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Of course Valve is not a charity, but of all companies in their space or close to them, they are miles ahead than any competition because users like using their product. Simple as that.

Everybody prefers Steam to EGS not _only_ because they're stuck there, but because it's genuinely a better product. It's golden handcuffs, but a fantastic product nonetheless.

In my opinion Valve has found the perfect balance between making gamers, a notoriously difficult category of people hard to please, happy and making serious money. Laughing all the way to the bank while single-handedly improving the status of Linux gaming and desktop in general. I'm more than OK with that.
How the hell is anyone supposed to not judge someone who acts stupidly because they can't articulate their own underlying feelings?
Don't know if you're in the US but if so, I'll remind you that we have multiple constitutional amendments that protect your right to keep secrets. But if you find those amendments to be unethical, I sincerely wish you the best of luck in your next encounter with the police.
Like semiconductor fabs, keep it clean and automated.
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hand grenades tend to be anti-personel, so I can see them being ineffective against structures.

Still, with the amount of videos on youtube with people fumbling training grenades "far enough away" doesn't seem to be a given.
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I think that's just like the fact that John Lennon did his best work in The Beatles, or that George Lucas's best films are the ones where he was challenged by collaborators. Once art requires a certain amount of diverse techniques in order to be produced, the chances that a single individual will excel in all of them fall dramatically.
LiveView is a mirror that reflects how much accidental complexity is left in mainstream web tech stacks: It turns out people on your average React + Spring project spend the majority of the time on hassles instead of functionalities.

With that being said, it's hard to replicate LiveView in most tech stacks in an as performant way. Blazor feels like LiveView at a glance but doesn't feel like it could handle as much as LiveView in production. The key difference is BEAM was designed like an operating system (processes, preemptive scheduling, etc) instead of a programming language runtime.
I was pretty amazed last year to discover that MacOS Catalina finder did perfectly fine job in restoring an early 2000 era iPod Nano once connected through "the dongle of shame" (USB-C/USB-A).

Connoisseurs will appreciate that a the time of shipping the device required the now deprecated iTunes software. So someone, bless him, probably took time to port those old firmwares to the new finder based interface.

PS: No it doesn't run on iOS 15 but should we realistically expect that ? :P
What puts me off are the JavaScript pre-modules way to do Zig modules, I already have Objective-C for @ everywhere, and it is just like C in regards to use-after-free.
They ignore all the bugs in everything. Feels like there’s a skeleton crew at MSFT just applying new turd polish and that’s it.
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I made a blog post under the humorous title of "Never update anything" which does sound a bit like what you're suggesting: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything

It's probably a bit chaotic, but some of the arguments that i made were that "updates" is too broad a term to be meaningful, since you might be interested in security updates without any other sorts of breaking changes being forced upon you:

Types of updates are the problem

The problem here is that we never differentiate between the types of updates properly:
- major leaps in the development of the software which add new features
- security updates that don't change any actual functionality apart from the security fix
- bug fixes that should not alter any functionality in significant ways
- small backwards compatible feature updates that are essentially opt in

Essentially, you might want stable and secure software and not much more, since if it was enough for you at a certain point in time, then it might be the same way in 10 years, instead of needing new features that break your logic numerous times over that period.

But perhaps the current situation that we're in is simply a reflection of the current industry and market conditions, where companies try to have their products remain competitive.

You can't sell stable software (or hardware) that has a new feature once every 10 years, when there are products out there that release new stuff monthly - at least when it comes to the layperson, otherwise we wouldn't have enterprises like Google or Facebook make significant UI/UX changes, since none of those make sense from a purely engineering oriented point of view.

Of course, that's just my interpretation after applying Occam's razor - for some reason we don't hear much about extremely stable products as success stories.
We also don't value the cost of the environment. If we did and we taxed appropriately I suspect beef farming would be unprofitable.
I would say it is an undesired flavor for these people not an off-flavor. And in the same vein I want a restaurant critic to tell me about off-flavors, but don't care if they personally like cilantro or not.
The area on which is cattle ranching is better than nothing is a very small portion of the world. People loves to bring this argument, but it is order of magnitude lower than area destroyed by cattle ranching (farms for feeding beefs lead to deforestation, badly managed water leads to desertification).
Unless it spoke only to my argument and not towards me personally, then by definition, yes. But I can take it, I'm made of sterner stuff, so no harm done.
> Regular blockchains are already utterly useless

Curious why you think so? Also agree Solana is quite centralized but I wouldn't say it's a scam.
I used to have many Google accounts (credentials in my password manager). One for gmail, one for every mailing list on goougle groups, one for Google+ etc. For a while they haven't let me use them whithout problems providing a phone number. They force me into some security check-up after logging in which seems to have no way to skip the phone number entry.

Less Google for me, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
even if it’s cost competitive or even cheaper, im not eating the disgusting frankensteins concoction in this article. I’d rather pay more for real meat. And if that’s illegal or sometbing then i’d rather be a vegan
When you drop all of your stuff into itunes, won't it automatically reencode everything to either aac, possibly leading to perceivable audio errors or to alc, bloating the file sizes to a ridiculous degree?
There was actually an existing, similar in concept, Ruby JIT, Rhyzome: https://github.com/chrisseaton/rhizome.

It's good to see (IMO) the development of a JIT in a strict sense. I'm personally skeptical about the current approach (invoking a compiler separately).

On the other hand, it's important to know that JITs may take a long development time to be performant, and that they also complicate the performance profile of a virtual machine.
I'm not going to argue with you about the different definitions of public transportation, but for sure "taxi" isn't what comes to mind when someone mentions public transportation.

The point you're making is exactly the problem. The reason bus lines aren't used more is because they suck in a lot of cities. Improving the public transportation infrastucture (and no, not taxis), would solve this problem - as demonstrated in many European cities.

Here's a good video that compares the city planning of Houston to other cities, and explains why it sucks. It focuses more on cars vs. bikes, but the same basic point also applies to public transportation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54
Civ 4 was the last true Civ to have a gameplay similar to the the originals.

Civ 5 and 6 introduced unit stacking constraints that completely change the way the game is played.

If WW2 happened in Civ 5 or 6, the Normandy landings would not have been possible because you would not be able to stack large number of units in one tile. Those landings were "a death stack".

But even if every large battle in history could be represented as a "death stack", Civ 5 and 6 players do not like them.

Then, the hex tiles do not create a good keyboard experience.
> I think many people break through the walls of their echo chambers when they stumble upon some basic inconsistency and discover they are being lied to by seeing e.g. raw footage of an event vs. its media interpretation.

How about someone with authority pretending to be in the echo chamber, who, at some point, starts spouting inconsistent statements? Will that wake up people?
Some things are objectively measurable. Now, some party might claim to have measured and obtained one value when they have not (perhaps not having made a measurement at all). But if a source’s claims are only* about the measurements they’ve made, and other parties can reasonably cheaply make the same measurements, and different parties measuring the thing in question will get results that agree, then it should be fairly doable for reputation to keep track of who is an honest source for these objectively measurements.

Other claims are not so easily reducible to measurements that are cheap to independently verify. However, perhaps sometimes these other claims have implications about the measurable things, where the implication is straightforward to verify upon considering it. In this case, a fact checker could perhaps show that some claim contradicts some objectively measurable fact as reported by an independent organization which is broadly trusted to make and report on objectively measurable things which can reasonably cheaply be independently verified.

Such a system would perhaps still have nothing to say about many claims we care about, but it could at least largely avoid that tower of fact checks for a restricted class of statements.
Apple itself nefarious. Leeching data to FBI and cops. Google is absolutely horrendous when comes to invading privacy. Amazon literally listens to people using home devices.
Good luck using any tech without compromising your and your family's privacy.
We will have plenty of time to complain about it when Windows 11 is released. I would personally prefer to see discussions regarding the actual Surface devices in a Surface thread.
I see this complaint and it doesn't fit my experience at all. I pay for a google account (GSuite) and every time I've asked for help I've gotten it quickly/timely. Maybe if you aren't paying?
some functionality might only be possible by being insecure, thus a security update may have to remove functionality.
I always use the Trump test.
How would the media have dealt with an identical situation except implicating Trump instead Biden.

I think we can say with absolute certainty the story would have been handled quite differently I think.

The media doesnt report news, they disseminate propaganda.
>> He's a torture porn peddler

No. There's a vast difference between cutting someone's head open to save their life because they'll be dead otherwise, and doing it to a totally okay, healthy living person with the intention of killing them.
While all the problems presented in the article are true, none are fundamental.

What is true is that there is no chance of sustainable production of lab-grown meat in 10 years and it is doubtful whether 20 years might be enough.

All the problems described just show that the current approach of trying to grow isolated muscle cells in an artificial device does not have chances to be efficient.

While most parts of an animal are not needed to grow meat, there remains a need for some simplified circulatory system, excretory system, respiratory system (this is the easy part) and digestive system (e.g. to transform the proteins from food into the amino-acids needed by the cells).

Currently the functions of these missing systems are implemented by extremely expensive and inefficient artificial devices.

As the article says, it is very unlikely that these bioreactors could ever be improved to have performances similar to a living animal.

So what is needed is not an artificial bioreactor with muscle cells, but a genetically-modified simplified animal, something worm-like made mostly of beef-like muscle but containing the required systems for feeding and growing.

Even better would be a plant growing some muscle tissue instead of fruits, but designing something like that would become possible only even further in the future.

Currently we do not know enough to modify an animal to grow only the organs that we want and in the shape that we want.

Nevertheless, there is no doubt that sometime in this century and probably in its first half, we will reach the point when we will have this ability (unless humanity destroys itself before that, which unfortunately is something that cannot be completely dismissed).
except it's not since the people misleading about things use the fact that you don't know much about the subject matter to know if they are lying or not. look at the just abject horror that is covid reporting and the right wingers screeching about socialism/communism without even knowing what it means(or if they do... caring about it).
I thought that the auth happened in the 'supplicant' software, so a WPA capable device, should be WPA2 capable as long as there's enough room for new (and maybe bigger) software and storage of new (and maybe bigger) state. Or does the PSP do the supplication in hardware?
Not in sweden. 70% of arable land is used for feed production. These are numbers from Svenskt Kött, a lobby organisation for meat producers, in swedish:

https://svensktkott.se/om-kott/miljo-och-klimat/hur-mycket-m...
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I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but Microsoft seems to almost be doing the missteps in a pattern/on purpose.

Win95 vs Win98/ME/etc (? not sure)

WinXP vs Vista

Win7 vs Win8

Win10 vs Win11?

It's like the Intel's tick-tock model almost. On some level I do think that bashing this is a bit hypocritical when most of us nerds are also the first ones to bemoan a lack of innovation.
I listen to or read probably 8hrs of news at double speed (so 16hrs) a day.

I intentionally listen to as many varied opinions as possible. For stories I try to find the source material and then can decide better for myself any bias.

The most interesting part is trying to explain to people when they are incorrect about a story. 50% of the time people won’t believe it even when presented with source material. One particular faction almost always ignores the facts.

A site I’ll recommend people to explore bias and all sides is https://ground.news/

It’s not perfect, but if you explore it you can at least see all perspectives and stories you may otherwise miss.

A few personal observations about echo chamber regions in news:

1. Corporate news (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, New York Times, Washington post, etc) is never the fastest or most detailed to report anything. Imo it’s completely government propaganda, primarily far-left leading.

2. Populist news & podcasters (New York Post, Daily Mail, Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, WarRoom Pandemic, Lex Friedman, Michal Malice, Eric Weinstein, Sam Harris, etc) typically breaks news or investigates topics which inform the listeners or readers. The discussions and articles are typically in-depth. Often this content is moderate, but can be left or right.

3. Pundits (NPR, DailyWire, John Oliver, stephen colbert, etc) they are critics, often masking their critics in comedy or discussion. News is never broken, but opinions are more digestible. These people are pitching their view point, rather than validating facts and are often incorrect in assertions. They range wildly from left to right, there are few moderates.

I think those are the three broad categories of media echo chambers. People tend to fall into one branch of one of those chambers, so “left populist” news or “right pundits”. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the best way to form opinions. I really wish there was straight news, but there’s really not a ton of journalism. Most of the “journalism” is really done by the populists or podcasters who end up interviewing experts for long conversations.

“Information” seems to primarily spread via social media, and imo that’s why journalism is limited. Corporate news can simply respond to Twitter trends. Podcasters tend to go into interesting topics with guests. And pundits do something in-between.
for a society to have freedom of speech there absolutely has to be a „safe“ way to host csam.
> It runs but can't connect to modern Wi-Fi without an update, which it can't access without an update to its firmware (a classic catch-22).

This argument is moot - the PSP is capable of upgrading from its memory card even in complete absence of a WiFi network.
It does in fact matter that your tcp packets are roundtripping over lower rtt connection even if you do have to fetch from the origin
Have you considered not bothering with manually going through the start menu but just typing what you want, or otherwise pinning mostly used apps to the taskbar? Both are faster and more convenient than point-search-click and taskbar allows grouping. Only downside: typing in the start menu does not always work flawlessly; can't pinpoint the exact problem but seems like there's some algorithm behind it which takes some time to get the most used things to the top. Also it's not truly fuzzy matching, which is imo by far the best and fastest way for launching/searching anything (think Ctrl-P in text editors like SublimeText/VSCode or using fzf on the command line)
So, anyone still use their PDP-8 for email and web browsing?

I find myself falling in both pro and anti camps. Old hardware is cool and still useful but the world does incompatibly move on. ASICs are a thing ... and they are often not built with standards that don't-yet-exist. Eg: try running IPv6 on older network gear.

Also, hardware tends to get more capable for less power over time which leads to real environmental impact. OTOH: electronic waste is also an impacting problem.

"forever" is an impossibly long time in tech... and some tech is definitely made to be cheap and ephemeral. Maybe "we" should start a classification system that gives some idea of the expected lifespan of a piece of technology. At that point, consumers can decide what the worth of a computer is that will be supported (or supportable) for 5,10,15,... years.
I can't read that, he says "like" unnecessarily around 150 times.. it's just too annoying to read.
I eat a lot of cheese. That's a milk product.

I also use a lot of butter. When I was sicker, I tried to stick to organic and even sometimes clarified it. It made a difference when I was really, really sick.

I'm not a big milk drinker.
Apple requires signing in and registering a credit card to do almost anything on an iOS.
Its great tech but why charge per device to personal users?
Check your port for lint, i had the same issue with my phone and after scraping out compacted lint from the bottom of the port the cable sits as snug as before
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Sure it happens, but like others said, this is so low intensity (small scale), that it's basically an edge case.

We can/could raise mountain goats too.

If all meat were raised only this way the lab grown would be probably cheaper.
I want a right to repair. Both for hardware and software. If the makers doesn't want to provide fixes forever, they should at least allow me to fix it if it breaks. I'm happy if they just provide the source code with a nice OSS licence.
Forwarding rules continue to work for 30 days. Then all emails are bounced as 'non existent user'
With travel at least, countries have the right to deny people for any reason whatsoever. Many already mandate various vaccines for entry (even for diseases not transmissible between humans), require a certain amount of money in your bank account, deny you for travel history to other certain areas, etc. A covid vaccine mandate for travel is far from radical.

(Note: I didn’t downvote you)
And yes! Also think that making an artificial wagyu will be very easy and probably not harder/more expensive than any other, and $50 or even $100 dollar wagyu steak is going to be super competitive. And chicken is easy - even a completely chemical, artificial chicken made from God knows what, is hardly distinguishable from a real one so yeah, not much chance there.
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You can use tridactyl, a well-maintained and active project for vim bindings in firefox: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/
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I agree, it looks great. But the price is way too high! Starting price: 1599$?! Who can afford such a device, and what to do you actually do with something that expensive that you wouldn't do with a one-screen phone? If I sell my arm to buy something like this, which is basically the price of a good laptop, I expect a really, really special experience, I'm not sure the custom Android ROM Microsoft is using will be up to the task.
F# came later into the game, CLR was designed as COM evolution and was supposed to be for VB, C#, J# (evolution from J++ and migration path to .NET), and C++ (initially Managed C++, the C++/CLI with .NET 2.0).

On top of that, Microsoft enganged with the language community so that there were about 20 other languages available for .NET 1.0 on release date.

Here, diggging through the archives,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2002/...

> One of the exciting things in Visual Studio .NET is its language agnosticism. If a vendor has written a .NET-compliant language, you can use it in Visual Studio .NET. It'll work just as well as C# or C++ or Visual Basic. This isn't just a future feature-in-planning. There are already nearly two dozen languages being developed for Visual Studio .NET: Visual Basic, C#, C++, JScript, APL, Cobol, Eiffel, Fortran, Pascal, Perl, Python, RPG, Smalltalk, Oberon, Component Pascal, Haskell/Mondrian, Scheme, Mercury, Alice, and even the Java language.

Naturally MSIL had to support all of them.

The dynamic runtime came later as side effect from IronPython and IronRuby efforts.

Naturally WebAssembly folks are going to tell you they are the very first of this kind of efforts.
I was asked about 5 years ago to help to keep an application alive that was running on NT, it was doing an extremely important function and could not be replaced easily. Nobody knew how long it had been running and the developers obv had long gone

I suggested we immediatly isolate all the servers, clients and the network. Create snapshots of the hards disks (on isolated disks) - and try and virtualise the images so they're not tied in to the hardware.

as far as I know that thing will keep going forever to the point the tech will be (or already is?) so old not many people could hack it
> It does seem like games, of all things, would have the potential to be at their greatest under the vision of a single author, but history has shown the opposite

I have to disagree with you here.

Both Civ II and Alpha Centauri were headed by a strong single author. As were both the original Civ and Civ IV which I and many others would see as the best manifestation of the game.

We can also see this outside of the Civ franchise. Think of Super Mario, Popoulous, Doom/Quacke, Sim City, Elite – just to name a few.

Great games were made by great Designers, yes, single authors. Very much akin to big movies or fantasy novels.