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Civilization 3 had to do what Civilization 2 was not able to do and break into 3D world of strategy maps. I was more impresssed by Age of Wonders games that offered better terrain strategy and eventually they replaced my interest in Civilization games. That along with more pleasing fantasy visuals and music was something that took over up till Crusader Kings II came along(though it had a dark side of using toxic and not very deep enough interpretations of history).

>>One other hand if you take XCOM in its various incarnations, it does have a very compelling game play loop, with very consequential decisions to be made, and the combination of tactical decision making at battle level and the long term factors in the overworld is a very interesting one.

Hmm, this is interesting observation, but I have excatly the same feelings towards Civilization games that you are describing about XCOM games, because I felt that XCOM games did not offer very deep game and were very repetitive to the same grind. But then, I also have a dislike for any doom scenarious of future and probably that was one of the reasons why I was not impressed by XCOM games and also Civilization II with free range of scenarious as the first thing that map makers did was creation of doomsday scenarios and the ones that weren't doomsday scenarios were not as fun as other games.

>>In short, we do need to reassess if Civilization games are indeed great games, considering that they are unqualfyingly praised in much of the discussion.

Well, I feel that some of the "hate" or claims about greatness of some games in past is more on the meme level that over time have developed in myths, that some now are taking too seriously - even religiously... :))

It also has to be taken into the account, that any author that is riding the wave on someones else success has to praise object of the topic even more and that makes self fuelling cycle, but I would not go so far as to claim, that Civilization was not a great game. It stood test of time - my memories of first Civilization are of those times, when other very popular option was Wolfstein 3D and then Doom and Doom II and I still played first Civilization when I got bored of Civilization II. Of course I played later Civilizations as well and had fun, but my ground base memories are not about them all so there will be a bias about some of them.
Not really, the computational cost of PoW is not related to the throughput. PoW is not the work that the nodes put into processing transactions, PoW is by definition a useless computation, and it being useless is neccessary for the game theory behind it to work.

You can have the same amount of PoW on very little or very high throughput networks, the two are almost completely orthogonal.
No, if you implement a efficient system to transfer wealth, you don't subsidize meat as meat and plant based food are treated equally.

If a less lucky person (or what you call poor) receives money, they are still incentivized to spend the money efficiently. With the money they have available now, they can buy less meat but more plant based food than before.
As far as I’m aware Lightning doesn’t solve these issues by no other means than just not having the features.
Your last two sentences contradict your first two. He says several times that he carefully donates his laptops.
I don't see the problem? UK is a densely populated island. Mainland Europe has way more land, it makes sense for them to import. Or do you argue that UK shouldn't eat meat since they don't have enough land for it while mainland Europe can eat meat just fine since they do have that land? We trade between nations for precisely this reason!
What you do to avoid that is legislate it for a limited time (lets say ~5-10 years) and then not renew it. This forces everyone to move to the standard in the medium term and doesn't impose long-term restrictions to new, better formats coming along.
Criticism of animal farming in the west risks health of world’s poorest
What you say is not necessarily true, but I couldn't find anything that talks about how the connector that is mandated is chosen.

It will be interesting to know how the connector is agreed upon and by whom.
Right to Repair Gains Momentum
I'm a "you can't convince me to eat less meat" person but I find myself voluntarily ordering an Impossible Burger when it's on the menu. It's generally within $1 of the real burger price and I truly think it tastes just as good.

It's not very close to replacing a nice steak or other more luxury meat products, but it's a really impressive start and I am rooting for them!
The proposed law is not about convenience for the user but about reducing waste.

Also, you don’t need to carry around a wireless charger, you leave the charger at home and charge your phone overnight.
Then make it a simple fee/fine for screwing the customer. You promise that you're gonna host files and you deleted/restricted them? Pay $100 for every day that the files are unavailable.

Legitimate companies will have no problem with that. Scum that wants to lure users in (to capture their personal data) but doesn't even have the decency to hold up their end of the bargain will have to reconsider whether they still want to provide such a service.
I think the comparison of sqs/sns Vs eventbridge sounds more like what your mean

I find eventbridge gives better decoupling than sqs and is easier to configure
I'm not advocating for wireless charging, I'm simply answering the question posed.
The most important statistic of the Biden presidency
Just bullet point lists.

- just

- like

- this

Make it high-level view. Pin it in the convo (telegram app lets us do this). And always highlight the next damn step, whatever issue is blocking, and the deadline.
But not even that much I don't think. But perhaps you are thinking along the lines of a whole forest moving. Trees dying on one side, born on the other. Over a long timescale the forest 'walks'.
It's kind of sad that an IDE from 2002 is the pinnacle of ease of use and productivity when it comes quickly and efficiently creating GUI applications.
W26 Smartwatch
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Yeah.

Plus, this is such a minor issue. You get a device and the charger for it and that is the end of it. If you buy multiple devices that you carry around with incompatible chargers then you carry (assuming you even need to charge on the road) a couple of cables (or one with multiple connectors). It's about as much of a none issue as you will ever get.
Neat, I did not know civ2 had implemented the global warming mechanic.

Anyone who wants a game thats in the same vein, i can somewhat recommend Humankind. But it doesn't really have climate change mechanics, more like 'IPCC naming and shaming' since factions will hate on factions that pollute, even in the medieval era..

I would have appreciated that global warming was a thing that needs to be researched, since the phenomenon has only been discovered relatively late (in terms of the entire span of human civilization).
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.”

― D.H. Lawrence
Honestly, even having the "money" that you send "them" (really it's not them, but a consensus mechanism on chain lol) signals a great amount of trust in the network and its future, including 2.0 transition, adaptation, etc.

It's just a (very) long position in eth. If you hold eth and the 2.0 transition fails to happen, you can practically say goodbye to your money anyways.
I think the mental inertia factor is dominant here.

Generally speaking people are very bad ad judging objective likelihood of events.

Most people don't know often bridges collapse. The wrong estimation goes both ways: a few years in italy there was an outcry for deaths of babies forgotten in the cars by parents (a parent was meant to drive the baby to the nursery but instead drove to work and forgot the baby in the car for hours). It happened a few times over a few years, and as with every random event following the poisson distribution, it also happened that a few such events were clustered in rapid succession such that people thought there was a "baby forgotten in the car" epidemics going on that required some action to be taken; some politician took it on them to push through a law that required every single citizen driving a child up to 4yo to install a device in their backseats that would ring if it detects a weight on the seat and you walk away (and people have been fined for not having bought one). The emotional resonance of the problem was big, but the frequency of the event was blown out of proportion: since 1998 there were 8 cases in a country with 60M people.
The Australian Wildfires of 2020 were a wakeup call to me for both how important this is to happy living and how shared our atmosphere is.

I spent that entire period watching windy.com particulate maps and forcasts trying to time when I rode into work, for weeks on end it wasn't smart to do so, and those fires were in another state to me entirely, thousands of KM away.

I feek for those who live in countries where polution is nearly as bad year round as those fires were during their peak.
Why preventive security measures are more effective than traditional protection?
What's good about being special or being in a state of desire? Isn't being "happy" or at least "content" a more logical goal?

Maybe this boils down to the question: Would you willingly enter the matrix, a fabricated world where you can be happy or fight in the real world? I assume you would say "no", while I would say "yes".
Not great, but better than I personally expected: "Inductive charging is not as efficient as direct charging [...] An analysis of energy use found that charging a Pixel 4 from 0 to 100 percent on a classic cable used 14.26 Wh (watt-hours), while doing so with a wireless charger took 21.01 Wh, a 47 percent increase. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging

Of course problems like heating up the battery and the huge amount of power needed if everyone does it remain.
However you feel about a company and their support policies, don't call other people "meatbags". That's gross. You're no higher tier of person than they are.
> What's Apple reasoning for not abandoning Lightning for USB-C on their phones?

I can think of 3 reasons:

1. A lightning port is slightly smaller than USB-c, so it enable Apple to keep their phone slimmer than the competition in theory.

2. Apple loves to be in control of everything. With lightning, they could make a switch to a "lightning 2.O" cable / port whenever they so pleased. With USB-C they would be restricted by the USB-IF.

3. They can sell more cable and licensing fees this way. With USB-C, everyone will be able to buy a better and cheaper cable than the Apple ones, and Apple won't receive even a cent from them.
Slow Your Beating Heart: Beans vs. Exercise (2016)
In Russia’s So-Called Election, Tech Was a Big Loser
Why bother implementing rules at all? Just create an interface to move pieces around on a board wherever you want. If you play chess you should know the rules and how to move pieces.
Anyone well versed on the current situation with Delphi? Is it still a thing? Is it any good? According to the promotional material on their website, Delphi RAD Studio is supposed to be the holly grail of cross platform application development(Apparently they support iOS,Android,Linux, Windows, MacOS including Apple M1).

For most people though, including me, Delphi seems to be something nostalgic. Good old days, the first time I built applications in high school until I get reliable internet connection and gained my bad coding habits with learning PHP.

I remember building a password manager(stored your passwords in a plain text file hidden deeply in the OS folders structure, had an access counter), a lottery coupon filler(generated printable coupon images so you don't do it with a pen) and a port scanner(the remote address tab was called "far address", because English) and getting them distributed on application download websites.
Maybe unpopular opinion but I like lightning more than USB-C, it makes more sense to me to have the connective parts of the cable on the outside of it, which gets rid of that little "notch" on the inside of USB-C ports which just seems like it can get bent at any time.
Are you sure there is such distinction? (cognitive level ethics vs emotion)

As I see it, if there are no emotions/emphaty then field of ethics has no use.
One thing to keep in mind is that lab-grown meat would still need to be "fed".

The conversion from feed to useable meat may be more efficient but we would still need to grow animal feed and to actually process it more than we do now: A cow can eat hay, but lab-grown meat will need that to have been digested to ready to use at cellular level.

I can imagine than lab-grown meat will always be more expensive than 'normal' meat because of the tech involved and because animals grow themselves but I don't think the aim of lab-grown meat is to be cheaper.
This article really misses out on using the word "metacognition". Seems like that is what the article is all about.
The way it usually works with industry standards is that if the industry agrees that a different connector would be superior, their lobbyists are highly effective at changing the legislation.
Speaking as a non-American who doesn’t consider either Democrats or Republicans to be “my team”, it looks to me as if Republicans chose Trump in the first place because they have no trust in the system, and Democrats don’t trust Republicans now, not because Republicans chose Trump, but because (and to the extent that) Republicans continue to defend even Trump’s most egregious flaws.

Certainly there was sufficient trust by Democrats when, say, Bush Jr beat Gore or Trump beat Clinton, despite the popular vote in both cases. Grumbling about the unfairness, but still accepting who won the presidency.

And that’s despite Trump being a birther: claiming Obama wasn’t even eligible to stand for office? That whole thing represented a lack of trust.
Security audit raises severe warnings on Chinese smartphone models
The sooner these guys open up shipping to the UK, the better. I would buy one of these right now.
I don't really know why they stopped selling chromecast audio (outside of wanting to sell more speakers I guess), but I have (and had) a bunch of those and bookshelf speakers with Lepai T Amps. It worked great.

I've though since replaced most of them with Nest Audios, mostly for the WAF.
Do they bring in stuff like opening hours and can it do searches like "pub near me" yet?
This podcast also has a few nice excerpts from Sid Meier's memoir: https://overcast.fm/+HBlrqX2zo
Wait so a lot of civilization was ripped off from another game called Empire!? Who`d a thought.
Zack freedman made a video [0] last year where he created a wearable glove that tracked hand movements to achieve something similar to what you describe. Seemed really cool, and I'm sure we will get something better than this in the not-too-distant future.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6raRftH9yxM
Optimizing CD-ROM Performance Under DOS/4GW (1997)
Hawaii to remove forbidden stairs due to ‘rampant trespassing’
Haven't used liveview, is it not possible to just implement some kind of heart-beating and re-connection logic?
> WAV files don't have metadata like mp3 files (typically) do.

I feel it's my civic duty here to repeat: they do, in fact they even support ID3 tags, but it's up to the software developer as to whether they support them or not.

WAV tagging has grown in support in the past few years, but yeah, iTunes certainly doesn't support them.
Docker vs. Kubernetes? It Should Be Docker and Kubernetes
> conspiracy Q theorists LARPing in the capitol.

Big Tech also organized and profited from that. Most of this nonsense originated on Facebook.
Well stones do get ground up between milling stones.
The Conservation of Corona
True, and as they explain,

> Builds in Go 1.5 will be slower by a factor of about two. The automatic translation of the compiler and linker from C to Go resulted in unidiomatic Go code that performs poorly compared to well-written Go. Analysis tools and refactoring helped to improve the code, but much remains to be done. Further profiling and optimization will continue in Go 1.6 and future releases.

And as of Go 1.17 that is pretty much forgotten waters.
Nice, reminds me of the Büro Destruct designer: https://burodestruct.net/work/bdd-buro-destruct-designer which was available here (YMMV): https://burodestruct.net/bdd/
I agree on consistency on routines.

It's like having stand ups, and in standups different setups work for different teams. One approach that works with one couple may not work with another. Just gotta keep trying various ways to figure out that groove that works for ya'll.
What does kubernetes have to do with latency?
Are the Swiss vegetarians, or do they just have a high median income? Coming from the US, those prices are unthinkable.
USB-C to USB-A dongles were and are cheap, and USB-C/TB on MacBooks enabled one-cable docking solutions for the first time on the MBP platform so people actually welcomed that.
We don't know the language to the legislation yet, so I think it's worth withhold judgment for now.

Based on other recent legislation from the EU that I've had to work closely with, I would say the EU legislators are very aware of the pitfalls that come with writing a specific technology into law. They seem to deal with this by writing an initial recommendation, or providing a few concrete examples of how to conform int to the law. But hand off the longer term management to some sort of agency or regulator that already exists, and instructs them to work directly with industry to fine tune the technical aspects.

Taking this approach create a natural escape hatch for new standards being introduced without new law being written. It'll still create a natural dampener on innovation in specific area, but it avoid completely stifling it.

Also on quick FYI, USB-B has never been used on a modern mobile phone. The port is bigger than most phones!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USB-3.0-Stecker_(Typ...
You can find a few extensions on stackoverflow that makes subscripting work with integers on strings. I'm still unsure why this isn't part of the stdlib..
Noclip did a documentary[1] on RCT and successor games, and tried to interview Chris. The response passed through his representative is stated in the 2nd to last segment (The Legacy of RCT at 30m55) in the video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts4BD8AqD9g
I love the Lonely Planet guides, but I don't like the budgeting that comes with them. I'd quite like an app into which you could say "I have a budget of $THIS_MUCH, plus or minus $THAT_MUCH for the day. I am in $LOCATION and I would like to experience $THESE_SORTS_OF_FUN_THINGS. Please generate, perhaps pseudo-randomly, an itinerary of fun for the next $NUMBER of hours with all that in mind".
Yes. but remember that openstreetmap is the database. Its third party applications which will expose and build upon it, e.g. including searches in DDG and Facebook and Apple. The project website is not a one stop shop to compete against gmaps.
My car has two wireless charge pads and it's honestly one of the best features.
Some applications use a database which is shared by multiple applications, and you are not allowed to change the models (i.e. you can't ALTER TABLE). You code your application knowing that data can be changed by others. Your application coordinates with other applications through the database. Using separate services that each have their own database is not required and incurs overhead.
As a constant traveler, I consistently need to charge up while on flights, airports, random coffee shops, bars etc
it reminds me the FrogPad keyboard
Stable Channel Update for Desktop
Would it helped if the content was encrypted? I guess yes, so before using any cloud storage, set up the process to encrypt everything you are going to put up there
I find many wrongs with Spotify, but this isn't one of them. My Spotify Discover Weekly is usually great, up to 50% great discoveries, and they're completely different in both genres and time periods to friends' lists.

I guess you just have musically eclectically challenged friends.
TypeScript, VSCode, JSDoc – Managing code and developers
Yeah, it's called microusb.
Another Awful Amazon Interview Experince – Arrogant bar raiser on third round
The Per-Tau Shell: Star-Forming Spherical Shell Revealed by 3D Dust Observations
Haven't heard of swipe (or swype) before, maybe I will try, thanks.
It's generally within $1 of the real burger price and I truly think it tastes just as good.

Especially for fast food burgers I think this would be a real option. Even as meat eater with no plans of going vegitarian I think the Burger King meatless Whopper is in no way worse the the meat version. If McDonalds, Burger King etc. made the meatless Whopper and Big Mac $0.50-1.00 cheaper than the meat version I think you would see a significant switch.
The only vaguely reasonable argument I’ve heard for lightning is waterproofness.
You don't have to imagine it, just look at Balkan capitals that are falling behind.

Sarajevo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sarajevo+winter+smog&t=ffab&iar=im...

Skopje: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=skoplje+winter+smog&t=ffab&iar=ima...

Keep in mind that both of these are in the valley surrounded by hills and mountains, forcing the smog to stay for days during colder weather with no rain or snow to disperse it.

On top of that, there's a report published this month that estimates about 19k deaths across Europe in the past three years because of coal-powered power plants in the WB6 area: https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/07/western-balkan-power-pla...
Sun Cable scales up plans for world’s biggest solar farm with Indonesian help
Except for that large Nordstream 2 pipeline with Russia.

Without that pipeline, Europe (or Germany) would collapse. Germany needs that pipe because it needs energy for the industry and maybe to some extent because it destroyed it own energy system earlier (e.g. closing nuclear powerstations).

Yes, it is the only case where Europe did something that contradicted orders of the Big Brother. But it's similar to the the situation where one person tells another to jump of the cliff: if you jump off the cliff you're dead anyway, so most people would disobey in this situation even under heavy pressure.
Leaky vaccines promote the transmission of more virulent virus
Thank you; I understand what you mean with the translator metaphor. The project still needs to pick some very common usage scenarios and discuss them in depth (kind of "let's pick English and Spanish, two very commonly used languages, and talk about all quirks and translation techniques", in your own example).

You already provided better lines for some of the options than what their docs state, although I'd still miss a small commentary about some example instances where some of them would be useful.

For example: "igndts will unset dts if packet's pts is set"... OK but why would anyone want to do that? DTS is for Decoding, PTS is for Presentation, so wouldn't mixing them cause presentation issues?

As mentioned I'm interested in storing UDP RTP as-is, and for that I'm using "-fflags +genpts+igndts -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1" because intuitively it makes sense to me that potentially broken incoming timestamps should be ignored and new ones written from scratch, but now that you mention it, maybe "+genpts" is doing nothing in this scenario?
Good luck believing that the next regulation in that spirit will not target wireless charging. The motivation on this regulation is the waste produced by endless stream of chargers. wired or not, does not make a difference in that thinking.

But it will give them some years.
It was:
https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Global_warming_(Civ1)
Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account
I did some maths (which maybe some should double check), but for an iPhone with a 12 wh battery. Doing a complete charge cycle everyday would consume an extra 5.6kwh over a year! Far more than I expected.