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> You don't have to do "slow walking". By default the controller included in almost every VR platform allows you to move faster if you want within an VR FPS game. Anything available in a pancake game is also available for VR so I still don't understand this complaint. If you want more immersion, then you can get a movement rig like KatVR or run in place with Vive Sensors using NaLo.

You can but its not really advisable. Games are not designed to work like this. They might not break, but its contrary to the design of the game and will harm the experience in numerous little ways.

> I would disagree. It works just fine, because it's actually easier to aim with a blaster in your hand vs indirectly with a mouse. If you have issues with hand eye coordination, that is not an issue with VR itself.

It is undeniably easier to aim with a mouse. There's simply no question and you're fooling yourself if you think otherwise. As someone who can shoot decently irl and tap heads with a mouse. Alyx is yet again another example of this. Enemies don't move fast for the explicit reason that its pretty hard for most people to shoot a moving target with a gun. It's very easy for someone familiar with a mouse to do so. I would bet that most games adopt a heavy amount of aim assist in he near future.

> Because the actual physical mechanics of taking cover doesn't change. The only reason it's different in 3rd person games is due to the controls. Again, I don't understand this complaint unless you just don't like physically moving.

The controls are incredibly important. They are your interface to the game.

> I feel that this is only true for anyone who have issues with physically moving their body. I don't feel that this applies for most of the populace. Then again I could be wrong.

I think you are wrong, given the decline of health and fitness, but aside from that, we shall see again.
Not just lame, highly ironic, considering the entire environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwDbx-nuQ5o
The G-S repeal having to do with future crises is a nonsense theory which has been previously been covered in r/badeconomics: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/5nx2mm/glasss...

In short: Glass-Steagall was about separating commercial banks from investment banks. Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed. In any case, banks already naturally separated from diseconomies of scope.

The reality is that the G-S repeal was a completely harmless symptom of a more harmful disease: general banking deregulation (and a push against new regulations) in the late 1990s and early 2000s (yes, it was bipartisan in both Clinton and Bush years).
Just in that list of commands, there are a dozen different pieces of software that a user has to trust not to steal their keys or make some sort of error. I have more faith in the legal system than software I haven't personally audited. So now I have to audit whatever btchip_setup is, ndeftool, and a bunch of other software if I really want technical security. Oh, and if I really want to do it right, I've got to audit the chip designs and inspect the chips to make sure they are to spec and don't have secret cred-stealing hardware.

Then you have to trust the hardware storing the data not to fail. But every physical storage medium will fail eventually, so now you need a system by which you create backups and test your backups. And now you have to secure your backups separate in case of fire or technical theft too. It starts to become a part time job very quickly...
I think the biggest flaw is that the Big Mac you are served in Switzerland is not really the same Big Mac you are served in the US.

It's a cute form of comparison but indeed should not be used as a policy tool.
Apple proposes 27% commission in Dutch app store dispute
Because it's like trying to get to Mars by both jumping really high and building a rocket.
Choosing something and making a decision is not as difficult as it seems. You don't have to when someone comes along and tells you "we should use pnpm because it's much faster". Before using any tool, you take a brief look at how it works and what it does, and decide accordingly. I don't understand why you see having more than one option as a problem.
SPA and Rails are not mutually exclusive.

For a simple MVP, Rails is enough. As features grow and frontend becomes more complicated, you can then evaluate again if you want to move the rendering part into a separate SPA while retaining Rails as API server.

This was the path that my previous company took.
Totally. For a company that lives and dies by statistics in its business and technical decisions, it amazes me that they can act like employee performance on a two-pizza team is normally distributed and only about the team member.

Sometimes a poorly performing team member was just a bad hiring choice. You politely let them go and work to improve your hiring process. Sometimes the person is struggling for reasons outside work, so you try to find the right supports necessary. But most often, in my experience poor performance is about the worker's environment (culture, process, behaviors, projects), and those are all things managers are supposed to be monitoring and improving.
There's no reason to need to take a "moral" stance here. Our rights as consumers to have and hold things without third-party DRM are being systematically ignored, and we are being forced into a bullshit rental model where no one provider holds everything you want. Piracy solves this problem.

You should be proud to pirate, proud of sticking it to the assholes that want to control us and our entertainment, proud of wounding an industry that tries to wriggle out of compensating the real artists as much as it can through shifty accounting, predatory contracts. and laughably low royalties payouts.

Steal music and buy concert tickets
> I guess Nest.js is actually right

Not quite. "NestJS" is actually right. :)
Well said! I'm there with you. Totally agree. We should all strive for this mindset.
It could. But it does not do it :)
When I saw that on bind the follow up comment was.

"He was then PIP'd for accepting the gift card and not being frugal"
It sounds like GP had learned enough about the culture from the interview.
I think ultimately people have to decide how they want to pay for their mortgages.

We could segregate this sort of "retail" finance. Then it wouldn't really be affected by markets booming and busting. But it would be more expensive and less available.

Or we can allow cash to flow from big institutions to small private borrowers. But then we have to accept that when an institution fails it's either bailed out or there is a credit shortage and small retail borrowers have to do without or pay a lot more for a while.

That's the basic choice here. That's why Glass Steagell was repealed (in the mortgage space anyway). That's why the bailouts were "necessary" (politicians rightly judged people would rather bailout than see their mortgages spike).
That actually makes way more sense. Cutting teams that don’t perform and reforming makes lots of sense
London being one of the highest-payed places in Europe, of course.
Not all mathematicians are bad at arithmetic. Both Euler and Gauss were brilliant calculators. Another comment mentions Ramanujan. In more recent history, Arnold in his exams would give problems with plenty of arithmetic estimates, that had to be performed orally and be within 10% of the exact answer.

In a surprising turn of events, people studying mathematics are a large group, and some of them are indeed incapable of factoring 57.
To add to the value of Scratch: it's taught at the start of Harvard's CS50 course for introductory programming. It's a drag-and-drop block-based code editor, which is good for learning about if statements and loops while getting an immediate result. (e.g. the instructions cause an animated character moves in a certain way). The immediate reward can help motivate programming, as it skips the time needed to memorize function names or syntax before understanding what you can do with programming.
Ex SDM (worked at AWS for 5 years, I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, had a pretty great time), I had a small team and there was no pip (pivot) quota mandated. But I can see how this can be come a pressure on larger teams, e.g. orgs below an L8 / orgs larger than 50 people. Not a pressure on pip (called pivot), but there is an expectation of some % of people as LEs (least effective / improvement needed), and LEs usually lead to focus / pivot.
> If you call a steady 1-2%/year "massive".

It compounds. Over the course of 50 years this is ~100% inflation.
> This assumes the docs written at the same time the code was changed is actually correct. This is an enormous assumption.

One would hope that the pull request/merge request review process would catch this. Ultimately the humans are the weak link in all of this but if the tooling could point out that DocumentationForThisFeature.md has a comment pointing to the class you just updated and you didn't assert one way or the other that the docs are still valid (not sure of the syntax of this... update the date on the class of an attribute like featureDocsLastUpdatedOrVerified="2020-02-04T14:51Z"?) could at least raise the "Oh yeah -- I forgot to update that!" awareness. You could even take it as far as making such an indication a reason to fail a CI/CD pipeline if documentation matters that much.
I've been working on a small Go program to do this specifically for the lofi hip hop beats youtube stream (file here: https://git.sr.ht/~asimpson/lofibar/tree/exec-ffmpeg/item/ma...). You can pretty easily parse the Youtube page to get the HLS stream and pass that to ffmpeg. No need to even have the overhead of another browser tab then.

P.S. also if anyone knows how to statically compile ffmpeg or libvlc into go I'd love to know :)
How about a bit of critical thinking before yelling "Conspiracy!"? Concerning "sources", if Apple and Google are engaged in joint anti-competitive behavior, they'd probably not write press releases about it. But of course there is well-documented precedence of them doing exactly that, being caught and getting a mild slap on the wrist, so it's not a completely outlandish notion to entertain.

As for the officially stated reason: do you really think that there is an alternative search engine provider that Apple would switch to if Google didn't pay them 10 figures a year? If so, which one(s)? If not, what are they actually paying for? To mitigate the risk of a second Apple Maps? But is the case for entering the search engine market really remotely as compelling as entering the mapping space?

I'm not saying it's an open and shut case, but the idea that Google essentially pays Apple money a) as a "good-will gesture" b) to give regulators the impression that the search engine market is more competitive than it is seems possible to me. Whereas one of the alternative scenarios proposed here, that Apple would pick duckduckgo otherwise, really does not.

Personally, if I were Sundar, I'd be way more worried about anti-trust or Apple siding too much with the privacy of their users or stepping otherwise on my toes than say duckduckduckgo becoming a serious competitor because Apple anointed them default search provider after I failed to fork over enough money. I'd probably even do my best to keep a bunch of minimally viable competitors around -- not viable enough to ever pose a threat, but viable enough to keep anti-trust at bay for a bit longer. And both duckduckgo and firefox seem to fit that bill perfectly.
If you have ever switched resolutions manually in the browser, you will notice that it takes a while to rebuffer and decode the stream. I would guess it would be hard to do this in a glitch-free way. The YouTube Music app has a button to toggle it, and it exhibits just this lag.
I think in reality the JS ecosystem is fat with choice for convention over configuration style frameworks. Projects such as Nest, Sails and Adonis leave nothing on the table compared to Rails. The problem is a lot of programmers would rather loosely cobble something together with express than to stick to rigid standards. That's what I think actually leads to the problem of inane NodeJS codebases people always complain about, it's cultural rather than technical. Perhaps the accessibility and popularity of JavaScript leads to a much larger crowd of inexperienced programmers.
AMD’s Genoa CPU has a game-changing tech under the hood
>Usually cheap stuff like bread is notoriously expensive in Switzerland for example,

maybe ingredient quality in some places might be legally mandated, increasing price (I know everyone gets the same, but not if the law says different) basically the thing I'm thinking of is an article about a year ago where some sort of white bread was declared legally not bread but a form of cake by some EU country - can't remember but a similar ruling could affect bun quality in various countries.
I disagree that anything crypto-related is similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union (or even useful, for that matter), but yeah, if you want to run your own bank, credit union is IMHO as decentralized as it can ever be.
What percentage of the labor force earned the minimum wage in the 1970s versus today?

Today it's less than 1%.

More realistically the new minimum wage in the US is ~$13-$15 per hour, which you can earn from Walmart, Target, Amazon, Walgreens, CVS, Best Buy and most of the rest. They can't get enough labor and will hire almost anyone that walks in the door.

These days you can trivially earn $13-$15 / hour to start, working at popular convenience stores like Sheetz, Wawa and numerous others like them.

Skills required? The ability to talk to people normally, show up to work and scan bar codes.
Followup to this: I've had a btrfs defrag running for over 12 hours now :O
They are not really green then.
The Hacker News Ranking Algorithm Replicated in Django
This article seems like it could have been written in 2009 at the launch of Bitcoin. It has no real world examples or data. There are so many disaster stories. Is there a reason you chose to write such a high level article now?

One of the things that made Moxie's piece a hit was it had real examples of his experiences trying to do things.

But this article has none of these examples or experience.

For example, your article misses people who are indeed using cryotocurrencies as banks [1]. It misses the current conversation around social management of keys. The rise of automated exchanges like Uniswap.

Lots of room for critiques on these items. That the only examples of people using crypto for real banking are in collapsing currencies. That if there's such a problem managing keys that social management will still fail. But you seem to have missed all of them which really undercuts your article to me. Again, this seems like it could have been written in 2010 based on the concept of crypto rather than real world experience. Just curious about your motivations for such a piece. It certainly has attracted commenting here.

Disclosure: I own crypto

[1] Reporting of LocalBitcoin use in Venezuela. Certainly room to use these examples of why cryptocurrencies will never scale, but not mentioned in the article: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/s5i64l/24_btc_were...
i paid 1K a semester to go to college.
Putting the Roblox controversies aside, I see kids creating entire multiplayer systems in this environment. Putting together 3D polygon models and animating them with Lua scripting.

And then on top of all of that they organize themselves into systems. My son belongs to a virtual "airline" that has an org chart, schedules "flights", and has dozens of players that run the show on a daily basis. And, like any other org, you get management disputes and daily problems. I see them better trained for what comes next than we are here, sitting around and talking about it.

So yeah, why would you draw circles with LOGO or blink LEDs when you can literally do all of this from an already-running desktop environment?
I've resolved to become a better communicator and lately see the 'rationalist movement' as a foil.

Those folks generate a lot of words, speaking in an equivocal tone. They fail to communicate strong points to people outside their pod but the constant name checking and mutual references make it seem that they perceive they're having meaningful communications with each other.

I used to get mad but now I seem them as a valuable example of what not to do.

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To simplify his story, here's an example of expertise working as intended.

I was taking a calculus class, noticed the prof had taken a derivative like

x³ -> x²

when he should have written

x³ -> 3x²

I raised my hand and called this out and he corrected it, glad a student was paying attention.

Another student approached me after the class who was shocked that I was so brave to stand up to the professor!

As I saw it, the prof and I were both committed to mathematics as a discursive method so of course a senior is going to be responsive to a junior who practices the method of the field.

It might be different in history or a writing class, but in math that is the way it is and you don't need Bayes theorem to explain it.
agree 100%

The one part you left out is that there is a genetic component, so the first few ways were a form of selection against people who couldn't handle covid. It seems likely the the remaining population is much less susceptible to dying in future waves.

Flu would have looked like this the first time around, except when it arose, people didn't fly around the world or even really move a few miles from their home most of the time, which acted as a natural way to reduce outbreaks.
Ask HN: How do I raise my rates as a contractor with an existing client?
I make $80/hr as a contractor. Initially I asked for $100, but I was offered $80 and I accepted. We signed a 6-month contract in August which ends next week. I want to tell them that if they want to renew the contract, I want $90/hr. Is this a 'dick move'? If it is, what is an acceptable way to raise my rates with an existing client?

I should also note that we're not in the middle of any big projects at the moment, so I'm not holding any previous work I've done hostage. All big projects have been completed & delivered.
> NextJS, Gatsby - Best for building "websites" that are optimized for SEO

"Next.js", not to be confused with NestJS...
We get paid to do a job. And sometimes that requires odd things like helping out with urgent problems at odd times. At that point it really is too-"fucking"-late (too borrow your crassness) to complain about project planning, politeness and schedules because everyone involved already knows those failed.

If it was me asking for feedback, I wouldn't have sent it if I wasn't in a pickle that I probably had no control over. Okay, so you didn't read the mail and you only get to it the next day at 8 when your working hours started, cool leave it at that.
We have evidence from the past that pointing out these leaks does lead to them being fixed. Financially, and environmentally, they are bad. That makes bad PR for the company.

Did you know California does a "Methane survey"?

https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/8/4383/2015/

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/18/2129

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7b99/...

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-9923...
You don't think you could troubleshoot an average printer problem?
So when society collapses you'll be fine because you'll have a small amount of money... that only exists on the internet.
I have no problems with this. Like I said in the original comment, people not wanting to run their bank is a solvable UX problem. Fundamentally, I don't see why it has to stay this way.
Active ingredient in cannabis protects aging brain cells, researchers find
Thanks. I still doubt it though. Firstly even without the IDFA they can heuristically identify devices in vast majority of cases, in fact even more accurately compared to the IDFA method given the current opt-in rates of 30-50%. Branch does this with deep linking and it's pretty successful despite the tightened privacy on the iOS side (I can imagine how Branch and similar services irritate Apple).

My hypothesis is that Facebook pushes developers to enable IDFA because it saves them some effort: of course it's faster and easier than heuristics. Therefore, apps don't benefit from enabling the IDFA. But I might be terribly wrong and am open to counter-arguments.
Flags are extremely powerful national symbols. Many countries have laws criminizalizing defacing the national flag. For example India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Insults_to_Natio...

US: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/700

If you do not know the specific history regarding why the proportions of some national flag are as they are, I would be very careful about altering those. Although probably not criminal in most places, showing an incorrect flag can still cause offense and draw disfavourable attention to the publisher who uses the incorrect flag.
It's not quite that simple. The US Big Mac [1] has 11% more calories than the Denmark Big Mac [2], which is an 11% difference. Also, the average hourly wage in the US is $31.63 [3] as of January 31st.

[1] https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/big-mac.html
[2] https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/mcdonalds-big-mac...
[3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm
have you worked with medical biologists? Bias and cherry picking there, too.
Your data are only as valuable to Facebook as your buying power. Obviously that's not the same across all people, and while the average revenue per US user might be in the teens per month, many US consumer are in the single digits. So presumably a consumer union might get you a fraction of that value back - a few bucks per month. Why not - who wouldn't want a free monthly cup of coffee? I suppose the only catch here is the more excited you get about this concept, the less money your union could negotiate on your behalf.
Also check out atompunk, which is a jetsons-esque atomic powered future. The Fallout video game series is a great presentation of cool atompunk tech/aesthetic

Also all these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives#Retrofut...
Thank you! I've been hunting for this story for years.
Trader Joe owns the stores, and he also owns the warehouses.
For sure. It's a good example of POSIWID: The Purpose Of the System Is What It Does. If the system ignores things like financial costs and productivity, then the purpose of the system is something else.

What it is good for in my view is making managers look and feel tough and establishing a culture of fear that is so necessary for hierarchical power structures. Power/status hierarchies are a common trait for most primates. So my shorthand for this sort of it-doesn't-make-sense situation is, "Primates gonna prime."
I still don't care. My privacy shouldn't be forced to be sacrificed just because you decided to make a cheese grater that's better than every other cheese grater in existence.

>If you feel cheese graters are useless and somehow deserve to remain unbought, then replace it with any other item which does match your bar for utility value.

I am doing this for nearly everything I can think of, and my privacy wins every single time.