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The concept of a web3 Roblox is probably the best conceptualization of a web3 gaming platform.

-There's a virtual marketplace of skins/clothes that can be used from game to game motivated by a creator economy (basically NFTs)

-Game devs can make money from in-game purchases

A pro of this system would be more ownership of the IP holders, wherein they aren't getting extremely unfavorable rates like in the case of young devs for Roblox.

Living outside of the central authority of Roblox Inc would be a positive and a negative.
As Dilbert says: "our boss can't judge the quality of our work, but he knows when it's late".
Considering that a simple iOS privacy disclosure dialog box cost FB $10bn in revenue loss, I'd say there are a lot of things users would be surprised to know when it comes to how apps work and what they collect.
As others have pointed out, the data shows that it clearly works well for most of the world.

For cases where it doesn’t make sense (these are exceedingly rare), they should do what works best for them.

If we were to ship the equivalent calories and nutrition in vegetable form we would be able to ship it earlier and more often than the meat, too. Plant based nutrition is more abundant, more efficient, and more secure in almost every region of the earth.

The only case where meat makes rational sense is generally when you prefer the taste and/or calorie density. This doesn’t often make sense on a population scale. I don’t think it makes sense for individuals either, but that is still considered opinion these days.
My millage is that it's not absolute "dead weight". It's more wanting limited responsibility and tasks that require limited scope/time spent, but does actually contribute, just a much smaller scale than others.

> The fact that they needed these excuses tells me they felt what they did to be morally wrong and didn't really want to be dead weight.

My guess from your comment is that you judge them for being slackers, and the feel obligated to explain to YOU that its not morally correct. Personally, I have no qualm with those that want to drift around megacorps while collecting a nice paycheck.
Assigning a personification to a concept is a common theme among many religions throughout the world. To that end, Christianity and those based on it are more of an outlier than the norm.
Does this mean it is mostly done in the fragment shader and there is no tessellation, like how Bezier patches are rendered in 3D land? That's quite different from what I thought I knew.
> I question how desirable that even is.

I agree, and would go even further - is this even desirable to the creators of the game? Sounds a lot like shooting themselves into the foot. They profit off having closed ecosystems and kids having to buy skins instead of already owning them from somewhere else
This is basically a fantasy, chaims about how well you are paying your workers and how natural and recycleable are the products never resulted in fraud charges.
Terrible really, it's hard to think of a worse way of dying.
I heard from former, recently departed Facebookers that their standards for hiring dropped quite a bit during the pandemic.

If I had to guess why Zuck isn't happy, it's that the new hires plus the increased organisational bloat of such a massive amount of new hires didn't materalize into spreadsheet numbers that looked good.
What you're feeling is selfishness, not sociopathy, for what it's worth! I don't think a sociopath would wonder what you're wondering here, but I'm no expert.
How does Sematic compare to Metaflow? it optimizes for many of the same goals of Sematic - local workflows, cloud access, lineage tracking, state transfer etc?
They polled immediately after the Dobbs leak; prior to that poll, it got like 25% support. It's a fringe position, and will get fringier. If you polled Democrats on whether we should impeach Clarence Thomas, you'd get substantial support, because Democrats hate Clarence Thomas, just like you'd easily get Republicans to support impeaching Sonia Sotomayor.

The point you said you were making, about who does the line-drawing, is one I agree with. But, as I said, you misled when you implied Dobbs aligned policy with "Europe" (if you had said Dobbs had the ultimate effect of aligning us with Poland, I'd agree, but you didn't say that because we all know Poland is significantly to the right of the European consensus, and it would have harmed the partisan argument you tacked on).
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It isn't. By that logic any browser is liable for violating ToS of websites, which btw isn't the law and you are not obligated to follow anyhow.

This of course is a different case for corporations with a dedicated legal team.
I was surprised he got promotion and even more resources under Pat.

I dont think Intel should axe their GPU, but considering Pat Gelsinger has zero BS tolerance, I would not be suspired if someone replace Raja if he doesn't deliver within the next 12 months or so.
> There is absolutely zero chance of, say, EA and Activision collaborating on a spec to share assets across brands. Zero, no matter how much you could spin it to executives.

We're seeing the startup mentality being applied to generate these new markets within gaming and people just aren't buying it. It's such an intellectually dishonest argument to make that players want to be able to share assets across games as you point out, yet we're seeing these highly-respected tech leaders try to convince us that such a brain-dead idea is visionary. Why? Because they stand to make another fortune on it and they have absolutely no problem lying to our faces about it.
(1) Where do you find usage numbers? Both are niche

(2) No, the cost of supporting a browser is the cost of supporting that browser's users. Even if the entirety of the changes required to enable it is simply adding "com.kagi.orion" or some such to a plist, there's a cost to responding to every "it doesn't work here" message. Arc looks to be VC funded so it seems plausible they could have a commercial agreement with 1password, or it's possible that they raised 17 million to make a chrome wrapper and so have exactly chrome's web extension implementation which would reduce support costs to zero (though I do wish someone would give me 17million for some random project :D )
Probably; you wouldn't have to do so much maintenance.

Wax fills in all of the voids between the bushings, roller pins, etc - so it physically prevents dirt from getting into your chain. And since there's no oil to cause the dirt to stick to your drivetrain, your gears don't wear down as quickly (as oil / grease + dust is abrasive; each rotation wears the chain and rings down ever so slightly).
It is amusing how the article says "employees" but everyone in the comments are talking about developer productivity and laziness. It is shocking how no one points out about the laziness of PMs and management. I have seen PMs and managers taking generous time off and lazying around. Don't forget lot of hiring happens because managers and PMs do planning roadmaps and hire based on that. Some managers also hire more than necessary just cos they want to manage more people. In my previous company our manager hired 3x more engineers than available projects. He jumped ship recently and moved to another FAANG company while the team is now clueless and feeling scared that team might see layoffs.
That reply was just awesome. Ciao from Italy <3
> I liked the table comparing many disciplines' default instance of nothing:

> Physics: No energy: the vacuum

And not being aware of the difference can lead one to dumbly misunderstand the question with confidence (e.g. some physicist explaining how the universe could have arisen out of "nothing," when they're really explaining how it could have arisen out of a vacuum, which metaphysically is definitely a something).
> yet?

SDF of a cubic bezier involves solving a quintic, so it's not analytic. There are approximations, of course, but for an outline, using an sdf is just silly. (For a stroke, you don't really have much choice--though it's common to approximate strokes using outlines.) I'll add that sdf aa is not as good as analytic aa.
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Maven is declarative. Once you know how to build and deploy one repository you can do it in any other. Including projects started a decade ago. Five commands is all you need to use it. It's trivial to have a monorepo with the classical 3-tier pom file structure.

It takes a 2/3-of-your-screen plugin configuration to build a Scala project. And you can simply copy that configuration without even thinking about it to another service.

I believe that making the "<dependency>" declaration a one-liner would fix 80% of what's wrong with maven :)

Every single Gradle project I have worked with has its own structure. Which happens even across repositories owned by the same team. There are DSL flavors (Groovy and Kotlin), both are actually used and differ slightly. The wrapper. Its storage is based on Ivy, not Maven so you double the number of Internet replicas on your HDD. But it's still better than SBT ;)
I really like my Karcher, I've used it for about 5 years now. It's been through a full gutting of my house and the subsequent rebuild and refinish.

If I had more money to spend I'd get an M-class vac, but the cheapest one is a Festool for 560 euros. It's not often that Festool is the cheapest in a category.

(I think the M/L class system is specific to The Netherlands: https://mastertools.nl/collections/bouwstofzuiger?refinement... basically M class means it's safe to use by professionals who work with stone dust for 8 hours per day).
This was my approach too and it's been working great. Nowadays data isn't rendered directly into HTML anymore, it gets downloaded from some JSON API endpoint. So I use network monitoring tools to see where it's coming from and then inferface with the endpoint directly. I essentially wrote custom clients for someone else's site. One of my scrapers is actually just curl piped into jq. Sometimes they change the API and I have to adapt but that's fine.

> I understand companies can put roadblocks to hinder this

Can you elaborate? I haven't run into any roadblocks yet but I'm not scraping big sites or sending a massive number of requests.
I wanted to ask a general question about how you decide where to pay taxes? Like are you paying income taxes in every city you reside in over certain number of days?
> greed combined with lack of scrupules and slightly larger than average budget

Sounds like evil to me
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If his premise is that profit isn't necessary, then without a profit motivation there's no need to "really own" an in-game asset anyway. If I'm not going to sell it, who cares if the same skin works in Fortnite and Roblox because I "really own" it, or because Epic and Roblox Co. linked a database? Web3 is definitionally only about concept of ownership, and ownership doesn't matter if you aren't selling, and doubly doesn't matter with non-scarce infinitely reproducible digital assets.
The only particularly useful standup I've been in is when our VP was joining to see if we needed any quick escalations each day for about a week

Everything else is fun for memorizing what everyone's doing so I can respond immediately to random questions, but the value is questionable. Everyone else on my team would be better off if I didn't know everything off hand, and instead relied on the proper sources of truth
+1, why blame employees? blame the management. In my previous job, our manager quickly grew team and hired 3x more people just cos he wanted to manage a larger team and get to hire managers under him so that he gets promoted to Sr. Manager.
Games can stop supporting decentralized items, and if every game you care about does, the item may as well have been centralized to begin with.

What's the difference? I'm not asking about the technology, I'm asking about the user experience.
1892, if not before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
Many people conflate hedonistic pleasure with happiness. This is a big mistake that leads to addiction, selfishness and inevitable dissatisfaction. Even happiness as a sustainable state may be an unrealistic or unattainable goal. For me the answer to this puzzle is a finely tuned balance between self growth and contentment with perhaps a heavier emphasis on contentment. Regular and consistent periods of reflection and appreciation for what you have (no matter how small) is the recipe for promoting states of contentment. Pleasure is ephemeral, happiness comes and goes but contentment can be reliably and directly cultivated.
True if the level you shift it up to has some further explanatory value and/or can be demonstrated or proven in some fashion. If it's just "well, it might be this thing that we can't prove" then, until you've turned that notion into something you can test or at least support with observations, it's just "god did it".

I think "there's something rather than nothing because the set of all possible waves exists... like, somewhere" is roughly identical to "god did it", as opposed to, say, a hypothesis that things fall and planets orbit due to a universal force that causes matter to attract other matter, even if both just prompt another "why?" You can go do stuff with the latter—not so much with the former, which is more of a dodge than even a partial explanation.

A good test might be whether you can apply the answer to any "why?" that lacks an existing answer, with exactly the same utility and validity in every case. Take the example of the question suggested by the explanation of universal gravitation:

"OK, why does gravity exist, then?"

"God did it / that's just what our little corner of the set of all possible waves happens to look like"

There's simply no specificity to them, and they amount to "just because".
> it is not allowed due to billing reasons. Company policy is: One product per AWS account.

That's kinda funny because half the reason why AWS has tags in the first place is to get finer granularity into understanding billing. Not to mention products like Kubecost. Sounds like whoever wrote the policy doesn't understand how AWS works.

> Someone needs to do the dirty work but nobody wants to do it.

There are plenty of people willing to do the dirty work, they're just already working for other companies and their salaries are quite high. The labor market is tight.

> Cui bono? Neither our team, nor our users nor our infrastructure bill.

HR benefits. Having open positions that HR is failing to fill is a bad look for HR.
In a world where more and more work gets automated anyway, those people just managed to get a private version of UBI before everybody else.
It's like setting up a giant LAN party, but for grown-ups, doing serious grown-up stuff.
and theres no need for cryptocurrencies that are unstable and volatile. simply allow purchase of tokens directly so that its guaranteed to be pegged at 1:1 without an intermediate wash trading crypto exchange.

this whole web3/crypto craze is bizarre. just literally reinventing words for what we had since the beginning of the internet in hopes of raising funds by shoving buzzwords at VCs who are probably not going to make it by next year when interest rates shoot up
What is your point? You're using loaded terms like "normal" to contrast with people who are tech hobbyists, and you sound as if it is bad for an organization to care about something moral if few people care for it.
It's worth noting that the beginning, the end and the middle of Scrum and what most companies laughably call "Agile" is to prevent exactly this: the entire structure is there to force every developer to interview for their job every morning and prove they're making "contributions" (it doesn't matter if they're good contributions, they just have to be completed by the deadlines).
Because people insist that Something Must Be Done and the state's not doing it. Even EU regulators don't want to do things, they want to push big tech firms to do it.

Beatings are unlikely though. It's not something you can do with a datacenter.
I think you're making a lot of assumptions about how we conduct our interviews that are way off the mark. First off, my description above was about my going through an interview process, not about how we conduct our interviews (the 4 endpoint API). The elevator system we ask people to see how far they can get in an hour so we can see their problem solving abilities and readable code abilities. That's it.

We're also willing to do zoom pair programming, in person coding exercises, etc.. We let our candidates decide. They overwhelmingly decide take homes. Not sure why you specifically are so against it but that has not been our experience. We want a pleasant experience for our interviewers and frequently bend over backwards for talented individuals to accommodate however they'd like to demonstrate their skills. We don't expect a lot of work (almost never more than an hour), just enough to show your abilities, with our focus being on problem solving and writing maintainable code. We just want to know you can perform up to what your resume says you can since so many resumes are works of fiction.

We also only give coding exercises as the final step in our interviewing process. We do not "spam" it out as we recognize it's asking for a time investment. About 80% pass and get an offer. We do not abuse people's time and respect that it's definitely asking for them to commit to doing a little bit of work.

Again, you seem to be making a lot of assumptions that are potentially true of other companies that do not respect people's time but do not apply to us.
They increased their headcount by 62% during the pandemic and now are like - these people are deadweight and not productive? Really? There are a lot of logistics you have to have in place to hire that many people, especially when you're already a LARGE company, and keep them all working. It seems to me their hiring process is completely broken - hire everybody, see who works out, can the rest. This just confirms the horror stories I hear from people working at FAANGs. It's not anywhere I want to be.
Hmm, I don't see the problem -

Everything in the universe is contingent, except for one thing which is necessary. Everything relies on that necessary foundation.

What's the issue?
I would point out that in constitutional law, in both Canada and the USA, it is decided by its proximity to violence, basically. The specifics vary, but that's the core of it. The more immediately linked the speech is to violent illegal action, the more likely it falls outside constitutional protection.

The American standard is called imminent lawless action [1], and so yes, openly encouraging a murder that might realistically happen can be illegal, and so is encouraging rioters to riot harder. Canada uses the same basic framework, with a somewhat less strict threshold for immediacy which is how laws there about inciting hatred squeak by constitutionally, while they don't in the USA.

Still not quite sure where the line should be, but such criteria seems like how we should decide where it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
I would try the meet up website and try to go local to start.
>> Hard to say we're seeing stagflation with current job numbers.

I thought the "stag" part was stagnant GDP and we are even in a recession. The inflation part is there of course. Even if it's not stagflation, the inflation part is due to dumping trillions into the economy and super low interest rates. I expect there to be a lot of pain when it actually corrects, but since there is also a trade war and companies are bringing production back to the US, we might see low unemployment for some time. I dunno, it's weird.
The key difference is people understand you’re paying the firemen for the emergencies- but a lot of SREs are actually firemen but paid like developers.

When everyone is quietly pretending you’re not a fireman but you are it leads do a disconnect where everyone is playing charades.
To me it's not obvious. I wouldn't think that an app can inject JS into a website because I'm using a web-browser from their app.
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For me it wouldn't matter if I'm being paid or not. Someone's trying to communicate to OP, with good intent (I presume). I think that deserves a thoughtful response.
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> Then isn't this a point against the scalability

The technical solution would be a QOS that deprioritizes/throttles these people first, with clear wording in the contract. The reality is that these people are a negligible fraction of the users.
I still don't really get it. Not all ideas which disagree with or go beyond the current best scientific models of the universe are considered non-scientific or esoteric (if this were the case scientific progress would be impossible).

How about this: state explicitly what strategies beyond empiricism, model building, ontology refinement, and epistemological reasoning you think can provide genuine verifiable insight about the world?
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Do you feel the same way about people who put effort in but are not skilled enough to contribute (or make things worse by trying)?
That very much to me sounds like the wrong manager/employer! I just can't imagine working in an environment coworkers aren't genuinely keen on actively contributing towards building/ maintaining products and features. It's surely the reason you get into software development in the first place.
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Not to mention the technical issues involved in having a truly cross-platform asset. What's the poly and texture count? How is scale represented? Collision volumes? How does it render properly? What file formats do we standardize on?

The whole thing is ridiculous. The cynical view would be that this is trying to quickly get retail gamers/"investors" to subsidize VC returns, before the crypto market fully tanks.
Then the app can use DOH, or tunnel DNS requests over something else - a non-safari browser engine wouldn’t have to use system DNS by any means…
This looks nice and useful. I was thinking for a long time about a graphics manipulation program that would put every step as a separate line with all parameters visible. Then you can change any parameter from earlier steps as you see fit. It makes the graphics editing process like a little interactive script. You could then easily parametrize it further and even do batch processing this way.

I will have to check this out.
I welcome you to defend why it's embarrassing.
The appeal of in-app browsers is that apps like Facebook can boost their “time in app” metrics while you read linked articles.
I've been searching for an alternative to Android Auto itself. After an update some months ago, launching the app takes me to a settings panel declaring that Android Auto is no longer supported for phone screens (i.e. it is now only designed to run while linked to a car with a compatible display), and the app itself refuses to run as it used to on just the phone.

Add that functionality to the Google graveyard, I guess...
lol like tech companies are so consistient with their products nowadays