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Well, I was playing wargames around 14 years old. Squad Leader (the original Squad Leader, vs modern Advanced Squad Leader (ASL)), Star Fleet Battles, Russian Campaign, Luftwaffe.

Mind, that's when I was introduced to them, so I probably could have played them earlier. I do recall my brother having the game Kingmaker from Avalon Hill, but we never played it.

I should also note that we played these games, but I can't say we played them well.

The original Squad Leader was notable for having a rich system, but a progressive path to learning through several scenarios that added on more and more of the rules as you proceeded through the scenarios. ASL is much more complicated than that.

But I will also say that the benefit of tactical systems, vs larger strategic games, is that you CAN just learn a little bit of the game. Specifically, you only need to understand the basic mechanics (and for many, the fundamental mechanics are usually pretty basic), and then only the systems you'll be using in a particular scenario. For example, if you're just using squads of men, you don't need to understand all of the armor rules.

Another example is Star Fleet Battles (not known by anyone as an "easy" game). SFB has over a dozen different fleets and powers in the game (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, etc.) with different ships and weapon systems. But if you're just playing with Feds and Klingons, half the rule book vanishes as you don't need to know about the vast array of systems and interactions.

ASL is a complex game, to be sure. But a lot of the complexity is in how it represents the capabilities of the different powers and their orders of battle. But, to be fair, it would take a fairly experienced player to whittle down the essentials necessary for basic play. But you could learn the basics in a 1/2 hour.

However, table top wargaming is VAST in the eras they represent, the battles, the scenarios and conflicts. There's some core mechanics that many games share (movement points, zones of control, odds based combat tables, etc.). Learn those once, and it can carry across a wide variety of games. Some publisher do use a core ruleset even for diverse eras that you can learn once and just focus on the special rules for the games or scenarios.

There are certainly games for novice and young players with simple mechanics that could work, I'm just not the person to recommend them, as I'm particularly out of touch with modern gaming. I'm sure someone on Boardgame Geek could offer modern suggestions.

Games like Ogre do come to mind, the original "Microgame". There's also a large array of games borderline toys that use fantastic miniatures.

I'm an old school grognard. I like pushing square chits around hex grids vs dropping $$$ on, mind, very nice, miniatures and such for a game.

But I can step out and look at someone coming up to a pair of people, staring at blue, plain hexagon map, with a couple of 1/2" counters on it, a few pairs of dice, tables and sheets of paper, and yelling at each other, passionately, over a rules, uh, "discussion" and wonder what the big deal is. At a glance, it certainly isn't necessarily compelling.
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(Micro)service names should be descriptive and stick to doing what they are named after. If you need to change the scope, it's an change to the overall architecture and changing the name and good way to communicate that. If a employee reads the name they know what its suppose to do.

Company and product names (including e.g open source projects) are different. You want to be able to change your scope depending on customer demand without having to rebrand.
They've pretty much guaranteed I won't return as a customer due to one extremely stupid thing they have done with accounts (at least as of the time I moved to another provider...I don't know if they have since changed this): deleting all your servers, storage, name server configuration and all other things you have set up does not reduce your monthly bill to $0. To reduce your monthly bill to $0 you must delete your account. An account using no services still gets hit with a $5/month fee for support [1].

That means that if I ever want something they offer and they have a slightly better deal than someplace I have an account with, their deal with have to be sufficiently better to be worth the hassle of creating a new account. That's fairly unlikely so I probably won't be back.

[1] That fee was why I left. I just had one instance of the smallest VM they offered, plus storage for a couple backups, plus name service for my domain. The VM was used for a very low traffic website and hosting my email. When they added that $5/month support fee it raised my costs about 30%. I switched to Amazon Lightsail for my VM and switched from hosting my own email on my VM to hosting it with Fastmail. That comes to $8.32/month.
> If the city was populated by 60% people who do not earn enough to live

Earning enough to live is a fuzzy idea. I'm not satisfied unless I'm maxing multiple retirement accounts, have a year of saved income, insurance, etc. I think the figure is believable if you're fine with not saving, not having insurance, dodging taxes, etc. An alarming number of people are okay with this.
One of the issues I take with statements like this, is that it defines "living" in a way which is... not the same thing as the definition of "living". Clearly if less than half of the most populous city in the US are earning a "living wage", yet the other half are actually living there, something is not quite right.

As another poster pointed out, this probably mostly due to off-the-books work, which is commonplace and rampant in New York City due to the excessive tax regime and routine corruption in municipal governance. That said, even that likely can't account for all of the discrepancy. A major issue is that they are using the average costs of various categories as the basis for determining the living wage, and don't understand that there are many people who live below that average costs. FTA: "which estimates living wages by county based on household size and local costs including food, housing, transportation, childcare, medical care and taxes." Well, if you don't go to the doctor (or you go to a ghetto doctor under the table), you don't pay taxes, you work walking distance from where you live in the rougher part of town, and you have 6-8 people in your household that is multi-generational and extended family sharing a below-average housing situation, and you have someone (usually the oldest female resident) cooking at home for everyone buying ingredients at the street markets and ensuring the kids are watched, then your costs go down a LOT, and your income goes up from not paying more than 50% effective taxes.
I agree: I'm 58, and I'm not as sharp as the twenty-year-olds, thirty-year-olds, and even forty-year-olds that I pair-program with. To be more specific, the younger developers seem to have a certain mental elasticity that is now beyond me: they can store more in their short-term memory, and they grok code faster than I do.

My brother, who's 18 months my junior and a developer like me, shares the same sentiment: "It's like I used to have 20 registers, and now I'm down to 12".

It's comforting to believe that age hasn't diminished us, but working directly with my juniors has disabused me of that notion.

I feel that Tennyson put it best when he said, "Though we are not now the strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are."
Speaking of Japanese cloud computing, years before Amazon created AWS, Japan had the NTT cloud. We used it for about a decade. At first it was terrific, but near the end it was becoming unreliable. Our hypothesis is other cloud providers were siphoning off NTT’s best cloud engineers.
I remember getting into the Monome ecosystem around 2005 (also a grid-based device) and being surprised by Tenori-on coming along and making something so visually similar. I guess grid-based tools feel natural to a lot of people!
The price was just given as a comparison.

A poorer person, who can't afford a car at all, has a £40 per-person advance-booked direct train as the optimum case. Their real cost is likely to be more with connections, or the time could be a lot more with a bus (£15-20) instead.
I wouldn't be taking out huge loans for this, thankfully. I have a full-time job, and could pay for the degree without hurting my pocket "that much". What I am more scared of failing again, wasting so much money for nothing.

I have already looked into online "alternatives". However, it feels like getting accredited makes so much more sense.

I know that comparison is the thief of joy, but it's hard to have friends when most of them are more successful than you are.
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>2022: The Year That Podcasting Died

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Doubtful. Don't believe everything you read online, kiddos :D
> Would love some overall feedback!

Yeah why don't you explain the app in more detail because that link throws a 404m
This is probably a stupid question, but why would they want a 49% stake? Why not a 51% stake, or any other number?
But that's very different to what you said previously:

> I'm totally chill with humans reading and stealing from each other. I'm not ok with cooperations automating and capitalizing on it.

Where do you draw the line? I've used AI in very subtle ways in creative projects. Would you object to 1% use of AI? 10%?

Or are you saying "no training at all no matter what the end-use will be"?
I don't think Markdown Hyperlink works here. Try `<https://paylinkz.app/>`.

You might want to read up and get inspired by the India's UPI[1]. It is government backed and pretty much anyone can build toolings around it to transfer money between interested parties.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
Correction:

A linear regressor can not have more parameters than the number of data points.
They already invested 1 billion in 2019, I think. So maybe they already own part of OpenAI and $10 billion brings their share up to 49% at a $29 billion valuation. Maybe I am wrong about the details here but these numbers do not mean that Microsoft is undervaluing them.
Hadn't heard of GPSTest before, thanks!

Annnnd there goes another app into my 'toys for waiting in lines' folder.
They pay income taxes on rent. They pay property taxes. They maintain and repair their properties. In what universe are they doing nothing?
"Pop culture" is a post-WW2 US phenomenon that creates a shared societal reality through movies, TV shows, household items and brands, etc. As of late, it has infected the whole world through social media "virality". Something new appears, then thousands of outlets, youtubers and "tech" journalists are repeating it and most of society starts talking about it without any historic or technical background whatsoever. It's an overly-expressive culture based on hype and reactivity.
How so states and cities without income tax function?
I just commented elsewhere but to repeat myself with what I think you might be describing:

From what I understand humans have evolved to run incredibly long distances relatively efficiently because much of our densest caloric intake (historically) came as a result of simply chasing down our prey until it essentially collapsed from exhaustion.

Even though I find that it "feels" more difficult running for my calories (at this distance) I actually end up with surprisingly good performance. I can't help but think there's some fundamental drive and resulting reward system that (subconsciously) thinks "If you don't beat the animal you're chasing you're not eating today".

I imagine something similar happens in terms of your enhanced senses for smell, being similar for foraging (and potentially even prey detection).
Men are continually trying to paint sexism as symmetric. Doesn't matter that 99% of the corpses that result from domestic violence are women, that 1% means that it's actually a back and forth tennis match. Meanwhile, one of the most common types of mass killings is when men just decide to kill every woman they see.
NY needs more government I guess. Everyone should have a right to an annual Disney vacation! How else are we going to survive this life?!
Copy the image of versus incorporate the essence of.

We wear a Casio because it looks retro, but we check our phones for the time. We have a cassette player in our house, but we use a Bluetooth cassette to play MP3s on it. We put a 3D-printed Sony Walkman phone case around our iPhones instead of digging out the real thing and enjoying the original media with all its perks and problems.

I would use tea as an example. We can drink a modern aluminum can of iced tea that contains 50 ingredients, none of which is tea, or we can take it slow and do a complete traditional tea ritual. One is loosely inspired by the past, the other is immersing yourself in tradition.

The floppy disk save icon comes to mind.
-> How do those people live, then? Subsidies from elsewhere. As noted elsewhere, this can be in the form of living with family, cash payments from family, transfer payments from government, illegal side hustles, etc.

Defer payments/maintenance to other areas of life. If they own a home maybe they decide to defer maintenance. If they can save a few bucks, maybe they avoid the Dr even though they're sick. They drive a less reliable car. Their food is lowest tier. Clothes are from thrift. Repairs are DIY, or help from a friend/family member.
Yes, of course what's really happening is that people are relying on off-the-books childcare via informal networks that don't get included in these numbers. We spent $14,782 on child care for one child in 2022, but it's hard not to notice that the parking lot during pickup is full of Audis and BMWs. Wherever poor people are sending their kids, it's not there.
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> Many (most?) "poor" people work full-time jobs, but the pay from those jobs is simply inadequate to cover basic living expenses without drawing on external resources.

Most poor people are children under 18. I guess technically, you can work at 16, so some of them probably dropped out and work full-time, but it's definitely not the norm.

Most poor "adults" - are people >65 who aren't working full-time either.

Sure, most poor "18-65" year olds in the US work - but a large amount of these people that are "poor" are poor simply because they have kids (i.e. you're poor with the same wage if you have 2 kids but not if you have 0 kids) or because they work part-time... because they have kids.
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As a 45 year old lead developer, this is the answer that I most align with. Not only are job expectations a bit higher than 20 years ago (ie, back then you could just say "I'm still workin on it" but today you generally have to give progress reports at least daily and have your velocity tracked), but at this age, my time can be strictly regimented (exercise, chores, caring for the animals, appointments, helping in the kitchen, doing actual paid work...) from before-sunrise until almost midnight. I'm not quite sure what happened to the days that seemed like I had a whole ocean of time, but even writing this reply is a bit much. Give yourself some grace. Afternoon siestas are a great idea if you can sneak them in.
I've experienced similar things and always put it down to boredom. My younger self might still have found it interesting and novel. Now I just view it as a chore. I've lost some of that intrinsic interest which I think contributes. If I work on more interesting problems the issue is less pronounced.
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Initial experiences with Rackspace in late 1999 and early 2000. I was amazed that every time I called 'support' I got a real live person. I called at 3am once on a Saturday, got a live person answering, and was connected with a competent support engineer in about 90 seconds. I was impressed.

The server(s) we had cost a lot, but knowing you could connect with someone competent 24/7 was amazing.

Then... a few months later... we had to use it, and it was good, but they were about 2 minutes away from wiping our main drive. We'd requested a new beefier server and requested either the drive be moved or everything copied over to the new server.

Got a message new server was up - great. Logged in - nothing. Connect to old server? Nope - offline/disconnected. Ugh. Calling in got me a live person, and I stressed the urgency. We did get connected with someone, and they did find the right person, who was about to wipe the previous server. Crisis averted, but... immediately I start asking why the support ticket showed all requests as 'done' when... they weren't.

We stayed a while longer, but it felt like they were growing too quickly even then to keep the 'fanatical support' model that initially attracted us. FWIW, I had a couple of dedicated servers at a small place in NH, and they were... $70-$80/month on average. The rackspace servers typically started at $500/month. I think we were paying about $1800/month for the setup in question at the time of the crisis. My belief in 'you get what you pay for' was impacted that day.

I had another client years later (2010? 2012?) that used them and it felt like a completely different beast, far more generic and commodity like every other competitor, and I've never since looked at them again.
Lots of people pointing out how bad this is for new hires, but it’s not just a hurdle for new hires to get over… in a lot of cases people will just _never get over the hurdle_. The discussions outside their team will just be a bunch of gobbledygook that they tune out. And years down the line you end up with a really Balkanized engineering culture. Where you know what happens in Zeus, but you have basically blocked out Persephone, Ulysses, and Palmyra because they are another team’s responsibility.

Maybe that’s actually a good thing for some organizations, I know many CTOs spend most of their time trying to make cleaner separations between teams.

But if you want a culture where people understand and evolve the larger architecture from time to time, cute names are going to make that less likely.
The theory is clear, but after a few decades the results are also clear.

> say teenagers working at the supermarket

This flawed assumption is where the theory went wrong, IMHO. The EITC is designed around (say) 5 years of a young worker's life, but our labor market requires people in those roles through 5 decades of their lives. Low-wage employers have grown dependent on people of all ages to work for "teenager" wages through to retirement.

> The EITC

It's not just the EITC. Full-time low-wage employees don't really have any money, so they are subsidized by an array of federal and state programs. EBT/food stamps, Section 8/rental assistance, etc. Low-wage employees receive a lot of direct payments from taxpayers. (This is good!)

In any case, it's worth discussing whether it is appropriate for companies like Walmart (profit per employee: $13k) to be allowed to pay their staff at such a rate that the taxpayer then has to pick up the tab for their employee's food stamps.

Either case -- yes, it is totally accurate to say that employers are being subsidized by
Social media and gig economies are also net negative, yes.
Sorry, I didn't mean the comparison to be a problem because Brits aren't familiar with Aarhus, but because I doubt the usefulness of this type of comparison.

"It's a large number" isn't useful when it's a percentage of an even larger number. ~1% of people die each year. Larger cities or nations will obviously have higher absolute numbers -- but what does that tell us besides that more people live there? If you can't visualize 120,000, can you visualize 67,000,000? Would "We'd losing a population the size of Aarhus if our population was the size of 100 Aarhuses" really make things clearer than saying "about 1% of the population dies in any given year"?
Over-enthusiastic marketing. Sometimes it was HR promoting participating in social networks "for the company". Nobody ever threatened me, they were just really pushy, until the pushback
They at least give access through paid API to their latest models, which hasn't been the case for Imagen, Parti, LaMDA (google), Flamingo, AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, AlphaCode, AlphaTensor (DeepMind), Make-a-scene, Make-a-video (Meta)
I guess there are no jobs in Austin
Seattle schools sue TikTok, Meta, Snapchat over students’ mental health issues
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Individual plugins may be trustworthy, but they may be breached too.
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It might just be what's on sale. Not too uncommon for an org to sell off the largest chunk possible that doesn't grant full control.
No, it hasn't gone done steadily. It has been going up steadily if I look at the data. I am currently seeing data from 2015.
but the data is public datasets, plus some human training that s not the hardest part
I think there could be a difference here: you're already familiar with the domain brew operates in.

The system I'm speaking of were extensively used and configured by people who had no prior experience with event-driven, branching logic, nor any familiarity with the terms involved.

You can still argue it would have been more efficient to teach them that domain first, then teach them this particular system for it. Maybe. I'm saying as far as I can tell, there was no drawback to the cutesy terminology for the intended users (nor for developers other than in isolated cases) and it seems to me they learned quicker with that framing than without it.
> Exercise is a source of enjoyment, why would you want to replace that?

I wish I felt like this. Exercise is tolerable when I'm doing something at the same time (walking, chatting, listening to music) but that's enjoyment despite the exercise, not because of it.
>> in my experience...

> This is not accurate.

I assure you, I have relayed my experience accurately. Airbnb would not remove my review on behalf of the guest. I had to call them and ask them to remove the review I wrote. I will add, however, that this was over two years ago, and pre-IPO. It would not surprise me if policies have changed to be less consumer-friendly now that they're publicly traded.
"some novel industrial engineering" - can you expound? You need to figure out where people with this niche understanding hangout on the web. Per your analogy, not sure if it is in the same space, but there are a lot of glass and overlay film patents, maybe search there for names?
At least in the USA, catalytic converter theft is rampant, and not just theoretical. If I had to choose which I'd rather have stolen, I'd rather have the charger stolen. A car charger is far faster, easier, and cheaper to replace than a catalytic converter that has been hacked out of the exhaust system.
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