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> once you stop playing a game 100% of the money you spend on it disappears, you can’t recover any of it, not 50%, not 20%, just nothing (...) Can you imagine if other art mediums were this ridiculous?

Well, we're getting there. Streaming services, and all subscription offerings, are systems where you don't own anything, and you lose everything the moment you stop paying.
Who would buy bonds and with what if in this scenario we all didn’t believe in the green back?
Totally forgot about those two. And yes, both fantastic.
Its modern monetary theory now. The glorious idea that you can print as long as there is no store of value to flee into
Oh yeah, like the Foundation series. Not a letdown at all, pure Apple quality there.
I really miss Minecraft Earth.
Genuine question out of curiosity - what do you get out spending that much on a game? I’ve heard some whales spending 10-20k a week and that’s probably not even the highest. Do you get genuine enjoyment out of it or do you ever feel fleeced at all?
I really wish that "American Animals" had become some sort of indie darling, just so the world will remember that MoviePass co-distributed a really good film. Maybe "Gotti" will become a midnight showing cult classic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoviePass#MoviePass_Venture_fi...
This book looks really promising. Just a small recommendation, you should give an option to the reader to download the book, if they give there email address. This would increase your newsletter size and hence, it can go long way.
A full buildroot (incl. Kernel and full toolchain) compile is not much more than that even on my laptop, when using ccache.
This is like bragging about being in the demographic that keeps celebrity gossip tabloids afloat. Do you also lose a lot of money on MLM schemes? Are Vegas casinos comping week-long stays for you?
that was my first reaction on reading the title..that's how retro computers back in the day displayed circles on sparse pixel displays
Only to a limited degree. The problem is that the eye becomes inflexible with age, lowering the ability to modify it's "lens power".

Lens power is defined as the inverse of the focal length. Lets say you have glasses that, when combined with you eyes, create perfect focus at a range of 5m. If you look at something 10m away, you need to add (or subtract) the difference by modifying your built-in lense.

The lens stength adjustment for your eye needed for that, is

dP = 1/10m - 1/5m = -0.1m^-1. This is not much, and even old eyes can do this easily. Also, even if the eye is not able to do so, the image is going to be pretty sharp at 10m or any greater distance away, or even at distances of about 3-5m.

Now consider having your lenses adjusted to be perfect at 0.5m away. If you move the object you look at to 1m away, you get:

dP=1/1m - 1/0.5m = -1m^-1

This is still easy for a young person, but for someone older, this can be straining, or even impossible. Also, even slightly away from the perfect distance, perceived blurriness will be significant if not able to adjust.

Furthermore, to look at something much further away, eyes must be ajusted by dP=-2m^-1. This is doable for a young person, but an older will move around in the fog.

In other words, a screen that is 3m+ away from you requires a lot less lens compensation from the eye (and thus far less strain) than a screen 50cm away, even with perfect glasses, as long as you are not sitting perfectly still at that distance. Even variation in distance between the center of the screen and the edge of the screen may be enough to cause problems.
> Kind of creeps me out that Apple gets to just slide in and immediately become oscar winning film/tv production company darling, as well.

If you get some magical “street cred” in the industry for simply being the party to win the bidding war over a film after it was already produced, shown at a film festivals, and critically acclaimed, then yeah, that seems at least silly if not creepy. Surely there’s a big different between a company funding the creation of a film, and a company just buying the rights to stream a completed film.
Graeber did not claim to be the first debunking the myth of barter.

However, what does it even matter, when the zombie keeps walking to this day? The linked article repeats the myth of barter.

And lest people think it's only right-ish economists that keep repeating it, Yanis Varoufakis did so too (in his book "Talking to my daughter about the economy").

And yeah sure, nothing "hinges" on the myth of barter. But it is a symptom, a glaring illustration that economists are really bad at arguing from how real people actually act, and cheerfully embrace just-so stories that support their preferred ideas - which is the linked article's whole game, too.
Vodafone is the only 5G tower within range - it’s about 500m away other towers are at least a mile and haven’t been upgraded yet

Funnily when we move to our current address the VF tower was a 2G infill so we switched to Three for better coverage and throughout
Thanks for Ardour! I've used it many times. I'm not a DAW expert, but unfortunately I don't think that's really similar though... DAWs are complicated, and hats off for building one, but they're nothing like browsers in how much they're tracking a moving target, and how little tolerance users have for something that is incomplete. I have a musician friend that still uses Cubase 6 and it works just fine. Ever tried using a browser from 2011? Do you even dare to?

Browsers need to follow ever changing standards, do all that in a super performant way (remember the days people said they're leaving Firefox because Chrome "feels snappier"? Good luck beating that), keep it secure even though it's running remote code, and until they get it ALL 100% working, no one is really going to make it their daily driver. I already hear people saying that they're not using Firefox because some websites don't render well.

If it isn't "too hard", why do you think that over the last decade essentially no one managed to do it, while we do have several open source DAWs?
Trust can be eliminated by switching to commodity money (made of the commodity, such as gold), with the option of appraising the money during a zero-trust transaction (those with trust can take minted commodity money at face value). Fiat and gold-backed currency is not the only option here.
WCF, Forms/WPF (3rd party controls), Sitecore, SharePoint, Dynamics, SQL Server managed runtime, App Domains,...
I certainly don’t miss switching channels.

TV experience 20 years ago sucked. Now I can have all the content I could ever want immediately accessible via Plex, no need to fiddle with DVDs or gasp VHS tapes. Commercials? hah. Unskippable anti-piracy warnings? nope.
Excuse me, WHAT?

Every time a PHP post makes it to the HN frontpage, there's a ton of people saying how easy it is to pick up, build a project on, and deploy. I sometimes wondered "hm, maybe I was wrong about it, I might try it out". I had no idea it had skeletons like this hidden in the closet.
You have a point, but I don’t think Swatch is selling these online. All I’ve read is that they’re not a limited edition, but available in “select stores only”.
I wish Firefox would incorporate Tree Style Tab!
I disagree. There are ways to do it in which it's obvious where the business model is, and it isn't too forceful or gambling.

The World of Tanks/Battleships/Warplanes series, are free to play, with progression through experience ( you unlock higher level machines based on xp points you accumulate through playing and success at it), or through paying to go up the ladder faster or unlock special machines. You can play the free version just fine ( a paying user against you doesn't have a serious advantage), and the developers make enough money from the paying users who enjoy the exclusive machines or earning xp faster. Why shouldn't i enjoy a free game i know someone pays for ( and that someone needs me there too, if there aren't adversaries you can't play)?
It's a mix of MIT, BSD and Apache
I think a lot of people naively think of moves like this as pure money grabs and don’t appreciate that a lot of these moves are out of survival…especially for games like Rocket League that require a sufficient player base to even be a viable live service game.
But my point doesn't change, on my platform I'm judge, jury and executioner too.

Unless you can prove in a court of law you're being restricted for illegal reasons, there's not much you can do.

Internet is full of stories of people losing their livehood overnight in these services and there isn't much one can do.
I feel like Rocket League is like the smallest offender. What really shocked me when I discovered that like 99% of FIFA streams were about loot pack openings these days, not actually anyone playing/enjoying the game. And when they dare to do so anyway, their live viewer count drops right away. Also in this case it’s pure gambling, as you don’t know what you’ll get with any buy.

Edit: People tried to fight this in court, with basically zero results: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-03-09-eas-10m-dutch-...
Laws only matter when they are enforced, and these ones are clearly not.
I need to constantly recompile my work app, and it needs a few hours. the last 2 months I did nothing else than trying to compile this app in various configurations and dependency versions to find a state which works. there was none. commercial Windows shit of course, no ccache, and most of the time McAfee antivirus interferes.

just 3 hours would be very nice.
clasp also needs about a day.
I think it’s a factor of how the networks are constructed and how ISP backhaul works

As far as I can remember anyone on BT (or rebranded BT) gets dumped into their backbone that then exits onto the internet in a couple of places but it’s a while since I looked at it

Is your experience of US connections based on connections in large metro areas, rather than rural ones?
They finally fixed search so you can jump to the context a month or so back. I have no idea why it took so long, but search is actually helpful now
What you are referring to is the “sweat of the brow” doctrine. This is not correct in the USA. A work must show at least some creativity in order to qualify for copyright protection.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
I think the answer is necessarily: he does and doesn’t. Analogy is probably the only way to try and make these numbers concrete, but he can develop a stronger intuition and respect for the time scale with domain experience.
You dont disagree with the author. The key phrase is "given the choice" from the consumer perspective. That people who sell will demand the stronger if they have the option isnt surprising.
Does it matter? Google can close source an internal pre-release fork and then make a final set of modifications that will sufficiently deviate it for production releases.

Isn't the entire business reason behind Fuchsia that Android is a bit "too open source" and they want more control?

They are probably going to get some free bugfixes from "enthusiasts" and then close source a sufficient amount of it for "security reasons". Or whatever serves their "not evil" purposes.

But at least SOME of the code is in the open.
> full stack typescript because it’s incredibly powerful resource (as in money) wise to have the same environment across everything in non-tech enterprise.

but with typescript are you not ending up writing more code? curious to know more about this and are you seeing tangible benefit from not having to switch between backend and frontend? im somehow skeptical of this and im always curious to hear from others who might prove otherwise.

we are using python on the backend (aws chalice) and just react javascript. don't really find much issue switching back and forth. and post 3.5 there is now runtime type hinting too so I didn't really see the appeal of using typescript.

now if there was only a way to write frontend applications in python that would be a dream :)

> We also do a lot of “serverless” but the way we do it seems far less vendor dependent than this. Basically what we do is layer out the “node” part of our “serverless” application and let our cloud provide act as what is essentially the role of what expressJS or similar might have done for you 5-10 years ago. We’re also handling a lot the federated security through a combination of ORMs, OPA, AD and direct DB access control for the very rare BI application that needs it.

hmmm I guess we are locked to AWS sort of (since we use AWS chalice) but I mean it could easily be ported to a python Flask server since the syntax is almost identical and we could absolutely run this on a VPS server if we choose to.
... so don't play those games?

There's still tons of world class story driven games that don't have loot boxes or similar mechanics. I think I paid $19 for a used copy of horizon zero dawn and enjoyed it immensely.
Real time response/latency and performance/throughout are usually a tradeoff - you can’t have both.
Zoom has to be installed

Is that a recent change? Up until a few month ago I worked at a company that banned the Zoom client for "security reasons" and had to use Zoom on the web for all my Zoom meetings and it never was a problem.
How is this new? There have been experiments with co-ops in various fields including housing since the 19th century.

Not all of them were unsuccessful, but their successes were mostly of local nature. A lot of the successes depended on favorable regulatory climate. Housing co-ops are significant players in some European countries and basically absent in neighboring ones, and differences in legal codes are the reason.
I hear you! Same goes for me… if a game is free to play for me it’s a NO GO!
A few years ago, Nintendo made a wonderful game called Super Mario Run. It was simple - Mario automatically runs and you tap to jump - but surprisingly deep. The timing of the jumps and the height of jump was paramount, and there was a ton of replayability in trying to get out-of-reach coins and finding shortcuts. It also captured the aesthetic of the Mario World games with modern graphics. I was VERY skeptical of a mobile Mario game, but was won over by the quality of game design and the clear level of polish.

Nintendo charged $9.99 for this game. The response was absolute evisceration in the ratings. Mobile game players EXPECTED a F2P experience that would waste their time with energy charge ups, loot boxes, etc. and were upset when Nintendo didn't do that.
In response, Nintendo switched to this type of experience for their next release, Fire Emblem, which performed much better.

The Wikipedia article for Super Mario Run explains in detail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Run#Commercial

A select quote - '[Nintendo President] Kimishima said that "we honestly prefer the Super Mario Run model", though in a June 2017 investor question-and-answer session, he said "in the future we will consider not only a single set price, but other methods that incorporate a wider variety of elements that allow as many consumers as possible to play"'
It's more reflective of HN I think, it isn't a worthy HN submission - even by the loathsome fanboyism that's rampant here - and this particular post is pretty low quality.
I bet that most of drivers will be proprietary. It seems the main motivation for Fuchsia: to allow windows-like model for drivers with stable driver API, because Linux-like model does not work well for hardware manufacturers.
It depends on what kind of loot box. For cosmetics it's pretty random. When the game itself feels stale I want a new outfit to make it feel fresh.

For P2W it's a treat after I've been grinding freemium for a while. It's like opening a beer on Friday after work. I don't spend 10-20k a week but I do occasionally spend that amount on one game during its whole lifetime. However, that also means I've gotten thousands of hours of enjoyment out of it.

But yes, while I'm only a 1000x (1000x compared to someone who just pays $20 upfront) there are certainly people who are 1000000x and much bigger whales than me. I can't speak for them.
Eh, no one is giving Apple credit for this win other than Apple themselves. They bought distribution rights to the film well after production was finished and it was already making waves in the festival circuit. Apple's own studio had zero creative input.
This presumes the whales can afford to spend the way they do. Which isn’t true for gambling addicts either. And that the profits end up in the hands of workers rather than in the pockets of investors.
Not important at all if the game server is properly isolated from the game client.
Just being a factor of ten away from being "dangerous", is not exactly what i would call "far"
the skype > teams migrations was a costly endeavour for many companies. Sure on paper they give continuity by offering similar services, but in practice the cost to switch to teams is about as high as switching to whatever other solution on the market (Zoom in pole position).

The only reason people stuck with teams is because it was forced upon them by the IT departments who preferred teams because it was bundled in their license. Teams was very very very rough in the beginning, compared to zoom and slack.

Microsoft doesn't have the guts to call things killed off. And it keeps them in limbo forever. To me that's worse than just admitting you should move on. It's fine if they continue to offer it for business continuity purposes, and they would score many big points doing that. But don't claim they offer it at no cost
> Some people hate the Paradox DLC style, personally I think it’s amazing

Yep. Some people might argue that this or that mechanic should be in the base game because it's too important, but in general the Paradox model is great. Games get interesting new content many years after release, which you have to pay for, but it enables Paradox to actually do the work. The latest DLC for Hearts of Iron 4 took more than a year to develop and drastically changed the game ( it added logistics, trains, depos) for the better. If it were not paid, they wouldn't have been able to afford it.
1.- If you are really interested in the job you spend a few minutes preparing the CV and applying for it.
2.- If the company doesn't support a standard format is probably the company's problem not yours.

"Finally, all this friction discourages some candidates to apply to some positions."
Doesn't this just validate that the benefit is for recruiting firms rather than applicants?
They mentioned that most of the services are on-demand pricing, that’s why it’s cheap for a personal instance. Production presumably costs much more due to much higher usage.
Sorry couldn't let this one go:
I hope you've internalized completely that it wasn't your fault - and you where just a kid trying to survive - again not your fault.
I was a middle schooler when I read it. Definitely written for the general public and written well. I remember being stoked when I encountered those concepts again in college and ended up with an extra major in network/ security
The ECB bought a lot of dubious bonds from countries such as Italy precisely because they were unsellable in the private market (because of the low interest rate). If they had to sell them, few private buyers would be interested.

So, do these bonds cover something or do they just paper over a huge systemic problem?
Only if you don't consider metrics like tail latency to be performance metrics.
It was few days ago on latest versions and M1 MacBook.
I'm not into MLM schemes (or gambling) but I do love celebrity gossip. Since apparently you get to decide what interests are cool or not, I would love to hear what kind of amazing things you are into!
But you do like gambling! Buying chests is exactly that! Just like a casino gambler might prefer blackjack over roulette!
Weird take to make on a site about entrepreneurship
Most of the kids I knew who ended up in these programs were nowhere near as f*cked up as their parents - even before those parents handed their children to abusive thugs.
Benjamin Richard “Yahtzee” Croshaw (of Zero Punctuation) agree with you:

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/what-the-hell-happened-to-m...
Money is claim on human labor.
In absolute terms, the US is probably competitive as the most indebted entity in history. In relative terms, they are well past the threshold where countries pay back their debts in full. Their past performance isn't really a guide to what happens next, unless they've changed what is being measured the US is a financial basket case [0]. They aren't going to pay back what was lent to them in real terms, the idea is preposterous.

[0] https://www.longtermtrends.net/us-debt-to-gdp/
The difference here is that the value proposition of a streaming service is pretty clear up front. Whereas in a context of f2p games, you're given the impression that you're actually acquiring ownership over the digital assets you're buying.

Clearly, that's not the case. You're not buying IP rights of those assets. You only buy a license to consume those assets.
I agree. OpenSCAD is good for very few things - fasteners, gears, art, that's about it. For 99% of CAD you want something like Solidworks.

The only open source program I've tried that comes anywhere close is Solvespace, but it's still not in the same league. FreeCAD is rubbish.

Fusion 360 was a reasonable free, legal but proprietary option until recently, but they changed the terms of the deal.

Now I just pirate Solidworks.
Yes, Ninja hashes the command line and compares that hash in addition to comparing the mtimes.
For me, the magical serverless developer experience was Google Cloud Run.

I write a conventional 12 factor app, with no vendor-specific code which could be executed on my local machine for development, Heroku, or anywhere else, and hand it over to Google Cloud Run. It's really an amazing service.

I had a few wishes on their service (eg integration with Papertrail, an easy way to run background workers, etc) but overall the whole thing is the best of all worlds:

* No vendor lock in due to platform specific code

* Easy local development

* Serverless scalability and pricing

Are there particular reasons why people go through so many hoops to use Lambda when such superior experience exists?
I think OpenSCAD desperately needs some kind of anchors.

E.g. how does one place a sphere on top of a box? First you instantiate a box, then you calculate the center coordinate of the sphere and instantiates that one. If you have many objects touching each other, you're going to have a lot of maths there with a lot of variables or functions to reduce repetition.

A better way in my mind would being able to express things like "sphere of radius R has its bottom at center of box.top". Not even a constraint solver is required for this, though that could be nice as well, but would probably introduce its own set of problems :).

This kind of thing could be particularly nice with the interactive OpenSCAD editor that would enable quickly visually determining the locations of the anchors.
Not quite, treble is more about separating hardware specifics in a versioned, backwards compatible way. It's more for replacing the previous HAL system which in itself already abstracted the kernel for driver support (not necessarily just the kernel because modern platforms run things like audio, sensors, telephony outside of the kernel purview in specialized dsps or secondary mcus).
"Roma" was the "wrong" kind of film at the time, produced by a streaming service which was then considered the mark of the beast.

"Green Book" had a "white savior" trope which is now considered non-Narrative and shunned by people who support the Current Thing.
All this info is available in the "getting started" section.

For GPU support, get a NUC7 (Kaby Lake) or NUC8 (Coffee Lake), or a higher generation.

Building the NUC target now as I have a supported model on hand. Excited to try this :)