This hurts a lot for some of us. I am a Creighton fan and this was our first big year in a long time, maybe our best of all time.
Sports fans get accused of forgetting "it is all a game" sometimes. It is certainly more than a game when you think of how much some people's lives depend on the money from these events, but limiting the impact of this virus is certainly not "soft".
Same with me and BYU. We had potential for the best tournament run since Jimmer Fredette, and we’ll likely end the year #1 in men’s volleyball with no championship to play for. (Our last title win was in 2003.)
Will teams that finish #1 in various polls claim national titles?
Of course none of it matters that much in the long run but it is a big bummer for the athletes and fans!
I really don't think I should be having to make this comment, but it's not the flu. You know it's not the flu, we all know it's not the flu. Please stop trolling.
The decision is not about the players, it's much bigger than that.
It was also the players' choice to make their life about something that was always going to lose in priority to public health, if it ever came to that.
I think he is referencing this line in particular.
"Live performers are going to be hard hit economically. Consider supporting their work on Patreon, directly via PayPal, or attend only the smaller shows. Promote them on social media. Buy their work directly."
I do not really agree with removing this line, as it is good advice. I wouldn't be against expanding the content to include other professions, although the single-payer advocacy kind of does that for some of them.
Assuming you can, you should live around the type of community you want. You sound like you want to live in the HOA controlled landscaping suburb, which is great! OP clearly chose to live somewhere where they wouldn't have neighbors saying these sorts of things. They have put thought into a cool experiment that has apparently paid off for them.
Personally, I've never experienced a neighborhood with a strict HOA that I could stand to stick around in. There always seems to be a minority with too much time on their hands playing neighborhood CIA operative and acting like they've just received power for the first time in their lives. I know that might be a little harsh but there always seems to be some variant of this around.
I live in a condo now where those people still exist, but it is so much better. They have much less power and visibility.
When I learned that the game was developed by BYU I decided to play a Mormon spy. I was able to grow my church by building churches in poor areas and aggressive use of missionaries. After I was big enough I declared a holy war on the Jehovah's Witnesses and eventually steal their Mind Control Tech. After buying a major media outlet I was able to use the mind control to take over North America. I demanded the Pope surrender his church to me and Mormonism and the game gave me a victory.
I find it really amazing when a language's weakness drives an unintended strength to evolve like this.
Ruby Example:
Ruby projects tend to always have really well maintained test suites. The language makes it easy for you to introduce non-obvious bugs or write unreadable (yet efficient) meta code.
This has lead to 1) very mature testing frameworks (meh) and 2) high adoption and usage of these frameworks (actually impressive).
Funny enough, I think adoption of IDEs is extremely low in the Ruby world. 90% of the developers I interact with in my city are on Sublime/VSC/Vim. I've seen some pretty impressive usage of Rubymine that has made me curious, but never bothered to really spend time with it myself. I'd be really curious what the teams at GitHub/Stripe/[Insert big Ruby company] typically use editor-wise.
I do most of my ruby work in rubymine. I use it not so much for the IDE tools like refactoring etc, but because I can use it to condense multiple bash sessions into a single UI. I also use pycharm and IDEA, and certainly in IDEA's case I use it primarily because it's the best-in-class Java IDE.
Haven't used tmux much, and last time I used screen was over 10 years go. Rubymine gives me my iterative test results, multiple independent launch commands, the ability to run a single rspec test, refactoring support, autocompletion, a coherent gem environment, debugging etc all in one place. Yes, I could do all this on the cli, but I'm lazy, and Rubymine means I don't need to.
However, it really depends more on what is causing your specific discomfort. For some people it can be the locomotion or just bad visuals. The comfort/heat of the headset also can cause issues. If I don't use VR for awhile, then I get a little nauseous my first 1 or 2 times in, but after that I can handle just about anything for many hours.
Sort of reminds me of a talk Valve gave about creating an anti-cheat for Counter-Strike using AI. When asked if they were worried about people using AI to create cheats to fool the AI, his answer was essentially that it was an arms-race won by the person with more data/processing power. That person would most likely always be Valve.
It's a nice sentiment, but there are popular and easy-to-find cheating projects (not sure if I can name them here) that are still widely used, these projects have been active for years, before that talk was made, and still active today. Based on youtube videos and comments it seems many users are still using these cheats with little issue. And afaik, the one I'm referring to (initials P.I.) doesn't use any machine learning at all.
My initial thought is highly specific human language is actually harder to write than most code, and always more verbose. Well written philosophy comes to mind.
I'd argue that this is part of the reason ORMs gained so much prominence. They solve the problem that SQL introduces by trying to emulate natural language. Most developers will gladly risk sacrificing some specificity of the query in exchange for reducing the verbosity of a SQL query. Obviously if the dev knows their ORM/SQL well, there is no lost precision.
I find the ability to completely "close" my phone really appealing. It feels easier to ignore it, and the screens feel more protected to me.
I can also only describe the second benefit as "its like two monitors". I can watch TV on one and respond to messages/browse on another. I use a Note8+ already, so big screens for watching crap are already my preference though.
As long as there is enough clearance between the two screens to add a temper glass screen protector to each.
Every phone I've had with a case, grit collects betweeen the case and the back of the phone and scratches the phone up. I can imagine the same thing happening between the two screens if folded in my pocket.
Eh I'm not too interested in multitasking on my phone. Even on my 12.9 iPad Pro multitasking is mediocre. If I want to be productive I simply go to a laptop or desktop.
So Clamshell Android phones are a thing. The Freetel Mushashi is a T9-style Android phone with dual touch screens on either side.
Samsung has the Android W series phones which have a similar format.
Regarding the sibling comment, after the Droid 4 and the Motorola Photon Q, there has been a drought of physical keyboard landscape slider phones. Portrait sliders have been available for the Blackberry Priv and KeyOne/Key2, but aside from the soon-to-be-released Fxtec Pro1, not much landscape slider android phone action is going on.
last mainstream device i can recall in this form factor was the droid 2? I think it's been a while since a major one was released, but I could be wrong.
This is still one of the reasons I won't buy one of their headsets. Which sucks because the Quest is really cool, at least PC VR has better options/alternatives.
This hurts a lot for some of us. I am a Creighton fan and this was our first big year in a long time, maybe our best of all time.
Sports fans get accused of forgetting "it is all a game" sometimes. It is certainly more than a game when you think of how much some people's lives depend on the money from these events, but limiting the impact of this virus is certainly not "soft".