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Game pricing needs an overhaul. It's very expensive to make big budget triple-A games, so a standard $60 doesn't necessarily make sense.

However as a cynical gamer, I see companies bumping the price up to $70 and changing nothing about their practices. So we'll now pay $70, and still get unsavory (and predatory) behavior such as lootboxes, day 1 DLC, etc.

This increase is just another argument to join the /r/PatientGamers and /r/GameDeals clubs and pick up games for a pittance years after release. I do this for most of my games aside from some multiplayer ones.
It has a tutorial function that works well enough. If you're playing with friends with mics you can just ask them if you don't know how to do a certain action.
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Thanks for doing the math. This article is complete clickbait bullshit. Performing a histortical price comparison without accounting for inflation or some other price index will result in nonsensical results.
Surely there is a pipeline such that the 32 robots have 32 in flight at a time and don’t sit idle waiting for a single ps4 to complete.
Your "logic" doesn't make any sense. Cantonese is spoken in mainland China. It's an official language of China. There are hundreds of languages spoken in China. Just because Mandarin is the dominant language doesn't mean that China is imperialist for imposing security laws on HK, a territory they control and a territory that WANTS to be controlled by China.

And to expand on your point about wanting to empower self determination, then you should stand with the HK government against foreign influence in HK domestic affairs. There is ample evidence of the United States pumping millions of dollars into the protests. The leaders of the protests have met with US officials to get their support. This is not normal. Imagine if news came out that BLM leaders in certain cities were meeting with Xi or Putin, and receiving millions in funds.
God I love my PS4 - it has to be the peak of this class of machine. I can't imagine how it could be improved upon without going beyond the "box under the telly format". Incredible piece of machinery. I can't imagine the PS5 will be much more than an upgrade.

In my opinion the second best console is the PS2. I love Nintendo but they're more like toys than hard core gaming and entertainment machines. PS2 up until PS4 was pretty much the pinnacle, but I think the way PS4 improved upon it is the development platform, and the online experience (which even so does require some improvement). I still play games on the PS2 from time to time and they still feel viable as offline single-player experiences and I could imagine development for the PS4 could continue for 20 years or so and still be producing great and relevant games.

Where to from here? VR is one obvious route but may I suggest a HN-friendly alternative? Hows about selling a more open system that allows end-users to tinker and contribute themselves? I think in order for this to be viable in terms of protecting the profitability and stability of the ecosystem there are some business and technical challenges but I would love to see them take this direction. They've dabbled before with the Yaroze system and Playstation Linux … both had their business operational issues but hardly insurmountable?

EDIT - can't respond below any more so I just have "one more thing" to say:

> PS4 is famous for being the cheapest sony home console relatively speaking

and what exactly is the problem with that? This is a feature not a bug. The PS3 was a novel system with exotic hardware but it suffered from some very serious flaws. It's reliance on proprietary technologies meant it was harder for developers to work with. It never took off as a result and is little more than a footnote in the lineage's history. A learning experience if you will.

Surely an extension of making something easier for professional developers to get to grips with is making something that hobby developers (and other classes of creative) can get to grips with?
I've removed them. Is there any justification why these apps shouldn't simply be listed with a spyware warning? I've tried to see the "innocent misunderstanding" angle but I just can't.

Linkedin. Not sure why it needed to snoop the clipboard. Anyone care to explain why it needed that access?

I can't see any reason why Reddit needed it either. Reddit broke their web experience as well.

Can't these apps rely on paste? Or it is a tooling/sdk issue?

I also found the app I use to top up phone credit was demanding camera access on android. Removed that as well. Spyware.
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Sure, it's a minority that would run a scam like this, but the normal experience is that if you leave an available exploit, it will be used.

Though the people who claim that doesn't happen enough to be significant for other pizza delivery systems seem to know more than I do.

There is no social pressure when you're alone on the phone with some faceless customer service employee.
It's totally reasonable that some people prefer a hard separation between home and work, as well as the social aspect of an office. Although, at many work places, I expect the latter is going to be much diminished for a very long time if not forever at many company offices as many employees shift to remote either entirely or for a significant portion of the time.
It's even worse than that. The main driving force behind VVC is AFAIK the Heinrich Hertz Institute, which used to be independent and has now been sucked into the Fraunhofer mothership, which is one of the big research organisations in Germany.

Fraunhofer has a budget of over 2 billion Euros, and 30% of their money comes from public funding. They run over 70 institutes, so they do much more than this.

The root problem here is that nowadays public research is funded with industry money, which means there has to be a return on investment, hence the patents. In fact, this has metastasized into universities being graded by their patent portfolio volume. So I would expect there to be patents even if 100% of the funding came from the tax payer.

It would have been possible to do the whole process just with public money and zero patents. In fact, I would love it if some research team collated all the patent tax payments across the population of Germany and compare the bottom line cost for the country.

I wager it would have been cheaper without patents, too.
It's shorthand because we're on an internet forum. I'm trying to convey that science generally agrees with lgbtq advocacy - sex is not just male or female, gender is a separate concept than sex and is also not just buckets, gay relationships are common and normal throughout many animal species including our own, being gay or trans isn't a mental illness, etc.
> The switch fits in a 14mm square hole (apart from the protruding wires), which is the same size as a Cherry MX switch, but the total height from the bottom of the switch to the top of the keycap is almost twice as large, about 45 mm vs 25 mm [...] This directly translates to increased keyboard height, so it would be good to cut this down as much as possible. I should be able to lose 2 mm from the wire support at the bottom of the switch, and another 1 or 2 mm in the height of the leaf spring attachment, but there's no way it's going to be as thin as the Cherry MX.

It's a nice concept but the design of the switch doesn't intend this project to replace your keyboard.

A nice design nevertheless :)
Just like she is right? Are you going to marry this guy or move on? Are kids in your future? How about a house, are you two moving in together? Probably all the same crap nosey family and friends want to know. Are advertisers an omnipresent nosey entity? Probably :-)
FFmpeg isn’t “always software encoding”, that statement doesn’t make much sense since FFmpeg/libavcodec is more of an interface and you can add support for any external encoder/decoder, hardware accelerated or not. However, FFmpeg’s builtin encoders and the most popular external encoders including x264 and x265 are all software encoders. There are hardware accelerated encoders from GPU vendors, e.g. the nvenc encoder for H.264 and H.265 is available for use on Nvidia GPUs if your FFmpeg is compiled against CUDA SDK. It’s a lot faster than x264 and x265 on comparable settings but results are usually a bit worse.

You were probably thinking about hardware decoding though.
Being able to change settings with regular files on an a virtual USB disk and not having to install a compiler to make these changes sounds great.
Morricone scored most of the films that Elio Petri and Gian Maria Volonté made together... that's another iconic film partnership that Morricone was part of, though less centrally in this case.
The anti-trust example in the previous statement is one. It doesn't matter if someone is more successful, even if it's due solely to an extraordinary work ethic; societal institutions will artificially limit their market share.

Sports is another example. Leagues put salary caps as well as minimum salaries to artificially limit compensation.

Both sports and economics put these in place to provide a bulwark against such "natural laws" in favor of human defined ethics like fairness.
Gorgeous. As a computer artist myself I can see that work and balances put into this. I'm quite excited to check it out and fiddle with it. The extensibility is especially endearing.
They also shipped well tested back then compared to now.
Normally, yes. This is not a normal circumstance though. In this scenario, the misissued intermediates effectively have sudo access to cancel a revocation issued by the parent CA. This is equivalent to being told that a non-root user could cancel a userdel command run by root. For policy compliance, the intermediates have to revoke their certificates — but since the intermediates can immediately un-revoke themselves, proof of key destruction is necessary as well to ensure that they cannot.
From CEO perspective they shift all accommodation [overhead] costs to employees with no increase in wages. Even with slightly lower productivity then financially surely wfh for dev roles and the like is going to get them a bigger bonus and/or more profit.

Sure it might just be cleaning/utility costs/stationary for now, but longer term expansion won't have stepped accommodation costs. And if locations can be done away with ...

I can't see why workers would be happy without higher wages? I want at least to afford a house big enough to have an office space (I'm working out of my bedroom, my line-manager is in their kids bedroom, their line-manager is in a utility room (storage and laundry room)). 5-10% increase in wages should do it.
The spinning flywheel doesn't just spin on its own. It gets spun up and kept spinning by an electric motor/generator I have to imagine. So you're limited as to how much power can go in or out by the size of that motor/generator.

If it's a 100kw peak electrical machine then it can provide at most 100kw of instantaneous power to the grid while at the same time slowing down by however much is required to deliver that power.

If I understand correctly the idea is a lot like capacitors for DC voltage. The DC voltage has to go down in order for the capacitor to supply current, but the capacitor ensures that the voltage can't go down as quickly as it would otherwise.
Ad companies being able to figure out that I just reserved a hotel room, so they can stop advertising hotels to me, might reduce the annoyance level. But I'm also pretty sure that, if I found out that they had done this, I would never patronize that hotel again.
not often. the titles can be interesting, but the format can be long and difficult to decipher. instead i often default to the executive summaries of industry reports and white papers. it's more operational and less theoretical i find.
As someone who has been serially un-retainable to the point that I eventually got tired of it all and decided to take up consulting, here's my advice:

* Pay them their market rate. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE ASKING FOR RAISES. Nothing makes you feel unappreciated like not being fairly compensated. If I have to ask you not to rip me off, the relationship is already on very rocky ground.

* Give them interesting things to work on them and empower them to solve them creatively. Do not micromanage competent people.

* Let them have skin in the game by giving them a non-trivial stake of ownership. Nothing makes you go the extra mile like knowing that doing so is furthering your own success.
Also, pumped-storage plants are massively big and expensive projects. E.g. the pumped-storage plant near my home town [1] (which I think was the biggest in Europe for a while) took two decades from planning to running [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@50.514101,12.8731705,3067m/data...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markersbach_Pumped_Storage_Pow...
All of the French patents listed in this license pool care to disagree: https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/avc-att1.pdf
I can't imagine how it could be improved upon...

When my PS4 Pro is playing stuff like TLOU2, it sounds like it's going to start hovering off my TV cabinet.
I believe that number to be for just that length of factory line.
The factory as a whole presumably has more production areas than just the one pictured.

The other article, kindly linked in one of the replies, states the following:

"In this area of 31.4 meters by 6 meters, it takes just 30 seconds for a team of 32 robots to build a PS4. "
Those contacts will oxidise almost instantly. From running morse keys for years, you need gold or phosphor bronze.
Former Azul employee here

Absolutely correct that LLVM is a fair amount slower than C1 or C2. Azul augmented our JITs with a compilation recording & replay mechanism to combat the general start-up problems posed by JITs (including Falcon).

For those who are curious, here's my presentation on the topic: https://2018.jpoint.ru/en/talks/63npsyjpokmukqsag80oia/.
Software patents can exist, but are almost always unenforceable, is my understanding of it from researching this for my own media-related project.
The line can assemble a unit in 30 seconds and will presumably have more than one on it at a time.
Really? Because by that metric, H.266 is as far ahead of AV1 as AV1 is ahead of h.265.
How about the first half? Shostakovich?
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Revocation is required by policy, so the question is technically moot. It’s generally good practice to generate and publish a revocation prior to destroying a private key, though.

To provide an analogy in the context of PGP keys, if an attacker somehow finds a backup of your revoked and destroyed private key someday, they will have trouble using it because your revocation will be public and on record.
One of them will be dead by exhaustion a short time after he piled up his bounty only to have it rot because he doesn't know a freezer...
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Which is like 0.0001% of the web
It is unfortunate that culture politics have taken over HN.
>Yeah, I don't get it when people are saying games are too expensive.

This is because of the anchoring principle. We get used to a number and everything becomes relative (anchored) around that number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
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Good, now i need the same thing but for async :)
Is there an off the shelf MicroPython board that can be used to make something like this using wired switches in a Dactyl / Manuform style keyboard. I see a lot of bespoke keyboard boards using socket style microcontrollers as well.
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Unless they're priceless antiques of an age long gone and sell for millions of inflation and future currency exchange rate adjusted dollars
They were also much simpler and smaller back then compared to now
Show HN: Ditch your macOS emoji picker
Very insightful. Will keep in mind these pointers when I create my pitch deck!
> Hows about selling a more open system that allows end-users to tinker and contribute themselves?

We could even call these novel x86 devices "personal computers".
Hi HN!

The maker of Mumu here.

I made Mumu because I couldn't count how much time I was frustrated by an emoji picker. Picking the right emoji has been immersed in my daily workflow for a long time. So I know it needs a change.

It's a native app on top of Swift. Not a SwiftUI yet, but probably interested to research more about its reliability.

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback about it.
Cheers!
If your theory is correct then you (and only you) figured out a massive arbitrage opportunity - while all those deeply profit-oriented business people over at those game studios got it all wrong.

More likely though, your theory is just wrong.
Out of curiosity, did you rebuild this from the ground up since the original version? I remember it looking very different before. I'm assuming that 5 years ago you were just custom formatting each conversation to make it look like a magazine article, and since then you got into web application development and automated that process.
That makes sense. FWIW, my opinion is that Ted missed the point by naming "technologists" his enemy.

Technology is just what people do. It's not divorced from nature, or from humanity; it's the process of using nature's laws to make nature more palatable for our existence. Because nature does not care about us and would see humanity extinguished as fast as any other organism in the long history of life on Earth. While Ted found a certain tranquility in the woods, most people find the kind of survival activities he had to undertake to be toil---dull, dangerous, deadly. And not even Ted lived completely off the grid; the oats he sustained himself on came from a farm, and that implies agriculture, transportation, and distribution---roads and fossil fuels. The gun he used to shoot rabbits implies bullet and gunpowder manufacture; he didn't mention it explicitly in the interview, but I don't assume he had his own sulfur and saltpeter sources or was smelting his own bullets. So really, his world is divided into two types of technology: the kind he'll bomb people for using and the kind he's okay with. As you noted, ideological purity is lacking. I think it's lacking because it's basically impossible. People vastly underestimate how much dependence basic quality-of-life has on technology.

Rather than bomb people to stop them from changing the world (which doesn't work), we have to work with people to find how to not use technology in a short-sighted and self-destructive fashion. Without further information, I can't say for certain how the timber roads that so inflamed his rage fit in that story. Probably they aren't worth the cost. But the point is, it's a dynamic process of working with people, generally, to find solutions, and setting yourself at odds with civilized society by bombing it guarantees failure.

We passed the point of no turning back the day we tied a pointy stick to a rock and enhanced our predatory power to take down things that evolved tougher skin and sharper claws than we could kill with our physical traits. The only way forward is through.
> there's a positive correlation between number of abstractions and code size

What really matters to me is how much code I need to read to understand how it works. I prefer to work in codebases where I need to read 100 lines out of 1200 instead of 1000 of 1000.

Good abstractions are not about code duplication - they are about simplifying conceptual models - so I don't need to understand these details of everything, but I can still understand the system as a whole. And this is the hard part to get it right.

Many developers often mistake indirection for abstraction. The worst codebases I worked on had plenty of indirection, many components and many dependencies (often cyclic!), but they actually lacked abstraction or mixed different abstraction levels. A component that is so universal that it can render webpages, solve differential equations and wash the dishes all in one function is not a good example of abstraction.
My generic recommendation are Dell Precision workstations. Powerful, well supported, and rather unexciting. Which is what I really want when I'm honest with myself.
I played JSettlers a lot, ages ago. The (free) host moved around a bit, so would lose its critical mass of players. Looks like it lives on here: https://github.com/jdmonin/JSettlers2

I haven't tried colonist.io (cited in other reply), though from a brief peek it looks very polished. Am eager to try it.
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Thanks - I was totally unaware there's a Paris in Ontario too.

I was literally just thinking earlier that at least if someone finds something to add/correct, it will be awesome because it will just emphasise just how hard this problem is even for humans.
Pretty much everyone I work with in the US worked from home at least some of the time even before this. I'd place a sizable bet that not one of them has ever had an OSHA inspector come to check out their home workplace.
"I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding."

-- https://twitter.com/Jordan_Mallory/status/127748375624544256...

(later immortalized in foone's death generator by https://twitter.com/moshboy/status/1278202555995090947)
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Agreed on all 3 points, but realistically - you know as well as I do that there's zero chance publishers will stop doing any of these things. :)
The text, positions and fonts could very well take up more space than the compressed video. And then with fonts, you have licensing issues as well.
Answering the question "how long or what is the cost to do X thing" only to be later told "don't work on it", is the most unpaid time consuming activity. Sometimes you really don't know if it will take 2 hours or 2 weeks without some investigation.
That's not the case at all for me and my millennial friends who have spread out to over a dozen different cities. Even my CS friends didn't move out of the midwest and are still in Chicago, Fort Wayne, and Indianapolis.
In the rare instance when I buy a AAA title, I wait a few months after release to save 25%. This saves me money and it also gives time for bugs fixes and balance patches to come out.

More often lately I have been buying $2.50-$20.00 PC classics from Steam or GOG that I never got play.

Also, every now and then Playstation Plus offers a good game for "free".
~80% of the Nurses in the US are Female, this is no doubt due to discrimination and anti-male bias according to your worldview, correct? 87% of Garbage men in the US are Men, are you fighting for better female representation in the Garbage trade?

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hr/gender-ratio-of-nur...
I am using a mobile browser,it could be out of date but I didn't tinker with the network settings. I doubt only this site would get MITM'd. I will see if I can get more details from it.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/JmdC8Yi.png

Now I get a MAC error insteaf of cert error
Phasic dopamine and tonic dopamine may be coding two different things. IIRC, phasic dopamine helps to code the "value of effort".
In the electrical grid, frequency is proportional to voltage. When the frequency drops, it means that the supplied voltage is also falling. Likewise, if you go over-frequency, then the voltage will rise.

Traditionally, the inertia of thousands of tons of spinning generator turbines across the system provided this inertia, but with more and more nonlinear sources (and also nonlinear loads), that balance is disappearing.
Well, not a lot of people understand magnetism anyway.
It's easy, just cut a hole in your desk to accommodate your over-sized keyboard!
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