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I love dials and knobs and sliders in my software, but at some point when they are all for the same feature, there is no longer any way for the user to intuit how they interact.
I think my secret is working in a specific niche, but I could be wrong.
I mean, I know the answer, it's because doing both would be significantly more work for unproven returns, but still, a guy can dream.
I think the big difference between EVO and e.g. DoTA offline majors[1] is that anyone can show up at EVO and jump into the pools. For other esport events, to play in an offline event, you first have to have qualified online. If the whole process were offline beginning to end, that would be closer to the FGC model.
[0] I myself only dabble, somewhere between filthy casual and semi-serious
[1] and do correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know that much about the competitive MOBA and FPS scenes
I think parent's point is that you don't need skill-based matchmaking and ranking systems if you give players the ability to self-organize.
It does help that cheating can only help so much in fighting games. I haven't thought about it much, but I guess you could have a macro that executes a devastating combo? Even then you need to be skilled enough at defense and hit confirming to even know when to press the "win the game" button. And most of the games I play have enough defensive options[0] that the player executing the combo might still need to react to something.
[0] E.g. bursts in Guilty Gear
This ignores the easiest solution to daylight savings time.
Stop doing daylight savings time.
My preferred solution would be permanent standard time rather than permanent DST, but I'll take what I can get as long as we stop changing the clocks twice a year.
I'm sure it's a fine machine, but it does to me highlight the upgrade treadmill.
Sure, it takes four times longer, but it is about 20 times more comfortable.
With apologies to Henry Spencer.
It occurs in a small number of patients, sure, but maybe that just means I am more risk averse than you. My calculus is simple. I don't need wegovy. I can lose (and am losing) weight without it. Sure, it would be easier with wegovy, but it is not necessary. I am not going to take an unnecessary drug that has a nonzero chance of killing me.
There's the rub. We have not been prescribing semaglutide very long, and I won't trust it until we've had enough time to suss out long term side effects.
My father was on a long-term maintenance dose of immunosuppressant (I think prednisolone, but I could be misremembering) following his kidney transplant. When it was first prescribed to him, the long term side effects were either not known at all or not widely known. By the time these side effects were more widely known, it was too late, as he was already losing his vision (cataracts) and mobility (cartilage was being destroyed). He spent his last few years in pain.
I am very cautious about the potential for damaging long-term side effects.
No it didn't. ARM began on Acorn desktop computers, the Acorn Archimedes. ARM originally stood for Acorn RISC Machine.
Might I suggest a remix of Chemical Plant Zone for background music instead of traffic noises? I like this one: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04552
A lot of us are just drawn to computers and couldn't imagine not tinkering with them constantly, but for some people this is just, like, an office job. No different from being an accountant or an insurance claims adjuster or something.
I'm self taught[0]. I was drawn to computers at an early age, and I was hacking little projects together in a couple of different languages by the time I was in middle school. This was a very solitary activity for a very introverted boy, and I loved it. I still love it. Nothing compares to sitting down at a computer and just letting the logic flow through me unimpeded and onto the screen.
My job is not like that. I have 2 - 5 meetings a day. I am constantly coordinating and brainstorming and just plain dealing with other people. That is more draining than the coding. Sometimes I have a decent chunk of time at the end of the day, but I can't even bring myself to code because I am so drained by all of the non-coding stuff I had to do earlier in the day.
I love my job. I do impactful work for an impactful company that I think is doing actual good in the world. I work on an interesting project, and they pay and treat me well. But in my heart of hearts what I really want to be is not a software engineer but instead some kind of self-directed code hermit.
[0] By which I mean I learned from books and examples and experimentation. I did eventually get a computer science degree also, but I had been coding for years before I took my first class in it.
[0] Not the one I'm currently using, and I don't remember which
Browsers do a lot. You're going to need the same kernel, almost all the same userspace libraries, and many of the same background processes as a fatter OS.
But the point is that I would be helping nearly everyone. Maybe job training would provide higher "value", however that is measured, but I would be leaving people behind, and that does not sit well with me. In a sense, people for who job training would make a big difference are already better off than the people for whom it wouldn't, even if their life circumstances are more or less identical otherwise.
I mean the real answer is with untold billions I could do both, and while we're dreaming I'd like a pony.
The gist of the interview was, don't judge the homeless for drugs and alcohol. It's often the only comfort they have. What would really help is a home, but the cost of housing is so high that saving all of your booze money would never be enough to rent an apartment anyway. Might as well spend it on something that will make you feel a little better.