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As a dev, what would be my motivation to support items from other games in my own game.

It seems like I would focus on creating items myself and selling them to players, since I can't profit from them otherwise.

Unless there is an after sales market I (and anybody else) am incentiviced to reduce the inflow of external NFTs as much as possible.

If I'm developing a game that has value by itself (aka is fun) it's very unlikely that players would put enough pressure on me to care (they could do that now without crypto but so far it didn't happen. Would be much easier and cheaper to implement).

If players are in it for the financial gain, I'm not really developing a game after all.
I beg to differ, the real beauty is how anyone can fork them to follow their own vision e.g. Open TTD has a fork with bundled community patches dating decades that never landed in the main game, or Space Station 13, a game that plays completely different depending on which codebase you play (they don't even have matching licenses anymore, and all of them copyleft).

There's even a nice talk on SS13 specifically since the project is massive and sees changed ever hour (in a single version, let alone all versions or even the multiple remakes currently in development): https://youtu.be/z5sjwqUten0
I play it here usually - https://www.freecivweb.org/

Looks like they also have 3D version but I haven't tried it
No, thank you, I'd rather put my trust in elected officials who are at least answerable to the people than to an anonymous crowd.
Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals
> in fact markets are dumb and gullible and if you have a popular enough website you can own entire ones

The Cluetrain Manifesto reminds me of another text from the same era -- World of Ends <https://worldofends.com/>, about how the internet is an agreement not a thing and how the intelligence is all at the ends.

Of course, that's no longer true. The internet as it was no longer exists, it's been castrated, tamed and made safe for corporations and governments working hand-in-hand to take the power, and control us.
Soooo dissapointed..

In my hast i read it as…

Archaeologists [REBUILD] ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Roman Villa

Would have been fantastic to see it rebuilt rather than reburied
> This is the age-old ethical question "do people deserve more reward for their time when they do higher-leverage work?"

Indeed. And I would argue that society answers this question already, in the form of teacher salaries. Teachers have the mightiest of levers: the not-yet-capable enter and the capable to highly capable leave. Any high-impact individual was molded by them.

Granted, there's not a trivial 1-on-1 relating between future excellence and a particular teacher. On the other hand, every person who had an outsized impact on the world had teachers that helped him/her along that path.

So I'd say society is pretty comfortable with a big "naah" here: teacher salaries are nothing special. (In the West - I remember reading about rock star salaries for good tutors in some Asian country.)
Same here. So many apps legitimately depend on these features, which makes me worried about an overreaction from Apple here.

A domain verification would be a huge hassle for me, since I provide an app builder that allows my non-technical customers to build an app (which includes a webview). Asking them to do domain verification would be tricky.
It's an alternative Android, rather than an alternative to Android. Or it's an alternative to stock-Android.
What are you talking about? Do you mean first few frequency bins, and setting the others to zero? That would be a simple linear-phase lowpass filter. And if you do the shifting properly then you will see that it has a positive group delay.

There are filters with negative group delay, however. But FFT is irrelevant for that and it's not a time machine either.
The way to eat a whale is bite by bite.

Results come in their own right time. Software project: think of implemented functions (step by step); all-at-once results project (e.g. lightbulb): think of the "method" of Edison.

Quiet perseverance.
Celsius is a centralized custodian, not a blockchain. Anybody can build a company that uses the blockchain technology and accept funds into their USD bank accounts, and after entering insolvency, be unable to pay their creditors.

The DAO is a more interesting scenario. Users deposited into a smart contract that had a bug. This happens often in DeFi - see all the recent bridge hacks. The difference with the DAO is that the users were able to withdraw their assets because of a blockchain hard fork.
Oldschool Runescape has ironman mode as well
Kudos to you for playing that high difficulty, are there videos to watch... Going to search now.
Honestly, when I first heard of it in ~2011 I never expected it to grow as much as it did. I thought it would probably remain a small experiment confined to nerds and hackers. When it first started hitting mainstream news a few years later I was quite amazed. And while I'm here amazed at how far it got, critics are dismissing it because it hasn't replaced USD yet...
https://archive.ph/UanF2
No? Those galaxies are ultradiffuse galaxies and if their distance estimates are off by about 25%, which is reasonable -- we don't have good models for distances to such cosmic entities -- then the calculation for their rotations bring them in line with expected.
> There was indeed a time when this argument made sense: the years before 2015, which is when iOS 9 introduced a global Back button conveniently solving the problem. And of course Android has its global Back button. These days this argument holds no water.

Oh of course it does hold water. On Samsung's pretty recent Active Tab 3, opening a link in an app (e.g. RIF) in Chrome takes ages (I recently timed it, 80 seconds) because Chrome for whatever goddamn reason thinks it has to reload all the icons for the 100+ tabs I have open every time Android's completely bonkers memory manager decides it wants to suspend Chrome in background.
It depends on what you're implying.

You're simply not going to find good, consistent, loyal talent for $50K USD.

That said, you should be able to find it at a higher price point under $200K.

The simple fact is that most companies aren't paying this much for either in-person or remote work. The average salary for an IT professional is still under $100K in the US, and well under that in many other countries.

As far as why a company may pay $200K for talent, some employees are simply worth that much (or a lot more).
Open-source should have speed up the evolution of new ideas and yet more often than not it's just keeping old proprietary software barely alive or duplicating it.
Also available on Steam[1], I wonder why they don't link to steam on that page nor their GitHub readme.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127400/Mindustry/

edit: nevermind it's in there, leaving this comment for others that block 3rd party iframes.
I've come to the same conclusion, if a side project doesn't make even a little money I'm not interested in maintaining it, software-wise at least. I've also had bad experiences with free apps, mainly rude/entitled support emails, monetising my app has almost completely filtered out those and left me feeling less stressed and guilty. Open source is a different story and I contribute when I can.
>> autistic people cant acknowledge when they are wrong

The only acknowledgement made in the article is internally: I read more, I investigate things I don't know.

Other than this, the person seems to fail to acknowledge the possibility of ever being wrong to us readers. Indurectltly justifying the presumed prejudice of allistics.
> functionality had another major drawcard of working just about anywhere, even if you didn't have wifi coverage or a phone with data services

I have around 50 books and a dozen of comic books on my e-reader.

It works perfectly without any connection whatsoever.

I'm not sure that being able to download a book while sitting on top of Mountain Everest it's a such an important feature, but YMMV.
https://archive.ph/HnWrB
I've been thinking of doing that for a while as well, but I fear it will only exacerbate the loneliness and that I will turn into recluse. I'm a very sociable person, I just have trouble getting out of the house, talking to new people and making plans with people (how weird would it be for me to ask them to do something with me, after all if they wanted to they would have asked me right? Doesn't make any sense I know but I still can't get over it). That and the fact that I barely have any money saved up (working for <1/2 year).

Meanwhile the thoughts are there every day, growing the stronger the more I'm alone. But when I'm with people I feel like I don't fit in, don't want to be there and the more time I spend alone.
The title that got removed was 1984, you can't make this stuff up

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
That remembers me the quote "If it makes you sweat and it can fill a gymnasium of people to watch it, it is a sport" so Excel is a sport indeed hehe.
Any idea why these companies all ballooned in size so much during the pandemic? Was it purely about more time spent online = more money = more hiring or was there some actual strategy behind it?
> I don't think you can judge the validity of an idea, or a technology, or anything really by looking at its (perceived) failures.

What a really strange idea. Of course you can. What better way is there to judge a technology other than its failures and successes?

> It just means no one has found a use that you think is appropriate yet,

It's been 14 years. Cryptocurrencies are only eighteen months younger than the cell phone.

We've had 14 years of promises and so far, nothing. Why would any rational person believe you?
Corporate doesn't even notice this guy.
What are you trying to use? There's no restriction on using WKWebView. If you try to bypass Webkit, you'll get rejected for sure, but you are not forced to use SFSafariViewController
That's a bummer, I tried with Chrome and Firefox but no luck. Can't be arsed to try different versions or obscure settings right now.

2 years ago I had a similar experience with WASM/WebGL, I tried to make use of emscripten in a sane way but it was painful to get things like event handling, file I/O and quality graphics to work. Results weren't great. When using specific libraries and coding the app in the right way from the start, porting GPU applications to the Web is allegedly easier.

If you could provide a fool-proof description how to build and set the project up in a few minutes, I would very much be willing to try your project out, it still sounds great. Or provide a few screenshots/videos just to get the idea across how it looks.
> You'd think an entity the size of RedHat trying to take the reins from Docker would understand that this is an investment they have to make to make it a first-class replacement.

Nah, red hat probaby cares very little about that.

Red hat probably cares about delivering the best it can for its users (red hat, centos and fedora users).

Podman probably has no explicit goal of replacing docker, it only has the goal of providing a workstation container management implementation. Which might happen to be an awesome substitute for docker.
good question
And even that this stats are not always 100% realistic, but...
https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-lang...
Isn't there support for rootless docker these days as well?
Still not buying a kindle until they retire the DRM too.
Over the course of 10-15 years, I don't think you're correct. Solar is (in my opinion conservatively) expected to drop by 34% by 2030 [0] and, though I'm having trouble finding anything that spells it outright, demand and production of batteries is projected to increase dramatically that will, in my opinion, most likely allow for production efficiencies to reduce cost.

Even the video you link claims to be 'bullish' on production. I didn't see any claims about price in the future, just production, though I might have missed it.

In my opinion, we're seeing a lot of 'whiplash' effects from the supply chain issues but, as the pandemic recedes, these should resolve in the next couple of years.

[0] https://www.thesolarnerd.com/blog/will-solar-get-cheaper/
Is anybody able to install it on MacOs with brew? Seems to be broken:

„Error: podman: Failed to download resource „podman_bottle_manifest“
> . Ubuntu also has a terrible track record of not aligning where it makes sense with other distorts

You mean not aligning with Red Hat and what they're pushing on everyone else. Ubuntu is on a shorter release cycle compared to Debian so they're usually the first non-Red Hat distro with new stuff. Systemd vs Upstart, Unity vs GNOME (3?), etc.

They try to do new stuff, and there's nothing wrong with that. Not everyone should blindly follow RH's lead. Systemd was objectively shit at the beginning, run by a person who was actively hostile to any feedback he didn't like. There were multiple highly critical bugs whose patches weren't backported ('just update' as if it's that easy with the sprawling beast that is systemd).

> not properly testing packages

What do you mean? I only recall one popular instance of an issue with Ubuntu packages, and it's when they released a major upgrade to Samba because backporting a critical security fix to the previous major version, the one that came with the distro originally, was too hard (in their words), which ended up breaking Samba for a bunch of people.

Ubuntu isn't "flakey". It makes a different tradeoff compared to RHEL - slightly newer version of stuff for slightly less stability. For many orgs that's preferable to obsolete 10 year old versions of most software for amazing stability.
> those brave corporations who need to make money

Have you considered that (and the article mentions this) the employees of said corporations, people like you and I, also want to be paid for their labor?
So why are we still talking about PoW then?

It seems you didn't get my point.
> Cryptocurrencies are only eighteen months younger than the cell phone.

You presumably meant (modern) smartphone, rather than cell phone.
I agree. It's a question of marketing, and if the company thinks that it can attract people with a free offer and expect to convert them to paying customers via non-free add ons, then that's their call. If it turns out they've massively over-estimated the value of their add-ons, and they don't get the conversions they have justified the free offer with, then that's again their mistake.

I think we also have to discuss the elephant in the room, that these businesses are layered on top of free software, so they are effectively reselling (and attempting to profit from) something that is free, so it's unsurprising that people's expectations when considering using open source software is that they don't need to pay for it.
Thanks. Just so that I can close the mental loop here: because "the state" is smaller, things like sanction control also matter less/will be handled differently, hence privacy can be stronger?
Watching a video of me playing Civ 6 would be incredibly boring. I take a long time, and most of the game I do nothing but desperately figure out how to keep up, and in the end I win with a boring Diplomatic Victory, unless someone else beats me to the Science Victory (other victories don't seem to be possible; except Domination, I suppose). They're not the most exciting games, but they're hard, mostly because it's impossible to keep up in science and wonders.

For my current game, I took a step back to Emperor level, though. I wanted to try an early game Domination Victory, chose Alexander the Great on Pangea and Epic speed, and it's just way too easy (except for holding on to conquered cities during a Dark Age).

I think I'm going to try the same thing on Immortal next. Maybe even slower speed so we spend more time in the lower tech levels where all Alexander's advantages are. And I need to start spying earlier; stealing tech boosts helps a lot in keeping up. I'm still not quite decided whether it's better to stick to a regular age all the time or flip between dark age and heroic age; Heroic Age is awesome, but hard to guarantee, and holding on to conquered cities is very hard during a dark age (I just learned that the Bread & Games project exists primarily for that situation; it helps a lot to have an entertainment district near your front lines).
> Some of the "better" arguments i've seen are obsoleting/maintaining anything that is quasi public record. Think all sorts of land/legal transactions where it's basically "once x and y and z have said yes, process transaction from x to z"

The validity of any transaction can only be determined and guaranteed by the state, so honestly just having the state host a central database seems much easier
I made this point in another comment: this is not a failing of the blockchain.

To compare, imagine an E2EE chat app built on Matrix protocol is blacklisted in your country. Anybody attempting to use it is treated as criminal, and the app will not be accepted into your country's App Stores. Does this mean the Matrix protocol has failed to deliver on its goals of end-to-end encryption?

In practical terms, it is very possible that a government can "shut down" the usefulness of a blockchain for many people. They could go as far as to criminalize any person who is found to be hosting their own blockchain nodes, or sending or receiving message packets to an RPC without first going through a centralized and permissioned service. If this were to happen, people would not willingly be using a blockchain out of fear of prosecution. Some countries like China and Russia seem to be moving in that direction, and some might argue the US too with their strong-arm censorship of Tornado Cash and all things related to it.
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You sound like the "asperger's" person who we are in the process of offboarding from our team.

One can have asperger's and still be nice to people. These things are not mutually exclusive. I see too many people who find it convenient to be a toxic, rude bully, and don't know that they are, and use their condition as an excuse to be a jerk.
Direct thermal forcing is at about 100mW/m^2. This gives us about a century to stop increasing energy usage and albedo.

This is precisely where we were when people first started raising alarm bells about greenhouse gases.

The thermal emissivity of the night side of earth is only one of many limits we are running head first into. Almost all scarce resources, many abundant ones, and even abstract concepts like the growth of classical computation are all hitting limits where they only scale linearly or worse with energy input.

Growing into the solar system is largely irrelevant because it's a constant increase vs an exponential and will not be meaningfully coupled to earth's economy without energy expendature on earth proportional to trade volume. And there's no compelling reason to hinge everything on the assumption that the second law of thermodynamics and speed of light are both false so nothing outside the solar system is relevant to those living inside it unless we overturn one or both first.

All of this to avoid reexamining the blind faith assumption that we have to give an exponentially growing share of the pie to those who have the biggest share. Growth is only necessary for survival of the 99.99% if every year they give 2% of their wealth to the 0.01%
Just by having a phone, you are self-hosting software on a machine with 8 cores and several gigabytes of ram. Yes, it's not free, but the marginal cost of an app is effectively zero.

Git on its own requires nothing in resources. I have an instance of gitea running in a container since many years. Its marginal cost now is less than $1?
You shouldn't think of personal projects in terms of the end goal. You should instead think of what you learn by doing them. It's a cliché, but is not the destination that important but what you learn along the way. Try to plan out your project into packets of work that you can complete and get a dopamine fix from every couple of days.
Does it take a year or three to walk to the school library? If they're young enough that that isn't the easier option, then there's no way they're capable enough to execute a relatively complex technical exploit.

I'm not telling not to worry about your kids' safety. I'm telling you not to worry about them dying from a lightning strike because they walk to school next to a 6-lane road full of drunk drivers every day. If they're going to get hurt, it won't be through the most complicated and least-likely way possible.
Good summary. Might add that it cost $14m. Some people earned good money from this, I reckon.
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At PRC scale, Quantity begets quality. Massive population = spamming and refining becomes viable policy. China is graduating absurd number of STEM graduates that they can spam papers and if 1% is great, they become globally competitive, refine to 2% or 3% great after a few years and they start leading fields. Producing a lot of shit papers and filtering out / holding onto those who distinguish themselves to improve next gen of talent is part of the process. Even if side effect is hilarious levels of academic fraud, which TBH is problem in west as well.

Also note serious PRC efforts at improving higher education (project 211) started in the mid 90s, and long term plan is to make top 5% of universities world leading by 2050, about ~140/3000 and growing institutions, by 2050s (project double first class). Wheat:chaff ratio is expected to improve steadily over time. Or take a look at how many masters/phd foreign students in western universities/labs are from PRC. Now more and more selection bias and geopolitics is retaining top talent within PRC despite decades of massive brain drain. Or the high youth unemployment among educated class, which is strictly not a good thing but also illustrates the stupid level of over production of talent behind these numbers.

Excess talent that PLA wants to recruit for modernized military. That's why I don't think demographic bomb has much impact on PRC's economic/military long term potential. Frankly PRC with bottom tier TFR is still going to generate more talent than PRC needs.
Sweet. That makes my bathroom breaks after the day I had genuine Mexican food a sport, too.
EVE is a bit different as the RMT side of things isn't intentional and combatted by CCP. Taking part can and does get people banned from the game.

The dollar to ISK conversion comes from the sale of PLEX (https://secure.eveonline.com/plex) which was initially just a way to let people buy ISK by selling game time vouchers to in-game wealthy people. Essentially people were buying money from time rich players who then didn't have to pay to play the game. Now it's a bit more complex and MTX based as CCP have tried a few things to reinvigorate the player base.

But the key difference is that you can put real money in and get ISK but there is no legitimate way to take it back out again. So there is no capital gain and so on and the money you "lose" was already intentionally spent in that knowledge rather than being an investment it would be possible to recoup on and taking part in that eco-system is voluntary rather than mandatory.

(Disclaimer: I worked on EVE for four years quite a while ago.)
Yes, but it's tricky and takes time, if you replace on starlink with 30km radius with 4 at 15km. but then kupier could go to 10km while starlink is doing that. Satellite wars!
Really? I guess you don't use Steam either then?
- turn up e-reader

- click apps (if it's not the default screen)

- click "whatever has store in the name"

- buy the book

- rinse and repeat

I'm sure anybody can learn how to do it, even if the brand it's not Bezos's.