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I'll speak only for me, here, but Fallout 1 is the game that impressed me the most among these, during those times. It had to do with this idea that you could go anywhere you wanted and you weren't forced into a linear plot (somewhat a precursor of current day's openworld games).

Granted, I didn't know d&d back then, I guess if it happened now after playing d&d, Baldur's Gate would impress me more.
> Sorry to be that guy but Data is always plural. So Data are never raw.

Data is most commonly used as a singular mass noun, and the headline makes more sense with it as a mass noun than as the plural of datum.
I am a bit more optimistic about this. I think our US dollar with be a major part of special drawing rights (SDR) that will be the world’s currency for large financial transactions and this might happen sooner than later. I don’t think the US dollar gets abandoned, but we will lose some of our advantage of controlling the primary currency.

I am disappointed that we don;t get along better with Russia and China. All three governments have major faults but it is in the interest of the world for super powers to get along.

I still believe in a bright future caused by technological progress that will be a high tide lifting all boats. Yes, governments + corruption, etc. will be as bad as ever but I expect the lives of most people on this planet to get even better in the future.
Slack has premium plans that they make money off of.
I might argue that Epic is also positioned to take on Steam. Small cut of proceeds, and they have a HUGE audience of kids about to age into the gaming market who have only ever played Fortnite (and don't have the baggage of a huge Steam library.)

I love Discord though, and I generally agree with your analysis.
> The video-game review site GameRankings has indexed at least one review for 27 RPGs released in 1995.

The list appears incomplete. It doesn't even cover albion.
In modern usage, 'data' is a mass noun and is used with 'is' very frequently. To flat out say this usage is wrong with no is very prescriptive.
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It's fairly simple. Any person's favorite Elder Scrolls game is usually the first one they played. The games have become less Elder with every installment.

Morrowind's art, though... that beat the tar out of the releases before it. It was the best balance of big exploration and visual world-building.
Many constitutionalists consider three-letter government agencies to have constitution-violating powers that produced evidence that should otherwise be consider null and void by courts.
I think the answer is yes. (Or more accurately, not enough to be competitive.)
But you could already do that?
The government has a duty to promote the general welfare of the country. Stable markets are a big part of that.

The idea of not subsidizing things is attractive, but the people pushing those ideas usually are really rooting for market instability, which benefits them directly at a cost to society.

For example, much of the hoohah behind current US government trade policy is about eliminating domestic competition. In agriculture, for example, small/medium dairy is in the process of being erased.
I have also had this idea (I think everyone who thinks about the problem space for > 30 minutes stumbles on the basic business model).

Expanding your point: banks haaaaate this kind of business model. They see it as a fertile breeding ground for chargebacks, which are very expensive to them.
Free text being the definition of unstructured data is kind of funny if you think about it (and I agree that amongst computer people that's how they think about it), since the whole point of text is to structure data using alphabets, syllabary or logograms, such that it can be meaningfully be transferred and understood by multiple biological interpreters :)
It holds up every time I play it too, but it's certainly not going to create any zealots playing it for the first time today.

I wrote copious notes while I played that game, something that I tried to do recently with a game, but eventually gave up in a moment of weakness and just looked for FAQs online. This was something you could do in 1992, I certainly had internet then, but you had to stop playing your game, possibly reboot, and then dial your modem, and try finding the answer with something like gopher, or hope that a local BBS had people talking about it. Basically it was enough bother that you'd power through a lot more than you would today.

I also largely consider SC2 to be one of the first incrementals ever produced. I don't think there's any way you could beat the game the first time you played it, without knowing some key locations. There was just too much to explore. Like the first rainbow planet I found allowed me to make enough progress, that I think I beat the game the following playthrough. But like the article mentioned, this accidental incremental element just doesn't really fly today, especially for a game that can take hours of investment.
Discord, however, is a bit of a lifestyle brand like Twitch. It's where conversations happen, and it's incredibly useful to the gaming community. If they can get even a toehold with their subscription services and store, I think they have a very serious chance of turning towards something valuable.
Ok, we've added "hard" to the title above.
I think your points generally stand, but I think Facebook open source raises some specific issues at least worth consideration:

If your use of it contributes to its popularity, perhaps becoming the standard of X area, does that give Facebook the company more power and possibly enable other unethical actions?

I think it's probably not as much of a worry given the narrowness of the area, but I do think this is something to consider when it comes to React for example.
Yes, you're right, it's stronger than promise, it's "sold as".
As a statistician I would strongly object to the proposition that noise is unstructured or not data at all.
How do they get code onto that processor? From the SIM?
Astro Empires, my favorite gamified spreadsheet. People took that game way too seriously for me to have much fun with it.
I like the inclusion of his "no more cities" idea in this. A short story of his from the 40s, Rescue Party, includes this concept, where everyone lived far apart and flew around in their helicopters.

This is also the story where "a thousand points of light" originated. My conjecture has always been that one of Bush Sr's speech writers cribbed the phrase from Clarke, but it might just be a coincidence.
Are you talking about the Violin plots?
I think you’re underestimating the market and features Discord could bring to gaming companies, eg identity management, cross games challenges, and more
I'm referring to the adoption of javascript as the scripting language for browsers. Why else do "many coders know javascript well"?
Discord is as valuable to the gaming community as IRC was, or as Ventrilo was, or as Skype was (for a while). In other words, not very (as all those tools were easily replaced). Twitch built a marketplace of creators and consumers (like YouTube) -- that's why it's hard to replace. Discord, on the other hand, is a chat program.
I think Discord is a clear buy for someone like Microsoft. It gives them a big leg up, and doesn't really compete with Skype in the demographics.
Harry Frankfurt[1] would probably suggest bullshit--as opposed to simply lying--as a proper description.

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/7929.html
This sounds almost like a rubric for evaluating the CEO rather than learning from them. In the sense that from the paragraphs above it seems you have already an answer for what the good CEO should do.

For example, what does one learn from a successful CEO who is dominant, unempathetic, surrounded by yes men, and fiddles with their phone?

Perhaps I'm not reading this correctly, and you mean look at these traits and note how (perhaps counterintuitively) effective or ineffective they are?
>they have a HUGE audience of kids about to age into the gaming market who have only ever played Fortnite (and don't have the baggage of a huge Steam library.)

This never occurred to me before. When you put it like that it really does make me think they could be an extremely strong rival to Steam.
Generally, crime has two components: the act or omission itself (actus reus) and the intention to do so (mens rea). What's missing from this formula is whether you did so from pure or impure motives. That might influence a jury or be factored in a judgement, but into itself doesn't change whether you committed a crime.

Assuming there is some jurisdiction where this particular arrangement is potentially criminal, what will matter is not why Brave intended to do it. What will matter is that they intended to do it.
Or they support the entire economy in positive ways. Reliable availability and pricing of corn has a tremdous positive impact on the economy as a whole.

Without a strong hand in regulation, dominant companies get fat and lazy, destroying anything in their path. Imagine the potential that would have been lost had the original AT&T not been under the yoke of regulation. The internet and the immense wealth it has created would never had existed. You’d be paying $300/mo for some ISDN style Western Electric modem to access AT&T’s version of AOL.

Look no further than the shitshow that is Facebook and Twitter for what happens when you let the free market run. We’ve brought back white supremacy and god knows what else in pursuit of user engagement.
Wouldn't your usage be miejscownik/locative?
The solution to this 'authoritarianism' then is banning opinions the author disagrees with (Milo, Trump etc). Bravo
As far as I know none of my fans have even heard of Brave, so they're probably giving me money via Patreon or the occasional commission (and I should probably make the Paypal tip jar a bit more prominent, as well as maybe setting up Ko-fi or its ilk someday). But if Brave finds money to start a serious publicity campaign and get new users then I can definitely see that being a problem.

Needs a lot better way for them to contact creators, too. Probably they need some actual humans figuring out contact methods for a few years of growth instead of just assuming that "webmaster@domain.name" will get to the right person, and slowly building solutions for multi-user platforms based on the overall revenue of those places.

(Wedging into multi-user platforms by blocking their ads also has the problem of who's gonna pay for the servers if all the ad money gets siphoned off by Brave.)
Completely agree. Skype was the gamer go-to for a while, in fact.
Having used all of the subsequent iterations of OS X, now I will be reverting to my Time Machine copy of 10.9 because really, the usability of it has gone downhill from that point on. Or even 10.8, I'm not yet sure.

Who cares if it's secure but sucks so much that I'm not using it anymore?
Well, experimental doesn't mean it isn't usable (we are talking about an experimental standard here, not about experimental software).

I run an ejabberd server and for example the Client State Indicator (XEP-0352), which is one of the extensions that improve battery life for mobile clients, was experimental for a long time but at the same time also available for major servers (e.g. community edition of ejabberd) and mobile clients like Conversations (open source too).

So in my experience, the battery consumption of a modern XMPP client is quite good. When people are complaining about the bad mobile experience they are mostly referring to the time before the mobile extensions were built.
But how much of the debt is paid at the current interest rate?

Isn't there a bunch of 10 or 30 year treasuries that were issued years ago will be paid out at their historical rates?
Bethesda, particularly Skyrim, is pretty immersive and fun in the open world sense.
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A lot of christians are non denominational. A lot of people that say they believe in God also say they are christian (but have not even throughly read the Gospel). But I don't know anyone that understands Calvin well enough to call himself a calvinist or even to care what Calvin said hundreds of years ago. Your typical mouth breathing wife beater could not expouse one wit of what Calvin talked about.
Modern examples of this are GTA5 and Zelda: Breath of the wild. They are not endless but huge open worlds that evoke similar feelings and emotions to what you describe
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I don't think I agree with second. Germans have clearly different culture, language, habits, preferences, values and humor then Czechs. Wo ha different all above from French.

A lot of it remains when group emirates but keeps being close knit.

That is ethicity.
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Does he though? Here's all I see -

> "But wait," you might say. "The Moon's light isn't like the Sun's! The Sun is a blackbody—its light output is related to its high temperature. The Moon shines with reflected sunlight, which has a "temperature" of thousands of degrees—that argument doesn't work!"

> It turns out it does work, for reasons we'll get to later.

But the rest of the article is about etendue, and I don't see how the issue of reflected light is addressed (though possibly the answer is implied with an etendue argument I missed).

I'm very curious now - it seems to me that if the Moon was a perfect mirror, you should be able to start a fire with it. Maybe the Moon's low albedo is the reason? Fun fact about the Moon: its albedo (roughly the fraction of incident light it scatters) is about the same as asphalt - not very reflective at all! [0] It just looks bright to us because the Sun is so tremendously bright.

[0] - https://www.lcas-astronomy.org/articles/display.php?filename... , also learned this in an astronomy class
Orange!

Probably the fruit company with the most models of phone (Nearly all white label Huawei models, but still!)
I recall reading somewhere that two days before shipping the game was crashing in release mode builds, so the binary that shipped was in debug! Apparently a big part of the performance increase in BG2 came from fixing this bug.
Have you tried having group voice chats over IRC? This is where discord shines.
I'm not so sure gamers are a price-averse demographic
That's a rather native view, that unfortunately was shared by a lot of folks in the West.
Ref: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/03/01/how-the-west-go...
Discord is already considered uncool among a pretty influential crowd of users, people are sick of how laggy it is compared to other services and it is now a product no one asked for with the new store.

The fact it is also a gigantic datamining operation also is not going over so well.
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As a former iPhone 4 user who lived in a house with poor reception, I wouldn't say the issue was overblown. I practically couldn't use my phone for phone calls. I don't use the phone part much, so it wasn't a deal breaker for me, but I do remember that all my connection problems went away when I switched to an iPhone 5.
DNS still isn't updated, and I got signed out of my session on your site. I'll probably be signed out again by the time I check tomorrow, if I remember to.
Of course the medical manufacturers do well, they're granted monopoly power from the government through the regulatory process.
That's not what the term is generally used for.

Generally speaking, "playing god" is talked about as messing with nature and the things around us to better suit our needs. Genetic engineering, climate engineering, etc. "God" refers to the natural order of things and trying to change it.
The interesting thing to me is that Randall describes a very similar system just a few What-Ifs earlier: https://what-if.xkcd.com/141/

Here he says very clearly that if you "bundled" all the light from the sun and aim it at the earth it would heat the atmosphere to millions of degrees (the surface of the sun is much less than that). It's not at all clear to me what he means by "bundled" and why it's not contradictory to what he says in the article here. Presumably some kind of lens / mirror system could be used?

It seems to me that in this article he has in mind some highly abstract system that's fully reversible. Of course, in that case, once the target object gets hot enough it will start emitting light and result in equilibrium. But it's not clear to me that this describes what would actually happen with a real optical system! E.g. (a) much of the light the target receives is going to be absorbed and reemitted away from the lens, (b) what if you removed the lens targeting system at the precise moment the light impacted the target, so that the system couldn't be reversed, etc.

Edit: one more thing. The surface of the lit side of the moon can reach 260 degrees F, and dry wood can potentially catch fire as low as 300 degrees F. And the moon has some reflectivity as well. So even taking Randall's claims on their face, I'm skeptical that you could not start a fire (in some materials at least) using moonlight.
You're right, but that's missing the point. The problem is inefficient code using too much RAM. Instead of fixing the process, the user took out some RAM hoping the code would magically become more efficient when it needed to run with less RAM. Instead the program ran even slower, and the user was somehow surprised by this outcome. Either the user can continue to blame the program and remove even more RAM, or the user can fix the process that was using too much RAM to begin with. In some very misguided cases, the user might even remove RAM and increase CPU power, leading to even more wasted resources and no improvement in program speed.

Far too often the solution is to continue removing RAM in the hopes that the inefficient process magically fixes itself. It rarely does.
Cool, thanks for the calm discourse lixue.
Totally not because they listen to anyone to profile users or target ads.
> that's a pretty simplistic assessment

The bill of Rights was written simplistic for a reason, my friend. So regular folk could understand their rights without a lawyer.

This was my assessment, in steps:

1. Marriage exists because it's a religious ceremony for Christians.

2. The government got involved and gives religious marriage authorization, certification, and tax discounts. (unconstitutionally, see amendment one: government can make no law regarding religion or preventing The practice)

3. Any person can follow any religion in America (as long as it doesn't violate other human's rights.)

4. Create a new religion that allows gay marriage.

5. ???

6. Profit.

Allowing people to marry should and is protected under the first amendment. The Bill of Rights wasn't written in short, easy descriptions so that we could conflate meaning and exclude people of their rights. The truth is exactly opposite of that!
I disagree. It's more connected to communities than IRC/Vent/Skype. Right now I hang out in multiple alpha dev game discords, speedrunning discords, a personal game friends discord, a queer gaming discord, and a tabletop game development discord. The degree to which I'm connected to communities is much stronger than in something like IRC or Vent.
Thank you! Yes, as merlincorey correctly mentioned, they're called "violin plots".
> it should be treated with respect up to a point and that point ends when the law ceases to be relevant

Everyone has a different definition of which laws are “relevant”.

> ICE and Border Patrol are following the law by the book

Are they? I was under the impression that most of the outrage was around officers circumventing Constitutional checks and abusing their power.
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I’m not terribly afraid of Apple doing that move. With Core Storage, Apple already has abstracted away low level storage access years ago. Even if Core Storage was mandatory (which it isn’t), O3X runs perfectly fine on top of Core Storage either with or without ZFS encryption. O3X will continue to run happily as long as block-level storage access remains built into macOS. And it will because APFS is a very young filesystem, which depends on block-level access; it took Apple a decade to build APFS from scratch so there’s no way for Apple to get rid of this dependency without throwing APFS away and starting from scratch.

But what if Apple simply built APFS into one of the next generations of T-series chips so it can physically deny block-level access to software? Not going to happen: Apple needs APFS to work not only with built-in storage but also with external USB drives, RAM disks, DMGs, sparse bundles, and so on. This means APFS needs to remain in kernel space, and kernel code will continue to have block-level access, and so will O3X and all of its features.
I think the thermodynamics argument is that only non-reversible systems cause energy to flow from a lower-temperature source to a higher-temperature destination, not that all non-reversible systems do so. For example, if you set up a solar panel that directly feeds a resistor, you have a dissipative system that's unlikely to get hotter than the sun. However, a solar panel array and/or battery could conceivably power a fusion reaction that does get hotter than the sun.
Good point. I always conflate the Empire Service and western ny train as that’s how I get to the corridor service!
Wouldn't this layer of dust also stop the lense from working normally? If I understand the other commenters here, it's not just about reversibility, but "useful energy" loss - with lenses you are not paying the needed "efficiency tax" to achieve higher temperatures than the source.
Can one not do machine learning on a RaspberryPi with an FPGA shield?
Maybe they just meant larger values of zero.
I am an Army officer who writes language parsers in JavaScript for a hobby.
Even if you buy the phone from a third party, there are a bunch of custom configs for every carrier in the world in the android source code.

They're mostly mundane things like 'should we believe the language specified in the sim card' or 'what max MTU should be used on this network', but there are also more sensitive things like 'what types of tethering to allow' or 'should we allow the user to manually select which network to connect to while roaming.
Sweet. I appreciate Discord. It’s like a much less bloated, simpler version of Slack that still has all the features basic communities need.
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It's a common technique to use ND filters when capturing long exposure photos during the day. The scenario is that you know how long you want your exposure to be, for instance 5 seconds. And your problem is that those 5 seconds will flood your sensor with light. The solution is to use a ND filter.
> Ah yeah, so AlamoFire is a monstrosity of a library which was originally implemented in Objective C back when iOS's native networking tools were pretty bare bones. I thought it was bloated and overcomplicated then, and it's worse now.

OK, glad I wasn't imagining it

> This is a solved problem since Swift 4. Now you can declare conformance to Encodable/Decodable protocols on any one of your types, and in many cases the compiler can generate a default implementation of the protocol methods, so that's all it takes to make a type parsable from/serializable to JSON.

This is exactly what I was expecting it to be like which is why I think I was disappointed -- the ToJSON typeclass (haskell) and the Deserialize (rust) trait are the analogs I was expecting to find but didn't.

Honestly I think Swift is a good language, my opinion on it really isn't too relevant except for why I normally don't reach for it outside of iOS development.

Also does swift compile to a static binary fairly easily? That's another feature I really like from the recent crop of languages (Haskell excluded, it can be a bit tricky) -- Rust and Golang compile statically super easily, and you can get even more portability if you build in alpine (since it uses musl libc).