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Kudos to you for having the wherewithal to make such a choice for your quality of life. The rest of us should take this opportunity to think how our requests and demands on OSS maintainers are perceived and be more empathetic: if you aren't paying for something you can't demand anything get done, this after all, is a collective effort of hackers working toward some community good. If you or a company directly benefits from a project monetarily think about supporting those projects -- but even then you don't get to demand anything. ... something something, honey vs vinegar or the however the saying goes.
1 - They'll break the sub out into tiers.

2 - Netflix is around the same price - a big enough market smooths it out.

3 - The press release defines their market as 3B people. I wouldn't be surprised at all if their internal business cases target 1B+ people.
The 2x is a bit unfavorable because it depends on your situation.

IMO, if you're young, healthy, single and can command 100 euro/hour, then you're in a much better position then if you need: a secure cash flow, a lot of sick days or have a demanding SO that doesn't allow you to work weird hours, then 2x seems like a much more reasonable multiplier.

In my particular case, it felt much more like 2.5 to 3x
For context: $3B more than Dismay paid for Star Wars.
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I imagine the advent of more functionality being available in `const fn` would probably reduce a lot of the `macro_rules!` and proc macro use - at least it has for my projects.

Definitely would like to see a more in-depth guide to patterns for structuring large code bases. I've finally dialed things in pretty well in my own head, but it took quite a while to get there, with a lot of lessons learned the hard way.
Same here. Just changing the port makes brute force attacks so rare that I feel I don't need to bother with port knocking or the like.
There are a lot of great Indie titles, and you can get a lot of them DRM free on Humble or Gog.

I've loved a lot of Devolver's stuff. The Red String Club, Hotline Miami I/II, Katana ZERO .. all super incredible games with gameplay and story that's just as fun as the any of the big AAA shops.
Well that's just it.

If he was not perceived to be by some as #5 he would be all over CNN right now.
“Gender” is the exact term for this; no need for the quotation marks. As an English native speaker, when studying romance languages I never found genders to serve any purpose (other than to make the languages harder to learn). But it’s an interesting speculation.
Microsoft bought Bungie in 2000.
-(Halo was going to be for mac, and demoed by Steve Jobs who I guess made it look so great Bungie sold.)

released a bunch of very successful games as xbox exclusives.

7 years later Bungie left microsoft as its own company again. (not sure how that happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungie
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24520462
Much to my surprise when I moved here, Canada has cowboys and rodeos too
“I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.” — Tom West quoted in Tracy Kidder The Soul of a New Machine
I'd be curious to know what kind of impact that $10/mo/user would have compared to the traditional game sales cycle from a revenue stream perspective.

Say that the system has a current-gen lifespan of 5 years and users run their subscription throughout the duration of the service, that's $600 per user assuming no price increases. I don't game nearly as much as I used to, so that would cost me way more than I've spent the last several years on games.

The shitty thing about a model like this is that I can't just power the system on after 6 months and just play without turning the subscription back on.
Once you define a safe interface, you only have to audit the implementation of that interface for errors that aren't guarded for in unsafe code.

The safe interface you can then use without fearing memory corruption or having to audit that code for unsafety. Any safe code is pretty much only logic errors.
Do any of them do even that well? Do you have a recommendation?
I started doing similar changes because software became a shitshow. Corporate software shops are just a bunch of IT people trying to get their friend's products in use in the company for kickbacks. So what you have are multiple IT teams with more power than developers trying to tell everyone which tools they MUST use. Developers at the last place I worked had no access to production, could not deploy code at all, could not test their own code, could not even push code, could not see other team's code, etc, etc. But, the company had a devops team, a team called "app ops", a "SRE" team, an IT team, an "infra" team, and a security team that strangely was dictating which tools were used to deploy code. NONE of these teams did anything remotely close to what their team name did. They would do visibility projects which, oddly, sometimes involved developing software but not the kind that generates revenue. "dev ops" would deploy software to production, if they had time between their projects. "app ops" was supposed to handle support incidents, if they had time between their projects, etc...

It is useless to try to build software in this environment. It is far easier to build a hunk of wood and say, "here you fucking go, take it or leave it" than to deal with dozens and dozens of people trying to extract money from the development process while suffocating the company.
Man, Europeans get all the nice things...
But do they use military grade encryption??

And I’d feel more comfortable if a block chain was involved, somehow.
Right. And I'm not angry at the person who drives the shape of the codebase; working with code designed around a different philosophy than your own is something that one can get used to. But I do feel that the large codebases I've been dealing with were often way too large for what they're doing - even though I couldn't always pinpoint what was superfluous. It's probably just entropy at work, but I can't stop thinking - there must be a better way!
The actual written feedback provided by Mr. Ewbank is far more useful than Bloomberg's summary: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FAA-2020-0686-0163

While I'm not a 737 expert, I have evaluated flight software (FSW) and vehicle management systems (VMS) on Gov't programs. Mr. Ewbank points out systemic deficiencies in the 737 VMS and controls.

It would seem the question to be answered by the FAA is whether they intend to address these systemic deficiencies or just the proximate causes of the crashes. It would be a valid, and more rigorous view that since these aircraft are already out of service in an unprecedented way, these systemic issues should be addressed as well. To be clear, it will involve significant engineering work to do so.

There will be immense pressure on the FAA, especially since the aircraft has been out of service and damaged Boeing economically so much already, to just deal with the proximate cause (i.e., stay the course they're on now). That will come from Boeing of course, but also internal management and their perceptions, as well the implicit or explicit pressure from the political class.

Speaking purely for myself, I hope the FAA does force the root causes to be dealt with as Mr. Ewbank advocates (I don't know him, but have immense respect for his coming forward like this - you have to know and understand the systems to be able to provide this kind of critical review).

However, I wouldn't at all be surprised if the fact they have already started down the path they're on causes them to retrench and leave these root causes unaddressed.
Considering they essentially abandoned doing certification themselves over 20 years ago, I would kind of doubt they have the institutional memory or people to conduct that function.
You only have to audit the unsafe code for unsoundness though.
Bingo! CoD, Quake, Doom, Civ, Madden, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, All of Nintendo... you can’t fault them for milking an IP though when fans vote with their wallets. I would love new stories, new hero archetypes, new consequences, in games and I think indie have done a decent job at showing it can be done. But even indie suffers from the “Hey! This worked! Let’s just keep doing this!” IP milkage. Game dev, like software dev, has gotten more and more complex. What was once a vision of unity and standards is now Unity3D or micro-fracture SDK’s of the same graphics pipeline concepts and a wasteland of bones from those who came before you.

I know from experience. The “I’ll write my own engine” bug bit me in 2005. I wrote Reactor3D on XNA in 2007. Worked with Bill Reiss while he masterminded XNASilverlight which eventually would become the basis for MonoGame, which we all love and adore.

What’s interesting is the non-mention of itch.io

I think if enough people want new and interesting games, it will get done. Dev’s are surprisingly open to ideas, it’s the publishers (money people) who have a problem with change.
Maybe any major change to a system, for example turning on an seller's account that was banned, should require a small explanation that is reviewed by additional employees.

For example
1,user x disables account, fraudulent health products

2,user y enables account, ????

Seems like many major changes almost never require a user to justify them with a written explanation.
Perhaps it is lost in translation, but video isn't film. So video surveillance probably means they placed a video camera (probably based on a video tube) and ran cables.
EU has done a lot to stifle the tech sector in the EU.

This is a step in the right direction however. It's not possible to create a tech sector when all your data passes through USA, NSA and other 3 letter entities. China did it, Russia partly did it. The US is doing it now. I hope the EU acts swiftly to build a moat to stop haemorraging human and capital resources to the US. There is plenty of talent to support a thriving euro- and world-class tech ecosystem, but it needs to be strategically protected, the same way the US has done to date
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That's because there isn't one. Fish of any kind is generally considered to be seafood.
I'm from Poland. Of course, everything depends on the conditions of the retirement that you're comfortable with. For me, it's 5000 PLN ($1300) a month till I'm 85 years old + paid-off house. The 5k PLN should be very comfortable assuming no children, which I don't want.
Assuming ultra-safe investing to only protect the principal (i.e. no return above inflation) and wanting to retire at 40, you'd need around 2,500,000 PLN ($650,000) to achieve that + buy the house to retire in. Let's call in 3,000,000 PLN ($780k) in total.

If you look around a bit, as an in-demand (meaning - chasing the latest tech fads, maybe some tech lead experience as well) senior backend developer, you can get take home 250,000 PLN per year on a long-term (meaning usually multiple years) contract basis. Assuming 60,000 PLN of that goes to living expenses, it takes less than 16 years to save up the required 3m PLN to retire. And, if you're really hot in terms of CV, you can take home much more than 250k per year. Also, there are options to contract in Western Europe or get six figure remote US job (this one's harder than the other options) for more pay.
It's been a while, but back when I did full-time sysadmin, I used a port-knocking daemon that picked a random port > 1024 (with carve-outs for some known ports) and sent that port # to my pager.

As you suggest, though, the port-knocking daemon itself ran on port 2222.
Horizon 3 was a lot of fun, but 4 just got repetitive and boring. It felt like the same game with really dumb gimmicks like being able to buy houses.
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> wanted to get legal advice if she can force Assange to take an HIV test after having unprotected sex with him //

If someone purposefully hides salient facts from you in order to coerce sexual intercourse then it can be that consent was only acquired by deception and that under the law consent was not freely given. That seems a reasonable definition of rape.

A person seeking police advice may not know they were raped in that way. And prosecution despite that person's reluctance would seem right as it seems to protect the public from a menace (someone knowingly spreading HIV).

Those mightn't be the facts here, but save the last paragraph it fits with what you're saying and explains why a public prosecutor would seek a prosecution despite the alleged victim not considering themselves to have been raped.

If someone is familiar with the case and Swedish rape laws then I'd be interested in their input here?
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I did a quick google and here's a link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2018/aug/01/cold-w...
GoG does have a bunch of new games though. And IIRC they are owned by CD Project Red who are doing some big games now :)
I worked in an area where mapping apps are notoriously unreliable. There is no real traffic here but there's a lot of addresses that can't be found via any mapping app.

Real time updates are only gonna work when you have cell reception, which isn't true for a very large fraction of the time here.
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I think Jeff has become inactive of managing Amazon's online retail business unit and stopped caring few years ago. The results:

- fake products

- fake reviews

- ad based search

- massive scale bribery scheme
You can't have culture if you can pay the bills. Also the culture should support the revenue model.
Something I'm curious about here is if MS will put in the effort to fix the relationship with Carmack. Bethesda and he have been on bad terms since he left fully to go over to Occulus.
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We still have large, amazing, original games coming out of small studios. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an excellent example.

We may get to a point where there are practically no "medium-large" developers and only "massive" ones like Microsoft, but I'm confident we'll still get great games from outside the massive groups.
Assange is an extra controversial figure in the US due to events in the 2016 election unrelated to this case. Before that happened I rarely saw such disclaimers.
Any piece of javascript code on any website you visit is going to be running inside of Firefox on your local network.

I don't know how widespread these kinds of attacks are but they are reasonably well known which is why these port blacklists were implemented in the first place:

https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/portbanning.
I’d say don’t repeat it if you could do it yourself. Tinkering and learning invariably involves covering some ground others have trodden on before
Most of that VR and AR stuff, which while being eminently more suitable for people with real accessibility issues (either due to physical disabilities or environmental constraints), is locked up behind almost entirely unaccessible interfaces in a gamers' world. Why? Because you can sell more that way. The technology and the people who can build it certainly exist; the desire to do something useful with it rather than something cool and highly profitable isn't.
The thing is, back then statics and architectural design were in their children shoes still. So if your roof was 3 tons, your supports had to hold up 300 tons because you had no better way. Nowadays, it holds 15 tons for 3 tons + 12 tons snow, for example, or in more äquatorial areas, it's 3 tons + 1 ton rain water.

It's not hard to make things last when you helplessly overspec because you have no idea how close you are to collapsing and the material quality is extremely unreliable.
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Those are not leaks.
Sometimes, as the saying goes, I don't need to outrun the bear, just the other campers.

If you're targeting me specifically, then yes, moving the port is pointless. But while I have't stopped you, I've avoided a half-dozen script kiddies running a script that takes advantage of a new 0-day.
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The crux of the article:

It sounded almost like a joke initially: An American high-tech car company with a volatile boss meets German environmental law, citizen participation and German bureaucracy. Now, though, it looks as though electric cars could start rolling off the assembly line in Grünheide even faster than they did in centrally steered China.

Somehow, the clichés didn't hold true. Tesla may be a tenacious, demanding company, but it also takes criticism seriously and tries to address it. In contrast to German companies, Musk uses every possibility that planning law avails him to accelerate construction, but he does so at his own risk.

To prevent jeopardizing its ambitious deadlines, Tesla is pressing ahead with construction using preliminary permits for individual steps. The first one was obtained by the company for felling the trees, the second for levelling the site, and construction crews are now working with a fifth preliminary permit. This would allow the factory to be completed before final approval is given.

It is a process that anyone can follow, but no one has used the instrument as forcefully as Tesla. The risk is that the company might have to tear it all down again if regulatory approval isn't granted, but it's also a calculable risk because the authorities in question only issue the prelimary permit under the assumption that their final decision will be a positive one.

Interesting.
Assange has spent his career defending a natural right to whistleblowing.

If you find fault with him for other reasons that is fine, but the core issue here seems to be one of of ‘do you believe that there is such a natural right?’, and not one of ‘do you believe Assange is a likable person?’.

If you’re fine with governments using extrajudicial systems to exact revenge on whistleblowers in distant lands then it really doesn’t matter what you think about his personal behavior.

If on the other hand you think there is such an inherent human value, it’s conversely difficult to justify his current treatment.
And not just Tencent - there are also other companies, like NetEase, which while smaller than Tencent at about 1/6th of the size, still takes more annual revenue than EA. (Going by figures on Wikipedia).
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Most of the Rare staff responsible for those games have left in the decades since (many of them formed Playtonic, which was the pitch behind Yooka-Laylee)
There are some economic theories about non-monetary compensation that try to explain this. Basically:

Total Compensation = Salary + Benefits + Intangibles

Those Intangibles can be things like working environment or commute, but they can also include your affinity for the organization’s mission. People are willing to take smaller salaries when they’re working on something they love & respect. It takes more money to convince people to work on boring or undesirable things. It’s the exception to be paid well for something you like.
Yes, sorry, it should be “promoted”. I wish HN used content editable instead of an input field. Would make posts a little easier to review and edit on mobile.
Would anyone deem it acceptable if this were a country well known for running kangaroo courts?

No, it wouldn't. Just because the U.K. gets it's knickers in a twist that the international community is hitting it with the same "Trust but Verify" stick as it does every other nation doesn't net them a free pass.
This USian was quite a few decades old before realizing that Four of fish and finger pie might not be a strange British delicacy.
I smother mine in tartar sauce. ;)
he just got arrested

https://twitter.com/sttbreakingnews/status/13080528194301091...
sadly I think a lot of people see downvote buttons as "I disagree" buttons.
About 1/100th of the content that New Vegas has. The map is deceptive at the start making you think theres so much left to do when in reality there is about 2 total worlds. The rest of the planets are pretty tiny maps. It is a good game but its incredibly short, especially when your expectations are not managed.
I have something fun to try in the kitchen this week, good info, thank you!
This was new to me so had to Google it. Did not disappoint!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

Edit: The correct URL!
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All these apps/etc work fine in, large top tier urban cities across the world. They fail miserably everywhere else, there are huge swaths of the US, where you don't be able to hail an uber. In those cases your falling back on the same methods used in the past.

So, its still fairly common to see people hawking guiding/etc services inside or just outside of airports in central/south America, Africa, etc.

If your going to places where the cell phone service is spotty, or your going outside the the main urban areas hiring a guide/translator might be the only way to get around.
I grew up in the Mormon church. His career bio is all too common, unfortunately. If you think about it, it starts to make sense:

1. Missionaries spend 2 years trying to "market"/"sell" Mormonism. This might be a harsh way of putting it, but they are trying to recruit and retain members. Naturally, security/alarm sales are a natural summer job for them when they finish. This labor force was likely indispensible to Milton for his first company, "St. George Security and Alarm".

2. Mormons have a very tight social network. We REALLY trust one another. Its actually one of the great things about the religion. However, this makes us very vulnerable to fraud. There are lots of scummy MLMs in Utah that exploit the already established social circles in Utah.

In other words, it doesn't have much to do with the religion's tenets per se, but from the byproducts of it. I personally hope we produce more "Clayton Christiansens" and fewer "Trevor Miltons" for the tech world in the future.
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I have had to help scale a large scale Rails app and break it apart about 5 years ago. 500k requests per minute. That was tough. A lot of the features that Shopify and Github have upstreamed since then would have helped a lot and to be honest it is a lot easier to scale now with Rails because of those upstreamed features. Like multiple databases, viewcomponents, etc.