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Bethesda Games are not going not be exclusive to Xbox -- Confirmed by Todd Howard:

>Like our original partnership, this one is about more than one system or one screen. We share a deep belief in the fundamental power of games, in their ability to connect, empower, and bring joy. And a belief we should bring that to everyone - regardless of who you are, where you live, or what you play on. Regardless of the screen size, the controller, or your ability to even use one.

https://bethesda.net/en/article/4IwKWIj174Cb2QNTTtBAEb/todd-...
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I'm building a similar resource for Python[1]. To make it easier to browse and provide search functionality, I'm using mdBook[2]. I'd suggest you to check out mdBook or a static-site generator like Zola[3] to convert md-to-html and host it via GitHub pages or your own domain.

[1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook

[3] https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overvi...
Given that is closed source you only have Apple's word on that, and I personally do not Trust Apple at all.

Further their hostility to open protocols, and open systems means I could never adopt them to run my home or IoT system

I have an extreme aversion to vendor lockin when it comes to IoT and I have no desire to tie myself of Apple
Yeah but that single game has sold as much as ten 'The Last of Us'es. Microsoft sells their best games on Sony's platform too.
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Again this is not remotely worrisome.

Tech people, and smart people in general, need to learn how to step out of their own understanding of the world and see their own fields as others do.

Very few people actually know what HTML really is or how it works, and would be hard pressed to describe it.

This quote is an executive mangling the description of some tech that otherwise might make sense. After all, Javascript is part of HTML5 and that could very well be used on various parts of the system, 'linked on the data network, all the same language'. And it is 'a language' that many programmers know how to speak around the world.

The bit I can't figure out is 'lets us build our own chips' which is a stretch.

This is a guy not really knowing what he is talking about, but with a few word changes, it's mostly rational.

The other stuff is far more scary.
For me, The Outer Worlds was right there with Witcher 3 as one of the best games this generation. It really does feel like Fallout, but perhaps somewhat less open world when you're actually on a planet b/c of map boundaries and enemies too dangerous for your level to keep you on track. The diverging story lines and open space travel (once you get the requisite navkey to be able to land) compensate for that somewhat.
I think the future of tech work will be distributed and remote.
If Rockstar ever gets acquired, this will be one of the most expensive deals ever. They routinely sell games in the dozens of millions of units.
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Prof. Martyn Poliakoff on Periodic Videos has a great explanation of phosphine discovery and in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKWiOwt7eCo
The thing nobody likes to mention in casual conversation about the benefits of VR, is that there’s a whole industry working on VR sex simulation games, with big FOSS extension ecosystems, control of modern sex toys through open-standard teledildonics APIs, etc. There’s Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 levels of effort and detail put into these.

(And the further thing that nobody likes to mention in casual conversation, is that many people—men, almost always—have an addiction to visiting prostitutes, that can be as costly as a drug habit; and that a good VR rig, coupled with this extensible, customizable VR sex-sim software, can manage—much more-so than regular porn—to mostly sate the same psychological needs that made them retain the services of escorts in the first place; and thus save such people a lot of money over the long term. These people tend to become big proponents of VR.)

Anyone who is into this sort of thing, but doesn’t want to [or can’t] mention it by name in the social milieu that pertains, will just say they’re “really impressed by VR” and “think you should give it a try, too.” You can differentiate this sort of person, because they struggle to come up with any examples of the VR games/experiences that so impress them.
I'm in agreement with you that it's about the business and having the passion and motivation to solve the problems of that business. When I look back on my software career and think about the projects where I didn't have an interest in solving that particular problem, I would always revert back to just learning the technology for the sake of learning. For me, just learning and not applying was never as fulfilling as doing both.
This has been done to death. And, I don't mean that I'm tired of hearing it. It's more like talking about the obesity epidemic. Conceptually the solution ought to be pretty simple. (eat less food, exercise more) But in practice it's a pernicious problem which plays on our weaknesses, and does so in a way such that most people are vulnerable. We never solved this problem. Most people are a little too fat. And so too is seems with social media. There are solutions out there which definitely could work, but I doubt we'll ever truly implement them. The problem of social media is human impulse control. And as you know, across a wide population, impulse control is lacking.
Those files should be marked read-only for the owner and the pubic files world readable.
With Doom and Quake, it would be a shock if that were the case.
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> but by students/professionals working in university hospitals.

Yeah but then it doesn't matter because these student wouldn't come up with a covid vaccine in the first place. The GP comment is about the fact that covid vaccines are (supposedly ?) delayed by gdpr, which is non sense
A seat in the actual room, not really. The thing that's kind of absurd is that they were banned from watching it remotely as well.

"Amnesty International had requested access to the court for a trial monitor to observe the hearings, but the court denied us a designated seat in court. Our monitor initially did get permission to access the technology to monitor remotely, but the morning the hearing started he received an email informing us that the Judge had revoked Amnesty International’s remote access."

"The judge wrote back expressing her "regret" at her decision and saying: “I fully recognise that justice should be administered in public". Despite her regret and her recognition that scrutiny is a vital component of open justice, the judge did not change her mind."
What would you say is Microsoft's worst game for microtransactions?

I've played Forza Horizon 4 for a while and you can buy cars in that game, but you earn enough points that they all become pretty cheap after only a few hours in the game.
> This is only sort of true in democracies. There are plenty of places where people don't get a choice of listening to government or not.

People nearly always have a choice; there are just often consequences to an individual negative choice that people don't like, which nearly always in love someone else making a positive choice. If people in the aggregate chose “no”, the government would have no power.
For the financially distressed you can also make a serviceable fish finger sandwich with toasted and buttered thick white sandwich bread and a scrape of Pataks curry paste.

Iceland do 28 “prison grade” fish fingers for £2, and you can ‘cook’ them in a microwave for the same time it takes to do the toast.
A good rule of thumb is that anything over 10ms response appears laggy (not instantaneous) to a user. This is especially dangerous on touchscreen inputs, as they lack tactile feedback and therefore require the user to focus on the display until their input has been acknowledged.

I can't tell the specific concept you're talking about though. If it's the auto-repeat rate (your iPhone example), then of course there needs to be a delay before that kicks in, and a steady repeat rate. I'm talking about single button presses.

If you're talking about the requirement to debounce buttons, the proper way to do this is to act on the button press immediately, while setting a timer that disallows further button state changes while waiting for the contacts to settle. This time is a balance between how long it actually takes the contacts to settle, and how rapidly a user could possibly push a button (missing a deliberate button press is also extremely frustrating and dangerously demanding of user attention, even with tactile feedback).
Ouch! This cuts deep because of how close to actual future it sounds. Especially

> Valve will quietly exit software development altogether, and pivot to building custom vanity knives using their hardware manufacturing experience.
Bethesda has become formulaic, with the elements of gameplay virtually the same amongst titles. Same across the board really, not much genre-defying for quite a while.

Outer Worlds, Fallout, and so on just differ by visuals and story, the general jist is all samey samey. No innovation. No just single series but across the estate. Nothings been as good as Fallout 3 & Skyrim, just repetitions and echoes of greatness.

Is this a good purchase for MS? Maybe, if it's for tech, IP, and bringing talent on board. Hopefully they'll add some originality in game play elements, not just reskinning.
Rolling the semi down a hill calling it “In motion” in a promotional video is what did it for me.

Original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAToxJ9CGb8

Nokola’s admission:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/09/nikola-admits-prototype...
Wow, that resonates quite a lot with me, though I'm not 55 yet.

I started my career as a software engineer with web development in the 90's. Everything seemed simpler. Literally.

Then, fast forward to 2020. I'll cite you an example of what happened EXACTLY yesterday. I have a web application which is complete and ready to be deployed. It's a backoffice application for one of our e-commerce sites. It's built using Phoenix, so there is a separate assets folder which contains a webpack config and its own package.json as well.
The frontend updates require me to update the assets manifest as well. So, we've setup CI for it to automatically do that for each deploy. So, as usual, it simply runs npm install, but, suddenly, everything broke. Remember, this was fine until our previous deploy. It was some weird error from node about not being able to do something with Babel. I had to spend about almost an hour to figure out it was coming from some other package that was making use of Babel. (If you're interested the error is this one[1])).
OK fine, we upgraded the babel version as indicated in that issue thread. However, it wasn't compatible with some other package on the OS we were running on. So, now I had to downgrade the entire node version itself to something we knew that worked.

We lost a good amount of engineering time simply because of this unwanted complexity. Remember, all I wanted to do was JUST deploy. Our backend code was perfectly fine. Just for one new added feature, we had to pay a price with our time. This is hardly an exception, this is becoming in the norm.

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/32852
What I feel like many people miss in this argument is that there's still currently no reason for the vast majority of people to want or care about the future being decentralized. Not only does majority of the population think companies like Facebook aren't manipulating them (these people will claim they're manipulating the "other side"), but even the people that do realize that Facebook is manipulating them don't care. They find the ads useful, and enjoy the recommended videos. They'll watch The Social Dilemma and go right back to browsing Twitter.

There's still no good reason that anyone outside of a technical audience holding certain ethical beliefs would want something other than a decentralized system. Most individuals don't care about being their own bank, for example.

In my eyes, the only way the future becomes decentralized is through a massive change in the fabric that makes up much of the developed world.
Well if nothing else, it makes people use their new React Native Xbox app, which is quite possibly the worst windows application Microsoft has ever produced (and they've produced a lot of very bad ones).
it can go 20 mph in neutral downhill. it cannot even move under its own power
If having this information advantage is so important to national security why let the DEA be involved at all? Either the national security angle is bs or they care more about enforcing drug laws than protecting our country.
So it is a Lifesimulator?
Sure, if you ate McDonald's every day you'd probably think that there are no good restaurants anymore.

My top 4 games by playtime in the last few years were Rimworld, Oxygen Not Included, Dwarf Fortress and WoW Classic. Honorable mentions go to Spelunky and Stellaris. It's to everyone's great regret that a single one of these titles was purchased by one of the shitty publishers you mentioned, fortunately it's the one that's on its last legs.
Huh! Thanks for the correction. I was under the impression that it was more widespread. I forget the brand of the table saw I used most recently, but I do know that it has that feature.
I was thinking this, $100k for taking on that level of risk?
Decently big because of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange I think. There are 2 pretty big players, Flowtraders and Optiver.

From what I know getting in requires a decently impressive resume and passing some tough tests. I also expect it requires a masters or even PhD in a very mathematical field. That is the context where I saw them at the very least.

I feel like I'd stand a decent chance at getting in if I could bring up the required enthusiasm in the interviews. But I do have a decently high opinion of myself.
I so much hope this happens. For me and a surprising number of my peers (25+) Facebook is just that thing you sort of have to use. Not as bad as LinkedIn, but that's not saying much.

Most of us prefer to chat via WhatsApp (yes, I know it's also FB, but I hope that'll disappear too) or Telegram. I'd love to see more people move to Telegram.

Most of us preferred to use meetup.com or the like for events, but Facebook just kind of sucked all the air out of that world. Without Facebook there might be a chance for new initiatives to take over.

The one thing FB still seems to do best around here is business listings and everything around that. But I'd also love to see startups take on this area when there isn't a Facebook to dominate.
I am baffled to see that the majority of the comments here are at best showing no support for what Assange did and at worst are trying to find excuses not to be disturbed in their belief that since we are in a democracy hence everything that's happening is normal. I thought the people here had a sharper political view on what kind of society we could/should live in but I just read people that are always in a hurry to put themselves on the good side of the stick, praising the stick and telling themselves "Everything is normal. Everything is normal. Everything...". Forgive the bitterness, I am still young and unruly. I'll settle down later and me too I'll accept how impotent I am at changing the order of thing and banter about humanity's real problem as a lack of universal love and and understanding.

End of rant. Have a good day.
I'm sharing it with everyone I know. This might be the most hilarious marketing copy I've ever come across. It's almost like a parody.
Like I said, “getting directions” used to be a service. Specifically, back then—and still today, in many places!—you’d be expected to retain the services of a guide when you were in a foreign city/country. Who would often double as your translator, and potentially as your driver as well.

Machine directions are still not as good as the service a good guide provides in navigating an unfamiliar city. Especially, no navigation app I’m aware of has an inbuilt intuition for avoiding the “bad parts of town” in its routing, that differentiates between what’s safe to drive through vs. walk through, and differentiates between safety levels at different times of day.
> Addressing consumer privacy, Google said that search history data is password-protected and stored securely on its servers.

This is Google's real innovation -- deflecting privacy concerns with irrelevant statements about security.
I don't think that this absolutely microscopic slice of the overall software development ecosystem is really representative of anything interesting.

But yes – I do think React is a pretty good approach to UIs compared with many things I've used in the past. There are good and interesting discussions to be had about the different possible techniques that can be used; this isn't an entry into one of them.
This, most likely. And it isn't as if the whiskey industry is the only one benefiting from being able to ignore the pollution that they create. Though there is a move to change how this works, for the most part air pollution remains something for which we all pay the price, collectively, regardless of its origin.
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the things Rare has been known for were platformers (Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong) and FPS games (Goldeneye, Perfect Dark).

Perfect Dark Zero in 2005 was probably the last title in either of those veins, which was a launch title for the 360 (soon to be 2 consoles ago!)

Sea of Thieves is certainly a feather in their cap, it's just a bit disappointing that we haven't been able to see Rare take a modern crack at the things they were so known for, if that's even possible now.
Fire them now.
What’s your OS and CPU/GPU? Wouldn’t be unheard of for MS to heavily optimize for newer instruction sets
Google and data brokers accused of illegally collecting people’s data: report
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What made you interested in woodworking? My father retired a short while ago (though not from software) and took up woodworking.

How do you price items?

How do you handle shipping, or is the work all local?
Amazon is a soviet union cybernetics wet dream.

Jokes side: Do you see society coming to realize that a similar system can actually implement a planned economy for real?
I'm not sure it's that much more complicated as such, beyond being different/unfamiliar.

Just setting up SLAAC is very straightforward, probably (ignoring any unfamiliarity issues) more simple than DHCP?

Pulling addresses from your service provider via prefix delegation can be a bit funny, and could do with being a lot more polished. Instructions/community support in particular can be problematic as ISPs tend to use different prefix lengths, rather than just standardising on /56. And also less relevant if you have a static allocation, which is potentially more likely with IPv6 than IPv4.

And DNS becomes more important, as does firewalling, no more relying on the somewhat dubious NAT safety net.
he missed the opportunity to throw in "cloud" and "blockchain"
I’m clearly missing some context. Who is ebd2?
> While I don't disagree with the conclusion, I'm not sold on the argument.

> It would rather seem the key is to not make people afraid of speaking their mind or making mistakes.

Wholeheartedly agree.

Notably, this is also the underlying key to accelerating a team's velocity, whether we're talking about TDD, CI, blue/green deployments, database schema rollbacks, canary releases, blameless retrospectives, Lean Startup MVPs, or many other tactics.

The basic strategy is: focus on reducing the cost of making a mistake (and learning from it) instead of on making fewer mistakes.

Because the easiest way to make fewer mistakes is always to do nothing (alternatively, "nothing interesting", or "nothing new", etc.).

Developing without fear isn't so much "move fast and break things", it's more "Move fast and have an undo button (for anything important you might break)."
You can look at anyone's favorites list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=USERNAME&comments=... (replace USERNAME with the actual name of the user).

For my username it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=fsflover&comments=...
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I’m not taking “them” seriously. What they report is factual—I’ve seen the quote by Assange repeated elsewhere. It‘s just a convenient reference. So most of your remarks smack of the ad-hominem. If someone says “A and B and C are acting against me—and they’re all Jewish,” that sounds to me like an antisemite complaining about a Jewish conspiracy against him. You are welcome to interpret it differently. Perhaps you find such rantings perfectly normal. But my interpretation is at least somewhat reinforced by some other comments made by Assange, complaining about Jewish journalists.
I gave up obscuring years ago, and just use fail2ban.
There's a common trope about an established worker who works really, really hard at tasks - evenings, weekends, the whole deal.

Then they retire. Someone else takes over, and they do exactly the same work in $small_percentage of the time.

So no - effort is not a good metric. Why would you be paying someone who can't do the job - or at least can't do the job well, with enough spare capacity to deal with more complex work requirements?

Of course this is a parable, but I suspect a lot of people have seen something similar happen at work at least once.
I dunno about this. The current consensus of community is that Dota 2 is dying and valve couldn't be bothered doing anything about it. Just cashing in while they can.

And Dota 2 is by far their biggest game.
Why's that, anyway?
Telegram has been picking up steam in my wide network. It's been surprising to me how easy it was, as an early adopter, to convince people to use it. It doesn't work with everyone; WhatsApp dominates around here. But in the tens of people that I care to communicate with have happily switched to Telegram for much of their chatting.
Often, billionaires' legacies are only their name, their power, and their wealth. If anything, their actual personalities may be something even they hope people forget. The name, power, and wealth is what they want their children to carry on
Its my understanding that, back in the day, Quake was "the" poster child game for OpenGL's capabilities over D3D. Similar to today, how Doom Eternal is "the" poster child for Vulkan. And now Microsoft owns id software.
> But Microsoft just dropped a little less than double that on ZeniMax.

And there you have a key difference between Microsoft and Nintendo.
Many languages compile to assembly so that you can distribute them easily. Trying to send a friend a compiled tool is a billion times easier than asking them to install JDK / Node /etc.
We are going to a world of very big corporations dominating the industries. Market tendency is to concentrate capital. And I'm not sure this is a good thing.
This is probably part of why they stopped referring to it as "hass", although many who have been a part of the ecosystem (and probably don't speak German) continue to use the term.
Honestly, their investment into game pass and cloud streaming is currently making me choose an Android phone over the new iPhone.

I feel like actual AAA gaming has never been more accessible than it is now.
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Oh, microsoft.com is absolute cancer, but it's one of a few exceptions. I see no shortage of news websites, and most of them are static.
Here is how banks have responded to the FinCEN files investigation
You're forgetting a couple motivations:

Money Ideology Conscious/Coercion Ego Revenge and Sex

(The last two are less relevant in hacking/tech but more relevant in straight espionage.)