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wow.. just a few bits from the update:

To be super clear, there are no new levels, no new characters, no new battle royale deathmatch mode. This is just a gentle remastering we did for fun.

The framework has been replaced. This is the thing that draws all the graphics onto your screen, and sends all the audio to your speakers, etc. This means the Win / Mac / Linux version should work on modern computers again without freaking out, and you can run the game on modern displays at whatever resolution you want.

Game now runs at a hi-def widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio by default. The original ran at a squarer 4:3 ratio.

Resolution of graphics is doubled. The original game ran at 800×600, and the tiny graphic files didn’t scale to huge monitors very gracefully. We used a few different high quality upscaling tools to start, and then went over each image by hand, tweaking each image further as needed. In a few lucky cases, we still had the original source files and were able to use those. But if you still really want the original flavor, there’s a setting to use the original graphics, also included with the game.

Fabulous joke about looking good in hi-def has remained unchanged.

Brought over graphical and UI improvements from releases on other platforms, like Nintendo Switch.

No more encrypted assets or save files. We hope this makes the game more open and friendly to mod.

The config.user.txt file is now located wherever your save file is stored. So no more editing that file in your Program Files folder. It has a bunch of new config vars exposed as well.

We’ll be updating the game everywhere Win / Mac / Linux versions are available in the next few days.

These updates 10 years after the initial release. These guys love their fans.
The narratives aren’t superfluous, but they are at best aspirational.

Universities are not certainly not meritocracies, and the justice system certainly does not treat everyone equally. So I think it is by all means good to support moves towards the ideals that these institutions make, but there may be a practical middle ground where in recognition that they do not in fact meet these ideals, resources could be captured and used in ways that address this imbalance somewhat?
I didn't; I didn't hire them. Maybe they were lying. I sorta doubt it--the two I'm thinking about seemed like decent people, just in over their heads. But it's possible.
Mercurial on some client projects.
I've collected a bunch of interesting services for LANs at https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-lan. I'll add Tapchat too although it's missing a desktop app.
It's also possibly the reason why we have had 3 shootings in the past 2 days. It's like copycat suicide.

However, America has a free press. This is a great attribute of hers. If that is changed, we take a tremendous risk. Not something easy to stop.
I've heard good things about it, but oh, that name... it makes it sound like an early-2000s kids' toy. Just name it Pop OS. And get rid of the underscore if you want to be user-friendly to the average person.
>How can Google now expect conservatives to defend it against anti-business policies from the left that might threaten its very existence?

Looks like she's petty about it and threatens to punish Google for political reasons, confirming the appointment was for political goodwill rather than about doing the job.

Glad she's out.
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The other problems China has is resources and cash. As the article points out, if you include maintenance and upgrades, naval ships tend to be 3x the cost of building them. That's not cheap.

And resource wise, it is reliant on outside suppliers. Which also cost. Unlike America, China's fiances aren't infinite (America is due to oil).

I have no doubt China can easily afford invading Taiwan. I do have doubts about Japan though. Japan is mobilizing right now as well.
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These AEB features almost universally do not trigger on stationary objects when the car is moving more than 20 or 30mph.
Fascism tends to have these attributes:

* dictatorial power
* totalitarian one party state
* embrace of political violence as a means to silence opposition
* strong opposition to Marxism, liberalism, conservatism
* radical nationalism
* nationalist economic policy through protectionist schemes

Funny, but if you just erase the word "Marxism" then you also have something which resembles the Soviet Union under Stalin. It also fits a lot of historical communist regimes, though the nationalism is disguised or submerged as "worker solidarity." However in times of war or crisis, they generally bang the nationalist drum as hard as anyone else. A "nationalist economic policy through protectionist schemes" is just meddling against markets and central planning by another name.

National Socialism and Fascism are identified as "right," but this is primarily through the application of nationalism, conquest, and opposition to communism. Look under those fig leafs, and you find something very different.

National Socialism and Fascists consistently implemented socialist policies. Under National Socialism, control by the state was so complete, the private ownership meant nothing. Property owners were called Betriebsfurhrer -- basically shop managers enacting state policy. What was made, who it was sold to, how much was charged, and how much the workers were paid were largely determined by the government. National Socialism was strongly against liberal democracy. (Liberalism in the 19th century Classical Liberal sense, which in 2019 is labeled "conservatism" in the US.) They were also openly against free markets, multi-party democratic government, freedom of speech, and other individual human rights. Mussolini started out as a Socialist, and at one point, he literally styled himself, "The Lenin of Italy." Also, many of the essentially socialist policies of National Socialist Germany in the 1930's garnered praise from American progressives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJzqqh-jRw

What about a group of employees collectively organizing and protesting non-violently against an internal board at a privatized company is exactly fascist?

The collectivism is a shared attribute of Fascism. Also, as observed in a different comment, if they are suppressing dissent and speech in their own ranks and using pressure tactics to keep their own ranks in line, then this is another shared attribute.
So that college can have the same drop in quality that high schools have had, and PHD’s can be the next bachelors degree and we can continue pouring more and more of the GDP and percent of people’s lives into “education”? Why?
My family lives in a relatively modest house in mid sized city. A thought that went through my mind when considering the house as an "investment" is that it's a portion of our overall investment portfolio, and it functions as a hedge against a rise in the cost of housing. It's an assurance that except under extreme circumstances, we can always afford a place to live without massive disruption to our lives.
What is a home?

Why can't you negotiate improvements with your landlord?
Presumably due to licensing considerations, the article didn't include actual photo Darren Heath captured at the time of Hakkinen's setup: https://i.imgur.com/rBJpPrX.jpg

It's worth noting that the present driver-adjusted differential locking systems they have effectively replicate much of this behavior, but without nearly as much mid-corner control inputs from the driver. When something that works gets banned, the teams always find another (and often better) way of replicating the effect.

https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13671

The MP4/13 (McLaren's F1 car in 1998) also tested an early version of what we now call KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System):

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september...

https://www.f1technical.net/f1db/cars/810/mclaren-mp4-13
> Elite schools are a great mechanism to entrench privelege. Paying to get your slacker kid a middling GPA at an elite school is a great way to connect them to a business network of other wealthy people, and fast track them for high paying jobs at the top of the corporate ladder. Also some poorer kids get a good education, while not quite being able to tap into those same connections.

The children of the wealthy already have connections. You know who doesn't? Poor kids. The poor kids they'd be subsidizing.
That is literarily eloquent but not logically eloquent. It's not desirable, but it seems it's perfectly affordable.
Yeah, I had concerns about how grey all of this is. Really as long as someone is putting artistic effort into it, I’m happy to cede all copyright. But that’s a very hard thing to specify legally (and it certainly isn’t specified in any licenses I looked at).

The thing I don’t want is people inverting the colors, or cropping it, and calling it a unique work. I’ve already had people trying to sell Tinkersynth works they hadn’t paid for in the old model, and I’ve heard some horror stories from other creative coders.

As to whether it’s possible to copyright the output of a tool... that’s a good question! I’m not actually sure either. I don’t expect any real issues to emerge. The licence change is largely around guarding the most obvious cases, I won’t even try to make a fuss in any other cases.
To what extent is their improved mental health a placebo effect from being convinced that they “finally have the answers” and getting dopamine from the process of successfully converting people to carnivore diets tho?

Mikhaila Peterson, for instance, insists that it’s the carnivore diet that cured her depression — when IMO it’s equally possible that the positive social feedback she gets from toting a depression cure is what actually cured her depression.
> I don't have any obsession with distros. I want one that works.

Same here. For me the answer was KDE Neon. I have like one or two grievances with KDE Neon currently. One of them being that OBS Studio often stops responding when I try to exit it. But for my use-cases KDE Neon has been the best desktop experience I have had in the 10 years since I switched to exclusively using Linux and FreeBSD. Along the way I have gone through a few different distros.
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Well most of them had a sort of "sideways" technology, better in some ways but worse in others (not unlike how a lot of 1950s SF had people on starships fiddling with slide rules). Cyberpunk generally posited human-level AI and near-realistic VR, but generally didn't feature mobile phones (payphones were common) and presumably analog TV ("The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel" implying analog static).
> The point of an elite school is that it's meant to be 'elite', i.e. selective. The more dumb rich kids get in, the more the value of the school's degree declines.

If that had any truth to it then affirmative action wouldn't work.
India aside, we have the same issue with zip codes in America. The number of high school students from Santa Clara County to become developers or work in lucrative tech jobs dwarfs the number of students from similarly populous counties from other states landing the same jobs. Colocation, mentoring, networking, and cultural similarities really matter.
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His car increased speed because the adaptive cruise was set to a higher speed than his car was going, and for 4 seconds before impact there were no cars in front of him.

The adaptive cruise increased speed to his set point when his car left the flow of traffic. The AEB will not trigger on a stationary object at highway speeds. I do not believe there exists any AEB that will emergency brake at highway speed, maybe except perhaps for a pedestrian shaped object?

He hit a crash attenuator which had not been reset (so basically direct impact with concrete) after it had been hit by another car 11 days prior.

Resetting the attenuators is a simple task, but apparently this particular one is hit fairly frequently.
When I bought one they were just straight Sagers, not even rebranded. No customization that I could see. At the time some important features were not supported including Linux' own suspend-to-disk.

Keyboard was so terrible and wifi dropped out in so annoying ways that I end up smashing mine (I reused the CPU and other components in a barebones later). This was 2013, though.
I'm sure the 3 R's being frequently overlaid on the recycling logo didn't particularly help the cause of the first two.
RedFin to some degree?
Not zero (taxes, upkeep, etc), but yes. This is the main thing.
We have, I believe, about 3x the empty units as we have homeless people in this country. Sure there are distribution issues, but it’s a matter of political will.
> I don't see any reason to panic.

These guys got pretty close:

https://www.usip.org/publications/2018/11/providing-common-d...
At least one national government was founded on the basis that those powers not explicitly granted to the national government nor reserved for the people remain in control of the states which united to form it. (That's not to say that they've followed that doctrine, but I predict it would be a long Constitutional challenge for that country to settle that real property [generally immobile, of course] is part of "interstate commerce".)

That national government could however put a lot of pressure on the states and local governments by banning federally guaranteed housing loans in areas where zoning laws were not to their liking. This would have a temporary effect (while it was being battled out) of smashing the property values of the little guy homeowners (whose next buyer will likely be taking a federal-supported loan), while leaving the jumbo loan market relatively untouched, so it's a pretty nuclear option to try to accomplish in any kind of a rapid fashion.
They are busy at replacing those outside suppliers with their own technology. Their entire economic policy is revolving around the goal of becoming self-reliant.
Ah, I hadn’t noticed the package.json said MIT! I should change that.

As for “not really open-source”, you’re right. I’m clearer in the FAQ on tinkersynth.com; it’s not “OSS” in the conventional sense. I just didn’t know how else to phrase it in the limited HN title.
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Tolerance and freedom are empowering. Those societal attributes tend to create more creative and productive societies all across history, going as far back as ancient times.

The "paradox of tolerance" in 2019 is used as a word game for one group to justify their intolerance of another group they do not like.
The majority of high school graduates are enrolling in college. Among people in the top 1% by talent, that number is in the 90%'s, no? So the kids not getting face-time with college and grad school options is a small sliver.

Also, there don't seem to be any other secondary education systems, in other states or countries, that are doing surprisingly better.
That was the authoritarian narrative pushed by Google and reinforced by the media.

It's not at all what Damore's memo said.

The real game is suppressing engineer salary in a decade long bull market to limit competition. James got too close to this truth and was punished for it, and the people who actually know the game toxified him by surrounding him with bad social stigma so that no one else thought to question.
MS xml apis were loaded as activex components, that’s probably the reason.
Vietnam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sdk3wYxDzk
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2179378/v...

Myanmar
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Forty-per-cent-of-Myanmar%E2%...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Myanmar_relation...
The civil war there is complicated as heck, Myanmar is doing everything it can to get away from China but China is the only one who seems to be willing to do some partnerships because it also helps them as well. India, Bangladesh, Thailand not so much, they're happy taking the people desperate to get away from Myanmar's conflicts for cheap labor and trafficking.
> I'm not so sure. These institutions have an embedded narrative. For universities it's that they are meritocracies, where class/race/gender/etc do not matter. For the justice system it's that everyone is equal before the law and the guilty will be punished.

Do they have that narrative though? We already have affirmative action, which is the explicit inclusion of race/gender/class in admissions criteria. We are already a long ways from pure meritocracy.

> I don't think these institutional narratives are superfluous. While it's naive to expect the institutions to live up to the narratives, the narratives end up serving as ideals. And I don't think the institutions can exist without those ideals.

Two things:

1. I think you're overindexing on the importance of these narratives a bit, but you're right, they're important.

2. More importantly, this policy wouldn't destroy those narratives. You can make the scale very steep such that you have to pay quite a bit to get your average student in, and the steepness of that curve will be determined by the eliteness of the institution. You have the same meritocratic rules, they're just tempered by money.
You can take your IE6 and shove it up your ass
You are conflating investment with collateral. Any property you own can be collateral for a loan whose proceeds you can invest.
I used it for personal projects for a while. The built in Wiki and history viewer were actually pretty useful, but I found the limitations on history mutations pretty annoying. My view is that especially for a local, personal project, I should be able to maintain things however I want. Alas, back to git.
Scientists confirm that a space rock hit the Moon during the lunar eclipse
Probably the best and least emotionally-charged analysis of gentrification I’ve ever read. Thanks for writing this comment. Always suspected a lot of these things to be true.
You could use MAC addresses also, maybe.
In exactly the sections I quoted. For example: "nip in the bud"

We could have a big discussion about the definition of the word retaliation, and under a lot of very reasonable definitions it's fine to me if we don't call it "retaliation"

The point is, Google is an organization that acts and reacts within a hugely complex system. I wish it was more acceptable for their employees to critique them, even if these critiques are largely received as taboo
Well the answer is to build more housing, and companies should start elsewhere if there isn’t the housing or talent in the area. Maybe I could move out of SF then...
As the article says, the moon has water, and that means hydrogen. Regarding carbon, it is an abundant element in the universe, so I would expect there would be a good deal in the minerals.
Banks give out loans with 0% down.
And abolish prop 13 in California and other tax pyramid schemes ? Especially for entities that are not people.
"No I can't. If I make a loan to myself, there is no new money to circulate. If a bank makes a loan on fractional reserves it is new money"

If that was true, that every loan by a bank was multiplying assets by 10, because they're required to hold 10% in reserves, then we would instantly have runaway unimaginably huge inflation and everything would collapse. So even if you don't understand why it's not true, common sense should make you pause and look for that understanding.
You can give money to whomever you want. Just don’t withhold shelter from the homeless just because they don’t have money.
Interested in trying this but given Google’s history of launching and subsequently shutting down non-core businesses I’m very hesitant.
Can I try? That sounds awful. Did you prefer `document.all` or `document.layers[]`?
I think a part of it too is how well the company is regarded by the employees. Market Basket is a really good company to work for. They pay well and offer decent benefits, and they have profit sharing and immense bonuses. I worked there, once in high school and again afterwards for a while. My ex was management and brought home $8,000 worth of bonuses one year at Christmas. And that was on-top of profit sharing, which they permit hardship withdrawals from.

Google pays well and is highly regarded in the industry. Those jobs are worth fighting for.
I mean, Metro Exodus is $10 cheaper on Epic than it was on Steam and people are still mad about it. I'm willing to bet people would buy on Steam just because all their other games are on Steam.
> The narratives aren’t superfluous, but they are at best aspirational.

This a paraphrase of what I wrote.

> Universities are not certainly not meritocracies, and the justice system certainly does not treat everyone equally.

Neither is perfect. But it's not like they're random. In universities there is correlation between "being smart" and "getting in/excelling at universities" and in the justice system there is a correlation between "killing someone" and "going to jail".

> So I think it is by all means good to support moves towards the ideals that these institutions make, but there may be a practical middle ground where in recognition that they do not in fact meet these ideals, resources could be captured and used in ways that address this imbalance somewhat?

The middle ground is understanding that the institutions aren't perfect and constantly working to shore them up.

But my feeling is that if we go from understanding that the institutions aren't perfect to throwing out the ideals completely then the institutions will crumble. My sense is that we can't do without the ideals. People aren't rational agents.
The whole issue being discussed is that HN made a terrible design desicion when they implemented quotes and code styling for Mobile.