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Many HN readers think the visionaries who actually create billion dollar businesses have more valuable opinions/insights than the visionless corporate bureaucrats who ultimately end up in charge.
But I'm not sure this SDL effort is a good thing. SDL has always been behind on fixing its bug backlog for the hard things it does well, like supporting so many game controllers and audio backends, supporting iOS and Android, etc., and other efforts at an easier to use 3D API that better abstracts different vendor GPUs have been underway for some time:
- WebGPU
- Godot's shading language
I have always loved that SDL separates its libraries so you don't have to use what you don't need: if you don't need an audio mixer don't include SDL_mixer, etc. Hopefully those of us that don't need SDL 3D will still be able to skip building and including it, avoiding bringing in all the bugs, bloat, and complexity therein.
I wish there were a united Protestant Church, but there are only Protestant churches.
Perhaps by Church the author meant something more abstract like 'the hidden body of all believers in Christ'. But the author leaves out the Orthodox who split half a millennium before Luther. Perhaps the author thinks all those Russian Orthodox priests slaughtered by communists aren't hardcore Christian enough?
Now there is a Lutheran Church (1517-present). What has become of it in 500 years? The Lutheran Church of Sweden recently removed an alterpiece by a lesbian artist depicting two gay couples and a transsexual in the Garden of Eden because they thought the lesbian's depiction of transsexuals was offensive:
https://christianaction.org/top-stories-of-the-day/update-ga...
Does the author consider Jesus to be the head of this 1517-present Church?
> Head of Catholic Church, AD 31-1516
Now there is such a thing as the Catholic Church (1st century AD-present). Who heads it? Catholics recite at each Mass the Nicene Creed affirming the Lord Jesus Christ sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. They don't celebrate a "Head Lord Pope" at Mass. You also won't find the sort of artwork many modern Lutherans fancy in any Catholic churches because the Catholic Church is pastored by the Bishop of Rome[1] (1st century AD-present) who was originally the Apostle Peter, who was succeeded by St. Linus, who was succeeded by St. Anacletus, all the way down to Franciscus (2013-present), and this head pastor doesn't let individual parishes completely go to hell. (Pun intended.) Just as Christ promised Peter when he handed him the Keys of the Kingdom (Matt 16:17-19) [2].
Yes, scandals happen in all churches, good and bad, and plenty have happened in the Catholic Church, including scandals early enough to be recorded in the New Testament. In 1 Cor 5:1 [3] a church member is called out for sleeping with his mother-in-law. In Acts 5:1-10 [4] two hypocrites, Ananias and Saphira, who pretend to give a larger share of their wealth than they really did in order to boost their status within the church, are struck dead by God. (This is one of those rare New Testament passages that shows that the Old Testament God that smites people dead is also the New Testament God. See Acts 12:23 [5] for another example.)
TL;DR: there are over 2 billion Christians globally, spanning a 2000 year history since Christ walked the earth, but the author's insights about 'What Would Jesus Do' exclude most of them, but are perhaps at least inclusive enough to embrace the artistic tastes of certain 1517-present Lutherans.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popes
[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2016&ve...
[3] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+5%3A1&ver...
[4] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+5%3A1-10&v...
[5] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+12%3A21-23...
I just read that Mojang added no opt-out telemetry to version 21w38a.[1]
How many Minecrafters are savvy enough to understand that this happened, and the long-term implications?
I initially tried to follow guides and "mods" to disable Win 10 telemetry but eventually gave up because MS changes how telemetry is disabled with every single update.
Does Minecraft ban/cancel people like PewDiePie as Roblox did?
Aren't monthly active users (MAU) around 100M for each?
I think Roblox is eventually doomed to slowly fizzle like Second Life, etc. Internet history is littered with the corpses of dead closed systems. Remember Compuserve, Prodigy, and AOL? Remember Myspace?
Microsoft might eventually, say, install mandatory AI inside Minecraft that forces all players to behaviorally conform to the social and political views of the most vocal group of Microsoft employees. Then some other immersive 3D world builder with more open rules of participation will send Minecraft to its grave.
By finger numbering I mean the standard scheme where thumb=1, index=2, ..., pinky=5, and the notes on the sheet music have these numbers.
This is the biggest mystery to me. I understand there is not a One True Canonical Fingering for a given sequence of notes. But some fingerings make the music much easier than others.
Wish some HN coder genius would write a program that given sheet music as input, outputs the top 1-3 recommended fingerings for that music with explanations for which rules were applied.
Kids can do video calls with their smartphones but prefer texting.
We could discuss Hacker News stories with video chat but we prefer text.
News and politics junkies prefer reading text tweets on Twitter to watching talking news anchors.
Once upon a time Amazon was a company that only sold books. Dried ink on dead trees. And in the early internet age this book seller outperformed many more "forward looking visionary" startups.
Billions and billions spent on making movies as polished as possible, yet "I thought the book was better" is what we always hear.
The Metaverse will be programmed with text.
The quarterly reports outlining its financial losses will be written in text.
When journalists ultimately write its obituary, they will write text.
This brings to mind GNU Humor's 'Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon':
The 10GT weapon really would have been BACKYARD. At 6MT/tonne (the upper bound for thermonuclear weapons) it would have weighed 1667 tonnes.
However, a study from 1963 suggested that, if detonated 28 miles
(45 kilometers) above the surface of the Earth, a 10,000-megaton
weapon could set fires over an area 500 miles (800 kilometers)
in diameter. Which is to say, an area about the size of France.
Miller's lab flasks were made of borosilicate glass and this caused more organic compounds to form than a more truly inert Teflon flask. But Earth's crust is over 90% silicates which could have similarly contributed to the formation of organic compounds in ancient pre-life earth.
Because China has 1.44 billion consumers and the USA only has 330 million, and companies like Apple in the long run can sell more iPhones in China because there are more people to buy them. The Chinese see Western brands as more desirable and authentic, much like many affluent Americans would prefer a foreign Mercedes to a domestic Cadillac.
Starting pay for Chinese workers assembling iPhones is $3.15 per hour[1].
China does not have as strong of environmental regulations so massive toxic lakes can be produced there extracting rare earths like neodymium[2].
Chinese women have more children than American women because in America we are constantly told the earth is overpopulated and man is destroying the climate, and in America we are told it is medieval for women to focus on being mothers who produce and raise children who ultimately become the workers and consumers that are a nation's true wealth. (The goose that lays golden eggs is more valuable than the golden eggs.) But if a woman enters the workforce today instead of having children her immediate production and consumption can improve this quarter's profits, whereas if she instead has 4 children who won't enter the workforce until two decades in the future, well, that's two decades in the future and here in the West investors won't wait two decades for returns.
So we must increasingly have non-American women give birth to the workers who make and consume Apple products and other Western brands.
[2] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-...