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I love gog, and have gone through a similar shift for any games that I can.

However, I hate to point out that, GoG does in fact have some games with DRM, even though they make a big deal of the fact that they are an anti-DRM shop, and they get away with it buy pretending the definition of DRM is different to what most people think.

E.g. I recently bought Worms WMD. You need a Galaxy account to play. I'm not even sure you can cross-play with Steam, I think you can't. Without it, the game is crippled. I would not have bought it if I had known.
Shouldn't the line in the UK be further north, closer to the Iapetus Suture? IIRC that's the collision of northern and southern parts of Great Britain, and the geological differences translated to modern cultural differences, and consequentially the Scottish-English border is roughly close to it too. The wikipedia page also mentions the Caledonian orogeny.

> The Caledonian orogeny united the northern and southern portions of present-day Great Britain. The Iapetus Suture runs from the Solway Firth to Lindisfarne. The Anglo-Scottish border runs near and roughly parallel to the suture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Suture
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> I dont think when you have governors of various states in real time changing election rules, and regulations under "emergency" powers can be considered "fair it one can hope"

Which changes that were made as we tried to navigate a presidential year election during a pandemic do you believe made the election unfair? Why did the vast majority of the complaining about these changes come after the election rather than as they were being made?
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Do you also think that some goal is necessary for an intelligence to make sense?

For "intelligence" in the abstract? No. But going back to the "human like" distinction... humans generally seem to have goals, so arguably an AGI that would register high on the "human like index" would have goals as well. But would an AGI necessarily have the same kinds of goals as a human? I can see plenty of cases where the answer would be "no".

Take hunger for example... humans often have a goal to "find food". An AGI running on a rack of servers in a data-center doesn't exactly have a perfect analogue for that. I guess you could set up some kind of metaphor based on maintaining a quality electrical feed, but those two things strike me as fairly different.
It totally is. I was just being nostalgic.
> It's really frustrating to me that "say one thing on the page and another thing in the terms" has been steadily creeping from "that's a scam" to "that's a completely normal business practice", and it's even more frustrating that some people defend it.

Maybe we need a law that says "if advertising and the terms of purchase say different things, whichever one is more favorable to the buyer applies, even if the less favorable one has a provision that says it always applies in cases of conflict".
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It sure does. Greater control, lower costs! What’s the downside?
Just link them to this discussion. Hopefully they'll catch on.
I agree but the main criticism I have of the article is that tornados don't challenge anyone's world view and that is often the problem that individuals face.

An Amish person getting support via well worn community norms is one thing.

But so much of the change that people find hard is when they discover that their identity or community doesn't fit them quite right anymore.

How supportive are the Amish if you decide you want to live a different life?

Changing politics, gender, religion, social class (income shift), other identity values or moving a long way - these are often "out of context" problems for the community and friends you have.

The article's not "wrong" but life is nuanced. It's not easy to build new networks.
> And what about the remaining 50% of human population? Do you see South American, African and middle-eastern countries being able to run nuclear plants?

This is hard to read charitably. It seems like a racist remark, not least because there are nuclear power plants in South America, Africa, and the Middle East. Maybe you aren't racist yourself, but you presume nuclear power proponents to be racist? The ends justify the means, so you can play into the racial biases of those you oppose?

I don't like this.
This is really interesting. Thank you.

I implemented multiversion concurrency control in Java (https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...) and I am yet to get to the point where I'm distributing it between machines for multimachine transactions.

I have a simple read timestamp that is monotonically increasing. If I knew the read timestamps of other shards, distributed by raft log I could implement transactions across shards.
Yes we totally can. Honestly, the idea of telemetry is general enough that it can and should be legislated. At the very least products should advertise that they produce telemetry when connected to the internet and have an option or have to distribute the knowledge of how to disable it.
Trad theory will enhance existing talent but do nothing for people who have no instinct for music, no matter how much learning they do.

It's very directly and obviously useful for certain kinds of music, especially Hollywood pastiche and some genres of game soundtracks.

It's also very handy in some areas of pop. Pop's dirty secret is that a lot of it is written/arranged by professionals with some kind of classical background. The lead band/artist are typically front people for an entire team which includes a producer, various engineers, and possibly session players and arrangers. These people don't get a lot of attention, and only industry insiders have heard of them. But they have a huge impact on pop of all kinds.

Vocal harmonies, string parts, and sometimes brass parts have to be written and arranged, and that's a challenge for anyone without dot-writing skills.

But there's also a kind of fluency and ease that comes with solid training, and that spills over into vocal and instrumental contributions of all kinds.

Trad theory on its own doesn't guarantee interesting or successful music. There are plenty of composition graduates who have no feel for the art of music at all.

It also doesn't help with transformative developments and new techniques.

But it's far from useless. People with solid theory skills and some creative flair are in a sweet spot that's hard to beat.
There is a lot of ambiguity in practice when realistically (almost) every consumer thinks they're purchasing an item but they're actually only licensing it.
I’m thinking massive trackball built from a bowling ball that you operate with your feet.

Guitar or organ pedals for the buttons. All hands and feet on deck!
> What gives you the indication things are headed in the wrong way?

Because it started swinging in the direction of "you are not the target audience" while at the same time raving about how it's the solution to the software packaging and distribution problems -- which, pardon if mistaken, are very ambitious and big goals that affect VERY different groups of people.

Telling any of them "it's not made for you" is not doing their cause any favors.

One example: documentation and onboarding. A good amount of guides, both official and out there, still use the old-ish syntax while `nix <subcommand>` has been a thing for a while now.

...Also "flakes", "pills", really? Can we finally grow up and start using proper terminology? The cutesy jargon must go. Forever. This is not a kids game and not a hobby project anymore. You're writing software with extremely ambitious goals. Show some professionalism. I can close my eyes on that and have done so many times but I've personally known a good amount of engineering leaders that would deny usage of software on that basis alone.

Nix got to a part of its lifetime where marketing and onboarding have to be heavily prioritized and its community doesn't seem very keen on it. That dooms it to obscurity from where I am standing because I am one of those programmers that visit the website and are like: "What is this? Oh, that. How do we start? Like so? Cool. Oh... an error on the second command, seriously? OK, OK, let's just Google it -- huh, nothing. Yeah, frak that, bye".

The above has to be mercilessly chased and resolved at every occasion, aggressively. If not, Nix is going to be the next Snap / Flatpak.

And I really want to make it super clear if you're still with me: I want Nix to succeed. For now though I view it as a nascent tool that still has long ways to go. And I really wish they started learning from the mistakes of Git (confusing CLI, big docs that don't help one get onboarded quickly). But so far it's not looking good on these points.

Admittedly I last checked it out 7-ish months ago. I'll try checking it out every 3 months or so from now on. And I hope I am wrong.
> If you want to own your games, get used to either having old games and going to flea markets to find them, or buy from GOG.

You forgot the great equalizer that is internet piracy. Download cracked copies of every single game in your steam library and you'll be fine for as long you can emulate your current platform. It doesn't stop online services from being shut down, but it does mean you can at least play games offline in 15-20 years as well as you can do it now, not matter what happens to steam or your account.

I'll say I love GoG though, and it's the first place I look when I'm buying PC games.
> author is not affiliated with any actual research institution.

I assume you’re probably upset, but this is elitist and an appeal to (elitist) authority. As someone who hopes to one day publish without affiliation, just point out why the paper is wrong rather than using appeals.
NetBSD is used for sdf.org, the SDF Public Access UNIX System.
> than can lie effectively

Sure. And of course, do not forget that the testers are known for a disposition of potentially being fooled - and that we are still, collectively, societally, civilization-wise, generally unable to do proper selection.
“The 1751 Machine that Made Everything”? https://youtu.be/djB9oK6pkbA

Of course, when I first saw that, I thought it was a Commodore that I’d never heard of before.
Didn't help that he asked a couple more questions at the end

Who invented this algorithm and tested the distribution? Is there a paper or something to cite?

That would have made another question.
Children are not empty vessels that you pour knowledge into. They are individuals with unique interests and aptitudes. There is no universal formula for what to teach, and if a kid has no interest or aptitude for a subject then there is almost nothing you can or should do about that. Let them develop how they will, and offer them assistance on things that they like. Expose them to things that would complement their unique personality.
The blog post is really top tier. Consider how much time some engineers spend considering details when they're just being contracted to do a job (I've work with lots) and how this indie game project is being explained, nitpicked, loved and cherished.

The blog post alone makes you want to purchase whatever this person has been working on based on how much passion is oozing off the explanation of how it's made.

Side note... A lot of YouTubers also work like this: pushing the craftsmanship to beyond expectation to almost cause an emotional reaction.

In this case though, it's genuine engineering with high standards.
Here in Tasmania I've stopped a few times to shoo them off the road, most effective way to date has been to wrap a towel around one and drag it. They don't seem to enjoy that very much at all, but I figure they enjoy being driven over less.
No, he was a staunch liberal about 10'ish years ago. Often linking to NYTimes/Paul Krugman to substantiate his points, being a firm advocate for AA programs, touting city-life and public transportation when he used to live in New York city. It's actually remarkable how much of a one-eighty he did.

And as someone who looked up to him, and would often be convinced by the carefully thought-out rationale he'd provide for his viewpoints, very articulately so, I think I veered toward conservatism myself with him. But in the last year, the luster has been a little bit lost. His take on things once used to be the decidedly adult-in-the-room take, despite being a lawyer, what he wrote never came off as slimey, slight-of-hand lawyerly drivel, no, it was intellectual, rigorous, and a pleasure to read. But something has changed in the recent months.

What's going on Rayiner?
"Crazy" is not the word I would use about what you've written here. It is unlikely you and I are going to have any productive dialog after this, which is totally fine; I'm happy to disengage here.
I think NixOS has an even better ZFS implementation, compared to Ubuntu.
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Autophagy is the process by which the cells clean up and recycle. It is promoted by intermittent fasting. Stay healthy my friend!
Right, that’s specialization. IMO those people still belong on the same feature implementation team for most organizations out there.
I would like to be on the jails train, but the build/deployment story always felt inferior.

I have never seen anyone build jail-images from CI and deploying them to fleets of FreeBSD hosts. This may be technically feasible with zfs send/recieve but in practice people I know distributed packages (not images) to 10s of FreeBSD jails/hosts.

I want to deploy container images to a cluster - not install a package in a zone/jail. Is anyone doing this with FreeBSD/Solaris? (Outside of Joyent)
> From the article: "Now, here, in 2022, desktop computers no longer exist and all computing is done via handheld mobile telephone."

They're kidding, right? Nobody in their right mind actually believes that, do they?
Even the BSD and MIT licenses requires credit to be given to the author.

If he wants to exercise maximum caution, he should put AGPLv3 on it. He can always change it at any time later, since he’s the sole copyright holder.
What's the reasoning behind the design decision 'refusing to search for hashes', what grounds would they have to block such searches?
None of these things are incompatible with conservatism. But we shouldn't litigate this; my comment was light-hearted.
are you talking about domesticating a Tasmanian Devil or a Platypus?
I'm a big fan of mandatory source release after a period of time. That line of belief isn't specific to this situation, but it definitely has overlap.
If the cops don’t set a floor of acceptable behavior, the public will not decide, we’ve taken enough liberties, let’s enjoy this amount of laissez-faire and not overdue it. Nope, good drivers will drive well and the others will act like it’s Mad Max time to the detriment of public safety and good citizenship.
The main reason to use Linux is because almost everyone else is. If you're only installing it on your own servers at home, then that's okay. But in a business environment, the minor differences or improvements with FreeBSD are simply not worth the lack of familiarity for most people over Linux.

I used FreeBSD starting in 1999-ish and I still have the original Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System on my shelf. I used FreeBSD exclusively for years, but it has completely lost to Linux and Linux frankly is good enough.
Gödel Escher and Bach is an awesome book which is fundamentally about generative art..
Really makes you wonder what they're actually doing. The claim that they're busy doing stuff like directing traffic for parades makes some amount of sense, but can that really account for the workload of 45 traffic cops? Averaged out this would mean each cop maybe writes one citation every five days. Are there that many parades in San Francisco?

If they're "understaffed" how many traffic cops do we need? How many citations will they write at that number? Even the old citation number cited in the article sounds incredibly low given how many traffic cops there are.
mostly, I can’t make both my usb wifi5 dongles work on ubuntu 22 as well as random Qualcomm wifi4 pcie. These chips must be decade old.
> I’d never heard of Haxe

Well it was born in France in a web game company (some of their games were pretty famous domestically) as an internal language, and the main selling point at first was the multiple compilation targets (PHP, JS) which included Flash. It wasn't something developed in English in the open at first like a lot of new languages are nowadays, so obviously it took some time to get some international exposure.
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Wow you are so kind.

Thank you! The code I tried to keep simple and I tried to keep it small. I'm trying to do the most basic thing that shall work.

I want to add document storage and unify the storage mechanism so the database can be multimodel like OrientDB and ArrangoDB. So graphs should be stored same way as documents and SQL.

Currently the graph data model is separate from the SQL data model so you cannot query a graph as SQL or vice versa.
> Doesn't mean Ford (or Tesla, more likely) should be allowed to remotely brick sedans.

I agree – I was not arguing that anyone should be allowed to do that. It’s just obvious why they would do this, if it was allowed. And Ubisoft is allowed to do this, so they do it.
How does this not mention git push? That and pull seem a lot more essential than everything that came after commit.
For those annoyed with the Apple Store not finding it under “papers please” and forcing you to use the comma instead of being sensical, here is the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/papers-please/id935216956

I scrolled several screens finding only knock offs without the comma. The App Store and Apple Music search experience is not great.

Anyway, happily bought this game again in this new format! Well done, sir!
> Just that one thing alone would immediately raise my opinion of any company that has to shut down an online game service.

Why don't you go write your own open source game?
Ask HN: What's the most human sounding text to speech (TTS) model or service?
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> Obviously yes, and it was as obvious when those games were launched and sold.

It was obvious that they'd become a pile of junk bits in less than a decade?

> Many game companies are not aspiring to build some everlasting cultural artifacts, but to provide entertainment today. Preservation is not some intrinsic moral obligation

Okay? That might apply if they were simply, say, no longer selling the product (although at that point there's no reason for them to retain their copyright and other parties should be free to rip, crack, distribute, etc). But that's not the case here. They're taking something which users may have already preserved and saying you can't fully use it anymore.
On one hand, this seems quite pathetic.

On the other hand, do you really want cops to have traffic ticket quotas?

I don't know what the answer is, but I doubt it's "hire 500 more traffic cops."
I knew about this game at launch but only bought it last year to play on a Windows tablet. Always thought I’d love the game… And I did.

My only regret was that I couldn’t play it more often, on the go, on my phone. I understood why, considering the intricate gameplay and the precise interface required, it wasn’t possible.

And then suddenly… this. Instant buy.
Well to be fair, most people using FreeBSD are also Linux users, save people indirectly using/'benefiting' from BSD, i.e in a work environment as you mentioned.
Of course discounting Mac users (I honestly think that's a hilarious joke).
It also strikes me that many companies use BSD simply to save money in an area where time =/= money, as BSD is very secure and very stable, there are some licensing issues with many big Linux distros, etc.
I very much doubt that anyone in the year 2022 are using BSD servers or workstations to improve their performance yield unless you're working retail or construction or something and are looking to implement a RTOS platform based on BSD because your boss severely capped your department's budget lol
Of course, he just called it a "handheld mobile telephone", that's tongue-in-cheek.
This is exactly how I would have hoped to find out “Papers, Please!” is out for mobile phones.
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It seems clear they’re advocating for ‘devils.
It's about the mindset, I called it similar to how we talk about the burden of proof in criminal law. The burden should be with producers to defend their products' safety, and in doubt we should err on the side of caution.
It's hyperbolic truth, acknowledging that the future is now.
Bookmarking for my list of why DRM is bad.
"Sadly, if any insight for the "why's" was there after all, we don't have a method to extract it anyway."

This has been my central frustration with working in ML. People always expect a "why" to exist, and by why I mean a cogent narrative explanation to complex phenomena. Maybe there is no "why" like this for a bunch of physical phenomena, maybe it is just a bunch of low level intricate stuff interacting in complex ways. There might be an emergent model that you can get a useful predictive model for with an ML model, then people get mad because the prediction doesn't solve the real meta problem that they were expecting to solve via the sub problem (e.g. solve folding then get mad because folding itself turns out not to be super useful because we don't know which protein to target, solve image classification then get mad because that doesn't make it easy to make a self driving car, etc, etc).
"More is different" is definitely an idea in physics that needs to propagate into other fields to temper our expectations.
What does that have to do with multiplayer servers?
Wtf is this doing on obscura? You are acting like they are extinct or extremely rare. They are very common in certain areas. They are fun to flip over.
If you stick to "popular" I'm fine with it. Tastes change.

It's the word "advances" which I object to. There's a value judgment attached to that.
Why would anyone except those with some innate and exceptional passion for law enforcement ever choose to become a cop? The politicians, media, and a good chunk of society hates you. The hours are strange. You have to put yourself in dangerous situations often. Every action you take is judged, and severe mistakes go viral instantly and destroy your life. No one is ever happy.
I think we’re all amateurs at some part of the stack. I am not the CircleCI dude in my current gig, some other competent engineer is, but I’ve been the Jenkins dude in the past because I cared about it the most.
Valve doesn't but the companies that use Steam as a platform do.

For example, your Titanfall purchase on Steam is now useless, and actually it was useless for the entire time it was available for sale (since the servers were never operational at any time during the period it was available).

All of these titles they're talking about Ubi are available on Steam too (and the article specifically notes that some of them are still on sale with no indication they will be removed in less than two months).

"Steam games can't be taken away" is false, and "valve as a company hasn't taken away your orange box yet" is not a particularly interesting or insightful observation. And to be clear, they are legally allowed to do so under the ToS under some circumstances!
> How do you stop your life just being chaos jumping from one fire to the next...

But that's the other extreme, isn't it? At least my life is kinda average: no big planning nor management, but no chaos nor fires either.

School -> highschool -> university -> jobs -> family. Hobbies in between. Fun and sadness as well.

So far so good.
How the heck was that not on their minds from day 1? It's the most obvious question to ask about a project like that.
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Yes, so very well put!

The loss of context / transformation of context that Twitter and Facebook imposes is key to how it has been used, to fuel genocides and foment political turmoil as well as to cross-pollinate across previous cultural divides.