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It took Braben and Bell just over two years to write Elite. I imagine it would take me a lot longer than two years to document their code, putting it in a website as pleasing as this one.

When Elite was new it was good enough to spend two years playing it!

Plenty did.

Out of those players not many got as far as becoming Elite and not many did missions or anything else that got you anywhere near completing the game.

Then there were those that actually bothered to look at the code and hack the game or learn from the programming techniques. You would need to get a long way playing the game before taking it apart.

This 'let's take it apart' idea didn't come to the minds of most of the experienced players. So it was a tiny minority into hacking the game.

The thing I like about computer games is this ratio between those that write the game and those that waste their lives playing it! It is like real world sports where you have the eleven players on the team on the pitch, then the grandstands filled with thousands watching.

Games wouldn't work if everyone was so inclined to hack it and write their own. You have got to have audience, those people happy to spend all their free time playing the game rather than wanting to be the next developer.
> Blocking apps used for the dissemination of information is a free-speech issue.

I think there is an argument to be made that TT is not an open forum. The only party that speaks through the app is the Chinese government.
I don't think you overreacted, the "Just to be clear" and other wording seems like gaslighting to me, assuming that the author knows about this alternative but knowing that is unlikely.

A much better way to phrase this question would be something like:

> On the surface this looks like it solves similar problems to Boop, an app I use to do similar things. Have you heard of Boop? If so, how do you think this compares?
It could be unrelated to a prior jailreak - I had installed the iOS 14 Beta and my banking software insisted my phone had been jailbroken. Fortunately it allowed me to 'Accept the risk' and continue.

I think the most likely scenario is that there is a third party library or service to detect jailbreaks and it is faulty.
This is not a subsidy but a loan.

If the state wants to stay out of it, but only has to say: "we are going to be using nuclear power for the next 40 years", and the interests will naturally go down because the investment is safer, and so everybody would pay less.

One would think that the state backing (either politically or financially) investment in infrastructure would make sense, since it benefits everyone.
Not if you go to Scotland but Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool (to name the most common places remote workers for London companies appear to work from what I've seen) are easily done in a day trip. Prices can be hefty but compared to spending a night in the hotel it's still cheaper for the company to pay for busy times.
> Japan's energy consumption has been falling since before the 2011 disaster

That is really surprising. Can this be traced back to a cause. Some industry that closed down or did appliances and lighting got that more efficient?
Note that cost would also include getting rid of the nuclear waste, which AFAIK is still not a solved problem.
E.g. you could send the waste via rockets to thes sun, but that would be very costly ;-) The problem with the statistics is also that we cannot rely on averages here. E.g. one big accident might cause huge environmental issues. Estimating accurately how likely that is seems difficult to impossible
I want a 64-core 51GB box with this to use wih my teams. Anyones IDE will fly using that power available. Costs could be lower too (although I doubt setup and maintenance offsets the decreased hardware cost).
You don't need a "miracle". Hornsdale was installed for $500/kWh, which works out to $125/MWh of storage at 4000 cycles. Prices have already decreased by over 30%, so we're probably at $100/MWh today.

If you need to store half your generation on a diurnal cycle, add it on to the LCOE of ~$50/MWh for utility scale solar, and you are cost competitive with the LCOE of nuclear today.

Lithium battery production is going to skyrocket regardless of whether it's used for grid storage; we're going to need enough for a billion cars over the next decades, even if the world converted to nuclear. Prices will continue to fall just as they have.

I am a strong believer that we should have embraced nuclear, given what we know now about climate change. But starting in 2020 with next to nothing, we're just now passing parity where renewables are starting to win, and the gap is going to get larger.
The AWK programming language, the Unix Programming Environment and the Oreilly Perl Books. For everything else, any serious distro provides specific man pages and handbooks.
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Newspapers were not surviving from few bucks: they had subscriptions (bundling low value content with high value content) & advertisements (lower margins now, moved to other channels like craigslist). And logistics may have been expensive, but IT infrastructure and staff is not cheap either.

A few aggregation sites have tried to bundle news from different publishers for 10$/euro per month (e.g, blendle). But as can be seen from the original prices of a subscription ($250+ / year / publication), this means a much lower revenue per publication than before. For half the price, subscribers get all the publications. This is not going to be enough for the publishers to survive.
It's not that she would have refused, we just got so used to using imessage that we didn't have a working backup (we had sent emails but that's not always reliable.)

We lived hours apart and I needed the address of the place we planned on meeting the next day (she had already sent it, but over imessage.)
When I was 12 - probably a few years before you - I didn't have a dot matrix printer so I wrote out the entire disassembly of the Vic-20 ROM in school exercise books.

That took the first few days of the 1983 summer holidays.

The rest of the holiday was spent happily analysing it and annotating my source code, figuring out how BASIC worked, including the floating point routines.
Let's say a child of a worker working in a nuclear reactor site for "Bring your daughter to work-day". She's ofcourse using tiktok, and guess who has that data now.

This is just an example. If I spend enough time, I can think of a whole lot more examples.
If you're all remote it's probably easiest to rent office space for those days close to a train station (or between those) in London. In that case it's probably not more than 4 hours for anyone based in the UK.

Same for other European countries. If you only need office space every other week for a day you can rent it in a central location that's easy to reach by train for anyone in the country.
I live in a high rise building made out of concrete and know plenty of people who live in wood buildings. I'll pay double to not have to deal with the problems wood buildings have.
Cool! That's pretty impressive. The 6502 is a beautifully simple processor. I recently started learning about it from Ben Eaters youtube series[1], and have a printout of the W65C02S (a more modern variant with optional 16bit support, but full backwards compatibility) datasheet beside my bed[1]. Tables 5-1, 5-2 and 6-4 might bring back some memories :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypFbtuVMUVXN...

[2] https://www.mouser.ie/datasheet/2/436/w65c02s-2572.pdf
Surely the same aging effects also affect dams too, though?
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Read the article please. Quote: "A disgruntled American hotel guest who posted several bad TripAdvisor..."

It's right there at the start. So has nothing to do with Google Maps.
* https://linuxjourney.com/ for a nice overview

* https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast... - my collection of resources, mostly for command line and bash scripting

* https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html linux kernel and its insides
Priming is one of the least reproducible effects out there and lies literally at the core of the reproducibility crisis [1]. I'm going to call BS on claims of some sort of spooky weaponization of it.

Edit: To add necessary context for those unaware, TikTok's audience in the US is politically liberal. The buy out of Trump rally tickets a few months ago was organized there [2].

It's true that we should be talking about the security implications of foreign control over our social media platforms. It's also true that we should be concerned about a targeted ban (instead of, say, a general crackdown on foreign social media) on what amounts to a meetinghouse for Trump's critics by the Trump administration itself.

[1] https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/07/07/tiktok-...
telnet is a bad example, it is full of quirks ans special cases.
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This study is from 1987. Might it it be slightly outdated?

This article from 2009 addresses the lower age estimates from the 1980’s era, saying reactors could last for 80 years or even more.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-power-pla...
Thank you for that, I wasn't aware that site existed, already confirmed some of my worst suspicions. What we are working on is a music application that horizontally scrolls a score drawn on a canvas. Smooth scrolling is quite essential to be able to keep to the beat (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24615125)
Then, shouldn't videos on Facebook be banned as well?
Germany has a much more restrictive system though. 65% and a cap that pretty much anyone with a college degree will hit. So in reality you look at 30-50% for most people. Still nice, especially given the job guarantee, but very restrictive in who can take it if you have bills to pay.
Irony now is that, thanks to competition, getting a car in London if it's busy now requires trying your luck with Kapten, Bolt, Uber, Ola, and, if all fails, Gett/FreeNOW for a Black Cab.

All the drivers freely admit that they're driving for all the apps, which is great, but it can be a nightmare actually getting a car sometimes due to supply being spread across 4 or 5 apps now. Feels like a TFL run app would be best, but maybe that's communist or something?
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Did you actually read the article? It's not a tourist but a teacher that works and lives there.
It's not just tech workers, pretty much any academic will hit that limit. And if you live in an expensive area, 1800 Euro can be a severe cap. With mortgages to pay, it can be unrealistic for the father to take more than the minimum of two months off.
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In the end, a subscription is not something you need to "manage". People moaning over having to manage too many subscriptions? This stuff is automatically booked from your account, so I am not sure what people are complaining about. It's zero work for you. Now, you think that service is not worth $5 a month? That's a whole different matter, don't subscribe then.
I wonder how many more times we are going to have to go through this political posturing game with this 'revoked-but-not-really-revoked' licence system. By now we all know there is no real possibility of Uber not actually operating in London, and all of these threats by TfL et al. are completely empty. I'm sure Uber knows this too.
Two kids is still below replacement, which hovers, IIRC, around 2.1. Does the math still hold for 3 kids?
But that’s also eye for an eye, just of a different kind, is it not?
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As noted in the HN article on that blog post, this is because FB shadowbans articles if they get organic growth for too long until they buy FB ads. This isn't specific to Assange's hearing but simply a reality of blog owners.
So it trusts the client's browser to determine what they owe? If the payment is relying on goodwill that might be ok, I suppose.

Their Documentation and Explainer links are both broken.
> Emacs is one of the most successful text editors of all time if not the most successful.

Define success.

> But I think the bar is much higher than this.

Sometimes it's the small details who have the biggest impact.
I know it probably won’t be the advice you’ll expect to hear, but I’ve been there and perhaps just as badly.

What helped me was just to accept that I’ve probably got 10 good years, maybe 20, and I’m okay with that. My parents would be in old age, I don’t have kids to worry about right now either and I’ll do what I can to make it better - but I’ve accepted the worst. Even the worst case I’m at peace with. I’ll be 40 around then, which is probably better than most humans through the course of history.

Bleak but also liberating. Makes you value your time a lot more.
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What are you doing with the waste? Coal being as dangerous is no argument, which also should not use coal. Also suing Coal has a different probability distribution. Coal power plants do not blow up like Nuclear power plants do. Even if they would do the consequences would be much smaller. How do you measure BTW lost area of the Chernobyl accident? You IMHO just cannot count only how many people died (which is difficult enough).
blendle (NL) was aquired by a french publisher very recently. I'm not intimate with the numbers, but the founder wrote in dutch on medium.com about their model multiple times. The Webapp interface to browse the daily crop of Newspapers is actually pretty great, I use it on a handheld. The problem with pay-per-article is the overhead in thinking about "do I want to read this?", but from a consumer perspective it's likely that you spend the same amount on articles of multiple publications than a subscription to one of them, but you're constantly made aware of the costs, as with a subscription, it's a remote thought.
Great work man! Installed the app and ran the tests. If there is any way we can see the results do share.

From what I can see, there is no way to bypass the SNI filters without using a proxy/VPN of some sort. Do let me know you have any tips for it.
What is Unix? Because the actual Bell-Labs Unix didn't sound easy to install or get ahold of.

Minix is trivially easy to work with but that's not Unix, just something similar.

Linux (with GNU or busybox) is super easy to find and often easier to run (both on qemu and on modern computers you can just stick the kernel somewhere the [virtual] machine can read it and then just power on.) Once you do that all the code is there. It's not unix though, it's not really even POSIX, it's just what everyone is currently doing with computers (but you really need terraform, docker, and node.js to have the complete picture.)
Seems like a similar dilema to streaming, all the content is split across a bunch of services.

I wonder if there will be a way to spin all these threads together someday, I suppose in private hands that would become a monopoly.
> Flamanville reactor in France was supposed to cost 3.3 G€ in 2007, it is now at 19.1 G€ in 2020 and called a "mess" by energy minister (https://www.montelnews.com/en/story/french-epr-is-a-mess--en...).

Your information is very misleading, very.

The quote come from the minister of the ecological transition, not 'energy minister', whose official duty is, quoting wikipedia 'responsible for preparing and implementing the French government’s policy in the fields of sustainable development, climate, energy transition, and biodiversity.'

This new minister has a political degree (Science Po), no technological background, and is member of the local pro-ecological party since 2000.

Of course she's referring to EPR as a mess, which is true in a certain way, but in her mind it's just a political stance she's feeling obligated to say publicly.

Of course the EPR is a giant project, maybe too giant, of course it was underestimated in order to get it going, and of course it takes much longer to be built than every one would want.

But that's the price of technological advancement, that's how we learn to build better things.

And what's the alternative? 1650MWe of wind turbines, where would you put it?
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This is a prime dictionary worthy example of not getting the point.
What is the experience like with the fully disconnected sides, do you not struggle to keep them at the correct position relative to each other?
The idea that Uber is somehow more dangerous than a black cab or minicab - neither of which keep any record of who is driving, where they took you or who you are is just silly.

Taxis in London were just terrible (and expensive) until Uber
Uh, I'm almost certain they see themselves as providing more value than Netflix.
I just recently learned just how underappreciated Zuse is. Besides the Z3 and Z4 being hugely modern machines while _also_ being the first programmable computers (load/store architecture, fixed length instructions, multiple stage execution with overlapping stages, 32-bit float [which he independently invented, but was previously discovered, but not implemented, once in 1914], branch delay slots), he suggested the structure for an optimizing compiler for numerical code as well as trying to patent super-scalar execution -- in the 1930s; the patent was eventually rejected as being "obvious" - in the 60s, years before the invention of Tomasulo's algorithm.
> The fathers are looked at negatively if the don’t take some of this time.

This isn't just an apriori fact of the culture, but an intentional result of the structure of the leave.

90 days are reserved for each parent (there's an exception for single parents) i.e. if the father doesn't take those 3 months they are lost. Apparently before this policy came into effect, fathers would typically take very little leave. But once there was an incentive to take 3 months they began to take longer periods and split the overall time more evenly.

So even though it's part of the culture, it's not impossible to understand how it came to be, and therefore not impossible to replicate elsewhere.
> At this point, I believe we should stop discriminating based on age.

If the age of voting is lowered to 6 (as some have asked for: [1]) or even removed altogether what stops me from producing 5-10 kids and then having them vote for a political party that I support? That is 5-10 extra votes in just a decade. And if 1000 families do that, that would significantly tilt the outcome of an election. By the time they grow up to understand what their rights are and that they were being exploited by an adult they would feel disgusted that they were used (or rather misused). You are assuming that minors have inherent understanding of political issues at that young age. Most don't. And it is not reasonable to expect them to know.

Voting should only be enabled for those who are completely aware of their rights. Children typically are not. They are not political by nature. They are playful and more interested in learning things around them. Turning them into political ballots waiting to be exploited by adults around them is the last thing we need in this already fractured World.

[1]: https://reason.com/2018/12/07/should-we-let-children-vote-th...
You could do the same for all medicine, but its a very bad idea. What makes depression separate from all other medical ailments?
That is true.

Part of that is also because they need to cover costs of the people who don't pay and also pay for all the special billing people and lawyers required to deal with insurance and people who don't pay.
If people knew how the stock market actually worked then you would see far less retail investors losing their money. Many people think it's equivalent to gambling and that it is a zero sum game. There is also the common misconception that stocks that don't pay dividends (e.g. they do stock buybacks) can never actually return their investments and therefore every investor is looking for a greater fool until the stock plummets. Lots of people think buying the stock from another investor does nothing for the company unless they issue new stock for financing purposes. Obviously, if you knew even the tiniest bit about the stock market you would know that all of these are wrong.

Stock trading makes money and produces value by providing liquidity but it has diminishing returns therefore it is slightly positive sum. Stock investing makes money off of company growth. Investors can sell their shares via stock buybacks directly to the company (no greater fool needed). Buying stock from another investor increases the market cap of the company which helps it secure funding through traditional means such as a line of credit from a bank even if the company does not sell stocks.

No one on this planet is going to teach you this. You'll have to figure it out by yourself and this is merely information an outside observer needs to know to understand news articles regarding the stock market. Actual investment requires far more in-depth knowledge.
The US government is a democracy. Please give peer-reviewed evidence it is not: I know US citizens are entitled to vote in an election.
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I posted this the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24571689

Basically, along the same vein. I have multiple offices at my house, it would be nice to just have one POWER-horse, that I can use throughout my home when working. Instead of have to use slower-laptops occassionally. I don't understand why this hasn't been solved as a problem before.