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I'm fine with paying over $60 as long as the game is well made and does not contain non-cosmetic micro-transactions. I think the recent influx of micro-transaction-heavy games and incomplete games is a sign that the current standard triple-A price tag is too low and the developers are having to ship early or use other monetization schemes to support themselves.
> but that is also arguably true of patent cabals like MPEG (you just hope that the cabal is big enough that there aren't any patentholders lurking outside)

Apparently, they aren't. There are at least 2 other patent pools that claim patents for HEVC, and I think I saw 3 in some other article before:

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/codecs/hevc-ip-mess-wors...
Does your cert have an SCT? It would be strange for a Let's Encrypt cert to be missing it but certainly possible. Try running (replace both example.coms with your domain name)

openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 -servername example.com </dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -text

which should print an SCT extension at the end - my version displays it by numeric identifier "1.3.6.1.4.1.11129.2.4.2" but maybe newer versions display it by name.

Alternatively, I think you might able to go to https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ and see if your cert has "Certificate Transparency: Yes", but I'm not sure exactly what that means.

Anyway, I don't think this is related, the question at hand is about OCSP, which is a different mechanism from Certificate Transparency. (Arguably Certificate Transparency is a replacement for revocation in general being flawed in practice for many reasons, but they're different mechanisms.)
I remember being horrified when Nintendo 64 games cost about £70 in the UK in the mid/late 90's. At the exchange rate back then that would have been just over $100.

But then I had been used to paying £9.99 for mainstream titles and £2-3 for budget titles for my ZX Spectrum!
Yes, but what does " backed by " mean?

Does it mean money, or not? Because if not, then Fraunhofer does not exist.

But there is absolutely a problem here, because said 'mega businesses' actually should have a strategic imperative to want to make internet technologies more widespread.

Why on earth would MS want to limit their main line of business for a tiny big of IP related revenue?

It would seem to me, that G, MS, Huawei and all of the various patent holders should be trying their best to remove any and all barriers to adoption. There are enough bureaucratic hurdles in the way to worry about, let alone legal concerns.

Even if MS or whoever had to buy out some laggard IP owners who didn't want to play ball, it would probably still make sense for them.

Fraunhofer or anyone else are not in that situation, but the behemoths running vast surpluses are, it just seems shortsighted for them to hamstring any of this.
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I think that’s a good way to phrase it. Another is to focus on the “process” rather than the “person”.

An election process can fail to provide validation against errors. A person, however, commits fraud.
And it turns out uBlock does allow you to block scripts on specific domains, so I don't even need NoScript. Nice.
Upscaling videos.

This is a hard problem. It may not even be perfectly solvable at any time in the future.

When you increase the size of any kind of raster image, you're creating new information from the old.

There's been some pretty good approaches out there, like this [1][2]. It uses a GAN topology for some impressive results, but is incredibly memory intensive and can take a very long time to run.

I've been working on something [0] for a good long while which is a less expensive approach. Instead of attempting to replicate everything 1:1, it intentionally allows some detail loss, whilst attempting to preserve everything important.

It's not ready for the public, and video still needs some significant improvements to remove some of the artifacts. But I've released one TV series upscaled with it [4], thus far.

But as it stands, at x2 and x2.5 scales, it does pretty well, with the average person preferring it to most other resizing methods. It doesn't reach the GAN-approaches quality, but you're looking at an average 12 seconds for upscaling, versus 80 seconds for the GAN approach for the same size upscaling and what people perceive as the same quality.

It already beats most of the traditional resizing algorithms pretty soundly. [3]

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/upscaler_analysis

[1] https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/artificial-intelligen...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04802.pdf

[3] https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/upscaler_analysis/blob/master/crus...

[4] https://sixteenmm.org/blog/20200626-Gunsmith%20Hits%20HD
I think this is the key thing. 75% of our family's problems would be solved if we could untangle ourselves from the burden of having to live in job-driven-metro areas close to the office. Mortgages would no longer be a problem, neither would school districts, neither would crushing commutes. Neither would childcare, since we'd have enough room in the house for help.
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All I can say to you is that it takes a bit of patience to get good in TTS. I was very clumsy in the beginning. The community made games vary a lot in quality. You should look for mods that have a bit of scripting to help with setup and game admin, sometimes the scripts are broken, though. We do a voice call with all players during the game.
> There are plenty of societies that don't respect intellectual property and copyright. And those societies don't innovate at the rate as those who do.

What it does do though is allow someone to start from zero, and catch up to the rest of the competition very fast and cheap. They can then offer their "product" cheaper in order to gain market share. As long as they are getting/keeping customers, there's no need to innovate. You can have a viable business without spending tons of cash on R&D, and if you're making money that way, who cares?

*I am no way endorsing this kind of business model, but it exists and does well.
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Half-OT: I never understood this.

To me it seems random actions cause dopamin production.

Like, how does the body know that it should release more dopamin when I scroll HN than when I learn Rust, or ride my bike?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...

$0.20 for MPEG-LA, $0.40 for HEVC Advance, and "call us" for Technicolor and Velos Media. $0.99 doesn't sound far off.
It was a somewhat-arbitrary line. $60k/yr is about $3k/mo takehome. While that's not a lot of money, it's enough to live a modest lifestyle including a mortgage and raising children with only a single parent working. I'm not saying it won't be a struggle, but it's doable. It's how I was raised and it's how most of my family lives, and I'm in NJ, which is in the top 10 most expensive states. My niece and nephew-in-law live comfortably on $70k with two kids, two cars, one earner, and just bought a house. Life is hard and that's ok.
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Why does it have to be cheaper just because it's not physical? That's how the majority of people get games now.

Not only would getting a physical disk be a hassle compared to downloading, but I don't have a drive to put it in...
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If I read it correctly, it only eliminates the conflict between a couple different ways to measure the rate of expansion in the early universe. Dark energy is about the rate accelerating over time, which is a different thing. I do wish they had addressed it explicitly.
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That is probably not related.

If you run SSLLabs against your host name, does it say “Certificate Transparency: Yes” or No?

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=your-hostname
Except doesn't the book not actually address its title and describe how to invent none of those things?

I believe OP is trying to actually write the book that one is supposed to be.
As you alluded to in your 3rd paragraph, that is exactly the problem that "language servers" [1] aim to solve. The API is JSON-RPC based, which is callable from any tool. If every modern language shipped with a canonical language server, machine parseability becomes a non-issue since the parser would be the same as that of the compiler's.

For instance, VS Code already uses language servers to support autocomplete/refactoring for languages like Python and they're pretty zippy (I used to have concerns about speed, but in practice it's a non-issue). Those same language servers are also supported in Vim, emacs, etc. The editor itself doesn't need to know anything about the underlying language. And it looks like a Rust language server exists:

https://rls.booyaa.wtf/

In fact, to take the idea further, the goal of the Roslyn [2] project is to expose APIs to the compiler itself in order to provide services to external dev tooling. Imagine a third-party generic debugger being able to tap into compiler or runtime internals and provide services around them it without explicitly knowing anything about the underlying language.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roslyn_(compiler)#Architecture
> Software patents aren't a thing in ~~Europe~~ a few European countries.

Look at all those European patents in the MPEG-LA license pool!

https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/avc-att1.pdf
QuickSync is actually a feature of Intel's integrated GPU. Parts without GPUs, no matter how recent, don't have QuickSync.
And 10x the people. I'm sure per capita there are still more job postings but certainly not 10x. 1.5-2x maybe? And anecdotally, my company which has been "ass in your seat by 8am" since it started over a century ago is now completely open to hiring 100% remote workers since they've seen the productivity increase in the last few months. As more companies in rural and suburban areas do that, the incentive to live in insane COL areas (which the above three absolutely are) decreases even more.

I've done the math but just to maintain the same standard of living I'd need to make around $400k a year cash comp in San Francisco. Doable for a very small minority, maybe, but not with my resume and experience. And that's not even counting California taxes, where the marginal tax rate is 4x my current rate (I know the math is more complicated than that which is why I called out marginal), and the increased Federal taxes if I was actually making $400k. So it's probably in the neighborhood of 10-15% higher. And there's little things like a Roth IRA, which I would become ineligible for. That's $6k a year in tax-advantaged retirement contributions, gone. Obviously a good deal for a big pay raise, but a net loss if I'm just maintaining the same savings.
Does this account for lootboxes, or just base game price? Inflation comparison of the game's base price isn't the full story, but is also difficult to quantify as some players will spend $0 on in-game purchases, while others spend hundreds.
and indeed that comic (published September 2014) is more than 5 years old now. Seems accurate.
Part of the reason for the Scrum Patterns movement which is helmed by Jeff Sutherland and Jim Coplien is that the Scrum Guide isn't all that great or clear. There's politics behind that and also attached to how it's changed/updated too.

"Scrum is a framework" immediately follows the "What is Scrum?" heading on https://www.scrumguides.org/ also Jim Coplien directly told me the point of the Scrum framework is to design your own process.

Regarding Kanban - I'm talking about the Kanban used in software development as defined by David J. Anderson and not the token used in manufacturing by Toyota and DJA himself previously wrote "Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management. It requires that some process is already in place so that Kanban can be applied to incrementally change the underlying process." and "Kanban is a change-management technique that requires making alterations to an existing process".
> the likelihood of creating lakes for hydro use is close to zero

Yes, because they'd be lochs, not lakes :-)

We already have some (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station) and are talking about building more (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-445...).
Something that really annoys me is a blob of code suddenly pushed to GitHub without a commit message, and then 10 random Update Readme commits. The repository holds no history.

A rich git history a lot of the times imo is necessary to understand why some parts are written the way they are written, and is also enjoyable to read.
I think it’s your brain. Something stimulates the production of dopamine, so your brain rewards you. that reward in turn wants you to get more reward. I think that’s why we keep hitting refresh on Facebook and all the social media and hacker news, trying to get that next hit of “happy”
After my progress stalled on writing custom firmware for my custom keyboard [1], I went with a Matias quiet pro for Mac. I love this keyboard.

All of the Mac functionality works as expected. The only exception was when I tried to get an 18 year old eMac to boot from CD-ROM (by holding down the C key at boot time), this didn’t work. I had to use an official Apple keyboard for that. Works fine once the machine is booted, so I’m guessing it is some sort of Mac openfirmware issue.

[1] https://github.com/pepaslabs/hexon38
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+1. RedReader[1] is just awesome. In fact it's one of the few UIs I've used that I felt completely at home with from the first time I used it. It's filled to the brim with tools and options but I always find what I'm looking for.

[1] https://f-droid.org/app/org.quantumbadger.redreader
There's also perceived value vs delivered value as well. I bought RDR2 for £30 as it seemed like a relative bargain for the gaming potential it'd deliver. I've put maybe 10 hours on it in 3 months.

Euro Truck Simulator was under a tenner, with the thought it might be a "play once, get bored" title, probably 40-50 hours into it.

As much as the numbers above are true, I'd still be unlikely to consider paying £30 for ETS, whilst still likely to buy RDR3 (whenever, wherever) for £50+. Perceived quality and potential payoff will win out, actual reality of playing that much game [0] be damned.

[0] I have neither the time nor patience to pour 100+ hours into a game any more.
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Yeah, I don't get it when people are saying games are too expensive. I remember buying $50 NES games in the early 90s, and they didn't get updates and bugfixes, and unless it was a game made by a well known studio, there were no reviews to make an informed decision. Compared to almost every hobby, video games are a bargain when you consider that you can regularly get hundreds of hours of entertainment in a AAA title.
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Confounding all of the targeting is one simple fact: Ad selection is based on what the advertiser is willing to spend, not on what the consumer wants to see. If a jewelry shop has extra ad budget and their target market is saturated, then the ad network starts serving ads to people who are married. Either that or they tell the jeweler to stop giving them money.
> The culture of the customer is always right also implies making contortions to please them, including many on site meetings where you have to be there just as a sign of respect.

I've always wondered if there could be something like a badge you could put on your business, to signal that you're participating in a separate sub-economy where the customer isn't always right. There must be modern companies where both sides of the giving-face transaction are just going through the motions with neither side actually thinking that that's the way things should be. Can't both sides in a long-standing relationship just get together to agree to change the deal? Or, if they can't do it on their own, can't a third party help them?

Maybe there could be a Japanese charter-city with the goal of being a "mock Silicon Valley", i.e. where every business there knows that every other business else there is going to present itself with the attitude of a real SV startup where you "fire your bad customers" and so forth. So, when dealing with a company from there, everyone else would know that you don't have to give them any face, just like you don't need to give real Americans any face.
This kind of page-content-based ad targeting did exist way before fine tuned retargeting (say, search or audience/segment retargeting). There are whole bunch of companies that serve this exact market. The reason a more complicated retargeting was created is proof that there is value in it, for advertisers. I am not claiming this is good for people - I am talking only about the business side of things.

> don’t need to keep seeing hotel offers for Florida

This is not for the lack of smartness in code - it is that the conversion funnel is so narrow that "saving that $30 per month, by not showing you the ad, on a $1m campaign" is not worth tracking and excluding. Although I do believe companies should take the extra effort to avoid the annoyance and be a good citizen - particularly once they have identified "the one real person who actually bought something" among 99 other bots/crawlers/untraceable entities. Not all ad companies appropriately value the real person and the annoyance caused to them. Some do.
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"make an exhaustive patent search to get a verifiable claim that you don't infringe on any patent"

Is there even such a thing?

Isn't the problem that one has to actually go to court to get the answer to this question?
Scrape the doc sites with httrack or something. Don't turn the internet on unless you actually hit that library problem, I think it's generally pretty clear when a significant problem has already been solved. Or move on and solve that problem tomorrow, and go do deliberate research on it and download everything at night, and then work on it again offline the next day.
I have to agree, if this ran all day it'd produce 2880 consoles. How do they keep up with launch demand that sees millions of units shipped in a span of a month or two?
> then find that someone else did it better in a library I can just import

If it involves working with some common standard or protocol, chances are it's been done before and you probably shouldn't attempt to do it yourself unless the existing implementations don't work for you.

But otherwise, why stress over it? The amount of "great" programmers in the world is tiny, so while the chances that someone did something already are high, the chances that it will be significantly better than anything you can make yourself are low.

Unless it's impractical because of the sheer size of it, the time investment involved, or some other reason, building something yourself gives many long-term benefits for the upfront investment. Owning the code, not having to deal with the community/politics, developing at your own pace, not having to worry about maintaining a fork, minimizing external dependencies and the associated risks, avoiding licensing concerns, etc.

Saying that you should use an existing library because "someone probably did it better" is F.U.D. If you're not confident in your abilities to do something better than an imaginary programmer you've never met, then you probably need to write more code and gain more confidence; and a great way to do that is to reinvent the wheel from time to time.
The very top drivers (1.5s faster than me) are probably around my weight, I'm ~70kg. There are heavier guys who are doing 1s faster laps than me.
Yes and almost-yes - you don't need to destroy the root CA itself, but you need to physically destroy the keys for any affected subordinate CAs. (Revoking them isn't sufficient, because they can just un-revoke themselves.) From the post: "... the degree of this issue likely also justifies requiring witnessed Key Destruction Reports, in order to preserve the integrity of the issuer of these certificates (which may include the CA's root)."

The "good" news is that most people haven't really been treating revocation (and OCSP) as a reliable mechanism. The major browsers all have out-of-band mechanisms for revoking known-malicious certs via something equivalent to the software update channel, which bypasses reliance on the CA infrastructure. If there's a large-scale attack, the relevant cert/CA will probably be disabled through that mechanism. And most of the smaller clients don't even bother with revocation checking at all (e.g., I'm pretty sure that on an average Linux system, things like curl or "import requests" do no revocation checking) so there's no point in undoing revocation if you're trying to attack one of those systems.
Indeed, the lifetime sales of the PS2 were 155 million, which would take 147 years to produce at this rate. But the "graphical version" of the article that it links to says instead 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.

So presumably there is more than one PS4 going through the pipeline at once for more than 1 per 30 seconds.
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Bullshit. Every game released now has DLC, season passes, etc. on PlayStation you even have to pay a subscription to play online. Games are more expensive than ever befote with AAA titles easily surpassing $100 for a game including season pass and that doesn't even include all the DLC for many games now.

I remember when DLC started we all knee where this was going to end, and all the publishers and Microsoft went on and on how they would never piecemeal games and nickel and dime us.

What did we get? Disc locked DLC and when you find out they slap you with an EULA making datamining illegal. cough Destiny 1 with Activision /Bungee cough, and fames with upwards of $10 for a single skin!

And the worst of it all- loot boxes.

In what world do publishers think they deserve more money? They all dream of the day they can charge us per minute of play. We will be there soon enough.
> games these days include a variety of gimmicks (loot boxes, micro transactions, cosmetics) to vacuum as much money out of the customers

Do other people avoid video games these days for this reason? Perhaps it's a function of being busy, and generally liking other hobbies (like programming), but I just don't want to participate in a gaming world which is defined by this sort of economics. I understand it's more profitable, but it turns me away.
Is this used in practice? It sounds like a rather substantial engineering challenging considering how much energy the wheel is storing. I remember MIT had one of these for sparking the old tokomak, they had to plan for it to fall off, destroy several buildings without killing anyone, and then land in the river... and that was a solid wheel that did nothing but spin.

But isn't the point that it provides inertia towards stabilizing the frequency? I don't think it matters whether you can vary the energy stored if it's just acting as a, well, wheel... if the goal is to give you a bit more time to bring more generation online or take it offline then it seems like a simple system would be fine. It's not storing power, so it can only ever slow the drift to give more flexibility.
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> That was the first thought I had the morning after the election. I woke. The crushing weight of a new reality reimposed itself on my mind. And then: I want my attention back.

Articles that begin like this always sadden me. I find myself unable to to continue from this point.