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In NSW you are not required to hand it over to police.

From the site: "You don’t need to hand over your device to the licence checker. If a licence checker is struggling to view your digital driver licence, adjust the tilt of your device or turn up your brightness settings. "

Parent might mean export templates. Godot has export templates to build games for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, macOs, and HTML5. But there are also third-party companies that offer export templates for PS4, Xbox One, and Switch.

> Msn messenger, live messenger, Skype, Skype for business, Teams... I assume the next iteration will be named Azure Teams.

We have a similar issue in education. First it was MSDN-AA, then DreamSpark, then briefly Microsoft Imagine. Now it's called Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching.

Exactly. You can basically pick any subset of web technologies and just use those.

And honestly, when teaching the average person how to make a website, they should just be taught the minimum required to make a valid HTML document.

I think it's something like:

  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <title>My first webpage</title>
  Hello, World!

I suspect online learning - especially through established universities - is ready to grow in a big way.

> I'd distinguish between prepping and doomsday types

The New Zealand government sure does! https://getthru.govt.nz/ / https://getprepared.nz/

There are also sometimes ads on TV reminding people to keep an emergency kit.

I think you're right and I'd go even further and say most people don't want updates because they know that basically anything could change. I imagine non-IT folk look at computers like appliances, and so I can sympathize because If I woke up every 6 months to find all my appliances interfaces had rearranged themselves, I'd never update anything.

SPOILERS BELOW (Love, Death and Robots)

There's an episode of Love, Death and Robots called Zima Blue, where a robot that scrubs the tiles on the side of a swimming pool is progressively upgraded over many years by engineers until it becomes a fully conscious android. It then obsessively pursues the meaning of life through ever larger art projects, some reaching planetary scale. It eventually concludes it has found the meaning of life and in it's final art project it disables all it's higher cognitive functions and "downgrades" itself back to it's original tile scrubbing form with just enough awareness left to take pleasure in the singular menial task.

EDIT: I just found out it was adapted from a book called Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds

What have you already been recommended?

My understanding was that Snapchat is like that on purpose. Facebook became uncool with younger people because it became cool with older people. Snapchat want to avoid that, so the overuse of hidden gestures acts like a filter. I found it almost impenetrable (I'm over 30) and I had to ask my friends 18 year old sister how to use it.

I do it. It's almost impossible to find anything about me online, even if you know quite a bit about me already.

Maybe one day you'll say something on twitter that offends a mob. Then they'll trawl through your entire internet history to find some post you made when you were 15 and expressed a dumb view you haven't held for 20 years.

That thing looks amazing! A similar concept was these walking harvesters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJwDZXasKU

I'd like to add https://www.nirsoft.net/ to the list. 100's of useful Windows utilities made (and still updated) by one guy.

I'm immediately reminded of BumpTop (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=BumpTop)

I noticed this as well. Such a shame. Piriform make great tools for Windows. I use Speccy, Recuva and CCleaner all the time. I probably have myself to blame, having used only the free versions of each.

It might happen! IE and Edge were the last holdouts and now MS is switching to Chromium.

It's not just about the homeless, although they are the most affected. The very idea of it is horrible. We are slowly turning our cities into giant torture champers where it's uncomfortable to sit, uncomfortable to stand, uncomfortable to lie down. Everything is covered in nubs and spikes and built at angles that force you to expend energy. You can't ever relax. It's like this new breed of shopping malls that have no clocks, no rubbish bins, no benches and no water fountains. You either have to be shopping or leaving. Eventually the only comfy place left will be at home.

Hostile architecture is fundamentally sick. To take public space and purposely make it hostile to the human body is just so abhorrent, I don't understand how it isn't illegal everywhere. There's something about it that really gets to me. It's just so twisted at such a deep level that it feels like it is (or borderlines on) a human rights violation.

Are you using some sort of ML trained on Cultural/Media Studies papers to generate this? I'm struggling to work out if this post actually says anything. Granted, I've never been a strong reader and struggle with verbiage.

> disintegrate or some seams come apart

Don’t throw them away when this happens. Sew them back together.

I was in Japan for a month not long ago and one thing that stood out for me was police walking around with large wooden sticks. Many walked around with expandable police batons, casually fully expanded.

> Genome is just a blueprint of machinery that creates another machinery.

In neuroevolution it's called indirect encoding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution#Direct_and_indi...

If Unity worked out well then Godot could be a good choice. It’s conceptually simpler but is still very powerful.

But what if a state is causing the negative externality and the third party is all other states? (Thanks btw, I hadn't come across that term.)

It feels like we've reached the end of the old land ownership model. If you were destroying something on your land that supplied my breathable air, I would have no choice but to stop you, even though I recognize your right to the land.

Something is up. I haven’t seen this much scientific woo and pseudo-philosophical nonsense on HN at one time before. Unless this is a part of the community I’ve never noticed before.I think I’ve read at least 3 posts that end in “because quantum physics”.

They are used to mask the sound of you doing business. Some play music and some play the sound of running water. I personally don't care for that particular feature, but Japan produces the best toilets in the world. If I ever own a home, I'll import a top of the line Toto.

I've struggled with this. I'm part of a smaller local faculty IT and our systems are created by a central IT.

Some problems I struggle with:

1. How do I automate in an environment of so many disparate systems. Some things are done through web interfaces, some RDP'ing to an AD server, email, spreadsheets sitting on shared drives, etc.

2. How do I handle credentials. Central IT won't create generic accounts for us, even for testing, so all automation would have to be done through my credentials. How do I set up an automated system that uses my credentials safely?

3. Where do I run this system from? From my own laptop, a box under my desk, somewhere in the cloud where I'd have to beg security to allow it to do anything non-trivial? And how do I pass this on to the next person?

I've looked in to RPA type solutions (expensive), headless browsers (so unreliable), Microsoft Flow (limited and confusing).

I'm at a loss but I did recently find TagUI which looks very interesting https://github.com/kelaberetiv/TagUI

> My biggest fear is that you are in the minority of developers that can single-handedly operate one

You're right. About 6 months ago the University of Canberra, Australia started it's 'Bachelor of Information Technology in Mainframe Computing' degree program because of the shortage.

I love Lazy Game Reviews. One of the most interesting channels on YT. I found him via a video he did on an old PC game series calls Petz, which still has some of the most eerily life-like animation of any game I've ever played.