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the eeepc netbook from 2007(?) is still my distraction free coding machine. it was the first cheap portable with ssd and sold with linux ($350 vs $450 with windows)

sadly Microsoft deathgrip made it shortlived, as the article describes so well.

and if you want a modern example: blackberry Priv! an android phone with flagship specs, and a freaking physical keyboard + gesture trackpad combo hidden under the OLED curved screen. it is my ssh and vim machine on the go! and you know where you could buy it? on freaking craigslist! even amazon never carried it. verizon and bestbuy? they only ever only had ONE unit, so you couldn't pick up color/storage. or see it in action because apple and google forbade any store from showing those phones.

its the retail death grip now, instead of the OEM deathgrip from the 90s the article mentions.
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I came to post the same thought.
They reacted to YT comments on their FAQ page :)

Can’t I just buy a Raspberry Pi, an enclosure, gamepad, keyboard, and mouse, 3D print a faceplate, install Armbian, buy 30+ games, build the source for ARM or install/configure in DOSBox for each and every game, create a menu system with game art, and tell everyone about it at parties?

No.

https://unitetechno.com/dt_catalog/pc-classic/#pi
While I think you're right that the Xbox One's Always Online features were mostly just mistimed, (and marketed) in addition to a Totem aspect physical disks are also a way to keep a game longer than however long the service's servers exist, assuming there's no required day one patches and the like.

The Wii shop for example will be going down for good soon, making purchases not already on the console inaccessible. A copy of a Gamecube game on the other hand will work until the disk physically breaks.
no, there is no ozone generator in this model (usually that's done using electrostatic plates).
Raptor Blackbird system or board this year at a mainboard cost of $875?
No way engineers will ever do this. We're far to use to TLAs and also, it's way too long. Having a simple, metaphorical brand name allows you to then build on top of that. Can you imagine if Java had instead been called WriteOnceRunAnywhereC++Alternate instead of java? Then, we'd have the writeoncerunanywhereC++alternate Virtual Machine
>("oh it's good to hear you're one of the good Chinese")

Except that's not what I said or meant. Yet you felt the need to put it in quotes.
> More like the complete version happens to be 50 GB larger than the shipped on-disc data, judging from the 96 GB install size

Compressed distributions that are expanded for install have been used at least since floppies were the main distribution media for isn't all to fixed disks.

Distribution media (and the fixed disks they install to) may be on the order of 5 orders of magnitude larger now, but that hasn't changed.
Thank you, I will check that out.
There is a recent post in the Elder Scrolls subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ElderScrolls/comments/9wmm98/bethes... discussing the Bethesda game engine and the following quote from Todd Howard was posted:

”I think most people that aren't making games use the word 'engine', you know, they think of 'engine' as one thing, and it's, we view it as technology, right? so there are lots of pieces, and every game, parts of that change. Whether it's the renderer, the animation system, the scripting language, the AI, the controls... so, some people talk about Gamebryo but that's, like, we haven't used that in a decade.”

”And a lot of it is, some of it is middleware, whether that's Havok animation here, and, so 76, we changed a lot of it. You know, it's an all new renderer, new lighting model, new landscape system, and then, when you go to Starfield, even more of it changes. And then Elder Scrolls 6 which is really out in the horizon, even more of that will change there.”

The quote is translated from a video interview in German
here:

https://www.gamestar.de/videos/fallout-76-interview-mit-todd...

Here is an English translation of the video interview:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BethesdaSoftworks/comments/8v1u2z/t...
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> like the original Sid Meier Civilization,

I was a bit saddened at the thought that this game would be lost forever after reading your comment, but I found that someone has made it available/playable via browser:

https://classicreload.com/civilization.html
Question for you: at most national/state parks, there are available campsites that cost in the range of $5-$20 per night. These are advertised on their usual websites. These are sites for car camping. However, the couple times I've called, I've asked about primitive camping (aka hike into the woods and camp at the primitive sites), and it turns out that this is free. But the primitive campsites aren't ever discussed on the park websites.

Does this match with your experience? Where did you usually camp?
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I was going to agree with everyone about how it’s not a language, but reading into it more, I proved myself wrong.

This is a different language insofar as it describes PEGs, not regexes, which is fundamentally different and more powerful (it can parse more things).

The naming of patterns isn’t unique, since you can just put regexes in variables in every other language too. However, the syntax in Rosie seems nicer, and sharing is easier.
> The danger are other cars on the road

And potholes, debris, slick spots, ... the kinds of things that might inconvenience or damage a 4-wheeled vehicle can be deadly to a 2-wheeled vehicle at 60+ mph. Losing control of a car, you might skid, spin, or flip. Rolling a car can be deadly. Losing control of a motorcycle at high speed will almost certainly cause serious injury or death.

You're probably not as good a driver as you think you are. After all, we can't all be above average.
Why do you think they chose indiegogo as their launch platform?

Plus delivery next month for products most of which, so far, appear to exist only as 3D renderings?

Yeah.

Ok.
Just curious what your background experience is that causes you to take this stance that they are not all brain-washed automatons? Is this based on Mainland Chinese you've met in the US? Or in Mainland China?
They're not more efficient. It's a combination of willingness to work for less, longer hours to make up for it, and pooling resources with extended families that enables them to get by
If a hard drive doesn’t need to spin up because the patch you’re serving a zillion copies of fits in cache, you’re saving the power to run it and the heat it would have generated.

Similarly with all the other resources that would be used on its journey between the data center and the end user. You’re wasting time if you could send an efficiently-generated 2 gig patch instead of a 60 gig file, especially for users in remote places. You’re taking up more space and cycles on your CDN. CPUs switch from idle power consumption to active. Every stage you can think of takes some amount of power and other resources, and if you’re delivering an unnecessarily huge file, you’re wasting everything it took to run all the steps along the way.
It would certainly be interesting to see exactly the state of homeless people. If they cannot afford housing individually, yet have jobs, why not band together and rent an apartment?
The worst for me was a rescue project: a site for a US tech sector Public-private partnership. Nothing too complicated: recurring donations, paid events, a small members area. They had sent it to an Indian firm to build in Drupal 7 - not a lightweight system to begin with.

I would like to say "cue the stereotypes for Indian developers" and we could all have a good laugh. But no. This is more like Heart of Darkness. They must have traveled to the darkest corners of the subcontinent to find a mind capable of the eldritch horrors we found there. We started keeping a wiki of design patterns, to save us WTF time. Here are a few.

* Memory management. What's that? This site required 16 GIGABYTES as a PHP memory limit in order to load the front page for an anonymous user.

* Security. What's that? Part of the reason it required so much memory, is that it would include a complete debug log of the site's entire transaction history, including PII and credit card numbers, in every session. Meaning any vulnerability was a critical vulnerability.

* They would arbitrarily include the entirety of Zend framework to access a single simple function. This happened several places in the codebase, with different versions of Zend committed.

* Can't reach the ERP to get the price for an event? Let's set it to $999,999.00 and proceed with the transaction.

* Invoice numbers were random numbers between 1-1000. Clashing numbers meant a fatal exception that would fail to store the invoice or payment record... But not until after payment had been processed. Birthday paradox means this happened a lot.

* The developers used arcane bits of Drupal API to do totally mundane things. Like, if you know about hook_page_alter, you know there's a setting in the UI for the frontpage. But we'll just use hook_page_alter instead.

* Write queries using Drupal Views, rewrite the query in code, override the views query with their custom (identical) version using an unusual API hook, just to add a sort.

I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Eldritch horror of a codebase.
Sure, I'd believe that. Neither Ubuntu not RHEL is the default on AWS, but it's clear Ubuntu is popular in that environment. (Most of RHEL's paid subscription base is still on-premises, I suspect.)
So by itself, medical data by birth year is not enough to identify a person. It's just statistics. Same as by race, or any other single characteristic.

But when combined, and matched against the kind of individual detailed data that Google or Facebook have about most of the population, it's a lot less anonymous.
I get that this is singling out Fallout 76, but this is not that uncommon of a practice in the modern era of console gaming. Heck, I think even the new Black Ops 4 PS4 game only came with a small portion of the game on the physical disk, and you had to download the rest.

For what it's worth, Playstation does have stuff in their policy that says something along the lines that games that don't have online have to be on the blue ray console physical disk, but since this is an online only game, it's okay for the disk not to have everything.

I don't love this policy, but as someone who rarely even buys physical versions of the game anymore, I don't really think it's that big of a deal. The game is online only, it's not that crazy that you have to download stuff on day 1. /shrug

EDIT: Plus, a lot of this comes from the publishers breathing down the game devs necks to get the game out ASAP, esp before the holidays. So they put super tight deadlines on the games, and then that requires the devs to work out all the bugs and final code pretty much all the way up until the launch date. It's not like the past where you had to get it right on the first try for the physical copy because there was no way for a user to download a patch.
> found my content being mined

How?
I'll buy it if it runs BASIC, and supports keyboard. It can be a great tool to teach intro to programming with least distraction.
I believe Google is a surveillance company, and I like to think that anything they do has something to do with that. I would love someone to prove me wrong though, because what they're doing is so dystopian.
Can you show me some sources for the claim that 'Chinese people do not using toilets in much of the country'? For all I know, it's the Indians and some Middle East countries that prefer water over toilet paper.
Fintech based AI services comes to mind, consumer fintech products seem to be having a moment in the EU with all the progress banking has had there vs here in the US.
Compare and contrast this story about a staunchly Western nation and a capitalist corporation with the story that just appeared [1] about Venezuela and China's ZTE.

In China the tech/data hegemony is part of the central government while in the West it's separate, FAANG et. al. are expected to keep a distance from the government and vice versa.

I was trying to imagine a scenario for a science-fiction story set around 2040, and my brain conjured an image of the people of China chipped and managed by computer... It was chilling. As for the West, I imagine we're going to have to nationalize the data and infrastructure of the tech companies OR acknowledge them as the new technocratic form of government. Either that or bifurcate into Morlocks and Eloi, in which case it doesn't matter what form the control system takes.

I guess what I'm asking is, which system do you think will be stable in the long term ("long" meaning 20 to 70 years, the time it takes for the weather to get really hard to ignore), and why? Or will something else happen?

[1] "How ZTE helps Venezuela create China-style social control"

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuel...

"A new Venezuelan ID, created with China's ZTE, tracks citizen behavior" (reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18451109
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If you have multiple people in a household, each with their own Live/PSN/whatever account, you can buy one physical disc and it unlocks the game for everyone in the household. If you buy the digital version, it's locked to only whichever account bought it.

That's why I still prefer physical versions of games. Both me and my wife have our own separate accounts on the services.
WORAC. I like it.
SteamPipe breaks all bits of content up into ~1MiB chunks, and then fetches those chunks. As long as you align your packfiles to 1MB boundaries, and keep your content sorted, only new chunks will be downloaded. Unfortunately, a lot of developers don't follow these guidelines for a number of reasons, and basically generate a whole new set of chunks with every update.

This includes a game I work on, because it's built in a version of Unreal where we do not want to drastically change the packfile format and modify the build process to handle this case.
I am 120 pages into Miss MacIntosh, My Darling because of that article. It is definitely challenging. But two or three of the (very long) sentences I've encountered are without a doubt among the most beautiful I've ever read.
For a sufficiently advanced definition of "just playing the odds", that's pretty much what any model does.
I do. It's about state coverage: every Boolean flag doubles the possible state of that bit of code: now you need to run everything twice to retain the coverage.

FWIW, I know people who work on SQL processing (big data Hive/Spark, not RDMBS), and a recurrent issue is that an optimisation which benefits most people turns out to be pathologically bad for some queries for some users. Usually those with multiple tables with 8192 columns and some join which takes 4h at the best of times, now takes 6h and so the overnight reports aren't ready in time. And locks held in the process are now blocking some other app which really matters to the businesses existence.
These are trouble because they still "work" in the pure 'same outputs as before', it's just the side effects can be be so disruptive.
Federated learning: distributed machine learning with data locality and privacy
Maybe, but I guess that argument is what ‘gun ownership as a civil right’ people say the whole point is, right?

The idea being that maybe authoritarianism “the natural order” but combined with ‘ok, but you’ll have to kill me first’.

I don’t know what your beliefs are on the matter, nor if you have an entirely valid point. I just wonder if anyone agrees but also feels that citizens shouldn’t have a means to protect themselves from their government that they beleive has an eventual tendeancy to turn authoritarian?

Edit: very strange reaction to asking questions that don’t imply any side one way or another but no responses... if you can’t even recognize another side of an argument without an emotional response... I mean... okay, but I think it’s odd.
You need UN in these cases, a real UN, not the one build for a postwar scenario that doesn't exist anymore.
Does it support HDR on PC? I haven't been able to figure this out anywhere online.
Sanders and Corbyn from the UK both explicitly praised Venezuela when oil was at $120 a barrel. Sanders even said Venezuela was a place where the american dream can really be realized. When oil dropped and the whole thing fell to pieces they pretended that it never happened
Seriously I really wish I could stop having unwanted softcore porn show up in my discover section, since that's how I access friend's stories.

I would have switched to Instagram a long time ago if it wasn't the devil that is Facebook.
BD-XL will hit 128GB, but its unclear to me if those can be pressed, or are only writable disks.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13575/sony-releases-128-gb-bd...
Don't know what makes you think US tech is better, technically. What about all the Cisco backdoors?

Also, I live in a European country and network cores here, along with mobile stations, CPEs, etc. are full Chinese. ISPs don't even buy the equipment from them, they just give the Chinese firms full control to deploy the network. So this thing you're mentioning is not some kind of crazy Venezuelan concept.
Make it Work, Make it Right, Make it Fast.

On several projects the management and sales team were at odds with the dev team about app performance. They wanted it faster and the dev team was full of premature optimization cargo cult members. By cult member, I mean people who say that phrase to get out of thinking.

The line between right and fast is blurry. There’s a big chunk of refactorings that improve readability and performance and if you work with those you get better at your job, avoid the cult members and please the business.

Now that I’ve typed that last paragraph I want to go through Refactoring and categorize the ones that fall under “right and fast”...
It's probably based on the fact that they're human beings.

Since when does progressivism mean "try to understand and respect other cultures, except the Chinese, fuck them"? When did that last part get added?
that's a dismissive comment. i didn't mean it's safe now, and that situation isn't really avoided by anything other than constantly checking your mirrors, which isn't practical and maybe won't even work against that. however, i don't really understand the anecdote or reasoning because it sounded like the commenter went from "humans are bad" to "robots will be good". my point is that i view them both as dangerous but robots will be dangerous in new ways.

have any self-driving cars been shown to work in motorcycle lane-splitting areas like what happens in california in the h.o.v. lane or anywhere else in the world besides the other u.s. states?
Doesn't he have a license to get carried away?
Or "Right to be Forgotten" by the EU.
Cool would it be to use this technology!
People just want a system that works, modeled after other systems known to work, instead of horrible brokenness.
You can get "sustainably produced" palm oil. https://www.soaperschoice.com/palm-oil

The cost is higher. I don't use the sustainably produced oil now. When all is said and done, it might increase my unit cost by ~15%--which is manageable really since unit margins are decent. The reason I don't use it is about 1 part Scrooge McDuck and 3 parts skepticism/cynicism. Without a relationship with the actual producers, I don't know what "sustainably produced" actually means.
20+ years ago I tried to bake bread a time or two, and it failed. I "recently" tried again, whilst taking care of a small child - on the basis that even if it went horribly wrong he could sit in his chair and play with dough for a while.

This time around almost all my breads have risen, and turned out to be wonderfully edible. My preferred recipe is cobbled together based upon numerous other ones I've seen, and uses yeast, flour, salt and water:

https://blog.steve.fi/this_is_mostly_how_i_make_bread.html

But I've also had a lot of fun with sourdough, the flavours are much better and despite the longer time involved I think it is definitely worthwhile.

I've baked a loaf of bread each evening this week, and tonight I'm taking the night off. But no doubt I'll be baking again on Saturday & Sunday - as I've just found another interesting variety of (Finnish) flour to try using!
"it isn't clear why they are homeless."

Domestic violence, for starters. "Among families [typically a single mother and child, which account for 37% of the homeless population] that reported domestic violence in the prior five years, 88 percent reported that it contributed to their homelessness a lot." [1]

Other causes include: lack of affordable child care, underemployment, lack of affordable housing, societal neglect of substance use and mental health disorders, inability to find work because of disability or discrimination against those with a criminal record. [2]

Naturally, an adequate social safety net would address many of these issues. Moreover, an effective anti-poverty program (such as an expansion of the child tax credit, or the creation of a social wealth fund), could outright eliminate a few as major contributing factors.

Finally, did you not read the article? One of Mark Anthony's main points is literally: "Not all homeless people are jobless people"

[1] https://www.doorwaysva.org/our-work/education-advocacy/the-f...

[2] https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/what-cau...
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More and more academic scientific research is the author taking previous research, adding a spin to it, and claiming it's a new attack.

This is nothing new. There was a period of time when it seemed like all CompSci papers had to do with some variation on hashing. There was a period of time at OOPSLA where it seemed like some whopping big fraction of papers was just a Java port of something that had been done in Smalltalk several years before. "Publish or perish," is just academia's version of YouTubers posting 3 videos a week.
FUD is disinformation with a commercial agenda. Unless you're suggesting that the rest of FAANG is playing dirty tricks at a guerilla level...
What's the point of this? Angular App is just a webpage once it's all built, so you bundled it with nginx, a webserver and served it. Not really sure why this article was written or how it pertains to Angular, it's just using docker to serve a webpage - kind of fluffy.
i was at a concert last night with my 14 year old daughter... every kid had their phones out the entire time and was constantly snap chatting/IG story-ifying everything and there were spending more time trying to impress people that weren't there than they were actually spending time enjoying the show...

oh, snapchatting them smoking or vaping.. IG'ing the band. apparently its just cool to show how they're breaking the rules on snapchat and then bragging about being at a show on ig...

luckily my daughter just laughed it off... but she did IG a few songs so /shrug
I don't understand why police aren't legally restricted from firing their weapon unless they are fired upon or witness a suspect firing upon others. Soldiers are required to not fire unless fired upon. Yes, that means we may be putting officers in more danger, but they signed up for the job and killing innocent people is unforgivable.
Even if Google didn't change search results, people who clicked on the censored website links still wouldn't be able to load the sites. You have to ask which is better - serving information in the framework provided or serving no information at all.
I remember downloading Xilinx FPGA tools some years ago. You HAD to download 14.1.0 (or whatever) first, at 6GB, and then get the patch from that to 14.1.1 (another 6GB), and then to 14.1.2 (guess how many gigabytes!). They also provided a combined download to go directly from 14.1.0 to 14.1.2... which was 12GB. Solid.