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UserIsUnused··on Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
Interesting.

I watched Dota2 first OpenAI 5v5 show at TI8, and they did had different actions, like which spells used to initiated, how some spells are used, etc.

But tht AI was very limited in Hero pool.

UserIsUnused··on Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
I agree. but I want to add that selfish doesn't mean wrong. Or even ethically wrong.
UserIsUnused··on Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
The other regions of Spain are not so much Castile lovers as you think.
UserIsUnused··on Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
Running away from restrained bulls is not the same as torturing and killing a bull for show.
UserIsUnused··on Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
Well, there was the global crisis, that Spain was affected.

Besides that, I don't think that there was anything big, it's just with the rise of things like populism and patriotism, it's normal for these movements to rise as well, as they already existed. It was just short of some leaders, and opportunity.

The secession of Catalonia actually appeals to me, but these seems more manipulation by their charismatic leader than an actual resolve. They could do it slowly building the movement and trying to amend the constitution. No rush. Rushing was just trying to get more money which got over their heads as the support and reaction was bigger than expected.

UserIsUnused··on Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
They could have gone the legal route, and push to amend the constitution first.

Not doing so shows the manipulative/dishonest nature of the leaders.

UserIsUnused··on Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
90% win on a referendum that less than half population attended has it was deemed has an unlawful referendum.

But it was still over 90% result.

UserIsUnused··on Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
Just Spain not EU.

It's the typical second biggest city not having internal relevance compared to the capital even though it's as good, together with the common claim of everything happens in the capital, decisions are there, most money stays there, etc.

Also, it's slightly different culture, language, etc. And around WW2 time, there was an actual civil war.

Discontent keeps happening, catalonian patriots gets in power, central government remembers that constitution prohibits secession, they do a referendum anyway, (90% win for getting out), get arrested/exiled, with draws bigger attention to the cause, Streisand effect and all that.

Spain issn't really an united nation, you have actual separatist terrorists in Basque (which have a peace treaty recently), the new separatists of Catalonia, Andaluzia has seen the rise of dissidents as well. Add to the fact that some regions actually have their own language.

I remember one time while crossing the border by car, seeing a tourist information sign vandalized because in was written in Castillan (language of the capital, main "spanish" language). Beneath all the vandalous paint, was a sentence: "speak the <local-language>". And this was not in one of those more dissindent regions. Later I got into the city, and every sign was in multiple languages

UserIsUnused··on Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
So, will Streisand Effect manifest? I think it already is.
UserIsUnused··on Detailed Agenda for a DDD Design-Level Event Storming
Event Storming as a concept is nice. (i.e. Before building a system, talk with stake holders about relevant "business logic" events happens on the system) It helps with building a common language, and understanding about what's important to the product.

But now there are levels? Detailed Agendas are needed? Well, consultants have services to sell, gotta name things.

UserIsUnused··on I Miss the Old Internet
Exactly. It's bigger than an upvote!

Of course, people could still get it from extensions, but not everybody uses them.

Still, the provoking nature on 4chan would still remain even without (you)s as it's the quickest way to get answers.

UserIsUnused··on I Miss the Old Internet
that is because of replies being the only "reinforcement" (gamification of behavior) you get on 4chan. There is no point system or similar, what keeps a thread a float is replies, and some people like having many responses under their posts.

This means that creating inflammatory posts, sometimes is the only way to get attention, or worse, when you actually want information and you post in a way that would get attention otherwise it would be ignored.

Identity politics usually gives plenty of reactions. Just like calling something bad gets more reactions that call something good. Want opinion on something you want o buy? start a thread calling it shit, and wonder why there are so many bad threads there.

UserIsUnused··on I Miss the Old Internet
>but also not downvoted

Well, there is no way to downvote. Point-based systems usually turn out bad if the community is too big. Just check big subreddit like the defaults, posts get too catering to group-think. Not having downvotes or even upvotes, means that you have to deal with crap posts.

For some people 4chan has "upvotes", what they call "(you)"s, basically a reply, people post too much bad content just trying to provoke a reaction.

UserIsUnused··on CleanFlicks
It's two different things indeed. Still, I do have a problem if it is the religious sect censoring but I do not if it is a company offering that service to the religious, and customers choose to use it, but not because a religious leader said so. This is because religious leaders have too much power, easily becomes cultish, I'm really afraid of religions that are just ways to make money, I think it's unethical, and because religion can be like a drug, if you add censorship into the mix, it's too dangerous. Basically, don't put censorship into the hands of powerful entities, being it facebook, or religious leaders.

As a disclaimer, I'm a Christian, with a catholic upbringing. I like religions, I think it's an important part of human life, it's just that they can be very dangerous as well.

UserIsUnused··on Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise
I would also like to add that I do love Spring's new functional bean definition for kotlin, keeps my kotlin stuff cleaner, and it's easier to replace if I get fed-up.
UserIsUnused··on Dependency injection is dynamic scoping in disguise
I like dependency injection as an assemble mechanism in OOP languages like java, so that I just don't have to go around with "news" everywhere constructing every thing I need.

I don't like having to use mocks and stubs, and I think that using those everywhere is indeed an anti-pattern.

Having interfaces for stuff that won't really have polymorphism, it's just there for DI or because some guy likes interfaces is just wrong IMO. Interfaces is a layer of misdirection, if you don't have a use for it, don't use it. If eventually a use comes, then you put an interface there, with modern IDEs, there's even short-cuts to extract an interface from a class and do the renamings if you want. So please don't make "interfaces by default" that some DI apologists seem to love.

UserIsUnused··on Ask HN: About Creating a Flash Replacement
There was scripts. you could add code to any object in the screen.
UserIsUnused··on Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours
I didn't knew this. This is a disgusting practice, and another reason why you should keep the installers and versioning. At least GOG let's you keep the installer.
UserIsUnused··on Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours
This. You can give away or re-sell what you own. You can't do that on digital content.
UserIsUnused··on $15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
Are you a business owner?
UserIsUnused··on $15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
please don't ignore the rest of the post because of that line. But I do agree about that being insulting
UserIsUnused··on $15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
I was not arguing pro or against the raise, I was explaining why an owner of a business that is still profitable might close.
UserIsUnused··on Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
>Sadly, having an open and explicit CoC and governance structure gives these people a weapon to use against you.

Also, not having one also makes lots of people rally against you. You can't win on the CoC front

UserIsUnused··on $15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
Because if it doesn't bring the profit he's used to, or if he can't have the same quality of life, he might as well fire everybody and close rather than putting more hours in a restaurant, which by experience I can tell you is one of the most stressful business. In fact, there are studies that confirm my personal experience anecdote.

Being profitable is not the same as leading a decent business, and decent quality of life.

UserIsUnused··on Software projects written in Haskell
Can you name them?
UserIsUnused··on BlizzCon 2019 Protest “Full-Steam Ahead,” Say Organizers
Thanks.
UserIsUnused··on Software projects written in Haskell
haskell extremely easy if it's your first language.
UserIsUnused··on Software projects written in Haskell
The complexity lies in the ecosystem (GHC, extensions) rather than the language itself.

But yeah, I agree, comparing the haskell you learn at your first programming course, and the production haskell, it's like 2 different worlds

UserIsUnused··on Software projects written in Haskell
IMO, only when trying to get loads of performance. It's just messing with the compiler...
UserIsUnused··on Faces of Open Source
The number one face of free software, the one who spawned the creation of a whole open source UNIX OS is not there, it's really amusing how some decision like this could be made.
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