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I think I see what you mean. You're talking about balance, yes? If so, I think it's easy to do balance wrong and hard to do it right, and there's a lot of people trying at the same time, in any game: the game designer, the GM, the players even, at some level. So there's lots of moving parts to combine and it doesn't always work.

To be honest, I don't have a good answer to that. I've read (but not played) games that had special rules for "mooks" or "mobs". For example, Wushu, a game of cinematic Kung-Fu action, was like that, because I guess it's very in the spirit of the setting. I've played computer games that throw hordes of enemies at you, also. Invariably there's a progression from mooks, to mini-bosses, to bosses to big bads. Then there's games like Call of Cthulhu (CoC) were there are no goblins and even the weakest enemies can drive your character insane (well, ish. I think Ghouls are relatively safe...).

I have no clue what's the right way to achieve balance. It seems to me that the only way to avoid what you describe is to have no weakling enemies and make every encounter a matter of life-and-death, with a substantial risk for at least one character to die (like CoC). But not for a Total Party Kill probably.

I kind of have Nethack in mind, here, and other roguelikes (I think a lot about them lately). In Nethack you fight some weak enemies at first, like slime molds, but you can at least eat them, so they're a resource. Then as you progress down the dungeon, the chance of dying increases very steeply. And then your character dies. And the next one. And the next one too. And the one after that. So there's no boring encounters, but I personally want to throw the keyboard after a while and I end up savescumming because I just want to get a bit deeper in the dungeon and see what's there.
Sure, the air is. Unless you're taking public transit in a city. And the various kinds of toxic dirt and grime on the streets aren't exactly a picnic either.
Is there a good tutorial for setting up a pipeline like you’ve described using? Really cool!
Isn't 100 million usd to fix 0.1% of global warming actually a pretty amazing return? I would imagine most solutions cost a lot more than 100 billion in total.
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I mean, we have been depleting soil fertility through the use of synthetic fertilizers for decades. It’s been a self-destructive cycle.

Perhaps some farmers might switch to practices that are not so dependent upon as much to external inputs … but even switching to things like no-till or using local inputs like manure, or using soil-regenerating practices like polycropping or integrated pest-control is going to take time.

It’s doable though. The Cubans have been operating their agriculture without imported oil and fertilizers since the US shut down imports. That also meant that use of tractors became limited, as are long-distance transport for food.

Better than food security is food sovereignty, and people within a locality being able to feed themselves.
You can already play unlicensed games on Nintendo and Sony systems.

And developers don't have to sell through the Sony or Nintendo stores; they can sell through their own store, or through physical retailers.

So, in other words nothing at all like the Apple app ecosystem.
The really brazen thing here is that Google is claiming he was fired "with cause".

People get let go all the time: layoffs, management changes, redundnacies. Usually, the company and manager try to avoid any legal or PR risk by saying nothing and letting the departing employee own the story. The fact that they're not doing this--that they're going out of their way to 9/11 someone's reputation after he's gone--suggests that someone in power is really, really pissed off.
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Always have a backup plan and supplier. Never, ever go with a single source unless there is absolutely no alternative. This includes production/assembly.

Tim Cook undoubtedly knew this but in typical American style, next quarters profit report always comes first. Ignoring this for so long only makes it more difficult/costly to diversify now.
Swiping spam away must be very satisfying!
> If you're trying to go around corners as fast as possible in a front-wheel drive car you're going to drive with one foot on the brake and one foot on the gas and will apply the brakes and the gas at the same time.

This does not seem like a valid use case for driving on public roads.
> Whether they rent or borrow one, they still needed a truck.

Yes, but only occasionally! Again, you're thinking we're trying to "take away your truck", when we're just saying (correctly) that most people (like your friends!) don't need them except rarely and are better served by other kind of resource allocation than personal vehicles.

> How many should we allow [...] who should qualify [...] banned [...] who gets to decide

This isn't a good faith argument. No one is advocating for any of that. Please don't.
Cars give you freedom... yes, they're a cost, they take up space, you have to build around them, but you can move wherever you want, whenever you want.

I live in a country with relatively good public transport, relatively great one in the capital and few other large cities, with public bikes and biking lanes.

Then 2020 came, and due to covid, no more public transport (for some time). Want to go to work? Too bad. Want to go to the larger (and cheaper) store... nope. Order food delivery from a large supermarket chain? Good luck, people don't want to go to crowded stores, and delivery slots are full 2 minutes after midnight.

I know it's an extreme situation, but it made people rethink what they need for their independece, and cars came high on the list.
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Only for grandfathered-in systems that are critical to keep operating that can't be replaced. New systems and lower-impact existing systems cannot use 3DES at all, unless it's only to decrypt stuff previously encrypted with it.
You can just get up and go and not even think about power. You can even take an overnight trip and not bother to bring the power brick. It's very nice.

... plus, crazy, excessive-seeming battery life at purchase means you still have "all-day" battery when the device is 5 years old and the battery has significantly degraded.
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> They can't. Russia simply cannot control the tens of millions survivors of it's brutal invasion even if they manage to defeat the Ukrainian army in the field, which they can't.

Well, there's no need for millions of survivors in wars. Right now, Russia is keeping it's line about "Ukraine is Russia" and with that, reasonable restraint towards civilians compared to Syria, but, if that is no longer "necessary" or "reasonable" in their point of view, using nukes and leaving no survivors is a cheap, cost-reducing strategy.
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I'm sure you'd agree that what they claim scientists say gives absolutely no mention to the conclusion of the first paper they chose to reference. How do you interpret this? Let's check out the 2nd paper [1]. It seems in many ways even worse than the first.

It not only also offers significant weighting to breeds, but ultimately even rejects the idea of a temporal decline in nutritional value! "Based on the available limited data, and due to variations in sampling, analytical techniques and likely differences in growing location and season, no definitive temporal trends could be established."

Basically the observed differences could be easily explained by other simple factors than a mysterious decline, including breed selection. Grow less nutritious crops, get less nutritious food.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8750575/
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>pending deaths on other hills of higher precedence

This is the most obtuse way of expressing a concept. I like it very much.
> Customisation requires everyone who ever works on that codebase to also do the customization.

And they can go on the pile of all the others customisations necessary when you don't mandate all the tooling by fiat.

> Defaults are important

Defaults are a tool, when they hinder improvement you discard them.
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I really hope he can work with cloud vendors and Intel to make Processor Trace a more popular and easier to use capability.

It's unfortunate how https://github.com/janestreet/magic-trace and PMUs in general can't be used by lots of people using cloud VMs.
NO question! Haha.. Even $2B more I think would go a long way :)

I'd also love to see attack surface brought down. For new messages from unknown contacts limit imessage payload to ascii. Yes. No emoji's no anything :) At least as an option. Etc etc. Re-write stacks on internet facing side if needed in safer languages? I'm kidding but...
If your password is 22 randomly generated characters chosen from the alphabet of upper and lower case letters plus numbers (which implies ever-so-slightly-less than six bits of entropy per character) then you will get 128 bit security from one of these devices - meaning that an attacker will just as well have to brute-force the cipher as attack the password. And, as you said, that is currently believed infeasible.

If you are a human being, your password is more likely to be a single English word or name with some arbitrary capitalization, some swapping out of o/0 a/@ s/$ t/+ or some such, and then a number tacked on the beginning or end.

At this point, brute-forcing your password is going to be a much simpler proposition; you're reliant on a key-derivation function being sufficiently expensive to compute to slow down that brute-force attack.

The attack in this case was of the latter kind; the KDF was so poor that it could be attacked very quickly. No 128-bit encryption was harmed in the filming of that presentation.
Tim Apple, Brendan Intel, who next?
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> ... it is reasonable to question whether DALL-E 2 constitutes progress toward solving the deep challenges of commonsense reasoning, comprehension, reliability, and so forth that would be needed for a truly general-purpose AI ...

I like how they pose this question as a bait to the abstract yet they do not even attempt to answer it. Instead they focus on general shortcomings of the model.

Moreover, there is no proper conclusion which would discuss the findings.

Given how outspoken Gary Marcus is on Twitter - criticising current advances in DL I would expected him to do a much better job publishing a document about it.
The cracking script he wrote is at https://github.com/openwall/john/blob/bleeding-jumbo/run/enc...
> Yes, but only occasionally!

Again I use mine all the time. I'm not advocating getting rid of cars because some people don't need a truck. I don't believe there are too many trucks or cars, I feel like the people saying there are too many trucks have the obligation to explicitly give reasons as you why.

> This isn't a good faith argument. No one is advocating for any of that. Please don't.

It is in good faith, I assure you. I'm trying to make you realize that what you view as necessary isn't the same for others. You said there are too many. I would like to know what you view as necessary and what the ideal amount would be for you. What uses for trucks are deemed as necessary and what are frivolous.
SoundCloud ends its multi-year Strangler migration journey
It takes a bit of time for old stock to sell out. If you pay attention, you can see a pattern in a lot of items that retailers tend to only increase the prices when their old stick sells out and new stock come in, and then there is a dramatic rise in the price of the item.
But they can supply the meat consumption of the areas with grasslands.
Displaylink and/or macOS does not support scaling on hidpi displays for some reason so it's not a good alternative :(
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But then we have to remember all the different tags we’ve used! Sometimes months later!!!

Search TODO wins
> The urban cores of New York and Boston are denser than any city in Europe!

And unaffordable to the vast majority. I'd love to have plenty of walkable city options in the US, but they aren't going to appear overnight by banning cars when you need them to get around places over half of the people in the US live in.
It seems like a needlessly divisive conversation, every time it comes up. My guess is that 99% of all the people who complain that they see people driving pickups not hauling anything are themselves usually driving a 5 passenger car as the sole occupant.