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Is this why they moved from using Bitcoin to their own BAT token?
I remember that. HSPA+, which was just fast 3G. It was an improvement from what I remember, but the first time I tasted LTE, I felt ripped off.
Diablo was monotonous, linear hack'n slash. If that's your thing it's cool, but it's not an RPG.

As a CRPG fan at the time, it still boggles my mind that such a title had any kind of success after the likes of Wasteland, Bard's Tale 1-3, the numerous SSI/D&D titles, or the Ultima series. Those days were glorious, and nearly all of those titles are still fantastic today.

Diablo did long-term damage to CRPGs IMO. It established that there was a larger market for completely linear titles than there was for titles where the player could actually decide what to do - or at the very least the order in which you do what there is to do. And as a result, it more or less vaporized any type of funding for non-linear CRPG experiences.
Specifically from TFA:

> Star Control was ported to the Sega Genesis, but, as it happened, Star Control II would never get the same honor, perhaps because its sales didn’t quite justify the expense and/or because its complexity was judged unsuited to the console market.

I think in context, they mean it never got a port to the Genesis as SC1 did.

TFA does also mention the 3DO console port in the context of the Crystal Dynamics acquisition, a few paragraphs before talking about the source code.
They lied to congress about selling access to users' private messages.
See: iPhone Antennagate
Don't get too hung up on words.
Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr etc. are also battery hogs. The Facebook app is no worse and generally better (IME).

Scrolling through a social media feed is a heavy activity on a phone (which may be surprising because it seems passive). Constantly fetching more data from servers, decoding incoming images and videos in background threads, shuffling data to GPU-accessible buffers for fast scrolling, etc. — There’s a lot going on all the time when you’re scrolling mindlessly.
I have, and it's great. But it just comes down to trust. At the end of the day you are still trusting some random internet person to distribute the binaries. I don't want to have to build from source just to be able to trust my browser.
Wow, what a throwback. I played Star Sonata, Astro Empires, and Pardus in the mid-2000's timeframe. And Eve Online later in early 2010's. Only Pardus and Eve stuck with me because of the persistent sandboxes. They're the only ones I remember and therefore talk about.
Totally, but that's the point. Most people probably don't actually need an extra day off (I mean, I'd take one, but...) to stymie burnout but rather a calmer, more sane environment when they are working.
Happy to share more information but don't want to hijack the thread too much. Would love to talk to you about this stuff sometime if you'd be interested. My email is in my profile.
Stardock released their own spiritual successor already, so give that a try if you want. And as far as I'm aware the original creators are still working on their own successor.
They have the same government though, and far less diversity.
Might want to hold off until we see what legal discovery turns up in chat logs, emails, etc
Author proposes the solution to authoritarianism is more laws and more government intervention. That's not the solution, that's the definition!
> "It really does mean that my poor accuracy with a large caliber handgun is from flinching."

It may also be how how you're pulling/squeezing the trigger. That's the problem I have, and consequently I am far more accurate with revolvers when using single action trigger pulls (hammer already cocked back, so the trigger pull is very short and crisp.)
What is it that Brave is doing that they did not intend to do? Software doesn't release itself.
The real question is can the question be solved, or is it undecidable? If undecidable, how to reduce the Halting Problem to it? ;)
There are some cool well-funded startups with offices in Princeton. Shoot.
1. Realize your computer doesn't have enough RAM

2. Remove a stick of RAM from your computer to teach it a lesson

3. Get mad that your computer didn't magically do more with less
> Linux kernel [..] BSD licensed.

It would be another BSD with not many commercial players contributing to. BSD-ish licenses mean free labor for companies, but are problematic for cooperation. The easiest way is always to "defect": Take the sources and never contribute back - it might help a competitor.

The Copyleft licenses work around that and make cooperation between of adversaries possible.
You're on a thread about Brave shamelessly committing donation fraud and you're surprised people aren't giving you the benefit of the doubt?
It had less to do with marketing and more to do with negotiations with California's Air Resources Board. The category was created as a stepping stone towards mandated zero emission vehicles.
An idea would even be ask the CEO you're shadowing these questions. Surprised no one has said that yet.
Look at Vimeo instead.
This HN title is pretty clickbaity and doesn’t represent the actual title of the article. The word “fake” appears nowhere in the article. “Fake” is subjective in this context.
Imagining the Grinch: Creating Concept Art for Film
How would you know real bandwidth and latency without running a test?

How would you run a test often enough to keep the signal information up-to-date, without impacting data usage and/or battery?

It's a great idea, but I think there's a reason we don't do it. RSSI values work well enough.
Did they release a model to go with this (so that the average dev can actually use this in their app) or is this just a tool for researchers?
I made this little utility this afternoon in a couple of hours or so. I was trying to check the diff of some project that i had made several modifications to which had 1000+ lines of changes and after trying to check it with "more" in the Windows command line, i thought "why am i doing this?". I remember using xmore (see [0] but i'm certain i used a different version that had some extra functionality) in X11 and googled a bit to see if there is any equivalent graphical tool for Windows, but couldn't find any so i made my own and decided to share :-).

[0] https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/#xmore
Err, no. It's quite literally not.
Your example is about measuring one thing.
The standard does not measure one thing.

It would be like calling it "partially zero cake" because it has zero sugar but some fat.

Also note that ZEV's do not take into account any of the emissions related to production of the fuel/electricity they use - that is outside the standard.
So they may have more net emissions, they may have less.
I think that's just for the perspective, though? We'd have to be flying much, much lower to get the perspective shown in the image.

The straight-overhead view is less CGI-y (still composed, but of multiple overhead strips):

https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/12/Plan_view_o...

I'd like to know more about the input images...
> was the manner that he went off chasing the parcel in his car to the car park and what not.

I mean, he had a 180-360 degree view of the package not being near a car; and the ability to drive past it first in an area where it would be perfectly inconspicuous to drive past to see if it were abandoned.
>Usually at the big banks the "real person" won't have the discretion to actually fix your problem.

This is why I closed my Wells Fargo account after 10 years. It used to be that you could walk into a bank, sit down with a banker, and have them solve any problem you had. Now you walk into the bank, sit down with a banker, and the banker picks up a phone and dials 1-800-WELLSFARGO for you and hands you the phone. It's absolutely insane. I switched to a local small bank that knows me by name and can fully complete the process for their entire range of services within a single office, face to face, by email, or direct office line at any time.
Sending voice messages is a pretty common form of user-to-user messaging in Asia - i.e. record a brief audio snippet instead of tapping out a sentence on a phone keyboard
That sounds like a fair take, IANAL.

It's worth noting these registrations are dated 2017/2018, after the mud-flinging began. I wouldn't be shocked to hear they're invalid.
AT&T did the same with HSPA+ (calling it 4G). Just so they could be one of the first to have 4G out the door. At least from a lying, ahem, marketing perspective.
it sounds like what you're describing is encoding. It's all bits, right, and the nature of the data (the thing itself) is determined by the way you assign meaning to those bits. Can't really blame frameworks for operating in a specific data model.
The one issue I had with Keepass is that on iOS (and this is Apple's fault!) it is not possible to choose different cloud storage providers to keep the password database file on.

This silly thing alone would preclude me ever buying an iOS device! (My wife ran into it when I tried to get her up and running with Keepass, she gave up...)

I love keepass's simplicity, no browser plugins with pop up dialog boxes or UIs that conflict with the browser's own password management, just, a list of accounts and passwords.
Yeah, pretty much all of the carriers cheat, and demand the ability to cheat, e.g.: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...
One of reasons Im ditching traditional FOSS is Ive found via all the lobbying and lawsuits that we need money to protect software freedom. Lots of it. I rarely see this discussed. I wrote more here:

https://lobste.rs/s/0h98nl/it_s_not_okay_pretend_your_softwa...

Follow up:

https://lobste.rs/s/kbcjnx/open_source_confronts_its_midlife...

Whats your thoughts on using more paid, shared-source stuff to generate money to protect software freedom and fund development of FOSS infrastructure?
In undergrad when doing satellite and aerial data processing, we considered it "1st order" "2nd order" etc. For how many stages of processing it underwent. This of course was somewhat subjective. There's two main things I remember:

1. There's no "raw" because even the data collection device and platform will do some form of processing (eg. quantization).

2. There's no such thing as "ground truth" only "ground reference" because truth is fuzzy.
Also: your responses here, and Brendan Eich's on Twitter, seem to assume you are somewhere in the general brand feel of the EFF or Firefox. That this is a big misunderstanding of a clearly well-intentioned feature from familiar volunteers to the public interest.

You're nowhere near them. You're in the same mental headspace as ICO scams because you're also promising that if we give your cryptocurrency a bit of money the riches will rain down for everyone. You need to radically change your rhetorical approaches to this PR disaster (not to mention this "feature") if you hope to start building trust.
Yes. Uncontrolled recoil has effect. It is a physics problem most undergraduates do (throw something heavy on ice, two bodies move in opposite directions, energy spent sliding the thrower is removed from the projectile due to conservation of energy, etc). The question is not whether it does, but to what degree?

It looks like youre measuring muzzle velocity with a device mounted to the barrel. If that's true, i suspect it almost entirely negates the difference you are looking for because the rifle recoiling adds perceived muzzle velocity that the target (and the rest of us) do not experience.
exactly. Like an irrational number.
To anyone who has mistakenly "donated" to someone through this service, here's a link to the FTC complaint assistant for reporting fraud, namely "Pretending to be a representative or employee of a business". You don't have to be a lawyer to let the FTC decide whether this is misleading marketing or not.

I honestly like the BAT idea. This is not the way to implement it, and based on the responses from Eich on twitter, and the representative in this thread, it seems like they aren't going to willingly change their scheme.

https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
Reminds me of looking at West Virginia and Kentucky. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GPy6u
You mean this week’s news that Spotify and Netflix had experimental messaging client integrations years ago?

It’s a complete mischaracterisation that Facebook shared private messages with Spotify. By the same logic, you could say Google is sharing your emails with Apple when you access Gmail using the iOS Mail client.

Spotify was offering an integrated client to FB’s chat service. This UI integration was a market failure and was discontinued years ago. Of all the things wrong with Facebook, this wasn’t worth the noise.
My apologies, I was mistaken.
Oh, ok good to know :)

Thanks!
The banks were not bailed out because people cared if the corporation of the bank prospered. The banks were bailed out to prevent millions of mortgages being put into jeopardy.

The banks coexist with Federal agencies that underwrite, protect and regulate savings and mortgages. They aren't food delivery startups. This is why many nations have the notion of "chartered" banks - to recognize that the banks aren't just yet-another corporation.

Once the banks accepted bailouts, they accepted a new mission. Same with GM - it effectively became a temporary jobs program once the government started underwriting it.
There are obvious design decisions that make it safer than it could be; if the glitter were powered by an explosive device or had glue in it, it would obviously be more effective though less reusable.
> I really don't think the first amendment should apply to speech that deceives consumers.

FTFY. It's not about corporations being evil, per se. Free speech should not be a defense against false advertising, any more than it's a defense against shouting fire in a movie theatre or threatening bodily harm.
I'm a bit skeptical of the conclusion and the reasoning process used to arrive there.

For example, the article states "In other words, all a lens system can do is make every line of sight end on the surface of a light source, which is equivalent to making the light source surround the target."

If you forget about optics for a second, imagine that the outer surface of the sun were wrapped around a point (think of the image shown in the article). If you consider conservation of energy for the energy flux from the surface of the sun being entirely directed to a single body of matter that absorbs this heat (assume it's a penny), the steady-state blackbody emission of the penny would have to equal the energy flux from the entire surface of the sun. I think this situation would end up making the 'temperature' of the penny much higher than the surface of the sun for the same reason that the center of the sun is hotter than the surface: There is energy expended, and it comes from the fusion of light elements inside the sun, so there is no violation of entropy as stated in the article: "you'd be making heat flow from a colder place to a hotter place without expending energy."
Randomize by loading a few mags with different patterns of blanks, and then shuffle the mags until you don't know which is which.
Methane can also be used to make food

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2112298-food-made-from-...

Thus no need to grow potatoes :)
Why Did We Shift Away from Database-Generated Ids?
While dictatorship is obviously absurd, what about Indira Gandhi and the Emergency?
I like that every single brand of toilet paper now boasts "8=16" or "12=32" etc.

It's a strange comfortable flexibility we have developed around truth.

It's almost as if "freedom of speech" means you can massage the truth if it increase sales but god forbid you make a drawing of 90 year old cartoon mouse.
That's somewhat fair, although the 1Password X page (which is what AgileBits calls their in-browser version) describes it as being comparable to the native versions, which to me goes against OP's statement that

> full functionality can’t be dependent on an app which is only available on Mac OS and/or Windows.

The existence of 1Password X means that full functionality is not _dependent_ on a MacOS/Windows app. The argument that there should be a graphical (because there _is_ a multi-platform CLI), native app for Linux, which does not depend on any browser, is a perfectly valid one -- but it is also an argument that I don't believe they've made.
Near my house we sometimes get a standing wave where the fog actually curls as it flows SSE over the spine of the peninsula / Sweeney Ridge.

It’s pretty amazing. I love the fog for some reason :P
> Firefox absolutely sucks on Android.

Have you tried it lately? I agree that it used to, but it has improved vastly. It's my daily driver now.
Doesn't Android or CarbonOS just get its signal strength information from the Qualcomm baseband OS? It's a second OS always running on your phone that you can't do much about.

The baseband OS could be lying about signal strength to your phone OS.
Which is why the TV's are advertised as UHD but the showreels and demos have 4k on them.
Monitor existing radio traffic? Would work at least for bandwidth and drop rate, maybe not latency. If the user isn't using the radios, fall back on a signal-strength based estimate. For bonus points, learn the estimated connectivity based on correlations between previously measured radio metrics and signal strength in the same location.

Or just hide the bars and show a binary "go/no-go" symbol to indicate if the phone has a current radio connection. Your phone is always connected to GCM or Apple's equivalent so why not use the health of that connection as an indicator?
> That's interesting if true. Does the operator have that much control over the phone though?

For most customers, the operator literally sold them the phone. If you're using your own device, not provided by the operator, then it's not relevant to you.
#CRISPRbabies: Notes on a Scandal
None of my headless servers have Chrome or Firefox installed.
It's actually semi-correct German with "germanified" American words. "DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER ..." is grammatically correct. But gefingerpoken isn't a German word, obviously, though it's close to gefingert (fingered). Blinken means flash, and lichten means lights, so blinkenlicht at least means soemthing, though blitzende Lichter would be more idiomatic.
> You can't use lenses and mirrors to make something hotter than the surface of the light source itself.

This is an interesting argument. Can I not reflect some sunlight off a mirror, then do the magnifying-glass-to-start-a-fire trick in daytime? Doesn't the mirror stay cool? Isn't the moon just a (poor) mirror for the sun's light?
If we're talking the middle ages in Europe, then 90% of folk farmed as serfs or peasants. When they weren't dead from frequent droughts or plagues. "No they didn't" isn't an argument.
The Challenge of Building a Foreign Function Interface
Rather idiosyncratically, this algorithm is prone to breaking the items being sorted.
No, thus the words "US national government", but those will be a problem also when you include their retirement debt obligations.
Come on, man. The 'donation' UI was clearly designed to deceive visitors into thinking that the creator signed up and customized it themselves. Brave fucked up big time, and you aren't doing your employer any favors by commenting here; at this point the only people who should be making statements are Brave's lawyers.
that's just not truth, they have pretty much same international words for paprika, balcony, auto etc.
Or they're in a production code freeze so engineers and spend more time pushing these final projects to finally get them released.
Alcohol prohibition is an odd choice here, considering that its implementation is an example of a law that did change without anyone violating an existing law. And then it wasn't done away with just because people were violating it. People violated it because it was deeply unpopular. It was repealed as much because of the chaos it caused and the fact that legalizing alcohol would re-institute a much needed source of tax revenue.
And the strategy failed, CEO fired, and they went back to the old marketing/pricing.
There's a reason industries invent new terms instead of using technical ones - 1080 is a measurable number of pixels, if you claim you screen is 1080p or 65", then it can't be a lie.

5G means basically whatever AT&T wants it to mean, just like how the definition of 4G magically and retroactively expanded back to include HSPA phones when verizon or whoever decided it should.
> Ruby, Haskell, Swift, JS, even some Python – I see engineers building DSLs and architectures that strongly fit particular use-cases
> easier to understand, reason about, more reliable, more maintainable

I find DSLs obfuscating, buggy, and unmaintainable. I know we're going to agree to disagree here, as I'm a fan of the Java, Go, C, or even Python side of things, I find most DSLs are a nightmare. Maybe we work on vastly different software.

Most DSLs, imho, are usually better off removed. It's part of a class of code smells I like to call: Sound concepts applied too liberally and out of context.

It's the same sin as the "Architect Astronauts" of Java Enterprise FizzBuzz Design Pattern overload. Python and monkey patching abuse. JavaScript and framework explosion.
C++ had operater overload abuse.

Every language seems to go through it's awkward teen years and finds a good balance eventually, so I don't mean to rag on DSLs.

The problem is: DSLs usually work well when the problems are well defined, common, and relatively static. SQL comes to mind. BLAS/numpy like programs.

If the DSL models business or application ideas, those will grow and shift. If I find myself fixing bugs in the compilers, I need a different language. That's what DSLs end up as: half-designed specs I need to fix.
Keith's blog post on this is great : http://blog.keithw.org/2013/07/3g-and-me.html

Carriers are uncomfortable about publishing the actual throughput and latency characteristics of their Internet access but are perfectly happy to slap a new "g" on their boxes for marketing purposes.
How is this different than just trusting the browser to handle saved passwords in an encrypted manner?