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> Their engineering culture as a whole is a one trick pony.

what do you mean by this? what's their one trick?

i've been terrible with keeping up with my reading goals for the year. i've finished "lost connections" and "the psycopath test" this year (even though i had started reading/listening in 2021). i've found both pretty interesting for different reasons. "lost connections" because it shines a light on some problems and potential solutions related with mental health, and also things we as a society accept as solutions which are actually problematic. not ground breaking at this stage but interesting nonetheless.

the "psycopath test" because i just love the way jon ronson writes these books (so called gonzo journalism).

i'm also just finishing "the hidden life of trees", from which i've been learning some interesting trivia about trees and it has made me pay closer attention to these awesome plants.

interesting interview but i can't shake the idea that they have a very biased view of the situation (and i'd even risk saying somewhat unrealistic, as it is very us centered). not a single mention of green energy policies or the power struggle inside the eu that's been blocking lng imports from africa.

> Her proposal for a broad-based bailout of the British consumer for energy costs does, I think, place extra pressures on limited supplies because there’s no price signal that people should be saving. You end up with less faster. So I would’ve let the prices roll a little bit longer.

this is a glaring signal that they're not even up to date to what's going on in the uk regarding the energy market. the "signals" have been out for a few weeks now.

i'm sorry but this is plain ignorance. chalking up the performance of a collection of european economies to just "it's cultural" is being, at best, ignorant.

is the cultural problem an important factor? as someone who's also from the south, yes, i think it is. is it the only one (that matters)? no.

the eu (and the euro) works mainly to provide a cheap-access market for the stronger economies to a series of other countries. it's extremely difficult for poorer economies to compete with the stronger ones (due to regulations, size and how those two interplay). it's even more difficult for those economies to provide the same quality of life (i.e. higher salaries, same level of social care, etc.) when they themselves don't have full control of their economy/market.

> If you're anywhere from the middle to the left, this will no be the recession for you.

what do you mean?

there's also libresprite, a fork of aseprite from when they changed their license

off-off-topic: i've recently discovered (through a job listing) that the moj has been doing some open-source work around all the software they use to manage prisons and prison-related stuff. surprisingly interesting - e.g. https://github.com/ministryofjustice/prison-api

that's awful. do you have a source on this?

cycling, specially in these lockdown times. i'm not referring to racing or your road cycling. just getting on a bike and cycling somewhere, even randomly. i don't know why but i feel particularly free when i'm just cycling around. it has helped me improve my mental health. getting back to running too.

what is the right kind of male?

interesting. as someone who's been feeling extremely unhappy lately, i often wonder if most of us don't actually revel in our own misery to a certain extent.

another user shared this gem yesterday: https://www.jp.square-enix.com/denshadego/syodai/game/ (use mobile user agent if you're not on mobile)

yesterday's discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25980018

ohh thanks! i've played the psp one on an emulator before and i'm waiting for the switch release (supposed to come out in march i think).

i find this sort of games really relaxing. I'd risk saying this one is inspired in densha de go.

you're definitely not the only one. however, your car analogy doesn't really work as everyone has a fairly basic understanding of automobiles to the points they can hold a discussion about what's new in a more recent model. i don't think the same applies to software. plus the update frequency is much higher.

still on the analogy, with more recent models you also don't get detailed updates about what changed in the internals (e.g. "we're now using fuses Xyz mk2" vs "we've updated an internal dependency").

i guess making their update messages more interesting would require much more transparency on their development processes (e.g. open bug tracking). there aren't many solid reasons (in their pov, i assume) for them to do it.

what would you recommend?

doesn't youtube feature a patreon-like feature already, where you can sponsor the creators?

we travelled around japan, tokyo included, earlier this year and this was one of the things we loved doing. you just walk everywhere and you'll find really interesting architecture in family houses, made of concrete.

sounds like the old gtd approach to me

as someone who just picked up godot i really hope they eventually reach a point where console support is feasible.

there's quite a few tutorials on youtube. i just picked up godot and i'm following one by angega studios. it's really well made, albeit a bit outdated now, but the impact of that is minimal. http://kidscancode.org/blog/ seems to be a good resource as well.

you need to bear in mind that the government's furlough scheme is capped (gross £2.5k per month) and it has an expiry date. this means that in such a situation, you can't assume you'll be on furlough until "normality resumes". even if the government extends the scheme, the company can still fire you and opt for not having you on furlough or not. overall furlough is as uncertain as it gets. on the other hand, dismissal might come with a "severance package".

the alcohol and tobacco lobbies are also way more powerful

> It's delusional to think that they can be moved.

no. it's delusional to think otherwise, unless you're naive enough to think anyone actually means an office is moved overnight.

would it be possible to correlate this with any form of authorship of the content being analysed?

> (...) he has seen first-hand the damage that the internet economy has wrought on working artists like his friend, legendary drummer Levon Helm, who was forced to put on a series of concerts at his home at the age of 70, while dying from throat cancer, in order to pay his medical bills.

this is a bit farfetched. do you really want to blame the internet for the immense fuck up health care has become? really?

UGH! unscrollable page!

and you also have other things such as other pieces of hardware the the os needs to talk to. this might not be part of what "android is", in it's barebones, so you can't just hope to build an updated version of the os and that's it. a lot of vendors customise their android builds, which means that they need to be the ones pushing updates. i'm not siding with google, but that's the way it is. could they have done a better job in assuring continued security updates? yes, but they were far too focused on trying to spread android everywhere they could.

> When it starts affecting people who vote, they'll start to push back

i'm not sure it works this way...