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The simplest reason that Nexus is 'bad' is that it throttles free user downloads, so you may spend hours downloading a large mod at 2MB/s. There's nothing wrong with a site like Nexus, but Nexus specifically is very annoying to use.

Why do people just make up things like this? Did you hear it somewhere and never research it?

Clearly there are businesses that serve millions or billions of users, and have a serious need for engineers with experience with the tools to do so. Engineers seeking those jobs are then motivated to use those tools to engineer systems serving orders of magnitude fewer customers simply so they can claim that experience.

There's a difference between 'entitlement' and recognizing that a system is flawed such that it doesn't necessarily select for the best candidates, only those who are willing to play the game hardest, which doesn't necessarily correlate with the best on the job performance.

The zero sum burnout games many Chinese and Indian students play are also a good example of such a system, and I think it's a positive feature of American culture that it's objected to.

Although there are plenty of examples of great physicists with very early output, most typically continue to contribute substantially. Even Einstein's major breakthroughs in general relativity didn't come until his late 30s. Modern theoretical physicists like Ed Witten often didn't get started until ~25 and most of their contributions come much later.

The ability to draw and connect straight lines is much more fluid than any system design or general drawing tool I've used, very smooth. It would be great to have a free drawing tool on top of this.

The drag function is quite janky insofar as you need to drag then release on an object, then click again to place. It should probably be either click once or hold down lmb.

Being able to import your own images if probably the most essential feature you could add.

Proton is incredibly impressive nowadays, even when dealing with highly invasive anticheat services. I think there are only a small handful of games in my steam library where it doesn't work well. Within 5 years I think most of the remaining friction to gaming on linux will be gone.

It changes it in the sense that the theorized cause of her temporal lobe being missing (a stroke in infancy) is quite possibly false, and it's actually some sort of genetic trait. Of course, perhaps they were both predisposed to strokes in that lobe, but in either case it adds an extra dimension to the context in which the brain is still very functional with unconventional biology.

It's been 20 to 40 years for about 60 years, now we're down to 10 to 20 we might get down to 5 to 10 in only 30 more years!

The current ability to produce so much food in the developed world using modern fertilizer and methods, despite their disadvantages, means the most common threat that challenged our ancestors (famine) is barely present in many countries where it was a continual threat since civilization developed. Only global warming and nuclear war pose a similar threat, and only the former is worse now than it has been in the past, even given present circumstance.

There's a difference between providing information ("Someone significant to many members of this community has died recently") and providing a (arguably very superficial) signal of support for a cause dear to some of the developers.

I think the writer is so completely wrong in his characterization of the internet and all of its free information not even producing "some sort of bump." How could you fail to recognize the massive change and pace of technological innovation in the past 2 decades? I don't know what sort of obtuse measurement they're using, but it doesn't seem to correspond well to reality.

However, I think I essentially agree with the importance of tutoring and 1-on-1 attention for nurturing potential 'genius'. John von Neumann is a fantastic example, but perhaps more obviously illustrative is Susan Polgar and her father's explicit attempt (and success) in creating a chess genius. Susan Polgar is the greatest female chess player of all time by a gigantic margin, and it would be hard to deny it's the result of Laszlo Polgar's efforts from her young age to make her so, especially given the success of her siblings.

His teaching wasn't mind blowing. It stressed cultivating passion, presenting progressively more difficult problems to the student, but with everyday consistency for over a decade.

However he was an excellent teacher (that being his main profession), and skilled at chess himself (although not as good as his daughters would be), something most parents aren't likely to be for a given field they wish to inculcate greatness for their child in. Accessibility of this simple yet difficult program is unlikely to be accessible to most people then.

Perhaps we could structure education systems to offer as much of this tutorship exposure as possible? We already know the lecture format and inactive learning is quite ineffective, so perhaps refocusing resources as much as possible on a more effective method, even with mediocre implementation, would produce better results, especially for those with aptitude.

It's another state providing similar benefits with a similar vector for fraud?

I think switching sides to China might be a more realistic possibility.

The way many people I've known seem to achieve flexibility is to accept a role somewhere relatively laid back, typically at a large but non-tech corporation. If they're coming from a much more intense environment and working remotely, it often requires only a couple of hours work a day to over perform, if that.

It seems like it's almost impossible to get a role that's explicitly part time (as you've experienced) but plenty of companies are willing to offer lower salaries while turning a blind eye to enforcing the supposedly 40 hour work week.

The other ways seem to involve some combination of working for yourself, consulting, and short periods of full time employment interspersed with not formally working.

I have a 4k 32" monitor that I use at 1:1. Maybe not for everyone, but I find myself unwilling to work on smaller screens now. Only problem is it can be find to hard 144hz refresh rates in this size/resolution range, but the smoothness isn't worth the sacrifice in screen real estate.

I have actually had a fair amount of fun playing Star Citizen. To my knowledge it's the only game you can actually mess about with friends on spaceships where you aren't limited to merely controlling the ship (i.e. Elite Dangerous).

That said, it's clearly well out of proportion to their funding. Some of the feature creep implies such horrible judgement by experienced game designers it would have been hard to predict.

It's really hard to say Ramanujan was a genius "without formal training." He didn't have the formal training of an English mathematician at Cambridge, but he had access to tutor and some material. He absolutely obsessed over what were essentially mathematical reference manuals for years in a way that was probably central to his extreme skill in symbol manipulation. It was a form of training that almost nobody would voluntarily expose themselves to.

Driving around while reading the newspaper and getting into frequent crashes, and advocating for the immediate nuclear annihilation of Russia, are at least 2 other controversial pastimes.

Arrest them for assault...? Basically every study or reasonable implementation of decriminalization has shown both fewer negative effects of drug use, and in many cases decreased drug use itself.

So there is in fact a simple answer, and I think you'll find that drug laws were likely conceived much more cynically than for the protection of the common person.

Hopefully you mean the 8-hour assignment was paid or that would be an unacceptable ask.

I don't think it's bad for 'competitive' typing but it's nothing like the real process where fixing mistakes at the end is almost a triviality instead of completely derailing your typing.

There's ample conversation in the linked paper about how the many demands of society and changing culture influence IQ.

The reality is that its one of the few psychometrics with strong correlations to a number of long term outcomes like income, wellbeing, crime, fertility, etc., and which is responsive to changes in the environment and demographics of a nation.

That said there is a point to be made that IQ is clearly not 1:1 with everything we think of as 'intelligence'. Trivially, most significant accomplishments take place over months or years as opposed to the minutes or hours of an IQ test. However, using it as a useful tool isn't as reductive as dismissing it entirely simply because it isn't a completely perfect or comprehensive metric.

There's already large contemporary investment in wind and solar relative to the past, not quite the same for nuclear. A lot of processes are inherited from very old projects back in its heyday.

Also owing consideration is the many advances to those processes that could occur with more substantial investment in nuclear power.

However the primary benefit to nuclear, beyond its acceptable carbon emissions, is that functioning as a base load removes a lot of the difficultly with building enough battery infrastructure to enable solar power to power peak load and through the night. This is particularly the case for service based economies whose peak load is often after dark.

Nuclear investments desperately need to be recognized as green so you don't have oxymoronic policies similar to Germany's current plan where you're decommissioning nuclear to become more "green" yet producing much more carbon dioxide.

To be fair this is basically just a texture pack, which is already something you can use. The real problem is the highly consistent UI design, differing in things as simple as if you have to use a keyboard or mouse to navigate a list.

Toady is understandably disinterested in putting time into that element of the game, and I think he had a bad experience the last time he 'outsourced' it.

Years later a guy named Ice Poseidon took advantage of the fact that Pokemon Go required you to walk around outside to play to do irl streaming, and the deluge of streamers trying to get around the videogame requirement caused them to pivot back to allowing non-videogame streams.

There are plenty of people in those 'privileged' categories who are not playing on easy mode. A given person fitting that description isn't necessarily represented by the average

Soviet news at the time was actually much more accurate than the USA. In the New York Times about half of the things would be true and the other half false. However, if you simply believed the opposite of what Izvestia said on a given issue you would always have the truth.