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> Is not a night of bad sleep often followed by a night of good sleep?

For me, usually bad nights are more common than good nights.
Aren't AC/fans/etc considered white noise?
> Everyone else: No way, it's a PITA to port to, and knowing Google, they're going to sunset it soon.

I’ve seen a few developers (Ryan Gordon, IIRC?) saying that the Stadia SDK was actually great. It was basically just a bog standard Vulkan/Linux environment with much fewer unpleasant surprises than consoles.
If executive pay is prioritized over employee retention, prices may drop but quality (or quantity) inevitably suffers.

The problem is that by the time drop in quality exceeds consumer tolerances, the original executives are long gone.
As a rule, with corporations, official denials can be thought of as unofficial confirmations. Occasionally this is not true, but for the most part they wouldn't be responding unless the issue was credible and at least a few parties had strong reason to believe whatever it is they're denying.
>1.6 Apps should implement appropriate security measures to ensure proper handling of user information collected pursuant

Why do you assume they're not doing that? Why do you believe storing 3rd party account access information is inherently insecure? It's not.

> 4.1 Come up with your own ideas ... Don’t simply copy the latest popular app on the App Store, or make some minor changes to another app’s name or UI and pass it off as your own.

Why would the whole copyright-fair-use-deal not be the standard here? The app in question is absolutely transformative - it's the entire reason people would ever download it.

>5.1.1
See 1.6, it's the same exact reasoning. There is nothing the app does that is inherently insecure or privacy-destroying from a conceptual perspective. Is there something specific in this monstrously-large section you'd like to call out?

>5.2.2 + 5.2.3

Ah, you're actually right here! I don't actually remember seeing 5.2.2 before. OG does violate Apple's developer guidelines. Interesting.
At a high-level, yes - the "scripts to apps / workflwos" tagline that Windmill advertises on their homepage is something Airplane does as well. That was what we initially launched with about a year ago. We also now support the ability to create more complex UIs in Airplane as well.

So for example, if you wanted to create an admin panel / customer dashboard at your company that has the following functionality, you could do all of this in Airplane:

* Display customer data that's retrieved from a SQL query or REST endpoint

* Allow users to select customers and view more details about their usage

* Have a button next to each customer that says "delete customer" which kicks off a Python script that deletes that customer's data
> Google used to be, at least from an outside perspective, one of the most innovative and forward thinking companies, constantly releasing new and interesting products.

Honestly, I think the change from a SWE CEO (Schmidt -- and less so Larry) to a PM CEO, Sundar, is probably the main reason.

I get why, though. At the time of Sundar's rise, it was clear that Apple was way better at making "products". (Now they're just a lot better :)
Democracies have often gone to war. The usual formulation is that no two democracies have ever gone to war with each other but this is specious reasoning - it asserts causality without even bothering to speculate as to an actual underlying cause, probably because there isn't one and any attempts to argue otherwise would immediately fall apart. Democracies have been invading, overthrowing and subjugating other countries for a long time.
This is fantastic. I've created John Maynard Keynes and am asking a series of economic questions. While my previous chat with Elon had me worrying about his frame of mind, as an educational tool, this is fantastic.

Just think what the difference is between interactive learning via a teacher and book-learning. With a teacher, you can ask for questions, ask for elaboration, and discover new terms and concepts you don't know you don't know.

This is possible with this tool. Asking the right questions leads to terms and concept you may not have heard, which you can then explore. This needs to be hooked up to a 3D avatar and voice synthesis, with microphone & camera access.

I can really see this technology, in a more refined state, as a potential future of education. Really exciting.
the 10ms or whatever the real amount is, is in addition to tbe monitor lag, etc.

i tried to play tekken 7 on xbox cloud and it was torture. maybe if you never played it locally youd br ok with the control response times, but not if youd played it running locally.
Taking the opportunity of this thread to suggest a look at TekUI, a self contained Lua GUI toolkit. It's quite old but full featured and multiplatform. Years ago I played with it also on embedded boards (Allwinner A10 if memory serves) using both X and the framebuffer.
Looks like it is unmaintained, which is a shame because it has great potential.

http://tekui.neoscientists.org/
I deployed stuff on GCP but we moved to AWS after stability issues and horrendous support experience on GCP.

And that was easy because we did not commit to any GCP exclusive services (because they tend to shut down all thr time). On AWS we prefer using things like DynamoDB and that further locks us into AWS.

GCP is a joke.
Really unfortunate, and I think Google is making a long term mistake here.
Stadia worked extremely well for me and some friends who all basically didn't want to invest in a gaming tower.

I had a theory though, that if you were a serious gamer, you probably stream or do a bunch of other things on your computer. As the serious gamer would need a reasonable GPU either way to accomplish this, the benefits of Stadia didn't make sense for them. Google should have implemented the missing pieces as part of the stadia experience, thus only requiring a laptop to be a mildly successful streamer.

In my head they should have worked on something that could stream directly to youtube gaming, and they should have paid $$$$ to get some streamers to use Stadia exclusively for their streams.
They offered refunds for it well after two hours because it was a disaster
NFTs would not help. Like. At all. Otoh digital copies for download would
Mainly because of wasted potential, in my case. They revolutionized the internet (repeatedly) with a great product and found a reasonably unobtrusive method to monetize it, then moved into creating replacements for Microsoft products (browser, calendar, email, documents) and I thought they would then pivot into cloud as a good competitor to AWS, whilst also spending their copious profits on long-term scientific research projects and helping bring ML advances to the larger community.

It's even worse for me because I worked there for over a decade, was successful beyond my wildest dreams, helped leadership build and launch products, produced papers and intellectual property with my computing heros, and finally, couldn't really work in any of the parts of the company it made sense to, because of gatekeepers and assholes, and repeatedly had to explain to my managers how everything they were asking for (to make the VPs happy) were making Google's products worse. What's really sad is that there is a technical core of people there I truly enjoyed working with and learning from, and few of them get to do the stuff they know would help google, and instead spend most of their time fighting bureaucracy to get even the simplest changes pushed.
Conversely, they tried the same approach with Google+ and the slow rollout absolutely killed the momentum of a desired service.
Flutter is basically a custom rendering engine with massive effort to create pixel perfect compatability with native offerings. If google drops the ball on it, I doubt there is any company that can take on maintaining something like that.

If google drops support for flutter, the next design update by ios or android would kill it.
1-based vs 0-based indexing is such a tired controversy.
Lets just say I would only play Iron Banner, and do above average. Its NOT for competitors looking for 4k @ 144hz .
Not a lot, they were giving away Stadia Premiere kits (a controller and a Chromecast Ultra) a lot (I got 2 free ones, IIRC one from YouTube Premium and the other i don't recall), and all were manufactured in 2019. Which means they drastically overestimate how many people would buy their hardware.
> My library of games on Steam, Epic, EA are obviously not accessible with Stadia

This is what convinced me to jump into streaming gaming with an NVidia Shield and GeForce Now.

You buy the games on standard game store platforms: Steam, Epic and Ubisoft. So I knew when I was buying the games that if GFN folded or I didn't like it anymore I could still play my entire library on a PC.

Not every game available on Steam is available to play through GFN. For example, you can't play GTAV. But you can play Destiny, Cyberpunk, Saint's Row, Assassin's Creed, etc. It's a credible if not complete selection.

The service was cheap (very cheap when I signed up with the Founder's lifetime rate at < $5/mo.) and I needed a new streaming device for my TV anyway (the Shield is a perfectly capable Android TV based streaming device), so I could dip my toe in it easily and see how it worked (basically the cost of the controller, which aren't very expensive). I've liked it so much I left console gaming behind and got two more Shields for two other TVs. It's very nice to be able to play the same game from different terminals, including my phone if need be (phone's not great for Cyberpunk 2077 but it does Powerwash Simulator just fine).
Similar, but think more for "one off" events for now, we plan to add more "cron" like functionality in the future.

Instead of having EventBridge trigger a lambda to poll your DB every hour for users that signed up 24 hours ago to send them a welcome email, when that user is created you can send us that event with that users info and the emailTemplateId so you can be reminded of it in 24 hours. Once you receive the event from us, you'd send the email like normal on your app server. You don't have to manage the polling infrastructure.
I use it... and honestly I'm really bummed by this. I've avoided owning a console mostly because I didn't want to drop $500 just to get started. Stadia launched CP2077 with a free Chromecast and controller, so it ended up fitting my use-case rather well.

They released the LG app for Stadia less than a year ago, and so having it on my TV with no additional equipment was a god-send. I could play Jackbox when friends either in my living room, or with my remote team at work. I still had the Chromecast, so then I could spin up any game from basically any room in my house and I just needed the controller.

I mean, this is what everyone claimed was going to happen from the beginning... I'm just bummed because I quite enjoyed the ride.
If the game is able to connect to your wallet and confirm internally that you own the game’s token, it could unlock the game without having to rely on a server.
Go projects are also usually biased towards being very simple with few dependencies. A lot of projects that are well suited for go would be easy to rewrite to another language if Google did ever decide to abandon it.
I find it surprising that people prefer companies that pay their employees poorly as long as the CEO is also paid poorly over companies that pay their employees well and their CEO even better. My assumption would have been that consumers always prefer the employees being paid well over paid poorly.

It's especially surprising because, assuming equal revenue, the shareholders "sitting back and doing nothing" derive greater benefit when everyone is paid poorly. Bias towards retirement stocks that the majority of the population (in the US) hold?
Based on my own experience, you need to reevaluate your biases.

I’ve had many avatars online, some male, others female, many not human. While it can be for others, my decisions were never about my feelings towards my gender or sexuality.

I say this just to let you know these things are orthogonal. Just as you shouldn’t assume anything about a female child playing Peter Pan in the school production, you shouldn’t assume anything about a person’s gender or sexuality based on their “current” avatar (of possibly many current avatars).
Game streaming struggles because your average American has like four different TERRIBLE networking devices between them and any service. Those devices will not be upgraded just because google wishes the internet was more like home. If you do not have a good streaming experience, there is not a damn thing you can do about it.
Programs conventionally return an exit code or whatever it’s called.
I would love to know how many promos and packages Stadia generated. Was it at last efficient by this measure?

So many google projects seem to be quite inefficient in this regard - a handful of people get a promo and abandon the project, millions spent.
Creation of vehicle and home listings discontinued on Facebook Marketplace
Kubernetes Has a ‘Windows Running as Root’ Problem
NFTs would replace DRM, so it would, in order to actually play the game.
> President Donald Trump repeated a highly misleading claim on Friday that Germany will soon depend on Russia for 50 percent to 70 percent of its energy needs.

Then the article spends significant time pointing out that Russian natural gas plays only a small part in Germany's total demands in energy, citing numbers like 20% & 13% and thus Trump's claim is am exaggeration.

And then goes on to say:

> To be sure, Russia also accounted for about 40 percent of Germany's crude oil imports and 30 percent of its foreign coal supplies in 2016, according to IEA. But that hardly makes it an outlier in Europe.

How is that glossed over? Is it just me or - I hate to say it - Trump actually had a point?
New search engine uses LLMs to find answers in scientific research
As expected™ for a Google project
Yes as I said there are already many distortions and bit crushers in use by people making music today, this little overpriced record cutter isn't revolutionizing anything because of distortion.
I'd like to introduce you to the concepts of vegetarianism and veganism, with which one can claim to care about the welfare of factory farmed animals without being full of crap.

No one is forcing these people to participate. Being overworked is an absolutely ridiculous excuse for not being able to cut out unethically farmed meat from your diet.
That's the least of anyone's concern, though.

If Google's CEO took a big pay cut and gave raises to his employees: no one would switch from iPhone to Android.
Publicly, knowingly uttering bullshit of which you know it's false, or has a high probability of being false, is simply called lying.
Who's running the server that actually runs the game?
The key words are "optimized" and "OpenGL 4.6 with Zink". "Functional" and "OpenGL 2.1" is a different story, and the same trustworthy source said in https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-6.html that:

> thanks to the tremendous shared code in Mesa, a basic OpenGL driver is doable by a single person. I’m optimistic that we’ll have native OpenGL 2.1 in Asahi Linux by the end of the year.

It's likely that even a bare-bones OpenGL driver will probably run better than llvmpipe, which is especially important in a laptop context due to the resulting power use improvements.
Ooo, check out that trademark infringement.
>>> Lua should be considered a toolkit

Spot on. I don't see myself writing a complete app using Lua, but there are quite a few powerful examples of Lua as a DSL, running embedded in a larger app.

Openresty (nginx + Lua + LuaJIT) is probably the most popular example. I have been using it for heavy network applications with great success.

Heavily opinionated, but I am yet to see a data structure more flexible and powerful than Lua tables. And I have seen a lot ... started programming with the Sinclair ZX81 ...

[1] https://openresty.org/en/
Discussed at the time:

Lua, a Misunderstood Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25796852 - Jan 2021 (134 comments)
Never thought about that. Isn't Bluetooth very low power compared to a cell phone or even if a microwave is running nearby?
See above comments on "paying a small company for hosting."

I've been using hostdime for the last 15+ years for this. Of equal, if not greater, benefit has been "being able to pay someone for email." Everything works smoothly. And more importantly, you can call and talk to someone if they, or you, or in my case my father screws up something drastically.*

*Somehow, and I don't know how, one day he deleted ALL, including business sensitive, of his email. ALL OF IT. I was certain we were screwed, until the company said -- well, this is drastic and you'll have to pay for it, but we could roll your entire server back a day before it happened.

Uh oh, how much?

Fifteen bucks.

(That plus the then $5 a month, now about 20 or so, is some of the best money I've ever spent. Have no clue what gmail people would do if this happened.
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As always it depends. At a small startup the CEO may actually be worse off than their employees. As company_size grows the number of CEOs living paycheck to paycheck approaches zero.
Unclear if airpod pros use bluetooth at all if they are not playing any audio just doing noise cancelling. I suspect they don’t, and just ping the phone at intervals to stay connected.

But either way, the health impact of a bad night’s sleep is going to be so so so much worse than whatever small or nonexistent effect bluetooth has
> If the target audience for the scrips is non-programmers, then sure.

It kind of is. Lua was developed as a configuration language "on steroids" for Petrobrass programs. The target users were non-programmers. Nowadays, Lua allows mildly tech-savvy persons to create or modify scripts. That includes high-school kids, who typically don't give a huck about Djikstra's arguments [1] ;-)

The only way to avoid language "collisions" when you program in different languages in parallel is to choose languages vastly different in syntax. 1-based indexing is not "unacceptable", it is a drop in the ocean when you use together with C or C++. Typically you forget semicolons in C because Lua doesn't mandate it, or you forget that in Lua, zero is not "false" for if, etc. Personally I write some Forth on the side too, and as both Forth and Lua have the "then" keyword but used in a different way, I often misplace it.

Blaming C, Lua or Forth for any of these difficulties doesn't make sense. The only answer, really, is "deal with it, it won't be the last time unless you quit programming".

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
I know of two cyclists who died by suddenly darting across the crosswalk. In both cases the driver was exonerated because there was no way he could have reacted in time.
I guess they refer to CDPR comitting to refunding everyone who's not happy with the game.[1]

Interesting that Steam had no issue fulfilling that promise since they loose out on it as well. Also sounds like a bit shit thing to do after completing the entire game.

[1] https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1340013516628103170
https://killedbygoogle.com/ Lists the lifetime and EOL of everything Google has killed, along with a short blurb about the termination
> Even the types of homes being built have helped lock out prospective new homeowners. So-called starter homes, which are ideal for first-time buyers, are growing ever more elusive as builders try to keep up with land and materials costs, government fees, and zoning restrictions that require minimum home sizes.

Part of the thing here is we really need to change our idea of a "starter home". Getting a small house built on a parcel of land well-placed near an urban core just isn't a reasonable expectation any more. The starter home of today SHOULD be a reasonably sized condo with low HOA fees. But for dumb reasons it's harder to build these than detached homes in most areas.
Comparing BTC to beef is the wrong comparison: we should be comparing BTC to USD. Over 95% of the USD money supply exists in digital form only; while there's no proof-of-work element to creating new USD the electricity to run all of the servers at all of the banks, Federal Reserve, Treasury department, etc is non-trivial. The physical protection of the money supply (Secret Service, FBI) also has massive cost and impact. And the ultimate environmental impact is the "full faith and credit" of the united States governement -- which translates to the US military-industrial complex and the threat of force of arms -- causes far more environmental damage.

(And yes, we do use our military to protect the USD: we killed two heads of state primarily because they wanted to price their oil in something other than USD. Had they succeeded that would have killed the petrodollar system.)
True; I was forgetting that you can save before triggering the endings. You don't have to replay from square one all the way through. Still, the harder ending (I think they called it the "fear the reaper" one?) was the best I think. The saddest is the one on the space station, that one was oh my god, gut-wrenching! But I also liked the one with the Nomads :)
That's so last week: https://mubert.com/ (not affiliated)
Think of Sundar as being like a nicer version of Steve Ballmer. He only existed to help the company grow as fast as possible in terms of revenue and market share. It seems likely Ruth Porat will replace him soon and then Google's transition to evil will be finally complete.
There are more than three books in the series. There are four completed and one more on the way.

1. On The Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore (2005)

2. Commodore: A Company on the Edge (2010)

3. Commodore: The Amiga Years (2017)

4. Commodore: The Final Years (2019)

5. Commodore: The Early Years (on the way)
This reads a bit unfriendly.

But anyway I read their FAQ and it's allowed to hand in offline-prepared data but size*2 will be added to your result so its typically a disadvantage unless your statically prepared data has an exceptionally high knowledge content.
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Aren't all "line editors" also "command line editors"? Either way, that is not my point. I just wanted to point out that Emacs shoudln't be boxed into the same category as Vim, because while Vim ist most commonly used in a terminal, Emacs isn't.
I mean if I had to bet development time and a product/service that has to run for years I wouldn’t bet it on GCP, precisely because of Google’s reputation.

I’m confident AWS will exist in a decade, I’m not confident GCP will. I would never recommend a dependency on a Google service, especially not one that matters where there’s potentially millions of dollars on the line.
But you can't have hosted web pages and private repos at same time on free plan.
I still have fond memories of users here telling me that I shouldn't shit on Stadia, that it was the future of gaming and that Phil Harrison is a fucking hack that keeps failing upwards despite fucking up every single product he has been on.

Thanks Phil for proving you truly are a bottomless pit in which companies can throw money in to make it disappear.
It's a little bit more complicated than that, much of Eastern Europe is also happy to both make and hop into that bed.
Everything by Carbon Based Lifeforms is also very soothing, albums like Interloper, World of Sleepers, Hydroponic garden also really give me that feeling and with just a bit more beat and melody that I love.

The first track of Interloper just soothes me real quickly:

https://youtu.be/-9pgIVcB3rk
My main computer is a MacBook 2103 running Linux. Stadia was my only way to play games. I’m kinda mad I’m losing my save progress on some games.

Ironically I will probably use my refund to buy a steam deck.