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Ron likes to use engines he built himself. I'd guess its likely to use the successor to the same engine he built for Thimbleweed Park [1]. That engine has some interesting design/development docs in both the Kickstarter backer updates and the Thimbleweed Park blog.

Ron seems unlikely to release the engine itself directly as open source or anything like that, but: The Thimbleweed Park mini-adventure Delores was "source availabled" [2] under a custom, non-OSI approved, non-approved for commercial usage license along with "vanilla" engine EXEs to run the "source available" distribution. So far as I'm aware it's the only showcase/documentation of the Squirrel-successor scripting language Ron built called "Dinky". In theory, you can use the Dolores source to try to build your own hobbyist game in Dinky scripts. In practice you are likely better off finding one of the hobbyist engines built for such things like the somewhat creaking with age Adventure Game Studio [3]. (Or more general tools like Twine or Unity depending on what parts of the adventure game you are most excited to recreate.)

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

[2] https://github.com/grumpygamer/DeloresDev

[3] https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
If someone swung a few-feet-long light aluminum pole at my face as hard as they could I imagine I'd try to move my face out of the way.

Granted, I'm assuming that the "strangers" as alluded to in the post you're responding to are not themselves armed. It seems like that is what was communicated.

Also, if #1 is why it's used then #2 and #3 are just gravy.
I have a simple question -- I've looked at GraphQL in the past and it seems extremely limited when you start wanting to do more complicated types of joins for performance, etc. This is such a fundamental thing to any webapp in my mind, and yet when I ask this previously people are often like "uhhh yeah...... use joinMonster I GUESS?"

Has GraphQL improved? I literally can't fathom using some kind of external plugin just to load data using more complex queries for performance reasons.
My laptop belongs to the suits. My pc (ASRock + GTX + Ryzen + Corsair) belongs to me. Sure I have a chromebook to toss around the living room to browse the web, but me owning a laptop? Ha!
There's a few ways to interpret that. Another interpretation could be that they are simply taping out Navi32 on two nodes, perhaps for AMD to better utilize the 5nm slots they have access to. Perhaps when Nvidia is on Samsung 10nm+++, then the large consumer AMD GPUs get a node advantage already being at TSMC 7nm+++, and so they're only using 5nm slots for places like integrated GPUs and data center parts that care about perf/watt.

But your interpretation is equally valid with the information we have AFAICT.
Yes, of course. And they made a choice willingly, knowing that there is a price. Can't have the upsides of being famous without the downsides, they are a package deal.
You didn't read the article I cited. Please return when you have.

BTW, the Soviet Union didn't allow people to own property, and had free healthcare. People were so free there they had to build a wall around it and shoot people who tried to escape. Ditto for every other communist country.

And where do those freedom-loving people want to go? The US. So many, in fact, that the US had to build a wall to keep them out.

What do all those people know that you missed?
You read my post and got out of it that I somehow cared about the top ones? Or are you just cherry picking something to attack? Let's have a good faith discussion.
Cooperation in astronomy under strains of war
I find a lot of these ideas where in an exit interview you FINALLY tell them what you are thinking very strange.

For me almost certainly I’ve already addressed what concerns I might have by the time I am exiting.
I've used an exit interview to explain that commute time is a huge problem and that they need to open a $location office rather than providing so many shuttle buses
I could have used this advice in the last couple of weeks. I chose to be more candid because I thought I had a good rapport with my management and I was only things I’d already complained about. I guess I have a few regrets now and it’s very likely I’ll end up working with them again so hopefully they took the feedback positively.
I agree with you, except, generally, when we say the pandemic caused something, we are referring to both the spread of the virus and the human and social response to it, including lockdowns. The lockdowns absolutely were avoidable and more harmful than helpful.
I’ve had 2 exit interviews and both were good experiences.

The first scheduled the exit interview 5 months after leaving my job. Clearly said that they wanted to make sure I was comfortable in my new job before asking for feedback. I think the gap of a few months is a good mechanism to get honest feedback if someone is willing to provide it (and is what I now do for exit interviews myself)

Second time was with a manager I really trusted (I was leaving for other reasons). Gave him a list of the 15 things that I thought needed changing. When I visited almost a year later he showed me the list still on his office wall, with 12/15 items crossed off.

I think game theory might optimize for your own immediate gain, but overall many managers and companies want to do good, and your feedback might actually help if delivered the right way.
You are an outlier, not the norm, which is my point.
Because it's hard to trust the signal. If you (properly) ask people to complain, they'll complain. But how do you know whether those complaints matter? People will complain about the things that bother them the most in relative terms. (Actually not even that; they'll complain about whatever's front of mind at the time.)

Maybe the cafeteria food isn't great, but improving it would have zero effect because it just doesn't matter. But if someone who is leaving brings up the cafeteria food out of all the things they could have brought up? And 5 of the last 6 people leaving brought up the same thing? That's way more meaningful than everyone sitting around whining about how the food isn't as good as at $X company.

It's a lot like getting product direction from your customers. Listen to your customers, but for god's sake, don't just do what they ask for. (And if you can somehow find out why the ones who are leaving are leaving, that's gold.)
Thats sorta my question too, as evidenced by the graphics, its barely faster than a transwarpGS (which is 30 year old hardware). Sure its a lot cheaper at this point because it seems transwarps are in high demand.

OTOH, I'm pretty sure you can get an FPGA to emulate a 65816 significantly faster than 16Mhz, not including the fact that making it OoO/etc might drive the IPC way up.
How do you feel about FOSS, and the things that many FOSS licenses say about liability?

Would you feel better about the Bird T&C, if they had 2 separate options:

- 1.) The current "you can't sue us" deal.

- 2.) An otherwise-similar "you CAN sue us" deal. But at a far higher price, since the insurance they'd need for that deal would not come cheap, and close to zero people would pick that option...
Both the US and Russia have flying command systems which use very long trailing wires to send launch commands.

The problem: they're nearly a single point of failure. If you can hit the other side's command systems their missiles won't be going anywhere.

I'd assume both sides know this and contingencies and redundancies exist.
Biology has attracted what you might call crackpots (particularly in the area of human evolution and evolution in general) of all persuasions, some of whom were quite successful in their local arenas (Lysenko in the Soviet Union controlled the direction of biological research for several decades, much to the detriment of Soviet agriculture for example).

Another one I encountered personally was the group of academics who got behind the "AIDS is an autoimmune disorder, not a viral infection" theory. It was a bit uncomfortable talking to them about it, they really had a kind of evangelical / persecuted visionary complex. These were people with advanced degrees and even a university professor (in chemistry, not biology) was involved. A similar small group of academics in paleontology continue to deny that an asteroid impact had anything to do with the extinction of the dinosaurs, despite vast evidence supporting that conclusion.

A common factor seems to be that such people are susceptible to ideological fixation. They get ideas in their heads that they aren't willing to question, and promoting them becomes more of an article of faith rather than something that can be addressed by scientific methods.
IMO the main value of a framework like this isn't to save you time. That's what they advertise on the homepage, but I suspect that's just because it's an appealing concept to a lot of people. I think the real benefit is an increase in the chance that you build your app in a way that's sustainable. It's a pooling of experience and feedback on choices to create a whole that might not be flawlessly perfect for what you are building, but is likely worlds better than the disaster that usually occurs when you let the in house devs make too many choices.

> ossifies your platform into a fixed point in the hype cycle

Definitely true, but they have gone for some pretty established stuff here. The only ones I can see possibly being contentious in like 5 years or whatever timeline you want are Prisma and GraphQL, but even for those I'd bet on them still being sound choices for a long time. Also presumably the framework continues to develop (Rails 7 is a LOT different than Rails 1.), but that is a bit of a bet on it's adoption.

As a dev I get the appeal of something more flexible that lets you make your own choices, but I think that almost universally ends up being a curse rather than a blessing.
You know how there are so many nice posts that make you go "I would want to buy this person coffee/beer if I could.", I feel the exact opposite towards this person. People like this are why shitty services like Hulu exist and why cable TV charges you $200 and is 70% (at least) ads!

I will pay netflix more than any cable company because the quality of their content.

Exploitative capitalism at its finest. Shortsighted greed with no room for imagination. I can spend 15 min and come up with at least 5 ways to charge customers more without needing to sell them ads. I don't care if it costs $0.99 I will cancel if they have even one ad and I will pay up to $2-300 for no ads (including for other users because it creates a perverse incentive to collect user data and sell anyways). You want cheaper with ads? There is a myriad of services that provide that (although the cheap part is rare!)
In Pursuit of Data Immortality
> dynamic and static typing are opposed

Any given typing judgement we might want to make about a particular term can be checked statically or not, and it can be checked dynamically or not.

If the language has terms (... that might be evaluated) that don't get checked statically or dynamically, then it is going to be weakly typed (with respect to those typing judgements we're considering).

If we've already checked something statically, we "know" that it will always hold, and checking it dynamically is in some sense redundant (provided we actually believe our checking to be correct and our environment to be sufficiently robust that things don't change out from under us) and I think that's a part of the reason the two feel opposed, but in principle you could check a property both statically and dynamically for a particular term.

Step back a little to the language level and they aren't at all opposed; you might want to check some properties statically and some dynamically (eg. static checking of class/interface vs dynamic nullability in Java) or check a given property statically for some terms and dynamically for others (eg. gradual typing).
With the weight sensors added to some of the new electric vehicles to adjust forecast range based on the weight of the current cargo, the equivalent of paying for checked bags a la flying will follow.

"Four bags of groceries detected"

It will be amusing if car licensing pushes people towards other forms of transportation, like bicycles.
He's a good salesman in getting people to invest money or (in this case) time. But the discussion was talking about retention. And that's just because people are about to clear huge paydays.
Sounds like Peña is a victim of legal malpractice. Peña’s lawyer should have reviewed both his client’s agreement with Bird and the public-record city operating agreement with Bird and have known his client was, in effect, suing himself through various costly intermediaries before filing the suit.
1) You do. Castles are not just walls, there's stuff inside.

2) "if you really cared as a society" is not useful when there's simply not enough money in this society. We're not funding anything, this is a private project. The castle is buying some heat from them for a damn good price, that's it.
Tech Stack of a Bootstrapped Startup
You can disagree with a direction without it being wrong, necessarily. I quit a job once because they were making a hard pivot for the enterprise market, and a big reason that I joined the company was to get away from big enterprisey deals and work more with smaller B2B direct sales sort of tools.

It doesn't make the company going in that direction wrong, it's just not a company I wanted to work at anymore.
You lose every battle when you leave a company. That's just something you have to accept. They get to put whatever narrative out there that they want, and you won't be there to defend yourself.

The point is that it doesn't matter; you're gone.
I agree that information can do harm. I wouldn't even consider that an opinion, rather an observable fact.

"Harm" is very fuzzy though. Twitter's extremophiles call reading something they don't like "genocide". So basically, anything is harm. Harm can be real, imagined, perceived, understated, overstated, direct, indirect, grasping at straws.

Further, any matter of importance or division has no clear-cut right or wrong. There's always a gray zone.
I agree with your points on ethically testing and prescribing experimental drugs.

The intent of my comment is to highlight the media's focus on one side of wrong decisions which only further divides the public.

* For airplanes, I am pointing out the requirement for masking currently even when masking is not required anywhere in California/New York (2 of the most restrictive states for COVID throughout the pandemic) for indoor. It's pure theatre to have people show up to the airport never wearing a mask and then putting it on (ineffectively no less) and then taking it off immediately when they leave the airport.

* Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic which has been prescribed 3.7 billion times (and won a nobel prize). Does it help with Covid? Current data seems to imply it does not. My callout is on the media calling its a horse dewormer (which while true is meant to mislead).

* On virus mutations, see my comment on flip-flopping.
>> I find it a bit strange that the author leads with the example of wanting to "blind cancel", and then suggests that maturity and communication is the real answer to that scenario.

I don't think that's the _only_ solution the author is suggesting. She also goes on to mention "...self-knowledge: Will you be in the mood next week?". In other words, don't make plans if you're not confident you won't break them. Similar to the idea of "hell yes or no" as a response to social requests. If you don't have a strong sense for stuff you like/don't like doing and how you'll feel about social situations in the future that's going to be tough.
> The other day some friends and I were reminiscing about an app idea we had years ago that would allow you to “blind cancel” on your friends. That is, flag if you were open to canceling a plan, which your friend would only see if they also flagged it. Basically, it was Tinder for bailing. This was our ultimate dream: an official, guilt-free conduit for the quiet hope that your friend wants to cancel, too.

Extend the logic to tinder: is tinder just a mechanism to childishly avoid social discomfort (expressing romantic interest, risking rejection)?
As a computer scientist, I've only encountered this once. My grad school advisor pointed the guy to me, who insisted on having phone conversations. He was interested in compiler technology; I suggested the Dragon Book, EOPL, and a few other of the usual suspects. He said, "Oh, that's all academic nonsense."

I don't think I ever properly thanked Mohammed for that...
"Gov. Gavin Newsom, in signing the bill into law, proclaimed it a victory for racial justice and empowerment."
I'm trying to understand what requiring LGBT board members has to do with racial justice.
> And the best, and certainly the cheapest, way to achieve that is by having happy employees in a healthy work environment.

I think that's way too broad and general of a statement. It really depends on the nature of the industry, the competitive landscape, and many other things. In non-essential software, where the hands-on technical employees have tremendous influence over the direction of the firm, that may be true. In extractive industries and possibly even industrial ones it may be cheaper to externalize as many costs as possible, invest the bare minimum legally required in safety equipment and training, etc.

Why did it take strikes, literal shooting battles, legislative action, and generally tremendous amounts of effort to enact basic workers rights in this country if it would have been cheaper to just ... give people a happy and healthy working environment?
Unfortunately this only works if the people in charge are relatively sane and don't have a death wish.
It is rarely, if ever, HR's job to fix toxic leadership.
I usually love Jacob’s writing but I completely agree with you. I attend exit interviews, and I’m as honest as I can be, and I’ve never experienced a bad outcome… and I’ve given some pretty bad feedback! I’d go as far as to say, the worse the feedback is, the better the reception often is — because I’m offering up information that can, at the very least, help prevent others from quitting.

An exit interview is an explicit opt-in from the interviewer to hear bad news…
Yeah, just not in any combat duty, except the rare ocassion. Combat is for the lower classes, preferably rural poor
Not trolling, but as another comment corrected, the dictator's official Kremlin account is up on twitter.
No! At any freaking tier. What stops them from starting to sell data from other tiers? It will become part if their business model and will eat away everything they do, including content creation. Put that cancer back in pandora's box please!
Yes, but there's a huge difference between termination and termination "for cause". The latter has specific meaning - it'll often trigger negative consequences like losing your vested equity. It usually only happens in egregious cases: fraud, harassment, punched a customer, etc. If you're merely refusing to do your job, you'd probably just be regular terminated (including if they decide to include "do the exit interview" as part of doing your job).
I alternate between this. I had a Mac mini as my main computer but decided on a MacBook Air as my next computer because:

1. Every now and then it got disconnected from electricity because of my stupidity or the electricity going out. Having a built-in UPS is very nice.

2. Laptop has no fan. I much prefer to have my computer slow down than have to hear noise. Mac desktops for now don’t go for this trade off.

3. Every now and then it’s nice to be able to bring my main computer to a different place. I leave behind my monitor and mouse and take my keyboard and laptop and it’s not too bad for those odd occasions.
- div soup: e.g. https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/cookie-banne... The code nests 7 levels deep (including the wrapping form element). Turn on DevTools and pull elements out of their containers and delete the now empty containers. You will see it effectively doesn't affect layout both in Desktop and small screen. And with the wrapping class `.govuk-cookie-banner` it's introduced anyways that everything inside it is part of the cookie banner component. No need for `.govuk-cookie-banner__heading`, just match `.govuk-cookie-banner h1`

- More than one skip link: If there are several often-used targets within a page, e.g. main content, search input, language select, etc. See the skip links on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn for an example.

- https://a11y-101.com/development/skip-link

- https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/bypass-blocks
See "War Is A Racket" by Major General Smedley Butler:

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.pdf
I quit my last job because my team ganged up on me and held an "intervention meeting" because I broke the production environment after my code had passed local development and staging. The person who found out didn't tell me, but silently fixed it and called for a meeting. I incidentally saw we had a meeting with a vague title, and asking about it, my team members avoided elaborating.

Eventually, the meeting was a scolding. I wouldn't accept this kind of behavior, so I stood my ground, switched teams a week later and "worked from home" on my last week on the team. (This essentially amounted to not showing at morning meetings, and not doing any work. Not voluntarily -- I refused to be in a meeting with them, and I couldn't make myself do anything that had a positive impact for them.) I delivered value and had a good time with my other team for another 4 months, after which I switched jobs when I'd found a step up. On one occasion my old team lead had a meeting with my entire team; he'd ask every one of us questions, except me; I was air. I'm pretty sure he wasn't completely conscious that he did this. He once said he didn't like cocaine, because the few times he tried it, he just wanted to beat people. Drugs bring out the best in people.

My old team lead asked a few times if we could have a one-on-one, since I switched teams, as if there was something to evaluate. I should have told him no and explained that I was not going to enter a meeting room with him again. I just let him schedule a meeting and didn't show. He let go pretty easily.

While I don't feel exactly like this now, this is what I felt: I owe this company nothing. They can take their bad behavior and do with it exactly what they want.

I didn't call out the company on Glassdoor. There were only two rotten apples (a hysterical co-worker and a mildly psychopathic team lead), and dozens of good ones.
Which shibboleth tests would you fail?
What a cool project! As a law professor, I get a bunch of crank letters all the time too, but it's typically from people who want legal representation to defend themselves against an imagined conspiracy (often involving the CIA, China/Russia/etc., any of the usual paranoia-suspect churches, etc.). Sadly, setting up a "pay me to talk about it" service would in that case would really not help matters.
It's in the link [0]referenced by parent: user activity June-Sept 2021

[0]https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-study-shows-that-2...
Soldiers claim they arw willing to die as part of job. If one brags he is ok to go on super dangerous missions, he should be OK also to die in order to not commit attrocity
Random aside, this totally reminds me of the John Dutton/Rip partnership in the show Yellowstone.
That's not really what I said at all. How does allowing someone to have gaps in their employment history mean accumulated experience should not contribute to pay?

In my opinion general "years of experience" is not a large contributing factor in regards to pay anyways. Relevant experience on specific projects using certain technologies and expertise in specific domains matters a lot more. It's supply and demand.