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I don't necessarily think this game needs progression at all. Wordle is a game where you gain information with each attempt. Triword doesn't need any additional information at all. There's one solution (or should only be one solution), and it can be deduced from only the information provided.

If there is any kind of progression, I could imagine it just being successive hints:

- One random letter, but no information about placement - The correct placement of the random letter in the affix - The correct placement of the affix to the stems

But really, I think the simplicity of this as a pure logic puzzle is great all on its own.

This is exactly it. In most cases what I've seen is that "this meeting could have been an email" can be almost always be responded to with: "This meeting WAS an email. You didn't respond. Now it's a meeting."

That is also a very reasonable hypothesis. It would be interesting to know the economics in this case, if that turned out to be true. Spinning up an entire automotive engineering R&D division seems like a very expensive way to generate patents.

The article clearly states that data is stored on the device. That's the exact use case described - where people do not want any of their data stored on a server they don't control.

If that's you, and if privacy is important enough to you to want a local-only app, I think you'll find a solution to back up your data.

I don't think it's unreasonable to continue producing apps that do not require an internet connection to function and be useful.

Seems odd to me that Apple would invest in developing a car instead of just focusing on the in-vehicle interface device. Then again, Apple has a long history of wanting absolute control over form factor, so they might believe their better served building the whole car than just one device that's used in it.

Empathy goes both ways.

I think "tired maintainer" is narrative device to elicit empathy, so I don't necessarily believe this is true of the author, but if maintaining an open source project makes you tired, maybe don't maintain an open source project. Maintainer is a different role than developer, and I think a lot of people who get burnt out on maintaining open source are burnt out because what they want to do is write code and build things, not manage projects.

My perception is that many (not all - people can be pushy) communication and overwhelming problems in OSS projects are the result of suboptimal upfront communication - as well as a pernicious, persistent mythos around how OSS development actually works in practice. Basically, a lot of maintainers feel like the problems in OSS are a result of users/contributors not understanding what they need, but quite often, maintainers do not really understand what their users/contributors need as well.

For example, the author mentions the following as the list of things people are often pinging about:

> Want a feature to be landed > Want a bug to be resolved > Want your PR to be reviewed or released > Want to have updates and followups for something > Want to contribute and waiting for the maintainer’s update

I would expect most OSS projects of a reasonable size (where volume is an issue) to have a contributing guide that describes:

* How new features are decided, planned, assigned, implemented and shipped * How bugs are triaged, assigned, fixed and shipped * How PRs are reviewed and released * How and when updates and communication are provided * What contributions are desired, and how best to go about providing those contributions

Importantly, when these things are clearly documented (and that documentation accurately portrays the goals and working style of the project), the community will be able to help point out when someone isn't playing along and help them toward the right path.

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FWIW - the author appears to be a maintainer of nuxt and unjs, who actually do this very well. They're contribution guide is worth emulating for other large OSS projects: https://nuxt.com/docs/community/contribution

There's a couple of key differences between Google backing Google+ and Meta backing Threads.

1. Meta's entire business is social apps, and Google's is not. There are strategic differences in approach as a result. 2. Google+ was an attempt to disrupt Facebook's rise at the height of Facebook's popularity. People _liked_ FB then - so trying to get them to switch to another product was harder. Threads shipped during a time of volatility with Xitter and is poised to capture more of that audience as Xitter continues to decay.

In terms of how things will change in the space over time, Threads choice to support ActivityPub will probably mean good things for the Fediverse in general, at least in the short term (3E notwithstanding), and could ultimately serve to be the arbiter that kills BlueSky and the AT Protocol.

That doesn't make sense. Federated social networks have the same hard problem as centralized ones: social networks require people.

The part that's hard is the people, not the technology. Centralization and federation have nothing to do with it.

I think this is becoming increasingly less true. The primary media center in our home is an XBox Series X. We use it for games, movies, television, youtube, and music. It gets much more use playing videos and music than it does running games these days.

This is a super important space and hard set of problems to solve. Kudos for taking it on and sharing what you're working on.

Couple of points of feedback, take it for what it's worth: - I don't really know who your customer is. Clearly your app is meant to generate quizzes, but I'm not seeing anything to show me what a generated quiz even looks like. Is this for primary, secondary or university teachers? Other adult education providers? - Really consider updating your Terms of Use to be more protective of your users' IP. Saying that anything I put into your AI generation tool could become public is a great way to get me to not use your tool. - Your home page has a CTA that says "learn more" and then sends me to a google form survey. That's a little misleading - and feels more "take" than "give." If you have a newsletter for people to sign up to, that's probably a better use of that space. - "Get Involved" also goes to that same survey, which is weird since I would expect "Learn More" and "Get Involved" to not be the same action. - Gating your whole app behind a sign-up is going to really reduce the number of people who try it out, especially given that you don't really provide any kind of samples of generated quizzes. I'm going to have a really hard time giving you my email address and sharing any lesson plans (that have no guarantee of privacy) without any kind of promise or highlight of what I will get in return.

SyncThing looks like exactly what I want for things like this, rather than a bunch of self-hosted web apps.

Why self-host when you can p2p? (A little tongue-in-cheek. Clearly there are use cases for both.)

It's amazing how the "macro environment" is responsible for all the layoffs, but never responsible for any of the growth.

Even companies aren't immune to fundamental attribution error.

This website has a hit counter and it made me smile. I love retro projects, even if they do make me feel old.

This is about a game and a gaming company.

HackerNews is about sharing things that may be of interesting to software hackers and startups, not necessarily topics directly related to those two things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's exactly that. Jason and DHH have built their entire personal brands on contrarianism. It works for them, but at a certain point it feels inauthentic.

This is exactly my thinking. In this context, I think the paper depends on an implied ambiguity of the word 'neighbor' and how it's used in the context of orbiting bodies.

When I think of 'neighbors' in the context of the solar system, I am generally thinking of neighboring orbits. It would be hard to argue that Venus's orbit is not the closest orbit to Earth's. Or at least it would seem silly to do so.

Maybe I'm being overly pedantic here, but my view is that orbits have neighbors, and planets have orbits, but planets don't necessarily have neighbors. Something in the word 'neighbor' implies persistence to me, so I don't really consider average-closest planet to be a neighbor when exactly which planet is closest to any other changes constantly.

I wish "Click It and Find Out" was the default behavior for more people.

Brilliant. I love that the cycle tracks time between pixel draws too, so you can add in different delayed effects.

I don't think that's necessarily true. The article even mentions just talking to people about their role (that's not content), and then highlights why content consumption might be more efficient.

You could also learn about a role by observation - but that feels even more inefficient.

It happens in most contexts where generational change occurs within a group. We tend to treat the current environment as though it's been around forever, and often, as a group, remain unaware of what happened in the past. As more turnover occurs, more forgetting occurs.

Often, the source of the forgetting is, in fact, the assumptions made by the earlier generation that 'everyone knows' something - when the truth is that new generations were never taught those things.

That's the idea, of course. But the definition of 'article' is pretty vague, which opens the door for all kinds of garbage content. If you shut your brain off and just let the algorithm feed you, you're going to end up swimming in mindless drivel. Maybe this will be better, but I think of lot of people are just going to find themselves in propaganda echo chambers.

I think we're very close to the point that even video won't be confirmable to be genuine. If it could even really be said to be so now. (Instagram/TikTok are the most performative/contrived content platforms these days)

Time to spin up the ole SC2k again. I haven't played Minecraft in VR yet, and this seems like a really good reason to try it out now.

I would definitely love to see more things like this that spin old games/software into new experiences.

I spent a lot of time in SimCopter as a teenager. It was always fun to get to explore the cities I had spent so much time curating in SC2k.

I surmise that a significant percentage of communication issues in the workplace are of this type. It's not always 'clear communication' vs 'unclear communication,' but 'communication style I'm familiar with' vs 'communication style I'm unfamiliar with.'

1. Peter Norvig's Design of Computer Programs course on Udacity probably singlehandedly changed my perspective on thinking and modeling software solutions to problems.

https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...

2. Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom is of similar quality. There are a lot of 'oh that's how that works' moments in this book.

https://craftinginterpreters.com/

3. Doyle Brunson's Super System 2 is of a similar nature, but for poker. It's outdated these days because the nature of the game has changed so much due to the internet and a shift in meta strategy, but it's really insightful in understanding the human aspects of the game. His perspective as a 'gambler' rather than poker player is also unique, because he talks a lot about prop bets and identifying when you have an edge in a bet.

4. Stephen King's "On Writing" is a masterpiece of a memoir of a man and his craft. My own writing improved significantly as a result of this book.

This has been promised for a long time, but from my perspective, I don't really see this getting any closer to reality.

But for what it's worth, I think there's a conflict of interest here. No one is going to believe that Amazon won't prioritize Fresh or Whole Foods for these orders - even if they don't.

There was some belief, I think, that there was an app space for voice apps, similar to mobile. I don't think that's necessarily true, and despite Alexa focusing on making it relatively easy for developers to create their own VUI apps, there hasn't been (as far as I know), any real killer app developed in this space.

Not only an NDA - many companies also require you to sign anti-disparagement clauses, meaning you can have severance clawed back if you speak negatively of the company.

Personal email, obviously. Never discuss anything of this nature on any communication medium that is owned by your employer. There's a reason "Direct Message" labeling overtook "Private Message" in chat apps.