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Can confirm. I did experiments and math about this years ago- overtraining workers is only good if you know you are about to get severely harassed and plan to lose a bunch

Former masters Zerg here. You are partially correct, but actual high level play involves a great deal of small variations to these cookie cutter strays, and these small variations lead to a constantly evolving metagame. A good example was the kespa league during hots where innovation and strategy played a big role.

It’s just that a lot of that strategy is irrelevant unless you have amazing mechanics - and the difficulty of those mechanics means that you can’t as easily think, plan, or adapt in-game (because your brain is busy)

A big part of the game is thinking about “how do I win against somebody who does that...” between games

This neglects the massive rise of infertility in the last few decades (eg, sperm counts are halved). It doesn’t seem to be a choice for a growing number of people (I guess if you’re well off there are some procedures that can help)

> The Windows team measures the quality of new software builds by scrutinizing 20,000 diagnostic metrics based on data flowing in from 800 million Windows devices

One of my personal metrics for the quality of the software I use is that it doesn’t send 20,000 metrics back to anybody.

Manjaro and Ubuntu have been good for everything but gaming

The wording of this article makes e2e encryption seem bad and icky, which is a little thoughtless or the author

What specifically makes people look up to Mr Pike so much? Is one of his projects in particular, or just his accumulated contributions?

I think that’s also why angularjs was so successful. Fast forward a couple of years and despite everyone having to switch to vue or angularX, and it having a 40% “used but would avoid in future” reviews, it lives on as it’s commonly disliked successor. It’s main competitors/successors are created by another big name tech company and a former employee of one.

On my phone so I can’t find a link to the “would not use again” stat, but there are a few surveys with similar results that are easy to find

One day they will release calendars

Could someone remind me what the second champion punishment was?

> Twice in the past two months, men masquerading as socially conscious investors have lured members of the Citizen Lab internet watchdog group to meetings at luxury hotels to quiz them for hours about their work exposing Israeli surveillance and the details of their personal lives. In both cases, the researchers believe they were secretly recorded.

Apparently Canada has a digital rights advocacy group that is being intimidated through these meetings?

On the plus side, now we know their group exists. Hope they get some more funding now!

There is a lot of talk about protests at blizzcon. I hope the participants succeed and can keep the media’s attention on this issue, this has been the best anti-censorship PR in a long time. A big enough community reaction could actually get blizzard to change policy a little bit

Also in Spanish news: there was a separation movement leading to the arrests and jailing of separatist leaders after 90% of the population votes for separation. The leaders got something like 15 years of jail time. There have been massive protests for weeks now

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-50194846

Does anybody else still get 30 minute delivery guarantees? I haven’t seen one of those in 10 years

In the recent Canadian election, the conservatives used Facebook to target Asian Canadians with ads falsely claiming that the liberals wanted to legalize hard drugs.

It shouldn’t be facebooks job to police that though, we should have legal recourse when that happens

Can you not delete it first? If you really can’t do anything at all, that’s rough

> Reportedly, a database containing sensitive user info was easily accessible to anyone through a web browser.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the word 'breach' used to describe unlocked doors. It is absolutely critical that the door is locked, but a breach is when somebody enters that door and/or took something. If I ever tell a friend of family member that there was a data breach, nobody ever assumes that breach means 'unlocked door' (so they feel misled or like the story was exaggerated)

I think this is from his essay collection "Free Software, Free Society." Its a great read, I wish he'd written a sequel to go into more depth on some of the topics... maybe now he'll have time to do some more writing?

> In summary, Sourcehut is financially healthy, with an operating monthly profit of about $1,038.

> The total gross revenue during this period was $9,172.00

Very cool for a donation-driven project to manage that. Congrats!

Too many science projects reporting statistical results that do not hold up in repeat experiments; contradictory media coverage of the same topic repeatedly as a result.

Reduces trust in science, statistics, and the media all at once.

Fitbit has a privacy policy that says they won't sell or transfer your data IIRC, but that does not prevent them from doing so in the case of a sale or merger. I hate those clauses: the hypothetical argument is always 'what if some data miner buys them' ?

This is health data we're talking about

That is silly. Imagine that the genes were transferred via some toxic mould that transfers DNA but that was extremely hard to remove after the procedure. Of course the procedure matters

I’ve been reading a sci fi book called the windup girl. The setting is a future where agri-tech companies and bioweapons proliferated until some conflict happened that led to almost all crops on earth being wiped out, and only innovative new produce could survive the engineered diseases, so the agri-tech companies have incredible power since the world depends on them for its survival.

I would like to think it’s unlikely to really happen, but I’ve read news in the last 2 years about the USA researching tech that could lead one day to these types of scenarios[1]. There was also agent orange etc in Vietnam, showing a willingness to use such tech even in less serious wars (eg, compared to ones that endanger your cities).

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181009102511.h...

> Throughout eight years of civil war, Syrians who tied their fortunes to the changing whims of American policy have been systematically arrested, killed, and driven from the country.

> First it was protesters chanting for democracy—many took encouragement from Barack Obama’s statement in the summer of 2011 that the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, should step down. But the U.S. government looked on as protesters were killed or disappeared into the regime’s teeming prisons.

It’s as though the US government is on a mission to prove they should not be trusted. I hope most can get out of there somehow, this is very unfortunate

It isn’t exactly the ads that are the problem but the tracking. It is possible this is fine, but it seems likely to be... not fine

Edit: definitely not-fine: > Startpage is now (partly?) owned by System1, a company which...

> has developed a pre-targeting platform that identifies and unlocks consumer intent across channels including social, native, email, search, market research and lead generation rather than relying solely on what consumers enter into search boxes

I can see the use for that information, but I don’t like it being broadcast like that

I just found out that the game Dead by Daylight seems to collect your font list if you install it. Surely this data goes to some tracking company for fingerprinting...

Lowest-cost bidding among companies is going to do better? Security is often the first thing to go when your company’s survival depends on tiny margins

> Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.

Canada is blocked?

It may be sensible for the founders and investors, but is it sensible for the employees? Many startup employees are paid to a significant extent in stock and do not understand the situation they end up in. They are also powerless and just have to trust that the founders and investors will treat them well.

Rationally, this leads to many of the best people ignoring the startup world

If by Kde you mean plasma, I found plasma is too modular: every part of every window is it’s own window that can be opened independently, making search and navigation very strange.

I like manjaros package management GUI, file manager (for the tree view), and generally good defaults for things (drop down terminal without needing to install guake)

Plasma definitely looks nicer and has better animations.