not just in the general sense of "this shit is dehumanizing", but in the sense that the added bureaucratic hurdles are specifically the sort of thing that an ADHD patient would have problems satisfying without access to the drug. It's like some kind of Catch-22.
Back in the 1990s, I was living in another country and noticed that sometimes, when I used my home credit card, the purchases would simply never appear on my bill. The "free" purchases were always small (no free airline tickets or cameras) and the only pattern I could figure out was that a bookshop I frequented was always free. But I felt bad about (potentially) stiffing them, so I started buying my books with cash instead.
I wonder whether "so fitted [...] that side fumbling was effectively prevented." implies other fittings were tried but did not prevent side fumbling and this mounting does so, or that this fitting is known to be sub-optimal and does not prevent side fumbling completely but does so well enough.
You're underestimating the number of HN users with a Chinese background or some China connection (work, marriage, family, travel, study) whose experiences have led them to hold different views than you do. That's perfectly legitimate, and the idea that they must automatically be propaganda accounts is deeply inhumane. I don't want to work on a site where that sort of poison—including the poison in your comment—is considered ok.

My GP comment links to cases where users were abused and even hounded off this site by ethnic/national mob behaviors. Those users were innocent—the evidence for this was overwhelming. It was the mobs who were at fault. I think that's shameful. Like most HN users, I sympathize with underdogs, and seeing people get ganged up on gets my dander up. I'm confident that the vast majority of the community here would agree with me about that—at least when their own passions (and fears) aren't activated. None of us want to be that sort of community, but it can easily end up that way by default, so we need to take conscious care to avoid it.

I've asked FooBarWidget to stop posting exclusively in China-related arguments, because that's against the site guidelines in its own right, but that's hardly proof of, or even an iota of evidence for, the cloak-and-dagger fantasies that internet users love to sling at people in minority positions. Those accusations are against the HN guidelines for deep and good reasons. Therefore you can't post like this here, and I've banned the account.

One sign of how foolish these fantasies are is the certainty with which internet warriors declaim them. They never weigh evidence or consider other possibilities. It's always "demonstrably and with certainty"! What good fortune to be surrounded by enemies who are so evil, yet so dumb as to give themselves away at every turn. It's the best of all worlds: a chicken in every pot, a communist under every bed, and a spy (or three) in every internet thread.

What's poignant is that the users who get abused so dramatically in Western forums like this are often the very ones trying to defend and articulate the West to their communities back home—where they no doubt encounter similarly xenophobic feelings on the other side. They're in an impossible position. You don't have to agree with them, but you do have to drop the Boris and Natasha routine if you want to post to this forum. It is cartoonish and incurious, and would be silly if not for its malicious effects.
Then you go back to work. There's nothing wrong with taking some time off to broaden your horizons every now and then.

We might all benefit from a stipend to take a long leave for continuing education or travel every decade or so. Many innovations have sprung from the intersections of diverse cultures and fields of study.
I want to read more books and start getting my financial life in order. I've been lucky enough to get a raise only a few months after getting my most recent job and it's afforded me a little more money each month to play around with. I'd like to start investing a little bit as well as build up an emergency fund.

Additionally, I'm lucky enough to still have a few online lecture recordings available from the classes I took for my master's degree. At the time I was more focused on just passing owing to being so demotivated from the pandemic that I barely absorbed anything. It's been a real regret of mine and especially now that this knowledge can actually be applied (enterprise software design, microservices etc.) I want to take the time to actually give a damn and learn something by re-watching these lectures and taking good notes.
And that day can't come soon enough.
China says it has hypersonic missiles with heat-seeking tech – years before US
Here is the fun take -

https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w

And the original -

https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag

Also curious as this was on Twitter the other day...how social mixed if this is the OPs reason for sharing.
Does electro swing have anything to do with old recordings entering public domain?
It is important to realize in America at least, retirement seems a bit further out of reach to younger generations. So this may be really important advice for those entering what may well be the peak of an unprecedented bull market that padded the accounts of those retiring or retired, but that may not have done anything for someone young under or unemployed.

So maximizing income seems like pretty good advice right now, especially if we have bumpy economic roads ahead.

The good news is that thanks to a shift towards remote friendliness, holding a high paying tech job (which I'm assuming is something many on HN are capable of) while in Ibiza or Bali may not be as incompatible as it was for older generations, wifi permitting.
Virgil does not have a link step. It's a whole program compiler that does everything in one step. Hand all your Virgil source files to the compiler in one invocation, get out a fully optimized binary. The compiler is fast enough that trying to cache the result of a single unchanged file isn't necessary--probably more trouble than it's worth, except for huge programs.

Linking was designed when computers literally didn't have enough memory to load the IR of an entire program into memory at once in order to compile it, so programs had to be split into many files and compiled one file at a time. Primarily for C, but as we know, its very naive file-inclusion mechanism now results in huge translation units anyway (even worse in C++). It's antiquated and highly inefficient (O(n^2)).

Just for reference, the Virgil compiler, right now the largest Virgil program in existence, is about 43KLOC. It takes about 200MB of memory to parse, verify, transform, optimize, and generate code for it, and about 300 milliseconds of execution time, on one thread. Whole program compilation won't scale to millions of lines, perhaps, but hundreds of thousands are clearly within reach. And I'm OK with that.
I have a superb collection of MP3s on my phone, but Google in their wisdom decided to erase Play Music. Of course there are no shortage of players for Android, but I've fallen victim to the paralysis of choice; Play Music was perfect, and I don't know which of the available players is closest to it. So my MP3s have been inaccessible for over a year.
I did get it from society, of course. I wouldn't equate changing society's accommodations with changing how easy the normal adult finds life, though. Changing accommodations has no impact on how easy my non-ADHD friends find their lives compared to me. Society can accommodate my difficulty in doing chores but that doesn't change that most of my friends don't find it difficult to take out the rubbish if they want to.
How do you install macOS on a powerful desktop like the ones I've built?

How do you make "sed" be GNU sed on macOS without breaking all sorts of scripts?

How do you play the latest games like Deathloop on macOS?

How do you turn off workspace switching animations on macOS? (Note I said "turn off," so don't suggest Reduce Motion).

How do you set different scrolling orientations for mice and trackpads without installing yet another app with its own icon, updater, etc?

As another commenter pointed out, using macOS is like living in a hotel. Some people live in hotels already and some others would certainly do so if they could afford it, but it's not the kind of life I want to live.
I’m curious about party design/engineering. Can you tell me a bit more about how to do it? Are there any good books/resources you can point to?
Which is why a license physician is required to dispense this medication. There aren't candy stores with bins, giving these out by the pound. They are controlled substances and the fact that there are online pill mills to facilitate this? Well, it sounds like you have a problem with healthcare under capitalism, which to be clear, so do I, but absent a different system, that's the end result.
He does have a lot of similar experience: "I used to do live stand-up presentations for Allen Bradley at various "automations fairs" and industrial trade shows. This was totally straight, no humor involved. I also did quite a few internal videos for AB. Their headquarters is in Milwaukee, and Jon Wright, the Director of Corporate Training (now retired) would have me fly in to do training films on occasion. On one occasion, I did an impromptu version of the Turbo Encabulator (the original version) that had been done on a Chrysler Technician training shoot, which I have been doing for about 20 years."

and "How on earth did you memorize the script? I do the performance using a wireless ear prompter, and just repeat what I hear."

- http://www.plcdev.com/an_interview_with_mike_kraft
I'm convinced this is ultimately going to happen.

I liken it to how we used to test on how to sort and merge data, with the answer being that it is always a trade off. Which is exactly what an execution plan is. More, index projections is half of the magic developers relearn every year.

To that end, getting linear algebra primitives easily accessed in a query language feels like it will be a game changer.
What pops in my head is what is the point of all the self-indulgent reading and learning if it just dies with you inside your head when you pass away? It’s just masturbation. I see both sides of the answer, as I too love solitude. Probably best to share it with others and teach others so it can make the human race better. But that sweet reverie of being alone!
There's a lot of talk about good books, but I do think when I was younger I challenged myself more by reading difficult books at the edge of my reading abilities. That stuff was rewarding but also exhausting. These days I'm exhausted by plenty of other stuff so easy books are more satisfying.
What you seem to be describing is the maximum theoretical efficiency. It's a common thing in lots of fields, and it's valuable because it gives you a goal you can aim for, and know that you have reached the theoretical limit of performance. As a director of mine once put it, it's important to know when to stop [trying to improve something]. For example, the Carnot cycle gives us a theoretical maximum efficiency of a thermodynamic engine, and the Cramér–Rao bound gives us an upper bound on how much accuracy we can extract from noisy measurements.

I don't know what this would be, or how we could determine this, in the graphics world, but it's still a very valuable and interesting idea.
>that’s just a label for an excuse by those who aren’t successful. You get what you earn in life.

To take an extreme example: how hard do the children of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, etc have to work to "earn" their fortunes and success?