tomc1985

X4 Foundations is its name

https://store.steampowered.com/app/392160/X4_Foundations/

The expansion packs have expanded the size of the game world considerably, making the whole thing even more amazing

There's a series of space strategy/4x/combat sims called X where the latest entry seems to simulate entire economies and individual ships in real time. Dozens of sectors with hundreds of ships and dozens of space stations all humming along at 30-60 FPS.

Like Factorio it's incredible and makes me wonder wtf I was doing chaining together bullshit service APIs in my day job.

There's less data tying you to your identity with the web apps, and you can use an adblocker to reduce your profile even further. The location data is troubling but I've seen at least one of those randomize the pin slightly each time it updates your location, though in a circle radius so I guess you could triangulate it by staring at the pin a bunch.

There's a few other sites that are good for hookups, but I wouldn't trust any apps. Sniffies and A4A are the ones I know of

A lack of journalistic coverage

You mean the hands-off owner that lets WashPo do wahtever as long as they don't make Amazon look bad

There's still a lot of room to maneuver in there

A little extra, maybe, but these are extra times. Hardly "insufferably self-righteous"

Seems like a great way to have an engineering monoculture, what with all the good old boys at the Ivy Leagues

Agreed, but I think many of the ways that manifests can be acquired with experience if you're looking at one thing. I think the idea we are both getting at is capacity for learning, or quick thinking, and for that you need to see that person perform in a suitable environment, which the workplace is probably not providing.

And again, these are all components of intelligence but missing large parts of the bigger picture. What about the ability to make a point or debate well? Or charisma? Those are social skills, you might say -- social intelligence? So then is intelligence simply the sum of ones skills and ability to pick up new ones? Maybe, but then how does that apply to your specific situation?

My point is that intelligence is probably undefinable. "I am better/more experienced/more capable than this person at X and Y" is probably what you should be saying to yourself instead.

I have never found a circumstance where those comparisons are actually useful in the sense that they can make me a better person. All they have ever done is make someone (usually me) feel better about themselves.

Every time it has come up, the situation has been a trap of some kind

And what is smarter anyway? Book smarts? Street smarts? Your coworker may not have intelligence in the same areas as you, but I bet there are areas in life where they will kick your ass

What a lot of people are really asking is, 'how experienced is this person in the same areas that I am?'

> You claim to be more hard working and intelligent than him

Dude, intelligence is not nearly as useful in this world as we are made to believe.

And, you say you are smarter than him? That automatically makes it so that I would never want to work under you. People that tend to waste cycles on comparing their intelligence to others tend to be insufferable, egotistical, and boring. (To say nothing of the fact that intelligence is largely incomparable.)

Management need people that make good, obedient little minions for upper management. Who can make their bosses look good while simultaneously shielding the team from them. You don't have to be 'intelligent' to do that, in fact it might make the job harder.

> I feel incredibly stupid. I am losing confidence in making good decisions.

Why you gotta be so extra about it? You lost out. Big deal. Pick yourself up and move on to the next opportunity.

I like Zero-K but the maps the game takes place on seem to be very small. (And the music is awful)

That said the enemy AI seems to have a bunch of neat tricks up its sleeve. And it feels like TA-in-3D.

Also, I wish the developers would spend some time making the UI feel a little more lively.

Good, because the last time I used s3 (years ago) IIRC it seemed like public was the default

Not TA but there is an old Unreal Engine mod that brings is essentially C&C Renegade. Called Renegade X (https://www.moddb.com/games/renegade-x)

I have some ideas for RTS games that are somewhat different from the usual norm. I've been thinking about doing something with Spring RTS and old Total Annihilation assets. Wondering if this engine might be more amenable to conceptual experimentation?

So how is Chilean eBay then? And who's to say I'm going to have a consistent postal address during my time there? Or that the postal/parcel system is reliable? Or that the package will even arrive in time?

And, ironically, generic parts for an Acer notebook may in fact be more available in less-developed economies, due to their relative cheapness and increased reliance on industry standard parts like hard drives and memory. Plus, in my anecdotal experience, there are a lot more people around who are able to do repairs in places where "making do" is a fact of life.

> tech business is fast

Not nearly as fast as it used to be, except when it comes to breaking things. They get away with it because of folks' relentless optimism towards anything tech-related, and the fact that we are all used to muddling through random issues

Every time I hear someone express that users' bandwidth or compute are free and freely available, I cringe so hard...

This sort of naive, haughty attitude is why I can't stand hanging out with tech people in person any more.

It seems like providing sane, secure defaults would be more effective.

But that would probably destroy the onboarding experience, how many tech firms release big products that should have authentication but really don't because of "ease of use"?

(Here's looking at you, ElasticSearch. Did they finally fix this?)

How badly is the entire industry mismanaged if hospitals have to charge thousands-to-millions of dolllars for treatments? There is no possible way that is just barely supporting facilities+medical staff+reasonable administration+liabilities if other countries can do it at tiny fractions of our price.

Instead, the story as I've heard it seems to be similar to education: massive administrative overhead permitted by fundamentally broken insurance billing.

Sure I may not know healthcare but they really need to fix their shit.

Six or seven years ago I was in Chile for a few weeks as a language-learning exercise. While I was there the power adapter to my MBP broke, making it unusable. At the time there was no Apple store in the entire country! I had to go to Brazil or Argentina to get "authorized" repairs.

I needed my laptop and so I ended up fixing it in my friend's backyard with duct tape and superglue. (Works to this day, AFAIK -- but no more Macs in this household anymore!)

I am taken aback by this attitude against "right to repair" people. Do you guys seriously believe that we must all nuzzle up to Apple to fix our stuff?

> They make devices that last

Seriously beg to differ here. My MBP fried its nvidia graphics chip from overheating and all of my iPhones have had battery issues after 2 years (despite battery health reporting 80-90%). In fact now that I think about it the neither the earpiece nor the bottom speaker are working right either.

At the rate that healthcare charges in the US, hospitals can more than afford to keep X+1 or +2 needed nurses around in three 8-hour shifts. They just don't.

True, though in practice I haven't noticed it to be nearly as obnoxious as Apple stuff trying to upscale at non-integer intervals

Text fuzziness has had nothing to do with your monitor ever since we've gone digital with HDMI and DVI

Linux & Windows generally use implementations of antialiasing that aren't so "fuzzy," so you could always ditch that Mac for something that won't forcibly abstract away the details for you

MATE Desktop is still pretty simple and great

10-years-plus Rails dev here, I still get requests to connect from recruiters for Rails positions at least weekly, and my LinkedIn says at the very top that I am not seeking employment

Judging by the responses here, Rails is no longer fashionable. I find it to be quite boring and predictable, which is how I like my frameworks to be

Just stay the hell away from React and it's great

With the amount of in-browser emulators how there it doesn't seem particularly difficult to recompile something existing to WASM. Archive.org has been doing something like that for years at this point

This project is a nice resume badge. Just wish it was called that

It runs? I guess.

Neither Sim City 2000 nor Warcraft II could start.

Is this just another enscripten rush port or something?

Geolocation can be done without a subprocessor. It goes against the grain of outsourcing everything under the sun but all you need is a high-quality local database of IP address ranges.

And yeah, by all means, include that in your privacy policy.

I don't know details of the GDPR (as the don't apply to me) but a logged IP address belonging to the original requestor seems odd, do you also own the footprints you physically left behind on the ground as you walk around?

Let them analyze their webserver logs then. You don't need a cookie to geolocate users via IP