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Two years ago I quit my SRE job and took a leap of faith to develop a game I would love to play myself. It's a crossover between Factorio and RimWorld. It is by far the most complex software project I have worked on throughout my 20-ish years in tech, and I'm loving every moment of it.
It will likely flop, and I did ruin my career for this, but it was my childhood dream to make games, and I can finally say I'm doing it. If you're interested to see the progress of my two years of work: https://stardeusgame.com - there is a demo on Steam.
I have a lot of experience pushing forward stuff with wife / kids. One must learn to delegate. Yes you can do "programming whatever", but you don't have the time. If you believe in the project, allocate.... $100,$500,$1k a month for a few months (whatever is your threshold) and outsource! It doesn't need to be in "expensive React with microservices".... you can do v1 in Laravel and a purchased template. (as example).

If one does not feel comfortable paying someone to do some of the work - it is a key tell the project may not be worth continuing. Momentum is key as projects natural state is "trending towards death"
> Nah, they were targeting previous gen consoles

They even sold cyberpunk themed limited edition Xbox One X, a cyberpunk themed PS4 controller.. so I'm guessing the pressure to release for these consoles before they're completely obsoleted by the new gen must have been immense.
Aren't some devices now building in (or skipping really) DNS so they bypass pi hole?
That's great to say until you have a bad skin infection that won't go away. Or you need a few millimetres shaved off a bone in your middle ear to restore your hearing. Or you need a stent in your heart.

In fact, for all the flaws with medicine, everyone in my immediate family including myself would be dead today without it. Just a few years ago I watched my mother who I had found unconscious on the floor basically come back to life with artificial stents in her heart to restore the blood flow after the heart attack that should have killed her. I myself stopped breathing on my own when I was five from pneumonia. Fortunately I was in a hospital at the time. I cannot ever fully express my gratitude to the doctors and other workers for these gifts.
I don’t see the “giant naked ass” described by the OP. That’s a pretty small naked ass without genitalia visible, something you’d see at the beach.

You can’t even accuse that of giving a distorted view of how human bodies are supposed to look like.
I like infosec twitter and funny twitter. The rest is meh.
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Am I doing something weird or is mongoDB Atlas inaccessible for other people as well? Can't connect to any of my instances, seems like no DNS records exist for mongodb.net
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I've just started Control and I'm really enjoying the game. Naturally I too am listening, watching and reading all collectables. Its a beautiful game and its art direction very unique.

Doom Eternal was another game I was interested in reading the lore and text. It offers a nice pause from the action.
It's embarrassing that large segments of society (particularly younger) see this perfectly logical statement as racist.
> they would give me a toggle to switch ads on and off as I please

Why would they let you disable ads on their ad-supported platform? There are plans like YouTube premium if you want no ads in there, which I think is worth it and I do pay for it because it is a much better YouTube experience.

By using ad blockers, you are merely taking away from everyone else using the platform. I wish these companies did more to stop ad blockers.

>I recon from an individual perspective, ads are not a game changer to consumer behavior.

That's because from what you wrote, you don't seem to understand how these ad platforms work.
> An illegal action which causes harm to (many) others should come at a cost.

Peak irony here, considering why he was doing it. Protecting his children from social media harm. Were anyone at big tech companies ever jailed for the myriad ways they harmed the society and countless individuals? No?

It's batshit crazy how the HN crowd always gives ideologically aligned tech corporations infinite benefit of doubt while applying this keyboard-warrior-tough stance to individuals - often for somewhat equivalent infractions.
I like Twitter. It's a fun place for jokes and there are some good communities on there.
I enjoy being on Twitter a lot. In the past year I've started "taking it seriously" in terms of growing an audience, and it has been a blast. I've set up three rules for my being on Twitter[0]:

• Encourage other people - if you like the work someone is doing, tell them!

• Be positive - a feed full of negativity is zero fun to follow.

• Share what you're working on - people are drawn to other people in motion.

I also am very careful about who I follow. I don't "hate-follow" anyone. And I'm pretty liberal with regard to muting stuff.

There is a big trend right now (or always?) of people grifting on Twitter, and I mute every single one of those people. It's all the engagement-bait stuff that you're probably super familiar with. Questions that aren't questions, half-baked thought threads, and hot takes that are only there to gin up "engagement."

I recorded a podcast[1] with some friends recently about how to use Twitter as a human being and not a grifter. They were both super anti-Twitter and I was able to swing them my direction a bit. I think most people just follow the wrong people and get sucked into the hate machine.

There are definitely corners of Twitter that are a lot of fun and very valuable!

[0] https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1434287141887021058

[1] https://share.transistor.fm/s/c854b56e
I really loved clunky twitter when it launched. It felt like a kind of collective consciousness... like you could suddenly be mentally connected at a superficial level with users geographically near-by. When it started being more about influence,famous people and ads that initial excitement wore off but I stuck with it for a while. Then they started blocking third party API access and clients... and that kind of ruined it entirely for me.
The thing is, these are Russian soldiers occupying Donbas (now officially, from 2014 unofficially), not American ones.
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so it's okay to force parents to accept their kids seeing porn on TV because you think those parents are also misogynists?
Yes, we're completely open to having partners and kids around at our events. We actually encourage it. I myself have a child now and am looking forward to taking her to our next event. We're also looking into options of having a nanny. Depending on where we go and what we do.
This short term push for more and more profits ever quarter without regard to the future doesn't appear to be a smart strategy no matter what some modern MBAs tell us.
Tale wagging and diving vigorously for scraps...or master gets "concerned."
Another thing that doesn't get mentioned is React Native is much easier to staff talent for. Flutter can be better than RN in every single way and companies will still choose RN because it's easier to integrate into the org.

If you have a webapp built in React, it's going to be very easy for you to spin up a React Native app, mostly because you can pull those React devs into RN without much of a fuss. With Flutter/Dart though, you will have to hire outside specifically for the role, even if you hire a "React Native" developer, it will be easy to transition that dev to regular React if org needs change, Flutter/Dart are more brittle in that way.
> probably wise for even site administrators who aren't doing advertising-related data collection to pop the banner.

I disagree.

As far as I can see, GDPR enforcement is not heavy-handed. You get a warning before any attempt at enforcement; then you get a modest "warning" fine.

Also, I'm not aware that the silly cookie banners provide any protection against GDPR enforcement; it's how you handle the data that matters, not a two-liner banner offering [OK] [Later] buttons.

If you want to "be on the safe side", handling data correctly will help; cookie banners won't.
A lawsuit could shut down the Internet Archive
Windows Server is designed to scale vertically. It is not a desktop app.
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Ok, fine. But can we at least reverse the gamer/geek label. It was always a geek tool - gaming was far secondary. Look at bash.org and tell me the majority of IRC was used for gaming vs. geeking.
>- cross platform system packages are of various quality and feature support.

I've been working on a video call app for fun and have certainly noticed this. On the surface it appears possible to write such apps with Flutter. The reality though is that the implementation depends on half a dozen or so third party plugins with varying degrees of quality (and a small enough ecosystem to afford very little choice). Not to mention the inconsistencies with how they work across Android and iOS, although there's little which can be done there. At this point mostly everything's just adapters and other integration glue. If it ever goes beyond a hobby project I'll probably write native versions for each platform.
>How do you measure the external difficulties someone faced along the way?

Apparently you base it all on their skin color, unless I am misreading OP's statement. Doesn't seem logical, maybe they can clarify.
That is unrelated to my question. I'm using hinting and have everything sub-pixel-related disabled. If flutter does not support this, then flutter cannot look native.
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I thought that was a little odd too, his saccharine descriptions of the security staff and the mall were a little off putting and I couldn't tell if they were genuine or just trying to shape a narrative.
"the dog has to be pushed outside" What? No, if it's that cold, you keep the dog against your body, and you both benefit.

I'm pretty sure they are saying they need to convince the dog to go outside to urinate. I don't think you really want that on your body when it is cold outside...
The reason people keep using Twitter it's because it's designed / evolved to be very addictive. Most of us don't engage our rational mechanisms to go "I am about to spend X minutes engaged on Twitter, what's the cost/benefit?" We just do it, and later feel bad about it.

If you've been on Twitter since the early days, you have noticed how it has become more and more about dunking and hate-quoting. Once you have an algorithm that decides what content causes the most engagement, you learn that negative emotions make people act. It's hard to scroll Twitter and not want to yell at something you disagree with. The medium itself does not lead to constructive conversation. This comment would require a Twitter thread, which is a scary thing to write. Every single tweet in a thread can be taken out of context, and you have to write accordingly.

As a company, Twitter has stopped innovating a while ago. The product has been stagnant, and so has the market cap. I expect that eventually it will collapse when the most interesting people to follow simply stop engaging, but that might take years.

My solution is to engage as little as I am capable of. I deleted the app from my phone, and I have a personal rule of only posting inoffensive shower thoughts that almost never get any reactions. I never get involved in an argument there.
Why are you considering "gain a following" to be the purpose of using Twitter?

I use it to collect people I follow, post some snarky tweets that amuse myself and my wife, and occasionally interact with people I normally wouldn't otherwise.

In that regard, it's successful.

For the people you're following, it's massively successful as a platform of promotion. I'm constantly looking to the people I follow for their takes on current events, and I love how unfiltered/direct it is, given the length restriction. If I like someone consistently, I'll seek them out on other, probably more-profitable for them, platforms.

If Twitter depresses you, I think then life is probably generally depressing; there's nothing uniquely "useless" or "meaningless" about Twitter, no more so than posting this comment on HN or literally anything else that's to be swallowed by our sun going supernova in a few billion years...
The desktop app is Electron, or something similar.
This is fascinating. A nuanced picture is painted in only a few sentences:

> The Apartment in the Mall was never intended to be specifically an ‘art’ piece, it was a home, an escape and an oasis away from a significant task that was consuming my life at the time.

>The 500 portraits, and their corresponding web pages took over five years to finish. It involved over 30,000 hours of computer time making the website and was completely unfunded.

I can’t imagine going through all that and doing all that work for an unfunded project. Combined with the story of the mall apartment, it makes me think this person is unwell, but who am I to judge? I am truly fascinated.
I'm on a similar philosophical trajectory and I think there are enough folks like you that make Twitter interesting and fun without the caustic parts of social media.

Another excellent example of this positive and no BS version of Twitter (though probably well-known on HN already) is Andreas Kling [0] (creator of SerenityOS).

[0] https://twitter.com/awesomekling
> The problem is that disks are confirming writes before they actually store the write in the non volatile target.

Consumer NVMe's are bad about this. They'll fill a write buffer on the drive and flush it when it is convenient for the device, regardless of what the OS wants.

The Samsung 963 NVMe is an interesting device though because it has little capacitors on it that will flush the contents of that buffer when power is suddenly lost. But it still also just fills that write buffer and does not commit to disk when it said it did.

This is how they are gaming the benchmark tests.
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Stopping from what? And what bigger problems?
Even the "normal-looking" rectangles aren't even close to standardized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_natio... ("List of aspect ratios of national flags")

Some fun examples:

- Denmark, defined as the exact ratio 28:37

- Vanuatu, 19:36

- El Salvador, 189:335

- Togo, φ=(1+sqrt(5))/2
He isn't in trouble for blocking his kids' access to social media. He's in trouble for blocking his neighbors' access to emergency services.
On the homepage of the OED it says "More than 600,000 words, over a thousand years". Who's right? Who knows anymore.
I have exactly the same experience and I am baffled how people get value from Twitter. I keep creating an account, going in, getting baffled, then leaving.

Why are so many smart and insightful people on Twitter? Because it's easier than blogging or microblogging? I see links to their interesting threads referenced on Reddit or HN and I follow those links, but I can't bring myself to care enough about Twitter (or Nitter) to actively follow anyone.

I guess if something is valuable enough on Twitter I'll hear about it elsewhere. Not sure if that approach holds up.

I'm looking forward to whatever replaces Twitter. I've been waiting for that thing for about a decade.
I'd be less worried about gas prices and more worried about palladium. 44% of the world supply comes from Russia.
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I'd also agree that Wim Hof breathing is not Tummo, although who knows if there are some similar biological processes that happen as a result of the two methods. My experience with the Wim Hof breathing is similar to yours though, it's a nice reset button and can make your body feel a lot better when you're in pain or feeling cloudy. It's funny that you mention using it for sex, because Tummo is often a preliminary for Karmamudra practice too.

As for Tummo, generally there are a lot of preliminary practices you need to go through before being taught it, which can take the practitioner a lot of time and is probably why you don't see it around in lay communities in the west. For instance, the preliminary practice of ngondro can take people something like 6 months in full retreat to finish, or years if mixed in to daily life.

The Yuthok Nyingthig lineage of Tibetan medicine practitioners does things on faster timelines though, in my experience. [1] [2] My acupuncturist is a former monk and teaches Tummo to small groups here in NYC from time to time, although he hasn't done it in a while and I didn't find out about him until after the last group of his had started. You'd still probably want to have had a daily meditation practice and some physical yoga asana practice before beginning I'd imagine -- just sitting in the 7-point posture of Vairochana that you see the monks from the article sitting in requires a pretty open body to get into and maintain. The first time I took a course in Tibetan Nejang I had difficulty with maintaining that arm and shoulder position, even after years of sitting every day in padmasana.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuthok_Nyingthig

[2] https://purelandfarms.com/
You may have seen it already but Rich Hickey the creator of Clojure had a great talk about this https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug
>This seems like the author fundamentally doesn't understand the difference between equality and equity.

My understanding is racial equality is treating people the same regardless of race. Racial equity is using various forms of racial discrimination to generate desired outcomes.

Is there a way to achieve racial equity without using racial discrimination?
I have been investigating Flutter and other solutions for cross-platform desktop GUIs, where I am not interested in mobile or web apps. For me and for this use case, I think I've landed on not caring about native UI components for GUI. It just doesn't work in my opinion because you're either at the whim of the OS in regards to their constantly changing UI components and UI guidelines/styles, for Windows and macOS, or you're in Linux land where such things don't exist. There's quite a few big applications that are on both Windows and macOS that don't follow either OS' guidelines or use native components.

If you're going true cross-platform across Windows, macOS, and Linux, I think it's hopeless to try and maintain three separate apps that look and feel like a supposedly native app should look and feel like, if there's such a thing anymore. Windows and macOS are not even consistent for their own apps and OS GUIs.
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I'm very surprised they figured out the issue, down to the offending modem, so quickly.
Nudity and porn are not the same things.
>restart of slack in browser

most people IME use the slack app, in which case "restart" makes sense.
Could you explain why you say that it was a mistake to separate the editor frontend from the backend?
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Pull-ups and chin-ups are also great bodyweight exercises you can easily add to your routine.
Kids don't believe in authority.
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To me, this reveals an uncomfortable truth:

- I know I'm not technically skilled enough to make it to the higher levels of IC

- I know I lack the people skills & charisma to make it to the higher levels of management

I'm aware I can improve in both and I accept that, to some extent, it's a laziness and confidence issue. But to some people it seems to come naturally and it's hard not to assume I'm in the majority that aren't exceptional.
And it is my son's 12th birthday today. He's my second child too since we're on the subject of Two's.
Other's like the Samsung 963 NVMe have little capacitors on it that flush to disk in case of power loss. It's kind of cool to see it.
Just don't give them phones or tablets if possible until they are 16 or older. If you do, no Facebook, Youtube, Tiktok or anything that has a social aspect to it. Curate their internet experience with a Pihole. If they must use Youtube, make sure the account is in your control so you can view what they watch for correction.
MyFy is a mobile app which helps entrepreneurs to sell online and market their business, receive orders and payments, track and fulfill them, 'circle-source' capital through group savings, and keep verifiable records, to qualify for a credit score.
Twitter is one of my favorite things in life.
My whole team doesn't want to work today because we'll have to use MS Teams as a backup. Rip
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Though compare this to the typical Linux experience of a closed-source application (especially non-x86_64): no experience or reverse-engineered with a cease-and-desist letter after it gains any sort of traction.

Usually you wait til someone gets fed up and builds a GPL-licensed clone.
This sounds like a way to condition yourself to be unable to sleep except in the most perfect of circumstances; noise level +/- 0.1db, air temperature +/- 0.1C, bed temperature +/- 0.1C, light level +/- whatever.

Sleep is too important
How is he an idiot when he just ran a signal jammer non maliciously? He had no schemes. Just because you don't care about the law bogeyman doesn't mean you're an idiot.
Any kind of touch typing? No, I don't agree with that. I can type 140+ wpm and don't look at the keyboard, and I can hold down shift while typing CONSTANT_NAME. Pinky on shift, remaining 9 fingers type CONSTANT_NAME. The pinky would not be involved with this particular constant even if it were free. The kind of touch typing you learned in school has a problem with this, maybe.
This is pretty much the story for nearly every cross-platform mobile SDK, with a few fractional exceptions.

It wouldn't be such a bad thing if the writing of native plugins wasn't such a big hurdle for the average developer. The vast majority of mobile and frontend devs have never done anything with FFI, it's not the easiest thing to learn compared to other more documented skills, and it requires doing what most cross-platform devs wanted to avoid in the first place... was writing in some other compiled language they have little knowledge or interest in.

So far I don't think any particular cross-platform mobile SDK is necessarily better than the other in an objective sense. For the most part all end up taking a dynamic language runtime and stick it on top of a GUI toolkit, whether it's a web view or something a little closer to the metal. People act like any combination of these facets are significantly better than each other, but every few years we get the next generation mobile SDK and then a year later we find posts on HN laying out how the marketing points of said SDK didn't pan out in the field (case in point; no one really talks that much about React Native, Titanium, or Cordova anymore, but Flutter is the hot thing I keep hearing about as of late).

A cross-platform mobile SDK can stand out if it can nail the story around plugins. Maybe that means implementing a native-development layer with a language like C++, kind of like Qt. Actually, Qt already is one answer to this question, except its answer to interface design and implementation is this weird QML thing that applies nowhere outside of Qt.
I don’t post. But I find Twitter invaluable for learning about everything that interests me. Business, marketing, development, AR, and the list goes on. Coupled with ThreadReader, I’m able to save great tweets compiled to PDF for further studying.
I've noticed that when I'm doing a very mentally intensive task, such as focusing all my energy on reading sheet music, converting that to notes, chords, positions, and finger style picking patterns, I warm up considerably. Since I don't keep up with it regularly, every return is very mentally exhausting and I'll end up sweating with no ambient temperature change.

I have no doubt its possible to trick the mind into re-regulating.