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wbc··on Starcraft: Ashfall
It ends up being a tiny portion of the game because it's hard to monetize.

The majority of the game will still be timer based buildings/armies (so you pay to speed up) and egregiously p2w pvp.

wbc··on Architecture Patterns with Python
may I ask how you're mocking Celery to test?

the two main methods I've seen are to run tasks eagerly, or test the underlying function and avoid test Celery .delay/etc at all

wbc··on To Delay Death, Lift Weights (2017)
I think falling is the prime example. All 4 of my grandparents were relatively healthy, no heart issues, mild elevated blood sugar not even pre-diabetic. Once they reached 70s/80s, all of them eventually fell while walking around, became wheelchair-bound or hospitalized and died after.

I wish we had good population metrics on this.

wbc··on What to do if your car is submerged in water
o wow TIL, thanks for explaining that. Scary stuff to think about
wbc··on What to do if your car is submerged in water
Anyone know how feasible enough to require modern (powered-everything) cars have at least 1 window that has backup manual rolling for this scenario? or is it just too rare for the increased complexity?
wbc··on Chronic stress spreads cancer
my understanding from the article is that they're working specifically w/ breast cancer, so probably easier w/ females
wbc··on California to require firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind
Anyone work in emissions reporting have more insight into this? Scope 3 especially seems tough
wbc··on Median Household Income After Taxes Fell 8.8% in 2022
well clearly the solution is www.houseguarantee.lol
wbc··on Who pays for your rewards? Redistribution in the credit card market [pdf]
This whole thing is just so regressive. Every time I use my 2% back card, I know some less privileged folks paying cash gets shafted.

I wish everyone would use just debit cards over ccs, faster than trying to count out coins, less fees.

wbc··on FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests
sure it is! it all went to fiat@, it's marked clearly in the excel spreadsheet and everything
wbc··on Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children
way to figure out the efficient market hypothesis and why it could be wrong at such a young age!
wbc··on Chess is just poker now
This happens across many competitive games, where you can raise your Elo/MMR by playing gimmicky stuff instead of working on fundamentals. E.g. ling rush in Starcraft, 1-tricking in League, etc etc.

Sure you can score based on flexibility, but the people who work hard on staying competitive knows at heart all ratings are just an approximation anyways. Just work on fundamentals, get good, and don't sweat the numbers. Not a problem worth fixing imo.

wbc··on Ask HN: How did you start higher education after 40?
Can you talk more about the transition? Did you start over w/ bachelors in biology? Are you taking classes online/on the side?

I'm in a very similar situation as you and want to jump into grad school, but it looks like that's not possible w/o undergraduate degree.

wbc··on Argentina's currency exchange black markets
Good news! Mendoza province now accepts crypto for taxes:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/argentina-s-mendoza-province-...

wbc··on Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity
Anyone know of promising cancer startups? Was listening to a podcast that mentioned pancreatic cancer mortality rates and it's basically a death sentence (stage 1 85%+, later 95%+)

I don't drink or smoke but would love to avoid cancers. Wife was working at a great one but it basically shutdown cause clinical trials are so expensive.

wbc··on A new vertical farm will grow 3M pounds of mycelium a year for fungi-based bacon
Has anyone tried this? How close is the taste to real/meat bacon?
wbc··on Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%, record high for soybeans
Yeah but how's gourd production doing?
wbc··on The effects of sleep debt
can't you just drink decaf?
wbc··on Apple gives top engineers bonuses up of $180k to curtail defections to Meta[..]
those #s just the cash portion or total comp (rsu's included)?
wbc··on Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned
I thought it wasn't just the sugar but the carbonated water negatively impacts digestion.

Do you ever get weird stomach aches?

wbc··on Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp
these amounts (10, 50, 100, w/e) are being lent on a minute by minute basis and are paid back in a week:

https://www.kucoin.com/margin/lend/USDT

USD transaction cost might be too high if the technology doesn't exist

wbc··on Tesla remotely unlocks Model 3 car, uses smart summon to help repo agent
he declared bankruptcy
wbc··on I lasted three minutes at Amazon
I recently found out there's a setting you can "opt out" of new design. So it reverts UI for reddit.com to old.reddit.com, and all your links/redirects work w/o having to append `old`.
wbc··on Advent of Code 2021
way to sum up my coding career :D
wbc··on Crypto Wash Trading
There's some misunderstanding here. The paper is asserting that the volume is fraudulent, due to wash trading, not that the trades are fake.

In your toy scenario, I put 8 on the best bid, you put in 1 more, then I go on another account and hit the bid for 9 volume. 1 of that is legitimate volume, and 8 is fraudulent because I'm trading with myself (aka wash trading). Sure you get your fill, but the paper asserts that the stated volume is too high (in this case by 8).

wbc··on Monte Carlo Methods or Why It's a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino
Super unlikely, the main reason is at that point many people buy tickets and it becomes more and more likely the jackpot is split between multiple winners [0].

Actually the largest Powerball at $1.586 billion was split between 3 people [1]

[0] https://chance.amstat.org/2020/02/lottery-ticket/jackpots-ev... [1] https://apnews.com/article/archive-6d98eff765c9e2f4b68367131...

wbc··on Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks
I'm confused, how does that capital flight work exactly? Say I start w/ $1 million in RMB, how does Tether factor in here?
wbc··on Activision Blizzard employees walk out over harassment and ‘frat boy’ culture
World of Warcraft, the cash cow product, is getting content delayed according to one of the devs:

https://twitter.com/JeffAHamilton/status/1419115702569472003

wbc··on Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups
This is great stuff! after working w/ various Django apps for years (anywhere from 3 dev teams to 200 dev teams), it's great to read stuff that confirms my biases :D

Regarding services, I'll go as far as to say adding ANY method on models instead of handling logic in services is a recipe for disaster. How many times have you seen:

  class GodModel:

    @property

    def status(self):

      # 1 million lines of logic and who knows how many queries
I've actually seen this pattern in every Django project :(

Regarding urls, instead of enforcing a flat file, I'd highly recommend always using django_extensions[0]. You'll get `shell_plus` that auto imports model and `show_urls` that you can grep for endpoint and gives you the handler.

[0] https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions

wbc··on TDD from the Factorio Team
I dont think they used bots to test, just rpc endpoints, at least as of 2016 blog:

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-leag...

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