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GTA definitely stands to gain a lot from more systemic gameplay. But I would argue that this is already their tactic, they just haven't got as many systems, and they've culled the possible interactions to make sure they're deliverable gameplay loops are tight, fun and expected.

They are some of the blockbusters of gaming, so I'm not surprised they've gotten a little cautious.
Calling the single most popular framework for front end outdated and saying $newFramework is the way front is exactly the kind of thing OP is frustrated with.
I can recommend 1-3 hour walks combined with podcasts, especially longform podcasts
“I won the lottery, you can too. If you don’t buy a ticket, you’re never gonna win right…?”

There is a lot of evidence rewrites are hard to do well, and especially prone to failure.

…you might pull it off, it’s not impossible, sure. …but are you seriously saying it’s the approach everyone should take because it worked for you once?

Here my $0.02 meaningless anecdotal evidence: I’ve done a rewrite twice and it was a disaster once and went fine the second time. 50% strike rate, for me, personally, on a team of 8.

What’s your rate? How big was your team, how big was the project? What was the budget? Did you do it on time and on budget? It’s pretty easy to say, oh yeah, I rewrote some piece of crap that was a few hundred lines in my spare time.

…but the OP is dealing with a poorly documented system that’s very big, and very important and basically working fine. You’re dishing out bad advice here, because you happened to get lucky once.

Poor form.

Good advice: play it safe, use boring technology and migrate things piece by piece.

Big, high risk high reward plays are for things you do when a) things are on fire, or b) the cost of failure is very low, or c) you’re prepared to walk away and get a new job when they don’t work out.
I love space ships and drawing space ships. As a results my notes have always been full of space ships and that becomes a metaphor. Big important ideas get big spaceships next to them. Connected ideas get space ships flying back and forth between them. Popular ideas get fleets of space ships drawn next to them. Controversial ideas get highlighted with space battles. People who see my notes and try to make use of them are often critical, but this has always helped both to engage me with note taking and to enjoy going over and really understanding notes when reviewing material. So for me note taking really is rocket science.
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How much more dangerous is it for someone who's 15 years and 364 days old to drive than it is for someone who's exactly 16 years old? Or for someone who's 20 years and 364 days old to drink than it is for someone who's exactly 21 years old? Why would an arbitrary line for this be any more contentious than those arbitrary lines? We don't say "since there's not an obvious line for when you're mature enough to drive, either everybody can or nobody can."
An example of an 'app which can look at your list' is Springboard, the iOS internal name for the GUI with home screen and so on. Another example is of course System Preferences.

I don't believe Apple ships any optional apps which have this level of privilege, let alone one which doesn't obviously need to have it. This is possible, but to the best of my knowledge it isn't the case.
I think the biggest deal is there is no wall between the data and the CCP, it is currently 100% available to them and that means they are essentially datamining and entire generation, some of them too dumb to realize that what they do now can and will be used against them in the future.
Thanks for this laundry list of conspiracy, fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Central bank digital currencies differ from existing digital money available to the general public, such as the balance in a bank account, because they would be a direct liability of the Federal Reserve, not a commercial bank.

As far as the public is concerned, the only change will be faster transaction processing and new capabilities being offered by your bank --- such as transferring funds to friends/family from your banking web site/app in real time while sitting at the dinner table.

All purchases will continue to be made in good ole US dollars and all accounts will remain with your commercial bank of choice and subject to existing laws.

Basically, this will facilitate interbank transfers in order to provide a much needed update to the aging and slow ACH system which was designed for the paper check era. No banks will be killed in the creation of a CBDC.
This is exactly why we don't know much about the Mesopotamian civilization.

And to an extent, the Indus Valley civilization and everything geographically between these regions.
between interesting and interested people, so mostly between peers working on the same/similar problems
The only thing you must do IMO is detect and resolve any possibly security issues or SQL injections. Everything else doesn’t need to be touched until it becomes incompatible with business needs.
Documentation that explains historical context is sometimes useful. The part that gets you is assuming it to be current. It might help to put dates on things?
In the below article [1] is suggested to use your regular calendar app on the phone and then later write it clean into your desktop system, whatever you use.

I like to use one text file per big project and keep all related notes and todo items in there. I also have one text file specifically for meeting notes and its todo items. I also keep random daily things in that file (one headline per day). In case todo items from meetings belong to a specific project I can move them to the project file, if not, I leave them in the one big meeting/journal text file.

[1]: https://easyorgmode.com/blog/working-with-org-mode-on-deskto...
I sure hope university isn't like cave diving—it is one of the riskiest things a human can do, and (unlike either caving or diving in isolation) if a person chooses to do it I will question their judgment.
I think most people here are only looking at cursive as a writing method only. When you're a kid, you're not only learning how to write (or history, or multiplication tables, or playing a recorder, etc.), you're always meta-learning. Cursive also helps you develop fine motion; history helps you train your learning of boring topics, retain them and link them; and so on.

I must concur, I dreaded cursive as a kid. My writing was never "tidy" though it was always very readable, and my teacher bugged to the point I asked my mother for a laptop to do my homework (this was in early 00s, in Argentina, so this was never a real option). I kept using cursive through university, as it was the fastest way to handwrite for me, and I keep using it nowadays, although not handwriting every day. I believe (although this is a counterfactual) I would be even more clumsy today if I hadn't learnt cursive.
Then you just get modern warfare miniaturized. I guess that could be fun to watch if well presented, but I've been thinking it would be cool to just have a bigger, more rugged battlebox that demands more versatile movement, rather then having everyone just trying to hug the metal floor as closely as possible.
It's not really the case that memorising those lines have taken up useful brain space.

On the contrary from all we know it probably made you better at memorising.

Similarly being able to write cursive gives you better fine motor control in your writing hand.

I learnt cursive at school, as well as use of a slide rule and log tables. They were obsolete by many decades when I was learning to use them. But are my arithmetic skills worse than the average zoomer who has a smartphone practically cemented into their hand?

No, I'm fact I'm probably more efficient at using the calculator app on their phone.

In theory computer algebra systems have obsoleted junior maths courses let alone times tables (multiplication tables). But good luck using one if you didn't do the wax-on wax-off leg work of memorising seemingly useless data.

In my current job I oversee trainees who have to sit 3 exams (at great cost totalling about 10k). The recommended reading for those those exams is about £25 question bank. Everyone who does it comes away feeling it was useless. The vast majority will pass and tell their more junior friends not to bother with it. And invariably the group that doesn't use it has more fails. There is bias here, those that are willing to work are more motivated and more likely to pass.
But this always reminds me that 1) you don't even know what you're gaining when you do any kind of training 2) we rarely remember how we know something or why we came up with a particular idea. Usually the reason is some boring combination of seemingly unrelated grunt work.
What do you think is some of the more “modern and efficient material” we should be learning in school now?
Things that come to mind:
- Keyboard typing
- Converting between binary and base 10
> And if you need an example of dead-simple note-taking, James Clear stores his notes in a multi-hundred Google document

If you click the link, you see that he uses other tools for notes, including Asana and Evernote. Google Docs is for writing a book.
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I'm 47 and I never really knew what a slide rule was for until a few years ago. When I did I thought "Oh, we've had calculators all my life, now I know why I never learned about them."

They are interesting and I can see how they would have been hugely important 60 years ago.
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The biggest improvement to my personal todo systems I’ve experimented with was to quit working for a boss’s vision / to quit taking wage labor where the reward for getting things done is more things to do toward ends that don’t benefit me. Getting value directly from the product of my labor and deciding for myself who I want to work with and how is a great foundation for any todo framework
Thanks for this detailed comment. I would like to add that I have seen solutions which facilitate this architecture, but still have your application be on the web. One example is postgREST which generates a REST api from your database. Using a separate schema and views you can tightly control what gets exposed and how, but all security and logic still only happens in the database. Do you have any opinions on similar solutions?
Now that you have been through this once, do you think it's possible that if you went through all of the material you consumed in this period (assume photographic memory), would you be able to prepare a presentation (customized for yourself) with content that would be adequate to accelerate this process (and speculatively, a plausible range of how much) if you were to deliver itself to your past you (say, at the time that you originally started, and maybe also earlier points in time in your life)?
> Whoops! Missed '2 pecks to a kenning'! Which is a half-bushel.

How embarrassing not knowing that
Re SuperMemo: Well, there is his huge wiki[1] in which he writes pretty long articles about a wide range of topics. So I'd say he is very productive.

[1] https://supermemopedia.com/wiki/Main_Page
What you describe is what I've wanted ever since San Andreas which to me was the high point in open gameplay for GTA. Ever since I played that in college while working on a thesis on machine learning I've been fantasizing about building a fully autonomous NPC system that leads to fully emergent behavior from individual to societal level, including the NPCs shaping the world to their needs by constructing dwellings, fields etc. Every character would have skills that adjust based on their behavior, basic maslov needs and would act based on that and utilizer the environment to fill the needs. Between characters relationship values would exist and they can exchange information and have something like gossip. Being dropped into a world with these dynamics as a player would to me be the most fun game imaginable. I always shied away from actually building this because I felt that the route to profit is longer and riskier than your average web app side project and I wanted to use my very limited side project motivation and energy on something serious. Maybe that was a mistake since I'm really passionate about this idea and probably would have put way more time in for this than anything else...

That side, I think GTA has been moving further away from this vision since San Andreas. San Andreas had a ton of stuff to do outside the main missions. GTA IV frustrated me because it kept feeling like player choice was secondary to telling their story. I was so upset when I lost my original apartment when buying a new one. In SA collecting all the houses was a driving motivator for me. And V just got rid of so much in single player to prioritize online which I couldn't care less about.
Really? Machine guns and flamethrowers you 'guess' could be fun to watch? I'd rather watch that, than a glorified pancake flipper.

But never mind us. Do we imagine there isn't a market for battle robot shows with grenades and machine guns?

Do it in an arena, and there you are: a hit show. Put cameras on all the bots so we can get into the action.

{edit: arena}
> You can’t run a company on that kind of deep mistrust.

Trust has to be earned in some ways (but you can expect some base-level). But I want to argue on another point: as an exec, you can use this kind of writing to also get commitment from the team, to balance things out. But ofc for that there needs to be a fair discussion of priorities and once you have that, there is usually no reason to contractify the outcome.
Good luck- this has been a long-term interest of mine, but one that has not really led to any forward progress. Lithography continues to be a far more approachable technology.
The fox won't willingly give up the ability to be in charge of the henhouse. The only prayer one has to keep this from being abused constantly and on a widescale is for there to be a Constitutional amendment specifically addressing the issue and limiting the government's power in this area. Anything less will be subject to change and weakening by Congress and the various state legislatures.

Unfortunately, the country is far too fractured to come together in the required numbers to pass such an amendment. Once one "side" comes out in support, the other will reflexively come out against it. The only exception is if they both have agreed on how to neuter it into being useless for protecting the people.
Unfortunately just loving what you do isn’t good enough for most people.

I’ve been lucky to meet people throughout my life who were motivated by that, not by money. Some where in creative professions, some not, some had big salaries, some not.

I guess automation and UBI could solve that replacing the proverbial janitors with robots. But then it may just incentivize more people to lay in bed and stare at the ceiling all day. Is it a bad thing? Is it a good thing? I do tend to believe most people will eventually fall into doing some kind of rewarding work-like activity if left to themselves completely and money was taken out of the equation. On the other hand relationships/ families may be a time-suck and many peopl etc would just “spend time with the kids” all days.
Learning some Gnu utils and programming languages, making my own workshop of my dream, writing pet projects, taking care of my little vegetable farm, enhancing my backyard and my body, doing some hobbies like music playing, finding some other ways to spend free time like, in other words enjoying life without kids because most of that will be not that important when the kids will appear.
I haven't actually but I've heard great things. I admit the setting isn't one I usually pursue, but I'll get over myself and take a look.
The paper dollar was converted to a coin in the '90s and the two-dollar bill followed suit.

Yes, every card in Canada is chip and PIN except possibly some prepaid gift cards. The same is the case across Europe and Australia and has been for the better part of two decades now.

Speak not from whence you know not.
In last few years Apple is attempting to do incredibly successful vendor lock in, mostly in the name of privacy, like forcing Sign In with Apple, content sales via their channels, etc. Leaving Apple eco system will only get harder each year.

They’re slowly boiling the frog.

Note - I do use Apple devices, so I’m also a frog.
Yes, programming with anything other than the US layout is simply unbearable. I simply switched to the US layout for everything. Although to be fair my native language is Italian, which doesn't need many special characters.

Most programmers I know use native+US layouts (like you), a minority always uses US (like me), almost nobody uses a native layout to code.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.

Here is a counterpoint. The US foundational documents (Declaration, Constitution) are written in cursive/script. Public education certainly has something to do with creating citizens capable of participating in US democracy and reading these docs is one significant part of that. Obviously they can be transcribed so I don’t think this is super compelling but perhaps it is not anachronistic as it seems.
To my non Italian-speaking ears, it sounds like the speaker is using an anime/tiktok inspired “uwu voice”
It's not that complicated. Have you ever read something from this guy or similar (eg James Clear, Ryan Holiday, Peterson etc). If you do, it will become obvious quickly, that all these people do is blow up every little bit of information into it's own little chapter, and 10 more chapters to sell it to you under a different name. Most of the stuff they tell you are platitudes or rehashing of what has been said before. Next thing, if they are really good salesman, you will find them on Ted or Tom Bilyeu, because they are so good at it, everybody wants to have a piece of the pie.
> It started out with Slack spaces but has moved to Discord because of Slack's inferior UX/UI/business model.

Having never used Slack, this statement astonishes me. It is difficult for me to imagine a worse UX/UI than Discord is.
> "Companies have the right to handle this issue however they wish."

But that's precisely the problem these days. We have seen recently that the government has been colluding with the tech companies to censor content that they deem "misinformation" and individuals whom they deem "problematic". It's no longer just about a private company deciding what they will or will not allow on their platform.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/white-house-big-tech-colluded-...

> "Do you think the public on the first count, and the marketplace on the second count are doing a particularly admirable job here?"

It's not about whether the "group" is coming to the decision or conclusion that you or I would like them to reach. It's about whether we, as individuals, have the right to view the totality of the evidence and arguments and then make up our own minds.

Some people see through the bullshit and some don't. That's the nature of humanity. And, to be fair, what you and I might think is bullshit might turn out to actually be completely the opposite. We're not infallible. But the fact that any of us might make mistakes in judgement or analysis is not a valid reason to prevent unpopular or unverified (or however you want to label it) information from being disseminated or accessed.
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Relative to this situation are you a Junior in this as well? I don’t mean to downplay your experience, but as you judge the devs you must also judge yourself.

Your comment about productivity of the dev team is a red flag for me. They’re charged with containing this 20m revenue engine, it probably stresses them out big time. This is not the time to count feature development. When you’re treading water you don’t punish the survivors of the titanic for not also doing laps while they wait to be rescued.

Given you’ve made no comment as to expanding the team, I can only assume the business owner wants to make more money without investing in this product. There’s no magical advice that will unfuck the executive level if that’s the case.
It only makes sense, that the entire series is filled out 2:1 the whole way :)

Definitely impressed by cooms, quarters and weys!
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I have thought along similar lines, and I think one's own abilities determine the places you end up :), meaning that the more one knows, the more likely one will end up in deep conversations with deep thinking people in sites or situations that are buried in the net and/or in life out there.
I'm pretty sure I'm excluded from these events :D.

edit: but on the other hand, it's quite easy to get in touch with famous and brilliant people if that's what you like, so... if you have something interesting to say, maybe you'll get somewhere that way.
The comments in this thread are unusually interesting because everyone is chiming in with different reasons. A lot of diversity in the reasoning.
Haven't played it, but admittedly I've seen the Hbomberguy video on it and was really interested. Might take another look.