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> I'll definitely be doing more to make the C API as compatible with OpenBSD as possible.

One suggestion I might add, it would be worth trying to compile any of OpenBSD's privilege separated network daemons on Linux (w/ Cosmopolitan Libc, or others). While you may have intended to use this facility primarily for your own APE Binaries, I suspect you'll find that the despite your intentions to make this compatible with the C API definition of pledge(2), in practice, your implementation is incompatible with privsep/privdrop software, for which pledge was designed. It was never intended for application "sandboxing".
You're someone who has recognised it and built a tool using the skills you have. I doubt you are damaging to a team at all! In fact, it's impressive.
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> A typical RPG example is defeating the same monster over and over again to get experience to reach the next new area.

That’s ARPGs and JRPGs (and maybe some action RPGs), CRPGs typically don’t have any grinding.
There is a market, unfortunately it might be a small one as I've been unable to find good resources to find games without IAP or without "bad" IAP, aka gems, coins, powerup, speedup, etc. The only good IAPs are DLC, Full Unlock, or Remove Ads. If a game has anything but that I will not download the game. No matter how many times they scream "Free to play" we all know that's 100% bullshit (and if you don't then I've got a bridge to sell you). The only exception to this rule is if the only IAP is cosmetic-only (think: Fortnight).

All other F2P games progress to the point that they require you to pay to proceed either by making your progress slow down to near-zero and/or forcing you to grind for hours to move forward even a tiny bit. No, it's not "The game is just harder", they specifically make the game too hard at a certain point to force you into paying. It's a really ingenious system where they will let you get quite far in the game before they turn the screws, when you think "Well I have played X hours, I can spend $Y on this powerup". PvZ2 is a good example of this. EA absolutely ruined the PvZ franchise (they even went back and screwed up PvZ1, adding ads/IAP even if you bought the game previously) with their greed.

F2P/IAP game developers have perverse incentives to milk you for all you're worth and no matter how "pure"/"moral" they think they want to be. The siren call of money will always lead them to ruin games and make them effectively P2W, even if subconsciously. It's simply too easy to do, just bump the boss HP up by a factor of 10, make this part of the level near-impossible without a powerup, etc.

Apple Arcade helps will some of this but the catalogue is limited (though there are some real gems in there, some of which are games that were F2P/P2W initially). I've found Apple's "Games you might like" or "Based on your downloads" to actually be surprisingly good. I just have to filter them out if they have "bad" IAPs.
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Except that developers do not take advantage of that, and here I am reversing UE Blueprint bytecode to make games working on Wine.
Not surprising at all considering VFX studios can so easily go bankrupt.
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Yes. this is generally handled automatically, there may be times though where you want to essentially pause refreshing the view for a while while you do some backfilling and then eventually let it catch up, especially if you're overwriting the same time period multiple times in a row. If you can insert in time order then it just breaks up re-calculation into smaller segments, which can be quite useful rather than having to process the whole data set again.

This can be a little bit different if you're doing compression, but with continuous aggregates I think it should work fine. I'm not 100% sure that was what you were looking for, let me know if it's not.
Would love to crowdsource an effort to buy enough disk space to backup YouTube to the Internet Archive and have ArchiveTeam perform the archival op.

Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).
Consider that not all of us mind sharing their CVs to the world. The potential for harm is quite low, and there are meaningful upsides.
> gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-fwritable-strings’; did you mean ‘-Wwrite-strings’?

this doesn't work with gcc 4

> GCC no longer accepts the -fwritable-strings option. Use named character arrays when you need a writable string.

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/changes.html
This approach to standardizing recipe formats was done with XML a few decades ago as well: http://www.formatdata.com/recipeml/
Good example of a signature! The institution who awarded you the degree should sign it. They are the authoritative source of this information. Everyone who trusts the institution will be able to verify your copy of the signed document. No communication to the institution necessary.
I'm going to do a bit of "show, don't tell" here, because if you're asking this I'm assuming you're open to learning more about the sexism and bias that typically cause men to dominate conversations in tech/workplaces:

https://www.indy100.com/news/victorias-secret-model-lyndsey-...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40456604/these-women-entrepreneu...

https://hbr.org/1995/09/the-power-of-talk-who-gets-heard-and...

https://janicetomich.com/women-speaking-while-female/

https://time.com/3666135/sheryl-sandberg-talking-while-femal...
> Concluding, will crypto die? Not likely, these things are like vampires, they seem to always rise up again from the dead.

A bit off topic but I would like to read more examples of technological vampires or zombies!
There are other companies working on similar things in the Midwest. It is a complex problem that farmers are very interested in because they see potential dollars.

https://www.bioenergy-news.com/news/frontline-bioenergys-iow...
https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2016/12/20/rapid
Great article; AccessiBe™ and the like are all 100% a scam. At best they do nothing, and they can actively make websites worse to use.

If you want WCAG compliance, you only choice is to either train your devs to do it, or hire devs that are already trained.
Their show also included standup comedy/overarching plots in between the skits that are not available on YouTube
that's definitely a good heuristic for finding a strategy. strategies are realistic methods for how you'll achieve a goal without getting into the details of what you will do to get there (that's the plan). in chess, it might be "control the middle" (if you're strong positionally). in basketball, it might be "run and gun" (if your strength is endurance and speed).

it's important to understand that strategy only exists relative to competition. thus a business strategy only exists at the level of a firm, and not a department or a product, because firms compete in markets (for which a firm may produce many products). that also means it doesn't make sense to talk about marketing strategy or product strategy, because those are implementation details of the firm's business strategy. further, firms only have two broad strategic options: differentiaton (compete on quality) or cost (compete on price). within that, they can apply their strengths to tailor their strategy to the firm (our proprietary manufacturing process produces much more consistent and precise tiddlybonks, so we'll compete on quality).
How is this different than Cloudready by Neverware?
Natively, not to my knowledge. Tooling is available though.

https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup
Most likely they send an offer letter that contains malware. Typically it looks like a PDF - but maybe requires a "special reader" to sign. This is used to hack your bank, crypto, maybe the company they work at currently (as many employees use their work laptop as a personal laptop even though they should not).
Very fair point, my comment should be read as a worst-case estimate of the comparison. In homicide terms, GP's town averages ~2 per 100k (although they haven't had one for the last few years) while NYC averages ~4 per 100k.
Toronto builds ~3x new units per capita every year compared to NY, let's hope they don't slow down.
A lot of computer-related tech (and defense sector) in the Boston area has historically been out in the suburbs, e.g. the "Route 128" companies. After Teradyne moved out, there was very little tech presence left in the actual city. That shifted with biotech/pharma and, more recently, with companies in the Seaport and Cambridge and the outposts of the big West Coast-HQd companies. But a lot of the tech industry is still well to the West and North of the city.
Generally, "Internal valuation" is the valuation used by investors while the company is still private.

One way it can affect Stripe is that it makes stock options less valuable to current employees, and can influence the weight those options have in persuading new hires.
"can just as easily use a bunch of relational servers to partition a table" is not true at all. Managing, maintaining and tuning a sharded relational cluster is an astonishing amount of operations work. partition management, re-partioning, partition failover / promotions / demotions, query routing, shard discovery, upgrades... it goes on an on. All this work is gone if you pick dynamo.
Not saying that dynamo is always better, but IMHO people very much underestimate the ops cost of running a sharded relational cluster at scale.
As someone from California, I've always assumed that Manhattan was sort of comparable to something live Beverly Hills/Century City here in Los Angeles. Basically, you had to be fairly wealthy to live there.
I'm not knocking runestones for being the wrong medium. I'm knocking them for not being documents. A typical cuneiform record might be analogized to an invoice for delivery of a crate of shirts or whatever. (And of course we also have textbooks, dictionaries, literature, correspondence, business reports, mathematical treatises, and every other type of written work.) A typical runic record would be more like the text "Made in Taiwan" printed on the shirt labels.

One of the biggest problems in the study of these cultures is that they left no written records. We know they had a writing system, the runes, but as far as we can tell they almost never used it for anything. Quite the opposite is true of Mesopotamian cultures, where we're buried in more records than we have the manpower to translate.
If only there were some way to present the user with a form that could be used to type in applications to run.

And maybe to help find those applications.

And offer a streamlined mode for applications where you just need a quick response where the application doesn't open a new window but just provides a response in the same invocation-dialogue.

Maybe apps could even take modifiers or specifications when invoked, so you don't have to hunt and peck around in menus and additional dialogues after launch.

Maybe there's a place for this?
Google bought Neverware.
Left-libertarians often think they shouldn't be A Thing, since they're extensions of state power and, besides, left-libertarians are more concerned with large concentrations of power per se than whether those concentrations happen to be called governments.

Your average common-on-the-Internet right-libertarian usually hand-waves away how they're somehow fine and part of the "natural" (I cannot roll my eyes hard enough, in case you couldn't tell) free market. Some of the softer right-libertarians (bleeding over into folks who'd likely style themselves "classical liberals" rather than libertarians) aren't as hard-line and rigid, so don't really have the dilemma to begin with, but they're much less vocal on the Internet, probably in part because they disagree with the average person a lot less than the former sort does, so it just doesn't come up as much.
This might turn out to be the saving grace of the distressed office market. Office landlords have a lot of empty or almost empty buildings in areas like downtown NYC. I'm thinking they can be profitably repurposed as apartments at these rental rates.
That's pretty neat. I really like how simple and concise the website you shared is! If you're screen-sharing during a meeting and have Unblah running, will the other people see it (or is it blocked for privacy the way an email notification is)?
I suggest a variable-width font like Helvetica. It’s not pleasant to read paragraphs of mono-spaced fonts.
Indeed, the amount of VC dollars invested in Boston companies per years is 3x the per capita of New York's. So while NY may have slightly more total dollars invested, a much higher percentage of Boston metro area workers (something like 30%) work in tech. New York will never really be a tech hub in the same way as SF or Boston because tech plays second fiddle to other industries.

Still true today: http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
Why should Ferrari move on to something other than clay and carving knives? I really can't see a render on a computer screen of any size giving you the same visceral understanding of how a car looks walking up to it and moving around it, which is absolutely critical for a premium product like that. Maybe a VR rig might be useful in prototyping, I don't know.

That comment makes him look even more like a short-sighted asshat.
Since the woke types go for Equity, Socialism and Gayness points, regular people get better returns buying low-woke companies at a discount. Go woke, go broke.
"Language I know" vs "don't know" is one more axis of the vector space. If language X will make it easier to solve the problem, then the trade-off is "learn X and use it to write the program" vs "use Y to write the program". Does X make it enough easier to be worth the effort?

And then I have to think about, well, X sounds like a useful tool. Is it useful enough that I want to make the goal be "learn X, and write this program" instead of just "write this program"?
It's a joking reference to an ancient copypasta troll/meme alleging that bsd is dying, cf the phrase "netcraft confirms it" and troll comments on slashdot 20+ years ago. :)
Cool site!

The title promises more than is delivered: computer user interfaces existed before the GUI, and interfaces to physical machines in general have existed for centuries, and a lot of those antecedents have influenced present-day computer interfaces.
It's the latter, right? I can wire USD hundreds of thousands from my bank for $25, and the transaction takes place within an hour or two.
Why would they want customers to hate it? Don't they want word-of-mouth sales?
One of my university professors liked to quip: next time someone tells you that you're arguing semantics, ask them what semantics means. That'll teach 'em.
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And as has been explained to you multiple times, you're using inconsistently defined and reported data across jurisdictions with different practices.

Garbage in, garbage out.
I see it more as a balance of market pressures thing. An IPO is a private company saying it would like public money, a SPAC is public money saying it would like a private company.
And naturally there is less scrutiny on the SPAC because it’s in the driving seat on the acquisition and can cary out due diligence, where as the IPO you have to vet that the company is ok to go out to a market of a wide range of individuals who cannot do a due diligence individually.
Slightly OT: I love Backblaze B2[0]. It's very cost effective.

I backed up ~30GB worth of data using restic[1] and I only have to pay 0.01 USD per month. It also has 0 egress fees.

This is especially amazing for students like me with inconsistent income sources.

0: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
1: https://restic.net/
https://think.ing.com/opinions/brics-the-new-name-in-reserve...

BRICS is creating a basket of reserve currencies and building / built a competitor to SWIFT.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-russia-alternative-swi...

> And I don’t understand why you comment so much about Russia, this is about China, no one cares about Russia

Because, as I stated, Russia and China signed a strategic partnership? They basically created an Eastern challenge to EU/NATO. They also are self-contained in that they can trade easily and can be less dependent on the West.
This is important point. Apples and oranges.
I'm not following. Peak event is, say, from 3-7pm. All my Ecobee does is set the thermostat to be a few degrees higher in that time period.

So as soon as it hits 3pm, I change my thermostat to a cooler temperature, so that the final temperature is what it would have been without this program.

Pretty much exactly the same usage as without enrolling into the program. Same "spikes", etc. Without the program, it would be set to 74 continuously. With the program, it's set to 74 before 3pm, and then at around 3pm (or just before), I set it to 72 so that it will continue at 74.
I feel dirty anytime I put '--force' and I encourage workflows that don't mess with history. In every code base I've been in, it is just more straightforward to squash merge smaller, self-contained, commits into your main branch. Tests should act as a gate for committing to the main branch.
Nix – taming Unix with functional programming
Ah, that's a very fair napkin calculation, the 4000GW number is obviously wrong.

But I don't think it ruins the core of my argument; it wasn't hinging on Germany having reduced their annual power production by 99%. If Germany in fact shut down 15GW of nuclear production (15 plants), that's still on the order of 200 watts for every person in Germany, or one new 1000W resistive heater running 24/7 for every fifth household.

That's the kind of "on the margins" capacity that would indeed make a Russian gas embargo dramatically less painful.
The settlement delay isn't there for technological reasons. People think they want instant! fast! until they lose their life savings because libertarian tech has no buffers.
It's true that they've always existed for a profit. BMW doesn't operate in a bubble and has a wide selection of competitors, so if their pricing and terms are too unreasonable, customers will go elsewhere.

I think these connected services are aimed at lessees who are the bread and butter of BMW's business. Someone leasing this car would actually save money by "renting" the heated seats, next owner be damned.

Still, I'm definitely not trying to say that this is a wonderful, wonderful thing. But, considering that a "lifetime" purchase option still exists, I think this represents example of giving customers more options than they previously had.
I’m not certain about the meme that Twitter is some hellsite we should ignore. It depends on how you use it. I use their Lists feature quite heavily and avoid all their algorithmic ‘You may like’ nonsense.
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MIT is part of it but Massachusetts is also home to a large number of other research universities including BU, Northeastern, Harvard, the UMass system, etc.

As you say, NYC (like Silicon Valley) has always been more concentrated in terms of technology focus.
If you choose to spend your talent on ads and tracking, are you really one of "our generations minds"?
It sounds like incentives in Manhattan are stacked in a way that 1000ft tall buildings with only 40 uber-luxury units are the only kind of buildings that can be profitably built.
Not sure I follow. If they just want to know in advance, then they don't need to modify the temperature at all, correct?
So, this pilot would add more algae to a MN lake?

I don’t think you would ever get approval for something like this in a public lake. Maybe in some private, artificial pond?
Could one single machine invent everything? (2018)
This is all pretty arbitrary. In the context of pure engineering timelines, you don’t get to just pick arbitrary starting points.

The Internet took decades to reach “I can buy cat food from my home PC” because that’s how long it took the underlying computing and networking technologies to go from the first recognizable proto-technologies to the point where they enabled mass-market usage. If you start your clock in 1994 (or 2007) you can make that time look shorter, but it doesn’t change anything.

Similarly Uber was able to launch a GPS-based smartphone app only a few years after the first smartphone, because the technologies of 3G cellular, OS, portable computing, GUI, GPS, distributed systems etc. were all extremely mature by the time the smartphone launched. But if you measure from earlier points in the “portable computing” timeline you can make Uber look like a multi-decade pipe dream.

There’s no reason to believe that the technical barriers facing cryptocurrency (scaling, UI, key management) will follow dramatically slower or faster tech development curves than those previous technologies. There are still plenty of reasons to question whether there’s a “killer app” once the tech issues are sorted out, but they clearly aren’t yet.
Why is it that in this story, Russia is always depicted as having no agency?

"Ukraine CHOSE to join nato, so Russia HAD to invade."

No, the cause of the destruction here is Russia's invasion. Ukraine can choose whatever allies it damn pleases.

You people are either stupid or dishonest.
EA published that Star Wars Jedi game with no microtransactions and sold 10 million copies. Yeah if you think all your customers are idiots or sheep then you'll make bad games that just manipulate people into constantly spending more, but it's clearly not the only path.
Seems a rather demeaning choice of name, given the content currently dominating the site.
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That's the general theme among turn-based RPGs. The games are either too undertuned to warrant grinding for skilled players, or they are tuned so they do require some form of grinding. It's an inherent problem with stat sticks and fairly simplistic strategies. Almost no moderately difficult RPG is tuned to not have some of its player base grind, bar introducing difficulty selection.

Pokemon is absurdly easy because the story appeals to a wide variety of players. Most of which include "just give a single fast Pokemon 4 coverage moves and blast everything to pieces". Only gen 5 had a counter mechanic to this by adjusting experience to level difference.

Fire Emblem doesn't really have a grind because you fight the mobs you need during the campaign, and beyond higher difficulties the games have changed to accommodate lesser skilled players into not having to restart the entire campaign. Because it turns out, few people are looking forward to replaying 20 hours only for your 1-5 super pumped up units to not be able to beat the game (read: leaving almost all your other units underleveled or dead, no skirmishes / arena to catch up, and your remaining party can't clear the map).

Paper Mario, you can beat the entire game skipping every non-required battle and still have room to spare. Strategies are even based around keeping your HP low.

And despite not needing to grind, the former two still suffer from similar issues (beating weaker enemies with no sense of strategy to stall getting to the meat of the game). Beating required Geodude trainer number 30 with Tackle and Rock Throw may as well be grinding.
The process separates the biomass carbon into bio-oil, and the NPK in the biomass separates into the biochar/ash (2% of the N, 70% of the P, >90% of the K). That biochar/ash goes back into the soil. So we recover most of the nutrients, plus you get biochar which improves soil carbon, water retention, microbial health, etc.

https://charmindustrial.com/faq?question=how-do-you-sustaina...