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>I’d love to hear more about this, although I guess it’s a bit off topic...

I'm not sure HN is the place to discuss such things, and I'm not sure even that interesting – the major gripes are mostly obvious, but fundamental; eg reliance on champion-global external systems like summoner spells, runes and whatever they call their current system, which all make it extremely difficult to balance things locally. They've been consistently getting better at it. Lootboxes that is, not game design.

>find incredibly interesting on a multitude of levels are the FROM SOFTWARE games.

FROM is an interesting company, because they were never meant to be popular. They were happy wiling away in their obscurity, constantly iterating on the same niche games (King's Field, Armored Core, etc), until DeS became an accidental hit; I'm not sure the popularity was good for them – the games are misunderstood as simply "difficult" (typically compared to "arcade difficult", but they're not; they're punishing, they trick you, and require a minimal degree of patience that can be found in almost no other modern game, but they eventually push you towards success. Arcade difficult is a vastly different beast, asking for pixel-perfect input, few if any alternative strategies, repetitive play and exceptional punishment to wring those juicy quarters out of you), and that moniker apparently confused From's weaker teams, leading to the mess of DaS 2/3. Annoyingly, their Souls success seems to eaten Armored Core's lunch too.

Probably the most amazing thing about FROM is that they actually learn from their previous work. You can look at King's Field -> DaS lineage and see actual, consistent improvement. Even when they sidestep into Bloodborne and Sekiro, they manage to take lessons with them (and make new mistakes).

But yeah, the industry has its companies and its auteurs. Platinum, Grasshopper Studio, From Software, Clover, iD, Blizzard North, Sid Meier, Kojima, Carmack, Ford & Reichie, Tarn/Zach Adams, (From & Nintendo's) Miyazaki, Mikami, etc. And you'll consistently find interesting output from them, and games worth their salt (Carmack is a bit funny because he doesn't really give a shit about games, his stuff is always technically interesting, and sometimes game-interesting).

But the annoying thing is that that you can take probably 90% of games today, and find something that did the same thing better 20 years ago. Hell, I'm beginning to doubt most game designers are even aware games existed before 2000.

The only thing we're making any real progress on is graphics.. and thats just towards realism. We've lost a lot in style. I mean hell, it's difficult to find games where player interaction is even a base concept of its design, and thats the primary thing games introduce as a medium!
It might be possible in the future to have commercial aircrafts with an airframe changing depending of the flight regime. See https://m.phys.org/news/2019-04-mit-nasa-kind-airplane-wing....
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Out of curiosity: is it that FreeBSD has the old socketcall(2) but not the newer fine-grained system calls?
nice topics
I read the whole article and it doesn't talk about that. I hope that it's an honest review.
It's no different than, say, "re-tweeting".
A bit off topic as didn't read the article, but i used to live in the same apartment building as Ingmar some years ago in Stockholm.

I never saw him the first couple of years when i lived there, but one time when i was coming home from the video store (ok, quite a long time ago i guess...) and an older guy was getting into the elevator, noticed me and held it for me.

I get in and only then realize who it was. And of course he asks what movie i had just rented. Quite embarrasing as it was a really crappy b-movie about a giant squid or something that i had rented as a last resort...
I see that there's an inaccurate statement about the "787 Max", but the grounding of the 787-10 today did happen: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-air...
I've read that the extra lift generated by the nacelles doesn't actually result in aerodynamic instability -- the plane's not going to stall itself -- but results in reduced backpressure on the yoke in a way that fails airworthiness certifications for required amounts of pressure. (With the idea being that the pilots may induce a stall due to not needing to provide as much force on the yoke as they would expect to have to in order to do that.)
I think this is another entry to the startup version of "homeless or hipster".
Honestly, any of them. They're all good. The one I have is three or four years old, and it still works as well as it did when it was new, except for the battery (but it stays plugged in so that doesn't matter). I could easily keep using it for 3–4 more years if it keeps getting map updates.
Every few months I plug it into my computer and leave it to update for a few hours (it's a one-click process), but I think some of the newer ones have Wi-Fi so they can auto-update.

It really depends on what features you want. I've found the voice commands to be quite handy. It has a hard time understanding some addresses, but for stuff like "go home", "turn down the brightness", "navigate to the nearest Tim Hortons", it's great. I wish mine had a built-in dashcam like the newer ones, but they're not cheap. Mine has Bluetooth as well, so it can get more frequent traffic updates from my phone (instead of through the FM receiver), as well as take speakerphone calls.

It's pretty much a single function device, which is perfect. I never have to mess with it, it's always there, and it leaves my phone free for audiobooks or for me to use if I'm in the passenger seat.
Probably yeah. Lets see if they'll ban much bigger accounts doing the same thing, I'd guess not.

https://www.instagram.com/lmao/
> at a cost of US2.175¢/kWh

Are those units correct? Isn't a kWh of power much cheaper than that already?

edit: My mistake. I was reading that as $/kWh. You just don't see stuff priced in cents very often anymore.
Oh, ansible, I like ansible. I even maintain this: https://github.com/radekg/terraform-provisioner-ansible.

But chef is a completely different beast. For those who can digest ruby (as I do), chef is still a fantastic choice. I have fond memories of chef. Written countless cookbooks, recipes and bootstrapped thousands of machines with it. Having full power of ruby at one’s disposal can’t be underestimated. But one has to appreciate ruby first ;)
For quite a few years now, Festo has always shown some kind of cool robot at the Hanover Fair. This is from this week's fair.
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I travel a couple of dozen times a year for both business and personal reasons, and I've found Evernote to be a good tool for handing travel related documentation.

For each trip, I create a new notebook, and anything relating to that trip goes into that notebook. Screencaps/PDFs of my hotel and flight reservations, boarding passes, etc. If I'm on a business trip, I scan my receipts with ScanBot and sync the scans over to Evernote, where I move them into the proper notebook for that trip.

Being able to add in my travel documents on my computer, receipts through my iPhone, and retrieve the receipts back on my desktop is exactly what I need, and so far Evernote has been the best tool for the job. 2,604 notes and counting!
That's not true for all ways of doing things, for example, with bundled data, dual rail domino QDI and various commercial groups like wave computing and ETA computing which have their own asynchronous flavors, often optimized for arithmetic operations.
>I will not be providing code or anything like that

Ok, still might be an interesting read from a technical standpoint...

Later on:

>Using some opensource software, I set up a scraper to go through and download media

Seriously? Couldn’t even say which open source software?
Just as logical as the statement I was poking fun at.
The peer reviewers are properly not good scripters as well.
Security topics hidden behind clearances, sounds like security through obscurity to me.
what industry, if you don't mind me asking?
It helps them explain their life; it allows them to make reasonable adjustments and to ask other people to make reasonable adjustments; it helps people to understand what they're going to find harder; it helps people explain what their skills are.
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I wonder, who is responsible in a case like this? Is it the current owners of CompuServe for not clearing the PII before trashing the machines?
What IS the point of video DRM anyway? I can't remember a single instance of a thing I wanted to watch not being available for torrenting over the years, maybe barring some really obscure television episodes I wouldn't find on Netflix anyway. I do pay for (most of) the content I watch these days (now that I can kinda-sorta afford it), but it's not because it's not available one thepiratebay search away. Mainstream stuff usually comes out within hours of the release.
This is very common. I've bought machines at auction with databases on them.
In TFA, he says that he created other accounts like this. So if his OPSEC is good enough, he's still getting that free food. This was arguably just a sacrifice to get some publicity. Indeed, I'm guessing that he's selling these bots. Or at least, offering consulting services.
The $76 investment is worth it if there is a 50% chance I could gain an ability to relax within 30 minutes.
The above is most probably for US based clients.
E.g. in Poland it is perfectly legal to watch copyrighted material as long as you don't redistribute it.

It is also legal to do a reverse engineering of software to allow it to run on your system, software, hardware (so I think a browser also applies).

(I'm not a lawyer, just reading some of the more technical law articles)
To be fair, no notes service is worth paying for—they all have ridiculous cost for providing a commodity service.
This is a very strange content to post on your product's blog. What marketing advantage are you seeing from your blog, which seems to only contain this takedown article of a quasi-competitor alongside mostly clickbait posts ("These 10 tips will change your life!").
Would you please try my Bootstrap 4 based dialogs?
It's almost as if the "hivemind" isn't a hivemind, but a large set of people with different opinions/morals and different willingness to express it in different contexts.
He is promoting a business to his followers as a place they should patronize without any actual belief that they should patronize it (other than his belief that businesses that pay him should be patronized).

He is behaving honestly with the restaurants but not with his followers. Unless he is actually posting things like:

"Hey, I've never been to Moe's Tavern but they said I could have a free burger if I posted this picture, so here it is. Go check it out! You should totally spend money there. Moe's is awesome!! (at least, they were awesome enough to offer me a burger to type this!!11!!!)"
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The point is that the presumed benefits of said dogma just don't seem to be there. Mostly these things concentrate around people for whom the sacrifice is relatively small and scare off everyone else with the holier than thou attitude.
This mindset is commonplace in most of the jobs I've held in the last 10 years. Personal gain trumps morals, company values, and even company performance. It's what happens when you put a bunch of high-performers in a box and let them play the corporate ladder game.
I read that paragraph, which is why I felt he buried the ledge. I think that using someone else's work for your own gain without permission is unethical. It also doesn't address writing fake restaurant reviews.
I would rather Google keep trying and failing than quit trying.

If you don't keep the start-up spirit to keep trying new things, then some start-up will find a way to disrupt you.
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Awesome - I’ll try this tomorrow and let you know if it works for our use case.

We currently pay a different provider £299 per month for 10k requests so we will definitely migrate if it does what we need.

A few questions, does it handle pages that are loaded by JS? And would it find something like a house price or job salary?
Sure, for new dams. The ones built a hundred or more years ago are the ones with huge problems. Well, there is always a cost, the Columbia will never run free, for example.
Can my torrenting app stream my video, or do I have to wait for a full assembly of the pieces from torrent hosts and enough downloaded to watch it?

If the latter, torrenting is plenty cumbersome enough that if the studios are pushing movie-viewing to "Pay us money or you have to torrent it," they're winning.
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It's not inferior. It has to adhere to different constraints than houses in the US or Germany.

They chose to not do the insulation/heating part because of earthquakes.
I think general programming best practices would apply, particularly code review and planning your code and breaking it up into discrete parts. I have seen many scripts for research that are 5k LOC of spaghetti that become impossible to read or adjust.
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I am very careful with my gear and one of the only people I know who don't fray their lightning cables. So far my 2015 MacBook keyboard is fine, but I am holding on to my 2012 MacBook Pro for dear life. When work issued me a new computer, I asked them for a 2018 Mac Mini rather than a disposable MacBook Pro.

I have also accelerated my Linux migration contingency planning. If I were to get a laptop now, it would be one of the System76 Linux models.

Apple will eventually have to make it right, if nothing else the class-action lawsuits will ensure that, but their complacency and bad faith has already caused irreparable damage to the brand.
The last US president to take that matter seriously was JFK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#US_...
Paid Gmail does not datamine per their Terms. It would be a massive legal minefield if they did secretly anyway.

I do not work for Google or any Alphabet company.
i believe not disclosing that you were compensated in some way violated US federal law.

I seem to recall that Kim Kardasian get busted for such.
You were diagnosed with having a turbocharged brain as a toddler?

That happened.
> What are some of the anti-software-union arguments?

Part of it, I believe, revolves around salary/pay levels - there is a very large gap between the lowest and highest; this isn't completely based on geographical location, though the higher pay does skew toward SV of course.

Most developers, though, are fine with this disparity - that might be a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" problem, but for those willing to take the risks and chances, and in some cases move long distances - if they are good, they really can boost their salary quite a bit if they happen to join up with the right company, at the right time.

I think part of it also has to do with certification; would a union require it? Would we all have to get or have either a CS degree, and/or some kind of actual certification from some standards body? Who would those be? IEEE? ACM? Microsoft? Red Hat? All of the above?

What about those of us who've been doing this for 20+ years, and only have a high school diploma in some cases, yet earn 6 figures at a FAANG or such? Do we grandfather those people in, or do they find themselves out of work (maybe with a stipend from the union?) until they get their certification?

Those are just a few possible questions - maybe reasons - that could be considered "anti-union sentiment".

I think one way or the other, though, we're (as a group) are going to be forced into either a union and/or certification measures, much like professional engineers, whether we like it or not.

Probably sooner than we think, mostly due to the devices and such you mention, and their very public problems being aired. The question is only whether we'll have any real input into how it'll look, and right now, we seem to be collectively ignoring it.

What I find amazing is that it hasn't happened already; history-wise, one would have thought that the whole THERAC-25 thing would have forced it, but somehow it didn't.
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> Maintenance engineering is so not-rewarded that it's become an inside joke

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I'm thinking this is probably related to them going PVC and Phtalate free. While the avoidance generally could be seen as laudable from a environmental perspective, it might have been counter productive in this particular instance, especially since the cable itself can't be replaced without replacing the entire charger.

It really has to be a nightmare trying to optimize cables for environmental friendliness, especially in an environment where the looks are so important. I don't know about all the options as I'm not in the business, especially for white cables there simply doesn't seem to be many, or even any reasonable option.

Notably, the newer generation of chargers seems to have replaceable cables. Maybe that's the least bad?
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Some autistic people experience high levels of anxiety in social situations.

If they're diagnosed as autistic they get suitable help.

If they're not diagnosed as autistic they get treatment for Social Anxiety or Social Anxiety Disorder, and that treatment doesn't work because they don't have SA or SAD.
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VEVO (the music producer) have most of their free video clips under DRM
What is the point of this "blame", especially stating it as if it were exclusive? All of these companies are past the startup/responsive/customerserving stage. They're immune to public opinion when you just keep on patronizing them.

Rather, focus on concrete steps you yourself can take:

1. Make sure the hostile black box is not available / disabled in your browser. So when you end up at a page that wants to use DRM and it doesn't work, you simply attribute the problem to the website being broken (which it is), and move on. If you do need to keep using the DRM crutch for now, then only use it on a separate dedicated browser or device.

2. Base your media setup around a DRM-free pipeline (eg Kodi). Make torrenting content your default. If you want to pay indie creators for DRM free downloads, feel free. But don't fund any studios that generally push DRM.

3. Share downloaded content with friends (eg USB drives), encouraging them to not fund Netflix et al developing and promulgating more DRM. This is especially relevant for "exclusive" releases that are meant to push people into signing up for yet another subscription.
how would you prefer to export your data if not in a plaintext xml file?

would you prefer it export to markdown and lose information? (evernote's markup doesn't cleanly convert into markdown)
This is what is happening with old letters as well. If you look carefully through antics markets you can often find old letters.

Random example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1683-Old-Historical-Handwritten-Let...
I use Brave and Netflix and PrimeVideo work fine. How does that happen?
looks to be working for me
Related:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/la...

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/08/th...
Not sure it should be that simple either. You would probably want someone with physical access to the aircraft to deliver upgrades in order to avoid someone tampering with it.
Then another 25 years from the 262 do the 737, then twice as many years from the 737 to the 737 MAX. I always think of aviation when someone tries to extrapolate technology.

(PS: imagine the bold branding experiment if they had called it "50 years anniversary edition" instead of "MAX")