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Technical restrictions like online activation. While Steam does support these features, they're not the reason the platform is so sticky. It's because the community, features and sales are attractive to consumers. Most people don't feel like their games are held hostage by Steam. If they went DRM-free I do believe they'd stay just as popular.
And the advent of containerization is becoming standard practice now, precisely because it makes more sense for certain situations, where the user abstraction has proven less useful and more cumbersome. That was the point of this subthread.
The thing I'm curious about is how they will age

I would guess the mechanical components, motors etc will potentially be more reliable than ICE

But I worry about the batteries, if my laptop is anything to go by it seems like they will eventually die and will be expensive to replace
That's a valid assumption to start with, sure. If the results are called into questions on the basis of statistics, their field of work is no longer a convincing argument.
When someone calls into question your design choice, you don't say "trust me an engineer" unless you're joking.
Thanks, that is indeed interesting. I think part of the appeal of her message is that she resists the infantilizing, condescending BS politicians try to dump on her with remarkable skill.
That sounds different and a lot more specific than simply "inciting unrest". Facebook calls it "coordinated inauthentic behavior" which while still very broad at least seems to be more specifically directed at the behavior you describe.
Add lack of support of polar coordinates. But every lib started immature, and altair is quite new. I think they could use a few good PRs though.
A somewhat flippant comment, but I'm involved tangentially with the "cyberpunk" aesthetic; often, people involved ask "where is our cyberpunk?"

All I can tell them is "Yes, we got our cyberpunk - unfortunately, we didn't get the Diamond Age, or even Neuromancer - we instead got David Brin's Earth..."

As far as why methane levels are rising so fast - I suspect it has to do with the thawing of arctic permafrost (ever seen videos of "bogs" in Russia and Siberia that move like a waterbed?), and possibly also methane hydrates at shallower depths releasing their gases because of ocean warming (and maybe other factors).

Of course - this is all speculation and I am far from being the person to answer this in any true manner. But if I had to make my guess - that's the most likely reason.

As far as if we can stop it? Well - I think we're far too late to do anything. We probably should've started back in the 1970s or earlier (that would be my best guess) - and people back then were talking about this kind of thing.

But nobody ever listens to the geeks and eggheads; I mean, what the hell do those dorks know? They only dedicate their lives and brains to such things, and we all know they can't party, right?

So - enjoy what we have left, because we're only seeing the start of massive die-offs that will eventually get to us. Don't worry about the Earth though - it will be fine.
> SJWs are out of control and doing real damage

[citation needed]
And don't forget FBI is the one pushing against encryption
I think they chose this method because Scotland isn't able to change the alcohol duty; that's set by the UK to be equal everywhere.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-19/airbnb-ip...

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-airbnbs-guerrilla-war-aga...

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-economic-costs-and-benef...
You had the impression that free speech arguements were based upon speech not having an impact?

Funny the whole reason why speech is protected is because it /does/ have an impact. If it didn't spending any time on it would be irrational as declaring a need for underwear color regulation. The point of free speech is that we cannot trust the would be regulators not to abuse things to make their own ladder to power, that peaceful transitions of power end better than violent ones, and those who make peaceful change impossible are faced with violent ones.
I have a strange memory about these games. Whenever I was a kid I was looking through some boxes and found a bunch of my older video game magazines. I saw an ad in GamePro for these games and Philips CD-i. I was shocked! How could I have missed multiple Zelda games being released on a console that used CDs? Why had I never heard of this? I am pretty sure that this would have been in 1998/1999 or so, but the magazine was much older.

It had a 1-800 number, which I called immediately to see if they were still selling the games and the system. Someone answered and they were still selling them, but I seem to remember the price being pretty high despite the age of the games and the system. Soon after I must have searched on the internet and discovered that it was mainly a system for edutainment games and lost interest.

Now I have to go look to see if there are any GamePro scans in the Internet Archive that have that ad.
Edge is macOS/Windows only but VSCode is available over there. Worth keeping an eye out because I wouldn't be surprised if Edge lands on desktop Linux[0] someday. I'm not a web developer and a Firefox diehard for almost 20 years now, but the Edge beta has become my fulltime Chrome alternative when I feel I need to try something on a Chromium-based browser.

[0]https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/microsoft-edge-may-come-...
I don't know about "pervasive", but there are definitely some people trying to make a quick buck at the expense of others. I know someone involved with an MLM scam selling "fuel saving cards" that are supposed to quantum-mechanically reduce fuel consumption by sticking them to your gas tank.
Factoring 256-bit RSA keys is not impressive. Factoring 512 bit keys was first done in 1999 [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge#The_pr...
webRequest is still around for now, but Manifest v2 as a whole will be deprecated sooner or later and I think webRequest goes away with it. I don't know if Google has specified dates for this, but for historical context here's the timeline from Manifest v1:

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifestVersion#mani...

Deprecated in March 2012, stopped accepting updates to Manifest v1 extensions in March 2013, and existing extensions stopped working in January 2014.

EDIT: Google's blog post talks a lot about removing the "blocking version of webRequest", so perhaps the monitoring one still exists? But their goal would be to make these into separate permissions - the very popular blocking extensions can work blindly, while monitoring extensions can still function? It's not very explicit about it, but that's how I'm reading it https://blog.chromium.org/2018/10/trustworthy-chrome-extensi...
I don’t think that’s done in the US. At least I’ve never heard of it, and if a dealer tried it with me I’d probably walk out, assuming they were scamming me somehow.
Comparing Snowden to Arpaio, ok.
There is no difference between drinking booze and staring at your phone. Both are used to shut off the thoughts bouncing in your head and escape your problems if only for a bit - except with a phone you can do it all the time, while walking, while waiting in a coffee line. It's an addiction just like any other.
Maybe. I'm just saying this is where expectations lie - including my own. Maybe I'm naive, I don't know.

From my conversations with Googlers at least, it does seem they're extremely careful about insider threats.
> Operationally if you can control deployment and you don't need many servers, deploying to the base operating system makes sense. Docker/Kubernetes shine when you have scale + need to provision many servers across different platform providers.

On that same note... when do Terraform / Ansible start to make sense?
The Kenyans are right.

What they need is money, not loans, and, in particular, not loans against consumption rather than production, which is what broadly available credit inevitably devolves into. (Look at college loans, which started off ostensibly as an investment in productive assets and has devolved into financing four years of heavily curated consumption followed by crushing student debt.)

Even loans against production are dangerous and eventually lead to debt peonage and wealth concentration, as we have seen time and time again, from roman times onward.

The problem is usury, and there is a long, historical argument about it that is completely ignored in the west. This is because history is written by the victors, and the usurers won. We are all usurers (or aspiring usurers) now.
I'm meaning "the policy is being considered" as others mention.

Yeah I'm generally for it, but along with the wealth of consultation materials it's recognised as not being a panacea, it's a factor to help a country with a serious recognised problem.

It could be overdone - I'm not in favour of prohibitive pricing across the board - but it feels a sensible pragmatic starting point to me.
Hah that's amazing. I remember when I did bitcoin mining (only 1 GPU) and thinking it was getting noticeably warmer upstairs in our house, and how actually the bigger miners could use the heat to heat buildings.

Great to hear this is being put into action. Computing -> heat.
Sequential access instead of random. Like arrays instead of linked lists, for example.
Indeed, only Safari will have the right to report back on your browsing habits under the name of telemetry or steal login credentials or whatever fear you can imagine.

I don't really care, I don't use Apple products and I still have Firefox, which will happily let me shoot myself in the foot on this (for now). You know what else is a "huge vector for security and privacy issues"? Every program I install through my package manager, or other source. The solution isn't to cripple the OS so that only my distribution vendor can run certain kinds of software and no one else.
The press release could have used a real life example, like "Training MNIST dataset takes .5 seconds" or something.

Where can I find info about how these edge computing boards are speeding up training time? Or how they compare to a 1080i?
> Don't be angry at Amazon (and the others) - campaign to change the law.

You can do both. In many if not all cases the tax loopholes are a result of an amazon-like company lobbying politicians, they’re not innocently taking advantage of a neutral situation.
You're right. Discussing the shortcomings of the constitution is sort of viewed as a faux pax in American society, but the fact is that the current government, including its weaknesses, is an outcome of it. Discussions of how it could be improved, particularly given the almost 250 years of data we have, should be welcome.

Another strongly American social phenomenon is viewing the government as an intrusive enemy. The result is this kind of wish that the government would just go away and I think a lot of Americans think that if we could just somehow suffocate the government then the problems that it presents would vanish. The reality, of course, is not even remotely that way. Government is a tool that the powerful will continue to use to clobber each other.

It seems hopeless, but we at least need to talk about how the government can be improved, including its fundamental structures.
People are afraid to be left alone with their own thoughts even for a minute.... It's just terrifying to them. They cannot confront them head on, so they whip out their phone and check Instagram. Oh, look, a dog!
Yeah, in guessing GP drank the windows koolaid and is azure cool kid now. Lol what a joke.
It’s funny because the whole “Amazon ambassador” thing is just Amazon doing the same thing in reverse.

What I hate most about the 21st century is how almost nothing feels genuine anymore. The news, any sort of campaign, even “science” in a lot of cases are just people using money to tell us what to think. Maybe it’s been like this for decades and we’re just now waking up to it, but regardless it just makes it all feel hollow
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Regarding long-term value, a bus company here chose to order electric buses in part because they suspect that in the lifetime of a bus, diesel engines could be banned in cities.
I thought the bit about Russia was insightful. East of the Urals, Russia is very sparsely populated. Take a look at this border region between Russia and China to see just how underutilized Eastern Russia is for farming, especially once the growing season increases. The light area within the Chinese border is all intensely cultivated land. The darker area in Russia is wilderness.

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4321743,133.5037235,409161m/...
And also have more sources of entertainment for early-20s adults than bars. I've lived in many smaller towns in the USA where the only entertainment after 8pm was a bar.
We still own a CD-i and Faces of Evil. I never could beat it just due to how awful the controls were. There were a few other games we had for the CD-i that were legitimately enjoyable. The Wacky World of Miniature Golf and Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces were both fun games.

Every once in a while when I'm visiting home, we'll break it out for a round of mini golf!
I already dread having to work with Chef every day and now having it randomly break our production environments because of this makes it even worse.
Out of control SJW right here:

[1](https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/08/08/eric-clanton-takes-3...)
Why would anyone pay any attention to Salam who is being intellectually and factually dishonest to advance their agenda against Stallman?

If you have an issue with Stallman’s comments, then you go after those comments, not misquoting and twisting his words into something he clearly did not write.
They kill journalists who expose their corruption, not that of other countries. They most certainly have someone tracking him, Snowden mentioned that he believes as much in his interview.

The US doesn't win much besides PR by getting their hands on Snowden at this point. The things he revealed have already had their consequences. Similarly, on the Russian side, it doesn't cost them anything to harbor Snowden, but it does make for a flashy middle finger to the United States.
Sequential access patterns, forward or backward. Repeating predictable gaps are ok, but do remember minimum unit that can be read from memory is a cache line. So if you read one byte, you'll read 64 bytes on modern x86.
Collapse in insect populations is probably not global warming, or methane release, imo. New pesticide use, yes, e.g. the nicitinoids and loss of habitat. Bird population decline is expected consequence of decline in insect population, but could be other pollutants. There could be changes in fertility too. Plastics? I dunno.
But having separate private and personal accounts on your phone is very different from application resource namespacing. They're essentially orthogonal concerns.

In the case you're making, a user (a real actual human user) has different settings when _using_ the phone in two contexts. In the latter case, applications are restricted to sandboxes with well-defined interactions between each other's memory, processes, devices, sockets, and files.
At least for Poland it is not about availability (because coal is often cheaper from Russia or China, than locally) and more about current (and past, for that matter) government trying to appeal to the people still involved with mining industry, not closing it down and subsidising it heavily instead of modernising the energy sources of the country for lower costs, ecology and future proof-ness.
Doing both is a waste of time and mental energy, neither of which are infinite. Amazon will not change if the law doesn't.

Pick your battles.
Since I never max out my resources (mbp 2016, 16 gigs, entire workload happens on servers and not on my local machine) that doesn't really affect me - and with 50+ tabs open frequently, just go ahead and take my ram to keep them available, sure. Unused resources are wasted resources - and again, I'm never above 10gigs, maybe 12-13 if I have a local vm running.

Like I said: ux-wise, I'm not impacted negatively by using chrome, at all. If my laptops resources were more limited or my local workload was bigger, I'd probably check out Firefox, but since I'm not bottlenecked, why bother?
I just discovered this SEAT: https://ev-database.uk/car/1191/SEAT-Mii-Electric

This is something I can buy.
and the total usage of safari across all device types allows for a certain percentage of users in the wild which acts as the size of the lever apple wields for changes they want (or don't) in the specs.
> The central focus is a new 10-inch touchscreen that sits in the middle of the ID.3’s dashboard. But VW has also opted to rely on touch-sensitive buttons throughout the cabin. In fact, the only things that are controlled through physical buttons, VW says, are the windows and the hazard lights.

I don't understand why big touch screens in cars are seen as a step forward. To me, they raise safety issues, and they lack the elegant and simple ergonomics of earlier cars. By definition, you have to look at a touch screen to use it. In older cars, you might have to glance at the speedometer, and you can do that without even moving your neck.

The huge screen is the number 1 reason I would not buy a Tesla.
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Absolutely the campaign should be to change the law, but if you're looking to also assign blame, massive corporations had a hand in writing the tax code.
Yeah the Beagleboard and more generally the TI AM335x is getting old. Single core, DDR3-800, no PCI-e, no secure boot, and other bizarre limitations. It's nice that they're putting something newer out.
This is what we get for pushing a "STEM uber alles" educational agenda and deriding the liberal arts as an expensive path to a lifetime spent asking people if they'd like fries with that.

We get techies who read satire literally and get upset when told that the sonic boom they just heard was the point getting ready to skip past light speed and ridiculous speed in favor of going to plaid.
This was the main thing for me as well.

"tech employees who long ago fused their sense of self-worth to their work."

That could easily apply to any industry, just a reality of the world today that work consumes most of your time/energy, and most people are not entirely in love with your work. I have noticed recently that time off or vacation time makes working harder, like my brain realizes what life could be for an instant and rebels before getting back to the grind.
Sure, people want to live here, but why is it wrong to allow people some self-determination and allow them to decide who and how can build stuff, even if they are dumb and/or claim/want contradictory things?
I'd also be interested to see what the correlation is on family violence for different kinds of alcohol -- beer versus liquor versus wine for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

I think is pretty directly relevant to your "question"?

So unless we deal with the problem of Coca Cola being on twitter we can't deal with state sponsored bots?

Your question seems insincere and merely aimed at morally confusing the issue to no useful purpose.
Our culture has made a very bright line decision that sex with minors is unacceptable. Expressing doubt about this cultural norm, or especially advocating against it, is considered unacceptable. Of course one can argue with the merits of those two facts, but they are plainly true and fairly widely accepted.

The very concept of statutory rape reinforces how clear this judgment is. The reference to "statutory" means that the mere facts of the act taking place mean that the conduct is off limits. Things like "consent" or even a misrepresentation of the person's age are generally considered irrelevant.

As a society we've decided that there aren't really exceptions to this. If sex with minors occurs it's not OK, there isn't much need to further investigate why it happened.

Stallman, and anyone else commenting here, has really no basis to claim ignorance of this phenomenally clear social norm, which if broken will result in being fired from just about any public facing institution. It's on a pretty short list of such norms, alongside things like displaying your genitals in a board meeting.

While I appreciate the efforts to make this into some kind of principled argument, I don't find "first they came for the people advocating for sex with minors" to be particularly compelling.
This makes sense,all organizations are different and it is true that all changes to the kernel tree are publicly ACK-ed before geetting committed.

Maybe we could make a note of the public key that pushed each commit to the repo so we get the best of both ways, each commit is associated to a user from it's public key, not just the Author field and tags are signed by GPG.
It’s often hard to know if you need you need help, it’s why we go to a doctor for a checkup - it’s equally important to focus on your mental health as your physical health.
Facebook admits to censorship bias from 3rd party fact-checker
"huge marketing campaign advertising a car that doesn't exist"

Perhaps they are trying to gauge the likely success of the car before some final production decisions are made.

You do have to wonder how Tesla is going to survive the first surge of practical mass-market electric cars. They definitely are riding some sort of tiger while trying to build out marketshare, technology, infrastructure.

My money is on Toyota but would be thrilled to be wrong.
It is amusing how in their goal to be carbon neutral they're just heating the sea directly, cutting out the atmosphere as a middle-man. I'm not sure what the numbers on it are though. I guess heating the sea will only be once but having CO in the atmosphere will provide recurring heating.
If they really think it's inappropriate, shouldn't they be flagging it for the mods to handle?
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> Lately the service really became horrible: Last minute cancellation, soulless places run like an industry. prices on the same level or even more expensive than hotels. Customer support is also completely unresponsive.

This has generally been my experience. It's very hit-or-miss, and some places were fantastic... but others weren't. I got jerked around a lot and ended up paying rates roughly on par with local hotels.

At least with the big name chain hotels I can generally predict what I'm going to get, what it will cost me, and I can easily harangue, bitch, complain, and possibly sue the actual chain. AirBnB makes it harder to seek a resolution, if needed.
Don't downvote me here please. Honest question. If you want some of my money, and I am willing to give it to you if you pay me back with a little extra due to compensate for my worry that you'll not pay me back... what's wrong with that? Why am I a bad person for agreeing to it?
The base model has a higher range per dollar than an SR+ by a comfortable margin. Abysmal seems like a strong word...? It might not be as fast or sexy as a Tesla, but cars like this will be the bread and butter of the EV transition.

30k EUR - 19% VAT = ~$27,750 USD, or $135 per WLTP mile.

SR+ is $38,990 with a range of 254, or $153 per WLTP mile.
I don't see how anyone is going to grow from being exposed to your misogynistic tweets. Getting banned is better than nothing, even if 10 years too late.
Actually what we learn (or should learn in high school) is that pleading ignorance: "I did not know this or that" is a terrible starting argument for many crimes.

This is what I was referring to in my observation. Stallman should know better than to argue ignorance.

Beyond that, the law is complex and generalizations (which I myself did) run the risk of oversimplifying realities.

I was specifically referring to this case, where Stallman argues that his friend was just misled. I believe that argument not just "tone deaf" but actually wrong.