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I bought ff6 when it was released for the snes and I've played through it many dozens of times over the years. My last two playthroughs were with the Brave New World mod, and it's truly fantastic. It's become my favorite way to play the game, and I don't plan on going back to the vanilla game anytime soon.
That is wild. I know nothing about ML, but I would think that the driving data Tesla sucking in from various places supposed to improve overall driving regardless of the location. At least within the same country. Would be interesting to know how this actually works, but I'm sure it's all secret sauce we'll never know much about.
I'm starting to notice this trend in my group of contacts.
> When the metaverse actually launches

I think you need to define "metaverse".

What is it, besides an ugly, much less functional Second Life? Who's launching it? What is it good for? Why would someone use it over...well, you have to define what it's good for before I can even ask that question.
https://old.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/sa7j9...
What kind of lame parties does this guy go to? I expected an article about dope things to make a cocktail party more awesome. Like fireworks, or a poker table.
The stat being referenced is daily active users, so not counting people who have an account but never login.
Their mobile site forces you to login to even view things anymore.
Zuck is worried Facebook is becoming the lame social network for old people, probably because it is. It's hard to lose that label once they've got it. He even says here that they're willing to sacrifice short term engagement for more youth engagement. Stories is widely used among the youth making it incredibly valuable.
Stock dropped by 22% as well.
I still listen to the VI OST to this day. What they were able to do with the SNES soundchip was quite the technical accomplishment.
I think it's because of the perception TikTok=cat and dance videos, FB=misinformation. At least that's what my feeds looks like. Also: TikTok=kids, FB=adults
Job descriptions are forward looking statements; the position may be entirely different.

Here are some of the many possibilities:

The service has poor uptime and you're on call every weekend.

Schedule pressure or poor management means that you're asked to come in on Fridays "until the next release".

The reduced-hours position was sponsored by a VP who has lost interest or left the company. Your direct manager has deadlines to meet and pressures you into working full-time.
Exactly. The main feed doesn't hold any meaning for me now. I find I miss around 50% of my friend's posts and reels if I don't check their profile manually. I only use it for seeing and posting stories now. I'm sure stories would get similarly ad-clogged in 1-2 years as well.

Just to clarify, I'm fine with seeing some ads in between chronological posts. But the feed is entirely ads after 5-6 posts. Hoping some brave instagram PM reads this comment.
Will give recommendations from other Git forges too?
"Stamp rallies" in Japan are so common that they invented their own pseudo-English word for them. The OG is the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage, which requires you to collect stamps from 88 different temples, preferably by walking 1200 km:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku_Pilgrimage

Although there's no prize or verifying authority for completion.
Quest 2

Yes, it is required. I liked it to my brother's account.

It sucks for a few different reasons.

1. It's very uncomfortable when you sweat, which you do for any of the active sports games. The Oculus falls off your head and causes you to break out.

2. If you have glasses but cant wear contacts (my issue) it's a lot harder to use.

3. Lack of interesting games. I like golf, the golf game is actually cool, one free course with the option of paying for 1 other course, so 2 total courses.

The current version is no where people are going to spend a lot of time in the near future.
No, I'd point to those sites that sell stars and laugh in their face.
Perfect Facebook: Break off groups, silo it. I've been off FB for almost a decade but I'm at the point where I have to actually use it for the first time, as it's where all the types of events I want to go to exclusively get organized. For amateur racing at least, it's pretty much all Facebook.
Agreed - we should symmetrically apply their laws in the US as well and require that they be locally owned.

Or just block them. Maybe that would be better.
We already have video games for that.
Meanwhile in the real world there is a distinction between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law and that distinction very much does matter.
Your first sentences and last sentences contradict each other in my mind. They're selling nonense. I don't know why they're pushing the metaverse so hard in media. It feels as astroturfed as crypto is. I'm not putting on a VR headset to go to a meeting, I would literally never want that.
To expand on this, JPL probably has 100 Lisp engineers because it has intricate astrophysics problems that warrant 100 Lisp engineers. Most companies will never have such difficult problems. They may think they can, but they cannot. They can have crappy problems, however, and crappy problems can tie up those engineers provided they have very little agency in solving the underlying problems that give rise to those crappy problems. And you have to be careful to manage them very adversarially to keep it that way because they will totally try to actually fix things without your knowledge or permission. Not always, though, sometimes they get stuck in a mesh of very nerdy concepts and then there's no risk.
Same! What a sad state the internet is in when a megaevil corp is used by local services to provide updates. I thought that was what Twitter was for?

I know several pacific islands were going to ban Facebook but apparently it's heavily in use by businesses.

Regina Lepping, a young entrepreneur from capital city Honiara, said the announcement had sent many small business owners scrambling to find alternatives to Facebook.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-15/solomon-islands-backt...
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You're right, it's dismal. I appeal you make it the furthest away bridge, give yourself plenty of time to reconsider, and maybe find a nice restaurant, concert, business or event along the way.
Craziness of AWS cli tool complexity aside, I really like the general idea of this.

As someone who tends to set aside an afternoon for Debian upgrades every couple of years¹, I'd love a database I could query with release/package_name to see what has changed in an interface.

As Simon notes in his post simply relying on ChangeLog/NEWS files which have hugely varying levels of granularity(when they exist at all) isn't a good indicator of what has changed.

If all packages had the structure and thoroughness of git's release notes this probably wouldn't be needed. However, we have to live in the world we have, not the one we want.

Edit to add: If you decide to make this yourself don't blindly run `for bin (${^path}/*(N*:A)) { $bin --help ... }`, as some tools have exciting side-effects beyond just attempting to pop open a window. This message paid for with JNRowe's foolishness.

¹ Which often means I'm about six months late for the release party given scheduling priorities. And, a month after my Bullseye upgrade I've still got around twenty pending todo items for setup changes I'd like to see.
https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1487335783522390016

I will admit it's possible I'm putting words in his mouth.
I'm thinking, a lot of people, even developers are scary of assembly, right? Or a more irrefutable one: it doesn't have much use. Definitely it is true in the sense that indeed even system programmers don't write full assembly programs.

But then I thought about the kids in 80s, the Romeros and Carmacks, and a little before that the Garriots and Gates, those kids started with BASIC but immediately picked up assembly given the chance, because that was how high performance code could be written and they just learned it on the way. No Internet, very few books even for rich kids (usually a [Machine] programming guide is good enough). Now that I think about it, some of them were barely teenages.

I bet the real difference is 1) Much simpler machine arch and 2) They had to learn it for writing games and other high performance software.
Neither can I, but it's easier for me to accept a billionaire doing something that's at least really new and different.

I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, but I feel much less negative about his ventures than about Bezos, simply because they are adding to the world of what is possible. Bezos' rockets seem like a "me too" thing. People often say expensive things are "status symbols". It appears that Musk really wants to make science fiction real, independently of what anyone else does, and I suspect Bezos of actually being obsessed with relative status. Who knows if that's fair, but that's how it looks.
The real problem is the bad guidance, not earnings. Theyre guiding q1 revenue to be 10% below Wall Street expectations.
2021 was a record year for fund inflows.

Stimulus checks combined with broad accessibility of trading platforms (Robinhood, etc.) led to fund inflows growing 71% https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/global-markets-etf-gr...

And that's just ETF inflows aside from mutual funds and options markets.

The top recipients, according to the article linked above, were VOO, VTI and SPY. All follow an index that's market-cap-weighed, benefiting top 10 holdings more than the rest of the market.

The explanation I've seen floated is retail investors treating VOO and VTI as their savings account (for the lack of any decent yield opportunities). That money is eventually going to be withdrawn and spent, punishing those top 10 holdings excessively compared to the rest of the market.
The federal government should launch its own platform for the US government and state and local governments to push all their updates. Something like Star Wars' Holonet.
> “That’s a tough one to answer. Because we’re selling to the military, we don’t know what they do with them. We’re not going to dictate to our government customers how they use the robots. We do draw the line on where they’re sold. We only sell to U.S. and allied governments. We don’t even sell our robots to enterprise customers in adversarial markets. We get lots of inquiries about our robots in Russia and China. We don’t ship there, even for our enterprise customers.”

OK, this is kind of funny because A) they're emphatically saying where they definitely draw a line for selling dogs to be used for who-knows-what purpose, and that line is basically the same line that's been loosely drawn by such companies for the last hundreds of years, and B) while trying so hard to fit into this rhetorical template, they also somehow indicate that _non-enterprise customers in adversarial markets_ fit on their side of the line.

"Prepare another shipment of do-whatever-dogs for C.O.B.R.A., Tiny Non-Enterprise, LLC, a Non-profit Dictatorship! Man, I wonder what everybody wants with our robotic dogs...!"
When Facebook first started getting users I tried to access it from a script using Lynx. I don't remember why but it was nothing nefarious, I think I simply wanted to download something for GF periodically.

I got a message that said "We aren't cool enough to support your browser".

Something about the sarcastic snootiness of the message really angered me and prevented me from ever opening a Facebook account. Later I blocked all Facebook domains in Host files and it's been that way ever since.

For awhile it was a bit awkward with people demanding to know why I didn't have a Facebook page but apparently I hold grudges for a long time. It's been delightful to see people come around to my point of view on Facebook.

They really are like a seedy bar in the bad part of town. With snooty messages for circumventors. But I have to thank them for that snooty message otherwise I would have probably caved and opened an account years ago.
AI might take over management quicker than you think. If the objective is to get the rocket into space, AI might know the requirements better than humans at this rate.
It's very easy to run out of cumulative watts of grid power feed, cooling capacity and generator/UPS/power backup capacity in a facility before you run out of floor space in a datacenter.

Even with what is now a "small" 5kW thermal power budget per 44U cabinet, measuring 24 inches wide x 48 inches deep, you can easily exceed that 5kW long before you physically fill the cabinet with servers.
I agree that TikTok is much worse, but thankfully I rarely hear about it and don't personally know anyone who uses it.
I use Instagram daily. I love it. And so do my friends. Ads are also very on point and small business oriented. No scams. Instagram has super cool retro computing and countless vaporwave aesthetic channels that frankly are unique to IG. It’s incredible. I have curated my own feed using the save feature. Never used FB but IG seems to be better than Tiktok mentally and otherwise.
And she was even polite enough to let him interrupt her, yet she still agreed. Did she owe that man something more than what she already accommodated him with? I wonder how nice some of the people here standing up for that guy say when a homeless person interrupts their day?
Literally all Zuckerberg has to do is not be the kind of person he is... his product itself did achieve success in that a huge number of people are using it, but then he had to prove himself to have no ethical standards
Square in the frunk.
How did the wormholecrypto exploit work?
At the level of "extreme wealth" where you own a newspaper or bankroll a think tank, you're not working for wages, and you're not realizing a dollar more in taxable income than necessary. These people really aren't part of income inequality, or reached by income tax. I assume you're not talking about them.

The professional-managerial class do wield considerably more power than the working class. I don't think that's because they have money, though. I think it's because the state is a large organization. People with the skills to run a state will rarely want for white-collar employment. People who influence bureaucracies for a living will also be pretty good at getting what they want from the state.

Imagine. Who's going to win a national electoral campaign, who couldn't land a job in marketing?
It's almost impressive how much of Instagram is just ads. I keep it around to follow a few people, but it seems like more than half of what scrolls by is either ads or totally off-base account recommendations (Which are themselves, essentially ads)
Perhaps users early in their journey with your product want it to “just work”, because they don’t want to fiddle with loads of settings they don’t understand only to find your product is rubbish.

As they become more proficient with your product, if they can’t tweak behaviour in certain ways, they might consider changing to a different product. And that’s where settings become useful.
They don't. It's just that successful ones go out of their way to tell everyone how successful they were in spite of having mediocre or low grades, and the media laps up such stories.
I don't mean to impugn the study of psychology in the slightest. Only that i find it maddening that obviously unfalsifiable results are taught as though they can teach us anything about human behavior.

I hope you are right and I am wrong, I was taught these experiments this way at a good school, i can only hope that is more uncommon than i think it is.
GoFundMe pauses donations to Canada truckers
Thats easier than having to follow traffic rules in an ever changing environment of people cars and kids doing random things. This is why cats and dogs with their great perception skills would get themselves and others killed in traffic if they tried to drive. But for sure that animal has modeled a spacetime world of events with some memory of event patterns to anticipate and predict what might happen next.

I live in SF and I have not yet seen one of the so many AV's here drive without a driver. Once that really starts happening with any scale, we will see what happens next for sure. But there is definitely a Theranos kind of promise to AV's at the moment, and so much money on the line that the tech works...
I don't use either service, but it's my impression that the misinformation on TikTok is more on the "petty harm to individuals" level and less on the "destroys the social and political fabric of societies" level.
> While I was reorganizing my phone, I had a sudden realization: Settings are typically seen as the result of design failure. The thinking goes that as designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustments by the user. Consequently, offering customization options is interpreted as a failure to make firm product decisions.

I wonder if the author has ever considered how much users hate when things arbitrarily change as designers try to figure out what the One True Product Experience should be. (Or, more likely, try to optimize some metric management is unhappy about.)
> so it doesn't have to go up, it just needs to not drop.

Amazon compensation packages assume 15% increase in RSU value year over year, so when you get a 4 year grant as a new hire, your target compensation will be projected based off 15% year over year growth, which typically means less stock granted in year 4 compared to year 3.

With a stagnant stock price, many Amazon employees are potentially at risk of not hitting their year 3 target compensation.
Looking at the share price for Amazon and other big tech companies over the last year, that vesting schedule has been a positive for new starters.
I'm long on Meta as well and I really like the Quest (2), but the metaverse already had a soft launch. What Meta has been able to accomplish so far is impressive, but it's still not enough.

What's the status quo with VR problems?

- Price: This was fixed with Quest 2

- Complexity: This was also fixed with Quest.

- Socially acceptable: Nope. Even when you remove the issue of the toxicity surrounding Facebook's brand, most people refuse to either try or use VR regularly. Case in point, Meta is giving away Quest 2's to their employees and contractors. imo it's surprising to me that not all of them took the offer. One common answer I get is, "This is going to be as gimicky as the Wii right?". imo the form factor is what drives normal people away. It has to be smaller and closer to goggles before mass acceptance happens. Apple is most likely right on their approach, based on their patent submissions. Conversely, Apple's weakness will be price.
> When I was young, it was plausible for a person to have read the latest books, watched the latest films, and played the latest games.

For video games, there are a couple years in the 1970s for which this might have been true, but between just the Atari 2600 and the Apple ][, there's no way anybody could have kept up with the flood.

For books, I went over to ISFDB and searched for 'novel AND english AND 1980' which came up with eight hundred and twenty three results. Some of those are duplicates, but even a tenth of that is better than one book a week, and that's just one genre.
Not wild at all if those extra features get in the way and make it harder to do the subset of things you want to do. Those extra features also occupy the developers' attention, leaving less time for them to focus on the things you care about.
Hawker still makes bizjets.
Does Facebook really have the infrastructure in place to host the metaverse? Are they buying up the best gaming firms, have extensive enterprise architecture experience?

Look at Microsoft. My bet is on big enterprise/cloud tech + video game companies.
I disagree, there's good reason for hiding those totals from users, in any way.
Thirty plus years ago Biden dropped out of the presidential primary when it was shown he was a plagiarist. Today, he’s president. So it’s safe to say that no one cares about plagiarism.
On-call needs to be legally optional and compensated.

I for one get serious heart symptoms if I don't have adequate sleep.
Does cell phone radiation affect men’s fertility?
Windows NT was made by company with a monopoly position and truckloads of money pouring in. They hired Dave Cutler to do the preliminary designs.

LO can barely keep the lights on and has well capitalized competitors at all sides. A ground up rewrite is not gonna happen unless someone with deep pockets shows up. No doubt any new product will be created by youngsters that despise 90s pragmatism, local data model, and lack of telemetry. Meaning it won’t be a product for me.
Our current Supreme Court is creating policy from whole cloth while entirely ignoring precedent, and the text of law as a flagrant act of partisan pandering in their recent vax || test ruling.