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This article misses it.

Video game tooling got good enough that the velocity increased massively from 20 years ago where companies were writing their own engines. There might be more folks working in games, but it's probably not the sole reason for the increased output. The team size for indie games shrunk dramatically while quality simultaneously went up due to tooling improvements.

There's lots of supporting work for assets and logic that can be plugged in to game engines. Even when you need your own stuff, there's other forums to get that work as needed. This is distributed and shared work now instead of being under one studio roof. Plus the tools for producing that stuff probably got better too. The efficiencies are compounding.

There's also been success with much simpler visual styles (Stardew), meaning not as much work needs to go into 3D modeling and advanced stuff like that. The worlds you play in now didn't necessarily have to get bigger either. Again, Stardew switches screens like old RPGs. It didn't seek to render a bigger world than games that came before it.

Same for the distribution platforms. You no longer need a slow corporate entity to handle making physical disks and shipping them worldwide. This lowers the barrier of entry by a lot when combined with the previous gains.

This author got used to the incremental graphics and technical improvements being marketed by game companies and thought that's how it always would be. That part still exists, but it's just in a much more crowded space these days.
I guess it depends on how you define "forever" but the success of Azure seems to be evidence that Microsoft is fundamentally capable of pivoting to a new business model if they really need to, in a way that Facebook hasn't shown any capacity for.

Google is probably screwed if search and ads go under, but they seem to be running an interesting experiment on how low quality their search results can get before they lose marketshare...
... Yes. I am sure the author understands that they can set Garamond as the default. I'm 99.9% positive the editor didn't run a 500 word Usenet help post on comp.software.word-processing, disguised as an essay. I'm 100% sure, however, that there's meaning in this post about overcoming self-doubt by "dressing for the part" you want to play...
UHMWPE already can do that.
Agreed. If the role is at Amazon, I don't even bother.
Can't agree on reading. It's cognitively stimulating, assuming you read something that interests you. I don't know about you, but I can't just close the book and forget about it.
But there's a difference between "can't get the results a second time" and "didn't even get the results the first time".

There isn't even so much a notion of "results", just "logically, Y follows from X". If that's wrong, you don't need to run the experiment again (there is no experiment to run), the logic is just flawed.
This doesn't make sense. This is actually addressed in the piece. If inductive reasoning is irrelevant for mathematics, why do then mathematicians have excellent intuitions about what is true even before they manage to prove it? The quote from the essay:

"[D]espite the fact that error-correction is really hard, publishing actually false results was quite rare because “people’s intuition about what’s true is mysteriously really good.” Because we mostly only try to prove true things, our conclusions are right even when our proofs are wrong."

Deduction can't explain this surprising reliability of mathematical intuition, only induction can. The question the author tries to answer is why the intuitions of mathematicians seem to be more reliable than those of social scientists.
The trouble with democracy is, and always was, the demos
Everyone ought to be obsessed with censorship.

Allow creators to express themselves as they see fit, and to quote the late great Paul Mooney, "It offends people, but good... they should be offended."
I was renting a VM from FRC but I had to let it go because I had loss and nothing was done to fix it :(

Regarding the routes in the FIB, I had the problem as well. Hopefully claudio@'s answer may help you (provided you want to test again) https://marc.info/?l=openbgpd-users&m=161510661928340&w=2 (ctrl-f "1. Why the FIB isn't filled?")
> And Audi is not super good about it.

Based on what? "Understanding what is around", and "Tesla is far better at understanding the context" - my Audi has never attempted to drive into stopped traffic.

Your vision (and not just about Audi) that all other manufacturers have these dumb, simple systems and no context of what's going on around is simply, and factually, wrong.

My Audi (and I'm not saying they are the leader, I'm just speaking on them because of my experience) has no fewer than 13 radar sensors around the vehicle and will tell me of incursions into the vehicle's "space". It will recognize that some incursions are more "concerning" than others and alert appropriately.

I really have no idea what you mean by "Audi is not super good" about safety systems.
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Google is up 7.5% today. Google had one of the best valuation growths in the past 2 years of mega cap companies.

It makes little to no financial sense, compared to other tech and web companies, for Facebook stock to remain down 25%. Their PE is going to be like 17.5 now.
> If I am Zuck

All of these growth idea sounds incredibly boring. More likely? Maybe, but incredibly boring. Meanwhile meta is at least sounds pretty interesting.

There need to be some fun for him to just not permanently retire on his Hawaiian Island.
Apple Urges Senate to Reject a Bill That Allows Outside App Stores
You're late to this discussion by almost six years, when it became clear to the Ethereum team and the people running Ethereum nodes that code isn't law, but consensus is. Consensus is indeed the "higher power beyond the code". By the way, the same thing applies to Bitcoin, and to every other decentralized "crypto" project out there.

Code is nothing but a way to implement a certain set of rules a majority agrees with. And the object of agreement can indeed change over time. This does not threaten the decentralized nature of the Ethereum network, or its capabilities as a core tool for all sorts of decentralized instruments that simply were not possible with anything that came before.
If space colonization leads to mining resources from asteroids and offloading the environmental costs of such mining from earth or get us building materials strong enough to give us a space elevator or space factories sending their waste into the sun, you wouldn’t be saying this perhaps.
I’ve always taken it to mean “don’t block people you already trust waiting on the verification to come through but do check it eventually.”

Bar tabs are a good example of this behavior. Just get your regular a drink and assume their card will go through. In the past checks worked like this too.

1. Let the person start doing what they set out to do.

2. Check if they actually have permission.

3a. If yes, stop.

3b. If no, block their access.
Clearly, being a google hiring person means you will never see the other side of this. So I really feel like every reply is just wasted electrons.

Google does not need WiFi in order to give directions to locations in the Maps application. However, gaining access to WiFi locations is beneficial to Googs in other fashions. They choose to force people to do it for their gain, not the benefit of the Maps user.

Now, you're trying to say that because some people are technically aware about things and have become vocal and push back against the tide that is Googs' overreaching into people's lives is some how in the wrong. You also seem to be implying that the fact that the vast majority of people are not vocal on the point makes it okay even though they have no idea what is actually occurring. Since they are not complaining, everything is okay, right? That's not how that works.
> "Gaben wouldn't let it slip out even from his cold dead hands"

Maybe that's an idea
How did Apple change any of this? (Genuine question - I am not well versed in cellular network technologies or their history, but I would love to read about how Apple led to improvements in the US infrastructure.)
It is standard on the Cherokee and Compass. On the Wrangler it is part of the Advanced Safety Group with adaptive cruise control. I think it might have to do with false positives when off-road.
There are multiple studies that show that the time that you sleep does matter. There is a higher risk of diabetes and obesity for people who sleep during the day and are awake at night.

I'm not saying this to be a buzz kill, I really wish it wasn't true. Anecdotally, I used to keep very, very late hours and sleep a lot of the day - and I did this for years. I thought I was fine. Once I established a normal day/night cycle (kids and wife do that to you), I realized that I had been grumpy most of the time and not particularly happy. Soon after establishing a more normal rhythm, I also lost a considerable amount of weight (about 15lbs).
Many of the people I know consider many Republican views anathema, and blame Democrats for running Seattle into the ground (in the way the phrase is being used here). What you're expressing sounds more black and white than reality.
Nothing wrong with the Dutch one, when I use the English version of Windows. If I recall correctly.
Facebook loses about $150 per Quest 2 sold (basing this off of what an engineer who worked on it told me). Either way, they're not making money off the hardware.

They plan on making it up via game sales in the Oculus Rift Store, and services. Same as what Sony did with the PS4 (which was quite successful). I see "Quest Season Passes" in VR's future.
I agree with where you're coming from.

I think there's a huge desire to solve everything in one fell swoop in some imagined perfect plan. I'll get similar pushback when talking about common sense market based reforms for the healthcare industry, completely orthogonal to who's paying. A predictable response is always "yeah, so when you fly through your windshield you can whip out your phone in the air and search for which hospital has the best rates", completely ignoring that most healthcare is non emergency and even in many emergency situations people still make decisions to avoid being financially screwed.

There's so much low hanging fruit of things that patently do not make sense and would be politically-neutral for people, yet fixing them would disempower some middleman and no new pockets would get filled, and so there is no political support.
1) GCP support is non-existant
2) Google has a track record of dropping services with little to no notice.
3) There are numerous stories of google locking or deleting gcp account because the a.i. misinterpreted something about the owners gmail account.
4) Try to get a human on the phone, its impossible.

It doesn't matter how good the services or pricing are. I dont trust them and I doubt I ever will.
I keep an eye on r/gamingsuggestions on reddit for game discovery. Follow that for long enough and you'll hear some more interesting games talked about upon occasion enough times that you'll seek them out. If you can stand reddit, that is.
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Short and fast emails could just as well be a sign of someone who is bad at communicating.
That's great to hear companies are open to four days for 80%. I'm surprised as engineer's salaries go up and up that there aren't more people looking to trade money for time.
In many of these use cases native is only "not fast enough" because the code you're running makes very poor use of the cache, pipelining, simd instruction sets, and memory bandwidth
It’s anecdotal but the adds I get on DuckDuckGo by it matching what I search for tend to be better than the targeted adds I get on Google or Facebook which are typically advertisements for things that I have just bought.

Like when I search for hiking shoes, that’s when you should advertise, now for the next two months. I’m not going to buy a second pair for another 20 years after all, and if it’s to reassure me I made the right purchases then they shouldn’t be for variating brands.

But I mean, you’re probably right, why else would various sales decision spend so much money on advertisement companies?

I think the “pay with your privacy” model is probably coming to an end though. At least here in the EU that seems to be the long term plan, and I think Apple might agree with me.
Everywhere. They even made their warehouse staff come in during a tornado.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59641784
I think it’s accurate to state these types of complaints against government monetary control. However, doing so generally ignores the features and usage levels of currency that don’t and never will exist in cryptoland.
You can use whatever denominator you want but blind obedience to the law isn’t ever going to be a measure of safety.
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> I don’t think there is anything you need to somehow understand better about “computing” to use Lisp

I am not saying that at all. If anything I said the opposite of that. I think, given how simple Lisp's syntax is, being able to write/use Lisp is almost trivial. However being able to use Lisp is a way that has given it an almost mythical status (one being discussed in this thread is the so-called "x10 programmer") requires far more than just being able to write Lisp
Seemingly narrow misses often cause large declines. The reason is that management has a lot of ways to guide analysts to reasonable numbers. Like it or not, companies also have ways of stretching to make it work. If the company can’t meet those numbers, even after all of that communication, with all the means available to them, well that’s a bad sign.
That's correct, however students are being told about the manipulation these days. Especially concerning the prison experiment.
I meant that currently I don't trust its reliability given that its past the 210k mile mark. It's 16 years old. My hope is to keep it until I no longer have to pay taxes on it, which is @ the 20 year mark - it is not however something I would let my spouse operate, mostly because she isn't mechanically inclined were it to break down for whatever reason.
> Tether, in particular, seems to printing their stablecoins out of what appears to be thin air,

Everyone keeps saying they are printing but no one has the proof. Even the New York AG investigated Tether and just gave them a slap on the wrist
Yes, apparently they couldn't use their full approach because "of missing information in the dataset". That points to a further limitation of the approach: it works for Codeforces problems but not for APPS problems (so it's very purpose-specific).

Btw, APPS is not much of a benchmark. It evaluates code generation according to how close it resembles code written by humans. That's standard fare for text generation benchmarks, like evaluating machine translation on some arbitrary set of human translations. There are no good benchmarks for text generation (and there are no good metrics either).

But the comparison against the average competitor on Codeforces is even more meaningless because we have no way to know what is the true coding ability of that average competitor.
https://cloud.tencent.com ?
Nothing odd, I said I was leaning towards SSE
Is it really insane? Facebook knows how to optimize pytorch and ML applications more than anyone. They can sell that on the market.
This does not track with anyone I have met in real life.

People have no problem with settings as long as the settings are reasonably easy to understand and actually help solve the problems they have.

In fact, Apple setup a store that did nothing but sold settings…the iPhone ringtone setting.

Other countries have had mobile companies selling more settings. Wallpapers, hello tunes (messages that play when you call someone instead of a ringtone), etc.

Settings are not inherently bad. Unnecessary settings and bad defaults are bad.
> Google has Android, Google Workplace, GCP, etc.

Alphabet is more than 80% advertising: https://searchengineland.com/google-q4-2021-earnings-379735 . They are good at skewing how they are perceived but they are very close to being a one-business company. Not defending Facebook, but Google is not much better.
I don't get metaverse - they seem to be throwing lots of money and people at it, and hyping it up like it's the future. But from what I've seen so far they've just built VRChat, but worse. It's been done before by other people, it's not a new thing at all (Second Life released almost 20 years ago).

This isn't a project that benefits from any of Facebooks strengths - game development companies are much better positioned to make compelling social VR experiences like this.

"Metaverses" in general are a cool 80s sci-fi novel concept. But they're just video game environments with better-than-typical communication features - hyping them up with piles of marketing and betting the farm on your specific one being successful seems like an incredibly poor business move.
Well all of those point seem to sum up to:

"We're getting beat by Tiktok and we're going to catch up by being more like tiktok"

That doesn't exactly exude confidence.
* I could be a verbatim translation and so lose subtle semantics; "don't expect what you don't inspect" would be idiomatic

* Any Soviet saying would come from a culture used to double-speak to survive government oppression and censorship. Which is probably still new to many Americans who remember good old days.
It's a battle of optimization to cater to the largest audience, so your market share is larger, so economies of scale work better and they earn higher profit - and arguably at lower design cost as well.

Arguably until users are willing to fund good R&D - and there aren't other unreasonable pressures on the production, and that design isn't perverted by designing to optimize for ad revenues and to capture engagement of a person to unhealthy levels, then it's going to continue to be the status quo.
They have 18: https://datacenters.fb.com/#locations
I don't think that he necessarily doesn't address settings. I think it fits into the overall ethos pretty well: it should require as little mental energy as possible to figure out what the settings do and why you would use them.

Where things get murky and become a matter of judgement and data is whether you are exposing settings gratuitously and therefore just making things confusing, or whether you are not offering enough settings and therefore not addressing common use cases.
> You can not draw any conclusions if you consider the possibility that the universe might become two dimensional any moment and one plus one afterwards no longer equals two.

It really might though. There could be a false vacuum. And yet, here I am, drawing conclusions constantly.
Taxes won't take half your pay, more like a third, maybe a bit more if you're towards the topend. Marginal tax rate != Effective tax rate. That said, I agree as for the rest.
I've seen a comment like this quite a few times now and I am curious: what exactly is the goal of pointing out that advertisement affects your life somehow, to someone who said they can't think of a relevant ad? It's not like they claimed they're immune to advertisement. They just can't think of a relevant ad, and I'm in the same boat, unless you twist the implied definition of "an ad" enough; a common trait for these threads is to start attacking the "marketing doesn't affect me" straw man, which is of course easy to attack when you go down the everything is marketing line of thought.
https://archive.md/rHNnI
TikTok is referred to in their discussion of more heavily focusing on Reels. I use both only tangentially and find Reels to very clearly be less enjoyable than TikTok, but I am probably not the target market.
Complete opposite for me, no matter how good the book is, at night I still find myself becoming extremely tired from reading.
Ironically, Robinhood's cryptocurrency revenue shouldn't be high in the estimation of _real_ cryptocurrency enthusiasts, what's the point of crypto if you don't/can't own your keys? Really lays the whole thing bare. FOMO.
I find the disconnect between mainstream "political opinion" and the actions of the big banks more interesting.

Lets assume that crypto as a whole is a 50/50 proposition. And it is certainly a giant question mark (50/50 is symbolic)...cause there are certainly open questions.

...and yet we've got people on this forum describing it as "funny money" while major investment banks are opening crypto desks. That makes me go hmm...

...on balance I'm leaning towards IB usually has a good nose for money and where the political winds will blow (or be made to blow by force)
OK, but do you have a lot of faith in human drivers, a huge percentage of whom are talking on their phones with other people for work or play, some of which I've witnessed holding up the video with one hand so their faces can be seen?

Forget FSD - whether it's Tesla or others, an automation in the car that stops when a living being is detected in front seems like an advance, while human drivers talking in a sales meeting while wearing wireless AirPods appear to be an increasing threat to pedestrians.
I have posted in other comments about this subject, and have kept the two topics separate. You seem to be the one unable to handle that people have different views from yours. Not sure why/how you are unable to realize this. Continue the tone deaf hurrahing for the Googs if you must, but it is quite tiresome.
Works for me! Cool project!

I really like the "Comparisons" page with brief info about the repos.

Does it crawl all of GitHub to find repos with similar names or only stick to the popular repos that were already indexed? Also how does it rank the alternatives that it finds? For example on https://www.libhunt.com/bitcoin/bitcoin , why is umbrel above dogecoin or bitcoin book?
I felt the same way, I literally bought a Quest 2 for everyone in my family. We have 4 of them and over $200 worth of games. After a couple months no one uses it anymore. It's sad lol.

I do think it's amazing - Superhot is one of the best games I've ever played. But I get it - I don't know how to explain, but it seems like work to use it.
What, does public opinion shield you from the burden of proof? These are outrageous claims. I pray for legislation to put this all to rest.
It doesn’t really matter what metrics people use, if the current trend of yearly doubling in users/market cap continues, cryptocurrencies will get to the size of fiat currencies in about 10 years. Of course there are people who are sceptical on _whether_ the current trend continues or not.
A couple of things worked on there for me as well, but the biggest one for me personally is 0.3mg of melatonin

I started with 3mg, way too much, went to 1.5mg, still too much. Then did 0.7mg, that was fine but still some small side effects. Then 0.4mg that was fine. Then 0.2mg, that didn't work. Then I did 0.3mg and it seemed to be the sweet spot. I can just barely perceive it working and it is just enough to make me feel a bit woozy, which is what I cannot do myself.
I'd be curious if you feel the same way in a year or so. When I first got into VR I felt very strongly it was the future, but that novelty wore off over the course of a year. I go back every few months to catch up on experiences I've missed and try out new tech, but the novelty has still worn off.

VR is not a daily use experience for me, and I assume for a lot of consumers, but it is still amazing.
I think you ought to recheck your numbers.
Their "ads" are driven from more sectors than Facebook. Whatsapp has no ads, so it's basically FB and Insta
Well, apparently Tesla's motto should be "Bad driver's car"
I wrote this in another FB thread but they need to own e-commerce vertical: Stripe and Shopify. Others here mentioned opening up their data centers too.