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>It wouldn't have. Make your game as a sketch with whatever sketching tools you have...but don't expect technology to rescue you from needing other humans to make it good. AND DON'T UNDER-RATE OR UNDERPAY THOSE PEOPLE.

>Because trust me, if you're disappointed that AI isn't giving you good enough art, you're no visionary. You haven't even tried people.

That's all well and good if you have a spare few million lying around and expect to make even more, but that's not the experience of the vast majority of indie game developers. They need to make the art themselves or find someone to make it for free
What data do you collect/analyse abour your SaaS?
What other data sources do you think you can mine while developing a SaaS ?
The best predictor for upward movement within a company is "does your manager's manager want you to move up". I know that all of this sounds kind of cynical but you can spend years trying to hit implicit and explicit goals for promotion and get nowhere, and you can also move up quite quickly just because someone higher up gave an okay.
You mean stocks?
On the contrary, I'm sure he's having a blast.
Indeed. After being abroad for long periods of time, when I return to eat meals in US restaurants, they are soooo salty. We get habituated to strongly flavored foods.

The real diet drug they need to concoct would be one that inhibits that habituation. Sugar or salt saturated foods would taste gross.
Ah, for a second there I thought psilocybin mushrooms were legal in UK (as they are/were in NL) and I would have really wanted to buy one of your kits. Maybe if the laws change feel free to let us know ;)
I never used Atom, but I suspect all of us not within the orbit of VS Code that use any of the other not quite IDE text editors can appreciate that sometimes with text editors it's not the one you use but how you use it.

Getting to know it well and how to customise, configure and extend it to your liking, without it becoming too onerous, can be a valuable relationship to have with such a fundamental tool in our trade ... valuable enough that sometimes it's worth retaining over the better features the new tool might have to offer. So good on Atom users and I wish them luck!

On VS Code, I can appreciate moving on to the better tool, but something about bringing a platform war dynamic to the text editor feels a bit too off for my liking. It's apparently open, but I'm really not clear on how much and what the consequences of that are. For instance, the python LSP pyright is the open version of the proprietary pylance ... what's the difference? I find it bothersome that I'd have to work that out.
I beat SMB3 and MegaMan 2 as a kid several times. I can't make progress in Dark Souls :(
Sure thing. But I mean it in a much more restrained way.

They have one picture where they like the left side of the dock, but say that the AI screwed up the right side. And they have a previous one where the right side is good but the left side is bad. And they are frustrated that the AI can’t or won’t make a single generation where both things are good.

And the two pictures have the same structure, same illumination and look barely distinguishable otherwise. That is the case where editing is trivial.

You might wonder, how often does this really happen in real life, and the answer is: all the time. You get a picture you like overall, and it looks good from 10 feet distance but on closer inspection you notice some blemishes with it. One way to fix this is to “inpaint” the blemishes. Basically you tell the model to keep all the pixels unchanged, but generate new ones in a small region masking out the blemishes. And of course you run many such inpainting generations and pick the best. And when you have multiple blemishes, which is often the case, then very often one gets filled in good in one generation while the other is better in an other. And you can keep rolling the dice hoping that some day the AI will get it right everywhere, or you can get them in photoshop and do the selection manually.
In my experience in the NL, the far right lane is held by people going under the speed limit (truckers, cautious drivers). But if it’s not being held, people move into it and pass as needed. If it’s busy, the second lane will be held by people going the speed limit and the third lane by people passing them. The fourth lane is usually open all the time except to pass people passing people. Speed cameras are usually based on “average speed” so you can “save up” speed by going slower than the speed limit for awhile.
Then the expected outcome would be $1.50, statistically.
that's very swiss
Interesting question. First thing that came to mind is reading ebooks (even though it's probably not feasible). The terminal is there, can't I just read documents inside it? I don't mean just as text, I mean with the embedded fonts rendered, and the styling, and any little pictures.
Rosetta 2
I don't disagree your point here, but those seem to serve different purposes? Was your partner not trying to address a need for new customers/revenue? Did this result in current customers expanding their business with you enough that this wasn't necessary then?
Currently reading computing from the commandline, want to use it as a teaching aid in a series of videos.
Jack puts out great content on react and typescript at a level much more aligned with what people might want to know in their day jobs using react.
Looks like a high quality execution of a product I've seen people hack together previously. Would work well for families and for parties, and lends a physicality to the music we listen to that's maybe a bit lacking in the modern age.
I once had a short conversation with a hotel receptionist and she said my Spanish was kind of basic but OK, yet my pronunciation was perfect. I do remember feeling a lot more confident after this.

I'm not sure it should be instilled as ruthlessly as you suggest but it does reinforce the fact that there are some things you just can't learn from an app alone.
Speaking as a consultant who's work does hold up, part of the job of a consultant is to make sure clients are aware of what's needed to succeed, and to turn down work that won't succeed. No matter how tempting the fee may be.

(I realize that many of my colleagues don't do this. Fie, I say. Fie!)
That latter category sounds like a recipe for educational disaster.
I should have been clearer with the hypothetical; there is a value between zero and however much the property is underwater that people would be willing to pay to no longer be underwater. The max of that value is equal to how bad it is for that person.

Being underwater is really bad and will be life destroying for many people, even if they never have to sell they will be far worse off on average than if they didn’t buy a house that lost value.

Historically maxing out on debt and buying property has been a winning strategy, in such an environment those who are underwater simply have to wait to be bailed out by high inflation and loose monetary policy. In my view there is a lot of change in the economy and we’re going to see some new things we haven’t seen before.
Can we actually assume that unlike era past the oscar dramas of today are just not good.

Hollywood has had a serious problem with writing since the culture war intensified.
What is your native language?
He died suddenly of a coincidence.
FYI - Sugar alcohol (e.g. xylitol, sorbitol, erythritol) taste just like sugar and the bacteria try to eat it like sugar but can't digest and it halts their growth.

The sugar alcohols are either near zero on the glycemic index or actually zero (erythritol). Many sugar alcohols like xylitol are natural and are found in small amounts in the food that we eat.

I don't understand why people still use these artificial chemical sugars, when the natural alternatives seem to have lots of health benefits.
In a work setting it’s crucial not to hire such people in the first place. And if you mistakenly did, to remove them asap.
Eh, before the post in OP, I believe the timeline was June 2023 MV2 extensions go unlisted and January 2024 they get deleted. People do procrastinate but we're still far from 2/3 being "broken".
To be honest, if you don't get the agreement right I simply won't bother listening to you, unless in a good mood.

This is a two way street. A couple word order mistakes are much worse than occasional spelling mistakes in English. The phonology is similar enough that /k/ for /x/ (Loch "hole") shouldn't be a problem, for example. This differs of course with languages that have a completely different speech riddim and phonemes which are unknown to the recipient.
This Week in KDE: New Spectacle
My Spanish teacher told once me that when she was working in a hotel in London someone asked her where the 'ladies' were.

She took it upon herself to walk through the hotel bar & restaurant searching out a group of mature, well-spoken women.
Yes, but they did qualify it, by specifying they're referring to recent mortgages, and especially low down payment mortgages. Furthermore, the specified cities with a large military presence where many people buy homes with government-backed mortgages are especially impacted, which has historically been a very politically sensitive group.

> Although it's not unusual for new homeowners to be underwater for a brief period, especially if they buy during the summer when prices are elevated, "It is much more pronounced this year than it normally is because prices are starting to cool," said Andy Walden, Black Knight's president of enterprise research. The portion of underwater borrowers tripled in October, he noted

I agree that the over-all situation is probably not very dire yet, but I do see a path where the rapid rise in home prices in the last few years combined with a now rapid rise in rates creates a situation where people can't or won't sell. Buyers can afford less today since the rates are higher. Anyone who saw the last few years saw the "price" of their property skyrocket (whether realized or unrealized gains). Until people forget about these high valuations, very few people are going to be willing to sell their house at a lower price (people psychologically don't like to "discount" below what they think is fair, and 35% lower is not fair, economy be damned). Anyone who recently entered a mortgage will be underwater, and likely unable to sell.

For example, I live in SF, where the average home price is (rounded) about $1M. In 2021, that was just about $5k a month in mortgage payments, which is probably what a DINK household in SF can afford. Today, a $5k/month gets you roughly $650k of house - 65% of a year ago! Anyone who bought recently, or saw a house similar to theirs sell (eg. their neighbor) is going to have trouble agreeing to sell their house for 65% of what they could have a year ago. BUT the same buyers aren't going to be able to afford the almost $8k needed to buy a $1M home today.

The only way out of this "rut" without the fed lowering rates is going to be slowly waiting for the market to forget or wait for salary inflation to eat away at the extra monthly costs.
Unlike e.g. Nintendo with its (until recently) clear "succession" line and internal promotion, Atari's always been a Ship of Theseus company. Rapid executive transition from Bushnell to Warner to Kassar to Tramiel, the star developers leaving to form Activision, the separate VCS vs. PC vs. arcade divisions (imo sad how little attention was paid to the post-VCS arcade side in Atari 50!) It's been pieced out and put back together half a dozen times; it's surely dead by 2008 but did it die in spirit in 2001, 1999, 1996, 1993, 1984, or arguably even as early as 1979?

And despite the cryptocurrency and pop culture mess, if it's a Jeff Minter reworking of Mike Hally and Dave Ralston game how could it not be Atari?
That and you know its code won’t change. Vet it yourself once and then use with peace of mind.

Compare to a browser extension which wants permission to read and modify content on all websites, and by default is set to auto-update (in Firefox at least). Even if the extension author is trustworthy and the code is benign to begin with, how do you know it’ll stay that way? Extensions have been sold before for nefarious purposes.
What a weird thing to say.

Google dominates search, browsers, and mobile operating systems. CIA and NSA inly wished they had this (well, thanks to CLOUD Act they do, through Google and others).

People not taking Google seriously is precisely why all this shit like Manifest V3 is happening.
Keep in mind that "renewable" includes hydro and geothermal, both of which are reasonably substantial and largely fully exploited.

There've in fact been several notable decommissionings of hydro projects, and extant geothermal (such as The Geysers in northern California) are producing well below their peak due to field exhaustion (various factors, typically groundwater and/or actual thermal flux).

Wind and solar have grown markedly, but remain a small fraction of total electrical generation. Which itself remains a fraction (roughly 1/3) of total energy consumption.
When you receive the check, shouldn't you go to the bank and withdraw the cash with that? And bank lets you know that it is a fake check, thus denying the withdrawal. At what stage and why are you required to send your cash to someone else?
Taiwan is the key part of the first island chain[1] that prevents china from projecting hard power beyond their immediate neighborhood. It is way more important for the American hegemony than Ukraine for example. I really do not think that TSMC is the deciding factor here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_island_chain
Right Ethereum is really lucky to have Bitcoin around to make it look good. It (very recently) cut it's energy usage by ~99.84% yet one ETH transaction is still 50x the amount of energy as a MasterCard transaction
ChatGPT in Business
I believe the difficulty has more to do with what the market looked like. Once you bought a game, it would have to last you a long time - even if there were other games around, you could only afford so many before your allowance ran out.
This doesn't seem right. Cashless usually means electronic currency equivalent to physical currency.

Card payments are not gift cards.
I think you must be responding
to the wrong person because I never argued that these jobs were good for society because they existed.

My argument is very simple.

This law helps some people a little. Individuals working gig jobs 40 hours a week who are willing and able to work on a schedule.

It also hurts other people a lot. Individuals who can't or don't want to work 40 hours a week on a schedule.
It’s not really relevant other than that it’s anywhere beyond the reach of the law right?
Basically domain parking under a fancy coat. Honestly, fuck that.
That is exactly how evolution works. Now if you wanted to argue that evolutionary pressure no longer applied due to modern medicine and safety regulations... you'd still be wrong, but at least you'd look less silly. So there's two kinds of people:

- People who've heard about about the marshmallow impulse control study + the effects that medieval-plagues/cousin-marriage has had on the human gene pool

- People who say silly things like "Modern humanity hasn't existed for an eye blink compared to.."

You're much better off reading a long term study on the life trajectories of people who had their impulse control quantified as children - spoiler: they do not do well in the modern world relative to everyone else enjoying a reduced probability of incarceration.
I believe I should have couched that statement with a "for most everyone else" :)

The PPL is a strong mitigation, I agree, but it is definitely one that is really only supported through their ability to ship custom hardware. Pulling off a PPL-like thing using MPK or a hypervisor is technically possible but in practice no real platform other than Apple is actually able to enforce memory mappings on all devices on an SoC and so anything you dream up to protect page tables is as durable as a wet paper bag since there's usually a half dozen other chips that will hapilly DMA any and all parts of physical memory for you. I dream of a day where we have an SMMU in front of every single device on a regular smartphone SoC (or, hell, even a PC platform), but that day has not yet come and I'm not really holding my breath either. As such, nobody else can actually meaningfully guarantees kernel code integrity under kernel R/W and so even if they had a perfect PAC implementation (which, as I'm sure you know, is incredibly difficult), you could just corrupt the backing code pages and sidestep it.
Not always. Some services I use have increased their prices dramatically, but I'm still on the old grandfathered plans.

I do that for my users as well. If I increase the pricing for the paid subscription, all existing paid users will always keep the old, cheaper plan.
What is gray manning?
imo, these videos are not of much help. books, docs and articles. that's what teaches me. spikes, experiments i do to apply what i learnt. navigating between sites, docs, stackoverflow. videos like these are not that help, but which are and are free to watch have less than 1k views. i might be biased and wrong, but these waste time.

i am learning rust by reading docs. and it's teaching me so much. i was very fascinated when it gave me a hint about monomorphization. i went a bit deep and it was such a fascinating subject. would a video like these give me a slight hint of something like this and even if they do, they won't cover it.

the issue with these is lets say theres new framework now you have to wait for this guy to upload.
the ability to navigate the docs by yourself. that skill is quite important and these take that away.
now you are dependent on this guy, these videos. somebody should have already done it.

idk that what i felt. navigating docs is such a vital skill. esp for me. i struggled, it felt daunting 2 years back. but now docs are my way to go. docs of any framework, technology. i do not feel uncomfortable.
and still i try to write each letter by my hand. and only copy which i have already written, that too rarely, if so i already knew it needs to dry and i do it asap.

learning the techniques is essential, how to use a tool you can always visit it's manual, but sadly these teaches tools and not techniques...
I'd be honored, have fun :)
I agree that this is the rule in polite society, and I agree that its a reasonable goal 95% of the time. But its an impossible standard to meet 100% of the time. Alan Watts makes this point - we can only guarantee that we're inoffensive when we're dead. Or when we act like we're dead - taking up no space and sharing no opinions.

Walking boldly in the world will necessarily elicit reactions in other people. We don't get to control the reactions other people have to us. If the only thing you're allowed to do when someone hates you is shrink into yourself, then you cannot ever be noteworthy or famous in any way. (Because you'll get haters if you're noteworthy, no matter how lofty your goals are.)

You can also swing this argument the other way around. Nobody knows the exact shape of our childhood traumas. Growing up requires that we revisit those places that still hurt in us to be able to heal our wounds. I don't want anyone trying to protect me from that process, because I need to go through that pain in order to grow into the healthiest version of myself.

Shying away from telling me something because you're afraid I'll get hurt also blocks any possibility of deeper intimacy.

Kim Scott's Radical Candor is another take on this for the workplace. 6 minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBDkz0TwLM
The things you mention cause "freezing" by asking the kernel to do too much so that it doesn't have time to deal with other stuff. Those issues are unfortunate, but really hard to completely avoid.

The interesting thing here is that the described bug isn't just overloading the kernel with work or starving it of resources, it's something which seems completely innocent.
But Peking is a translation of a Portuguese “romanisation” (by your standard)…

Is chopstick a romanisation?
I don't think I've ever pointed out to someone they were being a bully, and they didn't respond with, "Hey, I'm just trying to show you tough love and honesty, it's not my fault you're too much of a wimp to accept it." Conversely I've never found stating my opinion tactlessly or hurtfully to be effective, and the only times I've been able to communicate an uncomfortable truth successfully has been in a blameless and empathetic manner.

No one is entitled to an example, but it's a good suggestion to clear up possible miscommunications. Especially if we're talking about complex situations potentially involving cultural clashes.
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This discussion is important!

Nutriscore is a proposed system to mark products as 'healthy' on a scale of 5 colour-coded values. It takes into account fat and salt and sugar (high amounts are 'unhealthy'), but not artificial sweeteners or other additives like preservatives or MSG.

I hate this. It will push sugar out of products, but, of course, artificial sweeteners will be put in instead. I've already seen artificially sweetened sweet-n-sour hering without any normal sugary alternative, because companies will of course try to produce few variants for efficiency. This is awful. I find the whole idea of condensing 'healthy' into a single small integer rather absurd as no amount of sugar or fat or salt or MSG is simply 'healthy' or 'unhealthy' on a scale of 1..5.
Turn up prices when expenses rise, leave them up and profit when expenses fall. That’s it.

Competition is inadequate and incentives don’t exist to price well.
Worked at a registrar before. This is the standard for how a lot of registries work.

The only thing that doesn’t seem great is that in the invoice shared by OP, the domain isn’t designated clearly as a premium.
You use hardware keys and don’t care about forward secrecy. Private key never leaks.

For offline file encryption ( pgp isn’t intended for messaging).
> When one is working as part of a team (in a professional context), it’s one’s responsibility to ensure the delivery of one’s message doesn’t “clash” with others

I think communication involves mutual responsibility, for both sender and receiver. When it goes wrong, sometimes the sender has failed to meet their responsibility, sometimes the receiver, sometimes both, and sometimes it is just one of those regrettable misunderstandings which is neither's fault.

> etiquette and guidelines on what constitutes acceptable forms of behaviour and communication

It is impossible to craft guidelines which explicitly cover every possible circumstance. Guidelines may reduce the incidence of cross-cultural misunderstandings (although one may be sceptical about how effective they really are in doing that), but they can’t possibly eliminate them.

> It’s also a topic one can bring up with their therapist for additional tips and guidelines.

I remember my father telling me about how, in the early 1990s, he got a job with a US-based company, and he started going on regular business trips to the US. He was rather struck by how some of his American colleagues would talk at work about having therapists - the way they’d talk about it, it sounded like they just assumed everyone had one (which is how you’ve talked about it here). Judged by the standards of Australian culture, it was rather odd - if someone felt they needed to see a mental health professional, they’d be unlikely to tell random people at work about it, and talking to work colleagues in a way which assumed they did have that need could cause offence. My father didn’t take offence, he was just amused by the strange ways of Americans-but someone else could have.