While morally I can agree with it, from a pragmatic and gaming perspective I think this is terrible since it will 100% lead to some games not being available in the UK.
Why? Revenge? I would think that all parties involved prefer money over revenge.
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lunchladydoris commented on Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022? · Posted by u/huseyinkeles
Capitalisn't [0]
> "Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it."
EconTalk [1]
> "Econlib carries the podcast, EconTalk, hosted by Russ Roberts. The weekly talk show features one-on-one discussions with an eclectic mix of authors, professors, Nobel Laureates, entrepreneurs, leaders of charities and businesses, and people on the street. The emphases are on using topical books and the news to illustrate economic principles. Exploring how economics emerges in practice is a primary theme."
I've been listening to EconTalk since 2007. It's one of the only podcasts that I never skip an episode, even if the topic or author doesn't initially seem too interesting.
lunchladydoris commented on Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022? · Posted by u/huseyinkeles
Articles of Interest [0]. It's a podcast about clothes. I have little interest in fashion but for some reason this really clicked with me.
At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
lunchladydoris commented on Amazon sales of Deep Learning with Python are counterfeit twitter.com/fchollet/stat... · Posted by u/jmillikin
Stories like this are why I only ever buy items on Amazon that are sold by and shipped from Amazon. (In case it's relevant, this is in the UK.) I've been buying from Amazon for 20 years and have only ever had issues on the rare occasions when I strayed from this rule.
lunchladydoris commented on Ask HN: What is best way to do hands-on practice for system design? · Posted by u/maheshs
Hmm. I think you might be getting at two different questions.
One: How do you get better at systems design? Build stuff -- lots of stuff. If you're interested in designing particular kinds of systems (say, planet-scale web services...), then get a job at a company that does that kind of thing.
Two: How do you get better at systems design interviews? That's much easier; you can just throw money at the problem. Use one of those paid mock-interviewing platforms where you can hire FAANG interviewers to anonymously interview you and give you feedback.
I just went through this interview prep and got the offers I wanted, so I can offer you a data point. It took me < 20 mock interviews (total cost of < $10K) to go from "I have no idea what I'm doing" to "I'm not worried about this part of the on-site interview loop." Admittedly, I have a decent bit of experience architecting systems at scale, so I was mostly using this approach to refresh my memory (heading back to a Big Tech job after several years of retirement) and get familiar with the interview format.
There are some common resources recommended for this sort of thing if you want to also make sure you've read the right content. The most helpful resources for me were the DDIA book [1] and the "Systems Design Interview" YouTube channel [2]. Both are great for breadth and getting exposure to a ton of different concepts -- after that, you can follow your nose (or the book's bibliography) to get depth on whatever you're most interested in.
Good luck with it! It's a deep and really fun rabbit hole. I suggest you find a particular type of system that you're really interested in; start pulling on that thread, and you'll inevitably find your way to all kinds of other fascinating systems-design topics as you go.
Big plus-one for the Systems Design Interview channel. I learned a lot from watching those videos (repeatedly) when I was preparing.
lunchladydoris commented on Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16 astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse... · Posted by u/perihelions
That website has a wonderful retro feel to it. Functional and clutter free.
lunchladydoris commented on I've used all the notebooks tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/thcipriani
If you want to extend your journey into stationery, I highly recommend the Erasable podcast [0]. It reignited my love for wood pencils.
Stationery is such a fun and relatively inexpensive rabbit hole to fall into (as long as you steer clear of the bonkers fountain pens).
lunchladydoris commented on Euler’s number pops up in situations that involve optimality quantamagazine.org/why-eu... · Posted by u/elsewhen
If you want to go deeper, Eli Maor's "e: The Story of a Number" [0] is a great read that doesn't shy away from showing a few equations.
[0]: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691168487/e-...