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by Covzire | 2025-06-17 14:00:27+00:00
No, they really weren't, they were made to restore an experience that matches 99.99% of people's own experiences and sensibilities at the very start of a game. If that's somehow offensive, then I'm sorry but it's utterly deranged and hateful for the 0.01% to insist that their way is the only way that can or should be for all.

Or look at it this way, nobody will demand any mods be removed or censored that do the opposite to older games.
by diggan | 2025-06-17 14:00:36+00:00
Judging by your two's comments, there seem to be a mismatch what people think of when they hear "Nexus Mods". Originally, it was just a website where people uploaded mods, and others downloaded them and manually re-organized stuff on disk, or with some game-specific mod manager.

But what you two seem to be talking about, is the relatively new mod manager that Nexus also has, which basically allows you to one-click install mods.

I think many comments talk only about the website (in isolation), while both of you are talking about the mod manager, hence the mismatch in experience.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-06-17 14:00:41+00:00
I just looked at Mermaid and it seems to as close to UML as I meant by my previous comment. Just look at this class diagram [1]: triangle-ended arrows for parent/child, the classic UML class box of name/attributes/methods, stereotypes in <<double angle brackets>>, etc. The text even mentions UML. I'm not a JS dev so tend to use PlantUML instead - which is also UML based, as the name implies.

I'm not sure what you mean by "unified system". If you mean some sort of giant data store of design/architecture where different diagrams are linked to each other, then I'm certainly NOT advocating that. "Archimate experience" is basically a red flag against both a person and the organisation they work for IMO.

(I once briefly contracted for a large company and bumped into a "software architect" in a kitchenette one day. What's your software development background, I asked him. He said: oh no, I can't code. D-: He spent all day fussing with diagrams that surely would be ignored by anyone doing the actual work.)

[1] https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/classDiagram.html
by gruez | 2025-06-17 14:00:44+00:00
>FWIW we have had a form of UBI in the USA for decades: the earned income tax credit, which for many people amounts to a significant subsidy over and above their tax burden

How is a tax credit that you only get if you're working, and scales up depending on how much you earn (to an extent) an "universal" basic income?

>Nobody stopped working, and prices didn’t go up.

Nobody stopped working because you had to work to get the tax credit.
by zeagle | 2025-06-17 14:00:44+00:00
They certainly provided a needed service with free bandwidth before it became cheap and a centralized repository. Tho I do wish there was more mod packs for games like oblivion or fallout new vegas as I’ll spend an evening getting it all to play nice then not have time to play games and for a few weeks. As a funny aside TESNexus and roll20 are the only two sites that show up for me with have I been pwned.
by thendrill | 2025-06-17 14:00:58+00:00
It’s worth clarifying a few points about Islamic teachings and history regarding intoxicants.

First, the Quran does not categorically declare all intoxicants haram (forbidden) in the legalistic sense often assumed. The verse commonly cited (2:219) does not prohibit wine or similar substances outright — it acknowledges both the harm and potential benefit:

> "They ask you about wine and gambling. Say, 'In them is great sin and [yet] some benefit for people. But their sin is greater than their benefit...'"

This is moral guidance urging caution and reflection — not a blanket prohibition. The prohibition as we know it today comes from later jurisprudence built atop evolving interpretations, often informed by societal conditions, not an explicit Quranic ruling alone.

Second, many prominent Islamic thinkers in classical times engaged deeply with altered states and substances — sometimes even celebratory of them. Avicenna (Ibn Sina), arguably the greatest polymath of the Islamic Golden Age, wrote on the medical and philosophical effects of opium and other psychoactives. Other thinkers — like al-Ghazali, Suhrawardi, and Sufi poets such as Rumi and Hafiz — explored the boundaries between mystical experience, reason, and sensory perception. In some cases, this included symbolic or actual engagement with intoxicants to describe the ecstasy of divine union.

The idea that “no Islamic leader in their right mind” would ever touch such substances overlooks both historical nuance and the breadth of Islamic thought — from orthodox jurists to radical mystics. The same diversity of perspective exists today.

If you are interested in learning more about the topic there is a great book about it : "Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing Book by Michael Muhammad Knight"

Finally, equating religious belief with hallucination because both may involve altered cognitive states is philosophically flimsy. That a mushroom trip can lead someone to perceive “God” doesn’t invalidate faith any more than a dream invalidates memory. Experiences can reinforce prior belief without reducing them to mere neurochemistry. Correlation is not causation — and even if it were, that would not necessarily diminish the meaning of the experience.
by Klwy | 2025-06-17 14:01:22+00:00
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by trynovo | 2025-06-17 14:01:25+00:00
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by derbOac | 2025-06-17 14:01:37+00:00
I have plenty of criticisms for the physicians lobby in the US, but kind of agree this is one area where I'm not sure the problems lie in physicians (outside of some very general sense that they tend to be in key positions of influence in healthcare systems in government and elsewhere).

I do think it's a good example of why pharmacists should maybe have more power in the drug prescription process, and also wonder why insurance companies or pharmacies don't ban drugs from certain places and/or sue them themselves more often.
by j_crick | 2025-06-17 14:01:44+00:00
But technically you can do that only because you recognize the pattern, because the pattern (sequence) is there and you were taught that it’s a pattern and how to recognize it. Publicly available LLMs of now are taught different patterns, and are also constrained by how they are made.

Maybe there’s something for LLMs in reflection and self-reference that has to be “taught” to them (or has to be not blocked from them if it’s already achieved somehow), and once it becomes a thing they will be “cognizant” in the way humans feel about their own cognition. Or maybe the technology, the way we wire LLMs now simply doesn’t allow that. Who knows.

Of course humans are wired differently, but the point I’m trying to make is that it’s pattern recognition all the way down both for humans and LLMs and whatnot.
by diggan | 2025-06-17 14:02:21+00:00
> Really surprised such a big community hadn't gotten sick of it already and built an alternative.

There is already, probably the biggest contender at the moment would be r2modman/Thunderstore, which is a relatively game-agnostic modding website + mod manager. Seems a lot more "open" (both in terms of source code and community) than Nexus ever was.
by awruko | 2025-06-17 14:02:42+00:00
ZX Spectrum didn't have joystick interface. So Poland had a cottage industry to build one as cheap as possible. The best hack was to construct logic gate using germanium transistors to avoid expensive gates with 3 state output. Connecting a printer required building yourself a Centronics interface and writing a driver for it. I recall some people managed to build floppy disk controller and connect 5 1/4 drive.
by anonzzzies | 2025-06-17 14:02:50+00:00
Aren't the govs that are voting in all over the place on right wing side all for 'personal responsibility' and no gov coddling? But sure, I am absolutely for rules for these companies, having a number to call with a human etc and not actually bring allowed to not offer that because the service is free or cheap and the company very large so no one thinks it will matter.

Drives are very cheap these days and it seems he had most of it local but went full cloud.
by lotharcable | 2025-06-17 14:03:03+00:00
Used 10GbE ethernet components are cheap on ebay.

I built a 10GbE 'switch' by buying 2 4 port SPI+ PCIE cards off of Ebay and then joining them together with a conventional Linux Br0 bridge on a old Intel gaming machine. Had no problem keeping up with line speed.

I didn't test wireguard with it, but it should work pretty effectively for testing what speed it can get up to.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-17 14:03:24+00:00
So I definitely agree about being smug. This isn't funny and you can approach this with empathy and understanding for how soul-crushing this is for this person.

And also, you do not need a rack of homelab gear to do backups. I have an AV rack (somewhat undermining my point I accept), 16U, bolted to my laundry wall. Within it is a network switch, my ISP's routing gear, my Phillips hue controller, and 3 PCs. One is a dedicated Minecraft box (shut up), one is my universal Ubuntu box for miscellaneous automations + plex, and one is a Windows 10 box that handles my DVR, file shares, and backups.

The actual backups themselves are scripts that run nightly and move data from the misc. PCs to the big one, along with some syncthing shares that do the same, and then the lot is backed up offsite with a backup vendor's application. I grant if you were setting this entire setup up from nothing, it would be a decent amount of work. However I also point out, this is all off the shelf batch files and OSS. This is hardly what I would call engineering, and that's by design, I wanted it to very simple.

So, big empathy, big understanding, I would give this dude a hug if I could. AND, people should take this as a lesson to not just shove all their shit into a monolith and call it a day because it's cheap and easy.
by UI_at_80x24 | 2025-06-17 14:04:11+00:00
I liked using Wave. I ran RPG campaigns with/through it. It allowed both real-time interaction for "game nights" and play-by-email slower interactions that happened between gaming nights.

Before Wave we used email only, and Wave was an improvement. IIRC there was a module/addon for RNG that we adapted for 'dice-rolls'.
by dalemhurley | 2025-06-17 14:04:31+00:00
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by hedora | 2025-06-17 14:04:44+00:00
Also, “the house burnt down” or “the bank sold the contents of my safe deposit box, including the restore key”.

E2E encryption is the only approach I’ll even consider for cloud backup. There’s also the problem where a product manger decides to recompress all your images to save space, or normalize the exif or whatever.

I used to use Amazon Cloud Drive, but then they banned encrypted files, so I moved elsewhere.
by GregarianChild | 2025-06-17 14:04:50+00:00
Chisel has a compiler to Verilog. That is not the problem. Many semi-companies use a tool-chain to generate much Verilog from higher-level sources.

The rumour I heard was this: The problem with Chisel was that (at least in the past) the Chisel compiler did not preserve port structure well. So if you had a Chisel file that translated to 80M LoCs Verilog, then verified the 80M Verilog (which is very expensive), then made a tiny change to the source Chisel, the resulting new Verilog uses different port names even for the parts that were not affected by the change. (To quip: the (old?) Chisel compiler was a bit of a hash function ...) So you have to re-verify the whole 80M of Verilog. That is prohibitively expensive, compared to only reverifying the parts that truely need to change. The high verification costs forced by this problem were rumoured to nearly have sank a company.

This is a compiler problem, not a Chisel language problem. I was told that the compiler problem has been fixed since. But I did not check this.
by myrmidon | 2025-06-17 14:05:07+00:00
Yes, but thats is not what the article advocates for (allocation of water between farming/residential/industry).

It wants to keep industrial water use away without even having a discussion about water allocation/price. This is because farmers (all around the world tbh) are getting an insanely good deal right now (on water), and any public discussion of water price is only ever gonna make things worse for them.
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-06-17 14:05:15+00:00
> How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE?

Once again: So what?

> The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting.

I'm part of this "median" you seem to hold in such high regard. If you try to silence all data points outside your preconceived notion of what the "median" view is, then what you have there isn't a median, but just a few vocal people who happen to be on your side.
by uselesswords | 2025-06-17 14:05:29+00:00
Sorry, I was definitely snarky in my comments and if I could edit my comments to remove the snark and change the tone I would.

However, your "It's great that you're in medical school and very aware" is very patronizing and pointedly dismissive. Its a superficially polite acknowledgment that feels sarcastic rather than genuinely complimentary. I don't really mind, and I acknowledge the point you're trying to make. But if your goal is to curate a curious discussion and avoid snark you should model it too.
by diggan | 2025-06-17 14:05:40+00:00
> You can have a closed system that does not "use up" water.

But those "a million gallons of water" (or whatever it consumes/uses) have to come from somewhere, and cannot go somewhere else at the same time as it goes to the data center, so from the perspective of the Aragon farmers, isn't the water "used up"?
by nirui | 2025-06-17 14:06:11+00:00
The example on the page don't really do it justice, because both of them are O(4), and the time delay is arbitrary.

The "" example should only consist of 3 operations: Dawn: REQUEST, Tim: RESPOND, Dawn: CLOSE. For example: "Hiya! What time was that thing?", "hey, 3:30", "Ta - seeya then!". Or even just 2, Dawn: REQUEST, Tim: RESPOND (auto close), this could imply that Dawn and Tim are really close, or really not close.

BTW: We are not designing reliable messaging protocols here folks. The chat software should tell if any message was lost.
by oliviergg | 2025-06-17 14:06:16+00:00
So many constraints on computers in the 80s. But so much fun trying to get close to what we had in our heads!

Big nostalgia for that era. Everything was limited, but everything seemed possible.

What got me into computers was:

A = 1; B = 5; C = A+B : C= 6

But:

A = "firstname"; B = "lastname"; C = A+B : C="firstnamelastname".

I dont know why but I still remember the revelation.
by ddtaylor | 2025-06-17 14:06:20+00:00
Workshop has taken off a bit here and there, but it's worth remembering that basically when Steam Workshop was primed to take off was when Skyrim modding was becoming mainstream. I don't know the specifics of it, but I think the Steam Workshop had some "paid mods" and that rubbed everyone the wrong way during a time when modding was not monetized.

There is a bigger question that is unsolved, both ethically and legally. If someone makes a Skyrim mod: (a) should the creator of the mod be allowed compensation and (b) should the game developer be entitled to garnish some amount?

I have my own opinions, but I think the community doesn't really trust that a mod put on Steam will be available tomorrow for the price and under the conditions the mod creator envisioned.
by esskay | 2025-06-17 14:06:49+00:00
Because Steam Workshop is only for games on Steam's shop, distributed by valve. That locks out huge chunks of your audience. If anything its good thats not taken off otherwise we'd have EpicMods, GogMods, etc and even more fragmentation.

Sure it makes it easy for people who own the game on Steam, but what about everyone else?

Also, as popular as Steam is, their workshop section is pretty awful. The search seems to have been cobbled together and has awful matching, the discoverability of mods is dire, and they're still using the same antiquated poor UX for discussions as they were over a decade ago.
by noirscape | 2025-06-17 14:06:50+00:00
r2modman is just an alternate frontend to Overwolfs nonsense and basically exists on the grace that most people install Overwolfs launcher (Thunderstore, which confusingly is also the name of the repository hosting the mods - my understanding is that the original devs of Thunderstore sold their repository to Overwolf) for it instead of r2modman.

As implied by negativity in the prior sentence, Overwolfs stuff is pretty awful to use; compared to r2modman, it feels like you're installing a PUP instead of a mod manager. There's lots of ads and it's pretty clunky to use.
by bediger4000 | 2025-06-17 14:06:54+00:00
I am not implying that at all. You are using a marketeer's vocabulary when you write about "content" or "consuming content". That's all.

I am implying that vocabulary choice is indicative of a general lack of thought and consideration. I don't know if you made that choice consciously, but I do think that in general referring to "content" makes the material itself less interesting.
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by camgunz | 2025-06-17 14:07:27+00:00
Yeah maybe I should subscribe. I read Never Forget What They've Done which I don't remember getting linked on HN and is it a little much? Yeah. Do I feel exactly the same? Also yeah. OK I convinced myself to subscribe haha, I did it.

[0]: https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget-what-theyve-done/
by kshacker | 2025-06-17 14:07:28+00:00
Ok I paid the 1 buck, or agreed to pay a year later. Those days I lived in India, and my friend kinda forced me to use whatsapp by selling it. I still remember sitting in an auto-rickshaw and downloading the app after the sales pitch :) This must have been 2012, but could it be earlier - maybe.

Point being, I agree with you, it was getting that adoption anyways, even with the fees. And within months, I was hearing this from so many others.

How do I remember? I moved back to US in Feb 2013, so it had to be before that, just can not recall the exact year and month.
by padjo | 2025-06-17 14:07:29+00:00
It’s a fairly common failure it seems. Here’s it happening in Ireland:

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/02/05/almost-...

I had someone complain to me about how it was a change made by the Green Party for bats: how ridiculous!

No, it’s just a faulty light…
by emushack | 2025-06-17 14:07:33+00:00
Exactly this. This is a major issue in my region right now, central Texas. Data centers are going up in some of the most drought stricken areas of Texas, and since it is hot and dry, they want to save money on cooling by misting. This uses precious fresh water that would have gone to support the overwhelming growth of local cities. So now everyone who lives in the area is paying more for water service because the cities are competing for water with the data centers. Guess who has more lawyers and money?

I still don't understand why more attention is not being paid to oil immersion cooling! https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10101126

It's corporate greed and an unwillingness to face the external consequences of demand for compute. Just because misting is cheaper doesn't make it automatically better.
by pfdietz | 2025-06-17 14:08:28+00:00
> For a long time, it was widely assumed that the first wall and blanket structures in fusion reactors could sustain damage levels of around 150–200 dpa. However, the attached recent article reveals that, based on the current data for ferritic/martensitic steels, the actual lifetime could be as low as 15 dpa in a typical Tokamak system. This significantly complicates efforts to design more compact and power-dense reactors—an essential step toward commercial viability."

(dpa = displacements per atom)

From linked paper:

> Using the available database and current empirical prediction methods, we expect the plasma containment structure (FW/B) to probably survive for about one full year of operation under a neutron wall loading of 1.2 MW/m2 and a surface plasma thermal flux of 0.25 MW/m2. These surprising findings suggest that very high fluence properties (100–200 dpa) may not be as significant and that thermal creep damage and rapid reduction in fracture toughness are the main factors controlling failure. Consequently, there is a pressing need to improve the creep strength at temperatures above 500 ◦C and to slow the degradation of the fracture toughness with increasing neutron fluence. Furthermore, it can be projected that for the development of more compact fusion energy sources with neutron wall loadings exceeding 5 MW/m2, new classes of structural materials may be required to achieve economically viable plasma containment structure lifetimes.

(FW/B = First Wall/Blanket)