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The games industry is trying to push $70 MSRP this generation, so I see the savings in Game Pass and potential pressure on standalone pricing to be good.

Given that nearly every popular $60 game now has microtransactions, loot boxes, (paid) season passes, and maybe even (paid) DLC, there's absolutely no reason for the price increase. They're already making buckets of cash (and turning a profit) at the "just $60" price point.
IIRC they did the experiment on a large lake in California.
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This is so cool. Come on, everyone! Let's make matrix the new thing, already.
I don't even think this merger will get approved.
Except that's broken beyond belief. Neither event delegation nor event namespacing are implemented in that snippet.
17.9 years seems like a long time. Is this only major two-vehicle collisions?

One year during a bad ice storm and stuck with a rental with no 4WD, I went into the ditch twice in one weekend. That's like half my lifetime allowance before I'm considered a bad driver, I guess.
Blizzard is dead weight compared to the incredible profitability of Skylanders + CoD. I'd be willing to bet Blizzard gets spun off within a year.
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I would say the evolutionary explanation for each of these is actually pretty straightforward. We live in an environment that's very different than the one we were in for most of our evolution. Our evolution hasn't had nearly enough time to account for the modern environment.

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

The obvious explanation here is that there wasn't really birth control when humans lived as hunter-gatherers. You couldn't make that kind of sacrifice for the most part. There also weren't really careers in the modern day sense. Evolution hasn't had a chance to account for birth control yet. It's only been around for 60 years or so.

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

Because all life has some instinctive drive to explore and spread. By exploring, you have an opportunity to find new resources and territory, which is essential for survival or to outcompete other life.

> Why do some “gym rats” build their muscles well past the point of being a way to attract potential mates?

When humans lived as hunter-gatherers, there were no gyms and no muscle building magazines, no cult of bodybuilding. For the most part, you got as fit as you needed to be to hunt animals, to fight, and build whatever you needed to build.

However, I think the part about being "well past the point of being a way to attract potential mates?" is a value judgment. In actuality, growing a lot of muscle mass is a way of showing off your determination and fitness and standing out. Male bobybuilders probably have a much easier time attracting mates than the average joe.

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

Evolutionary drive to explore. Evolutionary drive to show off prowess to attract mates and gain status. It's a high risk, high reward strategy.
The press release says they're keeping Kotick for the duration of the transition, then everyone will report to Phil Spencer. Seems likely that Kotick will be gone soon(ish)
The point has wooshed over your head and flown into orbit. The original context was having skin (perceived or not) in the game and if it would always impact behavior. I'm not trying to convince anti vaxers of anything, just observing human behavior in general.
I'd suggest reading Susan Reynolds' Fiefs and Vassals. It's a very complex topic and not fit for this thread at all.
> Oxfam recommends that governments urgently:
> Claw back the gains made by billionaires by taxing this huge new wealth made since the start of the pandemic through permanent wealth and capital taxes.

These fortunes are mostly in the form unrealized capital gains due to the stocks these people hold. If we tax unrealized capital gains, can we also write off unrealized capital losses?

> Invest the trillions that could be raised by these taxes toward progressive spending on universal healthcare and social protection, climate change adaptation, and gender-based violence prevention and programming.

If we can print trillions of dollars, why bother with "claw[ing] back the gains"?
Microsoft isn't Apple, they have been much more open as of late.

I doubt that existing franchises will become exclusive.
It doesn't support event namespacing.
Very true, just like when Google bought DoubleClick. I couldn't believe that went through.
Maybe you are newer to git, but this does not feel like a good faith comment, because “restore” is a command that was added specifically because people complained that the overloading of “checkout” is confusing.

Anyway: “reset” changes the ref to which the HEAD branch points, and depending on options can also update the index and working tree to match as well. “Revert” creates a commit that is the reverse of an earlier commit. Restore rolls back uncommitted changes to a file.

This isn’t hard?
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For me the most important part is to keep it simple and not dependent on the one tech person of the family paying for some cloud storage.

Unlike other mentions in the comments what you don't want to have is custom scripts, git, backups tools, strong encryption, cronjobs running on some server that will go away eventually. A labeled, unencrypted HDD in a closet in two different locations will most likely do the job just fine. If you want to throw in your cloud backup that you take care of that will be a nice bonus but I wouldn't rely only on a "tech" solution.
I was about to post a comment to the same effect, but it's better to piggy-back on yours and avoid polluting the thread.

I find the design incredibly charming !
Why they never used Starcraft to compete in the same game-space as Eve Online or Star Citizen is beyond me... though, I think that's just wishful thinking on my part. Love the IP of one and the game play of the other =[
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Products created for the purpose of lock-in can't invite user participation because the first thing user-participants would do is remediate lock-in.
Facebook seems to be doing all the heavy lifting on the extremism front. Overweight/underweight problems are just stupid and it takes like 1 hour to explain how to eat properly and then you never have to deal with that again. Videos of people dying at least serve as a counterpoint to movies where nothing ever happens to people doing dangerous stuff.
I’m excited for what this could mean for undervalued IP like StarCraft and Diablo.
Activision Blizzard is finally being acquired?! Yeah, no wonder, they are not doing well these years.

Wait, it's an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion?! So at least Microsoft believes they are doing well...
make a phone call, and let the big data folks raise eyebrows when they see the elevation the call was made.
At best it's a valid opening gambit in a discussion of the merits of driving automation. It's not a scientific review, it's one guy's quick filtering of hyperbolic titles plus whatever bias is imposed by his personal YouTube bubble.

Dashcam videos have the same self selection bias. People don't upload boring successes at the same rate they upload exciting failures. The ratio probably exceeds thousands to one. For every hour of Tesla autopilot video showing a failure, there are probably thousands or tens of thousands of hours of boring, safe, uneventful driving that isn't recorded, uploaded, or even noticed.

Getting the statistics from regulators and public reports paints a picture starkly different than what media portrays, because it's boring and doesn't result in clicks.

"Yay, nothing bad happened" is the ultimate goal, but along the way "less bad stuff happened" is the story to pay attention to.
> maintain indentured servitude

The "lock-in" and the lack of ownership/copyright extension for media provided by their service is absolutely a problem, but it's not "servitude". There's a couple of other members of FAANG where the relationship with users is much more like servitude.
> But some are planning to introduce end-to-end-encryption, which scrambles messages so that only the sender and receiver can see what is being shared.

One could also argue this could further _protect_ children. Now, criminal material cannot be viewed by an unintended third party. For example, it is well known that an iCloud hack leaked the photos of many celebrity women and was dubbed "the fappening", only possible because they were stored in a viewable format without e2e.

We should be maximizing the control an individual has over their own data, not minimizing control. Anything the police can easily access is also something tonnes of other people can easily access. Given how common data breaches are, we should simply not trust that the transit/storage process is secure at all.
Better yet.

You can run Game Pass directly in a browser. So you could use GamePass on really any modern web connected device.

I would be shocked if Microsoft supported the actual GamePass app on Linux
Also remember none of those things would have been possible without you observing it.

https://www.nsta.org/q-if-tree-falls-forest-and-theres-no-on...
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Almost all of these articles always have several caveats in place about features that aren't supported or libraries that are added to include missing features.

So its not really 'replacing' JQuery is it?

(no knock meant to @franciscop who didn't write the article or the title)

So I understand the desire to write your own libraries and use them. But isn't the author just replacing one third-party library with another? How is that really any better?

Aside from the size which really seems to be a bizarre thing to be commenting on. I've seen png files used for buttons that were larger than a compressed JQuery library
Amen, bitx. Let's start the petition ;)

What's interesting about that is that if SC2 fulfilled the promise of the original mission of the Galaxy engine / editor, it could have been a first class modder, with infinite longevity.

We see it now with the afterlife Cyberpunk 2077 is having on PC. That game will never die...

https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/modding-support

And OpenLara ("the new doom") coming to GBA

https://github.com/XProger/OpenLara/releases/tag/latest
You would need sufficient hypersonic missiles to knock out the offensive capability of the target.
The primary reason we are fixated on faster-than-light travel, is because our lifespans are so tiny compared to the travel time to other stars.

This speaks more to our organic limitations than it does for the necessity of FTL travel.

An AI would have no issue taking 10,000 years to go to neighboring stars, nor 10 million years to "colonize" the entire galaxy.

I think the major limitation in our imagination about space travel is that organic beings will be the primary entities traveling the stars.
I think there is some chance that future CoD will not be on PlayStation. They might even be used as a bargaining chip to get game pass on PlayStation. I could see it as, “if you let us put game pass on PlayStation we will sell Microsoft games on your storefront, including Cod. If not, no CoD.”

This paints Sony as the unwilling party. Microsoft can say, “we would love to have CoD on PlayStation.”

Why else buy them? Most Blizzard games are PC first anyway.
What do you mean? In what way does capitalism work?
that sounds revisionist to me. If that were the reason for (attempted) vaccine mandates then why do vaccine advocates feel the need to compel young, healthy people who have a vanishingly small chance of hospitalization to vaccinate? The story has always been about reducing spread.
Regardless if jQuery or Umbrella is used - you'd most likely get a better Lighthouse score if you simply inlined the JS into your HTML file vs having the JS as another downloadable asset (especially on mobile).
Yeah, most of the missing features that jQuery used to provide are no longer missing. But the vanilla JS alternatives are so verbose, they look like they were designed by a committee of German philosophers.

Luckily, we now have frameworks that help us avoid most of the DOM manipulation stuff.
It may well be that he has a job in name in the new structure but not actually a role and after some discreet period he will be put out to pasture. Kind of sucks if you wanted him to receive some sort of cathartic day of reckoning but maybe a pragmatic solution.
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lol fb is dead, has been since the opened it up.
I like to follow RPS' reviews page, it introduces me to a lot of PC indie games I'd generally miss in my filter bubble: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/topics/wot-i-think
I don't think you answered the initial question: what stands BOWWE apart from other website builders? Almost all the features mentioned are core functionalities in most other alternatives.
And in neighborhoods planned as concentric circles. My navigation module goes completely bonkers.
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As they get older, you’ll also find YouTube Kids serves as the primary gateway for consumerism / corporations to begin influencing your child. Between Netflix / Disney+, the traditional 30s television commercial has effectively disappeared for kids. Corporations have pivoted to sponsored content on YouTube kids.

YT Kids most popular channels are streamed play sessions and toy reviews with superhuman production values and unrealistic depictions of what the toys can do. Once a child has watched an episode of LOL doll play along (for example), YouTube algorithm will recommend LOL doll collection videos, which associate completist collecting with peer group social acceptance. Free to play video game spots were even worse, directly focusing on alluring introduction of the game’s addiction economy.

I gave my children access to YouTube kids for some of the excellent educational content reasoning that it would be a relatively safe experience. Within a month their homepage and all recommendations (and I do mean 100%) were sponsored 5-15 minute long toy commercials. Their interest in animals, nature, science, and dinosaur programming remained strong but disappeared entirely from view outside of keyword search.

All YT and Google apps are now removed from the devices they use. I allow unsupervised use of PBS Kids, PBS in general, Nat Geo, Disney Plus and Netflix Kids (with time limits) but YouTube is filtered from my kids devices at the router. They are not allowed Google accounts; all YouTube content access is done via keyword search with a parent selecting the material and remaining in the room during viewing.

There are programs on YouTube that can’t be replicated anywhere else. But the recommendation engine is distilled corruption and dismay.
This is something like an added benefit. If an organization has a good culture they'll like what you're doing and keep you working for then, if not then they'll get rid of you and free up your time something better.

As far as hoarding credit for a success, certainly a lot of people make that work for them but I'd like to think the other way is more sustainable. Maybe I'm fooling myself though?
Isn't that basically the same Nintendo and Sony? Save for the cloud platform.
Finally, Candy Crush can be fully integrated into Windows.
And shoot-em-ups and beat-em-ups. It's what I mainly buy on my Switch when there are sales.

But yeah, not many games between AAA and indie. :(
Don't forget the Navy being brought in to do something with the same legal standing as Border Force could do, but duly reducing our available Navy resources. The people who buy into these stupid red meat policies don't realise they can't blow up ships crossing, if anything they'll have a larger capacity to help them, therefore trafikers.
Maybe in tech,but that is not the case in other businesses, I would argue that big consulting firms, like McKinsey, do exactly the opposite. It seems a winning strategy.
I can understand why it works the way it does, but JOINS!!!

At this point this tool appears to be very basic. Who is the target audience?
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You need to periodically check those HDDs for any corruption though, which requires some tech knowledge.
You could imagine an event happening a day later from a traveling car, but that’s about it. Two people can’t actually observe an event a day later from the same reference point (Earth), and naturally the event occurs at a singular time at Andromeda’s reference point. Same with any point between Earth and Andromeda. So, if you can’t observe it at different times from the same reference point did it actually happen at different times?

From the Wikipedia page on the thought experiment, check out Criticisms:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk%E2%80%93Putnam_argu...

> The interpretations of relativity used in the Rietdijk–Putnam argument and the Andromeda paradox are not universally accepted.

> Howard Stein[5] and Steven F. Savitt[6] note that in relativity the present is a local concept that cannot be extended to global hyperplanes.

> Furthermore, N. David Mermin[7] states: That no inherent meaning can be assigned to the simultaneity of distant events is the single most important lesson to be learned from relativity. — David Mermin, It’s About Time
Thanks, I should have been mote precise in my post. I meant, I zip repo root folder before a complex git operation (certainly not before every single merge).

One example: changing the commit email, somewhere on the middle of many commits. On github, I sometimes need to use the work email instead of personal email (due to https://github.com/apps/google-cla) Changing the email of an existing commit messed up my repo beyond repair. This is just one example from memory, it happens infrequently luckily. Thanks for the git tips :)
Your belief that the Iraqi armed forces of 1991 were decrepit and badly run is the proof of just how superior those weapons were, along with the accompanying tactics and doctrine. Before the conflict the overwhelming victory for the Coalition of Willing was not so clear.

The Iraqi army was battle hardened and tested after a near decade long war against Iran. They had the third largest army in the world, which was trained in Soviet doctrine, armed with potent and modern weapon systems. Their integrated air defense system was state of the art combination of the most modern Soviet and European systems that were redundantly layered and hardened.

America, along with its allies, fought them and won in spite of being geographically on the other side of the planet. The exceptional difficulty of achieving that is impossible over state.
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Arthur C Clarke has a good story on the dangers of warfare at the bleeding edge

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)
What a bizarre view of the world. It’s like teenagers gossiping about celebrity relationships, but with corporations instead.

A Microsoft acquisition of this company is bad, and an Apple acquisition of this company would be bad.

When mega corporations like this consolidate, consumers always lose. Microsoft couldn’t win customers through product and service quality, so they bought one of the largest game publishers in the world so that their competition can’t sell those games anymore.
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If they don't get an idealistic visionary, they will probably just follow the best course for doing business - serving as many people as possible.
There's a large crowd of people who'd rather buy to own games even if they're on Game Pass, even after the entire Bethesda catalog was added. I'm personally one of them, if I like/want a game a lot, I prefer buying it on Steam so I'll always be able to replay it. (I've even bought some games I discovered on Game Pass)

Also -- EA (EA Play), Ubisoft (Uplay Plus), and Sony (PS Now) already went the way of subscription gaming. EA Play is included in Xbox/PC Game Pass, and PS Now isn't just Sony's catalog, either.
$0.02 if you are really passionate it's going to end in Eurorack anyways, just start there
That was my fault for not double checking my copy / paste. Sorry about that.
I ran all my old photos through a script that renamed them all based on the exif date. This made it way easier to organize.

I have a server at home with a 4tb drive shared out with Samba and of course sftp (xfs). There is a 2nd internal drive formatted with btrfs. Once a day the btrfs drive is mounted, drive 1 rsyncs to drive 2, and drive 2 creates a snapshot, then unmounts. Later that night, I run an borg backup and rsync (depending on sensitivity of data) to a time4vps (https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=1881&_ga=2.199835630.1135648...) 1TB storage server. Currently, that's enough for the stuff I want to backup.
A heat pump can be air source or geothermal and you can use them to create hot water for a hydronic system or forced air (ducted or non-ducted). So not all of those will create the same noise levels. As they can be virtually any size and now work well at very low temps, I don’t see how they can be inadequate for heating. I’d have to hear of an example.

Up in the Northeast U.S. they are still putting oil fired boilers in new homes since gas isn’t super common outside of larger cities. I’d like to see more new homes have solar, heat pumps and possibly even stationary batteries in the future. These are going to be essential if we want to get off fossil fuels.
They do have HoloLens though.
Here's one of the ads for this campaign.

https://youtu.be/1wKSDv77FBs
No the construction economics are still mostly the same. UCAVs with the range and capacity to replace manned tactical aircraft are only marginally cheaper. MQ-25 unit cost is in the $150M range. No country can afford to build a lot of them.

The small, cheap "swarming" drones have very limited range and endurance. Useful in some limited scenarios but only if you can first find a way to deliver them to the target area
Anything made before 2016 will serve you well.
>it feels like the airlines are on their back foot and unprepared.

maybe the airlines should temporarily reassign the teams that redesign seating arrangements to reduce spacing to allow more people onboard. they seem very efficient at their tasks, and there's really not much left for them to do
Wonder if Windows on ARM will be any help there
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yes, total ordering the concept is relevant, but any given total order is not necessarily relevant. You could make a total order that goes 0.0, 1.0, 0.5, 0.75, 0.33, 0.56, 0.77, ... and that would NOT be useful for ranges.

In particular, the using IEEE order and building a range contaning NaNs is not semantically useful. Another detail is the distinction between -0.0 and 0.0; if you naively use the IEEE ordering to construct a type system you will have some problems with for example clopen ranges (-0.0, 0.0] and [-0.0, 0.0)
This is a good thing. Fools run Activision Blizzard; let MS go in and take over.
A little off-topic, but I used to TA an Intro to Programming Languages course.

To keep things interesting, I would demonstrate computer science concepts with clips from popular movies.

When discussing integer overflows, I would use this Ali G clip: https://youtu.be/eB5VXJXxnNU?t=53

I also used that famous Fantasia clip to demonstrate infinite loops.

One day I'd love to create a YouTubs series where I teach computer science entirely with popculture references. Don't have the video editing skills for it, so if anyone wants to collaborate on this let me know :)
That's just cloud streaming, though. "Normal" Game Pass means downloading full games to run locally.