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>An £800 PC wouldn’t even play current games smoothly

Why do people assume you need a million $ PC to play current games smoothly? Is it the tech youtubers/influencers like Linus to blame for this madness where everything needs to be run at 4k 300Hz ULTRA settings to count as PC gaming?

PC gaming hardware for a good experience is more affordable than people think.

A 850-900 Euro PC (for us over the channel) with an RTX 2060 will definitely play all AAA titles very smoothly. Sure, not in native 4K, but consoles games(even next gen) are also not native 4K/ultra settings but rendered in lower fidelity then upscaled to whatever your TV output is.

>never mind releases in 7 years.

That PC will most definitely play games 7 years from now but on lower settings which will still match the visual fidelity of the 7 year old console as the game developers will have to lower game details to make the game playable on the then outdated console hardware.
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In fact, in 2008 many people liked 30%. Especially those who used to pay ~50% for getting into a mobile carrier store.
I’m seeing a lot of positive comments on HN about this: to me it seems to be purely a cynical piece of PR on Apple’s part.

They hope to significantly reduce the pressure on politicians to take a close look at their App store practices by significantly reducing the absolute number of developers suffering the full impact whilst taking the minimum possible hit to their revenue. This has nothing to do with “doing the right thing” or “accelerating innovation” and everything to do with limiting the number of outraged letters to senators from devs, the number of newspaper interviews with prominent indie developers & so on.

Indie devs have an outsize PR impact relative to their revenue contribution, so buy them off with a smaller revenue tax that delivers outsize returns if it prevents the 30% house rake on the majority of Apple’s App Store income coming under scrutiny.

Apple / Google’s 30% take is the anti-competitive elephant in the room here, not a few crumbs thrown to small developers.
I support progressive taxation but not for that stated reason. I see it more as “we need a certain amount to pay for necessary government programs and everyone should ideally contribute to that. Because some can’t contribute any and some can’t contribute much, we are forced to make the contributions progressive.” (Marginal utility of money also plays a related factor, but that effect is smaller in magnitude in my mind [or is the exact factor I describe above if you squint a little bit].)

I make no moral judgment that we should tax someone more highly in order to make things progressively more difficult for them.
Thanks a lot! Hope I will too :).
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Wait, you have to PAY for tests? WTF?
As far as I know, Let's Encrypt themselves do nothing to prevent you from hitting the expiry date with your certificates, but then I'm not sure what you mean with "Out of the box Let's Encrypt".

Usually you run Let's Encrypt with something like EFF's certbot, and then you certainly get lots of help to have up-to-date certificates, as long as you installed it in a way so it automatically runs (via cron or whatever you use).
Does this support all iOS apps? Like Instagram? If so, do we need a separate software to run them or is it directly downloadable from the Mac App Store?
Based on that I'm actually surprised SK basically adheres to the rules.

I"m pretty sure though that a determined effort to overthrow NK by sneakier means would move the needle a lot.

E.g. making small scale incursions, or military maneuvers that 'mistakenly'cross the border by about 10 km, but now we refuse to budge.

oops we landed on this small shoreline here, but we'd like to stay.

What, You're all starving? We sent a massive peace mission backed by unarmed troops, and lots of food - win hearts and minds.

Basically play a constant game of chicken with them, call their bluff and needle the regime whilst taking chunks of territory at the same time.

It might soften the border enough and cause so much stress to the regime that it collapses by itself.
Or they could just make phentanol a schedule 1 drug and get it off the market. Opioid crisis eneded.
All scenarios boil down to a single question of how much of Seoul are you willing to sacrifice.

You would also need to somehow move your DMZ-overrunning force into position without that manoeuvre itself triggering the artillery bombardment.
Doctors often talk about how hard it is to treat patients because they're worried about being attacked for using drugs. This only makes their job harder.
Would running X86 require licensing? If Intel doesn't say anything then could Apple in a couple of years develop their own X86 CPU by turning Rosetta into a hardware solutions?
Technically it should be possible - as Transmeta has done something similar, but cannot find if they got a license from Intel or it was not needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
Why would it be irrational for the US to attack (a non nuclear-ready) NK? If NK didn't have nuclear weapons, invading it would be an option for the US- as they did recently with Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. I'm not sure what the gains would be, but it's not completely irrational to start a war when you have such overwhelming military superiority.
> it might be a net gain if more people had kids earlier, since they might become better people earlier.

Maybe. I was not ready to become a father early in life; I can't tell you if it would have taught me patience earlier, or would have made me resent the responsibility and poisoned my relationship with my kid.

And overall, I think that prescribing having a child to mature people faster fits into the same bucket as having a child to save a failing relationship.

> it would be nice if people had to think about the care and feeding of others more often

Perhaps we can get young people more dogs. Or a fish.
You’ll probably find the actual rules even more arbitrary. In year 2, your January sales will still pay a 30% commission if you hit $1M the prior year.
Same happens to me. I was addicted to m. for about 10 years. It was addiction because I couldn't stop and I had no friends. It was in the beginning of the addiction that I discovered some unpleasant old memory of situation from my childhood that I repelled. That situation was so unpleasant that it changed the way I was treated by peers. It happened when I was 10 or 11. I remembered it when I was 20-22 smoking pot and doing occasional amphetamine. Here I am 40, 12 years after breaking my addiction and now I now that my memory is weak. I forgot a lot of things and it is hard for me to focus. The technology does not help, recently I learnt that keeping my brain constantly under dopamine flow (browsing the internet for cool things to read) degrades my ability to focus. Etc Etc. Life sometimes get you to the places you really want to go back and start again...
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Good video!

It could have been improved by digging into why the code of Z3 and CVC4 had those bugs.

It is surprising to me that they could be wrong on such simple statements (and such a simple fuzzing procedure). I expected the faulty statements to be gigantic edge-case monstrosities, but they are just a few lines of boolean logic.
That's a great sign for indie devs!!
it's exactly like the freelancer tax brackets in Italy. Everybody jumping through hoops (and or not declaring stuff) to remain under the threshold of 60k/year (was 30k/year). Otherwise tax rate doubles.
Yes, for sure. It means that compilers will be pushed even harder to be efficient on ARM architectures.
Sorry man, I dislike the UI.
Feels like it was done by an amateur.
(Colors, positions, sizes...)
Once you get the foam out of your mouth, you could go and check how the various console markets were bootstrapped. Paying developers to make apps is just fine, if done well. Windows Mobile was undone by a number of mistakes (like rebuilding the platform 3 times from scratch), paying developers was not one of them.

> about the 15%

Yeah, about that. As it is, it’s monopoly rent (and before you bring up consoles - yes, there too). Nothing more, nothing less. Personally, I wouldn’t be happy with 5% or 1% either, because the point is not how you measure the tax, but the tax itself and the fact that it’s not set by the market. Once they allow third-party appstores they can charge 50% for all I care.
Do you think they can make a Pi Hackingtosh now?
Check for AArch64 binaries if you want to run something closed.

Personally I would avoid that, so in that case it's mostly whatever is in the distro you're using plus maybe whatever the developers responsible for the port added. (ex: postmarketOS is based on alpine, but includes some extra stuff like gnome maps and phosh.)
sorry for that, will add SSL as soon as possible
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I'd really like to use it.
But it's still almost impossible to build, and not packaged anywhere. poke itself is simple but it's underlying vm is not.
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Right, having this sort of preconceived notion of what beauty and success should look like is entirely the problem in the first place.

I listened to people like this throwaway account and tried to hide from my feelings because I wanted to be "successful" and live the easier life where I would have more opportunity etc.. So I worked hard, got ahead in my career, married a beautiful woman, bought a big house, nice car, blah blah. I was a very "successful" man, but I was totally miserable.
> If you don’t touch code, it doesn’t intrinsically degrade.

This is one misunderstanding of code quality which takes an absolute approach to measuring code health. Code health is relative to the changing requirements of it’s use. If you suddenly add a requirement that doesn’t fit existing design assumptions, the code hasn’t changed but the relative to the ideal has deviated...without touching the code.

The tech debt metaphor is not perfect. The pandemic has given us all a better metaphor: the code health epidemic. I’ve written about it here: https://sovilon.com/2020/05/15/atd-epidemic-prevention-respo...
"Mostly this includes overriding and affecting DOM functions, and allowing more options to the user."

Agreed, the problem is that even for browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, these features are only implemented to the extent or point where they stop short of alienating vested interests. Unfortunately, Mozilla has to keep an eye on its income, thus it's not as free to make decisions to the extent that it ought to be.

"…core JavaScript has the Date object, which accesses the current date/time; I thought that the ability to access the current date/time shouldn't belong in core JavaScript…"

I agree here too, one can think of various solutions perhaps even 'firewalling' JS code and so on. Irrespective of the technical solutions, given my first point, how does one overcome the impediments and make it happen? Reckon this is the biggest question as Big Tech won't take it lightly (given its potential loss of income if such features were implemented widely). That's why I don't hold much hope for a satisfactory solution anytime soon.
>2/3 GB RAM is not enough in the Android world

It's not running android, it's fine for GNU/Linux. I did a lot of homework in college on a raspberry pi with 1G of ram.
Most don't love the language that much.

I'm not implying that it's a bad language though. Like Java, it's a very widely used language in enterprise and industry, and I think that most of the programmers in those languages view programming as just a 9-to-5, white collar job that puts food on the table. Nothing wrong with this view either, but it's not the kind of environment that would create memes or inside jokes.

Rust, Haskell or Ocaml, on the other hand, are exactly the kind of languages that passionate programmers, that spend a lot of time in chatrooms and on forums like HN, would spend their time on.
> “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” is generally attributed to Oscar Wilde.

According to quoteinvestigator there is no evidence that Oscar Wilde said that

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself/
I've used LE for a few years and multiple times Certbot has broken, needed to be reinstalled, reconfigured from scratch, etc. In theory it keeps things updated automatically, in practice it needed a lot of wrangling.
Image hosting is a waste of money unless you redirect to html pages full of ads.

I think they transitioned to being a community pretty smoothly. I haven't looked around much but I guess it's a worse version of Reddit.
Are you saying that PCs/games/Steam/ubisoftbsmanager/etc don't never have to upgrade in most inconvenient times? Beecause they certainly do.
> would rather let the leadership grow old and senile than promote a competent person

Sounds a tad familiar? The US just elected the oldest President ever, who has spent decades in government.

Honestly confused by Americans pretending they have anything that different to what the Chinese do. Bushes, Clintons, it's like you've all harked back to royal lines while pretending it's something else.

It's truly terrifying that democracies are electing older and older people across the board, they simply aren't capable of doing the job, everyone I know over 60 has highly diminished mental capacities and if not retired they should be relegated to menial tasks.

I know it's a harsh thing to say and I'm truly sorry to people of said demographic reading this stuff but it's a cold hard fact easily backed up by decades of science.

Elderly people are the most dangerous politicians on the planet.
I see how that does affect the competition. Fair point.
As of this year you can get an a lease on an electric company car with a benefit in kind tax rate of 0%. i.e You don't have to pay income tax on the lease[0].

That can make an enormous difference to their affordability, and should also inject a large pool of electric cars into the second hand market over the next few years.

[0] https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/support/incentives
It's funny because I actually remember the unleaded/leaded transition and petrol stations were stocking it very early on. The equivalent simile here would be if unleaded was going to be made mandatory in a year and basically 3 petrol stations in the UK stocked it.

The govt are going to make these cars mandatory soon. London is the ideal place to do this due to infra + rich people with EVs (more than you might think, far from 'almost nobody'), yet I don't see any street that has charges along it.

My point is that it's not easy. Having to upgrade the grid and dig up tons of roads is simply not easy no matter how much people want it to be.
Same in Argentina, sadly :-(

I would like if there is any solution to this other than to apply the same percentage to all income.
There aren't open source graphics drivers for most Qualcomm SoCs.
> Presumably, the most common search preference lists would be used by very large numbers of people

the more anonymous among us tend to opt for common IP addresses and common user agents to become the tree among the forest. adding a profile to that would, well, only add to a digital fingerprinting profile

> those preferences don't need to be attached to you, just your query

that's not how it works. preferences are by their nature personal. every transaction would have your interests and hobbies embedded, on top of metadata

> mit_cs_club, studioghiblifans_new, britains_best_baking_prefs, AlpineMountaineersIntl

you have voluntarily made yourself the birch among the ebony

> If you're especially paranoid you could even throw in a bunch of random preferences that don't affect your query but do throw off attempts to profile you

how would they not affect the query? they complement the query. or rather, unnecessarily accompany the query. your results depend on your input. it doesn't matter what colour glove you wear to pull the trigger if you bury the gun with the body

> write a script that salts every search with a few extra random preference lists, for privacy or just for fun

just the latter. fuzzing would be pointless since the engine will have already identified you by now

it sounds like an annoying browser extension at best. to label it a pro-privacy tool would be ludicrous
Could you clarify this? According to the results I'm seeing, in Missouri Trump got 56.9% and Biden got 41.3%. I can't imagine anyone was predicting 8% less for Trump and more for Biden. That would have Biden winning Missouri, which would have been ridiculous. An 8% different prediction in the other direction also seems implausible. Perhaps you could link to the 538 prediction?
Don't romanticize what, living near your immediate family? Why? It's how literally every civilization has done things so far. This modern American ideal of forced to be on your own at 18 to find yourself has only been around for 70 years at most, and while we've achieved unthinkable progress in that time as a society, it's wrecked havoc over the family unit.
Superbly written by OP!
It's hard to have more than 2 developers working on the core of something. Development is a very non-concurrent activity.

Speaking from experience, when there's multiple people trying to take over the same bit, they only create conflicting changes all over the place and deadlock the project. It's worse than if no work was not done. Now somebody needs to take the lead and remerge things manually and discard what cannot be merged.

Regarding maintenance, the later army of maintainers is typically a bunch of contractors mostly sitting idle billing for time. The size of the maintenance team has little correlation to the workload.
Reminds me of the book "The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work".

Just because you are a good engineer, does not mean you are a good entrepreneur. Most engineers think it's just about building a good product. This is not true.
Gah, I'm really sorry, I think I've been silly and mis-read "0.01" as "0.10" :(

At the time I also hadn't seen about the 5TB included transfer.

Unfortunately I can no longer edit/delete my comment, but I hope this serves as a rebuttal.
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Does anyone know if arm64 compiled javascript binaries will work on x86 systems?
> Snapdragon

> Open

Because these two are incompatible.

The new SoC for 2021 is a big step up over the RK3328, though!
I guess we differ, I could not shrug away the destruction of a million people city as "messing up" - as someone who lived through the cold war of the 80s, who watched "The day after" while new Pershings were deployed to Germany and who felt the impact of Chernobyl.

The times make the people.
Student loan forgiveness would be a bailout for elites
Holy shit, Dan! I just gained so much respect for you as a moderator (and therefore participant) in this community.

Taking the time to write out this very thoughtful, insightful reply to someone who may be knowledgeable but was throwing out hostile one-liners, that is impressive and gives such a great deal of credibility to the work you're doing here -- work that largely goes unseen, of course.

Amazing.

(I actually put down the piece of food I was eating, mid-bite, to write this out. You made my day!)
Electric vehicles solve several problems at once though. They don't emit any of the other unpleasant gases, particularly NO2. And they massively reduce other particulates (no clutch, regenerative brakes).

Plus, having that much battery capacity plugged into the grid should be exploitable to help manage the vagaries of solar and wind power.
Apple/Google's 30% take is a tiny baby elephant in the room.

Apple and Google have a model where they make lots MORE money outside the system and if the price of software is ZERO they would be happy.

In Apple's case, even free software sells their phone.

In Google's case, even free software funnels users to their ad platform.

[1] "Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements."

1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

(joel's a smart guy, he should write more often)
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I don't see a huge price drop before 2027-2028 at least.

EV feel like "luxury" ones because they are new. A VW ID.3 costs like a Mercedes Class E, which can be considered a high standard.
>Someone I know once got Opioids to take home after a hospital visit, she said she didn't want them, they urged her to take them anyway. Turns out the hospital was sponsored by the producer of the pills.

> This is not just over-prescribing, this is intentionally creating addicts and should be criminalized asap.

I'll devils advocate. But only barely.

So, lets say your friend didn't take them, went home, and day 2 something gets way more sore. If she tried to go back to the hospital to tell them, there is a possibility she gets the wrong doctor, gets a note on her file as 'seeking', and then is up a creek without a paddle.

This doesn't take away from the issues with overprescription and marketing. But speaking as someone who had to learn about some of this, the hospital did the shitty but correct thing

Source: because of the sheer -volume- of ADD meds I have to take and my aspergers, I got a good course from my doc on understanding how not to accidentally look like a seeker
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MMS doesn't work with modemmanager, it sounds like the OS this ships with uses ofono instead which has MMS support.
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1. Writing is FOR THE READER and your effort reflects this point.

2. This style is very effective across non-native languages and helps facilitate future communications by organizing back-and-forth discussions with topic numbers

3. Focused topics provide transition space in the reader's mind for internal language translation and context framing for improved comprehension. Each topic sits in its own compartment of the Bento Box for consumption and consideration
Another famous mathematician, Paul Erdős, took Ritalin and Benzedrine and when he stopped for a month (to win a bet), he complained like this:

"Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper."
Averages can conceal just as much as they reveal. What does a society look like with those same averages but where the distribution of production is governed by power laws and the distribution of consumption isn't?
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Sure, being pro-indie is good PR.

I don't see how this helps with antitrust though. Either way, it is an actual policy. Newsworthy, at least.

Also, a comment isn't necessarily positive or negative. This isn't a poll on Apple's HN approval rating. It's an announcement of a thing Apple is doing.
Letting someone else terminate your SSL kind of defeats the point behind it.
> I’m seeing a lot of positive comments on HN about this

To me it seems like those comments are in the minority while the popular opinion is the cynical take.
> Imagine xbox was called "Windows Gaming".

isn't Windows gaming the richest market for games since a proper market for games exists?
The original link works fine on Ubuntu Chrome...
Various means? The official way is at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsins...
While I am an obsessive fan of 538 (I've even ordered a Fivey Fox hoodie), I'm a little amused at Nate talking down prediction markets.

It seems to me that if he thinks his predictions are that much better, he should be massively personally invested in those markets, using his better knowledge to clean up.
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Apple was not first through the gate. This fee structure has been in place at least since Nintendo in the 80s.