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qwe098cube··on Vertigo – a public domain 3D flight simulator (2003)
TempleOS also has a flight simulator, with a banger soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQEfLaR4Pg
qwe098cube··on Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are absolute geniuses, derka derka

Edit: The Lord Song "Push" on South Park [1] was also a real banger ya ya ya

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhGcG2nijaI

qwe098cube··on Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
Princess Mononoke [1] (1997) had an impact on how I value our environment and also was my gateway into anime

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke

qwe098cube··on The harmful impact of Audible-exclusive audiobooks
Yes it would exist because netflix acted merley as the distributer for Eric Goode's docu series which he started filming in 2014. So not so much difference after all.
qwe098cube··on I am a model and I know that artificial intelligence will take my job
i can see that software will also eat the fashion industry how ever not primarily with AI first but CGI+AI. I can imagine that there will be a transition from hollywood like VFX artists from film/gaming to fashion if the demand for CG models is there.

Putting real life actors in AAA games has been a thing for years at this point, but now the graphics are so advanced that it will look completely photo real within the next couple console generations. Those game companies put real life actors in their movies because of the audience recognizes them. Same thing will likely happen for fashion as well. If you buy famous models'/celebrities' digital model you can reuse and license that however you want.

qwe098cube··on Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
well chrome has won the browser wars in the long run and chrome is notorious for its memory hunger. So maybe RAM hogging is the key to success. Interestingly Teams uses >1.2GB of RAM via its 6 processes on my mac, same as Outlook.
qwe098cube··on Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
So this is another reboot of the browser wars but with messengers? Is this the new era of messenger wars?
qwe098cube··on Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard
Even worse, the german treasury secretary Olaf Scholz apparently was already informed about the suspicions the BaFin had back in February 2019.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/scholz-wirecard-101.html

qwe098cube··on Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world?
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
qwe098cube··on Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired
I never understood their pitch in first place. Why pay for quick bites when I get decent content (~10min) for free on youtube? Generally, I would assume people watch netflix/amazon/disney content for entertainment and expect their originals to be of the usual or slight longer duration. That's content to enjoy watching over a longer period of time. People like this format, hence binge watching is a thing. I can't see why people would rather watch a highly produced quick bite while waiting in line for a coffee instead of watching a new upload from a subscribed creator on youtube for like 10 minutes. There are plenty of famous youtubers upload almost daily, with daily/weekly views much higher than the total app downloads quibi has so far. And they don't have a ~2B$ war chest.
qwe098cube··on MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
what signaling behavior?
qwe098cube··on Why are there so few black people in STEM?
the numbers are from this source: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf19304/digest/field-of-degree-m...

it distinguishes between white (59.3), Asian (10.8), Black or African American (3.9), Hispanic or Latino (10.4), American Indian or Alaska Native (0.3) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (0.1) and Temporary visa holder (9.3) for Engineering

Edit: and More than one race, unknown, or other (5.9), adds up to 100

qwe098cube··on SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit
I'm so hyped for this.

I still remember when I was very little and my dad took me to a launch once.

Hope manned rocket launches will get more regular again and seeing them will inspire a whole new generation.

qwe098cube··on She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird
Seems like a good idea to change your number... after 4 years.
qwe098cube··on Five Years of Rust
https://areweguiyet.com/ gives a broad overview, but is slightly outdated i believe. I recommend all raph linus' research on this topic, fairly recent blog: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2019/10/31/rust-2020....

Personally I used iced [1] a bit and found it very pleasant to use. iced is cross platform, sponsored and very active.

https://github.com/hecrj/iced

qwe098cube··on Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders
It's not only a question about how many have to get it to reach herd immunity but also how long this will take. 3 months in lockdown won't cut it and there is no vaccine available in 3 months.

> Some people want to argue the next thing "those are mostly old people or sick people", so too bad for them?

No, they are most vulnerable and should therefor treated differently than other groups that are not. They also don't tend to work. Considering that ~20%-50% of covid deaths are nursing home residents, protecting them should be priority, not shutting it all down in hope it will dry up over the next 3 months, it won't.

qwe098cube··on Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders
I miss a precise goal what this extended lockdown should achieve. Is it adequate medical support or stopping the virus and the deaths? The latter seems highly unlikely given the metric of 14 days without deaths. What if there are still a lot of cases in July, lockdown indefinitely?
qwe098cube··on Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders
CA only has $17.5 billion in reserve as of February. This will most definitively don't last until July. And the government has made it clear they won't bail out states. Once the money drys up CA can't afford to keep counties locked down indefinitely.
qwe098cube··on Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
here is an archive http://archive.is/yICx0
qwe098cube··on Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
I would think so, too. Considering that Lidl is the biggest discounter with around 11,000 branches worldwide, it might make sense for them to ditch AWS and set up their own, independent infrastructure.
qwe098cube··on Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
I get the appeal of UBI, more self determination, personal fulfilment etc.

Whenever I hear the arguments for UBI, the arguments for personal fulfilment are usually predominant and financial aspects are usually left out. I'm always interested in "how to pay for all this?", which proponents of UBI often classify as a conservative talking point, but that is clearly not the case.

Another point I usually bring up is "how much is necessary to achieve that? and why?" is $1000 each month enough and how should this be adapted over time.

My biggest concern with UBI and I haven't heard a convincing answer to it yet, how to prevent the baseline from being moved permanently and eating up all the additional income. If you make low income jobs less attractive, employers must pay more to keep their employees so they have to raise prices accordingly or go bust. So how to avoid that UBI is not just massive inflation in the long run.

qwe098cube··on NovaStelo: Block-style programming for multi-agent systems, based on MIT Scratch
I have read "multi-agent system" or "agent based programming" a few times, but I have not yet understood what is meant by it.