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First off, Portal 2 was eight years ago. That's a long time and mainstream consumer expectations for what a video game should offer have changed a lot over those eight years.

Secondly, I know plenty fans of HL/HL2 who found the tone/direction of Portal 2 distressing because it was too self-aware or whatever. I don't really agree with that, but it's a point of view that's been circulating around for years. I think a lot of fans have come to terms with HL3 never being released. Continuing to not release HL3 has little apparent risk. Less risk than releasing it and making something a bunch of people will either hate or ignore. So I don't think they will.
'Chernobyl' Score Composer Used Only Sounds from an Actual Nuclear Plant
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The phrase "waiting for a permit" in this article suggests that companies often operate illegally not to skirt environmental regulations, but instead because the permitting process is slow.

If this is the case, and a company makes good-faith efforts to meet the rules when operating pre-permit, I don't see an issue with giving them a small non-escalating fine.

Government needs a very good reason to slow down private industry, and "our inspectors are on holiday", isn't enough IMO.
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It’s nice to see a bit of Safari love around here.

The one thing I cannot stand is that fucking URL/search bar (I detest these things in general, but Safari has the worst implementation). Most implementations (e.g. Firefox and Chrome) will encode the space and go on their way, meanwhile Safari translates a space into a search unconditionally — because clearly I want my wikipedia viewing history to end up in my search history FFS. I'm also not a fan of view source opening in a dev tools frame versus a new tab/window like Chrome and Firefox.

Speaking of the dev tools, I was just poking around and saw this in the console:

[Info] Successfuly preconnected to https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/

[Info] Successfuly preconnected to https://aax.amazon-adsystem.com/

Interesting as I'm running uBlock Origin (which is, admittedly, more neutered on Safari). I know I've disabled that prefetching before, but I no longer see any options to turn it off. Speaking of UBO, Safari loves to claim UBO will increase energy consumption and slow down my browsing (HA). I wonder if the "disable plugins to save energy" option means that Safari will kill uBlock whenever it feels like. :/
It's different in this case, since there isn't a separate proprietary distribution. The entire codebase is being relicensed.
Apple Arcade might be of interest to you. It's going to be a curated selection of games that are kid friendly. No micro-trasactions. No Ads. No in app purchases. Privacy focused, and all games must work offline.

https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/
This was Steams initial competitive advantage and it's still a benefit, but now Steam's advantage is that most commercial PC games are on Steam. Although many people still dislike Steam for various reasons, it's still overall the best game platform available on PC and is better than console and mobile platforms in many ways. One thing to thing about is that many of the biggest games (LoL, Fortnite, Minecraft, Activision Blizzard and EA titles) are not available on Steam.
Perhaps I phrased my post poorly there and caused some confusion: I was trying to relay some supplemental information that just as tidal forces and their study are revealing new things about Sol, so were studies of tidal forces and gravitational mechanics instrumental in the discovery of other stellar masses in our solar system.
In addition to what the others have said, it's less painful and easier to have done when younger. This is like saying parents shouldn't be allowed to make kids go to school, they should wait until they're old enough to make the decision themselves. Sometimes parents need to make a decision for their children, it's only logical.
And none of the companies are breaching the license.
Conclusions
The findings are in keeping with recommendations promoting diets with a high proportion of plant-based food but, based on lipid and lipoprotein effects, do not provide evidence for choosing white over red meat for reducing CVD risk. This trial was registered at Clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01427855.
Really ? There are dozens of ad-blockers both free and paid. If people were't bothered about privacy and bandwidth, these apps wouldn't exist at all.
The headline might be better written as, Princeton's unwillingness to offer CPT is impacting international students.
The error can't go through a function that doesn't return an error, unlike exceptions. Also, you have to ask for this. Reversing the default is a big difference.
It is universal practice to wake you up all the time. Just to ensure you are not dead or ensure you are dead of sleep deprivation.
I didn’t mean to throw you off. Added “Edit” to make the thread coherent.
It returns to the known unknown of dark matter on a few galaxies than a new unknown unknown on the remainder of the universe.
> There is no "cache flushing" when barriers or other instructions are used to ensure seqcst on any system I am aware of.

Good to know. I've seen enough of your other posts to trust you at your word.

BTW: I'll have you know that AMD GPUs implement "__threadfence()" as "buffer_wbinvl1_vol", which is documented as:

> buffer_wbinvl1_vol -- Write back and invalidate the shader L1 only for linesthat are marked volatile. Returns ACK to shader.

So I'm not completely making things up here. But yes, I'm currently looking at some GPU assembly which formed the basis of my assumption. So you can mark at least ONE obscure architecture that pushes data out of the L1 cache on a fence / memory barrier!
Sorry I don't believe this question for a second.

If in fact you are making that much money you are 100% specialized, which means you also know who can afford to hire you, and you know who needs what you have to offer. And even if I'm wrong...you're still getting hounded by recruiters from those companies.

...But to answer your question, yes people in NYC, LA, and Seattle can make that much.
Mathematicians work out how to predict success in show business
Augmented manipulation ability in humans with six-fingered hands
I've used cgroups in the past to handle that problem when I was using stuff that would otherwise bring down my machine. But I don't know that I'd call it a nice way; at least back then, it was a PITA to set up.
I guess it depends if you are a web developer or a Chrome developer...

What Chrome only features are you possibly using that would mean a separate Firefox version?
L. Francis Cissna was tremendously good at quietly making the legal system as hostile to immigrants as possible while technically staying within the confines of the law.

Trump likes showmanship over substance, though, so he's out. Guessing the new guy will keep the legal system slowdowns in place while upping the fireworks.
wow, this is kinda similar to how I got into coding and reverse engineering. what got me into it was Ultima Online and my first serious effort at learning coding was in C# of all languages. I focused on macroing and I helped pioneer/consolidate hacks across (hundred+?) client versions. I made a macroing client with built in script compilation (C# of course) which included code completion and syntax highlighting back when it was pretty difficult to do. the main difference is I decided to become a drug dealer instead of a professional coder and though I had pretty amazing short term success I'm now considered a violent felon by the state of California.
I think the general idea of the using blockchain in long-lived IoT devices seems pretty dangerous. In the last 3 years, Ethereum had hard-forked twice already. A hypothetical IoT device made 3 years ago would not work again, if it were relying on the blockchain.

At the same time, TLS 1.1 is 13 years old, and is still supported by all the modern software libraries. Make a TLS certificate with 25 years lifetime, hardcode its fingerprint into your app, and you'd have nice, simple and much more reliable timesync service.

This will not be decentralized, but it does not matter -- your IoT device has a trusted server anyway, this is the server that gives it the firmware updates. Since you fully trust this server, you might as well use if for time and make your life much easier.
This is more readable than many news websites I've come across
Big Furniture wins again. Peak Sofa is dead.
Do you have any suggestions for 2 year olds? Anything simple and interactive.
I came here to say basically the same thing. The flat but slight growth to me, speaks to the health of the community. Its not like high quality "hackers"/etc are as a population growing exponentially.
idk, but I’ll happily pitch in a monthly donation for what is by far my most used software.
As someone who's heavily used Blueprints, I can tell you they really work. You have no need to write a single line of code to program the behaviour of an entire game including physics.

You do need C++ though if you're going to write stuff like A* pathfinding, complex scene setup like hex based 3D platforms. Again it's all doable in Blueprint and I'd often do it first in BP and then rewrite it in C++ for perf sakes.

So visual programming isn't broken and it works, and not necessarily at DSL level. The UX of the editor has to be fantastic though, for noobs as well as experts. That means good support for quickly producing nodes, finding existing code, refactoring support and Git support. You may think it's tedious but with habits and patterns, with a few key stroke I could program an entire component's behaviour in no time.

One thing that was magical is that with a heavy code base of visual nodes, the brain can find entire sections very quickly, a bit like that cave analogy in the article. You could group nodes with coloured rectangle etc. and the way they were laid out you'd have instant recollection of its internal workings. By seeing a vague layout of nodes I knew this was about joystick controller, player controller, shader, etc. It's a massive advantage and takes less strain on the brain to "READ" again the code. It makes code re-discovery so much easier. If I had some gnarly behaviour it would instantly show in the pattern of nodes as how they were laid out.

I'm convinced that if we had "as good" editor for web technologies, we could produce microservices and front-end code in the exact same fashion without writing a single line of code. It's just such a massive investment to _do it well_ I don't see it happen any time soon.
I'm hovering around 250 tabs these days and it's doing fine, but most of those aren't loaded. Sounds like yours would be. You might want to try a tab unloading extension.
How "old" is the old Firefox ? Firefox originally ran within a single process - which was most certainly faster for the most use-cases but had a tendency to crash and also suffered from lots of security vulnerabilities.
it's not like they should have lacked confidence though. They put out a lot of high quality games one after another. I still think the Orange box was pretty much the best game bundle ever to be sold. And given that they're a private company with lots of cash if they're not making great games, who else is supposed to?
GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
My street literally has a minimum of 6 companies that provide garbage collection services to me and my neighbors.
Cannot stop laughing. But sorry it is so sad. I guess the silver lining is — if anyone finally fix it, he/she/AI may get Nobel prize
So you cannot use your VPS to do whatever you want with it? I am having trouble to understand what's wrong with crypto mining so you get access to your VPS you paid for denied.. Or was that some sort of free plan he was running on? Still... why not introducing CPU quotas rather than blocking?
"I understood your original point. Implicitly, you are assuming that people develop their values and beliefs and lose plasticity over time, so they will not adapt to the societal changes happening around them."

With respect, we're talking past one another.

I am not talking about the persons whose lives are extended.

I am talking about their new contemporaries - their "younger peers" who, in the past, would have never found themselves cohabitating with people who had lived 1xx or 2xx years ago.

It is those future young people who I think will have a very hard time accepting any views of any kind coming from any "great old ones" - no matter how plastic or malleable or open-minded those old people might be.

Their sin is simply being old and youth defines itself by breaking with the old. Right now there's a throttle on that struggle because people die. Without that throttle, the young will, I fear, kill the "vampires".
Why some open-source companies are considering a more closed approach
> Most implementations (e.g. Firefox and Chrome) will translate a space into a search unconditionally.

What would you rather have it do? URL encode it?
> I don't know much about GPGPU-land, but all of the difficulties I foresee have to do with multiprocessing/sharing/context switching... my guess is that only one logical program can use the scratchpad at a time?

Well.. that one logical program can have 1024 SIMD-threads (maybe 16x (AMD) or 32x (NVidia) "actual" threads... where an "actual thread" is a "ticking program counter" by my definition), but yeah, its "one logical program" from the perspective of the GPU.

Even more specific than "one logical program", but "one threadgroup". So if you have a program that spins up 4096 SIMD-threads, only 1024 of them at a time can actually share a particular Shared Memory. (The GPU will allocate say, 10kB to the different "thread groups", but Threadgroup 0-1023 can touch its own 10kB block, while Threadgroup 1024-2047 can only touch another 10kB block)

GPU Shared Memory can be "split" to different programs. So one program can reserve 10kB, while a 2nd program can reserve 20kB, and then both can run on one GPU-unit. But the two programs are unable to touch each other's shared memory.
That was almost nostalgic for me particularly. I was part of the group that did the LMH67xx series of parts. I personally didn't design the LMH6702, but I was next cubicle over from the guy who did.
I think it’s correct that unnecessary operations should only be done with the full consent of those participating... and even then I’d question the reasoning behind them. Just saying ah fuck it, we just chop bits of your penis off without asking you because a made up book says to, is equivalent to saying individuals have certain inalienable rights to decide for themselves what is done to their bodies is beyond insane.
When will journalists learn to hide digital and paper documents better than "in my house" or "in my office".

Anything unpublished should be encrypted, and either the encryption key or the data (or both) should be in an off-site location known only to the journalist themselves. A microSD card hidden in a tree in a park for example.
Valve doesn't do anything internally because their nonsensical corporate structure makes all projects dead on arrival and creates powerful cliques of employees.
Do you realize how religious you sound?

Same as an ancap saying “he’s a statist, just accept it, because he says market failures exist”
I don't care one way or the other about the name. But if you're marketing directly to engineers who want a resilient solution, there's probably an argument to be made.
What would you rather have it do? URL encode it?

Yes. I missed a few words on the original edit.
Huh. Well, that's how you handle a post mortem! You outline what you did wrong, and then you outline how you're going to fix it. And it looks like the proposed fixes are appropriate, so...

DO, like (nearly?) all companies (not to mention most people), is obviously greedy and self-interested, and yes, I'm sure a major driver of the quality of response was the twitter storm that erupted, and I don't want to excuse the underlying mistake which was significant, but...

...at least the responded well eventually!
Hey HN! I made this with a friend after hearing one-too-many complaints about EV insurance (and despite Tesla about to announce their EV own program supposedly). Our other EV startup failed, and since my co-founder has an insurance background we decided to try and solve this ourselves. For more on the problem, see https://electrade.app/why-electrade/.

Thanks for your support!
I guess I don’t understand why people feel so strongly about this issue. The cats I interacted with growing up were mostly declawed indoor cats and seemed happy and playful.

It was less about furniture and more about not getting scratched (or having dogs get scratched).
Exceptions are the opposite of a goto statement, basically a 'comes-from' statement. They violate the principal of least surprise in every way possible -- you may have no idea what type is being sent your way, where from or what to meaningfully do about it as a result. They often result in memory leaks in languages like C++ due to lack of destructor invocation.

try() errors can only propagate to the caller. As such, stack unwinding is clear, no memory issues arise, performance is good and locality of error is preserved. Surprise is minimized.

While it may look similar, it's pretty markedly different in important ways.
But the other option is that the license is made more restrictive for everybody. So at least that way, it is still open source for me, and a lot of other people, but not for direct mega competitor with too much leverage.

I know, it's a choice of two evils, and I don't know what's best.
I'm curious about this take. If I'm reading the article correctly it appears if you did not have plans to turn the software into a managed service this has no practical impact on you. Personally, for every open source project I've contributed to if this license has been in place rather than an open source one no one would have been impacted at a practical level (including those doing it professionally).

Aside from purely ideological concerns, what about these changes do you think will kill communities?
I don't think there is one, yet. 'Multiprocessor Programming': https://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Revise... has some algorithms, though.
It would be better for them to derive their enjoyment from participating in an actual investment market. They'll learn something useful instead just refining their superstitious rituals.

Imagine if anyone could buy $5 worth of stock for the product they're buying at 7-11. Over-time these small purchases would let them amass a sizeable base of assets, and all the while they'd have a stake in parts of the real economy, which would incentivize them to invest time in learning how it works. The educational value alone would be enormous.

Instead we foolishly prohibit people from participating in many of the most lucrative sectors of the economy, which corrals them into low-value dead-end activities like playing the lottos. If you want someone to grow, you don't over-protect them. That applies to raising children, and it applies to governance of the public at large.
Maybe his hiring was part of the same process? Products reflect the organizations that produce them.
It’s common advice from all the dentists and hygienists I’ve ever seen, and it’s not something that comes up in conversation among my friends here but from personal experience I wanna say all or most of my partners I’ve ever seen brush their teeth they do the same. If it helps, this is in Europe, so we (as in dentists here) may have differing guidelines as you.

From what I know, the gist is that fluoride is mineralized into enamel which strengthens it (not sure if this is the correct phrasing). Whatever the correct phrase is, it works by direct prolonged contact. Not rinsing is a way to guarantee this contact, but even if you do there’s still fluoride in your saliva to do some good.

I imagine the taste depends on your toothpaste. I use a plain one (Elmex) that doesn’t really have a taste, and the taste goes away fast enough that I don’t notice it.

As far as swallowing goes, not really. Most of it gets spat out. Besides, (some) astronauts in space just swallow it all instead of spitting cause it’s cleaner :)

https://www.quora.com/International-Space-Station-Is-it-ok-t...

Yes I know fluoride can be toxic but the amount you’d swallow (a small pea sized dab is all you need, all those pictures of the entire brush covered by toothpaste is advertisement to get you to think you need that much) is probably not going to have any effect.
Routinely happens to us. We made an offer (full time) to a graduating PhD student (US university) from one of the famous deep learning professors (one of three who won a Turing award recently). The guy really like our team and project yet he had Chinese citizenship and when declining our offer said he simply chose Canada vs US.
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Literally everything you said is false. It's $25-$35 or so in the US for 6"+ extra room. It's never been in the $100+ range in any flight I've ever been on.

I do it all the time.
An old favorite combo i would use was similar.

1. live police scanner, typically sf

2. light thunderstorm sounds via rainymood.com

3. Blade Runner Blues

Feels incredibly film noir.
Beyond the basic rights afforded by civil society one has remarkably few rights without corresponding responsibilities. Consumption comes with a lot of them. How are you proposing to fairly and equitably address those while leaving a better world for our children?
It’s a reference to a rather famous text from Martin Niemöller, about what happened in Nazi Germany.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...