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It's a bold move. Educational material -- particularly frontend -- is an ever-shrinking pie, so Geoff is betting on claiming a very large share of that. I hope it pays off.

This article falls into the same trap, I dunno what to call them, artsy-upper-class-society-and-film reviewers often do; writing vague yet meaningful-sounding things about the obvious subtext of a movie as if it was a revelation, yet without any specific observations about it.

Yes, this is a documentary about a person. And how the documentary is presented will color your perspective of the person. This should (hopefully) be apparent to anyone who's watched a documentary about a person before.

But how does it do it? What tools does it use to that effect? I appreciate that this film remains relatively neutral/ambiguous, but what makes this unique from other documentaries that deal with ambiguous subject matter?

Really depends on the land in question. Some forests have thick underbrush, some are almost completely clear. A lot of undeveloped land isn't even forest - swamp, desert, rocky mountains. Sometimes it's far easier to navigate than a parking lot, IME.

85k upvotes on /r/technology: "Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers"

Actual article title: "Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers"

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1x38098/russian...

[1] very clearly just cherrypicked some particularly popular posts from before the Ukrainian strike, and some particularly unpopular and/or very new posts from after.

Show me some graphs! Some actual data! Not just the 6 exact posts necessary to make the point.

This argument consistently comes up in techie circles when it comes to regulating or outlawing, well, just about anything, and it really gets my goat.

Making something illegal is the prerequisite to enforcement. These are separate parts of the government. You can't build enforcement infrastructure around something that isn't yet illegal! You don't even know what that would look like until you know what the laws you're enforcing are. Enforcement is the goal of these processes, the laws are the foundation from which enforcement stems.

It is true that simply putting a law down doesn't mean the problem is solved. But solving these problems doesn't happen all at once, so there's no reason to criticize the first step for not being a leap to the finish line.

Actually, would you elaborate on your last point? This perspective is interesting and I'm curious how you see things progressing.

You've misread/misunderstood the book review. It's saying the exact opposite, and the same thing as you; that in the book, the aliens are more like westerners, and the humans Chinese.

The thesis as given - "The real aliens are the Chinese people" (note the 'real') - is saying that, to an American reading the book, the portrayal of the humans feels more alien than the extraterrestrial aliens, while the extraterrestrial aliens are closer to familiar western culture.

With all these new Jev-like models popping up, has anyone actually started building anything with them yet? It's odd how quickly they've multiplied despite being relatively niche in their use cases, as far as I can tell. I suppose they're simple and cheap enough to make that it's a sort of 'why not' thing for a lot of these companies.

Good news, they've been working on adding C# support for a year or two now. I think it's still experimental, but from what I understand they already had a robust extension system that supported C/C++/Java/etc., so fitting C# in wasn't much of a stretch.

(it is only extension support -- not scripting -- but the extension system is such that it can be used for any game logic AFAIK)

> Starting with absolutely nothing but a compiler

I don't understand what you mean by this -- Defold has a graphical editor?

> If Defold developers had produced a fraction of the libraries that Godot has, it might have had a chance.

What do you mean by libraries in this context? It has a robust plugin system with a reasonably active ecosystem, if that's the sort of thing you're talking about: https://defold.com/assets/

And it covers all the systems one would expect in a 2D game engine natively -- tilemaps, physics etc.

> As of now, it's worse than other abandoned engines like Solar2D (was CoronaSDK) for people entering the space.

I definitely disagree with this -- it's certainly not abandoned, and though it does have a slightly steeper learning curve than Godot or other popular engines, that's also how it gets such impressive performance and slim builds; feature, not a bug.

Normally the comments on that video are something I could laugh along with, but reading them after the article is... sobering.

I don't think calculating mathematical odds from natural language is the sort of problem this is trying to solve. A typical LLM hooked up to a calculator would be more appropriate for that.

Jev (and similar) is more for data processing and sentiment analysis. Moderation, search engines, that sort of thing. Jev has a page of proposed use cases where you can get an idea of what they're going for: https://docs.typesafe.ai/concepts/use-case-map

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That caught my eye too. I have a Thinkbook Yoga running GNOME and auto rotate has worked as expected for years, with a toggle in the quick settings for rotation lock.

I think this change is just adding the toggle to the standalone settings app.

This is a really cool collection! I feel like it needs a manual once-over though, particularly in regard to the images. Having even a handful obviously wrong images makes the rest of the site feel less trustworthy.

I'm surprised it's so few! I'm in the 60-70% here -- I've never gotten it (despite many deliberate efforts), but I've never known anyone else who seems to be immune.

Their point was more that, if every 'weekly download count after a new release' (or whatever record) is consistently being broken on each new release due to generally increasing popularity, then it doesn't make sense to imply causality between the messaging around this particular release and its already-expected record-breaking status.

So if I understand correctly: ERSC is working on an alternative backend for jj other than git (and presumably providing related infrastructure)?

I believe the parent comment was wishing for a separate site for non-tech topics because they want to see more, not less.

> Is high-level behavior the only criteria for diagnosis?

Yes, it is: https://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-diagnostic-criteria-dsm-...

Though, to be more specific, it's even moreso about high-level behavior that has a negative impact, which is highly variable, particularly with environment. I think most would agree that this is extremely messy. But is there a better option?

For practical purposes, it makes some sense to diagnose based on high-level behavior and negative impact on one's life. Describing the relevant what rather than the currently-unknown why.

I do think a more granular approach would have benefits as far as treatment and such goes, though. I know a lot of folks with Asperger's diagnoses were upset when that was rolled into autism. I don't think that was the best distinction to be made, but I think it does show that the people with these conditions often aren't opposed to more granularity (myself included).

They're similar, but subtly different.

Say Bob pays a $5 subscription and listens exclusively to artist Foo, 100 song plays. Alice pays a $5 subscription and listens exclusively to artist Baz, but plays their songs a whopping 300 times.

If it was paid out per user, Foo and Baz would both get $5. But paying out based on overall listener numbers, Foo would get $2.50 and Baz would get $7.50.

Essentially, it's a zero sum game, and one artist getting a play takes away revenue from every other artist. Even if you exclusively listen to your favorite artists, the vast majority of your subscription money is going towards the top artists.

This is why Spotify is always pushing their own playlists, smart shuffle, and encouraging background listening with ambient / sleep playlists and such; the more they can shift listeners toward music they've produced themselves or have special license agreements with, the less they have to pay out to typical (i.e. smaller) artists using their platform.

Persistence hunting likely wasn't a major driver of those evolutionary changes.

The hypothesis is really only supported by the fact that we have adaptations that make it theoretically possible, but the times and places those adaptations came about doesn't really match up with the times and places it would have been effective (i.e. woodland where the ground would be too hard for effective tracking [0]).

There are some other things that point away from it, too; it's worth doing some googling.

It's certainly possible that persistence hunting happened to some degree, and it's a fun idea so it really caught on in popular consciousness, but the actual evidence is limited.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...

To be clear, they began a recruitment ad campaign targeting gamers, and ended up meeting their hiring goal of 2,000+. It's not like they pulled 2,000 gamers off the street and stuck them in ATC towers.

Better link (.gov):

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/trumps-transpor...

> With only about 25 percent of controllers holding a traditional college degree, this effort is focused on reaching talented young people pursuing alternative career paths, many of whom are active in gaming. Feedback from controller exit interviews reinforces this, with several controllers pointing to gaming as an influence on their ability to think quickly, stay focused, and manage complexity.

This is kind of beside the point but... Shouldn't the the evolutionary metaphor be the opposite of how the author's using it?

They go on about how we've settled in the trough, but the whole local optimum problem is about settling in an early peak, and being unwilling to cross a trough to get to a higher peak. The workarounds would be propping up the first peak, not evidence that we've settled in the trough.

Either way, the metaphor feels kinda forced IMO.

It seems we're largely on the same page. I would point out though, sometimes those seemingly minor tweaks can be pretty important; they're not always at the level of typos in a book.

One that affected me personally was in Pokemon XY, where if you saved in the wrong spot it would corrupt your entire save. As a kid it was a pretty memorable experience to lose ~20 hours of playtime on my Christmas present because I assumed the updates weren't important. Granted, day-one bugs that major in first party Nintendo games are rare, but it's not a given that they're irrelevant either. It can go either way.