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Why complain about not getting better than 1300 then? My point is there are a lot of different levers to pull to get better and imo it's interesting to learn more tactics.

The game does become more interesting as you get better. At least up to 1850 in my personal experience. At <=1400 level the game is more like gambling imo, hoping opponent will fall into trap or miss a move.
As if TV was even remotely related to spending all day scrolling through social media. There's no comparison between the two.
That's just it, you can get as many iphones as you want The threat actor will always be able to fool it once they have your biometric data. Even a human can't tell apart by using a photo if the 3d print is good enough. There will always be a way to mimick wetware.
I feel sorry for this lady. Sounds like she had a very boring home life centered around the TV. But that doesn't mean the screen time panic is necessarily wrong, though it is reductive in the sense that it treats all screen time as equal. Chatting with friends is the same as watching cat videos is the same as using MITs OCW is the same as watching porn is the same as popping virtual bubble wrap is the same as reading War and Peace on the kindle app. Likewise, some TV programming can be thoughtful and inspiring and other tv programming can be bland and mind numbing.
> It looks more and more like the entire strategy of having a bazillion mini repos all importing each other is doomed to fail.

I think it's already a failure for some people, because of problems like the one this thread is about.

I and a few others I know advocate against using libraries if at all possible, and always when the library is small with few methods, both so that you can know what you're running (always a good idea, of course) and so you can gain the experience of solving that problem. I believe that writing different parts of software will make you better at writing all software; writing ORMs all day won't help you get better at reading binary files, for example.

People always look at me very strangely when I say "avoid libraries when possible" but I think the idea that libraries are an open doorway for malware is going to be more and more obvious as time goes on. Browser extensions are constantly sold to bad actors for large sums of money, because the amount of money offered can be life-changing for the extension author. It's going to happen more and more with libraries as well.
And can someone ELI5 why WebAssembly is useful, given that there are already a myriad of other virtual machines out there (JVM, CLR, BEAM, etc)?

And why could/did those other virtual machines not evolve to fulfill the need that WebAssembly fulfills? Why is a new machine language and new virtual machine necessary?
> And yeah, I played years of that shit when I was younger. A complete waste. Am I still here? Sure. Did it have some minor benefits? Sure. Would I recommend it? No, huge waste of time.

My job feels like way more of a "huge waste of time" than taking in new information via TikTok, socializing with friends in WoW, or watching the latest culturally relevant media.
$33 is cheap enough for a handful for myself of course but as you may have guessed I’m thinking of releasing a product that would need them. Not a serious thing, more so a handful of bulk bought parts sold together to scratch a long standing itch in a very very specific field. Sadly $33/ea would really eat into the BOM, even on an expensive mass produced item like an iPhone that would be one of the most expensive parts.
That's fine, but now you have to explain the 1000s of counter examples, across almost all countries, where they did. Why did the US National Guard open fire at Kent state? Why did the PLA roll tanks into Bejing? The same for Peterloo or Bloody Sunday and so on.

Of course, no one ever tells you to shoot "that nice fellow countryman over there". Soldiers are told dangerous (though unarmed) anarchists/bourgeoisie/terrorists need to be stopped. And the vast majority of cases end up with a lot of dead civilians.

I am not judging, I would likely be the same if I were a soldier in that situation. The fact it happens so often shows it isn't down to individual soldiers lacking some moral or ethical quality. It's human nature. It's why armies work. I just think everyone have a (very dangerous, baseless) belief that "that could never happen here "...
Effective coping mechanisms that are reasonably grounded in objective reality.

Whose decision is it that the other songwriters are better at expressing this one dude’s experiences? Thats not an objective question. It is a choice.
Sorry to ruin your attempt at a jab, but I've posted proton links in of the few responses here. It is fair to say there are far fewer games that are platinum than gold on proton.

And something working and something being supported are vastly different.

And this may come to a shock to you but many people who want to play games don't want to tweak setting to make that work on a unsupported operating system.

This isn't a case for can you do it, this is based around the vast majority of games work fine on Linux, I don't think the average gamer would include making game specific tweaks as fine.
What TV do you watch? Streamed? Broadcast? Both? What are some shows you like? I'm a senior but am stuck watching reruns of "Justified", "Life", and "Tehran".
It's not just flipping the switch, this is none sense.

That means now the dev has to officialy support the game on this platform and all the problems that comes with it.

On top of that the anti cheat on linux is a joke because it's running in user space so serious game won't enable it just for that reason.

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/149075970784115917...
The issue is that flipping that EAC switch means you're effectively disabling a lot of its checks, which is why not many developers want to do it. Maybe this will change as the Steam Deck becomes more popular.
No joke, I took my passion in computing seriously because of my hatred towards writing by hand!
I've done this many times and it comes back shortly afterwards. I'm not saying they should optimize for my use case and I have enormous sympathy for the Twitter engineers. However on a personal level this removes a huge annoyance when I need to read tweets. Now if I could just get Reddit to stop redirecting me to their app :)
I think that the "$2.15 a day" figure is very deceiving. A huge proportion of people around the world live largely without engaging with the currency system at all, so how much money they have is almost irrelevant to their life.

They have enough shelter and food and fulfillment from an established way of life that does not include money. So to say that they are in poverty because they don't use it shows at best an ignorance of the diversity of valid and functional lifestyles and cultures.
Both can be addictive.
Late 90s me would have had a higher compatibility with you, there are a few blasts from my past in your scrobbles. Followed!
Exactly. Iterating on an idea is much easier to do in Python, because you can just use lists, dictionaries and sets to solve most problems. Python's string manipulation is also a lot easier than Rust, because you don't have to think about allocations. Once you have figured out what works, you can start defining your Rust structs and enums to build up a reliable code base.
The SteamDeck is actually perfect if you only have like one hour here and there, since you can just pick it up and continue playing from where you left off (suspend/resume works flawlessly)...
The RetroBytes guy on Youtube has a (slightly annoying) video featuring this kit. If I had the time it would be a fun project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQUeMyAMQwo&ab_channel=Retro...
Wine is amazing too but if you notice, Wine is not as great at running Windows apps as Proton is at running Windows games. Most games work great with Proton but only a few apps work properly with Wine.

> And what's with all the valve/steam hype from people that should know better?

In Linus Torvalds' own words: "Valve will save the Linux Desktop"
I guarantee that the person who wrote this article doesn't get jealous of Olympic Snowboarders (to use a contrived example). The jealousy comes from thinking that you are competing with other people for a limited pool of money/ideas/success.

When people start to realize that the pool isn't limited, and that you aren't actually competing with anyone else (except in certain circumstances), it's a lot more freeing. You can differentiate yourself, your product, or your startup along any lines, and you will be unique and extraordinary. The only thing that's left is finding other people who think that.

It's human to struggle with jealousy like this, but the competition isn't reality. It's all a social construct.
I love kids being addicted to screens. Bored teenagers are less likely to incite trouble on trains, waiting in line, etc. when they can just be rocking out or Snapchatting.
Needless pedantism.
A reminder once again that Proton only exists because, for all the benefits of Linux, making a native Linux port is a massive mess. The community calling for developers to make native ports often forget that Linux's userland stability and consistency is simply not at the level developers expect or need for a quality port.

Until the day arrives when you can install a game on, say, Fedora 37 that was initially developed against, say, Ubuntu 16.04 or Fedora 26, it is not happening. Win32 is by far the most consistent and widely-supported API on Linux right now, which is a damning indictment of Linux, not game developers who don't support it. Even macOS has way better backwards compatibility and consistency than Linux does, but developers are scared to touch that. If macOS isn't good enough for developers, native Linux ports are a pipe dream.
I recently read and have very much enjoyed a book called “stop fixing yourself.” It pointed out that the best way to improve yourself is to learn to understand yourself better. When I stop judging myself, it’s easier to understand the cause and effect nature of my behavior, which then automatically leads to improvements.
Ever seen a PR that implements something in a GitHub Actions workflow? The history usually looks like: clear cache, fix path, fix variable expansion, fix command, fix command again, fix syntax, […].

The best way IMO is to interactive-rebase the branch locally (or force-push a rebased version later), but sometimes 50 commits merge into a 30-ligne single-file change and nothing beats squash.
I've read many anecdotal stories about how "advisors" prey upon newly rich celebrities. These advisors are scum bags who know celebrities don't know anything about money, and work very hard to charm their marks in convincing they are fully trustworthy. These advisors will lead celebrities into every make-a-quick-buck scheme they can find because they get to skim off every deal, whether it works out or not.
Not sure of the legality of it, but I've enjoyed just recording the solar sales folks to knock on my door and turning it into a blog. I enjoy researching the claims brought forward to see how many of them I can debunk.
Until rioting becomes a meme
I don't believe anyone could be 2200 and fall to 1300 because I am 1800 and I crush 1300s 99% of the time. And 2200s will crush me 99% of the time. How that decline happens?

So you're saying that you could crush me but are getting beat by 1300s who anyone at 1800 could crush easily? F to doubt.

Edit: for example https://www.318chess.com/elo.html. there is a statistical analysis of lichess data as well but it went down a few years ago.
Which meme? The straw-man you just attacked?
There is a difference between the attempt to be impartial, or "declared" partial, on one side, and reporting maximally optimized to be one-sided, manipulative and biased on the other. Many US outlets are the latter. Many German ones are still the former.
It is clearly in the job description of a journalist. The complaint is not about the inability of humans to not live up to the ethics. The complaint is about not even trying. The pervasiveness of this has certainly increased, and is not the same between countries. The thought that this has been static in a profession which has changed dramatically (print to online, just as an example), is "laughable".
Sorry, I should have been more specific, I'm on Firefox. Nice that it's already possible in Chrome.

It was intended to be a comment about the limited power of the permission model in Firefox, though I have now learned from the sibling comment that Firefox actually has the permission I was thinking of.
Lawyer up?
Even an async validation would be better. I have <common name>@gmail.com, and get several newspapers and some other subscriptions for free.

In one case, a person named Mary in Australia sends their loved one a gift card every year, and the retailer doesn’t provide any information about Mary. In another case, a student missed out on their work study job and a opportunity for early class enrollment due to a bad email.

It’s sad as all of these customers don’t even know that they have a problem.
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OK, that's not a problem. There are a bunch of other channels that you can use to propose new features. Feel free to reach out via https://www.benthos.dev/community

LE: I took note of those 3 and they should be quite straightforward to add. Thanks!
Participation trophies are not bullshit.

I think most damage to kids is done by people who claim participation trophies are bullshit.

These trophies are for encouraging people to try and do something and not thinking: "I am not going to win anyway so why bother trying at all".

Kids are smart and they also know that running that 5km run and finishing first is hard work. They might not be happy about participation trophy but still they should be praised for the effort of putting on shoes and trying.

There is a lot of psychology about effects of encouraging positive behaviors that is misunderstood. Even if you have employees it is much more effective to praise them on positive behaviors than scolding them for mistakes. Because scolding for mistakes will push them into direction "I am not going to do this task at all because if I make mistake I will get scolded, so why bother doing this task at all".
The set of companies that are rejected from YC can also succeed or fail.
Is the 500 watt figure for the Ampere Altra Max a mistake? Everything else I've read says that it has a TDP of 250 watts.
Right, something like a transaction log is extremely useful in many circumstances, it's just a smart way to build stuff. It can give you better data integrity, sane parallel processing, etc.
Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th
Simply having GPS doesn't mean it is used for station arrival/departure.
Well, for every raider on WoW there are multiple people who just mindlessly do stuff solo. Most players never even reach raiding.
>Not sure if you understood the parent's statement. Money is created largely by loans - when banks lend $1m to a company, the company owes $1m to the bank and gets $1m, but no one loses $1m anywhere. And by spending that $1m somewhere else, a fresh $1m is printed out of thin air and goes into circulation. When the company pays that back, that $1m is destroyed.

So your contention is that Bank of America prints the $1m dollars that it loans to me? Color me skeptical. I imagine they'd have better rates if they had a money printer. Or maybe they wouldn't bother loaning money at all.
> Most games aren't multi-player? I could only wish

I believe so. I couldn't find statistics but going by the new releases on Steam and seeing the pre-existing releases, most games on Steam are single player games.

Like even now, you can check the games released in 2022 and see how many of them are multiplayer.
This is fair. My boomer dad is almost never not watching TV...
This writeup contains a piece of misinformation propagated by mainstream media:

The proportion of employees who chose to stay is not 25%, in fact it's the reverse: 73% ended up opting to continue with the company.
I do agree that they are difficult to compare directly as the scenarios are quite different. I can also say that your attitude towards raising children is the minority, most parents will let a tv or tablet babysit for them unfortunately.
My experience is that most non-trivial assembly language is doing processing of large chunks of data (high-precision math, encrypting blocks of data, FFTs, etc.) and therefore the startup cost of the function is not significant, so a tiny bit of inefficiency in that area is not something people care about.

Or, put another way, writing tiny little assembly language functions is probably not worth it because the mere fact that you are using assembly language instead of (say) C/C++ means that you have missed many opportunities (code reordering, inlining, etc.) so assembly language functions _should_ be doing enough work to justify their calling cost.

But, I'm not working on an assembler or even using one so I don't think I'll even file a feature request.
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I mean, and I’m just putting this out there, don’t you feel a little bit like at least some of that is your own preferences?

The one thing you’ve called out that I can’t refute is that the option to customise it to the win2k look has been taken away, but I imagine it gets harder to maintain the further they move from those metaphors (e.g. you already needed to use WindowBlinds on 10).

I really like the new UI. The window snapping is far better than it’s been previously. It takes quite a bit from macOS, but I think they’ve left the worst parts of macOS out like the horrific monstrosity of a settings screen and the janky mess of a permissions system.
I’m convinced this a bit overblown.

I don’t know enough about twitters infrastructure, so I’m only speaking at the application layer.

If the code isn’t changing, things should be extremely stable and resilient. Presumably, Twitter had already made significant investments in resilience, fault tolerant services that function independently at scale.

I’d think the more risky parts are server/hardware failures, hardware load balancers, etc.

One of the key services my big tech org owned was in support-only mode with no active feature development. Despite 500k requests per second, it had just a one person on pager duty.

The majority of support issues were OS level updates and application level dependency updates/fixing vulnerabilities. But not doing that work wouldn’t take the service down, so much as be corporate policy violations for not keeping software up to date. You could also definitely swing by exceptions.
Another big difference is the way we consume. "Watching TV" used to mean watching whatever was on in the current timeslot, which often meant flipping through channels until you found the least-bad thing you could tolerate.

In the last 10-15 years that style has all but disappeared* and been replaced with Netflix-style services (and maybe PVRs for sports fans and 60+), where you don't watch "TV" but watch "a show".

Browsing tiktok or YouTube might be the closest thing that people still do to channel flipping, but since it's customized and endless, there's never a need to settle for the "least-worst" thing you can find.

(* I'm sure there are people that still do this, but I'm saying this based on my circle of close family/friends, many of whom are non-technical).
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We did.

And by "we", I mean Newton Minnow, former chair of the Federal Communications Commission, and Jerry Mander, advertising executive.

Minnow's commentary came in what came to be known as his "Vast Wasteland" speech.

<https://vimeo.com/55481067>

You can find a contemporaneous interview of Minnow by Studs Terkel here:

https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/newton-minow-discusses...

And a recent (2021) take here:

<https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-06/newton-min...>

Audio (MP3):

Mander's argument was the book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, which is just what it says: four arguments, and not for limitation, change, or curtailment, but elimination of television. Those arguments being that television:

- removes the sense of reality from people

- promotes capitalism

- can be used as a scapegoat, and that

- all three of these issues negatively work together

(Via Wikipedia)

Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimina...>

Internet Archive: <https://archive.org/details/fourargumentsfor00mand_0>

LibGen: <http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=448E80906BCD92C0AA02235E...>

And they were far from the first or only ones. Vance Packard published The Hidden Persuaders on the power of advertising in 1957 (<https://archive.org/details/vance-packard-the-hidden-persuad...>). The Frankfurt School looked at (amongst many other things) the role of mass media on culture and politics. There's Dwight MacDonald's classic essay "A Theory of Mass Culture" (1953) <https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2008/ESB032/um/5136660/MacDon...> Noam Chomsky, Neil Postman, Edward Herman, Robert W. McChesney, and numerous others.

For what it's worth, I had the luck to grow up in a household without television for many years, and afterwards, only very limited access. The Tube largely repells me now, though other screens do, I confess, have their allure.
“If the $15,500 level breaks for Bitcoin, there is not much support until the $13,500 level, followed by the psychological $10,000 level,” wrote Ed Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda.

What complete bullshit. Who listens to these “analysts”? All he’s stating is that the price can fall, and then later when it does he’ll pretend that he knew something secret that we simpletons all can’t see on the chart. If the price is falling as the bubble bursts it will likely fall more. Thank you genius.
This might be a function of how passively many people read, though – particularly as compared with the highly interactive posture of speech.

There are reading strategies which we can employ to engage the brain quite effectively.

Plus, writing is immediately replayable. Some would rather abuse this than rely on a more holistic reading strategy, but that doesn't discount the value of having a concrete, immediately-accessible, and yet persistent record of the communication.
It’s fascinating that Volkswagen is presenting itself as a paragon of virtue, having spent years actively deceiving regulators over its cars’ emissions.
Such an odd take in my opinion. Just because there isn't a comparative level of concern for older people's excessive screen time doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about younger people's.

Highest suicide rates have traditionally been among the elderly. Is it then a "moral panic" if we are concerned about rising suicide rates in teenagers?
For anyone that’s doubtful:

> Media Matters was founded in 2004 by journalist and activist David Brock to "systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation...every day, in real time.

Or for an example of people may dislike media matters: https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-matters-defends-wapo-sm...
I prefer Slavoj Žižek’s “first time as a tragedy, second as a farce”.
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