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Yeah, I would not use unity or unreal. They're too big and too complex.

Godot is light and simple.

Unreal and unity offer sophisticated features for developers who can't take the time to do some low level.

But:

1. Inexperienced developers should not aim for high end graphics and features in the first place, so using those engines is irrelevant to them, they should learn to do simple things themselves. The big race for graphics quality belong to AAA games who don't use those engines.

2. Experienced developers are working for complex games, and are able to avoid the clutter of unity and unreal, because they know what game they want to do, or they work with custom made engines, tailored for their needs.

Unreal and unity are monsters, because they're generic and do everything at the same time.

Godot is the best solution in my opinion. Do small things if you can, avoid big things. If you want to do big things, have the ambition to do them right, and like actual professional developers, don't use unity or unreal.
If it takes 15 seconds to get Teams on a Mac to do anything substantial like start up or start a meeting, it would hardly be a surprise if no one wanted to use it. Perhaps Microsoft should do something about it, or rewrite Teams using an efficient technology, I don't know.
This would be a totally unsuitable format for this task. When doing this task, most of the time is spent looking at the code and reading what is already there. The actual changes needed are very minimal. It is explicitly not about complicated logic flow or algorithms like most interviews, but rather about a software engineering process and the ability to discover things yourself.

Also, the actual time limit (the real author of the question showed up in this thread) was 1 hour. I'd say in actuality it's roughly a 30 minute process.
> Laughing at RMS had proven shortsighted in the past, and I don't think anything changed, it's still unwise.

I don’t know, I’ve been laughing at him for 20 years and nothing bad ever happened because of that. How is it unwise?

> For example, anticheats in multiplayer games is the major driving factor behind locking PCs down with DRM and chains of trust.

The driving force was (and still largely is) protecting copyrighted video content. That is bullshit, of course, but cheaters and video games were far down the priority pile when hardware DRM was designed. Now, it’s all about secure computing and sandboxes, and video games are still pretty much an afterthought.

> And sure, an "average teenage gamer" is happy to give it away, because the only thing they care about is cheaters. The problem is, this is imposed on everyone, directly or indirectly.

The average teenage gamer does not care. There are things we can do to improve the situation with DRM, but “how do you do fellow kids” from an old neck beard is way off the mark, and indeed laughable.
It's not punished but it's not massively rewarded either
I didn’t really want to give it a name because a climbing frame is something smaller than this thing in my mind.
There are two great responses here that read your points and the source material and come to the same conclusion. You have not made a point.

Why not try? Because this is the wrong method. Kids hardly learn math as it is. Confounding their learning with other factors will only make the whole situation worse.

Read these comments and try to understand why people are opposed to these methods. Force divisive topics into the classroom and no one will learn
Men are presumed to be combatants https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/24294
That has not happened to me. I think an incentive for the agent might be, if it's clear you want out, they can save some time and get their calls-handled number up, by cutting out the pseudo-engagement malarkey.
Yes, the player will look like they are teleporting around, but they will still be able to kill you. No, it doesn't harm the player doing it because client side they are still moving around.
Ask HN: Why there's no modern clone of Desktop Tower Defense?
~15 years ago a flash version of Desktop Tower Defense was released [0], and it became an instant success.

Today Flash is pretty much gone, and there's no exact "clone" of it. I'm curious as of why.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Tower_Defense
They are making games they don't own on knowledge they don't own, that they can't sell for real money without being exploited.
Yeah plant based diets makes it even more complex and less understood, and they have many obvious big downsides that are not really addressed.

Plant based diets are "good" if you are having issues with overeating/overweight and/or a diet lacking vegetables. I guess that's a lot of people, but definitely not everyone.
It probably seems to be to the people nearly dying.

Is this proof? No.

Is it more realistic that it's more shallow and uncoordinated and you are dying and your brain doesn't work properly currently due to dying?

I would say yes.
1. for EC2: use spot + RI and you should be fine -- probably. we did this back in ~2016/17 and our aws billing went down significantly [1]

2. bandwidth: until your bandwidth hits certain threshold of the total billing, maybe look into az-aware architecture to save cross-az bandwidth cost.

3. leverage the pay-as-you-go service as much as you can.

4. learn the pricing model and architect well.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410448
WeWTF (2019)
That's a very good point. I'm starting to realize my limitations and am thinking of doing something a bit different. But it's all good food for thought. Thank you all for your constructive feedback!
This is more metaphysical than scientific (but could have a multidimensional scientific basis)... I had a near death (or perhaps actual death) experience as a child where my life flashed by, however it was ever so slightly different from the life I knew (in a butterfly effect kind of way), which then prevented me from dying. It felt as if history had changed or my consciousness joined a parallel timeline where I was still alive. What made me think this way is that I seemed to have retained memories from the original past and not the current one, them being mostly similar events, but in slight differences in timing & order (which ended up making a big difference for me). I of course always tried to assess if this was some form of psychosis or error (assuming that to be the case), but I seemed to know a variation of real events that had not been shared with me (due to the timing differences, e.g. something happening before my birth rather than after it).

Anyway, as a fun thought experiment... If your near death experience was indeed history rewriting itself ever so slightly, and even if you retained memories from it, would you be able to tell? You can't be fully certain that all of the people share exactly the same history the way you remember it (and you'd be likely to dismiss yours as an erroneous memory.)
They artificially restricting the supply of viable candidates, but this gatekeeping happens whenever engineers want (sometimes subconciously) to limit the competition and protect their high wages.
>Well, it's true the meaning of the word has evolved into a slur.

Is it, though, or is it one of those words like "Indian" (referring to an American Indian, not someone from the country of India) that people say is a slur but is not considered offensive at all by the community it supposedly degrades (and in fact, refusing to use it in their company will get you strange looks more than anything else).

See also: my username for a similar "slur".

>As for shows, didn't Netflix's "Gypsy" take flak for the name?

Based on its Wikipedia page (especially in the "talk" page), it looks like it was mainly just a single author generating righteous outrage to get clicks.
There is genocide going on in China committed by China right now. I mean seriously, it is possible to criticize USA without whitewashing genocides around the world. If you bothered.

And that exact whitewashing of China, Russia is what weakens your point.
Wikipedia [1]:

> Uruk was extremely well penetrated by a canal system that has been described as, "Venice in the desert."[13] This canal system flowed throughout the city connecting it with the maritime trade on the ancient Euphrates River as well as the surrounding agricultural belt.

> The original city of Uruk was situated southwest of the ancient Euphrates River, now dry. Currently, the site of Warka is northeast of the modern Euphrates river. The change in position was caused by a shift in the Euphrates at some point in history, which, together with salination due to irrigation, may have contributed to the decline of Uruk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk
> With the amount of information that's been released in the last few years

> But if they volunteer aware that they'll be killing innocents.

We’re talking about 18 year old kids who are absolutely not well-informed and their knowledge about the military will be what the recruiter tells them.

Most seniors exiting high school have approximately no critical thinking ability. They just parrot ideas ingrained into them via their social circles. So unless they came from an anti-military household or anti-military material was popular in their social media, they are absolutely not “aware they’ll be killing innocents”.m
It is the nature of science that we change our mind as we learn new things.

But sugar was never OK. That was pseudo-science.

A lot of dietary "information" is pseudo-science. It's not an area we've dedicated a lot of effort into because we came up with a food pyramid one time and that was that.

We're still learning how wrong we are, as is the case in most fields
Mild Covid can shrink the brain by a decade's worth of aging
> That's a social problem being attacked with technology

Any problem in the last couple of centuries is being attacked with technology. That's what the industrial revolution is about.

Steam engine? That's a transportation problem being attacked with technology. Covid vaccines? That's a healthcare problem being attacked with technology. Anti-missile missiles? That's an international relations problem being attacked with technology.
Gamer nostalgia is a niche within a niche. The modern hardcore gamer market has tens of millions of customers - maybe hundreds if you include trivial but addictive phone games.

The nostalgists who want to get Jetpack Willy running again so they can relive a misspent youth number tens of thousands at most.

And in fact there are few/no DRM issues for these vintage games and emulations, because they're distributed as binaries.

If I really want to play Marble Madness on an Amiga emu, I can, even though the original code was never open sourced.
> One has to wonder if this has been the endgame all along: driving taxi services out of business, replacing them with a monopoly where consumers pay the same price (or higher) and where drivers are paid less.

Only works if you manage to get a govt monopoly and exclusive access tot he drivers. If you don't have those two things there's no point in trying to landgrab under cost and price-gouge later.

For something like Uber, I figure a good team might push out a working solution in a month. The barrier to entry is so small, and travellers have literally no brand loyalty, that the minute the price goes too high there'll be someone else trying to get a cut of the (now profitable) business.
I suggest sending more American guns to Ukraine as a compromise.
EU: Go Zuck yourself!

Zuck: f*ck
Great article and great website. Really worth looking at all the other articles. Thanks!
It seems it doesn't exist, so will be difficult to give it a try :-)
Define Concepts
Yeah, I mean some of it is interesting but you hit diminishing returns after like two talks because it's so personal, vague, vast, and complex to give meaningful advice when the speaker/writer isn't there with the audience.

I think it can become detrimental procrastination content quite quickly because it gives the illusion of "doing something about a problem", without really doing anything.
I also find it can keep you from moving on from things, if you don't yet know "how to think" why are you thinking? Therefore you should stop and read the article. lol.
Bit abstract there, but there is an assumption that you don't already know pretty well how to think that's being thrown at you, and this bugs me.
And the most important asset; money.
I wonder if some new player shouldn't enter the market and start making fake pings with Uber and Lyft. Just entirely fill their system during peak times thus preventing them from operating. Can't be too complicated. And this is just exact type of play their customers love about these companies.
Text had been then same for the past 5000 years or so, predating text editors by an enormous margin.
Are you assuming that literally everyone except Americans is purely reactive with no own ambitions and ideologies?

That is incredibly arrogant look at the world.
We had to use ‘heritage tape’ for old parquetry floors. I don’t know how much it cost, but it was enough for the company to pay us the additional 15 minutes to roll it back up neatly on the roll. Not a terrible way to make a few extra dollars at the end the night - it was a lot like mindfulness.
I wish this was more commonplace in Germany, here its not uncommon to have to send a physical letter to cancel a service
I agree with you. My argument was against Transport Tycoon being a copy of SimCity.
You don't have to think fast to be a political leader. Plus you can delegate the thinking to subordinates.
Smartwatches: The New Way to Diagnose Arrhythmias?
> > concerns about the centralized nature of such a storage solution CANNOT be launched by critics: It was their criticism of decentralized storage solutions that caused the shift towards standard trust-based storage solutions, and thus they cannot criticize the move towards the latter. Otherwise, their criticism is not out of technical concern, but out of personal opinion.

> This sounds like a rant devoid of meaning.

> Yes, there are centralized solutions. Yes, there are decentralized solutions. Yes, critics have full right to criticize both, because both have their failings.

> This has literally nothing to do with whatever ideological angle you're trying to force.

The ideological angle in this case is: "N solutions have a mixture of good & bad, but at least one of them is required for system S to function. Critics that criticize N-1 of N solutions cannot criticize the usage of the Nth solution when that is the only other solution left, after catering to their desires for (1...N-1) of N solutions to not be used."
That's the problem: Since only incr and decr exist, a bool is enough to say which of these two operatios should be done. But when you add a third, the bool isn't enough. So you either change the opcode to an int, like the autor, or branch the mul instruction away above like above solution.
Looks like a project to invent notation that put all the context inline with the equation, with the main motivation being:
> A person using a screen reader (software that reads text out loud, typically to someone who cannot see the words) may hear the formulas pronounced incorrectly, giving the symbols a different meaning than intended. Space Math provides an easy way to resolve the ambiguity.
Amsterdam is a kind of special case as its where major internet providers peer with each other via the AMS-IX

https://www.ams-ix.net/ams

You should try if possible connections to other pages in other countries.
For some reason, it didn’t even occur to me that you meant literal indigenous tribes.

Tbh, I was a little put off by the word ‘natives’ because I thought you were referring to non tribal, present day individuals as natives.

But I think there is definitely a missing word for present day indigenous, tribal people who prefer to adhere to their ways rather than accept modern ways of life. “Natives” sounds demeaning to me. “Locals” has a whiff of modernity. Maybe “indigenes” (which is apparently a real word)?

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Indigenes
Thanks. I had a misunderstanding. It makes perfect sense now.
I don't know about US but in India the process to review cancellation fee doesn't require interacting with support but rather a two click process to state the reason for cancellation. Works quite well and the only time they don't refund is when you do it too often in a short span of time.
What Chrome Has Become
Isn't that just p/invoke?
The air force really isn't interested in wasting multi thousand (or more) dollar bombs on people that don't deserve them and in a manner that just makes more people hate them and makes their job harder. They also aren't interested in burning out their teams of expensive professionals. Just because you're hearing about them address the latter doesn't mean they stopped caring about the former.
I actually forgot my master password last year - luckily I had my partner's 1Password set as a recovery. About 3 weeks later I remembered it
The reason behind recruiting experts to get the electrical services in Toronto is that you cannot handle any issue with your electrical system with perfect craftsmanship as a professional can do. Professionals carry out the work safely and to high standards of quality.
Stallman is not right as a matter of principle.

His vision of open computing is self-centred and user hostile. It's basically MIT CS Lab computing at scale.

It's not even a new idea. Open source was a thing before Stallman - see for example DECUS tape sharing - and it will continue to be a thing long after him.

But it's not enough. Genuinely open computing would make customisation and sharing available to everyone, not just tinkerers who know what a command line is.

Modern FOSS is the exact opposite of open computing. Computing affordances are trapped inside an inaccessible technical monolith instead of an inaccessible corporate monolith.

To most of the population there is zero difference between the two.
Physical decline is hugely variable and arguably primarily a function of genetics.
I would also argue some people's 'mental speed' was never that great - humans are hugely variable in performance, strength and weaknesses which makes me doubt the 'until after 60' concept. I have a 92 year old mother who is very good mentally for example compared to many people half her age...
So how did these work? How did the driver tell where they were coming from and where they were going? And was it worth their time? I can't think sharing your own ride is easy to solve. And no if you add more people when you are professionally driving it is still not ride sharing, it's just bus service at that time.
I think it’s more that people are aspirational about going to the gym, so they don’t cancel. Some gyms also have fixed term contract as to within which you can’t cancel. But this is at least advertised up front so people know what they’re getting in to.
Yeah, you are probably right, but go to Rich and tell him about it, you will see what is the problem. Nothing short of Drepper. I wonder if all libc maintainers are like that.
> As long as he’s not under the influence on the job, I don’t care.

That’s a bit of a sticking point. Where do you draw the boundary of “under the influence”?

Pilots are not allowed to fly planes if they have had alcohol in the last 24 hours, which is much longer than the standard for driving for “under the influence”.

Would you consider someone who is actively going through heroin withdrawals to be fit to fly an airplane and control missiles?
As i got older i noticed that meals kept impacting my focus and productivity. I've been doing IF for the past year and it works surprisingly well.

Basically, i'll have only coffee and water until 2pm and then 2 meals before 9pm.

Mental focus and clarity is pretty high and consistent.
Something I read recently on acoup.blog - the Great Pyramid of Giza was as old to Cleopatra, as Cleopatra is to us.
The emulators themselves frequently employ some "grey area" techniques in order to reverse engineer or otherwise replicate the systems these games ran on.

The emulator community your beloved games run on is rife with dodgy things. You know, how to get certain firmware, how they cracked this or that protection, and of course the ROMs themselves.

Gamer nostalgia is a niche within a niche? I totally disagree. It feels like a niche until you feel it yourself. Most gamers haven't aged enough yet.

PS "the modern hardcore gamer market": I care little about that short-sighted institution. I want to preserve the cultural digital heritage of mankind, and videogames are a vital part of it. And because they are games, they are meant to be played, so a blog post with some screenshots won't do. If you disagree -- we are not on the same page, and it's not worth continuing this conversation.
I can't speak for the interviewers, but I for one would believe we dodged a bullet. Imagine working with someone with that kind of temper.
And why shouldn't Uber be forced to be a platform where the drivers can negotiate price with riders? Seems rather bad that Uber is one dictating the pricing and their cut...
One man’s progress is another’s literary imperialism.

As a British-English speaker, I refuse to call my quaint pathway ‘a sidewalk’.

I won’t ever refer to ‘sticky tape’ as ‘adhesive tape’ - or ‘scotch tape’ for that matter.
>but they think America is equally as bad... whereas most Americans are ignorant of our own problems.

Takes more than a small serving of cognitive dissonance to say that here. We can't talk about anything but the most narrowly scoped niche technical subject without a bunch of people having a circle jerk about how America is doing it wrong/evil/should be more like (rich western) Europe/etc.
“Eat like a king in the morning, a prince at noon, and a peasant at dinner”

(Moses ben Maimon or Maimonides. 1135-1404)
I think security and therefore SSO should not be an optional feature. See https://sso.tax/

Obviously big companies will pay for SSO because they must have SSO. At my scale I skip products that are overpricing SSO or I put them behind a oauth2-proxy when I can.
It's optimising for the success of the person who does the planning.
Facebook threatening us with a good time. Too bad they'll never go through with it.
I think in any debate or discussion you have to be quite fast on thinking.

When you have to think where to spend $20Mil or more you probably don't have to come up with stuff on the spot.
That’s called speculation.
Thomas Hobbes was in his 60’s when he wrote Leviathan. I think about that a lot when I get discouraged.
In the UK, and sometimes Ireland as well, employees are not always treated well by European standards.
> I would agree to the extent that knowing the authors bias might color the text, and that we could infer a more nuanced and realistic picture from that knowledge. But I see no way that Gibbon's sex life (or lack thereof) should influence how we approach his history.

This.

The example that’s used in the article seems extreme and the author of the article is not elaborating on how this connection is made. Could be true could be not.

Also, I can add from personal experience that you don’t need to know the author to judge an artwork but knowing the author helps you connect to the art on a whole different level. As another example, first listen to Beethoven’s symphony No. 5 and then read about his personality traits and struggles in life, etc. it is fantastic. This is art of course and history might be another matter in which the artist’s credibility is in question.
Syncing Obsidian Vault on macOS and Android, using Git, for free
I lov Dyson sphere program but I think that blueprints (the QoL feature which let you build full sets of factories etc are just too powerful, transforming the endgame into just running around placing mining rigs as your giga factory can basically handle however many resources you throw at it.

It might just be that were missing true endgame content, but currently it feels very unsatisfying at the end compared to the beginning of a game