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So were AOL, and Skype

They’re my favorite controller out of the ones in the market right now. I really enjoy being able to have one controller in each hand.

As others have said, their primary issue is with quality control around stick drift.

I played a set of Factorio vs Minecraft! Tried generating a few different sets, this was super cool, and on theme!

From my understanding, they are trying to make Math education available to the entire population of the world. And now provide one on one personalized tutoring that currently only a fraction of the wealthiest people in their respective countries can afford.

It’s fortunate that it is cheaper than paying people.

I play drums for fun. The vocalists usually wear earplugs too. Because they’ll get hearing damage if they don’t. Instruments can be loud. Look up “Earasers” if interested, they’re the ones I use. They work in a way that music sounds reasonable, but still protects your ears.

I use Linux. You absolutely need to drop down to the command line at times. Upgrading my Kennel, or Graphics driver breaks something like 20% of the time for me.

I play competitive games in tournaments. I would disagree with your characterization.

Yes, people have a skill ceiling. However, it’s not something you’re ever going to get to by just playing most games.

People naturally improve at games when they start playing. Some factors being more familiarity with the game, and making less mistakes. However, people will stall out at different ratings at that point.

However, if you do deliberate practice in the game you will absolutely continue to get better. If you’re practicing specific scenarios, have focused areas of improvement, coaching, analyze your own replays, record your practice, and watch it: You will improve.

Yes, abstractly a “skill ceiling” out there exists for you, but you’re extremely unlikely to ever reach it in a game of skill unless you’re trying to go pro in it.

If putting time in were all that were required to reach your skill ceiling, we would have way more League of Legends Grandmasters. Unless you assume the people that go pro are all just more talented, and that their practice doesn’t make a difference.

I started with just Nix-Shell in WSL with Home Manager. Then I have kept adapting that file for my Linux, OS X, and other needs. I didn't touch NixOS at all until years later. I'm really, really glad I started with Home Manager. It delivered value immediately, and I was instantly sold on the value proposition of a declarative file to manage dependencies with other associated benefits from the Nix world.

Mind elaborating? I figure you mean with Tramp, but not sure.

That's an interesting take I haven't heard ever before. I'd love to ask some questions if you happen to know the answer:

- Since people are constantly retiring, and selling the stocks they are holding at that point: Wouldn't that balance out the limitless demand problem? Boomers/Gen X/Millenials/Gen Z all have around the same segment of the population according to (https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-sha...) wouldn't things earlier generations sell get distributed among the next generation, preferentially going to Gen X who will be at their peak earning potential at that point. (Which in turn will sell to Millennials and so on) - How would you actively force money into an economy?

I found the comment valuable. I might be unmotivated to contribute to an OS project purely for the sake of doing so. But throwing some money in, I might go like "Alright I'll tackle this".

Certainly I'm at least glad a tool like that exists.

The Evolution series by Primer on Youtube is a game changer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDvzbBRiNlA&list=PLKortajF2d...

It starts with very basic, and cute blobs. And builds simulations around how they evolve. But as they explain the simulations, they explain how mutations might arise. It is explain how mutations can become advantageous to the point of driving predecessors extinct, or nearly extinct. And they show you how to derive math formulas for the outcome of the simulations in a very intuitive way. Also, it's entertaining as hell. I've watched the whole series at least 4 times by now. It's short, it's punchy, it's brilliant. I'd very highly recommend it.

Yeah, this also reminded me of the way that Neural networks that play video games might make a new connection that is not super efficient, but by a combination of reasons ended up being more effective than it might usually be in that scenario.

The AI's often end up giving that pathway a try a few more times before giving up on it.

I love both Google, and Facebook. I'm constantly blown away that something like Youtube exists, I love my Oculus Quest and use it daily, I keep in touch with friends on WhatsApp, and use Google Search more than any other website.

I'm not trying to imply they are above jurisdiction, I am quite tired of hearing the "No one likes these guys" narrative though.

I use .webm files all the time as stand-ins for GIF, and more and more sites/apps have support for inline playback nowadays.

You can strip the audio out completely from those files, and have like 20 second recordings that map out to ~1-2MB vs +10MB for GIF. All in all, it's pretty great.

When you do a favor for a friend (like giving a referral for a job), do you see it as a transaction where you expect them to pay you back at some point?

To some limited degree.

If you were later in your life in need of a job, and your friend could refer you to their new company, but they refuse to because of arbitrary reasons.

Would you not think they are being a poor friend? Even more so because you did a very similar favor for them in the past?

To give the opposing argument some form of development, reading comprehension is the responsibility of the reader as well.

Some authors are hard to understand, but the message they are trying to convey could be worth extracting.

As a reader it is preferable for you to be able to extract value out of opaque text. The author owes you nothing. And, presumably you are reading because you think there might be something of value underneath.

If you fail to capture that value (If there is any) that's your loss, not the author's.

Certainly, it would be best if the message were communicated in such a fashion that people would not misunderstand it to begin with. But if, and when things are poorly communicated, if you misunderstand the underlying message the person taking a loss is not the author, but you.

To think otherwise would be to focus too deeply on some sort of exposure, or monetary loss on the part of the author, rather than the failure to capture a nugget of wisdom that might be of utility to your life.

I think this comment feels like trying blatantly to pin OP into a bad position, honestly this is quite disingenuous.

Hey Zach! Been using Just Read for years, just wanted to give you a quick shout-out to say I love the plugin.

That is cool! Out of curiosity, how intrusive is living around wine turbines? Is it a problem at all? Or are they mostly unnoticeable?

This is a weird ponzi-scheme like comment.

If you are a creative director, you have people working under you.

How do you all get to be creative directors?

how do you ensure that a build is reproducible if you have no control on which required dependencies are downloaded by a build system which requires root access?

By having control over which required dependencies are downloaded. As Nix does. Why would you settle for not solving that problem?

Sorry to hear you don't think my comment adds to the discussion, but I'd disagree

Oh, check out Nix https://nixos.org/nix/

I use it for most of my dependencies, and software in OS X/Windows WSL/Linux

It is a lovely environment to work with. Has completely changed how I feel about package management and the like.

I know you were asking figuratively but something does happen to slot in that space.

Sometimes I run into comments which make me realize how differently people can think about the world. It's always a bit of a shock.

It does make me feel a bit of despair at the prospect of humanity ever reaching an agreement that would make everyone satisfied. I guess having most satisfied will have to do, but regardless, it's rough.

Emacs org mode can also do this, it's really enjoyable to not see some of the semantic entries, but having them still exist in the background.

Damn, I think I actually really like this!

I'm going to switch from Operator Mono after 3 or so years for the first time, for a month or so to see if I want to switch completely.

Thanks for contributing this! Really cool font.

I didn't understand what the article wanted to say. I feel than rather than explaining what a source wanted to say, it namedropped 4 papers (and 1 with conflicting results with one of those 4 for intellectual honesty), and tried to fit some narrative to it, which I didn't understand very well.

I did understand that the title means "A great number of companies drain value from the economy", rather than "Having too many companies drains value from the economy".

Did anyone understand the message the article wanted to communicate aside from the title? What was it? Is it a valid message based on the sources it linked?

Git comes to mind as well, I can go to Bitbucket or Gitlab and upload my repository with its full history in seconds. Or my own self-hosted repository if I wanted.

I don't agree with grandparent for what it's worth, just thought this might work as a reply to your question.

I guess I’m a child

I had one of my juniors who uses Firefox install Chrome to use those dev tools 4 months ago, because Firefox was just throwing garbage in the stack traces, while Chrome had transparent React code.

Not that it'd be a deal breaker for me, but he now debugs in Chrome when necessary, and still uses Firefox as his daily driver.

I'm sure there's something we could've changed for Firefox to work too, but for what it's worth we didn't do anything in particular for it to work in Chrome.