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Citadels: A game of repeatedly drafting different secret roles while trying to puzzle out what your opponents have taken. I don't know how to describe it in a way that makes it sound exciting, except to say that it can be very tense and interactive. The box says 2-7 players, but I don't recommend it with more than three.

Codenames: A fun word association party game. The play area is a grid of 25 words, and two teams compete to identify their team's words based on clues from their "spymaster". It's a good game for large groups, and has lead to many amusing stories we still talk about months later.

Bohnanza is a classic trading game. You're trying to plant beans, and to do that best, you want to play multiple copies of the same bean card in a row. The hitch is that you must play cards in order, and you can't rearrange your hand. You need to trade with other players to wind up with a workable hand.

Sol: Last Days of a Star: This game has some really cool mechanics. Honestly I think it's probably the most exciting euro of the decade. You launch "sundivers" to build infrastructure and exploit the resources of the sun. But your infrastructure can be used by all the other players, who share with you some of its benefits. Your mothership from which your sundivers are launched is constantly moving. You need to carefully time your actions so your sundivers don't waste time flying across the map, or sit idle in the hold. And the game's clock is controlled by players. The deeper you move into the sun, the faster you bring about its destruction, and the end of the game.

Brass (Lancashire) is another mid-heavyweight euro with a cool shared infrastructure mechanic. You're all industrialists in the English midlands circa 1800. Your build factories and mines. What's cool is that these industries do nothing until you can find a market for them, and that market is often generated by the other players. You can build a coal mine, for example, knowing that everybody is soon going to need lots of coal for their railroads, or corner the market in ports and profit when other players go to ship their cotton. But it's also possible to misjudge demand, or be to late to market, and find that your developments are completely worthless.

High Frontier is my favorite simulation-type game. It's about industrializing the solar system. You can build all kinds of rockets (chemical, electric, nuclear, solar heated steam, solar sails, mass drivers...) to fly factory components out to asteroids, moons, or planets, possibly stopping to refuel along the way, if your rocket is equipped for that. The rocket equation is modeled, along with different efficiencies for different kinds of thrusters. The map is innovative in how it presents the trade-offs between delta-v and time for various missions. It's also gorgeous:

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2585121/high-frontier-third-...
You could say they've come a long way from the infamous Playstation Vita placement in House of Cards: https://www.giantbomb.com/playstation-vita/3045-129/forums/h...
The thing that bothers me about subscription based models is that there is a non linear relationship between value to the customer and revenue. At some inflection point, increasing the value customer gets out of the product does not result in new subscriptions. Wherein, in pay per use models, existing customers will spend more when they get more value out of the product.

I have no idea how far away that inflection point is (there are 7+ billion of us, after all), and if this is even the right way to think about subscription based business models. But this is something that always bugged me about them.
"I don't know where I'm going with this." LMAO
Oxford places ban on donations and research grants from Huawei
Ok, if that's the line we're using, then that includes anyone who isn't satisfied with the on-die GPU. That's a sufficiently broad definition of "serious" to include quite a lot of people who would sacrifice performance and compatibility for privacy, so I agree your statement is applicable to that group.

That's just not the group I think of when someone uses the term "serious" in this manner. Sure, they're on the spectrum of seriousness, but if I were to tell you that someone was a "serious cigar smoker", do you honestly imagine a guy who smokes machine rolled every few months?
WPML Website Hacked, Customer Emails Compromised
Is it surprising that nitrogen runoff is a thing? Something like 7% of world energy use goes into making nitrogen for farming — why is it that we don’t have efficient methodology for adding it to soil at a rate which does not exceed the soil uptake rate — is fertilizer cost not a pretty clear resource cost that _someone_ would find value in reducing even without considering the (non-priced) externalities ...?
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Thanks for noticing. I will do what i can.
I currently have way to much data lying around for any metered cloud storage to be economical, so I'm currently subscribing to both Backblaze and Crashplan for their unlimited storage backup plans.

Crashplan killed off their consumer plan a while ago, so I ended up moving to their business plan at double the price. In my case even at that price it was still worth it considering the amount of storage I'm using.

Anyone aware of other services offering unlimited storage for a single user? I know Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive all offer unlimited storage in their business plans, but they all require a certain number of users before the unlimited storage kicks in.
Email from WPML: https://pastebin.com/raw/jS44fnMa
> anyone have a good strategy?

I left the industry for data science. Went back to school and fall in love with statistic. Going to try to get a biostat job. I'm trying to do side projects web app and not give a damn about the flavor flav of the month.

I don't know if that's a good strategy.. it's basically peacing out. I also move most of my tech stack to plain old stuff like a simple mvc framework and no frontend rendering.
Why don't you ask them why they do this? It's a very good question.
An analogy by definition requires strong similarity to explain the position. Being a poet is about expressing your emotions having the reader transported to the place, like a doctor explaining the condition and cure, err
Actually?

He does mention the movie (though it is fairly far down the page).

And I'll throw out another recommendation to watch it as well :)
Exactly. SE for mobility and iPad for screen real estate.
Honestly I think it's just a meme at this point. Don't fight it. Just mention something about Electron being bloated and rake in that sweet sweet karma.

Hey, has anyone else noticed how bloated Electron is? I bet it's all those rootin tootin NPM packages!
I started using Ubuntu Linux about 8 years ago, about the same time I started my CS degree at school. Over the years, my interest in Windows shrunk to essentially just PC gaming. When school got serious I stopped gaming as much, and all my needs from both school and personal computing were met with open source tools.

Every once in a while I would try a new distro as live CD, just for kicks, and to see how things are different. I learned how to use my own window manager and terminal program. I found that the necessary elements needed for working Linux are actually quite small, and most everything beyond that is for convenience.

When you learn to use the terminal, your entire perspective on how to use a computer changes. No longer are you wasting time swishing your mouse around, clicking on folders and icons. Instead, you live on the keyboard, using hotkeys, personal aliases, tab completion, STDIO piping, dot files, terminal based text editors... There's a lot to master.

But don't feel put off by this, we actually have a lot of fun in the terminal. We can play music with MPD/Ncmpcpp, play Tetris, retrieve HN articles and view comments, retrieve 3-day local weather with animations, we can even browse webpages. It's actually a fun world in the terminal, and we can eliminate the need for otherwise fatty software.

If you're looking for something that Just Werks as a Windows replacement, any Ubuntu derivative will be fine. If you're looking for something that requires more work but might spur interest (i.e. hobby), you might try Arch or Gentoo. And if you're looking for rice examples, check out Reddit/unixporn.
He is a techno-optimist, but Elon Musk is not involved in the tech?
I want to "retire" early so I can program whatever I want, whenever I want. :)
None of what you said is wrong, but:

1) there is no need to import anything but numpy to get at pi or e (see constant section of numpy docs).

2) if you wrap all your things you expect to behave like vectors/matrices with np.array() and only use np methods to operate on them you will suffer from shape mismatches instead of TypeErrors, a slightly better fate.
And Waymo promising full autonomous cars by last year, even if they limited the scope in space and weather they missed it
Like Musk?
The end molecule is not patented, the process and pathway to creating it is.

If this software can come up with sufficiently novel pathways other processes can be used to come up with the same drug.

This is the idea anyway.
I genuinely think they have the wrong ceo.
> you just need to describe your build tasks using a simple YAML schema

I don't understand this. How is it easier/nicer to learn an arbitrary schema in an ambiguous[1] data serialization language than the makefile syntax which was designed specifically for the purpose?

I'm not criticising the project; I'm sure a lot of work has gone into it and it is decent software. But I wouldn't encourage people to be quick to disregard 'difficult' mature software and jump at something new that makes claims about being 'simple and easy'.

[1]: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks/
As soon as a few months ago even mentioning here that you didn’t think autonomous cars were close to being ready got downvotes. People don’t understand how complicated driving a car in all conditions is and how much the human brain is doing already.
I think there's a lot to be said for this. I just don't have the energy or time anymore to commit to sitting down and finishing a game, but I love watching them being played while I'm having lunch or something. I don't so much just sit down and watch the whole thing like a football game, but I think it scratches a similar itch.

While the cat's probably out of the bag by now, if it were a service I had to pay for I likely would.
Not sure how smoking is relevant here, but I know many who play demanding games on Linux, using high end GPUs, CPUs, custom PC builds and etc. It's as serious as it gets. And "must use Windows" isn't something they care about, as Linux users.
https://www.supermacs.ie/menuproduct/mighty-mac/

I can't possibly imagine why McDonalds would be litigating against this chain!
Not if it's written in a language like e.g. Python with Django framework, where theres generally one or only a few accepted best implementations.

It means there's less leaks through the cracks because everything is better integrated instead of loosely tied together.
I think you are making a wrong analogy here. A "threat model" in security is like a "user operation" for the feature.

So in the non-security bug world, the exchange would look like:

Bug report: the program is missing blue circle in the top right corner. Please add is ASAP.

Developer response: what would possibly be the use of this feature? Please tell me of I will close the bug.
That right there sounds like a solid reason for Apple to not go that route. Customers who paid over $1000 will now be spending under $500 for an Apple phone. Thats bad for business.
> PowerShell is significantly superior to bash+coreutils in many ways

Presumably it should be, given that PowerShell came out in 2006, while Bash appeared in 1989 and is tied to the model of Bourne shell which appeared in 1977 which itself was tied to the model of the Thompson shell of 1971. Which means that traditional UNIX terminal environments have certain artificial limitations which are tied to these earlier paradigms.
what's elusive about it? there's some pretty obvious situations where you expect driverless cars to have trouble: bad weather, unusual traffic or pedestrian patterns, emergency vehicles, rarely travelled roadways...
I was on a spreadsheet yesterday and I had range of cells that I really just wanted to "map" into another range of cells. I wish scala notebooks could be viewed spreadsheet style, something like that. Just to be able to write a function (formula) in the language of my choice, and then reference it from a cell.
> But keep in mind that Fortnite did something very similar to Netflix...they dropkicked an industry bent on selling blockbuster titles which just rehash the same content from the previous year. They upended the business model.

No, they really didn't. Fortnite did absolutely nothing new. They literally copied the models that were used by League of Legends and Player Unknown Battlegrounds, and many other games.

Epic Games wasn't the kicker. They were the kicked.

Fortnite's popularity is only an incremental step up from the games whose models they imitate. Right now as I type this the number of viewers for Fortnite is 168k. Dota 2 is as 118k. League of Legends is at 106k. At times, Fortnite is below rather than above these games. It varies.

> A few comments have wondered about Fortnite being a bubble, which it certainly is.

Bubble doesn't mean popular. It means speculation leading to inflated value not backed by real value.

There are cycles fueling Fortnite's popularity. The biggest part of this has nothing to do with Fortnite itself and everything to do with people watching others play video games. It used to be that streamers had few people watching them. Now people can make millions because there are that many people watching.

This utterly changes the content creation dynamic. It incentives good content, because good content gets rewarded with money. If you watched online streamers several years ago, many of them were awkward. These days, many of them could very easily be a radio host or walk out onto a stage and do comedic impressions. They are entertainers as much as gamers.

Fortnite is just an incremental step in the virtuous cycle free to play games enjoy. Free advertising produced for good games by extremely talented content creators leading to more players and viewers.
Vba is superior
I think there are a few reasons for that.

1- back-end frameworks tend to follow either the Rails or Sinatra models. We may get new frameworks in new languages but their structures are fairly similar. Datastores have been changing but usually get abstracted into a supporting library. GraphQL a bigger change than we've seen in a while.

2- front-end requirements are changing faster with a greater number of developers solving more varied problems.

3- front-end is at the top of the stack so is less constrained. Making changes in the back-end can have consequences to all developers of a product. Front-end changes only affect the front-end devs who likely do both the app along with new frameworks being built.
it evolves quickly because the whole field is based on a couple of hacks, and the possibility manifold is being constantly dilated via the tiny hole they opened.

ES5 plus XHR rent a hole to a bizarre parallel world where the whole page was an applet. We are still working out what that means.

Unlike every other development context, this whole world is an accident.

I made my first website in 1996. Youth, listen to me.
Sure we can do it. Use nuclear plants on land to provide power for the synthesis of carbon neutral artificial liquid hydrocarbon fuels, then burn that in ship engines.

Installing nuclear plants in modern civilian ships is a non-starter for safety, security, and cost reasons.
I am intrigued by the mention of writing AST walkers and a data flow tool for call graphs. Is it possible that you can talk about them on a blog post ? I would like to know why they are useful and how you write them.
There are certainly irritating problems which can arise on Linux, I'm not in any way denying that. But on Windows, the closed nature of the OS makes certain things particularly irritatingly opaque and inflexible.
I had a GPS that did that something like 10 years ago. Is it news because (gasp!) Google is doing it?
Drone-killing tech outlawed at Australian airports despite risk to flights
> What is it about Desert that keeps one player from dominating it?

In my experience with Forbidden Island, having the treasures linked to explicit tiles leads to a lot of quarterbacking with some players backing up arguments with "facts" like "you're X tiles away, so you can get there, but we can't, so you need to go there first."

In Forbidden Desert, the airship parts are all hidden in random locations indicated by an intersection of two tiles, which are also hidden. So while a potential quarterback can still say "hey, turn over that tile and move there and do that too," there's much less incentive to give or follow orders because it's randomized. This changes as game and player states (through hands) become more visible to everyone, but it's enough of a difference that I've noticed a definite decreasing in the "mood" of the game and quarterbacking behaviors.

For example, in Forbidden Island, I sometimes suggest a house rule where you could ONLY initiate a conversation with someone if it was your own turn -- that is, nobody could actually jump in and tell you what to do in your turn. I've never found that necessary in Forbidden Desert.
netflix keeps increasing prices, you can say that they increase price, because their value to average customer increases.
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I played this twice the other night and enjoyed it, which shocked me because I the Resistance. I'm not sure if there's actually something different about it, or if I just enjoy the novelty of it.
It is pretty easy to find him doing just that in this paper.

Here's some examples

> Nuclear energy is often seen as a fundamental or bridging technology for future low-carbon systems (International Energy Agency, 2015a; Echavarri, 2013). While it is true that electricity production from nuclear energy is characterized by very low CO2 emissions during the operation phase of the plant, its full life-cycle CO2 emissions, including all up- and downstream processes, are typically much more CO2 intensive.

While this is true, the paper does not make an equivalent comparison to their scenarios. They do not include the upstream and downsteam emissions from PV and wind. Which should include their energy storage requirements. When addressing storage requirements they hand wave, pointing to two papers that also hand wave the requirement. They all but flat out deny the duck curve. But regardless, they don't include these parts into their own scenarios.

Later when they present their 6 scenarios, they assume no change in nuclear. If you do want to make a good comparison moving forward, you should have a scenario 7 that would shut down the current reactors and replace them with new genIII or genIV reactors. You might say I'm being facetious, but the issue is that this is what the nuclear camp wants. The nuclear camp does not want scenario 1 (business as usual), and agree that it is a bad idea. So to make a claim about which direction we want to move forward to be the cheapest and most environmentally friendly you need to address the other positions. While I wouldn't be surprised if this was still a more expensive option, by not addressing it the authors are creating a strawman argument. In reality they do even worse than this, they create scenario 6 which is scenario 1 but with decreased efficiency (which they don't cite evidence for the number they use).

tldr: I'm not sold on the paper. There's merit to it, but the study was not rigorous enough and did not consider the arguments of the opposing scenarios that it is specifically countering.
E400 goes to around 1.7 GHz, R820T to about 1.85 GHz, which doesn't cover the full LTE band, so yes it's pretty shit at the higher frequencies, 10$ won't get you anywhere there.

But then you are not in the price range anymore.
Not really a board game, but Once Upon a Time is really fun. You tell a fairy-tale-esque story with your friends using a deck of places, things, events, etc. If your friends are creative, it's a whole ball of laughs and you might even make some nice in-jokes to tell each other.
MySQL server has access to client-side filesystem
I'm not incredibly happy about it.
What content comes in 10-bit in the first place? HDR is just becoming a thing and I'm pretty sure that's restricted to UHD Blu-rays.
I think this is a symptom of being accessible not the language or its tools. NPM is fantastic and anytime I use Go or anything like that I miss it sorely.

Even javascript itself isn't "bad". There are ugly parts but anything written in the modern spec is basically semantically the same as any other language like python.

The problem is that people writing packages on the backend are bootcamp grads, frontend devs, and any number of other people who don't take the backend as seriously as someone who has been devoted to it using a non-javascript language.

I think the other issue is the javascript community wants to reinvent itself every couple months, instead of having one project that becomes defacto for x function over many years.
But it's a different kind of selfish. I'm specifically speaking out against megalomania and narcissism, which are really the root causes I think you're concerned about. You should be selfish in the sense that you shouldn't feel that you owe something to society in order to be happy. Anything that you gain an intrinsic sense of happiness from is worth doing, as long as you aren't hurting or negatively affecting others by doing it.
I remember in 2017 being pretty convinced that we'd have something commercially operating within 5 years and my wife being skeptical. As recently as a few months ago, I still felt pretty good about that prediction. WayMo's non-launch launch has made me a lot less bullish, since I really had assumed they were almost there, at least in terms of Phoenix. And 2022 is looking a whole lot closer these days.
>minimize screen time while maximizing subscription retention

Gyms essentially do this. The number of people with memberships will be 20x the gym's physical capacity, in part because people get memberships and then never show up. Some gyms target that kind of customer.
Bloviation perhaps.