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Microsoft cannot politically afford such brazen anti-competitive moves. Because of accidents of history, their position is somewhat unique. They can close the platform to third-parties if they really want (although I don't think it will ever happen), but actively blocking interop efforts would directly contravene a lot of very well-established legislation.
It was great seeing the ROM check and initial graphics, but for me it were those first bits out of sound out of PacMan that really sealed the deal and made the game come alive.

So impressive what the team has done over these years to preserve retro arcade games, consoles, and computers (now that MESS is part of MAME).
I thought the “geometry hates cars” premise had a lot of promise. I’m a bit disappointed that it turned out to be a footnote to a long discussion of Uber.

Maybe fuel for a blog post? There are some great urban planning and architectural directions this could be taken.
Your argument falls short.

Pro cheating uses hardware to cheat. It streams the video output and keyboard/mouse input to an AI/ML. Making these kernel anti-cheat useless there.

Casual players looking to spend money on cosmetics aren't affected by cheaters because the system influencing the players to buy isn't affected by the cheaters. The way most of these "influence systems" work is by using marketing strategies. It'll augment your match, or otherwise the players you meet, to see cosmetics you don't have. Coupled with gambling mechanics to induce addiction and sheer marketing material ("best offer now!") makes for this whole pro-kernel-anti-cheat industry move highly dubious.

Source: i worked at a company that writes such systems. The day I decided to quit was when my naive ass heard the team lead, on a recruitment call, explain to a candidate what we do: "we refine a company's ability to get kids addicted".

It's a completely different game (no pun intended) than what news outlets want us to think.
> Downside JVM is a Resource hog

The fuck are you smoking? The JVM is one of the most mature, resource efficient, and fast language runtimes out there.

See, this is why nobody can take you people seriously.
Apart from the fact that almost nobody could afford to pay them off!

(FWIW, I have always thought that media companies should collectively buy Twitter and run it as a utility)
You used to be able to vote-kick the obvious cheater, not sure why that is not an option anymore, these days.
Posting this due to a similar earlier post about Nim vs Rust [0]. I think this comparison is more surprising given that Lisp and Rust are fundamentally different languages

[0] https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/nim-vs-ru...
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How can such a benchmark be in any way informative? How much am I allowed to optimize the nim code? How much am I allowed to optimize the Rust code? Am I allowed to just change nim's GC to ARC/ORC? I'm sorry but this just does not make any sense to me.
> I could go on. It is not inconsistent to dislike something for multiple reasons.

Of course it isn't. I don't like NFTs but it's dangerous to assume all NFTs fit in the above reasons. You can still have the following:

> - They're typically hideously wasteful of energy.

NFTs that are economically friendly: NFTs on Solana, Algorand, Avalanche, etc.

> - Even if not explicitly scams, they represent a pointless and inefficient financialisation of bloody everything that no-one except crypto enthusiasts seems to be at all interested in

NFTs that are useful: Blockchain Domain Names for identities. ENS [0], Solana Name Service, etc.

We still pay for blockchain domains in order to renew them, just like we do for domains on ICANN expect that for the latter, the registrar can seize your domain and hike the prices up [1], for any reason where as the former is owned by you on the blockchain and no one can take it away.

So which one is the true scam?

All the other reasons such as NFT jpegs, NFT games, etc are all valid criticisms and demonstrate limited or no usefulness. But not all NFTs are like that. ENS (which is a blockchain domains service) is a great example of utility in NFTs.

[0] https://ens.domains/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29403773
> Valve established DRM to a degree many previously hoped it would get rejected.

Not sure what you mean by this. Steam offers DRM, but its use is not enforced. There are many Steam games that can simply be copied to another computer and run even without Steam.
They can in Android 12.
Looks like they got a book deal out of it and that saltiness is heavily refined and packaged for public consumption.
> I would be surprised if the Lego Friends line, which was created with girls in mind, were marketed explicitly to girls. My guess is that the girls stratify themselves by what type of toys they are attracted to.

Lego themselves talked about lego friends being meant for girls, publicly and loudly. Also, all characters are girls. The kids in ads for lego friends are all girls too. It could not have been more clear that it is for girls.

The other legos at that time and few years before were very very clearly for boys. They used colors used for boy toys. Toy stores are clearly separated to boy and girl section by color. They also used themes that literally any kid over 2 identify as boys.

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As side note, claim that they are less about building then other lego sets for same age brackets is untrue. I dont know why the article felt the need to claim the difference is character vs building.

Actual differences against other themes are colors, fight vs life, indoor vs outdoor, gender of characters.
It depends. Libertarians of the more Randian school tend toward the view that there are only individual rights, not “states rights” and such. If the Fed intervenes to support individual rights that is justified. Local tyranny is not superior to Federal tyranny.
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The fuse generally is basically the size of a normal transistor on the IC, good luck getting that repaired otherwise

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

I'm not sure what resolution they've achieved now, but it's definitely possible to either cut or repair connections using such a machine. It's a very expensive process, but definitely within the capabilities of even the far-East "MCU break" companies.
Any comments on observed latencies and jitter when using MQTT? Musical applications are quite demanding on that front.
À friend of mine struggles with what sounds similar and I implore you to ask if that is really what is going on? The lightbulb moment for them was realizing they didn't like putting in the effort of asynchronous communication because they struggled with organisation and not having a routine that allowed them to be productive in moving their side forward. It was a lot easier for them in the office because they were able to get away with these habits by just showing up and using the actual time to start.

What worked for them was therapy, creating a morning routine of moving their work forward and demoing their progression with short <2 minute Loom/Slack video clips. They also invested into one of those drawing tablets for $80.
No, for Lego the injection molding is strictly headquarter business. To the extend that the old molds/tools are literally encased in concrete beneath the buildings (you can see examples if you go to "Lego House" museum at the headquarters in Billund, Denmark).
Article conveniently leaves out PRC allegation - Haitiwaji and husband was involved in US funded World Uyghur Congress and participated in secessionist activities in XJ, including Urumqi riots. Of course article also conveniently uses photo of prisoner transfer that has nothing to do with XJ securitization. After 5 years, the exaggerated atrocity porn tier western narrative is still built on by unreliable actors selling books or shilling for citizenship, without any damning evidence, and of course conveniently timed.
The difference is that it's cheaper by Uber pushing down labour costs, a.k.a the driver's compensation. But since that reason isn't as pleasant, vague rationalizations are used instead.
Can you provide more data?
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If other players can't tell someone is cheating then it's not actually a problem since everyone will feel the game was fair.
I'm not sure I get it. Aren't notion blocks markdown already?
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> it works against the most common cheats.

Emphatically, it does not. Writing exploits and mitigating them is an arms race, and it is always easier to exploit than it is to defend. The entire reason for such software being sold is after all that it works, even when it is the bad/easy fundamentally detectable kind that runs inside the same OS as the game.
I think in fairness probably the above poster saw my mentioning "lovely little picket-fence green England", took it to be some sort of nationalistic race-baity slogan, and didn't really read the rest of the post.

I'm generally pretty direct in my speech and I'm not really ashamed of it; I'm proud of my country for all of its' political faults and refuse to let a bunch of racist wankers ruin that.
UK, Late 30s, savings $141k(USD) (House equity & Pension roughly 2:1) Feel very much the same. Mostly v.tired.
Since much of the implementation is in available libraries, this is a comparison of those too, which is an important consideration. There are language features that slow things down too. The benchmark game makes it clear that no language with GC gets closer than a 2-3x the time of a non-GC language (julia is the closest) and that matches most real world experience (and also that we don't always care about that hit). It also makes it clear that being dynamically typed and interpreted is a huge penalty in performance. I.e. python. But again, development speed can be more important than that throughput hit. Benchmarks can help us decide which tools we like for which tasks.
> I believe X13 Gen 2 has soldered WiFi, not M.2.

According to the hardware maintenance manual: "Wireless LAN card (for selected AMD models)" [1]

I can confirm from the internal photos I have of my X13 AMD Gen 2 (I swapped the stock SSD for a SK Hynix P31 Gold 1TB) that the WiFi is indeed M.2 socketed.

[1] https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14s_gen2_x13...
How do you access USB-A drives while on-the-go? Do you mess with dongles?

Also, do your USB-A ports on your monitor sit on the back?
> Wouldn't it make more sense for business-related products to do this, since the odds of being on a computer that has actual useful information to steal would be much, much higher?

Not necessarily. That gaming machine has good odds of being in a local network with other, more important and interesting machines. It can also scan local Wi-Fi area and scoop up even more information that can be used later.

Thought these were obvious.

> Why would a company invest in this kind of tech, in a highly visible field, full of people who will go over it with a fine-toothed comb (gamers are obsessive), for what seems like a very low-percentage hit rate on obtaining information?

1. They invest nothing out of the ordinary. They already have programmers on the payroll. Not like they spend 200 million on this alone. (Although there are companies like Google and Facebook who absolutely would and have invested much more than this just to be able to scoop up as much private info as possible -- not sure why this seems so unlikely to you, today, in 2022.)

2. The field is EVERYTHING BUT VISIBLE. Nobody has ever seen the source of these programs (outside of the authoring companies). Nobody. Ever.

3. Games are obsessive but most of them are technically illiterate. They install these things without a flicker of doubt.

4. The low-percentage is how it seems to you. Do it on a few hundred million machines and you are bound to find something very interesting in a good volume. It's statistics.
I haven't really followed recent Lego developments, but I'm relieved to see the "classic" sets still exist - although it's understandable to not be aware of them, because all of the advertising goes into the branded sets, probably because the margin on them is much better (ok, they probably have to pay some license fees to Disney, Warner or whoever, but still...)
Limit quantities of immigrants but not originations?
The purpose of stock markets is to find the "correct" price for a stock. To that end, it needs to be possible to express both bullish and bearish views. However, doing the latter is already more difficult because in order to short the stock, you need to borrow it first, and you need to pay for those borrowed shares for as long as you keep holding them. Furthermore, those borrows can be pulled at any time, forcing you to cover at the most inopportune of times. There are also things like Reg SHO Rule 201(b) ("Uptick rule") that further complicate shorting a stock. Regulators have even been known to ban short sales in certain names outright like they they did for financial stocks during the 2008 financial crisis.

If anything, selling short needs to be made easier as it represents an essential corrective. And this ultimately serves the greater good too as it ensures that the price of a stock is correct and investors don't overpay, which will inevitably lead to losses for them. A good recent example of what happens otherwise is Wirecard. In 2019 the German BaFin enacted a ban on short sales in the stock of the company after reports had been published that were essentially accusing them of fraud. In the end, those reports turned out to be true, and the company collapsed less than 18 months later. The stock fell from over EUR 150 to virtually zero and investors lost pretty much everything. They should have listened to the short sellers rather than fight them.

There are also no "easy profits" in short selling. They only make money if they are right. There are people who have been calling for the immediate collapse of Tesla for the last decade or so. Others have been trying to short Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, because they think that these companies are completely overvalues. Most of these people are probably bankrupt by now.

But GME isn't any of those companies. They are a failing brick and mortar retailer that is boxed in by Steam on one side and Amazon on the other. They have repeatedly attempted to transform the company over the last decade without success. The fact that their plan is to launch some NFT market place, a field in which they have no experience and that is already crowded by established players like OpenSea, demonstrates how much their management is completely out of ideas. And if the shorts make money from the GME stock, it just means they were right.
Does anyone know why nim seems to spend so much time in the kernel? The most obvious example being that last benchmark for spectral-norm where nim spends almost 3 seconds in the kernel, and rust spends 0.
chrisco255 does have a good point. Many areas the world do not have good crop insurance. The 'parametric' insurance policies (which is what I think etherisc offers) are indeed the future of the industry.

However, parametric insurance policies in no way need a blockchain to provide the service. Western Union does a great job of getting money to unbanked regions.

Which makes me wonder one more thing about blockchain based solutions. What currency is the payout made in?

How is blockchain an advantage if the payout is to be in USD? or local currency? If it is instead in crypto, how do you manage the FX risk? Or the legal risk? or the simple "I don't have an easy way to convert crypto to local" risk?
>Everything can be delivered to your door at the press of a button now.

Right, could you provide me a solution if I want to buy an used coffee table off FB marketplace or something like that? Do I hire a van beforehand? What if I get there and that guy from FB already sold it to someone else? What if I don't like it? Do I try to call a big uber while standing outside under the rain with a damn table?

What if I go to IKEA to buy a mattress, it is right there, I can take it [if I had a car], but they tell me "sorry, our delivery slots are all taken for next 2 weeks"?

What if I want to order my weekly groceries like I always do, but suddenly we have a global pandemic, everybody wants groceries, and all I can get is pickup from a store 5 miles away?

That is not made up, that's literally my life.
Never trust the client

I wonder if we'll eventually end up at a point where all competitive gaming is run entirely sever side and IO is streamed to cryptographically signed and verified hardware.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks. It definitely had a "fear the future" vibe in the wikipedia article for it.
IMO any stateful server-side framework is in trouble nowadays since scaling them involves passing this state around which is a headache compared to current REST/GraphQL backend + Javascript framework stacks.

Oracle seems to keep peddling JSF for stuff like internal business apps, but I've not seen any development around the framework itself in recent years. It's been a while since I've seen a public site built with JSF too.
So, no patents, but trade secrets?
"compile to equivalent LLVM IR". This is not true at all, not in practice and not in theory so I don't understand why it is popping up constantly. Fortran was for example faster than C in some cases before C99 added the restrict-keyword, forever changing the language.
a few different ways to skin this cat:

htmx includes headers, `HX-Request` which will be true if the request is an htmx request, and `HX-Target` that will be the id of the target element, if any, that allow you to modify your response as needed on the server side. This is very common: you have a single URL that satisfies both the htmx and non-htmx request (e.g. /search) and in the htmx case, you don't render the surrounding layout, but in the "normal" case you do.

If a server side option isn't available or is inconvenient, you can instead use the client-side attribute `hx-select` to select a bit of the HTML from the response for inclusion in the DOM.
100% true. I don't pirate game because it's easier to just click buy on steam.
No. By that logic, all languages should have equivalent performance because they all ultimately turn into machine code.

C isn't inherently fast, commonly used constructs in C just tend to match up well with semantics that can be turned into high-performance machine code. For a language that compiles to C to be fast, its commonly used constructs would need to have semantics that match up well with what can be turned into high-performance C, which is often not the case. There are many examples of languages that compile to C, but are still very slow.
> Avoid back and forth

> Processes are expectations made explicit

Processes should avoid back-and-forth. They need to ensure that clear communication happens when work is handed off from one person to another.

Assuming you're working on tickets, do you need to ask 200 questions every time you get an incoming ticket? That's a process problem; the process should ensure that whoever created the ticket puts in the information you need to do their work; and the process should ensure that whoever created the ticket knows how to fill in the information you need.

IE: If QA is filling out a ticket, they should know how to write a bug report, steps to reproduce, and how to collect diagnostic information that's unique to the product.

If support is filling out a ticket, they should know how to clearly explain the customer's problem, and what questions to ask the customer to collect diagnostic information that's unique to the product.
It's not really that these cities were built for the car, moreso that they were bulldozed in order to over-accomodate the car.
Because it can't just be that they actually want to be very clear to the user that Apple is not responsible for the experience?
> We used to hate Microsoft for much less than this. I wonder how Apple can still have so many fans, even on this forum.

If you build a lifestyle product, people can and will struggle to separate their own identity from the products they own. People take an insult on Apple like it's an insult on them, which is not a basis for healthy discourse in the slightest. We end up with apologist takes like "I actually like having 30% of my revenue forfeited to Apple because [they deserve it | I would have given it to them anyways | it's not that much | (YOUR EXCUSE HERE)]" that don't really do anything to diffuse the situation.

Unfortunately, this dysfunction is not exclusive to technology, it's a problem with capitalism as a whole. The same "thought guards" exist with other lifestyle brands like Disney, Gucci, Ferrari, and anyone else who sells the idea of elitism to people who lack self-respect.
"insane test folks take in the US"

What is insane about it?

"You don't need all government structure"

Sure, you don't need to know everything. But it sure helps if people understand the role of the three branches, how laws are generally structured, etc. You might be surprised by how many people can't name the three branches of government or don't understand their role. In my opinion, that will eventually lead to abuse/changes of powers such as we see with the federal executive branch usurping powers it never originally had over the past century. It's hard for a citizen to see when rule of law is bypassed if they don't know the rules/structure/purpose of the system.
> So, people losing their money are mostly just fools. The exact same kind of fools that lost their money 20 years ago. When some of those fools are institutional investors betting with your pension money, you'd be right to be a bit concerned about that though.

Why can't I be concerned about the thousands and thousands of fools that are losing money they can't afford? Yes, they are fools but are they deserving to suffer for being fools and getting carried away by con-men?

I know some poor, desperate people in Brazil who got caught in cryptocurrencies and NFTs out of desperation, they are fools but I believe they do deserve empathy when their families go hungry because of a predator with confidence was able to scam them. Not feeling concerned that thousands of individuals like that exist and are being tricked is a bit concerning for me...
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With all the machine learning we have, game makers could train models to spot hackers. The hacking patterns were obvious even during counter strike 1.6 days. Maybe they got more subtle?

I don't play a lot of FPS, but In Dota2 I see a bunch of hackers where the replay literally shows you how they do not even react with their mouse to a threat that appears suddenly but still manage to cast a spell somehow. I don't even think that machine learning is needed to detect that kind of hack.
Soda was sweeter when I was a kid. The playgrounds were taller. I never needed money. Cartoons were so good I could sit and watch them for hours after school everyday, and the advertisements never bothered me. My computer had a 4MB hard drive, and that was enough for everything I ever needed. My Dad still loved my mom...
From my understanding, LLVM had or has many bugs around alias rules. I remember Rust emitted proper noalias IR to LLVM, only for it to be promptly ignored.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54878
By contrast, your computer from 2013 is a computer from 2022 but a bit slower.

The fact that you view "some stuff is broken but like, it's old" as okay is in my view an enormous concession. It should fully work, there is no reason for it not to other than them locking it down.

It's fair enough that an original Motorola Razr isn't a smartphone because there are physical constraints. If the only thing preventing it from working is that they've gone closed source, locked the bootloader and told you to get fucked that's planned obsolescence and I'm gonna call it out as being bullshit.