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Counterpoint: Photography is my main hobby and I use the SD card on my MBP very often. When I go on trips I very much enjoy having less different pieces of hardware to carry, less things to lose.

One of the target markets of Macs and especially MBPs is "creatives". Photographers are a part of those. On the MBP 16" presentation page one of the first selling points is that it has a great screen with great colors. The example is a landscape photographer. Of course, you could directly plug the camera in the computer, or have some external card reader, but why bother with carrying more suff?

I agree with the others that thunderbolt 3 is great, and I sure look forward to only having usb-c connectors. On my work computer I love that (it's a pc though). Of course, there's the "right cable" situation, but I suppose that whatever peripheral I buy will have the right kind of cable for it to work. My external monitor does DP alternate mode + PD and the cable that came with works.

That sait, I would miss the magsafe plug, it's probably one of the reasons why my 7 yo mbp is still going strong. I also think they could have left a usb-a port or two, just like they didn't remove FW800 on the first generation unibody mbp.
Sort of; unless they make more games, Alyx is "just" a tech demo or an attempt to sell more of their VR kits.

It's weird, they've got some seriously good franchises that they haven't done anything with; Half-Life could use a sequel every few years; Portal could become a massive franchise; Team Fortress 2, CS:GO and DOTA 2 are huge money makers but I think they're reluctant to make sequels to those because of balancing and pissing off the existing, invested player bases. (I think that may have happened when they went from CS:S to CS:Go, where the latter had very lucrative monetization options, lucrative but morally dubious because of off-site trading and gambling)
No need to co-opt. You just post a cat image on twitter.
> "... many people don’t even see the preference for complex languages for what it is: an attempt to protect one’s status by favoring tools that gate-keep rather than those that assist newcomers."

Don't forget the ones who jump onto a new language or framework so that by dint of experience they can be the gatekeepers for the next generation. This was staggeringly apparent with both Java and Go, each in their time.
Frontier. Agreed, spirit isn’t even worth flying.
I think what they're referring to is that COVID has damaged the advertising industry from which Mozilla receive royalties but in fact the problem is much more likely to be that only a small minority continue to use Firefox.
I suspect it is all about perspective - I entered software development out of desperation for any career tract job out of grad school 8 years ago, experiencing 2.5 years of a desperate job search while enlisting in the Marine Corps Reserve in the interim. I was ecstatic that I entered a profession where I can solve problems, and I’m still very happy I can do so today, even while having grinded up to senior at a FAANG.

I no longer code outside of work though & found a happy balance of learning on the job with my productivity. I find the amount I do get to spend coding also has gone down - a lot of my time is spent mentoring, in meetings, writing planning docs, and just thinking about projects, or occasionally researching what’s the best paradigm for my problem. I am ok with this, as I am taking more joy in being a leader than directly coding necessarily. I recognize not everyone shares the same perspective though.
Doesn't seem like it.. Halo, Gears of War 5, Flight Simulator 2020.. those are all on Steam as well as the Microsoft store. It does require you to login after launching those titles on Steam but it's all contained with-in the game, and apparently with a small enough amount of crazy middleware that you can even play Halo The Master Chief Collection under Linux using Proton. I think Microsoft is very much aware that trying to keep major games like these exclusive to the Microsoft store isn't a great idea, a lot of people never open, let alone use it.
What's your take on the potential long-term success of Game Pass?
Bingo! Although, this system would categorically eliminate the issue from the following Soviet-era joke:

> A man goes into a shop and asks: “You don’t have any meat?” “No,” replies the lady, “We don’t have any fish, it’s the shop next door that doesn’t have meat.”

Under the new system, the man wouldn’t have to bounce from store-to-store. There would be one convenient online shop with no meat AND no fish.
WE SAW What Happened to Lionhead Studios!! Fable is no more.
So cloudflare can protect against 70 tbps ddoses without billing the customer, and millions of sites use their free plan with not much incentive to move onto the $20 per month package. How is cloudflare able to stay in business? Is it just a nsa data collection scheme to mitm a large portion of the webs tls traffic?
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Is that a threat, or a promise? Seriously, though, I hope the regulators hold the line.
Remember when Bill Gates started his new life as a philanthropist by donating tons of money to schools? Only it wasn't really money. It was lots of Windows licenses or Office licences that were worth a lot of money. So it arguably didn't cost Gates anything, but just grew future earnings. He kept all these students from gaining familiarity with the competition, encouraging them and their employers to buy licenses later for the product they had learned as a child.

There's the downside.
Another good reason to switch to systemd, IMO.
Behind the case sits an Aduino.
I agree with what you are saying - but this is missing my point. Obviously, it's a dumb thing for him to say - but this statement is not much of a 'red flag' regarding fraud.

If you go searching for 'dumb things tech CEO's say about tech' you will find quite a few. My own CEO at one large company I know was actually quite brilliant, and generally knew the tech, but would sometimes mangle some things.

Of all the things this fraudster is going on about, this is not on the list of things I would say points to fraud - possibly just another example of how he doesn't really understand his own tech very well.

The blatant lying about the completeness of the vehicles, lies about solar capacity, lies about customers, lies about actual technical capability, lies about customer orders and deal flow ... all of that is point blank unforgivable.
My kids love Nintendo and Minecraft, but they also love Untitled Goose Game, Factorio and Frog Detective. Indie games are probably more available now than ever.
And that's just the game itself, on top of that there's millions of kids running around in Minecraft merchandise.

(source: there's one in my house <_<)
True, and so there might be a need for something like:

e = e.lbl <- value

(I didn't reuse the '=' because two '=' like that looks weird.

The main thing I want to address is that a.b.c.d is so much work to write to.
Part of me wants to believe this comment is satire, but the better part of me knows this is HN, so conceivably someone would call the barrier to entry for competing with Amazon's retail unit "very low"
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No, it is not a lexing ambiguity. You just need one extra character of lookahead after encountering a decimal point.
IMO we can all see how the spread of misinformation is unproductive and benefits only a few stakeholders. So I have confidence that some way or another we will figure out a solution. It will be a new solution, unlike things we've experienced in the past, and it will also be similar to the past in that we will overcome it.
If I'm doing the maths correctly - Nintendo's current worth is somewhere around $40BN?

Like, that's a lot of money, even for Apple, and then I'm not sure Nintendo would want to sell?
They wouldn't; most of their games are PC games first and foremost, with ports to other platforms. Sometimes painfully complicated ports, like Skyrim's to the PS3 (due to memory constraints).
Where I see potential for using tools as cadquery is with product type configurators which are often part of ERP software aka CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote). Cadquery generated model would be part of the Configure. Of course this wouldn't work for complex product, but there are companies out there that may need a configurator for relatively simple product
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What makes you believe this is a consolidation of power? Some of these companies may not be able to survive a long term recession.
The issue isn't so much the trajectory, but the people in the industry. I've been repeating for a while now that there are too many people who are not team players, who are basically still cowboy coders, looking to scratch their own personal technical itches rather than working together to build good software. This has been my experience for the last 5 years at least. It definitely reminds me more of the 90s, when the industry was a mess because it was new and growing. My issue is mostly with the people though, not the actual work. Lots of self-righteousness. Lots of people wanting everything to be on 'hard mode.' And as someone else commented, there is definitely a Stockholm Syndrome with the money involved since I now can not do anything else and maintain my life. Nor has this industry made it easy to change jobs. Nobody wants to train, everyone seems very cheap, but they want to hire Kobe. I am counting the days before I get broken.
Have you watched Mythic Quest? There's a particular episode touching this, that doesn't really require the rest of the series and is very good.

Check it out if you can - it' "Dark Quiet Death" from Season one
Get two sides to fight, then walk right through the middle of it. Wouldn't be the worse thing profiteers did either. You would be surprised at how far people would go for power. Big things, Wars. Depressions. All just because of some power mad jerk who has all the money anyways.

Perhaps they look at their own contributions and leave other people alone? Siccing mobs on others. Burning down a hundred USA cities because of fentanyl. What's the carbon footprint of that? Think Escape from New York, which still sucks up the wealth of a nation. Trillions spent to build a cruel malicious hell hole.

Not a word about China or India. They say they are poor. In fact they are richer than any corporation will ever be.

The oceans are absorbing the warming now, right? 70% of the Earth? More CO2 and a degree warmer means more algae. More algae means more photosynthesis. Not just on a small patch of land around humans. 70% of the entire planet and layered on top of it.

The USA uses less energy, not just per capita but overall. Aged population and better design mostly.

Leave me alone. You don't want to know find out what I'm capable of when I'm freezing to death or starving.
To clarify, the thing I want is to make it nice and simple to create a new record with a nested field updated. It's easy to read a.b.c.d, but updating that field painful:

let a = {a with b = { a.b with c = { a.b.c with d = 5 } } } }
People are divided into those who see hims as hero or villain. Is there anyone like me who considers him neither?

For me, Assange is

1) Asshole

2) Possibly mentally ill at this point

3) Someone who once greatly advanced journalism and whistleblowing. Even bad journalist deserves protections of a journalist.

4) A person who might have crossed the line from journalism and even his own principles. If he did entangle himself in more than just publishing information being journalist status should not protect him (like assisting or promoting hacking to Dem servers).

5) Political partisan hack supporting Trump.

6) He is also a person who needs to be treated fairly no matter what he did or didn't do.
Note that two thirds of the sales of Minecraft occured after 2014[1].

[1]: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-26-minecrafts-con...
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So moving my SSHD port opens me up to the wide array of SSHD exploits that run inside of Firefox?

I'm not sure that web browsers are a popular vector for network exploits. Counting on anything client-side is not a wise approach to network security.
I wonder if the FAA is even properly equipped to examine, test, and certify software like the MCAS law even in the best of times, much less under the current administration.
Doesn't the success of Netflix help convince you?

That's the model Microsoft are going for with Game Pass, just pay us a fixed monthly fee and play any of the hundreds of games we have available on Android/PC/XBox.
Yes both teachers and doctors in the US are protected from competing with immigrants through licensing schemes. They are also protected from competition due to the fact that they can be paid mostly from government accounts.
Given that the only thing they had seems to be a truck that goes downhill that's how I think their stock will behave.
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That doesn't invalidate the observation (which I share) that these attempts are almost 0 when using a different port. It reduces logspam and if I start getting lots of brute force attempts on my non-standard port, this is useful and meaningful information (someone cares enough to do this).
This attitude, both from the business side and from the developer side, has always struck me as an egregious misapprehension about where the value in software development lies.

It's never about the code. It's about getting the job done, and the code is just a tool for getting it done. And getting the job done is ultimately about domain expertise, or design skill, or engineering acumen, or any number of more abstract skills. When developers get all protectionist about complex technical tooling instead of focusing on perfecting their ability to get the actual job done, that's a moral own goal. It doesn't challenge the idea that developer skills are inherently low-value and replaceable, it takes the idea as a given, and asks, "OK, since we're inherently low-value and replaceable, how can we artificially make it harder to replace us?"

Me, I don't want to respond to the idea that I'm just a code monkey by trying to be the fanciest code monkey imaginable. I don't want to be a code monkey in the first place.
OpenBLAS supports dispatching based on architecture.
On Skylake-X, it was using SKYLAKEX kernels, not NEHALEM.
Oh please oh please oh please oh please leave.

...but they won't because tax breaks and ad revenue. Call their bluff regulators!
> So we've mostly solved trivial non-problems if/not regressions?

This. I get called a Luddite because I rant about the vastness of useless tech, but I love tech. I simply think most of what people focus on is useless and that "the immediacy to which I can do anything" now is actually very psychologically harmful.
I believe that he is talking about diversity of Microsoft's platforms here and nothing else.

Specifically:

> Regardless of the screen size, the controller, or your ability to even use one.

"your ability to even use one" is clearly a reference to Xbox Adaptive Controller
That's silly gatekeeping bullshit.

By the numbers, mobile gaming is the greater market. It's traditional gaming that's becoming the niche.
Well.. I've made that switch over a decade ago, and came back. Software pays better (or, a mediocre software dev like myself will do better than a mediocre carpenter like myself, because it's harder to see the mistakes I made).

It turns out any passionate activity that you do as a job will tend to get the soul sucked out of it once you do it for money. Reality of having to make a profit means you work on what pays not what you want to work on, cut corners and make compromises. Doesn't take too long before you start feeling that.

The very very few lucky among us (and I count myself in that group today) will stumble upon a situation where job and joy overlap -- and it has so much more to do with the people we work with rather than the subject matter. Seek out positions that give you autonomy of choice and creative freedom, having a playground (even if limited) helps a lot.
...and you think this is fine?
It looks like the judge gave no reason for her ruling, presumably there was a dictat rather than this just being a capricious decision?

There's the lack of openness 'you can't view the trial' and there's outright obeyance to fascism 'a political interference was made that compromised my former decision and I choose not to make that clear'.

Of course the judge could have made a legal error in acceding to the initial request from Amnesty International, but as a judge they would (and should) surely have given the reason for their turn around.
The biggest issue for me was that certain in-game cars were locked behind the spin-the-wheel game, and while(thankfully) there was no way to spend real life money for more spins, it still felt absolutely shit that I could have 100+ in-game hours, hundreds of millions of in-game currency, and yet no, I can't have that Mercedes E63 AMG, because it can only be won through spins. In Horizon 3 you could just buy any car at any point, it was just a matter of getting enough currency.
Ouch. Could you say a little more about the scrubbing process: Where to start, how to do it? Thanks.
I saw this joke in a thread somewhere:

Junior engineer: thinks they know everything

Intermediate engineer: thinks they know nothing

Senior engineer: hates computers
Ask HN: How will WFH affect existing salaries?
If work from home becomes the standard in software development, and salaries are driven down due to delocation of tech hubs in big cities, how are existing salaries going to be reduced?

I get that new remote only jobs will have lower salaries. What about existing permanent contracts? Will companies just start laying off senior people? Will negotiations take place? Without worker unions, this seems unlikely.

If I look back to how recessions (2008) affected well-off workers from other sectors (construction in Spain, for example), the pattern is clear: layoffs, less projects, less jobs, lower salaries. But I'm not sure that's what's going to happen. IT projects and investment don't seem like they're going to slow down, so there will probably still be demand for tech workers.

Will most of the development be moved off shore, where remote and low cost are norm?
EU seeks new powers to penalize tech giants
A survey says the you can compromise most employees for $500.

I wanted to do a website called "Ransom Rewards" allowing you to sign up to ransomware your own employer and you could set your own price to pick up data for a research paper but it was considered unethical to even imply you could get paid to fuck over your employer :(
As a personal analogy, we're currently redecorating our home. We've just spent about 4 days planning the layout of the electrical boxes and wiring pipes for a small hallway. Once it gets covered by the rock sheets and all that it's a PITA to make a change.

Once we had rechecked everything for the n-th time, the job of mounting it all took about half an hour.

This is in stark contrast to software development with git or similar, where there's little to no fear when making radical changes, as it's easy to undo, have multiple versions in different branches for comparison etc.
Frankfort, one of the affected cities featured in the article, is the capital city of Kentucky. Do you think the best solution to this problem is to move the capital city somewhere else? Because of warehouse emissions?
This twitter user seems to be currently working on Instagram and much of the thread seems to be an awkward search for a way to justify her industry's existence and finding ways to blame former colleges for their ignorance. Some of the points made are interesting, but at the same time quite biased.
It is not true. Have a look at Librem 5: https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Even if your provider knows where you are (and Librem 5 has a hardware modem kill switch for that), it does not mean that the software can send your location to everyone, too.
Since sets are 0-categories, we can't escape set theory when talking about structures like the natural numbers. A natural numbers object is a feature of a topos, preserved by topos functors (geometric morphisms). Nobody told me this definition; it's something I had to absorb for myself when learning topos theory.

Formally, let N be the natural numbers object (in some topos), let z : 1 -> N be the zero arrow, and s : N -> N be the successor arrow. Then z;s;s : 1 -> N is the arrow which chooses 2 as an element of the NNO. Since z and s are unique up to unique isomorphism, so is 2. Moreover, since geometric morphisms between topoi preserve finite limits, the NNO should also be preserved, and that includes 2.

When the topos we choose/define is (equivalent to) Set, then we get the standard ordinal-number definition of 2.

To use a pun, this lets us upgrade from Dedekind-categoricity to a more modern and natural sort of categorical categoricity.
Do you happen to know what titles they go by?
They've been pretty timid about restrictions, I think. In Ireland, with similar numbers to the UK (10% lower) we've locked down Dublin again (no visitors from more than one household inside or outside, restaurants outside only, no pubs, must work from home unless impossible). And that's mild compared to some restrictions on the continent.

In particular, the UK government seems to have an obsession with getting people back to offices; as far as I know basically everywhere else in Europe has continued to at least suggest, if not mandate, working from home where possible.
ah! didnt think to look at the tarsnap about page. thank you.
We'll never get a Doom game or any other games for that matter to be first-class supported titles on Linux then. It'll have to be Proton and Valve funding this and the community. I don't like this.
I work for a large video games company and we usually write two backends - DirectX for Windows and Xbox, and a special one for PlayStation. That is changing slightly with Stadia, because that forces us to write a Vulkan renderer too. But on the few games that have it, the DX12 performance is better on windows than that of the Vulkan renderer backend - so we haven't released it to the public.
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Yeah actually, I oversaw that.
With the original dev from Obsidian and the license from Bethesda, it is not that far fetched.
Very nicely put. I mean look at a car: It's essentially a lot of 3rd party components put together coherently. I don't think any part of my Peugeot has a Peugeot label on it, rather Bosch, Autoliv, Michelin, etc.

Same thing with airplanes. Boeing is pretty much Honeywell+GE+Liebherr to name a few.

I am unsure why people find componentizing and integrating unrewarding in IT. I didn't hear my dad (a sound engineer) complain that he no longer spins a wire onto a metal to obtain a speaker. :)
You can't buy them in-game without buying them with real money first. Once you unlock the car pack, or spend 1/3 as much to unlock that particular car, you can buy as many extras as you want with in-game money.
The article makes the book sound enjoyable and insightful to readers. After reading this article, I am keenly interested in actually reading the book, so well done to the article writer. The excerpts seem to show Bayard is exploring usefully the practices of living with books and being in a literary culture, which is something I don’t see discussed much.
Since we're a public company you can read our financial results any time you want: https://cloudflare.net/ I'd also encourage you to read our S-1 filing when we went public that explains how our business works: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...

But the simple answer is... lots of people and companies per us for our service, we've optimized the cost of running our service over years and years.