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This business model is cool, free game digitally, but boxed it costs money. (let's ignore the "you need the original doom" stuff for the purposes of considering this business model)

Also, the company providing the actual boxes, Limited Run Games, does cool stuff. I thought a game was going to be digital only, and then found them doing a version in a real box, DRM free, no steam activation required; I thought that was cool of everyone involved.

I miss big boxes. Apparently they disappeared because Walmart wanted to make room for DVDs by removing software SKUs, so the software publishers downsized the boxes so they wouldn't have to put fewer SKUs on the shelf at Walmart. https://rome.ro/news/2018/4/18/big-box-extinction (intro) and https://rome.ro/bigbox (actual blog post w/ story)

Lastly, John Romero, if you're reading: fix your blog ^ why is the intro not included on the blog post page?
Can I just say I'm a huge fan of Colaboratory! I discovered this service from a classmate this semester and have thoroughly enjoyed collaborating inside of a notebook. It still has little details that need to be fixed, like persistent files for projects, but overall I'm glad I was exposed to the tool
I would be wary of joining any startup where a major shareholder is the Father of the founder. Unless you really knew a lot about it. Second major red flag is a company referring to itself as 'startup' after 18 years of operation.
If someone adds a wordpress plug-in for this I will install it tomorrow for a laugh :-)
Though of course if you don't use "go mod vendor" then "go build" will require an internet connection, which is a problem for most distributions (package builds generally don't have an internet connection).
Huawei case will force the US government to prove some of the claims it’s made
e1m8b: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/Ports/d-f/e1m8... -- has mirrors

Be very gentle, the server seems taxed:
e1m4b: https://www.doomworld.com/e1m4b/e1m4b.zip
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More "Wolf of Wall Street" than "Silicon Valley"
Ask HN: Site really slow, doesn't use Cloudflare?
Hi, HN resolves for me to 209.216.230.240 and doesn't use CloudFlare, it's extremely slow, and ping is over 1000 ms for me. Just letting you know.
I'm a beginner violinist who for a long time looked warily at the fact that robot violinists who'll play better than us aren't more than a few decades away.

But I realize nowadays that technology isn't just about automating away what we do as humans - its can also be about removing anything that might be standing between you and your fullest potential.

e.g.

- even if I couldn't find a professional orchestra willing to play with me as soloist, someday a robot orchestra could do that for me.

- a teacher that can spend unlimited amounts of time observing me and guiding me in my learning in the most personalised way
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Enders does a great (and entertaining) Ted talk on the Gut here - https://www.ted.com/talks/giulia_enders_the_surprisingly_cha...
Amd has been kicking the shit out of Intel for 30 years. No seemed to notice. Their 386 was faster than Intel 486. The octa core that is tenish years old is still competitive against non Xeon chips. At the time it completely destroyed intela chips for half or less of the price. Intel is doing nothing new and just gliding. They haven't done anything interesting in 20 years, the p4s and rdram were an incredible pile of junk. The itanic.. that says it all

It's cute I get a downvoted instead of an actual rebuttal. Amd has been doing great work for a far less price, Intel has been phoning it in for decades, and for a good bit of time making inferior technology.
As I like to joke, I am a simple liberal arts major...with about 24 years on/off Wall Street. Have been an intermediate user of R seemingly forever. While I find node.js painful, early days still, the capabilities that I have and will have in the near future to improve my Shanghai based professional services business speaks to the power of the technology/framework, whatever you want to call it. Working on a Hugo website and then will move to microservices offerings to clients both as lead generators and new service offerings. I am psyched.
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Dozens of small companies (ranging from a couple of people to a couple dozen) rely on me to decide and direct their tech stacks; I always suggest something other than Amazon even where Amazon is suggested first by them; the vast majority defer to my judgement.

I think I'm not only doing them a service by avoiding lock-in to AWS specific "stuff", but also our industry and society at large by maintaining software diversity and openness. Often they also save a nontrivial amount of money by not using AWS (RDS has been particularly egregious).

Just making suggestions (rather than demands or whatever) is very powerful, particularly if they respect you and there is some solid logic behind your suggestion.
A good testability lesson. The project had used fuzzing, but due to complexity nobody had figured out how instrument it for deep coverage.

(Aside from the obvious one that you shouldn't write protocol implementations in unsafe languages... WebRTC is too new to have a legacy excuse even)
What's wrong with the 2 red flags?
And companies will neglect the EU market altogether. The great legal firewall of the EU. We can pass laws to make things better without any technical competence! Lets go after cryptography next!
As an aside, I've messed with EC2, and used Linode and DO hosting Dokku and Docker containers. Can't complain as they are excellent service providers. Still not worrying about the server is a g-d send for those who just want to get stuff up.
Abrash's Black Book of Graphics Programming is an absolute classic. I devoured it when I was a young programmer at video game shop in '97. Although outdated, it's still gold. If nothing else, read the stuff at the end where he talks about the development of Quake, working with John Carmack at id.

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/graphics-programming-black-b...
The creator of the site said they're working on updating it. Should be up in a couple weeks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/a4urje/rap...
Forrest's notebooks were the inspiration for my robotics notebook. I have most of them (although I've scanned them because that paper was just not going to survive!) and when I learned about lab notebooks in college labs I started keeping a notebook of my experiments in building microprocessor systems. For hobby work, having a notebook was especially helpful because I could quickly resynchronize what I was working on just by reading my notes. I also drew schematics, and noted weird discoveries (like you can run TTL even when the ground line is actually 12V as long as the VCC line is 17V :-).

The complete list is here: http://www.forrestmims.org/publications.html

These days though you sometimes have to figure out what the industry part number is for the radio shack number.
While this might catch some folks, many phishing/scam sites can route their requests through residential proxy networks. There are plenty of legitimate networks (e.g. ones that use free VPN offerings as a way to route traffic through your IP) with minimal KYC, and even more illegitimate ones based on botnets. This seems like a lot of engineering for a mitigation that’s easily worked around.
Markets also valued beanie babies highly for a while. Pretending that markets are purely rational is going to get you hurt.

If the case is that Tether is actually insolvent, then history gives us a very good example of exactly what’ll happen once the run starts.
That is outright ridiculous. There should be a level of human intervention to determine okay this cant be a damn copyright issue this AI is coocoo.
Whatever it is isn't that simple given that CJD is just a standard of care. I'm more an enthusiastic dabbler who occasionally checks if I could have been capable technically than an expert admittedly.

I did some more cursory research. Interestingly I was half-wrong about the immune system - while I was right about it not being equipped to stop it can do something. Monoclonal antibody treatments delay it. However another problem is that the body's own proteins which are deformed into prions aren't recognized as foreign bodies. Given that notes mention that mice vaccines only delay the onset along with monoclonal antibody treatments. Some sources seem to indicate that it only blocks prions from deforming as opposed to eliminating combined with the fact that native proteins will keep on cascading.

I wonder how much processing power would be required just to get a candidate 'prion grabber' - never mind going through ones which won't turn out to be horrifyingly toxic in other ways.

Here are a few sources I skimmed I would be glad to know where I went wrong.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233941323_Immunothe...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2063508/
Ooph, super slow here too...
Yep, super slow for me too.
Because it is a lot of work to build from scratch, and build the whole software ecosystem. Risc-V is the other option but it is not yet as mature for server chips, and the software stack is only just starting to ship. Arm servers have only just reached maturity after some years.
I equate startup but downsides like longer hours, less salary, higher pressure. That is ok for a few years but not sustainable. If you are still working like that after 18 years, I would consider that a commercial failure.
It depends on .NET 4 (or Mono [1]) and is built on Eto.Forms [2], so it most definitely is a .NET application, and more than likely is written in C#.

[1] https://www.mono-project.com/

[2] https://github.com/picoe/Eto
Apple refuses to update their command line tools because of the license. The bash I have here is more than ten years old. It's only a matter of time before things diverge enough to make porting a major pain.
That would be a really bad thing, too.
I agree, it's been very slow for a number of minutes. If you log out, the pages will update instantly though.
I would argue `by` and `data` are the two most powerful keywords from any of the modern languages (~last 10 years) maybe next to `go`.
I do not use Immer and Immutable together. I use Immutable mostly as I want to have custom types. I think I'll use Immer most of the time after implementing api like [1]

[1] https://github.com/mweststrate/immer/issues/202
This is the problem of a lot of software development. Look, this bright young man just built a wooden box all by himself. Let’s employ him to build our new shed. A shed is just a big box, isn’t it? This bright young man just built a shed. A house is just a big shed, isn’t it? He’ll figure out isolation, electricity and plumbing when we get to those parts...
Why aren't your go build tools pulling from the GOPATH/pkg/mod/cache directory?

This would alleviate the need for your build to have a internet connection no?
So how are the click troughs on the amp stories doing in the land of the free?
Go newb here but I personally found it easy to get started with Go Modules and migrate over a fairly large project using Dep. `go mod init` was very helpful here in picking up the Gopkg.toml and doing the magic to make it all work. No complaints at all.
And how do "business models that host user content" generally generate revenue?
You do have to worry about the µ-op cache nowadays.
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How did they create the watermarked image without the watermark being visible to users? What kind of a filter or blending mode are they applying so that it can only be detected with edge detection? Anyone know?
And yet, here he/she gets exactly the result they were looking for. It's a well known online trope that you get your question answered faster and more thoroughly by posting a wrong answer first rather than plainly asking. My guess is it triggers something primal in us geeks.

See: https://xkcd.com/386/
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OK, but how do ophthalmologists typically decontaminate their instruments?
Del is pretty well represented (#7) in the print version (https://popchart.co/products/the-hip-hop-flow-chart)
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I dont understand this, they already share some of the source to several OS components. Do you care to elaborate a bit on this? Is there some GPL clause or something that became too risky for Apple or something? How do BSD projects get by with the newer licenses aside from already being open source it doesnt seem to affect their underlying license...
See this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18649805

It's a low-alpha checkerboard, and it's actually quite visible.
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"Competitive" company cultures are an enormous red flag for me, almost always a mechanism to help executives drain employees to a lifeless husk without having to actually pay for the privilege.

In my experience, companies have three ways to motivate employees.

One is to compensate them at a level commensurate with what is expected of them (too few companies do this, even in tech).

One is to make them feel like they have a genuine stake in the performance of the company, either because they believe in the company's mission (usually impossible for a for-profit enterprise, except among the more gullible employees) or they actually have an ownership stake in the business (virtually impossible with the VC model, papier-mache stock options not withstanding)

The third is to build an artificial "competitive culture", so everyone is so busy pushing themselves to the limit in competition with their coworkers that they never stop to realize that the only prize is more money in the bank account of their investors (who may peel a bills off the top and toss it to them in the form of a 'performance bonus')
What alternatives to AWS could save a non trivial amount of money? Especially for RDS? I think we're getting to the point where servers cost quite a bit
Coal is probably the worst. They should promote the AP1000 rather than coal.
Australia is already on the case, re: cryptography: https://protonmail.com/blog/australia-anti-encryption-law/
You should check out the "with" keyword from elixir, (but the #1 all time best elixir feature is the |> (pipe) operator combined with IO.inspect)...
Wasn't this tried/mooted a few years ago but got nowhere in the end? But you also have to understand that for many/most of these types of professional bodies in other fields, you need to have a basic BS type degree to be accredited and this is where I think it fell down flat as quite a few SWEs (compared to other fields) were self-taught, dropped out etc. and didn't necessarily have a college degree. Maybe they can have a different set of criteria for SW field.
Also, the text being set at alpha of 0.5 makes it very low contrast and difficult to read, even as a nearly fully sighted person.
"Writing Bug-free C Code"

https://www.duckware.com/bugfreec/index.html
You can fit more code into the same sized cache, but you also need an extra cache layer for the decoded µops, and a much more complicated fetch/decode/dispatch part of the pipeline. It clearly works, at least for the high per-core power levels that Intel targets, but it's not obvious whether it saves transistors or improves performance compared to having an instruction set that accurately reflects the true execution resources, and just increasing the L1i$ size. Ultimately, only one of the strategies is viable when you're trying to maintain binary compatibility across dozens of microarchitecture generations.
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Descent was another favorite of mine! Really used to get my heart racing at the end of every level when you were close but you had to brave the final room and manage to escape before the countdown.
I'm by no means an expert in this, and maybe it's a bit obvious, but hadn't seen this mentioned yet.

I think as we run out of gains to be had from process size reductions, the next frontier for cloud providers is in custom silicon for specific workloads. First we saw GPUs move to the cloud, then Google announced their TPUs.

Behind the scenes, Amazon's acquisition of Annapurna Labs has been paying off with their Nitro (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtuali...) ASIC, nearly eliminating the virtualization tax, and providing a ton of impressive network capabilities and performance gains.

The Graviton, which I believe also came from the Annapurna team, is likely just the start. Though a general purpose CPU, it's getting AWS started on custom silicon. AWS seems all about providing their customers with a million different options to micro-optimize things. I think the next step will be an expanding portfolio of hardware for specific workloads.

The more scale AWS has, the more it makes sense to cater to somewhat niche needs. Their scale will enable customization of hardware to serve many different workloads and is going to be yet another of Amazon's long-term competitive advantages.

I think that will show up in two ways. Hardware narrowly focused on certain workloads, like Google's TPUs that show really high performance, and general purpose CPUs like these Gravitons that are more cost efficent for some workloads.

I see echoes of Apple's acquisition of P.A. Semi that lead to the development of the A series CPUs. My iPhone XS beats my MacBook (early 2016) on multi-core Geekbench by 37%. (And on single core, it's only 10% slower than a 2018 MacBook Pro 15.)

If Amazon is able to have similar success in custom silicon, this will be a big deal.

I think early next year we'll test the a1 instances for some of our stateless work loads and see what the price/performance really looks like.

It does make me worry that this sort of thing will cement the dominance of large cloud providers, and we'll be left with only a handful (3?) of real competitors.
REXPaint is not based on .Net, and works flawlessly under Wine on Linux. Although there's no native build, there are a bunch of users on both Linux and OSX (especially since a sizeable portion of the roguelike dev community uses non-Windows platforms).

REXPaint also comes with a lengthy manual covering all of its features in detail: https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/manual.txt
I don't think that's an advantage these days. The bottleneck seems to be decoding instructions, and that's easier to parallelize if instructions are fixed width. Case in point: The big cores on Apple's A11 and A12 SoCs can decode 7 instructions per cycle. Intel's Skylake can do 5. Intel CPUs also have μop caches because decoding x86 is so expensive.
One thing I am looking forward to from Edge is an overall improvement on the developer tools. There is always room for improvement and I wish Mozilla would focus more on theirs too. Theres things we probably have yet to consider and next time I hit a mental devtools roadblock I will write it all down into some sort of blog post because we can totally do so many awesome things with devtools I think. If anyone can make it amazing I know Microsoft definitely can. I still found it incredible being able to debug Chrome from VS Code.
It's like if one of the beetles (of video games in this case) asked if you wanted to do a collaboration. Of course he did it.
Programming is the last decent job that doesn't have a bunch of artificial barriers to entry put up to protect privileged people from competition from the industrious poor. The day I need a license from the government to own a compiler is the day I check out of this life.
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Kia ora! The "issue" here is that most sites which want to cater to worldwide audiences pretty much try to comply with influential legislation to stay on the good side. And GDPR/EU regs wield a big enough stick and come from a large enough region that you can't ignore them unless you want to block your site out completely to traffic coming from the EU. So they try and just do a worldwide rollout, irrespective of where you live. Of course, you can always implement this selectively but maybe more tricky to small and medium businesses, so they play and safe. Probably. I am speculating here.
Doing cybersec consulting, the majority of the clients I worked with already had data breach insurance. The funny thing is that such insurance actually just makes it easier for these companies to cheap out on actual security. What's better for the bottom line, paying $50 million for a strong security program (that will probably get hacked anyway), or pay $20 million for a good insurance policy that will just cover all our damages when we get hacked? (the actual path chosen is usually somewhere in the middle, but I hope you see my point)
tbh your analogy doesn't work. modern software dev would mean that if the house can get by without isolation and plumbing until it needs to, then it will. when the requirement comes up then extra dev resources will be hired to plug them in. as long as you managed to get the frame up and the wiring complete, the other components are superfluous as long as someone is happy to stay in that house. then you can add isolation, then you can add plumbing.

this is part of the "if you're not unhappy with the first version of your product then you've launched too late" philosophy and it does work in non critical sectors
There were recently reports about room-temperature of H2S superconductor under insane pressures. You can hold some big pressures of material formed as thin cylinder with thick walls of composites, but I'm not sure about actual numbers.
um, what you're describing sounds exactly like regulatory capture.
I'm not an expert, so forgive me if I'm way off base here… but isn't this exactly the need that homebrew fills?
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I am just surprised why Equifax isn’t bankrupted. Even assuming nominal damage aggregated over next 10 years for class action lawsuit should bankrupted them. I feel corporate responsibility isn’t going to come by until these security breaches causes companies to go out of business.
You will find that the Swiss comply with most EU laws, including GDPR in most instances. And so is/has/will the UK. You really can't sit next to one of the largest trading blocs in the world and ignore it, unless you don't intend to do deal with them/ conduct business with them in any shape or form. Good luck in your quest to find, freedom or whatever else you're trying to find.
Woah. Fatal Familial Insomnia (F.F.I.). Caused by a dominant mutation, so ~50% of children are affected. But typically not symptomatic until middle age. Damn.
By freedom, I assume you are a big supporter of the "Restoring Internet Freedom Order" and can't wait until you can choose to add the YouTube or Netflix packages to your internet connection for $20/mo each.
Bandwagon effect would be a more apt description.
Hope that by ‘this life’ you mean the life of a software developer.
John used to talk to me on the game's last level as well, but he was hidden behind a wall and I could not understand perfectly what he said.