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Seagate stopped making 7200 rpm 2.5" HDDs in 2013 [1]. I assume Microsoft didn't want to pay more for a 7200 rpm 2.5" WD Black HDD so that leaves 5400 rpm drives as the only option.

The hard drive in the Xbox One is a 2.5" 9.5mm Samsung Spinpoint M8 drive [2]. Seagate purchased Samsung's HDD business in 2011 [3].

[1] https://techreport.com/news/24439/seagate-to-stop-making-720...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/1r5gc6/xbox_one_us...

[3] https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/news/news-archive/seagate-comp...
That is impressive if each of those worlds is loaded as you go, but I feel like both Microsoft and Sony were holding off on this next generation until graphics tech got better.

We still are nowhere near photo realistic, cinema type game play (and yes I realize that such animation has to be scaled down a bit because it can disturb people if it's too real, but we're not even at that point yet).

Real time ray tracing was going to be nVidias whole push into a new generation of 3D graphics, but that turned out to be not all that impressive (and with huge performance costs).
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Isn’t this basically what Scrum and story points do?
I guess you could call Orwell's essay an exoneration but it is, to my reading, no defense. It strikes me as sharply political and moral. And, I agree, scintillating literary criticism.

Your excerpts go to the heart of the argument. If Orwell thinks it's nonsense to call Wodehouse a fascist, it's not because Wodehouse was necessarily above fascism. It's because he was too silly and stupid ("the events of 1941 do not convict Wodehouse of anything worse than stupidity") to even perceive it, a literal schoolboy:

As I have tried to show, his moral outlook has remained that of a public-school boy, and according to the public-school code, treachery in time of war is the most unforgivable of all the sins.

I don't know that this was fair to Wodehouse. The New Yorker article seems to take a more charitable view:

His resilient happiness, to me, remains heroic, and more essentially who he was.

My dad and I were struggling to explain the phrase "damn with faint praise" to a young relative a while back. This essay wouldn't have helped our cause because, well, it's loaded. But it is a master class in the concept.
I don't think the onus should be on the decliner to "gracefully" decline beyond a simple "No thanks", under threat of twitter mob.
Do you do anything that maintains your coordination?
> Peer review is fine for what it is—it tells you that a paper is up to standard in its subfield. Peer reviewers can catch missing references in the literature review. That can be helpful! But if peer review catches anything that the original authors didn’t understand . . . well, that’s just lucky. You certainly can’t expect it.

...

> 4. All the papers that don’t get retracted . . .

> One problem with the attention given to the fatally flawed papers that get retracted is that we forget all the fatally flawed papers that aren’t retracted.

> For example, from that long paragraph above:

> – The beauty-and-sex-ratio paper: Not retracted. 58 citations. Endorsement from Freakonomics never rescinded.

> – The ovulation-and-voting paper: Not retracted. 107 citations. Fortunately this one never got taken seriously by the news media.

> – The gremlins paper. Not retracted: 1064 citations. Might still be influencing some policy debates.

Etc etc etc.

> And, if we just want to look at papers published in Lancet:

> – That seriously flawed Iraq survey: Never retracted. 779 citations. Came up in policy debates.

> – That hopeless-from-the-start paper on gun control based on an unregularized regression with 50 data points, 25+ predictors, and a bunch of ridiculous conclusions: OK, this one had only 75 citations and, fortunately, it was blasted in the press when it came out. So, too bad that something like 75 people thought this paper was worth citing (and, no, a quick glance at the citations suggests that these are not 75 papers using this as an example to show people how not to do policy analysis). As I wrote the other day, the useless study is included in a meta-analysis published in JAMA—and one of the authors of that meta-analysis is the person who said he did not believe the Lancet paper when it came out! But now it’s in the literature now and it’s not going away.
It just means fast loading assets, so if SSD becomes RAM one day, anything interesting at all? Same goes for ray tracing, looking more realistic with control of light...

Nothing special here, no need to hype

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You know what really makes a difference?

You playing an VR open world game where every single artificial intelligence NPC does thing in every possible way leading to different gameplay and outcome. And you as a character can just grab anything you want and throw at any monster that you just CREATED in that game itself

Or you can control that monster that you created in your own way, time travelling to another open world game saying hello to your friend playing in his house back and forth

Together with some AI NPC friends you made in that game, you live in that dimensional space forever as you want even after your human body dies, your conscious stays in electronic form

Referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_Online:_Alicization
Given your grander temporal experience, do you have any predictions/foresight into how the world is changing? It feels like we are being wound up to be shot out of a cannon if I'm being honest.
Oh that's awesome. I first came across TLA+ (probably also through HN) about 6 months ago and recognized Leslie Lamport's name. The concept was very interesting but I had trouble getting to a good enough understanding of TLA+ to be able to use it. I'll look to see if I can find the associated NDC talk on youtube but his slides are also great. Thanks for sharing.

He does an incredible job conveying the ideas and intuition behind a lot of the terms and concepts for a given subject.
Ratchet & Clank is the only demo with new gameplay based on the SSD.

But it's overused, giving each game world less weight. The technological imperative, preoccupied with whether they could, etc.
In contrast, artificial constraints add depth to gameplay, e.g. limited movement speed/duration ("sprint").

All that said, keeping processors fed with data is a central problem of CS. The innovations here are not just the SSD itself, but elimination of bottlenecks in the architecture (e.g. direct placement in GPU RAM).

Typically, storage is 1000x slower than RAM. On PS5, it's 50x. That has got to be a revolution in algorithmic space-time tradeoffs... which has got to be reflected in gameplay, somehow, somewhen.
> What did everyone see in the PS1?

Mod chips.
Raspberry Pi's? Pine64's? I have many of these devices. These are fun to play around with, but are no replacement for a modern x86-64 system.
It's a self censoring in western.
It's anti-intellect.
It happened and is happening in China.
The result is a small group shuts up everyone. They could tag everything they don't like and stop using it, e.g. winnie.
Please don't let it happen.
The push for these crazy fast SSD’s when even a SATA3 SSD would be a huge leap for load times isn’t just to reduce load times but to allow on-demand streaming of assets just in time. An external HDD isn’t going to cut it for the random reads developers looking to get the most out of the hardware are going to be doing.

Archiving games you aren’t currently playing because a USB hard drive is most certainly the faster option for anyone without a gigabit internet connection? Sure. But there’s no chance in hell they will let you run games off one.
The linked-to discussion of insulin has a major error logical error. The title is "Insulin: An Undeserved Bad Reputation", but then the body of the article says for example "Carbs are not alone in being responsible for insulin secretion. Protein can cause just as much, if not more, insulin secretion as carbs". This is a straw man, because the point that is trying to be refused is that "insulin is bad", not "carbs are bad".

Insulin, being necessary for healthy human life, is certainly not "bad". However, a shortage (e.g. Type 1 diabetes) or excess (e.g. Type 2 diabetes) is certainly a problem. Given the current epidemic of Type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and NAFLD, triggering excess insulin production is certainly something to be wary of.

Also of concern is impinging on the glucagon cycle, and in the linked-to post there is no mention of the important function of glucagon, which is typically considered as having effects opposite to insulin. Maintaining the insulin/glucagon cycle is important in maintenance of a healthy metabolism.

The article makes a point about how "Insulin is not needed for fat storage", but omits the fact that in reality, practically all fat storage is mediated by insulin and its effects on glucose. Insulin mediates glucose transport and promotes absorption of blood glucose into the liver, fat and muscle cells. Once the liver has filled its compliment of glycogen, it will indeed produce fat locally. Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) currently afflicts about 25% of the entire human population, and the linked-to author would have the reader believe that excess insulin production isn't an issue? Very strange.

All in all, this article paints a false picture of human metabolism. People eating a typical Western diet should be concerned or at least aware of the facts of that process, and be wary of having an excess or deficit of insulin; and should know that the excess case is the more common condition. A reasonable scientifically-accurate depiction of the process can be found, for example, in Jason Fung's books, "The Diabetes Code" and "The Obesity Code".
May I suggest at least open source or even some YouTube video telling how to do basic example of using note.

A Turn based card game one Would be good as most are only 2p. The Clojure thinking YouTube video I learnt from this side have used a 2p javascript (yes javascript not clojure) to demo 3 ways of programming (p, o and f). I am trying to spare some time to convert it to clojure and python as server playable game. Just for learning. If you can help and put a git hub or even a YouTube on this, it would be most grateful.
> still currently a “Level 9” technician in the PLA

A civilian technician at the military is still quite far from "active-duty military officer." It's like calling a civilian contractor at US Army an army officer.
> including a variety of JDBC backends (SQLite, Postgres etc.)

How straightforward would it be to add a new JDBC-based node implementation? I'm noticing that SQL Server is apparently missing, which is a bit of a shame given how many off-the-shelf products use it (and could therefore probably integrate with Crux if Crux did so, too).
I don't have a platform the size that the recoil author has.

That's the difference.
I wanted to play drums since I was 10, but being the one who procrastinates dreams for decades before doing something, I had to wait to reach above 50 to finally start taking lessons. Playing already keyboards and bass of course was beneficial, also I already knew how to do a few things on the drums, but nothing serious.
All I can say is it helped a lot, both the body and the mind. I had to stop both practicing and taking lessons during the early pandemic lockdown, and in a few weeks I clearly felt the negative effects.
Yeah. What's frustrating is I feel like a lot of ports have long load times just coded into them. Sometimes it barely matters if you run them on an NVMe or even a RAMDisk.

I'm sure the cost of speeding up loading isn't worth it after you've written it with one set of expectations in mind.

I just hope an unintended side effect here is that load times for big studio PC games speed up too.
There are two types of failover in RDS:

- Single instance, if the instance dies they start a new one and mount the same storage. This can take some time, in general under 5min but I have seen it take 45min, especially for the large instance types.

- Multi A-Z, they run a hot standby with replicated and physically separated storage. Failover takes about a minute. The replication happens at storage level, every write has to be acknowledged by both availability zones. I'm not sure if Postgres is always running or if it gets started when failing over.

I guess you could replicate this using drbd.
You took the words from my mouth.
I think you did not end up at an actual supermarket. I’ve never been to one that doesn’t have eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, or red peppers.

Neighborhood bodegas, which can look like small shops selling food, are a very different type of establishment, and sound like what you’re describing. Perhaps you are ending up in those? (They’re rife in tourist areas!)
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Level 9 technician is just a civilian employee, not an officer, let alone major.
Watch the UE5 demo. Realize what they're doing. They're loading the high-detail geometry into the GPU and letting the GPU do the mesh reduction. For that to work, huge amounts of geometry has to be loaded into memory the GPU can see. The PS5 is built for that. The GPU has access to the same memory (24GB) the CPU does, and, presumably, so does the SSD controller. So you can put vertex buffers in files and load them directly into the GPU if you want.

On the PS5, a Blu-Ray type drive is optional. Are you going to have 100 GB downloads from the network? That's going to take a while. Even if you have a gigabit network connection, it's going to take 15 minutes or so to download a large game. Few people have that much bandwidth. Red Dead Redemption 2 needs 150GB of disk space now, so games are already that big.

Games will have to have some starting level that keeps the user busy while the downloader pulls in content. But after that, performance should be impressive.
> Burn the witch!

Indeed. The article makes the same comparison:

"It is the same circular argument that was once used to burn witches. And it has the same religious undertones."

A lot of what is going on now can be seen as evidence that we are living in a new Puritan theocracy.
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I think the COVID point is very salient - there are a lot of people with a lot of spare time.

However - the kids will be replaced by other kids.

'Social Protest' - I believe is actually a form of normal rebellion.

As kids grow and they come into their own identities, at some point, they have to rebel against something. Kids who are abused rebel really early in life. Kids with their own identity rebel in HS. A lot of 'well-raised kids' don't rebel until University - and this rebellion takes a more intellectualized form.

'Youth in Revolt' is perennial, it's metastasizing now because of the possibility of outrage.

That said ... Baby Boomers were considerably more outspoken than their progeny so perhaps whatever comes after Gen Z will be more chill.
It’s possible the USSR would have had more flights for propaganda reasons, but in a direct comparison the Souyuz was simply the better design. So it was the Soyuz program that continued after the USSR’s fall.
Isn't it possible for some to have their ability to communicate freely strangled by political correctness and their legitimate fear of being treated as a racist while others are literally strangled by actual racists for being black often with few consequences?

It often seems like hypocrisy not baseball is the national pastime.
>happen any sooner than 20 years from now

Great news is that Apple is moving their laptops/desktops to to their ARM chips in the next 2 years. I expect that'll cause a surge in ARM support even in linux as a result.
True. Why isn’t anti trust going after a company that is less than 50% of the market.....
The difference with PCs is that since the hardware is standard, developers can now create gameplay that depends on those capabilities.

Until all (or most) PCs are equiped with high performance NVMe SSDs, those kind of features won't be possible other than on consoles.

Also, the PS5's architecture is optimized end-to-end for faster loading times, it's more than just faster storage.
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We haven't chosen to throw away their plan. So long as we're trying to follow it, it's a good idea to understand how and why they arrived at it.
"SSD as RAM" is a good way to reason about it.

It means you have a lot more RAM, e.g. thus, PS5 has 825GB of RAM. RAM in the TB, soon.

Would a couple of orders of magnitude make a difference? If software is designed with terabytes of RAM in mind?
So this is how some parts of the tech community is fighting racism? By creating a fork of a ruby project based on a pun?

What a joke.
I understand that you are trying to be constructive, but I'm quite surprised by your use of "black high school" and "black colleges". Is it still a thing in the US?

Wouldn't focusing on fixing this situation be more beneficial than reinforcing it?
The purpose of providing an estimate is to get the person asking off your back, so you can go back to getting work done. Beyond that, there’s little to no value. People ask for estimated because lies are strongly preferred over uncertainty.
Your link was about what's needed for bicycle to be self-stable. That steering is required to avoid falling over (as opposed to, say, keeping balance by shifting your weight slightly to one side or the other as needed) is an experimental result and not baked into definition of "not having a steering wheel", even if it is a physical consequence of not having it.
That information may be used to assist in the theft of research down the line by someone else. Someone else could know exactly where someone's office is and what to grab out of there. Or what labs to try to get jobs/internships/etc in to be closer to a lab they want access to that they likely wouldn't get a job in.
It could be they’re duplicating the physical layout of the lab to make stolen documents easier to understand.
One difference I see is that there is no consideration of the size or complexity of a "story" or unit of work. Scrum and Agile dictate that you spend tons of time and effort assigning points and shuffling points around to measure your velocity, etc. etc. This post seems to say, forget about points? As long as these stories represent a finite amount of work, the size of that work doesn't matter when forecasting how many more chunks of work will get done in the future.
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The official name for that is I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

But something doesn't add up to him just confessing that quickly all that information
> then that's kind of hilarious and they've really missed the point.

Not quite, a layout, and process organisation of some high end labs are quite important, especially if you deal with some hazardous materials, and want to design protocols to avoid contamination/theft.

If he is a bacteriologist, then, moreover given what's in the news these days
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That's a baseless accusation. I specifically refuted what you said with an argument that even used the words of your own response. To be even more clear, there are no known mitigating circumstances here and your excuses are not mitigating circumstances. See previous comment for argument.
When you are new, say yes to everything. Stay busy, if you have nothing to do, ask for something. You want to take the load off your team members where you can to contribute & build some clout/respect. Find the most knowledgeable team member and shadow them.

Real jobs are just college group projects that never end.
re: relationship to TypeScript, I'm interested in which parts seem similar between the two to you. TypeScript is primarily structurally typed while F# is primarily nominal.
First job the draftsman would layout PCB's with tape and pads on mylar sheets And then we'd send those out to be reduced. Then to the FAB house who'd run some prototypes. All told the whole process seemed to take about 3 months from scratch.

The couple of times I delt with homemade PCB's... janky.

If I had to prototype something I'd buy vector board with plated through holes and then solder wire wrap wire to sockets. Quicker and almost as reliable as a professional PCB.
Source plays the best in my opinion. Of course I pretty much only exclusively play turbo gungames now, so my perception of what makes the game fun has shifted a lot.
Oh you just wait. Have you seen the Ratchet & Clank trailer? that's just the beginning.
I don't find this comparison of "cancel culture" or "performative wokeness" to living in a totalitarian state very persuasive. People who are losing their jobs over voicing a controversial opinion are not facing anywhere near the same kind of oppression as those who face imprisonment for speaking out against the state.

It's notable that the examples Sullivan cites held or hold fairly high-profile positions in the first place. He's not exactly talking about the struggles of the average person here. I understand that the intelligentsia is the environment in which he lives, so it's natural he would be more familiar with and identify with others in that class, but it still comes across as out of touch to me. Most Americans did not attend university, and do not read the New York Times.

Despite its many flaws, one thing that America very much still has going for it - and I'm glad Sullivan at least recognizes this - is a free press. For sure the press follows trends and reports on issues through some lens of bias, but people can still publish independently, and they are largely free to say whatever they like to whoever wants to listen. It's hard to overstate how much of a difference that makes. The fact he is able to write his column and we are able to discuss it shows that he is not - in fact - living in a totalitarian state.
you should try to separate mental speed from intellectual capacity. Many older folk are perfectly capable of understanding things, but their minds don't necessarily operate at the same clock speed they did when they were in their 20s.
Although wait, what is this?

> In one project my team decided to start pair programming when the time it took to complete a task was in danger of violating our forecast.

They tried to hurry up to stick to the "forecast"? Okay no thanks, not for me.
Ah. So I'm just too white for the reference :)