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Something I discovered after switching to Windows: MS Teams eats the ctrl+shift+S shortcut while it's in the background, so I cannot use it anymore in other applications. It literally makes other apps stop working properly. Sigh.
"Milking" doesn't simply mean charging for services, it means collecting money in unfair or abusive way.

I'm not sure that Steam pioneered them but microtransactions are great, they enabled high quality games be free or at least cheap to access for casual players and the few who really dive deep into the content pay accordingly.

Loot boxes and other stuff are things that people want and enjoy. Can be unhealthy for some people but let's not pretend that there are large number of people living on the streets because Steam milked them away like an illegal casino.

Their ways are not designed to make you sell your car to buy a skin.
I enjoy content that adds curious new information and different views to topics full of cliches, while still being relatively respectable or well researched.

Coming Apart - this book described the coming separation of the US into two “classes” long before it was widely talked about. Today most talk about it as a political divide. This book tackles it as a divide between knowledge workers and the rest. A controversial take that adds much needed food for thought to the conversation. If you’ve lived poor and you’ve also lived in a place like Palo Alto, you’ll be astounded by how readily you can point and say, “that’s me”. Lots of fascinating statistics.

Bowling Alone - a great book about the collapse of US social life. Dense, lots of statistics, but a clear picture is laid out of increasing isolation and alienation. Read it alongside something like Consumer’s Republic to understand how so much of this stems from the selfishness and individuality encouraged by consumerism in post-war America.

Triumph of the City - an excellent take that can be used as food for thought when people are talking about how dirty cities are. In truth, the author argues, they are our greenest “invention” ever. Lots of good evidence. Imagine collecting the trash if every human lived on their own acre of land. The sewage, the energy usage. Cities are incredibly efficient and clean.

The Man Who Solved The Market - everyone interested in finance needs to read this and it’s precursor More Money Than God. The Bogleheads and their index fund ilk are often correct when they say “money managers all lose to an index after fees”. Beating the market is nigh on impossible for all but a few. Most of those few work at Renaissance Technologies. Their Medallion Fund has made 36% after fees every single year since 1989. The fund does its best in market crash years. Closed to outside investors. A story of mathematicians essentially building models that can predict the future reliably. Utterly fascinating, the most successful money printer ever built. As a bonus, we learn that Jim Simons originally controlled this printer and spent the money helping US math teachers. He then ceded control to Robert Mercer, who used the printer’s output to fund Cambridge Analytica, Steve Bannon, Trump, etc.

The Snowball - a biography of Warren Buffet that tells an incredible story. The story is one of total obsession. Of a human who literally started from a few dollars, learned about some principles like compounding at age 6, and applied the exact same principles every day for the rest of his life with very little deviation. The craziest part of this story is how every 10 years, he’s surrounded by people saying “times have changed, you’re missing out”. Then those people get blown up by whatever black swan, and Warren’s snowball just grows and grows. He didn’t become a billionaire till he was in his 50’s but the snowball is still growing and he’s one of the richest people alive.
I agree with the fact that it's better to cook at home than order in 5 times a week. However there are many people who just don't cook, and I think that 5 Uber deliveries a week is better than 5 trips to get takeout (assuming the Uber delivery is done on motorcycle or bicycle compared to trips in the car).
As a lone gamedev with a game fresh out on Steam.... I hope that is the case XD

Not so sure tho...

Luck has a bigger part in any Human endeavor than what any of us says :p
The question is incredibly vague to me. All books that you find interesting or that you simply have fun reading are worth investing your time in. So I could mention wonderful classics of literature. It sounds like you want "insightful" books in a philosophical sense.

To those who mentioned Marcus Aurelius's meditations, I recommend the reading of "Zen mind beginner's mind". Along the same lines of somewhat spiritual books, "Siddartha" is a classic and also Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet".

Very different: for my personal history, reading "Goedel, Escher, Bach" when I was 18 deeply affected my vision of things. Other science books I loved: "the unfolding of language" (historical linguistics) and "the world within the world" (physics and philosophy of physics).

For something much more recent, that changed my view of the contemporary world, I recommend "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling. It's about understanding "poor" countries in their variety and in a less stereotyped way, but especially about understanding that living conditions across the world, essentially without exception, have massively improved over the last century. I feel Rosling's is only part of the story, though, and "Sapiens" (mentioned by others below) tells parts of the other half.

I also like poetry, and in the rare occasions I am in the right frame of mind and focus to read poetry, it feels like a powerful meditation or prayer.

If you want to "expand" your vision of things, one thing I tried to do, and loved, is reading as much as possible books from other cultures, for example postcolonial literature. I particularly liked Chinua Achebe's "things fall apart". Somewhat related, "the moon and the bonfires" was deeply moving to me, the life of a man in agricultural Italy after ww2. The reason why I put these together is that they do something extraordinary: we are used to descriptions of africans during the colonization process, or of poor Italians after the war, but we are not very used to them being full three-dimensional characters, people like us, and stepping in their shoes.

Finally I enjoy travel books, for similar reasons. Among my favourites is "the road to Oxiana", written in the 1930s, and full of british humour. Also, Rory Stewart (british politician, diplomat and academic) walked Afghanistan in 2002 and told the story in "The places in between". Very, very helpful for understanding Afghanistan beyond the news.

I could go on forever!
> a coup to oust Yanukovych because he changed his mind at signing an economic agreement with EU and signed one with Russia instead.

Does a coup in a foreign country form a valid pretext for invasion you mean?

> Since 2014 NATO has been training Ukrainian forces.

Yes. Are you trying to argue that this forms a reasonable pretext for invading a neighboring country? Or how else is it relevant?

> it's ok for Ukraine to become a member of NATO?

Of course. It's their choice as a sovereign state to have any alliance with anyone.

It seems you are enumerating a number of things that Russia disagreed with or that was even outright hostile or Anti-russian. But that doesn't form a pretext for invasion does it?

> Cuba was not allowed to have Soviet missiles

Accoring to who? The US? Ukraine? The soviet union? Nato? No. It was the US that considered this unacceptable. And the Soviet Union considered the placement of MRBMs in Turkey unacceptable. So you might argue the US "started" that. But a key fact in that story is of course that the drama ended with both countries withdrawing those missiles, luckily (The US from Turkey, and The USSR from Cuba).

The US certainly hasn't always behaved will in international relations. But don't try to make this a whataboutism discussion about "NATO is the US and the US did X so no one can point fingers at russia for doing similar thing Y".

Ukraine isn't in NATO any more than Austria is, and Ukraine takes no responsibility for past US or NATO actions. Ukraine is a sovereign country that has a right to territorial integrity. Did Cuba have that as well? Yes!

If Ukraine feels it needs a military alliance, that's their choice. If Russia fels that the threat of a big military alliance on their doorstep is too much, then they are of course entitled to build up defenses on their borders. This would create tensions, and those tensions could need addressing.

But the bottom line is: if a country invades another country, the case is pretty clear cut. It doesn't matter whether someone else made the same error. It's wrong and must be condemned. There is no valid pretext for this invasion.
And don't forget about multi-tenant support.

If you have multiple accounts or your account has access to multiple tenants, you can only really work in one of them at a time. You have to log out and log in to each of them. Totally unusable.

Slack got this well from day zero. I can't understand how 6 years later MS Teams still doesn't support well this simple and common scenario.
The Bible is not exactly .. readable? Embarking on actually reading it all the way through and understanding the references is a serious project of literary archaeology, even armed with a concordance and a Greek lexicon. Then you run in to the various hapax legomenon: the words for which we have exactly one example in one sentence in the Bible, and are forced to guess the meaning of the word from context. Then three years later you emerge blinking into the sunlight with a deep understanding of the spirituality of the European Iron age .. then what?
This is an astonishing package. Every AI voice-to-text model I've tried on "The Wire's" famous "fuck" scene [0] usually fails, because the youtube clip's audio quality is bad and it's a scene with virtually no dialogue except breathing and "Fuck". But Whisper returned impressive results [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS6pE88Xg3s

[1]

$ yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o wire-fuck.mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS6pE88Xg3s

$ whisper --language en wire-fuck.mp3
[00:00.000 --> 00:02.000] Oh
[00:13.260 --> 00:15.260] Fuck
[00:15.260 --> 00:31.260] Motherfucker
[00:50.700 --> 00:52.700] Fuck
[00:52.700 --> 00:58.700] Oh
[00:58.700 --> 01:10.700] Fuck
[01:28.700 --> 01:55.900] Fuck
[02:02.340 --> 02:03.700] Motherfuck.
[02:10.220 --> 02:11.220] Oh, fuck.
[02:11.780 --> 02:12.780] Oh, fuck.
[02:25.900 --> 02:27.900] Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
[02:27.900 --> 02:28.900] Motherfucker.
[02:32.900 --> 02:33.900] Oh, fuck.
[02:34.900 --> 02:35.900] Fuck.
[02:35.900 --> 02:36.900] Oh, fuck.
[02:36.900 --> 02:37.900] Oh, fuck.
[02:37.900 --> 02:38.900] Oh, fuck.
[02:48.900 --> 02:49.900] Motherfucker.
[02:53.900 --> 02:54.900] Fucking A.
[02:54.900 --> 02:56.900] Mm hmm.
[02:56.900 --> 03:12.900] Fuck.
[03:26.900 --> 03:28.900] Motherfucker.
[03:28.900 --> 03:32.900] Fuck me.
[03:58.900 --> 04:01.900] Oh.
[04:28.900 --> 04:34.900] Fuck.
You are right with many points: Chromebooks are indeed designed to be dumb terminals to Google's services. But on the other hand they have an amazing sandboxing system for all OS components and take security seriously. Compare this to most Linux distros that allow basically every local app full access to the user's account.

I wouldn't use Chrome OS as it is right now. But a degoogled version of it, maybe with some better local only support, or at least support to use a different cloud than Google's cloud, say some NAS in my home, and it would be a really nice device.
WASM on Vercel Edge Functions Demo – Serverless PHP?
Steam shows on the store page if you have to create an external account or accept an external EULA.
The whole setup just hardly makes any sense. They are targeting people who have super fast and reliable internet, are hardcore gamers, and don't have a gaming pc. I just can't imagine who this target market is. Fast hardware is usually much more accessible than fast internet.

The idea might have worked if the subscription included access to games. Since at least then you aren't buying in to the platform with lock in.
> If you use Teams, and something goes wrong, everybody is patient and sympathetic. If you use something else, then it's your fault for being "weird" or "cheap."

Odd. I feel that people are sympathetic because everyone knows Teams is weird and cheap.
Then we indeed disagree. In my view that's not forgiveness. That's acceptance. Forgiveness doesn't mean you forget the past transgression. It only means you have moved past them and no longer treat the person according to the transgressions. Since you no longer trust your friend you haven't really forgiven them, I'd say.
Text communcation with Lync was the same as MSN Messenger, super basic. No chat history, no channels. I wouldn't say it's any better than Teams.
I'm using a fork of Unreal Engine 4.20, and I'm using the substepped physics that UE ships with. I have a fixed timestep PR simmering for if and when it's time to implement a proper rewind/replay system for all vehicle movement.

I attempted the standard prediction/correction implementation used for deterministic movement systems and got it working for the deterministic aspects of the vehicle's movement system, but naturally couldn't make it work for the core, non-deterministic physics, as that will require fixing the timestep and probably doing other things I haven't thought about / don't understand yet.

For now, the system works like this:

- basic client vehicle movement is non-deterministic physx + deterministic overrides

- special moves are deterministic but client-predicted

- weapons systems are deterministic but client-predicted

- server-side anticheat model is derived from me moving around and generating believable movement curves so the server can check that any given client move it receives is appropriate given its history / state of the world

- server also (supposedly!) handles noclip and flying cheats (this was a fun month)

- clients predict hits, server authorizes them

- simulated proxies (other clients in your world) mostly move according to projective velocity blending[0], though there are special cases for some of the special moves (spins)

- collisions are blended between the replicated state of the world and the client's local simulation [1]

- probably most importantly, the server creates replay files during matches which the game coordinator/serving system scoops up and saves, so I can (at some point) generate useful statistics and review matches to detect and improve cheat handling

I would have loved to do the networked physics really right, like Rocket League did, but I couldn't quite pull it off (I'm one guy with kids and a job and just not enough brainpower!), so I opted for what I hope is "good enough" for a small project like this: give the client a great experience, put all vehicles and projectiles in mostly the same position at the same time in all worlds (since they're momentum-based entities latency-based predictions are usually quite accurate), run an anticheat model on the server, and save replays to find and review anomalies.

If the game does okay and people are enjoying it I will get that fixed timestep/rewind replay PR done.

I hope that was a good answer! Let me know if I can tell you anything else. Something I didn't mention here is the networked projectile movement, which was the most fun to work on. I plan to write about that, too, at some point.

[0]: https://www-inf.telecom-sudparis.eu/COURS/MultiplayerCourse/...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPRK5J5-3QQ&list=PLpE81hvqYF...
America destroys everything - either with b0mb$ or remakes.
Reading Borges as a teen is marvelous. I tried rereading it last year and liked it, but wasn't mind blown in the same way.
> Rajiv doesn’t get to decide whether someone is an insider or an outsider

Rajiv is not deciding. It is Sanatan Dharma itself deciding. How do I say that? It is because we have a set of rules when it comes to expounding a Philosophy or even an argument. Without following those rules, you cannot be called a Scholar nor can your school of thought (however valid it maybe) be accepted.

So what are these rules? The rules are defined as such:

1. If you are writing a translation for a scripture, you should be either a part of an established School of Vedanta or at least quote the School of Vedanta you are referring to in your translations. For example, the Gita Press is known for being aligned with Advaitic School of Vedanta. So the translation of Bhagavad Gita by the Gita Press is in line with Advaitic concepts. Prabhupada's translation of Bhagavad Gita (famously known as "Bhagavad Gita as it is") is in line with the Philosophy of "Achintya Bheda Abheda": an established sub-school of Vedanta. "Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya" written by Madhvacharya is part of the Tattvavada School of Vedanta. What is the School of Vedanta that Wendy Doniger or Sheldon Pollock adhere to?

2. If you are not a part of an established School of Vedanta, and you have your own interpretations, you should at least found a School of Vedanta by debating with luminaries from opposite Schools of Vedanta (called the Poorva Paksha). They have to be convinced that your translation also holds value and should be accommodated into the umbrella of Vedanta schools. This is how it has always been traditionally done since the past thousands of years. It is the official form of "Peer Review" which is carried out by Kashi Vidvat Parishat, Varanasi where experts from all Schools of Vedanta gather and cross-question your knowledge of the Vedic scriptures and the logic behind your interpretations. If they find it sound (even if it completely contradicts their own philosophy), they'll accord you with the title of Jagadguru as you have founded a completely new way of interpreting the Vedic scriptures. That's the spirit with which the Vidvat Parishat functions and has been doing so for thousands of years. But before you even get to this point, you will have to write translations and commentaries for the Prasthanatrayi [1]. Without this, you won't even be qualified to debate.

If you are doing neither then you will not be taken seriously and your work will always be relegated to the "outsider" category.

So it is wrong to claim that Rajiv is getting to decide whether someone is an insider or outsider. He is just making the common masses aware of what is an insider and what is an outsider based on the definition as laid out by Sanatan Dharma itself.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasthanatrayi
Sorry, what's the rating system?
My personal take is, that teams is bloated, so you end up buying a higher spec pc.
My guesstimate falls on the surface line (as i have a surfacebook myself) and suddenly, with 16gb of ram everything is not -so bad- again :D
Using this kind of language and attitude does not help your position in the slightest - it just makes Walter's well thought, rational arguments even stronger.
The majority of users find and buy games through the steam UI. If you aren't on that store, you are losing sales. You might still find sales externally but you are not going to sell nearly as much.

The loss in sales will easily hurt more than any cut Valve takes.
Before installing Edge I checked out the maintainer scripts bundled into its deb.

As a result I have vowed it will never sully any machine I am responsible for maintaining.
But then how do you know which of the 20 minute review videos to watch?
200-Mosquitoes did the vaccinating in this Malaria Trial – That's not a Joke
- So Good They Can't Ignore You. Even though kinda 'self-help'-ish and repetitive at times, it played a role in shaping the way that I think about my career.

- The Daily Stoic. A collection of snippets from stoic philosophers, tied with examples from modern living, it was a good and lightweight introduction to philosophy.
They also pioneered 2 hour no question return policy, Linux support and a store that was mostly global in a world where everyone else treated us non-americans like crap.

When Nintendo sold me a game thats unplayably busted on the Switch they just shrugged and told me to suck it up. Steam didn't.

They also pioneered a store that plays less of a moral police than any others.

(Despite all that, I usually prefer GoG these days because I despise DRM and Steams login limit.)
You missed the jk (joking part) didn't you. Only Java apps I use are jdownloader and ikvm apps for servers...and well, they are slow...
> There is nothing inherent in the fragility, it is self-inflicted problem of some applications.

The architecture is fragile due to too many layers. Anything is "fragile" in the sense that you can't really design a really complex, generic system with all possible state pre-computed and handled up front, the point is how to handle the fragility.

Classic systems was "the OS is a single application where anything is ready available source code", this was utterly fragile in potential faults BUT far easier to correct any error so in the end far more robust. Think about some CL systems: you'll easily get far more issues in normal usage, but essentially any issue is easy to handle.

The real underneath issue is business: software can't be a commercial product, must be a common open knowledge, like a kitchen recipe, where any party involved can see and act and anything is designed ONLY for the human. We need desktops in a network not dummy terminals of a central service designed to serve their owner.
starts reading.... ah that cant be good.... well lets keep kalm and read on

> "Based on the board's understanding of Rabbi Rob's work with Team Cymru, the board has not identified any conflicts of interest."

WHAT?

i was patiently reading the whole paragraph, expecting Bobby to be redeemed only for my gut instinct to be right?
That single unnecessary addition after the "team" scene completely diffused Reynholm's character, I don't understand why they would do that. I guess they're going for the evil boss kind of thing but it doesn't seem to fit the format at all.

I think this remake could've gone well if they changed up the script a bit and maybe alter the characters some more. Except for the views and some change of wording, this felt like a fan remake featuring Richard Ayoade more than it felt like a serious attempt to get the show to America.
Ahh, the ol' "if you build it, they will come" strategy.

Pretty much considered a fallacy at this point.
https://samuelmullen.com/articles/startup-fallacies-if-you-b...
They didn't really try that hard.

I play lots of games, have over 1000 of them on steam, and jet somehow stadia only had 5 that i was interested and already had on steam.

But hey, lets try anyway, so I try to subscribe and: its not available here.

Almost no promotion, most of my friends(some of whom live in USA where I presume stadia does work) who also game didn't even know about stadia.

And then when they didn't6 just autowin all the customers, they kind of just let it go.
Spoken with the arrogance of a true software engineer.

It's common in science to see computer scientists implement domain-specific software with a hopelessly naive understanding of the domain, leading to biased, wrong, or misinterpreted results. Like, go to any bioinformatics conference and you will find these people.

"What do you mean I can't just use a database of clinical pathogens to make a tool that generalises to all bacteria?"
i get it. 30% is not good, that is daylight robbery and i am against that in principle but they aren't like the rest. apple/google all do the same and they are nowhere customer focussed as steam. steam is the ultimate monopolistic goodguy and unless they do something stupidly bad, they are there.

Sure, if apple/google switch to 5%, steam will have to follow suit but for now, with steam deck for example, they are actually using those profits to help the dev community reach more customers.

Its not the best position but its way better than what apple/google does imo