jader201

Related, earlier today:

The Price of Happiness (62 points, 32 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996364

Because they always yell the brand names.

Like they do in commercials.

It appears this study does not conclude whether abstainers should pick up caffeine.

Under "Conclusions and Research Needs":

Last, in terms of applications of the potential beneficial effects of coffee intake, it is worth studying whether introducing or initiating regular coffee consumption among current abstainers yields positive cardiovascular health benefits.

In other words, more study is needed to determine whether abstainers should start consuming caffeine.

Additionally, the study suggests much of the cardiovascular benefits are from non-caffeine compounds in coffee/tea:

Although much of the evidence on caffeine derives from studies of coffee consumption, coffee contains numerous bioactive compounds beyond caffeine, including chlorogenic acids, diterpenes, trigonelline, and melanoidins. In large cohort studies, inverse associations between coffee intake and risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease have also been observed for decaffeinated coffee, supporting a role for noncaffeine components.

Side note: I miss SSX. Such a great franchise, and sad that EA Big shut down (and that no one else picked it up).

Tricky was probably my favorite, but they were all great.

There are two individuals being sued, but many more received letters.

Parent is being downvoted likely because their statement implies the “dozens” receiving letters are individually being sued, but that’s not the case.

Is this unique to the M-series?

My 2015 MBP has this exact same issue.

Could you imagine someone walking around with their phone pointed wherever they look, recording the whole time, as they casually walk down the street, sit at a cafe, or engage in a conversation with you?

How are these things not publicly shamed out of existence?

It feels like each year lately has been a new Black Mirror episode.

Baith was right.

My wife missed that word, and it said the correct word was “habit”.

I also did “baith” (for the same reason as OP), and ended up making it to 16, but I feel like I shouldn’t have, since I’ve never heard of “baith”. I was confused when it accepted it.

I’ve had two S5s die on me recently. They kept shutting down in the middle of a clean, and from what I read, it needed a battery replacement.

Ordered one off Ali Express, and after another couple months, it also started dying. So replaced it with a newer Roborock.

Didn’t bother when the second S5 started doing the same, just got a new Roborock.

Both new ones have been going well so far, and while it does seem to be good for replacing parts (I had another lidar part fail, and the replacement was easy), I was disappointed that replacing the battery didn’t fix the shut down issues.

Also, this whole post just felt like a brag, i'm not surprised it barely got any upvotes

Yeah, opening with:

I'm a world expert in game netcode

Felt like an odd way to start the article.

Maybe OP is job farming?

You’re missing the parent’s point.

You’re still making introversion out to be something that you should work at to compensate or fix, because not doing so would be unhealthy.

E.g. you exercise because if you don’t, you risk disease, cancer, and a host of other physical issues.

There’s nothing unhealthy about never striking up conversations with strangers.

There are more natural and organic ways to meet and interact with people you don’t know (many have been covered in other comments).

But striking up conversations with random strangers in public shouldn’t be equated with exercise.

I feel like there are natural settings for making friends.

E.g.

- Frequenting the same restaurants/stores (HT earlier sibling comment)

- Joining clubs/communities/churches

- Parents of kids’ friends

- Networking: Friends of family / family of friends / friends of friends

- Workplace (obviously)

I feel like this is how friendships/relationships happen more organically vs. the OP’s suggestion of talking to “someone waiting in line”.

You do it because if you don't, then you'll be worse off years later.

This feels hyperbolic. While I would agree that community and remaining connected are very important to overall health, I don’t feel like making a habit of talking to strangers is a prerequisite.

ask the people you're waiting in line alongside if they have any good jokes.

I know no one who tries striking up a conversation with strangers, and I feel like the majority of strangers would be annoyed/uncomfortable with this.

Of all the jobs to get replaced by AI, I would be happy to see realtors to be first in line (but I also think this is wishful thinking).

I feel like I get very little value out of what seems to be a mostly fixed/required price.

I know flat fee realtors exist, and if/when we sell our home, I’ll be looking into this heavily.

But I feel like they rank up there with car salespeople/dealers.

Oh, my kids are older now (18 and 21), but when they were younger, we definitely did plenty of LAN-party games like Minecraft, StarCraft (1 and 2), Terraria, Torchlight, and (when they were older) TFC (which we had some hilarious times playing with/against some terrible bots).

My gripe isn’t so much about what we can do, but just the fact that nobody cares as much about it these days (it’s not mainstream and most devs don’t think about it).

So while I agree the era may not be over, it’s mostly forgotten in favor of remote play without needing to be colocated.

It may not be completely over, but it’s far from the focus of multiplayer gaming.

Many games that used to offer couch multiplayer (e.g. split screen) options no longer do.

The upcoming Starfox remake is a great example (no split-screen multiplayer options, where the original did).

I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a 4-player split-screen FPS (like Goldeneye 007).

Can you find games that offer couch multiplayer? Sure. But it’s not something that is a priority, particularly for most mainstream games.

(And as a side note, LAN parties are also largely a thing of the past.)

As great as the spirit of this article is, it only offers problems without solutions.

I’d love to see example of “bad” solutions made “good”.

As a result, I feel like solving this problem is easier said than done. I can’t think of a great way to solve many of the problems presented here. (Admittedly, I’m not a UX designer, so the bar is low for me.)

This reminds me of a lesser known and underrated game on the GameCube, Pac-Man Vs. (designed by Miyamoto). [1]

It worked by having one player use a GameBoy Advance (connected to the GameCube with an adapter) to (privately) operate Pac-Man while the other three players use GameCube controllers to operate ghosts from the TV.

Additionally, to give Pac-Man a better shot at winning, the three ghosts play from a third-person 3D perspective, rather than top-down.

The ghost that caught Pac-Man would get to take over as Pac-Man (which would inevitably result in a tangled mess of cords by the end).

It was a great couch 3v1 game.

The WiiU had similar mini-games in Nintendo Land [2], with one player operating the Wii U gamepad, while the others played from the TV.

I miss the era of couch multiplayer games.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_Vs%2E

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Land

I flagged it because it looked like a low-effort vibe-coded cash-grab app that doesn’t do anything novel that Pages doesn’t, and the submitter has zero other history (reinforcing it’s a cash-grab).

The OP not responding to any of the claims also reinforces this.

This is true, to an extent, but one missing variable is peers, and the — sometimes outsized — influence they have relative to parents.

Some parents limit screen time and delay giving their children phones, but if their peers all have phones and spend much of their time on screens, the parents’ influence may lose out.

In your example, if the friends that came over pulled out their phones and spent most of their time on the phones, the others would eventually follow suit.

And, of course, the reverse is often true — if friends are sitting around talking/interacting, it can sometimes get the others off their screens.

But I’ve also seen many cases, unfortunately, where this wasn’t the case — even though many are interacting, they’ll still keep their face in their screen.

This is often true in adults, too.

A “friend request” mechanism is one way of achieving this.

But then you’re left dealing with spam “friend requests”, which is still something I have to take action on, filter out, or ignore — same as spam email.

Yet all car safety regulation on the 59% that are

I don’t think you meant literally “all”, but one that comes to mind that definitely is intended for pedestrian safety is around requiring that EVs make audible noises when they’re moving at slow speeds (the fake humming as they move forward, and the beeping as they reverse).

What's a 20% productivity gain

Where did the 20% number come from? I’d argue it’s way more than that (or variable, i.e. dependent on who’s using it/how it’s being used/what it’s being used on).

Having said that, the number, to me, doesn’t even matter. You could replace that with 200%, and it’d be just as true.

Probably better to link to the article, rather than a thread that has 0 comments.

https://www.reuters.com/world/nasa-live-international-space-...

How is this on the second page with 589 votes in 2 hours?

The only thing that makes sense is that it’s being flagged, I guess.

We envision 2.1 as our last major update of Factorio, and we will shift the focus onto long term support. So things like bug fixes, platform support/compatibility, modding features, etc. Other than that we feel we've reached a good place to conclude the active gameplay development.

Also embedded in mention of the departure of a few team members.

I feel like this is truly the end of Factorio.

What a game, and what an effort. It is what, I consider, the game that kicked off the “automation” genre of video games.

And in my mind, is to this day still one of — if not the — best automation games.

Well done, Wube.

This sounds similar (but not quite) to Ready Set Bet [1], which is probably a lot easier to find than this.

This game, as the title suggests, is pure luck, based on the cards you were dealt.

In RSB, it’s real-time, and as dice are rolled to move horses forward, you can place bets on a number of spots, based on how the dice are being rolled (always by a designated player that is either part of the betting or not — recommended that they don’t bet if you have enough players).

Obviously still a lot of luck, as with most dice rolling games. But a decent amount of strategy in timing your bets, especially since bets freeze once horses get to a certain line in the game.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/351040/ready-set-bet

a lot of people hate the drink, but idk. I thought it was fine.

Aren’t there a lot of different drinks, though (at least 3 or 4)?

E.g. I know Miralax can be an option for some which practically is tasteless.

Honestly, AI may pollute online interactions to the point that people give up trying to interact online, and force people to talk to each other in real life.

I’m not sure I would be sad about that outcome.