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I don't think I agree with the "Stop Snacking" advice. We all go through times where we need a boost to our sense of accomplishment, it can put the wind in our sails to address bigger problems. Sometimes snarfing up a bunch of snack tasks can make all the difference in the world.

Yes, you shouldn't solely be a snacker, probably, but I think it's counterproductive to think of engineers as highly autonomous, robotic units that can view each task selection in total isolation. Previous, unrelated tasks can influence your ability to complete your current task. The weight of future tasks can pull you down.

I think most folks aren't super worried about a Venus-like runaway scenario where the planet starts boiling lead.

Instead the concern is that while the planet will reach homeostasis over the long term, in the short term it will cause mass extinctions, destroy coastal communities, disrupt food production, destabilize governments, etc.

It's like saying, "Won't a city rebuild after a major disaster?" Yes, of course. New Orleans wasn't completely eradicated by Katrina. But it was also awful. If we had it within our power to avoid a disaster, we should try to avoid it.

Clever. But also tragic. The poor teachers who have been caught in the middle of all this really make me feel sad.

Teaching is already a rough gig, and being forced to improvise with limited to no support from communities, schools, or governments.

You might not understand it, but the term is well understood in the gaming community. Just like Metroidvania, the genre description has evolved from previous games.

Another common genre is Souls-like, stemming from the mechanics of Dark Souls. It's a term for a game that has bonfire like mechanics, high difficulty, punishments on death, etc. There are many games that are souls likes that share none of the visual themes or moment to moment combat mechanics of Dark Souls.

And as several other people have commented, the games are similar to rogue, just at a higher level of abstraction than you are looking at them.

They not only had the lawsuit in hand and ready, but an ad and a deployment strategy to get it launched in game. Epic was clearly planning to go fully public at scale on this issue.

I'll try to explain with an example: I am able bodied, I can walk and run easily. When I visit a store or bus depot or whatever, I can navigate it with ease. This is privilege, and I am not a bad person for being able bodied.

I shouldn't feel guilt because I can walk. But it's important to recognize that my experiences and my abilities might be different than others.

An architect designing a public building with only stairs or narrow doors, or a traffic planner optimizing crossing times for an average pedestrian are cases of failing to recognize their privilege in being able bodied. If, after being made aware of their privilege, they continue to design for themselves then they may be considered immoral by some people.

I'm just about as socialist as they come, but I'm dropping you downvote. Yes, this move is clearly precipitated by capitalism, yes, capitalism sucks.

But I think we do everyone better by trying to put some effort into posting about why it sucks, and how it specifically seems to be impacting this situation. Low effort posts aren't going to change anything, and they clutter up HN.

E.g. Intel's primary motivation is to increase their capital, they have relatively fixed material costs and somewhat flexible labor costs, and so they choose to expend their labor (in this case by putting them in a risky environment) to continue to increase their capital.

I believe working on the weekends is a failure, and we should treat it like any other engineering failure. Why did it happen, how can we improve things so this failure doesn't happen again. Track and assign AIs, and hold people accountable to them.

> We identified 28 552 citations and of these included 522 trials comprising 116 477 participants. In terms of efficacy, all antidepressants were more effective than placebo.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I dunno, studies seem to suggest otherwise. I think it's terribly irresponsible to be telling people not to take medications that can help them.

A newer meta analysis from 2018 says they do work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5889788/

> We identified 28 552 citations and of these included 522 trials comprising 116 477 participants. In terms of efficacy, all antidepressants were more effective than placebo

Anecdotally, SSRIs do work for some people, and it can be life changing.

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but I'd do some digging into consistent hash rings.

There's already a community of people that does this called tool assisted speed runs (or TAS). These players already record their inputs for replay and are comfortable tuning them to consistently hit edge cases.

I wonder how much of a lift it would be to take a bunch of TASes and turn them into regression tests...

This hit me hard too. Heading into college, I was so confident that it was not only possible, but correct to be an emotionless decision maker. That somehow you could navigate the rational path through every problem.

Turns out I was just an asshole who wasn't self aware enough to understand my own feelings and was making other people around me hurt.

Or raise prices, or accept less pay at the top.

Getting rid of our lawn and growing other stuff has been amazingly fulfilling. I have fresh produce most of the year, I've got honeybees and bumblebees and mason bees coming around. I have to do a lot less maintenance, and when I do it's more varied and interesting.

Everything from fruit trees to berries, flowers to vegetables, herbs to herbal teas like chamomile.

Strongly recommend looking at what will grow in your area and start replacing your lawn. Chunk out a four by four foot section and grow some sugar peas and tell me it wasn't a thousand times more rewarding than a lawn.

Is that not a reasonable end game for them? Some folks want to be able to say, "My work doesn't support ICE". If ICE has to move to an alternative, then those devs can continue to build and not support ICE.

This meme needs to die.

> Catchphrases from the book have not entered the language.

The spice must flow?

Fear is the mind killer?

Christopher Walken dancing to Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" includes the phrase "Walk without a rhythm, you won't attract the worm". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8

Maybe to a lesser extent, "He who controls the spice controls the universe", "wheels within wheels", and the gom jabbar are all things I've heard people reference.

It's definitely entered the language. Maybe not as deeply as Star Wars, but it's not absent either.

> You don't think it's a little bit difficult to check what someone wants to be called before posting, say, a reply?

I don't. And it's only going to get easier when this stuff is a part of the profile next to a users name/avatar.

> There, I did it. I didn't check if “you” was OK with you. Shit, I did it again.

:eyeroll:

Not only is it not difficult to use someone's correct name and pronouns, frankly it's just basic politeness to call people what they want to be called.

So, that gets complicated. What if medicine finds a certain physical trait that is prevalent in 90% of cases where people are trans? What does that mean for the other 10%? Odds are good their lives just got WAY harder. Coupled with a history of being mistreated by the medical industry, there's quite a lot of (rational, imo) fear in the trans community about medical diagnoses.

Ha! Maybe I just worked in a less organized game studio, but the only reliable record was the commit log.

Except when people would literally just mash their keyboard like this:

Commit 1234: iuadiuasdbuidawbiywbuqbqbdfpbdpiube

You think the right set of people will check that box? And that if they do get hacked they won't cost the company a ton of resources in support/lawsuits/etc?

It definitely is a meme. Cuphead, Hearthstone, Ori, Cities Skylines, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Subnautica, Hollow Knight... There's a bunch of great games made with the engine that I've never seen issues with, many of these games are performance sensitive as well.

Edit: Maybe you could provide a few examples of games with those issues?

How are trains like this powered? Naively, I'd assume electrically rather than with big ol' diesel or jet engines. If that's the case, wouldn't these trains not only be faster but significantly less impactful to the environment? (Assuming, of course, that the energy mixture in the power plants that power the train aren't fossil fuels.)

This article focuses a lot on large, well curated gardens, but I'm an engineer who found a lot of solace and safety in managing my own garden. (As someone who has faced burnout and anxiety from work before.)

There's something about planning, planting, and then caring for a garden that appeals to my engineer brain. It's an exercise in organization and planning that scales from "throw seeds at dirt" to "these plants will attract bees near these other plants, these plants will repel insects. These will bloom early, these bloom late".

You can grow flowers, you can grow vegetables which you can turn into cooked, canned, or pickled food.

There's something about putting food on a plate that came from your yard, from your care. There's something about sitting in a green (or red, or blue, or yellow, etc.) space that you made.

I'm a sucker for games like Minecraft, Factorio, etc. Raising a garden is like a slow motion version of those things. It's a fusion of creative and scientific/engineering brains. It's great.

Clearances are one piece. Trade restrictions like ITAR are another.

My argument is that it's not anti social. It's maybe less visibly social, but being in a group voice or video chat while playing board or video games is definitely a social activity. Or building something together - computers enable us to engage in storytelling and art in ways our ancestors could only dream of.

Yeah, sure, they aren't social in the same way you were. But you weren't social in the same ways your parents were either. Calling the younger generations antisocial because they've fully embraced technology as a core part of their identity smacks of patronism to me. Kids these days with their rock and roll, so antisocial!

> few of them drive. WTF?!

Rad? I didn't need to drive in High School, and I still found plenty to do back in the 90s. Kids today have even more options.

> there's a frigging movieplex down the street with a bunch of restaurants and TWO parks on opposite sides of the main E/W street... and they just ... go home. WTF.

First, movie theaters are awful. Second, there's so much cool stuff to do once you get home! I can go home and play a space marine with my friends, or build castles, or ride dragons, or be the last one standing in any number of variations on king of the hill. I can jump online with my crew and be literally anything you can imagine. With tools like Roll20, I can tell stories and roleplay. I can watch Netflix with my friends online.

Restaurants are expensive. Parks are fun for a bit, but it seems pretty out of touch to say, "What The Fuck."

Any food beyond soylent is just unnecessary complexity. Any books beyond reference manuals are just unnecessary complexity. Any interior colors on your walls other than white is just unnecessary complexity. Any music beyond Bach is just unnecessary complexity...

Maybe people enjoy aesthetics other than minimalist? Maybe some people enjoy complex things?