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It's sad when technological advances go hand in hand with disadvantages for, basically, the planet. But it's especially so when it's (to some extent) avaoidable and definitely so when it gets executed by companies who have plenty of resources to not do it, yet don't care at all, and keep on producing things like this under the (mis)nomer of 'building a better future'. Despite knowing well enough what the effects are, and because they know it will be bought by the masses anyway.

Don't get me wrong: I'm well aware the problem is not exactly easy to solve, but if your answer is to just make it worse with every product release while you could at least attempt to make it better instead, then perhaps this CEO is indeed using the correct term for your (and others') behaviour.
Shh ... Don't give them ideas, or else very soon Safari might be converted to a Chromium based browser as well :P - and that will be the end of browser war forever (yeah, Firefox is giving a tough fight but not in terms of market share).
I agree. It’s about accomplishments.

And let's not forget the accomplishments of the other pioneers: Lainnainmaa, the inventor of backpropagation 1970. Ivakhnenko, the inventor of the first deep learning networks that learn internal representations 1965. Fukushima, the inventor of the convolutional neural network architecture 1979. Waibel, who combined backpropagation with convolutions 1987. They are prominently mentioned in the critique in Sec. XII, XIX, XXI, XVIII, XX and others.
That was my point really, users can write security issues in any language.

So why would somebody immediately say "PHP is insecure"? Without any details it's pointless noise.
Thanks, if that isn't a joke reply I can confidently say I would have never made that connection in a million years
"Instead of amplifying the users' intelligence, they rather amplify their stupidity."

Lost me right there. I love computers, as a bioinformatician they allow me to understand reality better by giving me the power to create abstractions from massive amounts of data that my puny brain can comprehend. The structured way in which I communicate with my computers allows met to think differently about problems. I strongly feel that they amplify my intelligence.
Are you one of those working fully remote or in the physical office?
gnomoria is different insofar as the gnomes don't have personality. this makes it more of a "pure" sandbox simulation game rather than a story generator (which is probably the biggest part of DF/rimworlds appeal).
OK, thanks, today I learned something new.
Something good is coming of it right now, as someone’s right to personal privacy and safety is being discussed on it.
One might be inclined to say this if one doesn't understand the difference between physical nature and our consciousness of physical nature.

Mathematics does not exist outside of human minds. It is a method for measuring and describing the world around us that happens to lend itself to the study of its own conceptual structure.

Nothing in nature follows mathematical laws. Protons don't consult logarithm tables before they move through space. Particles don't consult statistics textbooks before they "decide" if it's time to decay. They act according to their nature, and that's all.
It looks like Apple will be going it's own way with GPU, as tight integration between GPU and CPU enables much better performance. Think vias rather than buses.

The higher end Macs should see some large on-chip (or part of chiplet array) GPU implementations.

It'll largely be transparent at the Metal API level.

Interestingly, from a business perspective this is mainly bad for AMD.
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This article might be of interest:

https://medium.com/hackernoon/im-harvesting-credit-card-numb...
I used to play a lot of Daifen [1], a French play-by-mail game that blends strategy, diplomacy and role play. Games can last about a month, with different game speeds (one turn per day, three turns per week, etc.) It's still up, though the player count isn't what it used to be. You can do everything in the interface, from sending orders to planning battles to contacting other players, but the core mechanic of play-by-mail is still there. I sometimes toy with the idea of making an international version...

[1] https://www.daifen.com/index.php
Yes and they would have done so in any situation anyway. I not saying absolutely no support or cooperation with Pakistan on anything ever. But the level of ally the became made no sense.
The only political expression of hers I'm aware of is that she says she's a communist, and I don't think that will prevent her getting a statue.
Random changes is how you push the world forward. Otherwise you get stuck in a local maxima.

Today we're getting new buttons, some other day we'll see the rise of some new technology and will think "yeah, that's the obvious thing to do", quickly forgetting all the other ones that didn't succeed, but were created through the exact same process of random exploration.
I would argue that centralization is inherent in most humans instincts. To put it another way, many people like having a leader.

In fact people like leaders so much that exposed to a capricious and cruel world they'll invent imaginary and often cruel ones just to give the world a sense of order. Think the old testament God or lizard people conspiracy theories.

Given we're going to huge groups of people running around following leaders I think our best effort is spent trying to make the selection of those leaders pick non-evil people who run vaguely meritocratic and fair systems. Rather than trying to engineer ideal de-centralized systems _which will also have to be robust against the mob following their evil leaders.

Obviously this is a false dichotomy and we can do both, but please don't give up on good leadership, people need it and there's plenty of examples of it exiting.
That's a fine example of whataboutism. Look, others are doing the same bad thing, what's your problem?
Sick. Reminds me of those "1001 games in one" devices that used primitive block arrangements to represent snakes, space ships, etc.

(They arrived at the 1001 figure by counting each difficulty level as a different game.)
Nobody at my employer has time to waste on logging, never mind reviewing my internet usage. If they did, it would be unappealing just for wasting time on crap, all creepiness aside.

Now, of course, most of it never gets near the office.
I think this should largely be viewed as a temporary inconvencience. These limitations also give huge incentive to manufacturers to come up with new innovations that produce better performance with environmental and energy constraints in mind.

I always feel the alternative is the web, where everything gets twice as large every few years. if washing machines were as free-wheeling as webapps I can only assume one would fill the entire garage
Exactly, this also feel wrong to me, because a framework that allows local business to cater to locals much more easily and effectively is also a "one size fits all" approach but on a lower level. I really don't like the negative tone of this blogpost.
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For me it's more like uglymorphism, I really think these icons looks ugly.
I don't believe I'm saying it but I think that apple need to learn from MS with their fluent design. I understand that they trying to add shadows and dimension to flat design. I think they really distracting and look kinda like 90s.
Although you are right and this is a problem, android does not in general claim to be climate-friendly, while Apple does.
Yeah, it's just a scaling thing isn't it?

Once you get past one or two people building an MVP suddenly you need a project manager or a test team, or marketing, or finance team, or investors. All of a sudden things start to go bad.

If you're an enterprise company you decide to outsource to get a small job done and suddenly lots of extra people are added who are essentially overhead. It seemed cheap and now it isn't. Or you decide to buy a product to fix all your problems, but the business doesn't respect the limitations of the product and you end up buying another, or spend all your pennies on integration.

I've worked on project teams from 1-100 and generally the most productive ones have been with around 3-4 people.
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It's interesting that this is the place you decided to make an argument about 'no mercy'. Because as a rhetorical question for you using the same analogy: What do you think will happen to the police when they show no mercy? Perhaps that might explain why people find the arguments attempting to justify the extrajudicial execution of someone to be disgusting.
> I kind liked washing machines that properly heated to 90C

I will be honest with you this one I just don't understand. My washing machine is A+ in EU norms and it heats properly. Maybe you bought a not so good model ?

If anything those norms should be re-evaluated with new tougher levels now, you have to go out of your way to buy something that's not at least A (which is good and it means it worked, but also that it's time to ask for more).

> vacuum cleaners that actually picked up dirt

Again, if you buy a Dyson that follows EU norms it still works great. But if at the same time as those norms arrived you also switched from being main brand product to cheaper off brands, then you're confusing the two.

It's easy to find a vacuum cleaner that works great, but they're not at the same price as most models, because the market aligned with the cheap ones that people actually buy.

Yes, LIDL and similar often have special sales on vacuum cleaner, yes they're frankly cheap, and no, they're not as good as "the vacuum cleaners of old". They're barely adequate, which is fine for most customers and allow a cheap price, that's why they sell this.

> And these newer machines feature more plastic parts, are harder to repair and generally considered disposable (e.g. I'm happy that a dishwasher/washing machine/fridge lasts 5 years). How's that good for the planet?

That is quite literally the point of the anti waste regulation (the last one and the future one), and of the repair law being discussed here.
Hey heyens, here are my tips for you.

1) I used this [1] guide to get it working on Windows 10.

2) This [2] is a more detailed version with a lot of comments.

The bugs don't bother me that much to be honest, unless you want to complete all quests in a city, then you should have a look at them.

The tools one uses for configuration like dgVoodoo generally work, but I guess anyone could slip in malicious code if they really wanted to.

One final tip, the Hero Editor is a great way to edit your characters if you want to turn a fire mage into a wind one or stuff like that. Since multiplayer is not common these days, I reckon it's not cheating as you've lost all the benefits of multiplayer anyway. (I think the tool is just in German, not sure.) [3]

In terms of the open frameworks, it's not my area of specialty, but there is Sacred ReBorn, and there is even a Diablo 2 mod to Sacred. I believe even dgVoodoo does edit some files to use newer (open) frameworks.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=84319...

[2] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=20187...

[3] http://www.sacredvault.org/forum/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=i...
Just use a german measuring cup which has like 30 different scales for everything you might want to measure in volume and weight, e.g. https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01BAU2N62/ ?

That’s what we commonly use which is easier to use than just weighing everything, but still just as accurate.
You could do something like this

w () {
curl -s "wttr.in/${*// /+}"
}

to make it work with places that have spaces in their name. E.g.

w new york
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You can cap the migrant waves by setting a max dwarf limit in the LNP configurations. The first two migrant waves are (or were) hard-coded so if you set the limit very low you would potentially go over it. But if you set the limit to like 60, you wouldn't get repeated huge wages.

To make sure they're doing what you want them to do, have them "specialize" into professions. Leave a large bulk of low-skill labor for hauling, and try to keep the number of idle dwarves low (it shows up in the corner and you can inspect with 'u' from the main menu).

Yeah, the initial set up process for industries like eggs take a bit of getting used to. I actually usually have my craftsdwarf start building nest boxes as soon as I've mined out enough stone. You can also selectively 'forbid' individual clutches of eggs rather than locking the door by selecting them with q and going to the nestbox (or t, I forget) and hitting f after scrolling down to the eggs.

For food, it sounds like your issue was not knowing the UI. If you have a bookeeper (set with 'n'->bookeeper, change granularity with 's') with an office they will automatically keep track of your food, which you can check with z->kitchen or z->stocks. You should use a stockpile for food because it prevents food from rotting and keeps it in convenient locations. You can make one with p->f although when just starting a fortress you might instead want to create a general stockpile with p->t(select most things except refuse and stone)->c. Regarding the food production, it's good to limit dwarves in essential industries/positions to have all labors except their particular specialty disabled, including all hauling, and then manage tasks so that those dwarves are not left idle.
IO bound can also mean that memory latency is a problem. It's not difficult to believe that DF is doing lots of pointer chasing.
Whenever repairability of modern electronic devices is discussed, I have to look at my mechanical wristwatch. Yes, there is an enormeous amount of technology integrated into a smartphone or compact laptop, but my wristwatch contains over 100 moving parts in a tiny volume. And still, every trained watchmaker can open and service it. It requires specialized tools, but those have been avialable to watchmakers for hundreds of years. A time traveller could buy a current Rolex and have it serviced in 1950, possibly even in 1850. The watchmakers of those times wouldn't have access to the right spare parts - those are surprisingly high-tech, but basic service would be possible.

And that is why I cannot stand the current state of repairs in the electronic world. I am especially looking at Apple in this respect, because they have demonstrated a surprising skill at making things repairable, which they want to be serviceable. Just look at the brilliant mount for the USB ports in the new Air.

While end-user serviceability might not be desirable for something highly-integrated, the benchmark really should be whether someone trained like a watch-maker has the ability to service a device. Which would be great for the local economy wherever in the world a customer is, because traditionally most towns would have at least one watchmaker, a well paid professional who would keep the money local vs. creating more electronic waste and shipping a new device around the world.
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> Come on, we're all adults here. We can take a few 90 degree angles.

I know that 90 degree angles on webpages are not more dangerous for children, parents, adults, or any other known subcategory of humans than for any other known subcategory of humans, but ... lots of people who use webpages and dev tools are actually children.

Didn't a lot of us get started as kids?

Have we collectively forgotten the olden days, when to print something, the solution was to ask the neighbor's next door kid? (who was probably you). Printers aren't any easier to use today than they were back then, but I guess that practice is over nowadays.
So glad to hear! Right now, users can only send one challenge at a time, but yes! You will be able to send and receive combinations of challenges. We are currently working on the multi-challenge feature, and it will be available before the launch. To give you an example, you will be able to send and/or receive push-ups, yoga, meditation all in one day.
I hate how "waterproof" has come to mean "you can't fix this phone anymore". Samsung up to at least the S7 used to be decent about changing the camera module, the screen, the battery, ... But now you can't do anything.
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Here's the original Lemmings soundtrack from the Archimedes version (i.e. the machine under discussion). The game probably ran with 1MiB RAM, certainly it would have worked with 2MiB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXthGJfHLc

That is the sound from the internal speaker. The computers were also popular for MIDI control, even being chosen by professionals for this, though I can't find a video.
Do you watch the news?
And present-day ARM cores are documented in (among many other) ARM's Architecture Reference Manuals, i.e. the ARM ARMs. They're so funny.
Verizon's earnings are down something like 3% YTD from their guidance [0] and their stock price is down 10%. Fortune 500 companies do not prioritise doing social good over profits when their share price is down 10%. Too many people are losing too much money; these are numbers that are supposed to go up.

It is obvious Verizon is taking action in context of the Facebook boycott because they've told us that in a press release. But it is a very safe bet that the decision is made accompanied by data that says "Facebook ads have not been especially cost effective for us over the last 12-18 months" and was probably already a decision in the works prior to learning about the boycott.

There are ~8 billion people in the world. Corporate executives are the tiny fraction of that population who are both hyper-competent and hyper-motivated by money. They did not suddenly wake up this morning and decide to try and do more good in the world than they were yesterday, and the odds are bad that they made this call based on nebulous "oh there is a boycott this month we just realised Facebook is nasty" style considerations.

[0] https://www.investors.com/news/technology/verizon-earnings-v...
This is anecdotal, but everyone in my circle of friends who bought a fairphone2 (2015) has replaced it. Meanwhile my mom is still using my old iPhone 5s (2013). And my wife uses her iPhone SE(2016).

Hell the fact that they have released one in 2013, 2015 and 2019, kind of goes against their message doesn’t it?
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Wow that's pretty funny, but what's the context for that tweet? Did Cruise try to poach talent from Zoox ? The tweet definitely gives me an early 2000's Dotcom over the top rivalry/ceo vibe!
I get the impression that most games are using some sort of hybrid approach. They run the game simulation at a fixed "tickrate", and then add some hacks on top to make the visuals match the physics in certain areas. For example, your mouse position and whether or not you fired your weapon can be updated between simulation iterations, to make shooting and killing smoother.
I don't think you understand how much easier it is to repair an iPhone compared to any other phone on the market (apart of niche products like the Fairphone which does a great job!).

If you open an iPhone, you will see a very well ordered and packaged arrangement of components. Most Android phones are a hot mess compared with it.

If you need a component for an iPhone, you can get it easily.

What I'm saying is not that electronics should not become more climate-friendly.

What I'm saying is that the focus on Apple is wrong. The business is the problem and companies like Samsung, Motorola, etc. are putting much worse devices on the market.

BTW: iPhones regularly get software updates for around 5 years. How's that for extending the lifetime of devices? Android phones are lucky to get significant software updates for more than one year.
> A good analogy would be a chef tolerating fecal matter in their food. Yes, there is always some small chance of that happening, but no one accepts food from s chef that explicitly treats toilet water and claims 99% of the fecal matter is gone and only one in 100 people will get sick from it.

How would this work for the acceptance of self driving cars?
It's something wonderful to be wondering around a strange city, and suddenly spy a hidden space invader.

There used to be some great websites which gave walking tours based on where you could find these installations. Sort of like geocacheing.
The Polygraph [0] is still being used. It shows how much false positive is accepted in society already now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph
You also have to have a political system that can incriminate people caught on camera, for ex: (2019) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/california/stor...

I still think it makes a big difference. I spent time in China and honestly I felt safer in areas where terrorists were a concern than I do in downtown SF.
This looks clearly like a laudable effort and positive trend, but I can't avoid to foresee paradoxical scenarios along the lines of "I needed to replace my 3 years old perfectly functional fridge with repairability class F with a new one with repairability class D++"
The real reason doesn't matter. If a company leaves and says it's due to Facebook's promotion of hate speech then there's no way that company can go back to advertising on Facebook before that changes (it'd look like a change of heart, and that now they think promoting hate speech is OK). Facebook are seeing a drop in ad revenue no matter what, and the only way to get the companies back will be to change. Maybe FB don't care about getting them back, but I suspect that's not likely.
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I love that gopherpedia (Wikipedia over Gopher) is a thing. Probably one of the best lynx experiences one can have.

My first introduction to Gopher was actually by recently bumping into Gemini [0], which tries to fix a lot of the known problems with Gopher.

The Gemini protocol is still super small and pretty slick---definitely worth the 30 minute read. The simplicity also means that a lot of clients already exist [1]. I've been using Bombadillo [2], which supports Gopher, Finger, as well as standard HTTP(S) if you enable a flag.

[0]:https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

[1]:https://gemini.circumlunar.space/clients.html

[2]:https://rawtext.club/~sloum/bombadillo.html
> I can't imagine that warranty fraud is that big of an issue on small things.

A big ticket item like a camera is at extremely low risk of counterfeits, and every participant from the manufacturer to the place of sale will track the serial numbers of cameras shipped, so the "chain" can be reasonably reconstructed by only the camera itself.

For SD cards it's the other way around - no one tracks the serial numbers along the chain of purchase and there is a massive issue with counterfeit product. Requiring a proof of purchase at least helps to filter incoming claims...
React itself is big & reputable, but the dependency tree is massive and I doubt that it's getting fully vetted on an ongoing basis. Even if you vet it today, any given dependency can be updated to something else tomorrow.

There are definitely some things in React's dependency tree that are a bit questionable if you are sensitive enough to any given problem, beyond just security. For example, packages where the license being used is contradictory between the package.json vs the LICENSE file or the full license terms are not expressed within these but are clarified in the README.md.
Actually easily repairable phones like the Fairphone 3 or the Shift 6M. Or an older LG G3/G5.