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Cool. Now let’s update anti trust laws so they can be applied much more readily and start enforcing it. A healthy, competitive market that encourages entrepreneurial innovation has no room for these trillion dollar anti-competitive conglomerates.
"Zipping the folder" and keeping a copy of it is literally the sole purpose of a version control system. These kind of comments baffle me, quite honestly. But that is my fault, not yours.

Could you tell me what you think git is for and why you use it?
I dread the day they switch the Blizzard app launcher to a MS account. You just know it is going to be a nightmare to sort out.

Beyond petty nonsense - Sure wish we had some antitrust laws in this country. The consolidation of every industry gross.
Anti-Trust is not magic, its no longer a tool politicans can wield like a club against things they don't like. The courts have a definition and you actually have to prove abuse for those law-suits to do anything. Doing so if you can do it at all takes decades.

Unless politicians make major changes to the anti-trust law its unlikely to be effective. And doing so would require major action in congress.

The president could use non anti-trust actions as well of course. But rather unlikely.
I always wondered, what are the exact steps between announcing to acquire and actually acquiring.

Especially this:

> Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion, inclusive of Activision Blizzard’s net cash. When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony.

What exactly happens between now and "when the transaction closes"? How long does it take? Is there anything that would make it not close?
Uh, but dashcam videos you see on YouTube are there specifically because something interesting happened in the video. From my reading of the article, it's not like these analysts or whatever just watched a bunch of "Tesla self driving fails compilation" videos. Maybe their corpus isn't entirely representative of self-driving, I can't tell from the article, but I don't see what you're basing your conclusions on.

Maybe I'm missing something, I didn't read the article thoroughly and I'm not familiar with the work. If I am missing something, please enlighten me.

EDIT: I took a look at the report, and, well:

21 YouTube videos, totaling over 7 hours of drive time, from customers test driving Tesla’s FSD Beta program were analyzed for driving quality and safety. The videos analyzed in this study included FSD Beta major versions v8 (released December 2020) and v10 (released September 2021). Videos with significantly positive or negative titles were avoided in an attempt to reduce bias. There was an effort to analyze videos from as many unique YouTube channels as possible. As a result, the analyzed videos contain a variety of driving conditions, with varying times of day, weather conditions, traffic patterns, and locations.

I... don't think your "corpus" of dashcam videos is similar to the corpus used by this analysis.
Does this mean that Microsoft now owns Infocom IP?
But one is forever and one is only for as long as you maintain indentured servitude to the richest company on the planet.
Unfortunately, I am not a senior software engineer. I have 2 years of experience in different stacks and a master CS. As far as I understand it, that makes me medior at best.
Removing humans from the cockpit frees designers up to do a lot more than save weight. The big restriction with human pilots is a ceiling for how much G you can pull before your precious human cargo blacks out. Silicon has no such restrictions; you can turn as hard as your fuselage will allow.
Do you guys remember in the digg days when somebody was outed as a literal pentagon employee who would post over and over about the latest military hardware?

I wish i could find some evidence of this. I just have my memories about it.
Ironically, I made that some years after a serious libertarian phase and the "Un" is supposed to be the operative part of that as while I am a big fan of individuality, hard work, and limited (albeit ideally very effective) government I very much appreciate now the importance of other parts of society and that life is far more complex than many libertarians (and even myself still) would like it to be and requires a lot of nuance
Many consumer Ryzen motherboards (and all CPU) support unbuffered ECC dram which is a great thing to have in a server. I use a Ryzen 2600 in a consumer tower. It's quiet, low power, and like 1/10 the cost of real server hardware.
> À float can represent some of its range with more accuracy, and some with much less accuracy.

IEEE floats are guaranteed to _do_ that. They’re not distributed evenly across their range, so the absolute error of replacing a real by the closest float will vary across their range.

They also aren’t distributed evenly after taking logarithms, so the relative error of replacing a real by the closest float will also vary across their range.

(That is unavoidable for the reals if you want to represent zero or negative numbers)
Yes, although keep in mind that these efforts have strong cross-party support. This isn't only an issue with the Conservative party.
Protecting kids by eliminating or breaking end-to-end encryption is a contradiction in terms.

End-to-end encryption is crucial to protect today's kids.

https://blog.nucypher.com/todays-kids-need-end-to-end-encryp...
> When I wrote that gold held its value I meant exactly that: preservation of value.

Re-read the articles. If you're looking for short/mid term inflation protection (5~10 years) then gold doesn't hold (unless you happen to get lucky for that period over a 100 year period). If you're looking for long term inflation protection (50+ years) then it doesn't either. If your assumption is that gold is valuable because it stood the test of time during the 1700's and 1800's then

> If fit hits the shan, it could buy my family a passage and some time of living expenses somewhere quiet and far away

If shit really hits the fan, you wouldn't be able to convert to a currency that you could actually live on so this point is moot.

> I have seen, twice, the currency of the country where I grew up become worthless over a pretty short term

This context makes more sense than anything else. I'm talking about USD here.
The IP is the real value here, so this seems likely.
You haven't understood the problem.

A: Hi (expecting a response from person B before continuing)
B: Hi
A: proceeds with start of questions or comment

The first problem is that A may, as you say, sitting idly by waiting for B to say "hi" back. I.e. the first person may not understand how to effectively communicate in an async setting.

The second is that "hi", then waiting for a response, can signify to B that A wants an active, real-time conversation - not an async conversation. The ambiguity of "hi" may cause B to deliver complete attention, which has real costs. Unfortunately, A might just be being polite (in a misguided way) or they have jumped the gun and spoken before they have thought about what they want to say.

This is a very real communication issue that has causes a real productivity loss from high performers that have to unblock people frequently.
They might create an employee retention fund.
I wonder what this means for the classic IPs of Blizzard, like WarCraft, StarCraft and Diablo. Especially StarCraft could use an update - I would immediately buy a SC III for the Mac. Unfortunately, there was no update since SC II was ported to Metal some years ago.
This is likely to be a better conversation if it doesn't degenerate into "Tories are evil". The Joint Committee on the Online Safety Bill, which highlighted the potential danger of E2E encryption, includes MPs and Peers from Labour and the LibDems too, all of whom supported it. It's not a party political issue and has broad cross-party support (probably because most MPs don't really understand it).
Well Microsoft just released Age of Empires 4, which turned out surprisingly well, best RTS since Starcraft 2. I'd say chances we're going to see anything SC3 or WC4 related only went up by this. Maybe there will even be a WoW2 finally.

About time other studios get a chance to work with Blizzards IPs, they did well creating all those beautiful universes, but they struggle so much making just one new game every few years.
You do—so if I like a game enough, I'll pick it up elsewhere, too. But digital games as a whole get harder to play over time. I've moved my DSi games to my 3DS, and I've got a Wii with a whole bunch of titles.
Both major political parties in U.S. did the same thing with SESTA/FOSTA. Every smart politician will exploit anyone they can to get what they want (in that case, scoring cheap political points with their base) as long as their base do not complain loudly.

UK peeps: complain loudly!
Watched the video. I actually think it's a decent ad for their cause. It's technically accurate, and doesn't make unfounded claims.

Now, the e2e encryption crowd needs to make a similar ad explaining why encryption is important.

And the public can make their minds up when they vote.
When Rocket League, a game I never played, ditched support for macOS I asked for a refund. I described how I disliked that they removed support for macOS. I wouldn't play Rocket League on my MBP, mind you, but I do have Steam installed on it. I got a refund, no questions asked (though I did buy it on sale, judging by the amount I got refunded). Steam doesn't need DRM to figure out how long a game is being played, btw. Steam tracks that without DRM, too.
> Vertical integration can be a win for consumers.

I'm not convinced.

> Also, a law like that (and any law infringing a free market)

You don't have a market without competition, which is what acquisitions accomplish. There is no such thing as a free market, by the way, that's a fantasy. There have always been laws governing markets.

> disincentivizes growth

Yes, that's exactly what I want to accomplish. These companies are too big & powerful.

> and innovation.

Huge companies use acquisitions to squash innovation.
Sure, but sometimes the threat of doing something and having an acquisition mired in a lawsuit or the Prez using the bully pulpit against your co can be a serious deterrent from engaging in an acquisition as well.
I'm not so sure. Microsoft recently revived their Age of Empires franchise, and has has been pretty good about supporting it as an e-sport (sponsoring tournaments & streamers, reliably re-balancing, releasing updated versions, etc.). I wouldn't be surprised if they took a long term view for the much-larger-RTS Starcraft, especially given its size relative to AoE.
The Tech Lead
Do you guys think this is security apparatus backed, or politically backed?

I mean do you think that this is the government being "convinced" by law enforcement and the rest of the security apparatus in order to maintain the state of easy interception, and mass intelligence gathering?

Or do you think this is purely politicians thinking about how to keep their analytics algorithms and propaganda machines fed with data collected from social media on private chats?
> With regards to the whole "30 days offline" thing - this was well known way ahead of launch.

If this was true, wouldn’t it be listed on the sale page?
The quest for the universal protocol: Mainframes, databases, and CORBA
> Is there any way to implement E2E encryption that wouldn't "put children at greater risk" if we accept that framing?

Yeah, that's what Apple's CSAM detection system is basically. They scan the content before encrypting.
Transactional workloads (databases, pubsubs, workflow coordinators) benefit the most from persistent memory because write latency to storage dominates performance (a transaction must be committed to permanent storage before the client can be informed of success, and if there is contention between transactions they must wait and proceed serially). Persistent memory is about 100 times faster (300ns vs. 30us latency) than NAND and is writeable in-place at byte granularity vs. multi-KB erasable blocks.
The quest for the universal protocol: REST, XML, and GraphQL
Oracle Database supports halting the database state to persistent memory during OS reboot, basically you can pick up right where you left off when the machine comes back up.
> Why do some “gym rats” build their muscles well past the point of being a way to attract potential mates?

> Why are some people willing to free solo climb icy mountains despite the danger?

> Why are some people willing to have fewer children in order to pursue career goals?

> Why are most billionaire tech CEOs interested in space travel and extraterrestrials?

> There are no doubt potential evolutionary explanations for each of these phenomena.

No doubt?

> But, from a purely evolutionary standpoint, these phenomena are at least (a) not obviously explained or (b) seemingly irrational.

Correct.

Many phenomena have an evolutionary explanation. However some phenomena do not - random mutations happen and things pop into existence without much connection to mating, survival etc. Trying to shoehorn evolutionary narratives onto them is not letting the evidence fit the theory, but instead trying to get facts to fit some preexisting theory.

Some traits just pop up due to random mutations, and trying to find an evolutionary mating/survival/etc. narrative for each of them does not make sense.
Oddly, the way things had been going with Blizzard over the last few years makes me feel a lot better about MS taking them over.
They may need to rethink their position, as the EU just introduced laws to give consumers the right to repair [1].

Apparently, this also covers professionals not directly associated with manufacturers, i.e. licensed repairmen.

[1] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2ddc8907-8b7c...
Doesn't that open up a whole new can of worms, though, because it would require the operator of every service to check the age (and by extension, identity) of every user of their service, so as not to inadvertently E2EE the communications of a child? Passing off this verification to a Trusted Third Party (wink wink) is just as bad (probably worse), because you would be make it even easier for the government to tie it into a̶ ̶s̶o̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶c̶r̶e̶d̶i̶t̶ ̶s̶y̶s̶t̶e̶m̶
whatever they have planned for the next stage.
I'm not American but on this side of the pond we expect more proof than twitter allegations before firing people.

Hopefully woke culture will take more of a toll on US tech and we will see more US companies opening up in Europe. The US tech centralization is bad for the world (and US consumers).
We do something very similar. And we always print at least 3 copies and gift extras to family or friends that took the trip with us, or might like the book. It’s a nice gesture, but it also serves as insurance that if anything happens to our house we have the photo books spread out all over the place.
Same thing goes with the spoken language in US. It is way confusing to foreigners. Just like the silent letters in the words. There are many instances when Americans ask questions but don’t expect a real answer, for example “what’s up” “how’s it going?” “How you doing”
I gave up two different periods when I tried to do anything involving a lot of data with OneDrive.

Inevitably the app would fail to sync or would forever get stuck syncing and become useless.

What number of files and total volume stored do you have, if I may ask?

In my case it was 50k files and 500ish GB.
I grumble about it, but I buy them anyway, because they're worth it.
How's that different from putting the card in when the machine is off?
I think it's both but I wonder what everyone else is thinking.
400 - 1400 (Feudal economics)

1850 - 1920 (Railroad + oil/steel trusts)

1880 - 1982 (ATT)

1950 - 1975 (IBM)

1985 - 2000 (Intel/Microsoft)

2008 - current (Google/Apple/Amazon)

2014 - current (Meta)

It's the nature of technology to produce consolidation, before the next breakthrough occurs and incumbents are typically swept away.

On the plus side, the length of dominant periods seems to be decreasing.

And realistically, data portability standards and pricing for cloud & ability to use independent app stores are the biggest tweaks I'd make.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aau5141
> Fiat currencies are used in literally every country on the planet and have been through the largest economic booms in history. Limited/hard currencies on the other hand, have a 100% failure rate with one ongoing experiment happening right now in El Salvador. Which would I rather bet on?

Something has existed for tens of thousands of years and in the last 50 years has been supplanted by something else. Which would I bet on surviving 1,000 years from now? Hard currency.
The Apple of gaming is Rockstar Games.
A friend of mine, who is an architect, told me the technology is ripe to build houses that produce even more energy than they consume, but people simply don't want to live in them.

The article talks about "using the best windows", the problem my friend saw in many of such houses was simply that the dwellers would either open the windows too often, losing all the heat, or feel miserable because they weren't allowed to open the windows. A pure psychological effect of course, even with the best ventilation people still had the urge to open a window and felt bad if they couldn't.
Building GitHub Apps with Golang
> Even in places known for their extreme weather conditions – such as ‘hot ‘n’ cold’ Otago, wind-prone Wellington and sweaty Auckland – high-performance homes will stay comfortable and fresh all the year round.

All these places stay above 45F and below 80F. This is anything but extreme weather. You don't need any sort of special "high performance" house for this kind of temperate climate.
Stephen Totilo shared this back in June of last year. Apparently Bobby's got an agreement signed that if he gets terminated he makes $292 million off of it, double what he made last year.

So that might be part of it.

https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1407658278893592579
The main one is that the shareholders get to review the terms, and if more than 50% of either company’s don’t like them, the deal is off.
I went from the Android to the Apple ecosystem, and would take the same decision if I had to decide from scratch. I believe reducing friction in brain-computer interfaces is a real comparative advantage, and that's much easier with Apple.
But that would never be desirable, so it's just another reason to do the other?
As a developer I have a strong dislike against CEOs that say things like...

> The goal that I had (...) was to take all the fun out of making video games.

> The executive said that he has tried to instill into the company culture "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" of the global economic downturn

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/activision-games-to-bypass...
If this type of deal ( vertical consolidation through acquisition of competitors, and then removing those former competitors' content from competing platforms) isn't illegal, antitrust laws need to be adapted so it becomes so. It's impossible to deny it's purely in detriment to the market, competitors, and consumers.
"cannot be innocent" is an interesting phrase to use, can you define innocence in this context? I think I understand your underlying opinion, but you're not expressing it particularly explicitly.
I intentionally used the term 'other' because I wanted to highlight how tribal people tend to get about things; there is an in group and an out group and terrible things can, will, and (horrifyingly) ought to happen to the out group.

I try to keep my tribal sensibilities in check by reframing everyone I am considering as a part of my own tribe. Obviously, there are exceptions for violent criminality which I apply a strategic empathy for (understand as fully as possible while still condemning the actions). The boundary of who gets what treatment is fuzzy if I really thought about it, but pragmatically this model serves me well. But that's my own personal stance fueled from experiences and research.

My friends draw their tribal circles more narrowly, which is their prerogative. I like to listen to how they engage with the world because it helps me understand how they think and what their influences are. They are more willing to allow state hostility/violence against people who are the other (the 'worthy victim' under the propaganda model). I sometimes point out that what powers you give the state will be wielded by the other party as well.

The fact that my friends are saying who cares, let's just go back to normal is an interesting signal IMO. While the narrative is still 'make things uncomfortable (by disregarding constitutional rights and social norms)' they are seemingly okay with 'it's your life and your choice.'

My friend group is not a representation of society as a whole. They do make up a large part of my social reality. This is an important data point for me but it's much less so for everyone else. Still, I felt compelled to share!
My very first thought after seeing the headline: There is NO WAY antitrust regulators would approve such a deal, considering this is the biggest game acquisition ever.

But hey, at least better than being acquired by Tencent, eh?
I hope they invest more in the Diablo franchise. It's been a lot of fun on the new Xbox.
Agree with others that the Push is good; I have a Push 2 that I love. It's great for chords and melodies because the layout is massive (8x8). However, it's somewhat expensive (the 2, anyway) and the pads themselves could be better in terms of expressiveness/sensitivity. Also, it's only worth getting a Push if you have Ableton; as a controller for Ableton it really shines.

If you want really expressive pads, which foster dynamics and also allow you to do things like finger drumming (I really recommend questforgroove.com if that sounds interesting to you), the best pad controllers are the ones in the Maschine line-up, by Native Instruments. I have an MK3 but the more basic versions are also apparently very good. The layout is much smaller (4x4) but the pads are massive and super sensitive, they are a joy to play.

A lot of people also use Launch pads by Novation, I don't know much about them, but they are quite popular and they are, I believe, on the cheaper side. https://novationmusic.com/en/launch

Rumour has it that a Push 3 is not too far away, so keep that in mind when considering the Push lineup from Ableton.
Based on current market valuations, it seems more likely for Microsoft to be able to buy Disney than the other way round.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/7afc686e-640b-4fb0-b902-666baad...

But seriously, limiting ourselves to light speed here is somewhat... disappointing.

If the speed of light really is something that can't be worked around with warp drives, etc., then who cares if there are aliens or not. They will never be interacted with in any meaningful way, except for maybe the hyper-rich folks on those generation ships.
China’s Economy Is Slowing, a Worrying Sign for the World
> You mostly just copy the binary into a slim image and you are done.

You don't need docker for that, just 'tar czf my-layer.tar.gz my-dir'. If you want a manifest file, you can get the digest using `sha256sum my-layer.tar.gz`.
Side note: nice username.
Well if we buy Musks narative, I would change that to:

The colonization of Mars by Elon Musk (not just him, think Columbus) is SpaceX's, Tesla's and TBC's goal.

Musk and whoever he takes along is human, so that alligns with humanity just fine.
I just deleted my blizzard accounts last week. Looks like perfect timing!