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>Sure, but I don't see a good alternative

Allow users to votekick and voteban. Provide the server software for players to host their own servers and provide their own solutions to these problems.

These are tools and approaches that we had in past games and while they are not perfect, they are better than these black box invasive anticheat solutions born from a desire to avoid giving community control to users.

>Sacrificing a small percent of your playerbase in the name of having a functioning online system at all seems like a reasonable solution to me

Only if you provide a robust and empowered support staff to quickly unban and resolve false positives. That is, actually take responsibility, which is something game developers and major publishers seem allergic to.
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Also the nicotine salt ones are much more discreet since they don't need as much vapor per puff.
> Google Play Services, which I do not use (I don’t buy books, music or videos there)—300 MB that just sit there and which I’m unable to delete.

Thats....not what google play services is, like at all. https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview
You won’t find the single silver bullet that will solve all problems of US health care. Pretty much all players are inefficient so you will have to reduce insurance costs and hospital costs and drug costs and a lot of other things. Also don’t forget that the insurance bureaucracy also causes a lot of cost at doctors who have to hire people who deal with billing.
I increasingly travel with a ChromeBook. There's very little on my MacBook that I have to run locally and I find that GSuite works pretty well offline. (And that's where a lot of my files would be even if I were carrying a full laptop.)

Yes, ChromeBooks make you somewhat more dependent on networks. But, truth be told, I'm not getting a lot done other than reading or maybe writing if I don't have a network connection anyway whatever device I'm carrying.

There's not much I do day-to-day on my laptop that requires anything other than a browser.
Domains are one area where I support more regulation. It should be harder to buy a domain in my opinion. Right now, it is way too easy. I am not even talking about domain hoarders.

The price can remain the same but whenever someone wants to purchase a domain, they need to go through an additional audit of some sort. Add more entry to barrier. Legit folks will be a little inconvenienced but it will help weed out the scammers a bit more. Yes I know dedicated scammers will still bypass at times but it will surely deter them. Thoughts ?
Intel's mobile chip prices are insane. The current "recommended customer price" for i5-7Y57 is $280. The i7-7Y75 processor price is $395 (only difference is a couple hundred MHz).

Compare the Macbook Air and the pricing isn't too bad. The air has 1 gen newer CPU (basically a refresh) and thunderbolt 3 instead of usb-c along with an extra inch of screen (pixelbook could add almost 1.5 inches if they shrunk the bezels).

With 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD, the list price of the two is the same ($1700 in the USA). Pixelbook also gives you a touchscreen (with good pen support), better keyboard, and (IMO) better trackpad while shaving off a massive third of a pound. Pixelbook is also completely silent.

Surface Pro X with 16gb RAM and 512gb SSD is $1800 and weighs almost exactly the same as the pixelbook once you add a keyboard. It includes a crappy Qualcomm 8cx processor.

Surface pro 7 with same specs is $1900 and around the same weight. It does include a G-series processor, but it's probably adjusted from the normal 15w TDP to a 12w TDP to save power (lowering actual base clock from 1.3 to 1.0GHz).

Cheapest Surface Laptop 3 with same specs I can find is Best Buy for $2000 for the 13-inch model. It weighs a touch more than the air, but once again, the G-series processor is a bit faster overall.

Pixelbook isn't cheap, but neither is the hardware or build quality. You can often find them on sale for much less though. $500-600 for the i3 version is very common. I picked up my i5 version on sale for $650 (marked down from $1300).
We handle cheating in our Battlefield 1942 server by requiring players to submit their public IP to admins to be explicitly whitelisted. There have been numerous cheaters and trolls we have easily banned over the years.
http://ea117.com/access gets 20 players/night at 7PM..
It plays the “desert combat” mod — the makers of that mod were acquihired by DICE.
It’s also really easy to reinstall... http://www.mediafire.com/file/v2dj55nwoxz84o8/BF1942DCF_setu....
I wish that more restaurants would dial back their portion sizes to something that isn't insane.

I am seeing that more and more, and that's a good thing, but the odds are still good that I'll be served more food than most people can eat in a sitting, and I always feel bad when I see so much leftover food heading for the trash.
they never reversed all of the bans for the very first WoW Wine ban wave

This is really depressing. I can't imagine working on an anti-cheat moderation team would be a pleasant job.
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FYI to anyone else reading, this is the other side of science-denial coin, the doomer side. The most authoritative reports (ipcc ar6 and sr15) show us probably landing in the low 4's in a "BAU" scenario. However those scenarios are widely acknowledged as no longer plausible, as the cost curves of three things: wind, solar, and batteries have invalidated several of the assumptions about future growth in coal and oil demand.

Scientifically speaking we are on target for something over 2C but below 4C. Keep in mind that what we're seing today (puerto rico, california, australia) is 1C. 2C will be terrifying, so the news that we will likely not break 4C is very very mild comfort. Its just that anyone talking about 5, 6, etc is negative-spiraling in a way unsupported by the research and current economics.
> Make them twice as thick. Melt a weight into the seam of each one to prevent flying and floating.

Well, now a palette of them weighs 2-10 times as much and the energy required to ship them needs to be recalculated.
Probably? And leathers too. But, pedaling in August heat in a closed helmet and heavy armored suit isn't easy.

Mostly, I'm suggesting better bicycle infrastructure is one reason people may be less likely to wear helmets in Europe vs the US. And not making any claims about how safe a helmet in the US actually is or is not.
You are missing the main strength of C - the transparency and predictability of what machine code gets generated from the source code.

When you write "a + b", you won't end up with kilobytes of machine code just because someone in some header overloaded the + operator.

Ditto for template-style generics and overloaded functions. If you call a function and it doesn't exist, it won't get auto-generated for you on the fly. You get an error. You want a function, you define that function. That's not the flaw of the language. That's its strength.

Ditto for switch-case constructs.

Ditto for closures.

All of these constructs, should they be added to the language, will result in a compiler generating heaps of code from a simple code snippet. But this will no longer be C, because in C what you see is what you get.
I don't think the article is saying "just start coding", it's saying "when you code, use what you know instead of working on the tooling".
Only if you provide a robust and empowered support staff to quickly unban and resolve false positives. That is, actually take responsibility, which is something game developers and major publishers seem allergic to.

It costs money to hire, train, and oversee said staff. Game companies don't want to spend that money.
I'd love them to switch to a paid subscription model, like WoW.

Would help them justify the long tail of updates, patches, etc. and make a ban easier to enforce - block the cheater's credit card.

Make it a premium service for all I care, with premium only servers. Origin Premium doesn't do crap.
I'm curious which games you've played wit this feature and how did it generally work?

This was abused by players in Rainbow 6 Siege imo, though I don't think it would be useful if it were implemented the same way in BF5. Siege plays similar to a search-and-destroy gamemode where you only get one life, and once you die, you spectate your team (and can watch cameras for them and call out). Iirc, only teammates can kick a player, so you would often get the least skilled person kicked as opposed to a cheater (unless the cheater was the last person alive and obviously cheating). This system wouldn't be useful in BF/COD style games because of the respawning ability. But the opposite way where the enemy team can vote to kick someone out of your team also is ripe for abuse. Imo, there is no easy and fair solution that bypasses existing centralized anticheat mechanisms because you generally can't tell if your teammates are cheating as you're not often spectating them, and letting the enemy team have the sole voice to kick someone isn't going to work.
That _does_ sound useful.
> There were Turbo Pascal versions of this on websites in the 90s I think, but it seems they were lost.

You can still find a lot of this old code if you dig for it; lot's of it can be found on various SIMTEL MS-DOS ftp archive sites, for instance. I also think the textfiles site has some of it. Also archive.org might have some of it.

Take a look around using google and such: "ftp msdos source code" etc - you'll find plenty to be sure (and even if you don't find what you're looking for, you're sure to find stuff you weren't expecting!)
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Pattern matching across multiple function heads (ML, Erlang) is incredibly liberating. I hear Haskell has it but it's not idiomatic, and I think Elm doesn't support it at all. Frustrating.

I've found half-hearted pattern matching solutions like Scala quite disappointing.
I grow my tomatoes and it is definitely not effortless. You need to plant the seeds in little pots, keep them in a sunlit but protected area, plant and support them, water them regularly. You also need a patch of land. None of that is a big deal, but considering how cheap commercial tomatoes are, it doesn't make economic sense for most people.

Another thing to consider is that tomatoes are seasonal. You won't have more than 3 months of natural homegrown tomatoes a year.

Is it worth it? IMHO, totally. Tomatoes are one of these products where homegrown is much better than the usual commercial varieties. But if all you want are good tomatoes, and don't enjoy the process, there are probably other, more economical ways of getting them.
The plastic bag issue was a particularly conspicuous source of litter, somehow. They tended to blow away and get caught in trees and bushes. The 5p tax has cleaned up the visual environment quite dramatically, just as vaping has put a big dent in the cigarette litter.
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Oh really? You want an IE6 situation to happen for every software out there?
I haven't done much online gaming in a while, but I remember vote-to-kick most often being successfully invoked for stuff like people logging on then immediately spamming messages or abusing voice chat. The vote call was swift and the kick a certainty. They'd be gone in seconds.
You are assuming that all health care staff will be paid minimum wage. If you look at countries with public healthcare systems this is not the case.
What do you consider as not AAA but technically not indie? I can only think of something like Minecraft? Is Minecraft technically AAA now or are they neither indie or AAA despite originally being indie? Do you have some other games you can mention? How does that work, genuinely curious.
Why would lazy data structures need a runtime? Some kind of GC is necessary for immutable data structures, but wouldn't iterators and generators be enough for implementing laziness?
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Raw range is one of the biggest reasons holding most people back from buying an EV. And Tesla's 'exposing full battery capacity' seems to be working quite well. Battery degradation isn't actually an issue despite what you say. Sure if you supercharge the batteries constantly and go 0-100% charge all the time, then yeah they'll degrade, but so would ANY other battery exposed to those conditions. Very rare to actually have people drive that way.

Taycan is slower in a 0-60 than the Model S, and at a $50k+ price premium... sure it corners better and likely has more repeatability, but I'd hope you'd get something for the huge loss of range. It's a specialty product though, since noone drives their cars like that on the street (for long, anyways).

Jaguar I-PACE, although comparably priced to the older Model X base model (which by the way they discontinued), is exactly the same range as the old Model X 75D (238 vs 234). And it's WAY less efficient (80MPGe for the Jag vs 93MPGe for the Tesla).

Comparing the e-tron as if the battery buffer doesn't exist is disingenuous. Unless Audi decides to unlock that for free (ha, good luck), you need to compare apples to apples. You can't just add the buffer back in to up your efficiency since you still need to charge the buffer. The rated efficiency would be just as bad if they unlocked the whole battery. Also, a reminder, the e-tron is a tiny car compared to the Model X. The efficiency on that thing is just laughable.

I'll agree that the European competitors are definitely offering a better interior quality, fit-finish, etc, but you're paying a pretty heavy cost for that. Tesla's fit and finish isn't that bad these days, and it's only been getting better.

All of these issues I noted above though lead to one problem: the cost to charge the car is awful. This is exacerbated by the outrageously expensive fast chargers by Electrify America et al. It's significantly more expensive to use one of those fast chargers than it is to charge at home. The Tesla network is more expensive than home, but not that much.

For comparison (using 50kWh as a baseline, and my power cost in Texas):
* Charging at home: 50kWh @ $0.12/kWh = $6
* Charging at a Tesla Supercharger: A recent fast charge I did that was ~45kWh (not exactly comparable, but close) = $8.57
* Charging at an Electrify America station: $1 session fee... plus $0.58/min @ 125kW (assuming I get that full 125kW, which is unlikely) = $14.92

And I'm being generous to the EA station. My understanding of how they work is you get locked in at the max pricing the station offers. If it was a 350kW station (which most cars can't use, and DEFINITELY can't use for the full charging period), the price per minute is $0.89. So that real fee would be closer to $20 (assuming you can take some advantage of the faster charging).

I can say with confidence that although there are more fast charging stations coming, they are horrible to use. It's a mishmash of different apps, poor reliability, and overpriced fees. I've used some of them with my other EV car and the experience is horrible.

Please, get your facts straight. Most of them are outright wrong.
Not the United States of America, but the United States of Austria were actually a serious proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Greater_Austr...

The issue usually isn't ethnic tensions, it's usually disenfranchisement expressing itself through nationalism.
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You may want to check the Disque module I just (a few weeks ago) published. Synchronous replication and strong guarantees of delivery under failures. Also best effort algorithms to minimize re-delivery of at-least-once messages.
I remember playing with TerraGen back when the original programmer of it was coding it in VB5 and 6 - it was so amazing to see back then, it's too bad the VB source code wasn't ever released.
maybe they do try and we just shrug it off as gurgling. Kids do make funny noises when they're vocalising.
Some context. This is running through Wine (and DXVK, a DX9-11 → Vulkan layer) on Linux.

Seems EA is doing —like a lot of very lazy anti-cheats— balls-simple stack inspection. They determine whether people are cheating by looking for known signed drivers, known hardware, known bad processes and input drivers. It's cheap and scales well but it's brainless. They have to know about a hack to detect it in the future. Version checks are constantly slackened off because legitimate updates come out all the time.

Battlefield is seeing Wine and the drivers Wine reports (which are a mix of real and fake) and baulking out. It's to be expected from such plastic anti-cheat software. Many games do this.

There are better options.

CSGO's overwatch allows the community to self-moderate by replaying a player's gameplay. They literally record the player's input and rebuild what the player could see in the reviewer's client. Reviewer determines whether or not their gameplay was possible. It sounds hardcore but it's simple, and adds no latency because it's done after-the-fact. Makes it super-simple to detect most wall-hacks and aim helpers.

So why isn't it everywhere? Logging data costs money. And EA, for all their moneybags are cheapskates.

And you could automate this. You could do a server-side render to determine whether or not a user is tracking players that are not physically visible to the player, or tracking impossibly tight hitboxes, or is triggering massive killcounts far too regularly (ie exploiting a bug). But that's more money.

But I'd expect a better response shouting into the wind than asking EA to be better. They're a trash company.
It was a fairly big headline, similar to the australian fires although that coverage has been more as of late. Anyone who follows news at all would be aware of this, Americans or otherwise.
The decade's best stock is not a stock: it's a commodity ETF. The rising population, climate change, crop/livestock pandemics, higher personal incomes and falling supply drive record prices for everything from gold to pork to copper.

No nation takes significant action on climate change. Some push renewables hard, but this is more about economic sustainability and geopolitical independence than CO2 levels. People "learn to live" with a work that is as much as 1C warmer and will soon be 4+C by 2100.

The EU continues to move towards ever tighter union. Crisis in smaller, more southern nations and the lack of the UK-veto effect mean than true power sits in Brussels and regions exercise only the autonomy they're permitted. Germany is so polite and generous about this that no one notices.

Brexit goes badly for the UK which suffers a but the EU barely notices. The UK suffers a "lost decade" as young people leave and fewer people work compared to being retired; old voters give themselves more free stuff leading to spiraling taxes (and no services) for the young. More people leave worsening the problem. It's basically just the 80s again...
> Very US-centric though, people in most european countries eat at home.

I'm in the US, and 95% of the time, I cook my own food and eat it at home. So does nearly everyone I know.
Maybe you're just not as good as OP. I started writing code at 10 and being properly employed (contract, office hours every day, etc etc) at 14. I'm 28.

The extra years of experience in Delphi, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, Ruby (before Rails even :-) that I had before the age of 18 are certainly a significant part of why I'm ahead both in seniority and pay of many people who work side-by-side to me, or for me.
What's the chance that in the future, for payments, they will start using mainly a cryptocurrency, or a stablecoin, instead of USD?
Humans are notoriously bad at this. See countless examples of people claiming “hax” when they’re against a player that’s much better than them.
As a tecchie over forty, I can report that age discrimination in the tech industry is hearty and robust.

No one gives a damn about the law. Many companies have job ads that barely conceal their bias. As long as the money keeps pouring in, no one will cook the goose that lays the golden eggs. This has been the case for the finance industry for decades.

It's a shame, but I am fortunate, in not needing to work again. Many of my peers are not so fortunate. Some of the younger folk are in for a nasty shock, when their hair starts to turn gray. I hope they are keeping their 401Ks maxed each year. They'll need them.
Their sales/deals are often the lowest price going, particularly their combo deals.

For non-sale stuff, they're usually in a competitive ballpark, although I wouldn't necessarily say cheaper, and I don't have to worry about counterfeits, or the "might be used/refurbed" roulette.
What would you audit to prevent scammers?
Most people don't buy a $30k+ car for cash. Paying less for fuel can directly offset a higher car payment on a monthly basis.

It would be more accurate to represent the fuel savings in net present value, but that isn't too much different when you're talking about something that occurs throughout the next few years rather than decades from now, especially with interest rates as low as they are.
Jim Chanos is still a Tesla Bear.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jim-chanos-on-tesla-we-are...

Another bad day for Jim.
China is also the world's factory floor, producing most of what's bought by people in the US and Australia, and in effect taking big part of their responsibility. Considering that, the fact it's only 1.4x of US emissions is a miracle.

If "1st world" were truly worried, they would stop buying or stop off-shoring. Saying "3rd world lacks initiative" as if it's a national issue is a joke.
I had VistaPro with the Mars maps on my Amiga 2000 and 1200 back in the early 90s; I should dig those machines out someday (no idea if the floppies still work, tho - I have tons of Fred Fish stuff, too)...
I feel like enormous cultural and technological hardware advancements were made between 1990-2010 that affected people on a national or global level. The advances were revolutionary. I have a hard time associating the last decade the same way. To me, the 2010-2020 decade has been stagnant.

My overall sentiments, more or less:

1990->2000 we went from very few people owning personal computers to wider adoption of PCs and broadband was gaining traction (I personally had @Home cable internet in 1998).

2000->2010 mass adoption of cell phones, starting with the flip phones to pocket PCs to the first iPhone in 2007. Social media (MySpace, The Facebook). Peer to peer networking, piracy (The Pirate Bay). Laptops. The first tablets.

2010->2020 mild improvements on the stuff from the previous two decades

EDIT: I'll give the last decade Uber (although I've only used it once) and AirBnb since that was a huge shift as well, but my overall feeling remains the same.
Yes - and it's mushrooms that will knock you out of this funk.

The mushrooms fixed him for 2 or so months. During that time he should have woken up and sorted his life out. Thats enough time to start exercising, having the conversations at home and work.

You dont have to solve everything all at once, but fixing depression is a cumulative process where even small changes in diet, exercise and environment will compound over time and put you in a better place.

The mushrooms will show you the answer, but it's up to the individual to act.

Did you notice in his post he didn't describe what happened when he was cured in those two months? No, straight back to finger pointing and blaming everyone else.

He needs to hear the blunt truth : maybe, just maybe, it's his fault. Then he can take more mushrooms and work on fixing it, rather than expecting them to be a magic bullet.
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