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> The widespread availability of those devices dramatically shrank the market for NDS games. Developers were dropping off the platform well before the 3DS came out, and Nintendo started to pay much more attention to DRM.

Do you have a source for this? All the data I've seen shows piracy really doesn't impact content creators in a meaningful way.

... the study concluded that there was no evidence that piracy affects copyrighted sales, and in the case of video games, might actually help them. [1]

Curious why you think this applies to the NDS but not in general.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira...
No you, but them. If they can strongarm someone in buying a car from them, better for them. Doesn't matter if the person won't come back six years later, the supply of warm bodies is inexhaustible.
Until there is a critical vulnerability in one of the components present on that image (system packages or application packages).
Both parties might want to non-automatically engage a third lawyer in your scenario. They'll be needing one.
FWIW, DSC is claimed to be lossless.

https://www.cablematters.com/blog/DisplayPort/what-is-displa...
There was also a period when you could very easily (I guess you still can) buy "homebrew" cartridges for the DS, like the R4. Piracy was rampant. I have no idea what the scene is like now, but certainly GB/GBC/GBA/NDS files had no copy protection and were easily distributed online. To make things worse for Nintendo, a big SD card could hold a huge catalogue of games. Since it required zero modding, kids started to ask their parents to get them carts for Christmas and you can still buy them on Amazon. At some point there was a lot of scaremongering that the carts were illegal and that you'd get arrested for owning/buying one. There was a big crackdown and a bunch of countries banned them and fined/jailed distributors, but I don't it ever impacted serious pirates (who could just order them from somewhere like DX).
Oh, I’m sure a significant fraction of nuclear weapons would work, and the results would be horrible. It’s just that large fraction might not work. I don’t think Putin would want to reveal this because it means he lacks the capacity to fully eliminate the United States
How is this considered legal? I get the cat and mouse chase between devs and the reverse engineering communities, but this seems to cross the line into physical destruction of property, at least at face value.
There was two stages for that sale (possession requirement + public). And someone was still able to automate and purchase 1% of the entire supply.
Hey this is just like Babakiueria - maybe they got the idea from this paper!

https://youtu.be/NqcFg4z6EYY
Since logging in is an online activity, that means every modification should automatically sync to the database as well. Thus I've never had conflicts, I think Seafile handles conflicts very well (mostly silently?). Never had an issue really (although the Android app is slightly clunky).
Coming soon to a car near you.
Containers run on vm’s so those needs to scale as well anyway. So probably cloud provides dont run everything on containers…
Finally, a good use for botnets!
It’s my litmus test for idiots who think they have something useful to say.
> That must be situational. In my circle of family and friends, religion is still extremely powerful. Even to the point where I demur when the topic of religion even looks like it could be discussed. I "pray" right along with everyone else at the dinner table at family gatherings

You sound like me with my Woke extended family :)

Of course the influence of one's community will always be powerful. What's novel about the present situation is how much a bunch of randos on the internet can ruin your life.

> And even on a national stage -- how many politicians will admit to being non-religious? There is still a tremendous amount of social power from the right.

So perhaps not totally gone, but it's influence is greatly diminished from where it was a generation ago.
Bob Iger (famous for Disney and Pixar) has a number of tips and even a masterclass on the topic. Personally I think he has a great philosophy of handling negotiations in many transactional settings. It’s about leaving your ego and making everyone feel like a winner.
> It's baffling that a public health institution would discredit themselves so obviously ...

Here's your proximate cause: The article's author is "director of public relations and marketing". This may go some way toward explaining why there's no link to the actual research document in the article.
When you read a regular file from disk, and it's not in cache... the thread (or process) calling read() blocks, waiting for the data.

Or perhaps you're using NodeJS-style async callbacks. Guess what happens... Your async read looks like it's just using an event queue, but behind the scenes, NodeJS calls libuv which creates a thread which blocks in read(), and when read() unblocks and returns your callback is added to the event queue.

Perhaps you're using the async/await style with the Promise API for truly async goodness. Guess what happens... Your async call still ends up calling libuv which creates a thread which blocks in read(), and your await waits until libuv's thread read() unblocks and tells the Promise that it's fulfilled.

Maybe you're using shiny io_uring() - finally (it was proposed many times before) a real async system call interface in Linux! Guess what happens... Your lovely async/await calls the pristine goodness of io_uring_enter() which... creates a kernel thread which blocks in read(), and your await waits until the kernel thread's read() unblocks and reports a result.

Even with async/await languages and frameworks, and event-driven frameworks, a blocking thread is used somewhere in the stack to read from a file.

I've measured how many threads to create for optimal throughput of small reads from NVMe storage, and the fastest number of threads varies but it's generally in the tens to low hundreds, and always more than the number of CPU cores, if the data is not already in cache.

This is a complex area to tune adaptively, and Linux itself is unfortunately not ideal for this (it doesn't tell the userspace scheduler about blocked vs preempted I/O threads). Interestingly, reducing the number of CPU cores (using taskset) while keeping the same number of threads sometimes increases I/O throughput.

(Note: The above assumes Linux, not O_DIRECT with libaio, and that data is not in cache when using io_uring).
There are also companies working on "in silico" simulations to allow for simulation based qualification and exploration of the physics of the body and how to test potential therapies in the computer.
"Ideally, I can have enough money and power to benefit from society without contributing to its upkeep or being bound by its rules."
Y'all, he's on to us: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1506430395847307265
Correct. It's a pain in the bum. I might add that Fairphone has an official procedure to flash the original rom and re-lock the bootloader, I tried it with the FP3 at least and that worked on the first try.
It was a fine argument that you completely avoided responding to.
There’s a modern way to play burnt dvds with no swap on a ps2. It pretends to be a video DVD (so no wobble groove check) and uses a buffer overflow in the DVD menu code handling to boot the game.
You could connect to Xbox live if you had one of the undetectable modchips with a switch that allowed you to flop between regular and modded firmware. Even with modded firmware you could go on live for a while, even cheat at multiplayer games flying around and stuff until you got banned.
No, it's obviously not. The abortion example is especially funny, seeing as how people at abortion clinics frequently need armed guards to go to work.
What you are suggesting is impossible in practice. It is impossible to not accidentally upset somebody no matter what you say. Unless what you say is so meaningless and vanilla that you might as well not have said anything. We would have to ban all jokes, all political opinions, all scientific discoveries (because religious people might be upset), all expressions of art etc. That is impossible.
I think amsterdam/AMS was where I saw airport staff on kickboards...
On PS2, there were certain games that could be exploited to allow a software mod to load.
I just make a calendar appointment marked “Busy”
Just raise the price already. The market price of a Pi Zero 2W is about $70 right now. For my application, I'm happy to pay it, because the alternative would be spending a month of skilled developer time designing a daughterboard and porting software to a different SBC. If Adafruit actually succeeded in preventing scalpers from buying up the supply, this would mean misallocating boards to projects where a dozen other boards would have worked just as well.
If we didn’t have profit protection measures like this everything would be much more expensive and that’s not a better alternative for most consumers.
> SolidJS does expose various tools for untracking and batching signals, so it might be a matter of trading initial explicitness/complexity for adding it later.

This is correct, but it’s exposed specifically for cases where you know more than the compiler does. This set of cases will almost always be smaller than similar cases in React, because ultimately Solid components are just functions. They don’t have a lifecycle, components themselves never rerun unless you call them.

Those cases for React: you have to tell it when it should rerun or not rerun your components, your logic etc. Basically everything on the event loop that isn’t already participating in its reconciliation algorithm, and everything which has its own diffing logic.

Those cases for Solid: likely interacting with other libraries with implicit lifecycles. Your event handlers will all run exactly as defined. You’re already invoking the signals and other logic which reconciles Solid’s state model. You just need to really mean it when you “get”, and libraries which aren’t aware of that need a little nudge.
Even the NES had circuitry against running games that were pirated, unlicensed or for the wrong region. There were workarounds but it didn't get cracked for over twenty years.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8PYE8A-WEw>
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Because apps can send notifications, which serve as a reward mechanisms that keep you addicted to the app.
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It doesn't have to; wealthy people are by definition a small minority.
You’re right.

Inevitably startups these days must be willing to waste some resource, maybe time or money, in order to truly iterate toward solutions that customers want. Anything else is too slow.
Something else I haven't seen mentioned in the replies: demos are shiny promotion-bait (both of the internal title-promotion style, and also the company itself hungry for any kind of engagement).

source: work in marketing
Cool tool! It would be great to change not just brightness/Contrast but the rest of monitor parameters such as display input.
It is impossible to not accidentally upset somebody no matter what you say. Unless what you say is so meaningless and vanilla that you might as well not have said anything. We would have to ban all jokes, all political opinions, all scientific discoveries (because some religious people might be upset), all religions, all expressions of art etc. That is impossible to do in practice.
I had a similar problem with chronic stuffy nose, recurring sinus infections, and a deviated septum. But Buteyko breathing practice was a big part in me getting better. There were other things I did too, but paradoxically, breathing through the nose (and the uncomfortable "suffocating" feeling that happens when you do this while having a stuffy nose) causes the CO2 in the body to rise, and if you keep this up for a little while, it causes your nasal passageways to expand and the mucus to thin and drain, which actually allows you to keep breathing out of the nose. Breathing out of the mouth on the other hand, has the opposite effect, which perpetuates the vicious cycle.

So, you just have to stick with it and study the exercises and tape your mouth shut if necessary at night. Things will get better, it just takes practice.
I agree with you but many cities can't see it that way.

There's an infrastructure of service businesses (restaurants, tailors, hair cutters) and retailers who depend on the foot traffic of office workers. They are suffering too. There's a critical density of foot traffic that makes a city survive. I feel intuitively that that density is lower than one might expect, but the data may not bear that out.

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Last week my GF went into the office for the first time (she switched employers in the autumn of 2020) for the new "three days office two days WFH" schedule. That was on Monday, the program's first day. She spent the time on Teams calls same as when she was at home. She hasn't been in since and nobody has said anything.

I thought it would be fun to to drive up with her for some moral support. I found out I could get a wework in the building next to her for $29. Turns out for $29 what was actually on offer was an entire floor. It wasn't only me -- people came to service the kitchen during the day.
It appears you can. At least searching for "buy your own debt" gives results for entities who claim to help you do so, without tanking your credit score. "You're certainly not going to take legal action against yourself".
Gonna stick with my Brompton.
Not the formalization, because it isn't formalized, but definitely the consolidation, and the emphasis on linking all of your accounts.

For my own part, I have deleted every reddit account that I have ever made in which I felt that I had become attached to my karma. I just rebuild from scratch when that happens. I hate being afraid of saying things. It helps a lot, but I also don't participate in any of the real identity emphasized social media outlets.
You miss the concept that gay marriage was controversial. Obama was against it. Therefore if that debate was held in the current environment proponents of gay marriage might be silenced and banned
> (, [ and { mean the same thing...

That's not a feature of Scheme. It must be a feature of the implementation you use. (Which one?) E.g. in R7RS, [ ] and { } are explicitly reserved for future language extensions.

https://standards.scheme.org/official/r7rs.pdf
It's crazy the leaking group is offering people who work at likely targets money.

Like, what's the exit strategy there? They use your credentials, leak stuff, and you take the fall?
The problem I’ve found is that a lot of turmeric and curcumin supplements or powders use heavy metals for orange coloring. Is there a brand you recommend?
...because you agreed to the terms when operating the software.
It isn't perfect yet, and there are subtle queues that this isn't a real person. The character and dialog do seem to be deliberately leaning into this so these flaws don't detract. To me, the character started moving her hands in a very unreal way at the start. And then I realized the movement I was seeing was almost certainly motion captured and likely exactly as the actor performed it!
While I generally agree, I think the point most people have with being OK with game consoles and not iPhones boils down to:

A. Game consoles are sold at a loss or very near-cost; often they only end up making some <5% per-unit profit due to the sheer volume of their production. Devices with direct evidence for this are PS5[0] and Steam Deck[1]. For iPhones, it can feel unfair when apple is making app store margins on top of their 30%+ per-device margins, but I support the idea that Apple's profit margins take into account app store margins and the devices would be x% more each year if developers could go completely without IAP for in-app digital purchases.

B. Nintendo et al. specifically sell these as "game consoles", so combined with (A), it feels fine that they get their 30%. For iOS, being locked into the App Store serves only the purpose of total security, where basically nothing downloaded from the app store can siphon data from other apps via a sandbox escape or otherwise jailbreak the phone for silent spyware purposes.

0: https://www.techradar.com/news/ps5-has-only-just-stopped-los...

1: https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/gabe-newell-says-steam-... (pretty heavily implied; Steam will also end up making money post-sale via their 30% cut)
> I swear an HR manager said in an all hands Zoom call, "The one thing I miss most was that Ferry commute!

Since nobody is going into the office, that HR manager is welcome to take a trip or two on that ferry whenever the mood strikes! It won't be crowded so they can just make a round trip and then head home to get some work done.
Oh man, the behaviors in my culture are ritualized, much like the behavior in other cultures. I would never have realized that, save for this clever piece of satire.
Well that's a whole other debate, but I'd like to know the legality now.
Current MacBook Pro 14"/16" use the M1 Pro/M1 Max instead of the M1 that the Air and 13" MacBook Pro have, so definitely a different (and later iteration) CPU: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
> Yet people aren't generally freaked out when people drink alcohol.

I think you might be discarding your priors here. Alcohol use is extremely common, so even relatively uncommon negative effects will happen a lot. The important number to compare is how many people would see equivalently bad effects if the same number of people used <other substance X> as drank alcohol.
You could connect, you would just instantly be banned because the challenge/response pair didn't match, starting with the bright-white dashboard in Feb of '11.

the discovery of the RGH, reset glitch hack, aided in the reversing the early stages of the bootloader, allowing a small, incredibly talented, incredibly missed individuals to reverse the firmware/NAND challenges and correctly respond to the challenge.
So they're adding decimal floating point this generation too then ;)
Alan Dershowitz wrote to Pinker asking "do you reckon this statute means X or Y?" and Pinker said "It obviously means X". So far as I can tell, (1) Pinker didn't know that this was specifically about the Epstein case, (2) Pinker gave an honest answer to the question, and (3) Pinker's answer was in fact obviously correct.

Epstein was an awful person who did awful things and should have spent the rest of his life in prison. But that doesn't mean that every specific attempt to put him in prison was legally sound, and it doesn't mean that anyone whose actions contributed to that specific attempt's failure is somehow complicit in Epstein's evils.

It seems to me that it's a positively good thing that when someone is accused of something awful, they can still get vigorous legal representation, and that the people providing that vigorous legal representation can solicit opinions from experts that they hope will back them up. Because 1. sometimes people who are accused of awful things turn out not to have done them, and 2. when they did do them we want the legal proceedings establishing that they did to be as watertight as possible.

In this particular case, the issue wasn't "did Epstein do X or not?" but "are the things Epstein did covered by this specific law or not?". It seems that they weren't. Again, I think it's a positively good thing that when someone is accused of something awful we only get to use a law against them if that law really covers what they did. Because if there isn't a general principle that you only get punished for things that are actually against the actual law then what we have isn't laws, it's excuses for the powerful to punish whoever they feel like punishing.

To be clear, it looks as fishy as all hell to me that Epstein didn't get a much harsher sentence in the 2006-2008 case. It looks, in fact, like some sort of corruption or cover-up. But in that case, I don't see how Pinker's letter had anything much to do with it. And, again, so far as I can tell what Pinker wrote was simply correct, and when he wrote it he didn't know it was for Epstein's case.
Perhaps you should spend some time thinking about the distinction he's making before trying to take the piece apart based on an abstraction he's not talking about.
I'm not happy that the Nintendo Switch is locked down, and any ruling against Apple which also applied to console manufacturers would be great news in my book. I just have better things to be angry about.

The thing is, I feel quite comfortable asserting that nobody uses a Nintendo Switch as their primary computer. If an app isn't available on the Switch, people can download it on something else. If an app isn't available on the iPhone, protesters in Hong Kong die: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678

Locked down consoles are regrettable; locked down phones are an affront to free society.
You would love the history of cat and mouse with the Xbox 360! When Microsoft lost another round they came out with the brilliant idea of making the games larger then commercially available dvds had space for. The next round hackers truncated the games so they could burn to standard disc as most games had a lot of padded data it didn’t need and this worked well for a while. Then the ban hammer dropped and a bunch of people playing truncated games got banned. So the next thing the hackers did was so cool. They found a way to burn more data to a standard DVD. DVDs were 7.5gb too small for xbox games which were now made to almost 8gb if I remember correctly. Hackers developed a custom software for certain DVD burners, the one I used was a lite-on drive but they supported a few different ones, and you would flash the firmware of the DVD burner and it allowed you to write to the very edge of the DVD. Typically DVD burners don’t allow you to write to this area because it can sometimes be prone to errors. Hackers didn’t care though they even came out with a program that would scan your disc after and verify it was clean with no errors so it was essentially a clone. Of course you still needed a flasher DVD drive in your Xbox but Microsoft wasn’t able to detect that they were detecting discs. It was such a cool cat and mouse game in the end I stopped with the burnt discs and went for the reset glitch hack which allowed me to play all the games from an external HDD but of course not online with microsoft. Though you still could connect to other servers and do things like album cover downloads and play with other hackers xboxs. Good memories.
Didn't suggest that it did but the most recent data suggests (in plain language) that brain cells forget how to be brain cells. They don't die; they begin excreting inflammatory substances and clog up the works.

Researchers have tested in the lab on how to reset these cells or keep them from forgetting their identity in the first place. There's more data that suggests many diseases (including Alzheimer’s) are really the result of these cells losing their way.

David Sinclair is the most eloquent that I've heard about this: https://youtu.be/n9IxomBusuw
right because all terms are legally enforceable...
Would you recommend the A-line or the C-line?
my thoughts on it are a bit deeper than that, but the simpler summary of those thoughts (which I haven't detailed) are that the inspiration didn't come from nowhere. there are enough examples where thats the case.
I bought an M1 Macbook Air mid-February. The site gave me a ship date of four weeks later, but actually shipped from China in eight days, and arrived at my office a couple days later.

Given what a mess shipping has been for the last two years, they appear to be taking the "underpromise, overdeliver" route on shipping quotes.
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