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I think you hit the nail on the head with your reflection on your attitude with respect to Ruby on Rails.

From my point of view, Java is an anemic language, and the "cure" appears to be to introduce a bunch of annotation-magic frameworks (Spring + JacksonXML + Hibernate/JPA/JDBC/whatever + Lombok?) that each have their own magic and inconsistencies, to the point that your Java code is more of a configuration file than actual logic (which sounds great), but with the downside that you don't actually know where anything is actually implemented and have little idea about what can fail and where.

As a "polyglot" dev, I just don't have the time or patience to learn all of the magic on top of the language itself.

On the topic of Vert.x, it's definitely a different philosophy than Spring, as you experienced. I'm honestly not sure what domains Vert.x would be superior in, but it seems like it's way overkill for your typical mostly-crud backend app. Vert.x is less of a framework and more like a "build-your-own-framework" toolkit.
I hope incoming reorganization will not kill D4
Is it though? If I hold wads of cash in my floorboards, you need to actually break in and take it.

If I hold something in a digital wallet, I can never be sure I've eliminated all the ways to take it remotely and anonymously.
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Entertainment is many people's primary use for their phone. You might not agree that it's worthwhile, but then that's often touted as a strength of the internet -- new and creative applications can spring up based on anybody's wacky idea, and either flourish or die. There's no need to justify their importance to anyone.
I disagree. I use the salutation and the "sign-offs" to indicate different levels of seriousness. If somethings not urgent or as serious I will, along with a suitable title of course, use a more casual greeting. I appreciate when others do the same for me.
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I would hope so, I dont see activision blizzard being a great acquistion.
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I'd go even further than that. The mismanagement of markets by central planners set the stage for cryptocurrencies. We're living in an era of speculative mania. Savings accounts have a negative real interest rate. This currency must go somewhere.

Centralized payment services are vulnerable to regulators, see eGold and Liberty Reserve. Note that BTC emerged shortly after these services were destroyed. Anti-terror legislation was used.

Of course there are always price fluctuations, but attempting to fix prices (i.e. interest rates) results in greater imbalances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Depression....
Maybe the git man pages? Iirc the man pages have 2 or 3 'getting started' documents that really made me feel confident. Then I didn't use it for two years and now it's real fuzzy again.
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I've been writing a simple verifier for C over the last few months and one of the Yak Shaving libraries I needed to write was a proper range handling library.

Since the C programs I'm writing won't be using floating point types, I got lucky - because they are an absolute pain to deal with with any degree of certainty.
Corporations should be about maximizing value for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. Historically the creation of a corporation had to be justified to be in the interest of public good. Anyway I agree.
A float can represent some of its range with more accuracy, and some with much less accuracy. The tradeoff could be tuned (there's probably libraries to implement that already im ignorant of).

Is that a 3rd interpretation? Has the whole argument gone so meta already that its mostly a definitions fight?

Edit: this makes me recall the "rounding flag" [1] and hitting an instance where the hardware was set to do something i hadn't expected. Meta-discussion about the nature of "accuracy" ensued then too.

[1] https://www.keil.com/support/man/docs/armlib/armlib_chr13589...
The brand of Activision-Blizzard strikes me as downright radioactive. However, I think there's a lot of potential in their IP. So we'll see I suppose.
They really shouldn't be allowed to go through with this. Having a game console + game OS + game store + multiple big game studios shouldn't be acceptable to regulators. They're already screwing competitors by not releasing games from their studios on other platforms ( be it hardware, software or as a service platforms).

Vertical integration at those levels is only stifling competition.

While we're on the matter and competition regulators are looking at it, break them up.
Agreed, houses with insulation have a vapour barrier behind the plasterboard for this reason: counterintuitively, the warm internal air carries a lot more moisture than the cold air outside. The partial pressure of water vapour is higher inside the house than outside, so the dew point of the internal air is higher than the outside temperature (dew point depends on water content).

If there's a way for that moisture to diffuse through the wall from inside, through the insulation, to the cold structure (which would be colder than before due to the internal insulation), the conditions are right for condensation to form. Those conditions are: surface temperature ≤ dew point.

Condensation can be prevented by a combination of:

1. Reduce the rate of moisture diffusion from the interior (seal the rooms and use a vapour barrier)

2. Lower the dew point of the air in the "cold" structural areas by ventilating the cold space to outside, so the moisture can exit (this is why houses have air bricks, vents in the roof, etc.)

3. Prevent the building structure from being colder than the internal dew point (i.e. use external insulation)
I read a quote today that I think is relevant:

> “Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”

- William Martin

The idea that one needs to do something memorable every week sounds like a recipe for disaster, burnout at a young age or depression. So no thank you, I'll take my ordinary life which is full of ups and downs.

Sidenote: The fact that a sign up is needed to download a PDF makes me think that you're using this as a way to farm for user data and makes me distrust your intention.
People do it in the USA too, they're more likely to have learned not to although.
I am from India and this was reasonably true for my vintage 80s (-1) :-) (BPO wave)

The next question was whatsup? how is it going? how was your weekend?

Our reaction was that the recipient (typically an overpaid US guy) actually wanted an answer. It took me a couple of years that they didn't really give a damn. It was actually a hallmark to ignore and move on to the objective topic. (It somewhat impressed those guys!)
> but not all things that are illegal are immoral.

It's fine to believe that but at this point the scams, tax-evasion, social-darwinism, techno-libertarian grift, and criminal enterprises are NOT the exception. They're very much the rule and dominate the way crypto works.

Of course, somewhere buried deep in all that funny-money, there's genuine innovation begging to be used for a legit purpose. It doesn't look good for the future. I fear that the worst thing that could happen would be for crypto to continue along its current path and actually "replace" real currency retaining all it numerous dysfunctional and unethical properties. All it would take is for enough people to "get-rich" so they could F the rest.
I think Disney might struggle to buy Microsoft, given that Microsoft has 10x the market cap.
Blizzard has been on a downward slope for years, I don't know if they can rebound.

In the grand scheme of things I prefer seeing them absorbed by Microsoft than by Tencent.
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4433-CUSA00744...
As a developer, I mostly agree with this. But I was talking about that with a friend that works in finance and he thinks just saying “hello” is ok in his context.

The difference in context is the length of the subsequent conversation. If it is a quick question, with a quick answer, just saying “hello” to start a conversation is a waste of time. But if it is the start of lengthy conversation that is technically async, but actually would be more productive if both parts are online to reply in minutes, just saying hello is useful. Also, polite, since this is closer to a real life conversation.

It is the short version of ”Hello, let me know when you are free for a async-but-not-so-much conversation”
Microsoft tries to have an inclusive culture, and generally succeeds far more than their peers. Once Kotick is out I may well end my Blizzard boycott.
Will Activision drop support for Sony and Nintendo platforms eventually?
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You have a very limited view of the history of capital controls. In the history of the world, capital controls are very common. It's a cycle. The state controls the money supply, they debase it through printing (dilution during gold standard), the value depreciates and everyone panics. One of the first things they do is restrict the ability of people to transfer money out of their currency. When everything is stable, you don't see this happen. But when its not (i.e. what its most advantageous) capital controls are applied. You see this happening in Turkey right now:

> Turkey had an 80% foreign currency surrender requirement in place from September 2018 to late 2019 during a previous iteration of a currency crisis and has also used other “soft” capital controls including changing fees charged on currency conversions and adjusting the requirements for currency hedging.

There are financial assets I cannot hold due to the accident of geography. For instance, I can't hold Chinese stocks. I cannot easily and safely send money to family in Cuba, Iran or North Korea. There are a lot of places I cannot hold real estate.

Capital controls and monetary debasement are very much the rule on a long enough timespan.

[0] https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/turkey-takes-first-st...
Nobody was forcing them to buy them. They were allowed, they chose not to.
There's actually not a lot of evidence for this- it's a theory of comparative religion studies which has little support.

For instance, it may be appealing to say Christianity has drawn from the zoroastrian idea of a good and bad after life and final judgment, but we find those themes in Egyptian religion as well... Additionally, the resurrection of the dead is a development of Judaism that happened relatively late and was denied by various sects in antiquity but became mainstreamed in Christianity and modern orthodox judaism.
I wonder if w3c or whatwg guys considered extending dom spec to support the query / navigation / css helpers.
I'd buy shares right now if they had gotten rid of Kotick.
this will only make them the third largest gaming company
Interviewing staff ("stakeholders") at a customer is always fascinating. I've seen the full range from sincere gratitude at being listened to, through to open hostility and suspicion. The latter was much worse when I was younger and worried about impressions I was making on older-but-not-very-senior people. At some point you just stop giving a shit and let them hate you if they feel threatened.
I do not understand what distinction you're making. In the world of DI, you still have typed constructors and factory methods. It's not like Guice turns Java into Ruby. The only difference is that you don't have to chain together constructor boilerplate - in fact, the static types determine the injections.

Do you object to passing interfaces vs concrete types? That is a wholly orthogonal concern; you make the choice to extract interfaces with or without DI.

Maybe you have an example?
Kotick is sticking around.
The alternative is the Willy Wonka mindset. You tell them the right thing to do and half heartedly say "No... stop... don't"[0] as they go with the plan that is presented in a manner more conducive to their ego and feelings.

If I wanted to go through the song and dance of buttering everyone up so they will do what I say, why bother coming up with a good idea as well? I'd just say the first thing that comes to mind. In fact, that might be why the ideas that get acted upon tend to be so bad. What's the point of the quality of the idea has no impact in it's odds for adoption?

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdDXeYM4ss
If they see an explosion of immigration, it’s because of the illegal immigrant labor market created by the massive spike in wages and massive decline in available labor.

The governments can’t keep people out but also can’t make the new people citizens else it would instantly bankrupt UBI.

This seems like the Achilles heel of UBI.
Viruses evade defenses as a matter of evolutionary outcome, becoming something less recognizable to the herd’s immune system.

The idea that you might need updated shots has nothing to do with business model, and everything to do with observed cause and effect.
"Bobby Kotick will continue to serve as CEO of Activision Blizzard, and he and his team will maintain their focus on driving efforts to further strengthen the company’s culture and accelerate business growth."
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A merkle tree is an excellent way to represent an immutable record. Adding a cryptocurrency does nothing to the system that makes it more immutable. You only need the currency bit if you want to create a financial incentive for the strangers to store your immutable record for you. Which you only really need if you need to send said currency via strangers as a sort of courier. However that comes with it's own set of very real problems.

1. That currency is going to be heavily speculated because it's unregulated by design.

2. That currency is going to be used to bypass regulations that do in fact protect people.

3. That currency will be used to bypass an international system that is designed to allow nations to punish other bad national actors without resorting to war.

If you want to foster anarchy and to create an expectation that any individual is on their own and are actually prevented from getting assistance when they lose everything then a cryptocurrency is an ideal ideological fit. If you want something more balanced then merkle trees might be a useful tool but leave the currency aspect out of it.
I wonder if this means XBox game pass will at some point include a WOW subscription
Blizzard was the one game company that I bought all of their games no questions asked. Part of me is sad that this day has come, but the other part of me is kinda hopeful that this will allow for more dedicated focus on traditional Blizzard IP.
From the link in the sibling comment:

> A summary of those personnel actions was scheduled to be released by Activision before the winter holidays, but Chief Executive Bobby Kotick held it back, telling some people it could make the company’s workplace problems seem bigger than is already known, the people familiar with the situation said.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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https://github.com/rickwierenga/sci-hub-injector is deleted. I've found an alternative here:
https://github.com/gchenfc/sci-hub-now
If this is a time/attention suck for you, turn off notifications or adjust some other way. Or perhaps just learn not to let the incredibly miniscule things bother you.
You've got to be kidding. The version offered on Game Pass is the "Standard" edition, that isn't just a "free to play", "stripped down" version of the game. It is 95% of the game! The remaining 5% is almost always cosmetic items, like skins or cars, that really do not impact the core experience.

There are some exceptions, like Destiny 2 I believe, where the meaningful DLC is excluded, but that is not the rule. Game Pass is an incredible deal.
So you don't have those numbers on hand? It seems crucial, if 100% of unvaccinated have already recovered then what is to be gained by vaccinating now?
>>Tencent, Epic,

You said Tencent twice ;)
Precisely why I never respond to the initial "Hello" :p

It's particularly annoying when non-technical managers will ask "quick" questions that actually take a long time to answer.
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you can not take both income tax and VAT into account, because VAT is payed by the retailer really. That would count VAT twice.
Stablecoins are perfectly stable, right up until the moment they aren't. They're only as good as the legal regime actually forcing the stablecoin provider to fulfill their promises of backing.

At that point, why not just bank with the legal regime you're already implicitly trusting?
That answers the question "could there be enough groundswell to form a blowback," then :(
I'm on team 'no hello' but I've been intrigued to learn over the years how some people interpret it as rude. I've had to reassure employees who complained about (potential) customers being rude where it turned out to merely be folks being direct and to the point. I've also seen people selling things on Facebook groups and the like complain about direct questions too, like they want to make some chitchat first. Different strokes, etc. so it pays to take context into account! :-)
As a GamePass subscriber, I mildly disagree.

Saw an indie game last night and felt like buying it.

Steam Deck is Valve opening up an alternative to Microsoft land.

Although I will admit I'm tempted to cancel my pre order since I'm worried it won't run well.
They do own those legacy games but sadly Starcraft is not going to be re-born anytime soon - maybe warcraft IV but we will see.

What will happen to Bobby Kotick now?
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That's nobody's problem but your own.
You can print out a seed phrase and hold it under your floorboards as well, or better yet, memorize it. It takes up less space. You can split the phrase up and give it to a few trusted parties. You can do multi-sig. It's easier to transport, etc etc etc
Moreover I recall them saying SC2 was the final chapter on the IP.

I mean now that MS owns them maybe they can pull a Win11 :p
Yes, I was referring to a rugged (child proof) laptop. I think I got mine around 500 USD, not cheap, but cheaper than the Thoughbook. Hence my reply.
This is why I'm glad I still have my old copy of D2 to play Median XL and the like. Blizzard can kiss my butt if I'm gonna pay for their DRM'd copy of the game I already own.
Markus Deserno is a fantastic scientist in my field, and always gives the best talk at the conference.
Not sure on how much use it is without Ableton, sorry - I'll need someone else to answer that
Basically the same thing has happened to me at two different corporations as an employee, I worked on big projects for months that never saw the light of day, although I didn't know that would be the case ahead of time.

In one case the lead developer quit and the manager suddenly decided to scrap the project and hire a consultant firm to do the rest. In another I worked for six months on a project that would be 'the future of the department' they were going to sell to major companies, got it to a UAT state, showed it to the client, and the client dragged their feet on signing contracts for it for months, then they decided they were going to replicate it in-house, an oh, could you share all your business logic with us so we don't have to recreate it from scratch (thankfully our company told them to get fucked on that request).

It did seem nuts we were doing work without a signed contract, but apparently that's just how the healthcare industry works, if you waited until the contracts were signed you'd miss the open enrollment window for some of these, the most important time of the year for these things to be working, so the corporation I worked for (a large corporation) decided they needed to get a several month head start without a signed contract, and were overconfident it would eventually be signed.

That same corporation also had a project for some grand overhaul of their systems (and intended to unify several departments that all had their own systems, since they were originally bought and merged companies). We were one of the departments that were supposed to merge with that new software, and I know it still wasn't ready six years later (might have been scrapped, but I'm not sure).
Bobby isn't going anywhere yet, he's reporting to Phil.
There we go, thank you, that's the mental model I needed to bring it together
Yes there are a lot of good little unthinking consumers around sucking at corporate mother's teats. The future is bright.
If you take over a company, you don't necessarily want to plunge it into even more chaos than the acquisition will create already by immediately getting rid of the CEO. It's entirely possible that they will get rid of him after a transition phase.
I can't say that buying IPhone with preinstalled Twitter app is very convenient way of reading twitter post.
Wood is fairly inexpensive in North America because there are still many forests (especially in Canada).

There is nothing "inherently better" with one material over another for most applications. A good structure mostly depends on proper drainage and cladding to protect against UV rays and bulk water (precipitation), good air tightness (with mechanical ventilation for filtered, tempered fresh air), and high insulation.

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...
There's still a CEO of Mojang. So maybe they keep him, maybe they won't.

They wouldn't muddy their happy upbeat acquisition announcement by mentioning they're pushing him out, though.

So it's wrong to draw any conclusions yet.
I think it’s a mixture of molds and being broken in. Apparently these artificially broken in[0] switches with Cherry’s new Hyperglide molds are quite good.

I did try ultrasonic cleaning some of my Alps switches, but it’s hard to replicate the factory lube. The lubes we use for MX switches aren’t ideal.

I would fully expect a new old stock AEK to be amazing. All of my AEKs are indeed electrically reliable, but they are scratchy.

0: https://rndkbd.com/collections/broken-in-switches/products/u...
Haven't you heard? They <3 Linux now, they'll never use their position to lock people into their platforms again. They even promised they'll be good.
I don't think creating new IP correlates that much with profitability these days. Taking a look at box offices, TV, and gaming as well shows that existing IP is plenty profitable on its own.
There is some discussion on the Blizzard forums as well by the gamers. [1] Likely on EU forums as well.

[1] - https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/microsoft-buying-act...
> I did a fair bit of work in Go at Pivotal. I found Go anything but readable - a comical amount of boilerplate (especially around error handling), incredibly wordy constructs for simple tasks like making http requests, and the language is almost overtly hostile to functional programming (no generics!).

Are you saying that Java is better about any of that?
how do you think the laws should be changed to prevent this?
Game by Game basis I expect. I doubt they'll pull CoD from Playstation, it would be terrible PR and they can sell a positive in having it for free in GamePass.
I wonder if he realises what "fun" he's going to have over the next years cleaning out the cesspit that is Blizzard
Check if your code is cited in academic works
At this rate it's going to be Tencent vs Microsoft and if I have to choose I pick Microsoft.
Spain leads European crackdown on cryptocurrency promotions
https://archive.is/1QEx2
To me it's more like, even HN hates cryptocurrency! HN!
The information provided at the time indicated 100 Mhz buffer would be enough, which the FCC doubled. Now the FAA are saying that in fact even 200+ Mhz buffer outside of the frequency that was ever allocated for this purpose is not enough for some altimeters.