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OneTimePetes··on Wikipedia is loaded, so why’s it asking for donations?
Up next, wikipedia releases own browser - cloned from firefox.
OneTimePetes··on Is The World Deglobalising?
Sure, like the general assembly is not voted on by almost all of them by countrys, who then get economic-hegemonic-ally sacked. This is the trouble with almost all international institutions - they are deeply subverted by economic interests.

This goes from the human right council barely condemning genocide, if it is committed by economic ruling partys to WHO recommendations, towing the party line when it comes to them damaging economic interests.

OneTimePetes··on Rats in Doom VR
Well, we have better psychology experiments today. Just not published.

Run a filter for a situation and a query against a behavioural database at Amazon, Google, FB and you can build quite a nice insight into humanity.

Papers published with largest knowledge on humanity on earth : 0

OneTimePetes··on Winamp source code leak
Trojans, Spyware and Miners. Oh my.
OneTimePetes··on Rats in Doom VR
Did not Feynman use rat experiments in his book to lay heavily into social studies? As i recall in the book, there was only one guy whose rat/mouse experiments had enough rigour, eliminating data disturbing experiment influences, systematically.
OneTimePetes··on Update on Omicron
Travel restrictions bought Taiwan and South Korea lots of time in the beginning. Other countries who usually follow scientific guidance have implemented them (israel).

There seem to be no real papers linked to the base of this guidance, except that they feel like a attack on the freedom of movement for a globalist elite and the tourism industry. I rather prefer to be healthy and safe, then to put a blind eye to some elite favoured cultural blind spot.

>Reply: Families are even less a reason to visit internationally in a global pandemic. Why should it be a right to bring a potentially deadly disease to your loved ones? Others cant visit there dying family in a hospital, why should one be granted exemption to visit the living?

OneTimePetes··on Update on Omicron
Do not buy time by shutting down travel and use failed watch/wait approach again - also WHO.
OneTimePetes··on The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016)
This goes the other way too. In china, several trucks had colourful lane-change-lights and a voice-speaker informing/warning the other vehicles that they were turning in addition to the blinker.

Was pretty futuristic

OneTimePetes··on Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (2019)
Which is why the idea of the "multi-role" rts was invented. One guy plays sim-city to build the base. Another plays tower defense to defend the base. One guy plays Defense of the Ancients-Heroe gameplay, and one guy plays the large scale meta-rts.

Then it became a balancing nightmare and we gave up, making instead seperate games for each gamer. The end.

There was even once the approach of the arena rts.. you dont micro, instead small battles are taken to a separate app (on a cellphone, were cell-phone user duke it out)..

But players hate to lose control over outcome.

Turns out seemless match-making and game joining and replacing ai is hard.

OneTimePetes··on Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (2019)
Didnt they forbid the more crass ai-widgets? I remember having that commando-ai-widget from that comp-sci student, that allowed units to sneak in a orderly line through hills and around sight radius into enemy bases.

Or the artful dodger widget, which would make your other units auto-avoid a designated victim unit (by blast radius of nearest enemy)..

This whole AI-Programming into games, feels like cheating to most users pretty fast..

OneTimePetes··on Why Ancient Roman Concrete Outlasts Our Own (2017)
Because buildings change constantly.. notice how in the examples, you have building for which this requirement must not be fullfilled. Public show-off buildings, statues, temples and harbour walls, they do not change with every generation.

Now if you want to change it constantly, if a building is for living, durability is actually not that much of a value.

OneTimePetes··on Ask HN: How did you learn math notation?
Through a really nice and helpful math prof who took time out of her day to explain it to those in the "im in trouble" additional course. Forever grateful for that, would have failed otherwise.

Math notation becomes very readable, as soon as the teacher writes a example out on the black board, and that is why i will never forgive wikipedia / wolfram / latex for not having a interactive "notation to example expansion". They had such a chance to reform the medium - to make it more accessible to beginners and basically forgot about them.

OneTimePetes··on Parrots will share currency to help their pals purchase food (2020)
Eh, wasn't this refuted?

We tend to not have mental models of others at all. Our brains run "flat" copies of ourselves and any deviation from that model, results in discomfort and categorization as either "inferior" or "superior" depending on visible outcome of actions. The effect of "genius" is, that seemingly stupid choices by others result in perceivable good outcomes, without us having a mental model to fill that gap.

So we do not have mental models for others- at all. We have a world filled with copies of ourselves and at best a zoe of heuristics and anecdata, were the "other" begins and ends.

The closest you get to having a real mental model- is a longterm relationship and getting to know that partner really well. And even then..

OneTimePetes··on German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
Imagine for a moment using the ground effect to reduce transport load- and re-engage with the ground on need for breaking and steering.
OneTimePetes··on What's the Future of IDEs?
Just a addition to the _TeamWorkflow_ it would be great if there was a standardized Way to have a kan-ban pipeline mapped into the IDE. Like Icebox -> First Implementation -> Review -> etc -> Deploy & DevHops

I always found that "assign" to person of gitlab to be clunky and the use of CI/CD Piplines to map the concept even clunkier.

If every pipeline station becomes something abstract, and the people just check in with their station, in the IDE, with the IDE even pre-configured to the current Station (basically pipeline-modal) that would be real neat.

Some of us already have that, as IDE Presets, switching manually, but having that baked in, would be a benefit.

OneTimePetes··on New emails released in the McDonald’s ice cream machine lawsuit
Its home away from home.
OneTimePetes··on Everyday robots are slowly leaving the lab
A bowl of rice for a day of labour in the rainforrest sawmill that produced the front row seats.
OneTimePetes··on Why Are Electric Vehicle Companies Worth So Much Money?
The will eat the cakes of existing car companies.

The race starts a new, and the technological advances of the previous years have been annihilated. Add to that, that the new value generator in cars is clearly software- a field were the old car companies have shown no expertise and voila.

OneTimePetes··on An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred
Committees the homeopathic responsibility dilution of any thoroughly dysfunctional organization.

Make them agree on the one who should shoulder responsibility for a possible problem, to crash the process.

OneTimePetes··on Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s
Atomized Individuals Propaganda without any love or attachment to others.

I know its the state/corpos wish that we are all interchangeable people-toner easy to pack into cartridges, easy to produce, easy to consume, but some of us cling to the old ways and others.

Sorry. Clingy, sticky, nasty, humans. The new man, you want to go towards will surely not have this flaws. What a marvellous ideal sociopath that will be.

OneTimePetes··on Flatpak Is Not the Future
Should have performance indicators with every app - the kids who grew up on the performancelandfill slopes of the Mount Moore would have a hard time explaining away there whatsapp clone needing the same % as a major application.

Yeeh, who enter the plateau, abandon all hope you will get away with leaky abstractions.

Wish the lazy bloat-load was build as architectural pattern into apps. It only installs when you actually use it.

OneTimePetes··on The black hole of software engineering research (2015)
Behind closed door software engineering is actually done only when the bad first implementation runs into limits. Software Engineering is similar to JIT-Compiling, it only applies to the hot-loop in a company.

Things that must work, and were every transactional loss has a cost to it. The first fb-implementation could be lousy technological wise, but the moment it generated add revenue and the site was "slowed down" to the point it lost people, cooperated software-engineering starts to exist.

Any architecture created before these constraints applied, is just legacy and if burdened with useless abstractions, often even a total loss. So, the war stories, the strange Optimizations needed to get something valuable enough for somebody to be "on call 247" thats the actual software engineering research.

Academia does not really work under these constraints, thus its solutions are "beautiful" but only relevant, when "pre-incident" architecture proofs it can survive even to post-incident.

OneTimePetes··on Books I loved reading this year
================= Begin of the Interesting Part, Discussion & Recommendations ==================

Above parent nothing but man mumbling after famous persons to invoke the Goddess of transitivity of all properties.

Seriously though, i brought this upon myself by opening one of the fanboi threads <Famous Name> does/reads/eats, but how do i filter out the filler more efficiently?

Enter: Dang from Hammerspace

OneTimePetes··on Data Oriented Design – first chapter (2018)
To be honest i wish there was some sort of situational Design Paradigm - the VIM of languages. OO in the design of the Structures/Debug-Data Representation, DOD in the structures and algos, functional whenever the programmer itself is represented (the "marshallers and handlers" in OO.)

Somewhere in this triangle of worlds, there is a optimum of speed, debug and reason ability and beautiful code with minimal repetition..

OneTimePetes··on Chomsky: Ending Climate Change “Has to Come from Mass Popular Action,” Not Pols
Lets build a problem accelerator and see what exotic particles are created when the problems crash into each other at light speed..
OneTimePetes··on Adults who microdose psychedelics report lower levels of depression and anxiety [pdf]
Adults who are addicted report anything positive to keep the substance flowing?
OneTimePetes··on The price of individualism has proved to be the loss of privacy
Sigh, read it and abandoned it. The true price is never discussed. He who feeds the data dragon, supplies a Interface for Social engineering on a unprecedented scale.

Facebook or Google could cook subtle social control schemes up in a cognitive blindspot and we could not even observe or discuss them, because they would seem natural to us. Like a synthetic religion and cults, just replacing the old religions & communitys, easily accessible for manipulation via the social networks.

OneTimePetes··on Can beavers make our cities better?
Already had a tractor axle broken, when the machine sinks with one wheel into the caves?

We got 50 € compensation and mentioned in the newspaper as "compensated" for the damage. This is a terraforming animal and not compatible with civilizations landscape, no matter what tales they tell.

OneTimePetes··on Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)
And never once did they learn a thing from the told you so. Sales is ridiculously decoupled from all the chaos they cause in most companies. Must be a easy job, selling something a company can not offer and then not having bear responsibility if you can not deliver.
OneTimePetes··on German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Latvia comes to mind.I think, germans aging population plays into this conservative mindset. Now add the manufacturing culture, wanting to add a physical object/machinery to every piece of software and you can start to see the brakes.
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