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I dont have much love for Atari and the Jaguar from false advertising about it being a 64 bit machine to its flawed hardware.
Yes the Saturn did have a flaw in the implementation in how the dual processor were tacked together at last minute but there were many factors that affected the way things turned out for the Saturn.
Some are:

1) The surprise launch when Sega started to panicked about the PSX which caught everyone off guard and not in a good way

2) Not very many titles at lunch.

3) Retailers angry about the surprise lunch and system allocation and some vowed never to carry Saturn period(which they really never carried).

4) A terrible first generation development kit which was huge clunky, ineffective and expensive(something like 50K).
This lead to a lot of devs having to write their own tools. The PSX dev kits were apparently amazing in comparison.
It didn't help that the system used quads and not polygons.
Of course Sega had massive experience in the Arcade with 3D title using quads but that was on powerful expensive hardware.

5) Gamers were burnt by the SegaCD and 32X addon which Sega dropped support for in no time.

6)$400 price tag

Despite this Saturn was not a true failure. In Japan it sold very well. The Dreamcast however can be categorized as a true failure despite Sega getting just about everything right with the system. It was just too late. They didnt have the cash to keep the system going and fight the Sony hype machine.
That’s the thing, in general you are not chosen by the relevance of your resume. Resume building is more SEO than showcasing relevant skills. If you can min max your SEO to get a conversation with someone who matters in your hiring process, then it works.
Why would they shut down if they generate a nice profit?
SailsJS killed itself. It was a flaming pile of garbage in terms of it's design with an ultra toxic community to boot.
Mainstream vendors use USP grade PG/VG and food grade flavouring (which can also include a small amount of PG or VG as a carrier)
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https://www.wired.com/story/ios-security-imessage-safari/
Or perhaps it's the companies weeding out ineffective candidates that cannot adapt and figure out how to provide a very common format such as a Word doc.
> When I got to work I said dismissively to colleagues, “That must be the dumbest pilot ever.”

And you weren't wrong!
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A previous company I worked for had installed some company wide security software. It basically installed a root kit that scanned every executable, adding 250ms to boot time for any app. The problem manifested when shell scripts that used to take seconds started taking minutes or hours.

When this started happening, I thought that I had installed some malware. In the process of debugging the problem, I ended up finding & disabling the root kit through trial and error. When my machine started working properly again, I came to understand I had disabled the corporate security "malware". I reported the problem to corporate just as others started to report having the same slowdown error. They told me the vendor of the software was impressed I had been able to find it, let alone disable it. I believe their words were "you shouldn't have been able to do that".

I didn't get into any trouble. By reporting the problem, I actually helped kickstart the removal of that software from anyone's laptop where shell access was required. The vendor never could fix the performance problem, and eventually our company resorted to trusting the developers again.
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New iPhone? No thanks. These older-model 5S owners don't need or want one
I found myself most curious about the meat-themed lorem ipsum generator...looks great though!

Edit: Perhaps it was Bacon Ipsum? https://baconipsum.com/
Much of that is explicitly shaped by our political discourse. Tons of data exists that shows the ACA saved lives by expanding access to coverage. That didn’t stop political opponents from working to undermine and destroy it.

Apathy is baked into our individualistic political ideologies. It’s a feature, not a bug.
The company stores its money in different forms. Intellectual property, goods, investments just the same.
While this post raises legitimate points, I don't think Apple disallows other browser engines or default apps for fear that they maybe more insecure.

Speaking from a business perspective, it makes sense for Apple (if not for users) to force Safari and Mail.app. Otherwise, Chrome and Gmail will just overtake the phone.

This will be bad for Apple from a strategic and PR perspective. Gmail and Chrome would have no incentive to improve battery life (indeed Chrome did not improve battery performance till 2017 on Macbooks and Chrome 76 has again destroyed battery life on my macbook) and Apple's privacy-as-a-selling-feature would go out of the window because - media, people and their willful ignorance of nuance and context. Not to mention, how your product roadmap would be influenced by another company simply because it has a much larger user base.

On the security aspect, I am not a fan of how media has been posturing this as - "iphones are complete security nightmares." Any person who has followed security will astutely note that iOS garners the same attention which Windows did a decade ago. At that time, it did not mean that macOS or Linux were inherently safer, just that they did not have the attention that Windows commanded. Black market prices of exploits are not a good proxy for how secure is a system. It just indicates which operating system has the most attention of hackers. It will not be a surprise to me if 2-3 years later Android finds itself in a similar position as iOS is in now. Not to say, that the exploit surface on Android can be way more bigger because of the number of parties involved - OEM and the carrier.
Ask HN: Do US companies regret entering China?
Some US companies flourish in China (e.g. KFC, Costco) while most end up being defeated by local rivals due to multitude of reasons. For those that entered, has the money and effort been worth it? What ended up costing more of your time than expected?
Yeah but I can't just go to an investor and say "we rent out offices" (in a fancy way) "but we're worth billions" and actually get billions... or can I?
I have a friend whose catchphrase is "I've stopped backing games on Kickstarter, but ...", delivered as he backs another game on Kickstarter.
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Not to troll here but I'd be interested in you expanding upon what you mean by this.

The reason I say that is the asteroid impact was, by every definition, pure chance in that earth was in the way when it flew through space across our orbital path.

(Not wanting to get into a debate about climate change / climate change denial here...) Climate change is something that is happening due to somewhat preventable actions, not chance.

I'm curious what you think we could learn from it.
I haven't read Anathem yet. Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and The Diamond Age are also excellent, but getting away from hard sci fi.
It says co2 doesn't impact temperature:

"While most of the current climatologists who collaborate with the United Nations believe anthropogenic CO2 emissions have exacerbated natural warming in recent decades, there is no empirical proof to support their claim. The only way to test it would be to wait and see if their assumptions come true.

The entire climate fraternity was in for a surprise when global temperature between 2000 and 2016 failed to rise as anticipated by the climate alarmists. The scientists assumed that rising CO2 emissions from human activity would result in a rapid rise in temperature, but they didn’t.

This proved that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are not the primary factor controlling global temperature. Consideration of a much longer period (10,000 or more years) suggests that CO2 had no significant role to play in temperature increases. CO2 never was the temperature control knob."
This makes me wish we had cheap and effective hyperspectral cameras. Imagine what structure you could pull out if you had every wavelength sampled separately, rather than convolved into the spectra of the human eye's photoreceptors!

EDIT: Apparently i am not the first person to think of this: https://www.centervue.com/products/eidon/
Then what are they gonna do with all their toys and what reason will they have to request an increased budget year after year?
Inyo, a Smart Assistant for freelancers, automating tasks they don't like to do
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The biggest problem is that recruitment agencies and/or HR can mangle it before it gets to the people that matter. I interviewed someone for C skill and halfway through they (very politely) interrupted to point out that they had only worked with C++. The recruitment agency had 'helpfully' amended C++ to C/C++.
When you are on top you think everyone else is trying to take you down.
Human Revolution was my favourite, after the original. In terms of replayability, I come back to it more often. The atmosphere, particularly in Hengsha, were quite immersive. I would generally recommend it.

Invisible War - some say nowadays it got more flack than it quite deserves, but I absolutely cannot make myself go back to it :<

Mankind Divided - I'm halfway through, and quite enjoy it. I do understand that most people find it unfinished and short though. It does have a different vibe to original.
The GP comment was generated from GPT-2.
Reminds me of Yahoo during the first dotcom bubble.

Every commentator/speculator was drooling at the possibility of "boring" Yahoo going bust, despite Yahoo being the most sound business in the dotcom space, and ignoring walking warning signs like Pets.com.
Sails is and has always been a subpar framework with a toxic community. The one time I tried to use it in production I regretted it big time.
Exactly. In an equal-leverage job market, the unnecessary requirement makers and the capitulators deserve each other.
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I would say that contemporary equivalent is data hoarding. There are people who have archives of various media, whether (audio)books, films, music, video games or programs in sizes of tens of TB or more. Of course they will never be able to consume the content, but what if they ever wanted/needed some small part of it? And it's not like it would be useful backup in case of SHTF/TEOTWAWKI scenario either, because the popular storage methods aren't very durable.
very interesting! could someone explain why the hot water would lead to deep, cold water being brought to the surface? I thought hot water is less dense than cold water. Wouldn't it just sit on the surface for a long time?

Or is there just such a large amount of this extremely hot water that the mixing overtime generates movement across the board?
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Perhaps you're thinking of Barringer Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater
Perhaps? I'm not surprised a branch of the military is hawkish however.
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Hamilton is great, but more space opera than hard sci fi. The Commonwealth Saga is amazing.
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A lot of the best folks on that site left a very long time ago. If you took ZH's advice/message over the last 5-10 years, you would have missed one of the greatest bull markets we have had and put your life savings into gold.

They shilled hard for Putin/Russia. The articles/comment section was a propaganda piece for the Kremlin. It forced a lot of good people with something interesting to say, to leave.
It's also worth noting that this crash was largely North American, as the European gaming market was dominated by home computers.

If you have any experience with home computer games of that era, you'll know that the quality control wasn't actually better, it's just that games came on cassette tapes and floppies, and so were vastly cheaper mistakes when you bought one (plus you could fix the bugs yourself on the ones written in BASIC, fun!!).
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I'll cross that bridge if I come to it.
I think you wanted to say more expansive? But it's definitely also more expensive. :D
I've often thought about what the next "Great War" would look like. Not researched it or anything but mulled it over.

I honestly think the enemy will take out our power stations via malicious code that may already be sitting there waiting to go off right now.

A few days after that, when people are still in total darkness and the supermarket shelves are empty then we will turn on ourselves and our "leaders" because we are cold, hungry etc: we'll destroy ourselves first.

I don't even think a shot will need to be fired!
That's a nice take on crawling job ads, I see some just minutes old (well the tweets of the companies are minutes old).
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I can't find any links on the first or second Google search pages to circumvent the pay wall?
HL7 is just a text format. It doesn’t say anything about how the data is transmitted (which should always be encrypted these days)

Yes, there are newer standards, specifically FHIR (OAuth authenticated API). But why switch over to FHIR when HL7v2 works really well? Everybody in the medical industry supports this standard, and it’s super easy to work with once you know what you’re doing. It’s also arguably more interoperable than FHIR, because the sending and receiving parties don’t need to fully agree on the spec (like they must for an API). For HL7 messages, there’s a layer that sits in between called an “interface engine” that can modify messages, which opens up more capability with less development and coordination.
Can we also mention, though, the guy who's shooting a cell phone video while driving on the Mass Pike?
> There are four key implications of this revolution that policymakers in the national security sector will need to address:

> The first is that the unprecedented scale and pace of technological change will outstrip our ability to effectively adapt to it. Second, we will be in a world of ceaseless and pervasive cyberinsecurity and cyberconflict against nation-states, businesses and individuals. Third, the flood of data about human and machine activity will put such extraordinary economic and political power in the hands of the private sector that it will transform the fundamental relationship, at least in the Western world, between government and the private sector. Finally, and perhaps most ominously, the digital revolution has the potential for a pernicious effect on the very legitimacy and thus stability of our governmental and societal structures.
I used to use GitLab for my personal projects, but moved away for a couple reasons. The primary one is that GitLab is heavily opinionated, and its opinions differ irreconcilably with my own in a few areas.

Now, most of my code is hosted on GitHub, with a few projects hosted in a Gitea instance that I run myself.
Also turns out the Whatsapp exploit didn't get root, just lived in the sandbox, with access to your microphone, camera, contacts, call log because you give it those permissions
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Apparently to women, and "white knights," yes.
These replies to this question say it all for me. Routing should not be some library research task for the developer. How do I have time to review these packages and all of their million dependencies for security issues or just bad design.

No one does, they just throw it in production and hope whatever way they figure out how to get the thing they need done at that moment doesn't burn them later.
Yes, all the result are steaming direct from twitter.
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> Osama bin Laden was not Saudi royal,

I think this was the first thing Saudi court told the Americans. Whomever those guys were, they were integral to Saudi polity.

> It was precisely the alliance of Riyadh with the States that motivated his jihad.

Which did not preclude his affiliates from receiving money from "private" officials in his "exile" well into mid-naughties. His close relatives were continuing their life of minor socialites in the kingdom unimpeded up until the point US started demeaning the head of his son and few brothers during Obama.

The Bin Ladin clan is more than just alive and well in the kingdom. They were the biggest bankrollers of the Saudi Royal Family, and still are.
When I was young an inspector came to the door to see if we had a tv, as we had no licence. A parent said to the inspector that yes, we did, but it’s unused and boxed in a spare room.
They came in and inspected it and put a bag over the power cable and taped it on. Solved.
This was 1980s New Zealand.
imagine a 70 y o learning to drive then. Feature phones are easier, they have a button that reliably terminates the call even if you inadvertedly press some wrong buttons
I find that setting up any kind of VPN is always a PITA. I'm so relieved since I found sshuttle [1].

[1] https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/
Did Apple not buy advertising from the USA Today recently? :-)

There is a growing "digital detox" movement where people are trying to either stop using smart phones or switch to the oldest (and cheapest) phones that will allow them to get their work done (2FA apps required for work). I've specifically heard that the iPhone 5 and 5s are among the favorite models of these "would rather be using feature phones" crowd because they are the oldest iPhone models that support LTE/4G.
FUD rule #4: Every article that starts with "how" doesn't actually explain anything.
I can think of three things that may have helped Clojure avoid this issue, at least relative to other Lisps:

1. It shipped with a substantial set of features, either in core from day one or as a function of being hosted on the JVM, that programmers would otherwise have been likely to build themselves in multiple, potentially incompatible ways.

2. The syntax is simple, and Clojure doesn’t allow user-defined reader macros, so libraries can’t introduce new syntax. There may be more than one way to do it, but you should at least know how to read all of them.

3. It’s only ever been under the stewardship of one cautious, opinionated developer.

Of course, from another perspective, all of these could be (and I’m sure have been) seen as weaknesses.
That's really great. Lots of job offers on Twitter that are currently hard to find. What's next in terms of product roadmap?
I hate these typical questions which hiring managers or candidates ask each other with no real meaning behind.

E.g. "how do you use source control"?

What is the intention of this question. What value do I gain from this question? It implies that I have a specific way of interacting with source control in mind and if they don't follow the say way then I'm unhappy or what?

Interviews take such a long time, I am of the opinion that I only want to ask questions which genuinly help me later to make a decision.

e.g. instead of "what tech do you usually use?" I'd ask "I've been recently playing with X and think it's a brilliant use case for doing Y. If I were on your team and I'd want to do Y with X, would that be an option, or what's the protocol in tech decisions in your team?"

With a concrete question like this the interviewer has to explain to me how they actually decide on tech and give me a more or less yes/no answer to whether what I want would be possible. I find this a lot better than a generic tech question and then get bombarded with a ton of buzz words which don't really say much about how open the tech teams are to picking their own tools for the job, etc.
There would still be incentive to drive faster. Given that the service has a fixed income side, the only way to optimize its profitability is getting the expense side down. Driving faster to make more tours with less cars is the most obvious way to do this, therefore drivers will be incentivized to go faster.
Really nice! I'll definitely be having a play. Do you think this could be incorporated easily into jekyll/hugo sites?

Although, this cyberpunk at least, tends to stick to TUI's ;)
> > The first is that the unprecedented scale and pace of technological change will outstrip our ability to effectively adapt to it. Second, we will be in a world of ceaseless and pervasive cyberinsecurity and cyberconflict against nation-states, businesses and individuals. Third, the flood of data about human and machine activity will put such extraordinary economic and political power in the hands of the private sector that it will transform the fundamental relationship, at least in the Western world, between government and the private sector. Finally, and perhaps most ominously, the digital revolution has the potential for a pernicious effect on the very legitimacy and thus stability of our governmental and societal structures.

Sounds like the cyberpunk dystopia is come to pass. Just waiting on a "Screaming Fist" type incident...
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Pretty useful script
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Cf. Manuel de Landa, "War in the age of intelligent machines".

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83650.War_in_the_Age_of_...

Delanda was very interesting in the beginning but didn't quite find or found his community and began talking in an echo chamber that impoverished his thought. Still, "War...", "Intensive science and virtual philosophy" and "A thousand years of nonlinear history" are respectively a very promising start, an impressive peak and an early mature book. Too bad I can't recommend anything from "Philosophy and simulation" forward.
We just admitted defeat in Afghanistan after 18 years of.. what was the mission again? Build a government? Build the Afghan National Army?

We cut out both of those groups from peace talks with the Taliban this year. We tried to keep the talks secret from the government you're negotiating peace about. I can't imagine a more awkward way to discover that mission has been a failure.

This has turned into a Vietnam-scale boondoggle, and now we're just supposed to accept the utter failure of the DoD and State and NSA and just listen to their demands for resourcing for future boondoggles? Why? How about we try saying no for once instead of rewarding incompetence over and over again?

If we lived in an alternate reality where the State Department had a good track record and today people were posting pictures about their awesome vacations to Tripoli and Kabul and we were talking about new businesses and schools opening that would be one thing, but unfortunately it's just one failure after another with almost nothing to show for it.
We are going to seem to be on top, on the surface, long after we Have lost that position in actual practice.

Right now we are escalating the debt to extreme levels during the longest economic expansion in US history. I.e. we seem to be planning to bankrupt ourselves.

In the meantime, trade differences and trade wars are complex, but the net effect of the tensions with China is it is adapting away from any dependency from us, while are allies are of little help because we dropped our agreements with them.

In the meantime, the US has been falling down the country lists for health, longevity, and education for some time.

And our recent deference to authoritarian regimes over democratic allies is eroding our political power.

The US is undergoing a steep decline and a turnaround in the current divisive hyper-polarized political climate seems very unlikely.

The decline is being accelerated by the current political climate.