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This game is extremely great, still influencing game design and space strategy games. Strangely, despite so many years and advances in technology, no other game could quite capture the charm of the great original Master of the Orion.

Ironically, the closest was Master of the Orion 2, which had nice features - I most liked that I could capture enemy population instead of extermination, converting them to be my citizens and creating a diverse empire (long before it was cool!!) - but it kinda lacked the sense of surrounding mystery, great black dread, where the snarks lurk to prey on my tiny empire of three sols....
Unfortunately, it's a lot more difficult to fully switch away from Google than this article gets into. If you use a smartphone, your only real options for OS are Apple and Google. Sure, one can install a custom ROM on an Android phone, but that is well beyond the scope of most people's interest or ability, not to mention that it would lead to warranty issues. If you're using a stock Android phone, Google will know where you all at all times with extreme precision.
Probably an incredibly stupid question but I've always wondered why we can't take small amounts of nuclear waste - say, size of a AA battery, put it into a metal package and use it in laptops / cars / whatever. Short of the risk of leakage, the amount of power that can be generated from it is surely enough to power a laptop or put them into a battery pack for a car, no ?
You're living in a US bubble.
We need a replacement for the universal public forum. In my community, Facebook has essentially become the public square. It's where most of the local public political dialog happens. It's where I get my local news, it's where I find out what my local representatives are doing, and it's where I can converse with them - and the rest of the community - about what local government should be doing.

This is all so valuable that I just can't walk away from it. I would be completely cut out of local events. The news media does an extremely poor job of reporting - and we have an unusually vibrant local news sector (I think in no small part because we have such an active political and governance community on Facebook).

So much of it is network effect, I just don't even know how we'd go about creating it in a new service, even if a new service were created that served the purpose better.
Betting on a world wide, full funded program to reduce carbon is... Courageous. Betting it will use nuclear and small nuclear and rr's small nuclear and that they will get it ready on schedule and deliver it in time to make any difference? Let me sell you some magic beans I have.
what database are you using on the backend? Can people directly query it with SQL?
As I don't speak russian, I can't answer you.
Secret Manager is a Google Cloud first-party fully-managed service. Vault still works and runs great on GCP for users who want more advanced functionality like dynamic secrets.
Minus two years if I’m remembering correctly.

Only time I hit up Google is if DDG has trouble understanding what I’m after
I think the main problem for C++ programmers is not the notation of Rust, as Rust is a simpler language than C++.

It's backwards compatibility: there are hundreds of millions, or probably billions of lines of C++ code out there. I found working with big code bases really hard, because the memory ownership situation is crazy, in fact impossible to keep track of.

That's why my question was whether there's a future path for C++ Lifetime Profile to get programs to Rust like memory safety in the future, but I still don't know the answer.
There are 10 million lines of libreoffice code that has been updated to use these features
Are there lightweight solutions to reading parquet files in Python? Any time I want to deal with parquet in AWS lambda I have to deal with the entire Pandas suite which is a pain on lambda.
A survey of 100 SaaS yearly discounts and downgrade policies
Does that continue to year 2 after a huge claim or would the insurance price increase in year 2 to make up the expected gap the 16k limit might suggest to the prospective insurer?
Is that what that was? I remember getting the app and wondering why no one I knew ever had to pay for it.
Check out the page for the "International Conference on Bayesian Statistics for Machine Learning":

https://waset.org/bayesian-statistics-for-machine-learning-c...

What struck me was a section called "Special Journal Issues":

Special Journal Issues

ICBSML 2020 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Bayesian Statistics for Machine Learning. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue.

Of course there is no such thing as a "Special Journal Issue". There are special issues of particular journals, for example the Special Issue of the Machine Learning Journal on Learning and Reasoning (that I was looking for when I stumbled on this page).

Every single conference on the site has the same text in this section... and in every other section with minor variations.

There are more hints:

1) The names of the conferences seem to have been generated by prepending "International Conference" in front of legit conference names.

2) The "Call for papers" page is just a list of subject fields.

3) The "Selected papers" don't have anything to do with the actual conference subjects and are in fact scraped from other conference and journal sites. For example, in the "ICBSML" page there's a paper titled :

Deep Learning Based Fall Detection Using Simplified Human Posture

But if you click the link you see a pdf with this rubric on top:

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
International Journal of Computer and Systems Engineering
Vol:13, No:5, 2019

4) etc etc.

It's a scam.
Many in China Wear Them, but Do Masks Block Coronavirus?
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Don't know if it helps - but it's on Steam, and even behaves on Linux. Hell the emulation is painful enough that even the real waits are part of the game.
At this point I'm not at all sure what this concept of hitting the max means as far as your response to my comment.

The costs of a given hospital visit is still an unknown leading up to the max... and how quickly you hit it is an unknown... and thus actually finding "descent insurance" is not easy.

As far as I can tell you seem to just be hooked on this concept that after you hit the max you're not paying and that somehow means something. Perhaps you feel that hitting the max is a trivial thing?
I switched to DDG about a month ago, and the results are always dead-on for me.

I don’t even notice that it’s not Google anymore.
I didn't mean to nitpick about the definitions, I just wanted to say Erlang/Elixir would both be well usable as languages even without the OTP abstractions and tooling.
Yes, we need to put smart people in charge. Those stupid workers can't figure anything out on their own.
Your vault-on-gke[0] repo is solid. For greenfield GKE projects starting now, would you recommend Secret Manager or vault-on-gke?

0: https://github.com/sethvargo/vault-on-gke
I think that entity-component-system will replace oop in the near future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
> When 90% of the people you email are on Gmail or GSuite does Proton mail really help?

This is such a common, but strange attitude to have in these circumstances. Think about how user migration works. It's not like it happens overnight and suddenly your 100% gmail contact list is 100% proton. No, it goes from 100% to 99%, then continues to 92%, then to 75%, and so on. Having this defeatist attitude guarantees that bad actors retain their users.

As an example -- I switched to use Signal for messaging a few years ago. I was the only one in my circle that made the jump. Slowly but surely, people have started to switch over. Today about 10% of my contacts use Signal, and our chats are encrypted e2e. Every few months a few more people make the jump. If all of these people had the same attitude as you, nothing would ever change.
How many watts do you want? In a standard RTG, you need 20 watts of heat for every watt of electricity.

That and the "what if this gets breached" factor are the main problems.
So according to the article, there is:

1) "registrar lock" - a service that requires the registrar to confirm any requested changes with the domain owner via whatever communications method is specified by the registrant.

2) "registry lock" - with a registry lock in place, your registrar cannot move your domain to another registrar on its own. Doing so requires manual contact verification by the appropriate domain registry.

So... I assume the "lock thingy" within most registrars' interfaces (I'm familiar with the one within Namesilo, the registrar I use), is the less restrictive "registrar lock" ?
Master of Orion was notable in that it was the first game I remember with "meaningful" NPC interactions. Even though interactions were quite limited (make/break alliances, espionage, trade, etc), early alliances could determine the final outcome of the game. But more importantly, it felt emotionally compelling. I found myself getting angry at certain factions when they spied/voted/etc against me. They also took the time to illustrate dispositions IIRC, so you could see when a race was happy or angry with you.
Sure - in short, we partnered with multiple customers in designing and building this service. Let me check with my team and see what we _can_ talk about :)
Fortunately (unpopular opinion among pilots) the FAA is slowly phasing in ADS-B out as required equipment. Starting Jan 1 of this year, you need to tx ADS-B if you're anywhere you'd otherwise need a Mode-C transponder, including around many airports.
Yeah, I'm a human and I don't mind configuration files

Some of these trends are just stupid (I'm so glad the 'made with love' shit has died down)
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The game! The game. The game you lose when you think about the game.

I hadn't thought about that since college, which is far longer ago than I care to say.
Anesthesiologists are never in-network, it's usually the most expensive part of having surgery in the US.

Another major annoyance -- if you have surgery, the hospital usually gets their money from you right away. However, you're going to spend the next 18 months receiving random bills from various different firms representing nurses, doctors, lab technicians, etc. related to your procedure, many of which come down to "stuff we decided to do while you were unconscious."
I don't use Google's search engine, but I do use search engines heavily. Unlike you, I rarely know what site will have what I'm looking for in advance -- it's rarely SO, Wikipedia, or maps.
> In his words: it had varied success.

I mean, he was head of a marketing agency, which in itself already implies a certain level of success (that many people can only aspire to). Seeing as how he was a consultant on the side too, I'm assuming that he's done okay for himself.

Perhaps he was judging himself too harshly. You're not going to win 100% of prospective clients anyway, so it's easy to interpret that as varied success, instead of just success that lets you keep going.
Wait so this guy put his tracker stations into black boxes with FBI markings on them? Isn't that highly illegal to be impersonating FBI equipment or something?
>the feeling of working for public good and not for some profit-driven corporation.

By advancing human knowledge you are arguably working for hundreds of profit-driven corporations at a time
> Humans have built all this stuff because we have been able to invent arbitrary status games.

No, humans have built all this stuff because it provides value to more and more people. Time spent on status games is time not spent doing something productive.
This game, along with Master of Magic, Civ 1, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and Dune 2, were the beginnings of strategy gaming for me. It's amazing to see that most of these games have been remade or copied (Stellaris, Age of Wonder, Civ 6, XCOM 2, Star Craft, respectively), and that the genre lives on.
As someone who is also sometimes underestimated, I sympathize with your situation.

Good on you though for being self-aware and perceptive enough to realize it is they who have the incorrect view and having the patience to let that view correct itself over time. Turning it to your advantage and taking joy in watching that correction take place is doubly good.

Most people in your position just assume, “people don’t think highly of me on first impression, and they must be right”
We don't believe much in such static tuning recommendations. Our experience tells us that they can do as much good as bad.

It is much more important to understand and learn a bit about how to tune them. You need to understand the workload, the usage pattern, to do a proper tuning.

This site is a first step into this direction: provide guidance, centralize the available documentation, provide general recommendations. Other steps will follow suit, all focused on helping Postgres users tune the configuration better.

But as of today, we know a lot of people using this site in their daily work, as a very convenient mechanism to check information you need to have handy when tuning Postgres. And/or use it to share stable and versioned URLs when you want to provide a link to reference what you are talking about, be it a blog post or a link in a document.

All in all, we hope it can be useful as it is, and even more with the steps that will come after ;)
For Haggis Purists in the U.S., the Law Is No Obstacle
I feel like there should be a law for social media: "Sufficiently passionate fanbases are indistinguishable from bots"
hehe, i wonder if people really believe in these words. i love coding but boy i do get so much frustration from it sometimes!
Some of that skew might be their algorithm noticing that the great unwashed masses are looking for ecommerce.

I don't believe that it's the masses looking for e-commerce sites. I think it's that Google wants people to click on e-commerce sites because it makes money off of those ads. And even if someone doesn't click on a sponsored link to an e-commerce site, that click still reinforces in their mind that Google is the place to start shopping.

There was a comment on HN yesterday where someone wrote something like, "Did you know there are countries where people who want to buy things just go to amazon.com directly and don't search for their item in Google?" I was floored. It never occurred to me that if I want to buy something at amazon.com that I would involve Google in any way. But there must be legions of people who do this, or that person wouldn't have made that statement.

At the same time, I think that Google falls down at this kind of lead generation because it allows so much automation that it can't be trusted.

I just put "rocket to mars" in Google and the top results are ads for Wal-Mart and Michael's.

To be fair, the duck isn't much better. I just put "f-14 fighter jet" into Duck and got an ad for "Fighter Jets For Sale near you" with a link to an auto repair shop.
Which games we selectively care about are a result of our values. So our ranking of the importance of games mimics our value hierarchy. Christianity provides a value structure with a clear "Top", and the instructions to organize our ranking of games in accordance.

And while not religious, I also believe that they've got this right.
You can absolutely power the whole of the US by 100 square miles of solar panels in the southwest. The cost would be to build the solar panels, the square mile of batteries, replace all the power lines in the US with cables that can handle very high voltage (twice or more than what current power transmission cables can handle) needed for long-distance, and replace all the power stations connected to those so that can take that high voltage.

It not impossible at all, we have the technology, it just money. Replacing 200,000 miles of cables, with a price tag of a few millions per mile is a project the US could undertake. Replacing all the power station to handle the very high voltage is similarly possible.

When choosing between the many alternatives it is something which should be calculated next to the cost of building nuclear plants in a distrusted pattern, and the long term cost of nuclear waste that such plan would entail. If entrepreneurs could invent power transmission cables and power stations that can manage millions of volts and cost a fraction of existing methods to install would make a centralized place for power generation a much more attractive option.
The problem with _requiring_ authentication is that it can create a safety issue when communications break down. As a pilot it's not a bad idea to carry a spare handheld radio, or even use a cel phone, when you lose communications.

I was flying once with a buddy of mine who was Pilot-In-Command and we lost (or thought we had lost) our radio on an IFR flight back into the Bay Area. What had happened was the Push-to-Talk button on the yoke had become stuck and we were transmitting the entire time while attempting to diagnose what was wrong. This happened for about five minutes. Thankfully he had a handheld radio in his flight bag, and when we turned it on we figured out really quickly what was going on.

In that scenario, if we didn't have the handheld radio, it would have caused a worse problem.
I guess you're an inclusionist then. A lot of people agree with you. (Note some in the deletionist camp want to delete many of the articles about trivial stuff!).

I find Wikipedia articles on technical/science subjects tend to be higher quality (with some exceptions of course), those on history tend to be so-so, those about current political matters tend to be outrageously one-sided, and those on pop culture matters are often hilarious -- an article on a subject related to anime can be a lot longer and more detailed than one about real history!

Back in the olden days I remember there used to be a Wikipedia article about vampires, written from the point of view of someone in the "vampire community" who wrote about them as if "vampirism" was a "lifestyle", and when it got edited/deleted of course these people threw a fit. But this was a clear case of garbage that doesn't belong in a general encyclopedia.

Contributing to Wikipedia, especially in topics where there is controversy, is very frustrating. Like you said, the person with the most time or clout with the online community tends to "win". Having lots of rules of the form WP:<this or that> in order to overwhelm you and make you give up can feel very tiresome. This is why I don't contribute; I simply don't have the time for it.

Still find Wikipedia immensely useful though. I'm glad it exists.
> They aren't the privacy nightmare the pitchfork wielding folks would have you believe.

Wait, so they aren't collecting as much information about me and my use of my machines as they can anymore? When did that change?
> And genuinely, if you can look at child porn, murder, and other awful, genuinely terrible things all day, every day, and not be impacted

Well, that's not what moderation is. Most of it is not actually disturbing content. And when you are moderating it, you don't know what kind of content you are looking at, until you get to the point that you do, but that's the point where you have to block it and move on to the next thing. There is not much possibility for emotions. But it is very mentally exhausting work.
If you go with a notion of exploitation rather than lack of consent, it describes all waged labour.
Or the organic links for the same sites.
Most one year olds barely speak real words
Could not find how much power they generate.
I'm surprised nobody has been talking about the fact that muddying the distinction between ads and organic results is illegal. Google, Amazon, and others have been moving this way for a while, despite the FTC sending a warning a few years ago: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2013/06/...
Yes, but it's the operational energy that he's talking to and it's even shorter than that.

If the power output is expected to be 1000W, usually you design the system to utilize all of it. So as the power starts to degrade, even when you're really far from the half life, it may not be enough to power the systems.

Specifically, the Voyager's RTGs have degraded a lot since Pu-238's half life is much shorter[0], but most of the machine's systems can't run at ~67% power. We're basically down to the very last few experiments running intermittently.

So for useful energy, parent comment is largely right. You've got <5750 yrs of usable work, which is absolutely fantastic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
To get the old behaviour for literal search using quotes enable the "Verbatim mode"

This isn't always honored. Google has been inconsistent with this for at least two years. It's noted on HN every time someone brings this up.
> if you want to enlist the work of others by means other than coercion or bribes, the status game (i.e. charisma, popularity, respect) is the only way to do it

No, it isn't. You can simply trade something valuable to them that you have, for something valuable to you that they have.
> embed X apps in emacs

Not in the console mode, you can't.
Self help that you read and learn is just knowledge; self help that you live and breathe is understanding. Moving from knowledge to understanding is difficult: you can tell a kid that the stove is hot but they just don't get it until they're burnt.

I think sometimes the problem with reading self help is it prescribes too many changes and people become overwhelmed. Learning to understand incredibly simple, trite things like self-acceptance can take a really long time. Simply knowing that you should accept yourself is not enough--ask any depressed person. There is a lot more work to be done before you can fully understand that notion.
Moscow has a relatively high status. Russia is nearer the top than it is to the bottom of the 196.

To pick an aribtrary example WITHOUT casting aspertions because that’s not my goal - a Somalian company producing the best product X would struggle severely against a trashy X made in, again arbitrary choice, China.
It was a remake of MOO2, not MOO 1. And yes it was terrible.

Remakes (or games very similar to MOO 1) are Dominus Galaxia and Remnants of the Precursors.
A lot of our work is open-source. You can easily see that our investment into improving our products, visible through the open-source repositories, has been steadily increasing every year.
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I remember being SO excited for MOO reboot, then it ended up being terribly disappointing.

I went back to Stellaris after about 2 hours with new MOO.
You're right, they couldn't, because the US has much stricter safety regulations to prevent stuff like this from happening.

Unlike China, the West tries to learn from its mistakes. It's why we have so much bureaucracy. The cost of red tape seems excessive until shit like this happens in the places that don't have red tape.
Indeed. And FB retaining Instagram/Whatsapp apps+branding effectively squashes future "unbundling" attempts.

The way I look at it, if not even Google can beat FB at personal social networking (Google+), then FB has a monopoly and this is not a free market. Sure, anyone is free to start a startup and try to do what FB does, but I mean...

I suspect the only reason the government hasn't gotten involved in this matter yet is because FB offers seemingly non-essential service. A different situation than Microsoft and browsers.
Impossible haggis?
It's not an RTG, it's a betavoltaic device. They directly convert the beta radiation to electricity, using a semiconductor also made of carbon.
Their upload speed doesn't bother you?
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I found this article researching a question someone had asked on that thread :)
Stealing jeffbarr/jbarr@'s thunder? :D