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My programming background started with FORTRAN and WATFIV and PL/C in high school, then mostly ALGOL W in college, then back to FORTRAN and Pick BASIC business data processing in the real world. I finally went out on my own and had a small software company from 1982 until I retired in 2017. I converted our primary product from Mac Pascal to Delphi 1 for Windows in 1995, eventually upgrading to Delphi 6 in 2001, and never went beyond that version.

Besides our product, all of our in-house order entry and shipping systems were created with Delphi.

Last year I decided to come out of retirement and start a retail business, currently in stealth mode, but still using Delphi 6 for our tech infrastructure. I wrote a multiple-station data entry system for capturing/maintaining our inventory using a SQLite centralized server. I wrote an ISAPI DLL to drive our Javascript-free package-free web site which is very fast and has quite nice search capabilities. (Yes, a 32-bit DLL can generate HTML/CSS quite adequate for a modern-looking website.)

After using it for over 20 years, it is so quick and easy for me to create just about anything I need with Delphi, that the few times I've considered using other tools it quickly became apparent it would just take too long to get a handle on things and the ROI simply wasn't there.

An example of that was when last year I stumbled upon a Python program that did some sophisticated processing I could use, but dealing with that environment turned out to be a time-sucking nightmare. Too much of modern "programming" has turned into trying to mix and match and glue together packages instead of actually creating code. So, I'm sticking to an old-school system that lets me be creative and productive.
No coding required...yet.

I've been playing around with generating stories with ChatGPT for a while and...English (or any natural language) is really bad at being specific. I've made progress by learning some specific words to describe the type of scene I want and how much of it I want ChatGPT to generate (such as a scene for just that evening verses a few paragraphs describing weeks of traveling). I've also started getting some intuition for when I've given ChatGPT too much info (it'll cram all the facts in in weird ways) and too little info (it'll get really random and start inserting new characters and stuff).

Having a way to manage the meta aspects of story generation would be a big help.
Yes, at 12, when puberty starts and got GRS at 16 because of the aforementioned long documented history of dysphoria which is the minimum.

The only thing trans guys are encouraged to do is if they bind to do it safely.
Tell me you use Hacker News without telling me you use it hahahaha.

But seriously, I'm not sure of any kind of material like this for Rust, but I believe that's because it's simply not needed since we already have "the book" [0], rustlings [1], and rust by example [2]. Honestly, learning Rust is just absurdly simple and straightforward if you have the motivation to do so, these guides are so good I don't see much of a good reason to develop different ones.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings/

[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rust-by-example/
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> Jeanne Calment, a French woman, achieved an incredible feat of living to age 122

Like one’s life is a countdown timer that can be set, manually, on demand :)
Since when does a troll stand for someone who harasses others?
I think it is. It still seems like a minority situation to me. How much of a player base is streamers that it makes sense to optimize games for Twitch? Wouldn't it make more sense for Twitch to optimize video codecs for games in mind instead?
I might have misread something but I think the author means "streaming" to mean when you are streaming the game to an audience on a service like twitch. You mean it in the sense of playing the game on a game client that's actually rendered somewhere else (e.g. a data center)
I wouldn't say "massive" amounts of settlers, certainly not for the first hundred years or so. The huge migration was in the 18th century.

For example, Virginia, the most populous colony at the time, had about 58k people in 1700 but over 530,000 by 1780.

The colonies as a whole grew by about 245,000 people in the 17th century and 2,550,000 in the subsequent 80 years, before the American Revolution. I should mention, however, that these numbers include the number of enslaved persons, about 575,000 people in 1780. That's a growth from around 6% of the total population in 1700 to over 1/5 of the total population of the colonies and around 40% of the population of Virginia in 1780.

It's not that much of a mystery how the British colonies became financially successful; most of it was due to location and slavery. It's the same reason that, while the French and Dutch were not as much of an economic success in their North American colonial holdings, they (and the Brits) were a huge financial success in the Caribbean. By importing people enslaved in Africa to work sugar plantations and not worrying about the death rates, the investors and colonial powers were able to make a substantial profit.

edit - obviously there are a lot more layers to that.
The article says it's running fine on a Core 2 Duo.
I find it unlikely that somebody randomly shanks someone a dozen times just because of stress, in a workplace environment.

Surely these two gentleman either knew each other and something had happened, OR the attacker knew the victim and there was some sort of issue, romantic or something like that to where he would've been angry enough to try and kill this other man.

Of course Microsoft is going to say "Oh, they didn't work with each other or know each other as far as we know, this is just a crazy thing that happened" because they want to be left out of this as much as possible. Which is probably fine. I doubt the MS Teams experience is bad enough to kill over, bad as it may be.
This is confusing me as well. I thought it was about game "streaming," but after reading the comments I'm thinking maybe its about "game streaming."

But the problem is fundamentally the same, as they are both using GPU hardware encoders to stream a game to a client.
In an online world of echo chambers, often just posting a different opinion can be considered trolling. "Trolling" can be used to describe such a wide range of behavior that it is barely meaningful anymore. It mostly means "undesired behavior" now.

I see it very similar to the word "woke", which also has such an absurdly wide definition that it becomes almost meaningless.
> how to write real code

There are many ways, a codebase would be a better resource than a book.
Small note about the bakers: they haven’t been sued “into the ground”. In fact my understanding is that they’re actually doing really well nowadays. They’re still open with 4 stars on Yelp with over 200 reviews.

I think we shouldn’t twist narratives to argue against twisting narratives.
The problem is that most management probably doesn't actually want Agile.

The goal of Agile is building the right thing for the customer, which is done by having the people who do the work talk to the customer (frequently!) to see what their needs are and how their needs are being met by what they have already.

The problem here is that this turns the organization from top-down to bottom-up. Those at the top of the company are now servant leaders who support those at the bottom, as opposed to people who give orders and tell those at the bottom what to do.

The real problem with Agile is that managers are rarely willing to give up that power.
Excel’s get and transform makes this dead easy I think?
Check out the IOMMU section here: https://asahilinux.org/2021/10/progress-report-september-202...
Yeah, personally I like to know what the team & I are being evaluated on.

I've been in the opposite situation, where there are priorities and goals that aren't communicated to me until way too late, and I ended up wasting a lot of time on stuff that didn't matter.
What about MS Access. I used to use it years ago. It was amazing how simple it was to create and deploy an application based on relational data.
India is completely balkanizing right now and the rest of the world is ignoring it.

The central government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and arresting opposition politicians.

In Punjab the Sikh separatists are beginning to make moves.

In South India there is also increasing separatist sentiments with many feeling the central government is forcing them to learn Hindi. The same is happening in West Bengal.
That's not what I'm saying. It's that the people that were challenged chose to put out their thoughts in a way that welcomed it. If all you're there to do is meet fellow developers and network is should be no issue. I never ended up in situations of devolving debate. Not once. But there's a lot of people who want to put out their strong thoughts without recourse. If you use a public platform to make bold statements which 50% of the world will oppose and it welcomes comments as twitter does then you should expect to be challenged.

Again it's not about saying twitter is debate club. For the majority of people that's not the case for the outliers it is though and they don't like it.
Bachelor's in the UK are only three years, so I'm very nearly two thirds done. Regardless, I hear what you're saying.
Honestly, this is not a secret that game companies are paying popular streamers to stream their games, especially on launch
Well it looks a bit weird to me. Maybe due to increased consumption of beef, surely, but not sure if milk consumption has gone up

Though I'm very surprised at the mechanism, that was totally news to me
He’d been shifting in the direction of liberal reform for a while. I’m sure he was happy to (over)emphasize the degree to which he was shocked.

Not to cast doubt on his overall goal there, liberal economics clearly are pretty dang effective!
What I find unsettling is that our Moon rotates at a the precise perfect speed to make us "see always the same side". From all the possible speed values in the universe, why precisely that one?!
an interesting approach, how about doing the heavy lifting in an api backend and pushing/pulling data to the sheet using a custom formula? that way you would be able to leverage the full power of a db backend
Then it doesn't need "optimize for streaming" it needs a straight to stream rather than render then re encode.
Reminds me of a flight I had from the Nordics to California in winter. Because of the latitude, the plane was flying faster than the rotation of the earth. The flight left in the morning, so I got to watch the sun set in the east.
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What solution for this "problem" would the author accept? The offenders would have to be denied internet access or computer ownership as far as I can tell.
I completely agree with the article but its a little weird that the example game used is MTG Arena when thanks to streaming extensions I find it's one of the best games to watch on Twitch.

Almost every MTGA streamer I've seen uses Untapped (https://articles.mtga.untapped.gg/set-up-twitch-extension-fo...) which solves issues 2 and 3 since you can in fact just mouse over cards to see what they are as well as get detailed info on the deck being run and game state.
That sounds cool and interesting - so, the idea is to eventually sell the final product as a stand-alone game, but target the browser for development versions from the same source code?
The article feels rather incomplete too. I wish the author made it more in-depth and provided more specific examples.
Go doesn't have RAII or destructors, it has defer.
> Speaking about Jews, I wonder if vocal progressive people are including them in the group "people of color" and if not, why the discrimination? :)

Generally, Jewish people (either the religious or the ethnic group, for different reasons) per se are not generally included in “people of color”, though the religious group overlaps with “people of color”. But “people of color” is not a catch-all for all marginalized groups, or even all racial/ethnic marginalized groups, Jewish people being excluded from it is no more “hypocrisy” than “Black” not generally including East Asians.
> This means your bonus now depends on politics, instead of a defined metric of success.

The process of defining a concrete metric in advance is just front-loading that politics process to the planning stage instead of at the back end. (Which may be better! But it doesn't eliminate politics.)
I'm happy to explain again what makes me so tremendously excited:

It's the first time ever I talk to a system and it does something useful.

If it's able to understand in German and English that I want x and y it's the first time we will have something normal people can use.

It's the perfect working interface.

You know I loved the idea of a chatbot but it was way to stupid. But I only wanted it to do basic things.chatgpt already can do more than the basic system I need.

I'm totally fine of writing good and extensible documentation with good examples and stuff (what I already do anyway) and if chatgpt now can do 90% of basic support queries it will already change a lot.

I'm NOT necessary exited because it can answer random questions in a way that it feels like an agi.
A small fraction of players, but its a critical fraction to market a game. Many games already have a "streamer mode" that disables licensed music among other things.
A business should track its financials, goals and performance?

You don't say :)
The article disagrees with your claim that she was “run out of” a job. It looks like she resigned after student criticism, even though the university still wanted to continue employing her. The outcry definitely has a negative effect on her mental health but I think calling it being “run out of” is a narrative spin on this article. She was publicly criticized and even though her employer fully supported her speech she resigned anyways.
Right. Paid advertisement is the next best thing :)

Especially since they're already paying the streamers to play their games, it makes sense to provide an optimized game rendering mode for this.
That's arguable, but sure. Even there it was more in the late 16th century, which makes sense given Spanish priorities prior to independence. Britain absolutely copied the hell out of it.
> It's an adolescent fantasy that was mocked by the Austin Powers movies.

Why is that a negative? If it inspired other art, even as a parody, that makes it a valuable part of culture.

James Bond has inspired countless imitations, and has resonated with generations of people around the world. It doesn't need to be high art to be enjoyed. Everyone watching the movies or reading the books today will have a different perception of the material, in the same way we view art produced centuries ago. Art exists within the context of its period, and changing it to suit new generations produces strange results, completely disrespecting the author's intention.

Would you feel the same way if we started altering paintings someone considered offensive? That's as ridiculous as these changes.

Of course, this isn't new with books. Popular works go through many editions throughout history. We should be able to go back and read older editions, but sometimes these become harder to find, as new ones become more prevalent. Let's hope that won't be the case here.
Thanks for the feedback & suggestions.

>> * Showing $$/hr on the first page (summary page) is going to lead a race to the bottom. Most people are fixated on $$ and will immediately gravitate towards the lowest price possible. Not good for anyone

You got a point but dont you think not revealing rates helps businesses more than engineers? you know businesses can lie about other engineers quotes to drive down prices.

>> * Provide a “get to know me” page where each person can include more about details about their work history and expand on bullet 2 above.

Engineers can add their blog/github repo/portfolio site to their profile.
I’ve wondered if it would be helpful to teach the model a micro-DSL for the given task at hand, and use that for greater control and precision.
I guess you think I didn't already read the article?

I'm questioning the legitimacy of the claims. I'm plenty literate, so no copy-paste recap needed, thanks.
I think that’s shallow dismissal as in disagreement without substance, I.e. not adding much to an argument. Not dismissal as in a brief summary so you don’t need to read the rest.
You should be debugging with a live hot reload server like Vite. Then you get your full source code available in the console.

VS Code is an excellent IDE and debugger (with breakpoints, if you like) for TS.
One half would be covered by the Danish State, the other half by a tuition loan. I would however lose the income from the internship, so it has to be very worth it for me to go ahead.
I'm all for positive language and this sort of feedback. But one needs to keep in mind that this sort of setup can lead to a lot of Yak shaving. So there should be somewhere/someone in the process that addresses the value vs Yak shaving costs.
It's popular fiction. There will be a disclaimer acknowledging the changes.

It's not a history book or news report being edited to leave out things people in power find uncomfortable. It's popular fiction being edited to leave out things historically oppressed and abused peoples find hurtful and for whom the past is far from dead.
It's a phenomenon called tidally locked which is why Mercury exhibits the same thing with one side or mercury always facing the sun
goto can be replaced by a function call for cleanup.
I had the same reaction but thinking more I’m actually kind of surprised by the elegance of “yes/not yet.”

One of the best questions you can ask someone (including yourself) when in disagreement is “what new data/fact/different condition would convince you of my position?” The “not yet” framing kind of sneaks that question in via just two words! “Not yet” implies you must define the criteria by which it turns to a yes.
Right: the government of England had a problem with religious sects and needed to push them out somewhere. That created demand on the part of Puritans who didn't want to get hanged at home, to emigrate, and King happily approved it because it meant good riddance.
The player still has to see the game and "watching your own stream" introduces significant (inconsistent) latency making it inappropriate for any game with timing.
A falling stream generates outward flow without piling up.

Watch your faucet run into a partially full sink: there’s a small depression where the stream impacts it — while the pressurized region under the stream pushes the water out and away.

This is in contrast to honey, which will form a mound when a stream hits, because of its higher viscosity.
> Now you're arguing against yourself. An original iPhone

I’m arguing that my 2010 Dell Core2Duo that had 8GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive, gigabit Ethernet and a 1920x1200 display has specs that in some ways are equivalent to a computer you could buy today and has hardware capable of running the latest browsers, the latest version of Office has enough RAM, has wired Ethernet that is still capable of completely taking advantage of my gigabit Ethernet and has wireless N.

A 2007 iPhone has a crappy display, not enough memory or processing power to run a modern web browser and can’t actually function as a phone. My old first gen iPad crashes repeatedly on modern web pages. Of course I have newer devices.

The earliest iPhone that has any decent hardware to handle the modern web is the iPhone 5s. Apple just a released a security update for it recently but

What are children going go do with it if it can’t even use the modern web? They would be much better off getting one of the many $40 unsubsidized unlocked phones you can buy on Amazon.

And from working with different educational institutions, I know for a fact that they think old computers are more trouble than they are worth and would much rather have a bunch of low cost ChromeBooks.

If you want to help a child, give money to the organizations instead of junk computers.

> It was never just a phone, but hotspot + WiFi calling and it still is a phone. To say nothing of Signal or similar

The first gen iPhone couldn’t support hotspot functionality nor could it do wifi calling.

Again, why try to keep an old half functioning phone when you could buy a much more capable $30 Android phone.

Even in developing countries the average phone user has a much better phone than the original phone. The phone penetration rate even in the poorest countries is 80-90%

And on top of that, Apple only sold around 10 million first gen iPhones. How many do you think are still in the wild?
> Albeit not reaching statistical significance
They noed eachother for sure
Tidal locking. All two-body systems stabilize in a similar configuration. The Moon isn't quite done yet, we still see IIRC 59% of the surface on average due to libration.
> However, this is exactly the sort of virus that they study at the BSL4 lab in Wuhan

No it isn't. The were studying SARS-CoV-1 and WIV-1.

They sequenced RaTG13 but that is too far away from SARS-CoV-2 with a thousand random mutations across its genome. And there's no evidence that they ever recovered culturable virus from RaTG13 or were able to culture it--there's a vast gap between sequencing a virus and culturing it.

We also know about their SARS-CoV-1 and WIV-1 work because they published it. Before the pandemic they had no reason to keep work on RaTG13 secret.

This is a case of Schrodinger's BSL4 lab. We know they built chimeras of other viruses because they told the world about that, we know they sequenced RaTG13 because they published that sequence, but there's a SARS-CoV-2 progenitor backbone that they found, which for some reason they picked to be the backbone in a new set of experiments, which they had perfect secrecy over and nobody has ever found any evidence of it.
I clearly mentioned this in my existing comment. But let me share more details here:

* Manish Sisodia is the member of Aam Aadmi Party which is currently ruling New Delhi (Capital of India)

* Modi's BJP party is ruling party at the centre

* Aam Aadmi Party has defeated BJP twice in New Delhi state election

* The Delhi Police/CBI is under control of Modi/BJP government

* CBI has made the arrest so I see it as CBI arresting a leader from a party that is opposition to BJP centre government

Responding to your other concerns: I don't know what's wrong in making a political post by using a throwaway account & backing your claims with references.
I think your last sentence is it: they have a franchise which was quite valuable in the past but has been ebbing, and some suit at the publishing house really wants to believe that the problem is some word choices rather than that most people who want to read a novel old enough to retire already have a copy.
How did Rudy Giuliani clean up New York?
This is a good example of the title turning people off from the content. The content of the article is a nice intro to how some artifacts are created while streaming and how to deal with them, for sure it is interesting and useful for developers of games that wish to focus on streaming to build a name or community and lack that knowledge. There's hardly any argumentation as to why the general game should have this option contrary to what you'd expect with such a title.
"oops" and ass covering does seem more plausible in the real world than Clancy-esque conspiracies where there's never any mistakes.