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Let me plug the bitbox console, a single chip stm32 vga console, I wrote some posts about vga generation : http://bitboxconsole.blogspot.com/search/label/VGA?m=0
Also, publicly naming the manager is pretty bad karma. It's like they're anticipating or expecting some Twitter pile on.
The publishers absolutely do have the data, but they sit on it. You can see that they actively try out variations on DRM in games from time to time as test balloon. Look for the odd titles without DRM or DRM implementations different from the usual ones. These are their experiments. If DRM wasn't worth it, they would drop it (it costs money after all - licensing, customer support etc.).
I used to be really impressed with European-style proportional representation, until I spent a lot of time in Germany.

I still prefer it to two-party system, but the last German election ultimately came down to two wet-noodle candidates absolutely nobody liked nor respected, and one of the wet noodles won. Now the establishment lumbers on, having lacked anything like a political vision for generations now.

I really wish there were more of a market of systems in the world, so we could think bigger. Probably wouldn't matter to the US, but just in principle.
Very interesting story.
We're all inclined to drugs. Since ever. Like to be cloudy. But still can't read the article as it is paywalli and I don't pay freewilli - thx
As someone mentioned directly in this blog post I can tell you where I came from with the event at least. Trust. Making sure developers know what we're working and why we think it's important and when we can show everyone the data to back up our rationale. I think we still have a long way to go, but it's something I've always strived for my team (devrel) to do.

I felt that it was important to ask these questions on the AMA (there was a fair few in the sli.do in other areas around trust) that centered around all the different pieces of work we do but also knowing that we're not the AMP team we can only answer with our perspective - we try to do everything in the open and developers should rightly judge us on how well we do. I do encourage people to check out the blink process as a place to keep a check on what we are thinking about.
As said those are estimates.
In any case you see the current carbon tax is not anywhere near the cost.
It's worth to mention those cost depend on past, present and future emissions as well.

Where did I say that only a small part should be paying the real cost?
That's a straw man.

And no: miners are externalizing exactly because the lack of a carbon tax.
And from my experience they are not very interested in introducing one either.
> where anyone can contribute content

abuse is a danger if identity is volatile.

If it isn't, things look very different. So put a price on identity, imagine the domain-name for that. And voliá you have reputation building.
Dwarf Fortress mostly has two bottlenecks for historical reasons: It's single-threaded and is a 32bit application, meaning it can use less than 3GB Ram. So interestingly a modern gaming PC could be worse at running Dwarf Fortress than an older one, as nowadays multithreaded performance is prioritized and anything beyond 4GB Ram doesn't help you.

And I guess at a certain world size good performance would need less detailed simulation in other parts of the game world.
Not all crypto is money. ETH for example (which will soon be proof of stake... and more energy efficient) could be considered more accurately as a really large (but relatively slow) computer that never turns off. This plus infrastructure like ipfs enables a brand new internet. Completely decentralized and free of the strangle hold of large tech companies.

To me, money and profit is less important than freedom. Web 3.0 to me is a chance to build a better future.

(For the record, I have no investments in btc, eth, or any proof of work chains. I am invested in AVAX, which has a more energy efficient consensus protocol)
I agree AWS should be contributing back to the open source projects and they are listed as a 'sponsor' (though not a major one) on the Postgres website.

https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/sponsorship/

But AWS should not have to take responsibility for providing indefinite updates to every version of every managed open source project it operates. The only way I could see this working would be if AWS charged the holdouts the cost of keeping them supported.

However, performing RDS Postgres upgrades is relatively quick and painless process. If a company doesn't have the capacity to do that every five years, then it shouldn't be running its own infrastructure.
Everything is until it isn't right? Do you think there's a fundamental problem there, or is it just taking too long?
Android: if you have a hobby app in the play store we’re gonna make you jump through stupid hoops to keep it alive every year or so (I just let mine die)
Bah. If a sysadmin woke up from a coma, systemd would be the least of their worries, since it has a comprehensive manual, working backwards compatibility for most standard interfaces, and is in most cases much, much easier to deal with than what was before it.

They might scream in horror at how containers often get (ab)used though.
A lot of people think crypto currency==bitcoin

Because economically that’s true. There is no crypto (even ETH) which could stay at its price when BTC goes up and down by a magnitude. Of course they are correlated, like INTC may correlate with APPL when markets go crazy, but this link is too rigid for all crypto under bitcoin even when it’s relatively quiet.

I don’t understand an exact reason behind this, but I believe it’s related to how crypto exchanges work internally.
“Angular over react” is also a bad example because in my experience angular upgrades take more work and are necessary more often.
Same for the minerals needed for batteries or most other things.

This is mining.
I’m so relieved to hear someone articulate this sentiment that _git_ is user hostile. Sometimes it feels like TINA to git in the modern world.

At a conceptual level, so much of the more esoteric parts of git makes little to no sense. E.g., rebasing. I don’t completely understand what it is supposed to achieve.

Even vi, with its own idiosyncrasies, is eventually grokkable once you understand that vi key sequences are an expression of an action you want to take.

Git? Nothing makes sense. There is no connection (that I can nail) between its many features and how we think about and articulate what we want to do with a repo.

It’s success is so strange to me.
I'm sure this is covered elsewhere in this large thread but I also worked on a triple A game in the nineties, one of the first 3D FPS games with a huge story. Every aspect of the game's memory footprint was tuned. I spent over two months at one point just going in and reducing every structure to remove unneeded waste and to quantize variables down to the absolute minimum. Bools were held in a single bit. If a variable only needed less than 256 values it would be held in a single byte. I changed a lot of data structures to be highly optimized and crushed down to just what they needed to still work. The non technical producer couldn't understand that I spent two months and was so joyful that the game was running and _nothing_ looked different.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7253999/#_...

It mentions surgical masks and N95 masks.
Isn't it interesting that it is never a "waste" if it is the Pentagon that is polluting and poisoning the world.

But if there is a technology that threatens government power, suddenly it's suddenly all about the Earth.

For many people, Bitcoin is the only reliable technology to prevent their savings to be destroyed by inflation and to evade cruel sanctions. Your opinion has no value to them.
Xi Jinping’s ‘Little Red Book’ of tech regulation could lead the way
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Yeah, I agree that Bengaluru is Best city when it comes to India(the only country i have lived in)

You are comparing Bangalore to other cities which i didn't intend to(given i have never lived in other places tbh).

For me, Question was about Ideal Place to live and Bangalore is not ideal place according to me.

Maybe my response is not rebuttal but the fact that Bangalore is not ideal place.
I didn't say the cruelty was equivalent, I'm pointing out that you don't escape the cruelty entirely by switching to a plant based milk - many thousands of small animals died for it.
And like many other "democratic" decisions, it's just a feel-good measure. Watering your lawn is apparently a worthwhile use of resources, according to the Demos.
My old boss was in the video game industry from the late 90's until 2017 or so and would talk about this a lot.

It's less about old games being optimised so much as modern non-game software being mind-blowingly wasteful.

Modern, well optimised AAA stuff like Doom 2016 or The Last of Us 2 is as much a work of genius design (if not more) as Rollercoaster Tycoon or Warcraft II. If anything, Vulkan is bringing us closer to the metal than ever before.

It's just a general shift in consumer expectation over time. There is no longer any pressure for regular apps to be performant, so they aren't.
Nice, what other software I'm not allowed to run on my machine? Can I play high end games? Make scientific computations? Experiment with machine learning?
Or could evaporation happen faster on the one-disk side so that the slime mold prefers to move towards the more humid/moist side?
You are right. The games need updates. This is just intel presenting a non-solution (scroll-lock, come on) to a problem they have no control over.
Right, so we are to believe that Apple went through all of the trouble to randomize the MAC address, only to broadcast the literally hundreds of SSIDs I have stored over the years. And waste battery life doing so.

And why? It isn’t necessary, the access points broadcast their SSID so you just need to listen to the radio to know what’s around you.

I have looked for information on this but not found it. If this issue really exists, please provide a link to a description.
Just force miners to use byproduct heat for heating. It's pretty cold in winters there.
What you are talking about is the marginal cost of producing an extra kWh of electricity. That does vary between different sources. For nuclear, solar and wind it is exceptionally low. For gas and coal it is higher due to fuel costs and market volatility (see gas prices now). A further factor is how quickly a generator can turn on, maintenance costs, and fuel efficiency. Also, different locations have better grid connections closer to population centres.

These kind of discussions always touch on a few of these points. But actually a well designed market absolutely can take these factors into account and price accordingly. You have strike prices to cover capital costs, capacity markets, bidding to reduce costs etc.

The low price of wind is just an acknowledgement that it is less valuable due to intermitancy. But you guarantee the rate regardless of the market because the low CO2 emissions are valuable.

Nuclear is expensive because it is more valuable due to low CO2 and low intermitancy. Give it a relatively high subsidised rate. It should be more expensive than wind.

Gas peakers are valuable because they can be turned on quickly. But they are dirty. So they charge a high rate but the rate is not guaranteed. The market avoids using them.

You could and maybe should replace all of this with a state run electricity company that makes all the decisions. That is really what people are arguing for rather than a particular type of generator. But in an energy market costs need to actually mean something more than a political point.
> it greatly decreases your time-to-market to do things in a straightforward way

I mean, it's hard to disagree when you phrase it this way, but... really? In the old days (mid-'90s) studios like id released many games per year, some of which with completely new technology.

Modern studios and indie developers (!) who "do things in a straightforward way" can be happy to release even one game per year, and that's with a lot of reuse. Forget novel technology once a year!

So maybe these tricks don't really increase time to market that much, compared to other variables that are also in play?
Great, let's get rid of the military industrial complex then
Seconded. As such, I’ve switched to Safari, DuckDuckGo, and Fastmail. But how does one escape their ubiquitous presence all over the web (Google analytics, ads)??? They’re like a creepy neighbor who keeps following you around.
This is purposefully reductio ad absurdum.
"So basically you must be 100% perfect"

Yes. That is exactly what I said.
like Governments
You’re being negative and pedantic.

There is no perfect way to produce consumable resources because it takes other resources to make them, whether it’s animals, land, water, fuel or whatnot.

Someone will always find something to be unhappy or offended with even if we grow oat milk in space in a vacuum and teleport it back to earth.

Reducing horrendous practices of abusing animals to have a milky cup of coffee is great step forward and people have the right to feel they’re making a positive impact without judgements that’s it not good enough or that poor soil’s nutrients are taken away instead now.

You can’t change the world being binary about these things, it’s a step forward in the right direction.

We’ll change world being agile and iterative, not by turning it into a waterfall project of “everything now is magically 100% environmentally friendly and everyone’s happy”.
I’ve lived in both. They’re not that similar - mostly because Spanish/Catalan and Portuguese cultures and personalities are pretty different. Both great cities and you’d probably have a great time living in both.
Or maybe just invest in atomic energy that is capable of producing enough power for current and future needs?
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What would you rather have, in this case?

Assuming that the work needs to be done? You can either do that on allocation (which you can predict, batch, etc) or you can do that when you need the next page to be used. Which is far harder to predict and work with.
I thought it was a new craptocurrency technique: POC = Proof Of Cash. Anyone who has a lot of cash can generate as much craptocurrency as they want! The rich get richer, the poor get fuckeder.

Maybe Proof Of Cash is just a more honest synonym for Proof Of Stake.
> ETH for example (which will soon be proof of stake... and more energy efficient) could be considered more accurately as a really large (but relatively slow) computer that never turns off.

Run by babies who will manually change the output of the computer when it calculates something they don’t like.
A Bitcoin transaction doesn't consume much energy, only the block generation does. An empty Bitcoin block still consumes the same amount of energy. Which in the end makes it even worse.
> by using Bitcoin they are likekly to save 450 USD millions/year in fees.

More like shift 450mm/year into the pockets of the people running Chivo while creating a media circus to distract from the president's takeover of the judiciary.

Freedom!
No, not saying that.

As I’m sure you know, WHOIS and RDAP are about domain registrant data supplied by registrars and registries.

We didn’t do this in RDAP because: a) we’re not a registrar or registry; b) RDAP has strict limits designed specifically to prevent exactly what we’re trying to enable - unlimited and unrestricted access to data for developers; c) NUM is much broader than just contact data
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Have you tried travelling abroad? It’s still much more complicated than it was, you have to check both countries requirements, spend money on tests, fill additional forms
It isn't always just in NPM, although NPM might be more targetted and/or more publicised.

There have been cases in PyPI (e.g. https://labs.sogeti.com/analysis-of-the-biggest-python-suppl..., https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/pypi-python-package-reposi...), and probably others too, but PyPI is the one I care about.
we should ban videogames, they use more energy than ethereum network (u.s. video game industry uses more energy than small countries!!) and the virtual goods are locked inside one game and cant even be exchanged or resold after use.

not a fan of using energy for some peoples private flights of fancy. we should prioritise actual infrastructure with social value.
California bans the sale, not the use. Discrimination of how we use power is like discrimination of how we use internet service.

What happened to power network neutrality?
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https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...
> most wasteful, pointless and potentially dangerous development that happened this century

hypersonic nuclear missiles... nah, it's definitely this open source software for timestamping database changes.
On the other hand, even with CPUID spoofing, if a DRM wants to check that it's running environment is sane, it would not surprise me to see timing consistency checks (if huge spikes occur at some point of time, it may indicate the process is being tampered with. Or that the process got descheduled or there are big loads on the computer, but we're talking about softwares that tend to take the assumption tempering is going on when in doubt so...)
LibreOffice and Mozilla (cf 'colorways'): S in FOSS stands for 'sh*t no sane user cares about'.

This should fill me with existential dread, but it doesn't actually. The memories of hope are enough, considering that good things tend to get corrupted and come to an end.
taking too long is a fundamental problem here
If you wanna know about it, you should watch in youtube about making crash bandicoot. They were trying to make the gameplay as efficient as possible and making sure that user experience is not affected by it. For example, you only need to load data per level, in case big data needs to be loaded once per level, they will load it from the disc.

Another big problem they have to solve is how to make the crash character fits into the system with too many "models"
I think setenv() will use malloc() (it might use mutexes), same for error printing if it uses printf() or perror().

Also, this is all mess if fork() is called from a multi-threaded context. Esp. via clone(), which up to certain glibc() version cached getpid() result, and returned parent'd PID in the child (for performance reasons of course ;).
Power network neutrality is inequitable.
cats or any domesticated animal
for that matter
Spraying roundup on food is environmentally unfriendly … make sure the oats in your milk are glyphosate free unless you don’t mind your family consuming weed killer.

https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/100-percent-oat-produc...

https://gundrymd.com/oat-products-glyphosate/
It is funny how survival mode unleashes humanity's ingenuity. In the end the environment problem will be solved, but only after a great deal of suffering (and likely death) caused by the current irrational situation. Natural selection has a way of restoring rational thinking.
Would it be better for package managers to default to staying at a fixed version? I know npm defaults to semver upgrades. You say

npm install foo@3.1.7

And it, by default, inserts "foo@^3.1.7" which means "anything 3.1.7 or higher but not "4.x.x".

In other words, the next time someone installs the dependencies it could be 3.1.8, 3.9.7, 3.1234.999 etc...

But maybe it should default to just the actual version and all upgrades should be required to be manual. Checking my HD I see I have lots of references to "rc@^1.1.6", "rc@^1.2.8" etc, all of which would install 1.2.9 if reinstall the deps
Training new hires in Haskell isn't a full-time job. Nor one only doable by senior engineers. I've had interns teaching interns, juniors teaching juniors, etc.

Only prerequisite is a good attitude. If you start bean counting, you've already lost. If you think this level of software engineering cost optimization is necessary, you're just making your workplace worse.
Salvia is pretty crazy stuff, I tried it in my younger years, made the mistake of taking a hit - not feeling much and then taking a much bigger hit of much stronger stuff.

Needless to say - the pictures on my walls came alive, cars started driving around my room and at some point I was sure that I lived in New York (I live in the UK). The whole experience was absolutely hilarious, felt like it lasted hours - but was over in about 10 minutes.

I chalked it up to something that was fun - but something that I'm in no massive rush to try again. After speaking with friends about it - it would appear that whatever mood you are in gets massively amplified, so for anyone wanting to try, make sure you are in a good place mentally before smoking.
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Zero harm is a myth for most things. But harm involved in producing cow’s milk (to animals, to environment) and plant based milk is HUGELY different.

It sounds to me you want to make everything relative so that the conclusion is “everything involves some harm, so I might just eat me some steaks and drink some cow milk, it won’t matter”. But it matters greatly. So let’s not do that.
That sounds like poor implementation rather than something inherent.
This is just wrong.
The hashrate is proportional to the network security, eg 51% attack.

The sentiment on HN against crypto strikes me as odd… it’s like saying cars are the devils tool in the 1900s …

Give it some time to evolve and embrace the future!
Reductio ad absurdum is a perfectly valid rhetorical device, it is even used in mathematical proofs.

What I want to say is that regulating what kind of computations I can run on my machine is pretty bad.

It would make more sense to regulate maximum power consumption of computers like it is done with lightbulbs
The more crypto mining is banned, the better it is for Bitcoin. The more it is banned, less money is spent on mining which means transactions are cheaper and less CO2 is emitted per transaction.
Then those countries can solve the problem in their local environment.
Yes I would support this as well. Let's get rid of all the non-contributive activities.
These thoughts struck me as well in one form or another.

> “If philosophy was unable to identify evil, then there was a major problem with philosophy”

Why is it imperative that philosophy is able to identify "evil", and to what extent?
Is identifying something as "evil" subjectively somehow not good enough for me to condemn it or act upon it?
Scroll lock is the new turbo.
Better to just to slap a carbon tax on cryptocurrencies. The incentives are too big for miners but their end-users are just expecting it will go up in value forever.
I remember 6 years ago working on financial company. We have to deploy our app into weblogic and everytime we have to change something, we have to recompile it again and restart the app server. It took almost 5 - 10 minutes from start to ready to test. I thought that's because of the code but turns out all of our notebooks are using shit HDD. When I use my own PC with SSD, it flies with less than 3 minutes and after that I proposed something like hot reload which make the dev experience a lot nicer (in some cases, you do need to restart)

I don't know about them right now but before I resign, I told them "have you ever calculate how much time and money wasted by just restarting our app server for local dev? you probably should be worry about that because I believe you pay us to wait for app server comes online more than we develop a feature"
100 kwh at California peak pricing of 45 cents per kwh gets you a shopping .$4.50