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> This is totally the right move. I am a (very happy) user of Stadia. If you haven't tried it, you really should...it's an amazing piece of tech. I can find myself with 20-30 minutes worth of downtime during the day, fire up Cyberpunk 2077 or Hitman or Assassin's Creed in moments from my browser on a macbook and play at high settings with no noticeable lag.

There's zero chance I'm ever going to give Google any support in trying to take over the gaming industry. The best thing they can do is kill Stadia, considering how anti-consumer it is.

> The company plans to begin offering its Stadia tech to publishers, opening up the possibility for Stadia to become the streaming tech for other video game companies.

This alone scares the fuck out of me.
A bank does not mean bank account, banks offer many different investment vehicles.

A savings or checking account is covered by FDIC. If your broker lends out your stock and can not recoup it, then you are also not protected by SIPC.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin...
Like all those people who paid for Google music for years and then when it was killed and replaced with YouTube music lost out because some stuff wasn’t on there, or wasn’t available in their country, etc right?
From my reading it's not a product or service.
Tim went on to leave MIT, found Inrupt and get funded to the tune of several million dollars. Some great guys there on the solid team, including Melvin Carvalho and others who maintain ties with the MaidSAFE people. Give it time, it’s the future.
Have you tried Adderall? I did not respond well to ritalin, but Adderall really worked for my symptoms.
I think the discovery of Sutton Hoo led to a similar realization in contemporary Britain as well, reinforced in recent years by the Staffordshire Hoard. The quality of the worksmanship aside, what has always struck me is that the predominant gemstone in these hoards is garnets - sourced from India. How do Indian gemstones end up in far off pagan Anglo Saxon Britain, largely cut off from the rest of the continental trade networks? Even those networks would be greatly diminished with the decline of Rome. The pagan Anglo Saxons probably traded with their kindred on the continent, but to source indian garnets of such quality & quantity? Astounding.
Incompatible with anti-piracy measures.
The minimum card you need to play current games on 1080p/60fps/high settings is about a GTX 1070, a four-year-old card which goes for $300 used. Remember we're comparing this to the cost of using a game streaming service.
Hello! Wow, cool to hear you followed along with Kod. It did ship and was used by a bunch of people. Its code is open source and still up on the github: https://github.com/rsms/kod

More importantly Kod was a side project I did for fun during an extended vacation. I remember publishing the first version on a December evening while visting my Mom on the countryside of Sweden. The next morning the program had been downloaded 25000 times and I was like "wat?!" A really fun little side project.

Playbit is something quite different to me. It is an _idea_ more so than a _solution_, it is a concept and path to a new alternative for software creating and sharing which I deeply believe in. Playbit is the beginning of a materialization of years of discussions, thoughts, experiences and research. I hope that I will have something more concrete to share soon. We have gotten so used to quick quick quick low-end web apps turning things around in a few months that I fear expectations on all software has been affected; Playbit is a long-term project and not something that will be "done" in a few months.

Then again, I might screw this up and it might die as a concept and some half-written code. I guess we will see :–)
He may have lost his bet, but maybe he came close.

2020 was the closest I’ve come to feeling that society was collapsing.
There's no disagreement here. FDIC/SIPC protect against insolvency. The context of this discussion is borrower credit risk, i.e., the risk that the borrower becomes insolvent.
Assuming you have a basic desktop PC, otherwise that will be more than $500, at which point you may as well just get a last gen console... Or you can pay 0$ and just play on Stadia within 5 minutes and not go through the trouble of buying and setting up hardware for a week.
If you are watching instructor led courses, you can speed up the videos on many platforms. I tend to watch videos on Plural Site or Coursera on 1.5x or 2x speed. It keeps things from being boring.
Same here. I have the same model as the OP. It’s been on pretty much continuously all this winter and last. The filter only needs replaced every couple months and I’ve only had to wash the base once. And it keeps our 900 sq ft NYC apartment at a comfortable 40-50% humidity. I think the OPs main issues could be fixed by just keeping a cleaner house.
You have some interesting perspectives, as an insider.

> The only licensing change Oracle has done is to make the JDK 100% free and open-source.

JRE/JDK8 had a very public, nasty license change during one of the late releases (200+ or something) that quite literally had a popup on people's computers stating commercial use of Oracle JDK would require payment to Oracle going forward.

That's quite an extreme change, and set off quite a panic in the Java world.

It wasn't until some time later Oracle made it clear this move was because, going forward, Oracle would be a vendor of Java that happens to sell support and a licensed JDK/JRE, among many others. This is when Red Hat, AdoptOpenJDK, Azul and others stepped into the limelight with this LTS release time-sharing agreement.

It may be true majority of the governing body overseeing Java's development is employed by Oracle... but that doesn't make these other things true. Oracle took very deliberate, calculated steps to put Java into the hands of OpenJDK and ensure they were a major contributor - but not the sole dictator of Java's future.

The reason AdoptOpenJDK, Red Hat's OpenJDK port, Azul and others are gaining so much ground these days is directly a result of the changes Oracle consciously made. It really is one of the few surprisingly good things to come out of Oracle in the past few years - and was extremely forward thinking.
The only way I would even consider buying a game on the Stadia platform is if Google provided a money-back guarantee for if (or when?) it joins Google Graveyard.
Curious to learn more about the tradeoffs you’ve found between Cortex and Victoria Metrics and why you could be drawn to one more than the other?
My fear is developing alzheimers or parkinsons disease messing with these dopamine receptors for decades, are we screwing ourselves over long term? I fear developing early onset dementia too. I saw there was a study that linked neurodegenerative disease to long term dopamine stimulants.

Can anyone break down the neuroscience for me and any meta-analyses studies on ADHD amph stims effect on early onset neurodegenerative disease?
I don't know if it's necessarily BAD architecture, but it certainly isn't typical in my experience. Most of my JVM deployments, even in containerized environments, have lifespans measured in AT LEAST hours, if not days. And the difference in performance between the first request and the requests occurring 30 seconds later is stark.
A person with ADHD on medication isn't in any greater need of therapy or self help than a normal person. Normal people can also have problems staying on task etc, most of them still don't need therapy.
I honestly don't see how Stadia could go away without refunding users for their games. So yes the worst case if you just have to buy it on Steam with the refund you get.
This "established competitor" (which I have never heard of, but I'm not very up to date) has domain registered on 2020-06-08 ...

Many popular exchanges have been offering staking for years.
>Tech could have regressed our society in manifold ways and destroyed and rotted away many many institutions and there would still be books.

There would not be a new book printed about this topic if society had regressed as you described.
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> This isn't obviously anything new.

Conceptually, maybe not, given the history of Merkle trees and hash chains.

But examples of production code using these ideas are few and far between. That's still valuable.
for anyone that has a very new motherboard/chipset with proper PCI-E 4.0 support, and wants to add a lot of NVME M.2 format storage (in addition to the on-motherboard M.2 slots), take a look at this:

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboard-Accessories/HYPER-M-2...

It costs about $70 USD.

In a single socket ryzen zen3 workstation you'd typically be able to use one of these. One PCI-E 4.0 x16 slot for your video card, one slot for this.
Security =/= Anonymity.
Had this one and the only thing it did really well was attract giant house spiders. No thanks.

If you own your home and have central air, you might want to look into whole home humidifiers. They’re surprisingly not that expensive.
> but they’ll be paying and paying monthly forever. It’s lock-in on a massive scale.

Is making money by tricking customers into product lock in really a good business strategy. Wouldn't the word get out sooner or later?

dont you have to pay aws for s3,emr /data engineers monthly and forever too.
yes that is part of the reference.
Mainly I'm advocating that people explore this design-space more in general.

Sandboxes are cool in their own way, but aren't really the same thing

For me personally, the specific version of this that I want is a world to explore for exploration's sake, without anything quantifiable to be gained by doing so. The Stanley Parable is a good example of this, if you've heard of it. I use "world" and "explore" very loosely; exploring where you can go and what you can do as the engineer of a train would fall under this umbrella. Even if the answer is "not a whole lot", there's an aliveness and a wondering that comes from even such a tiny slice of a world.

But as soon as a performance metric is introduced there's this "should statement" hanging over my head, reshaping the whole experience.
Probably because the last product they put full commitment into was Google Plus.
I've silently listened on Discord to two different friends trying to get GFN working (for Among Us) in the past couple weeks. It's crazy how hard it can apparently be to install and set up for the average person.
Reminds me of Brazil's feijoada. The dish is a black bean stew with pig meat served over rice. Nowadays, most restaurants will use good cuts of meat and sausages, but originally, it was made with leftover pig parts (feet, ears, tails).
It's just a different culture and process even. Game studios are more entertainment companies than tech companies. There's also a high ratio of artists and other talent which tech companies aren't used to dealing with. The development process and workflows are very different too.
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I am not a web developer, but I don't understand what is needed to be 'installed' to use a css? Could someone explain why the default install isn't a clone of a nes.css?
> They should have a measure by which to mark this bet's conclusion. Arguments can be made for both sides.

They're not in the science game. They're in the selling content game. In that, all three (let's not forget the person writing the article) appear to have succeeded, gaining exposure (and payment for the article writer) thanks to the bet, regardless of rigor.

One could perhaps forsee more books and articles forthcoming as a result of this bet?
Train cab ride through Norway.[1] A train driver in Norway has been posting cab ride videos. No selfies, no music, little commentary, just a front view out the cab window. Very peaceful.

[1] https://youtu.be/1-o1Z0CVnPY
I've been using GeForce Now, the main advantage being that I will still own my games if they ever cancel the service. For now it's only $5/month and includes ray-tracing capable hardware, but I doubt it will be that price for long.
I'm a parent who's scared about my child's potential need for this. We're just entering the diagnosis pipeline now. I'd like to give you an opportunity to convince me that I shouldn't be resisting that sort of thing, which is my (admittedly somewhat unfounded) reaction.
In case you didn't know there are some startups offering free online diagnosis online (during COVID, online diagnosis is possible). I have tried https://donefirst.com and got an appointment next day.
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Let's help the world make time for what matters!
Why do people from privileged classes misidentify their origins?
Roman wall tucked away in a car park in old London
Running a cloud infrastructure is something Google is good at. Making AAA games is not. It is entirely consistent with a deep belief in the product for them to reallocate resources toward partnerships rather than trying to spin up a AAA game studio internally.
I had fun chatting with these folks. They’re doing nice engineering. Not at the right point/stage for me, but great folks.
No, the article you linked specifically supports my point. In the middle of your article it says:

> The students also showed an improvement in their alertness and their ability to focus, the researchers found.

The idea that only ADHD people see improved focus from stimulants is purely false, as indicated by the article you provided. It's a dangerous misconception, as many people use this misunderstanding to self-diagnose as ADHD when they take their friends' stimulant medication and experience improved focus. We need to be clear that non-ADHD patients still feel increased focus from stimulants as well.

You are correct that over-medicating with stimulant medications can harm certain types of cognitive function, in both ADHD and non-ADHD people. Dopamine has a well-known inverted U shaped response curve for certain cognitive processes. Going too far past the optimal point can worsen, not increase the focus changes.

The study also used a strangely high dose of Adderall. 30mg of instant release Adderall (equivalent to 60mg of Adderall XR) is actually beyond the recommend prescribing guidelines for ADHD. That's the type of dose that would typically only be prescribed to patients with severe narcolepsy or severe, intractable ADHD. I'm not sure why they thought it was a good idea to give it to medication-naive study subjects.
I should correct that slightly because no one ever cites facts or quotes in isolation - usually they are in the context of a broader argument or hypothesis. But there have been a few cases, here Google will probably serve you better than my feeble memory. One (rather controversial) example I can think of is James Damore. His hypothesis may have been wrong (I will leave that up to the reader), but he at least did seem to earnestly back it up with data and research papers (and even though there is some debate there, at least a few experts have publicly agreed that the science he cited was well-established).

Note: I am not defending Damore's position, only stating that it was a great example of the "yellow/blue dress" when it comes to orthodox speech. People seemed to be pretty fiercely divided on whether or not his memo warranted being fired.
Besides minor details, I don't really have any disagreements with you on your reading of the situation.

> So then, the same as it's always been?

I don't think I'd call it business as usual. A lot of clueless and naive people got involved in politics, everyone is pissed and bored at home because of Covid, censorship and violence are becoming more acceptable by the general public. And it's not just the Facebooks and Twitters of the world punishing the wrong-think, it's also the banks and usual services people use daily. Once the censorship is seen as necessary by everyone, the government potentially can implement it as a policy too. The last one is maybe too far-fetched as of right now, but who knows what the future holds. Anything can happen at this point.
My read is that Google has soured on Stadia but needs to wind it down slowly to manage their image, and because Gamers are notorious for taking bad news badly.

The studio goes now. Hedged with a commitment to bringing you yesterday's games next year, from a skeleton crew of portfolio managers.

Next, the GPU clusters will track GCP usage, not the PC hardware hype cycle. Cloud GPU users only need commodity compute; Gamers want ray tracing cores, AI processors, the latest DirectX features, yadda yadda. The enthusiast hardware market is a well-oiled marketing machine. Stadia, by virtue of running on a platform that only buys workhorse cores, will become increasingly hostile towards gaming use-cases. Studios won't waste time porting an unreleased game to oddball hardware. Stadia probably doesn't have the subscriber numbers to make the juice worth the squeeze.

Last comes the email that your Stadia games will be accessible until June 202X.

Alternatively, they might actually think they have a chance to succeed from the publisher & platform angle. Everything will look fine internally until the fund dries up because publisher bets are multi-year affairs and exclusivity is expensive.

Best case, they have a hit and people subscribe long enough to play it. Now find another hit, no big deal. Most likely case, they don't find a hit in time. These kinds of publisher funds only get funded once.
I see this in big companies as well. I work for big pharma and 20-40 web projects are not unheard of. The dysfunction is not one sided. There are way too many people involved from the Big company that make it impossible to move fast allow engineers to do what's right. Instead it quickly turns in the Phinoix Project
Tech companies are literally begging for philosophers to tell them what [not] to do with their fantastical and profitable inventions, and still people advise kids against studying philosophy
On a similar note, youtube has a bunch of very long (hours) train videos from the cockpit perspective. The Nordic ones are quite peaceful, as well as the Swiss ones.

Here's an example: https://youtu.be/MpDLyLjQz6E
It might make some hard core Facebook users shift to android. They will get lower engagement metrics from iOS users (the smart thing to do is to try again with moving to a web app). But the declining engagement of iOS customers will likely hurt Facebook monetarily more then the lack of fidelity with targeting.

The problem is the iOS demographic often correlates with one of the most valuable to advertise to. While targeting will become harder again, which might hurt prices, overall its not like that ad spend is going to go away. Targeting will become more coarse-grained, but at the end of the day, facebook has so many on platform data sources, that it remains quite profitable to serve them.
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Tobacco and alcohol are two legal drugs. They have vastly more usage than any of the illegal drugs. They incur vast costs--including hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

Why do they have vastly more usage than the illegal drugs? A major reason is because they are illegal--such as risk of arrest, poor and uncertain quality, hard to find. Legalizing them would vastly increase usage.
Well, the way I handled it was by leaving the field. Sure, the pay is less. But so is the stress!

I’ve never been happier now that IT is part of my past and not part of my future — it seems to me the field does nothing but churn out burnouts.
>On Stadia, you have to buy the games separately on top of the streaming subscription

FWIW, the subscription is optional (with these perks [1]). You can also just buy the game you want to play and play it, no subscription needed.

[1] https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9798345?hl=en
I'm pretty sure you could destroy a lot of the fabric of modern society and still have a publishing house and a printing company able to produce a few thousand copies of a book.
The bet was that it WOULDN'T be close. The fact that it is means he lost. Pay the man.
A company accused Wirecutter of being pay-for-play, based on how how heavily affiliate revenue (allegedly) factors into Wirecutter reviews. [1] The Wirecutter responded here. [2]

I wonder if this was part of the reason that the Honeywell unit was recommended.

1: https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...

2: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/our-response-to-nextdesk/
How about something like “How can I get from here to _____?”. Asking for the CEO’s perspective on moving up in your career.

They might not be good advice, or they might not have insight in to you as an employee (though I would challenge them to get that first as part of the question), but you just might uncover some unknown unknowns and open some doors.