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Why native americans didnt invade Europe ?

These questions are complex to answer and the answer isn't really one: how many things didnt we do in Europe we could have done if this or that guy had not died or whatever.

But, usually Europe's industrial revolution is explained by mathematical maturity, political reforms towards individualism, large cross pollination between countries, tolerance of atheism, absence of abudant resources pushing towards mecanisation, outside enemies disappearing, older generation dead or tamed by previous wars liberating the youth,the slow penetration of reading skills in the entire population thanks to the printing press, the liberation of working capital thanks to the transition to paper money, the enforcement of mandatory schooling for more and more children: it's a miraculous convergence of factors, that allowed us to wait for thousands of years before we were ready to seize the opportunity finally to try stuff fearlessly without oppressing traditions to respect.

It's like today why the Netherland can innovate in electro lithography almost without caring while China can send billions to loyal political executives and only produce death sentences for corruption after a few years of investment: there needs to be a fertile ground to produce an innovative jump that seems to revolve around letting people experiment without too much red tape and frivolous politico religious constraints. It doesnt require capital as much as it requires relinquishing ownership and credit for invention back to the populace so they sort their stuff themselves.
This has been true about FLOPs for decades; the term is ambiguous and there isn't "one right way" in this case. In written form I use FLOP/s and FLOPs
Or he didn’t believe in it either and was just trying to do his job: to get engineers working on it.
I genuinely think Apple's Arcade strategy will prevail in the long run. Apple doesn't necessarily need AAA games to eat a big chunk of this market. A lot of very popular games like Roblox, Minecraft and FIFA are not even AAA quality.

Being able to run a game on both your phone and your console (Apple TV in this case) is a huge advantage.
The grid in the states is rock solid here, in general - certain cases not withstanding. Power distribution in the states is largely arial, which means deeply effected by large weather events, so while the power might be on - on the transmission side - it doesnt mean that the distribution side is in any condition to deliver any to you at that moment. I cant say my overall experiences with power are different than yours, I dont think I've ever had an outage longer than one hour, and I've only had four power loss events, each less than a half an hour in duration over the last 20 years.

The US has many extreme weather events - Hurricanes, Blizzards, Floods, Wind Storms, Ice Storms, Tornados, Wildfires (yes, thats sorta weather), Heavy Rain events, etc - that will often bring down trees onto distribution circuits. I may be wrong, but I have the belief (based on news reporting) that weather events which in the states are considered 'normal' would be 'extreme' in Europe.
I would love to see the text you're working on also be on the review page. I also would love my text to persist between going back and forth from the edit screen.
As an ex fanboy (or fanboy lite) who has circled into hater section of recent, I can give you MY reasoning.

For starters theres the whole "we're not evil", and slowly becoming evil with obsessive data mining. But it's a huge company, so only strike 1.

They haven't released any useful innovation in my eyes, despite hoarding all the smartest people. Strike 2.

And the biggest strike to me is the significant decrease in product quality that I use. My google searches suck now, maps has become bloated with ads, and I don't even know what happened to messenger, but its pretty unusable for my friends and I that even the ones that work at google now text. Maybe a lot of this is the fault of companies aggressively marketing irrelevant things to get clicks, but to me, it's a platform problem. Strike 3, I'm a hater.

Again YMMV, but this is my reasoning.
Only if those companies have EU assets*

Even still, if the EU chooses to regress, I can imagine a lot of non-EU-based companies—especially smaller ones—just choosing not to deal with them anymore
> I'm not even sure that Google has shut down more products than an equivalently sized company.

AWS has shut down I believe only one service in its entire existence (SDB). And only when they had a viable alternative (DynamoDB) and helped their biggest users make the move.

I can't recall any Apple service that has been shut down without an alternative. They've certainly cancelled hardware programs, but that doesn't break your existing hardware. And they give plenty of warning for iOs phase outs. They pissed some people off by dropping support for old apps, but only after most of the big ones had been converted.

And Microsoft is the king of long term support. How long did they keep supporting DOS in Windows? Or 32 bit programs. Or Windows 2000!
Likely written by a support rep who definitely wasn't in on todays announcement.
If you work locally there is no problem. Buy a personal computer.
Google's product strategy..

Google: We're going to launch a fancy new product in an already-crowded field, not market it at all, and everyone will jump on board and love it!

Everyone else: No way, it's a PITA to port to, and knowing Google, they're going to sunset it soon.

Google: No we won't, we're fully dedicated to this thing

Everyone else: No way, they haven't added meaningful features in years and they're going to sunset it soon.

Google: We're shifting our focus but we're still fully committed to this thing.

Everyone else: No way, they never cared about the home gaming segment and they're going to sunset it soon.

Google: We promise, we're in it for the long haul.

Everyone: No way, they're going to sunset it soon.

Google: Sorry, there's no way we could've seen this coming. We devoted an entire month of resources to this project and thought that was enough! Sadly it hasn't met our expectations. We're not sure why more publishers and players didn't get involved, but we're going to have it to shut it down.

Everyone: No shit, lol.

At least they're giving refunds.
USA is using and destroying Europe in its proxy war against Russia.
Yes it was a decent investment to get started, too much for a whim.

I seriously thought about it but ended up scoring an Xbox and game pass and my main reason was I have to buy the games at full price for Stadia and google will deffo shut it down sooner rather than later so too risky.

Game pass is amazing for someone who isn’t a hardcore call of duty type gamer! I’ve been away from gaming since playing tiger woods on the OG Xbox so being able to play so many different types of games is awesome.

I like forza horizons!
It's still $10-20 forever, monthly(assuming they never increase prices). Versus a few larger sums every few years. If you don't buy the latest and greatest, a $200 yearly budget can definitely keep your hardware up to date. If it's a PC, you can even use it for other purposes.
You could make the same argument regarding upload speeds. They simply have asymmetrical link, and overprovision on both download and upload.
Twitch Korea to have streams of up to 720p quality, due to new Korean bill
But it wasn't a Cat 4 six days ago.
Yeah, I'm not using any new Google products unless it's for a one off use.

And I'm reconsidering the existing services I'm dependent on as well.

GMail, for example. While I have no doubt GMail will continue to exist as long as email exists, Google's spam blocking (not just filtering...blocking, where the email doesn't even make it to the inbox), has become far too aggressive. And the frequent UI changes are becoming unsustainable.

Also, the nagging suspicion that Google is having silent data loss issues across their products is not helping either.
Believe it or not, the green party is one of the most hard opponents to nuclear. Of course, they suggest the alternative Wind+Solar, not gas.
It's Google. Everyone knew the second Stadia was announced that it would die. It wasn't even a particularly good example of a game streaming service. If you work for Google and were convinced that Stadia was secure for the future, you should reconsider the reality you live in.
Upload bandwidth for something like Stadia is tiny. Only thing you need to send are user inputs
Then you probably won't get Linux desktop support at all. Linux camp should be cheering electron.
I was expecting there to be some satisfaction at this news as I (and many others clearly from the comments) predicted this would happen. But honestly it just feels kind of sad at this point. 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. Not everything was good, of course, but I was always eager to give things a try.

Now Google is a paint-by-ads corporate behemoth. I've been burnt so many times that I'm now skeptical of every new thing they release instead of excited. I hate feeling that way, especially because Stadia itself is so technically impressive, but how else can I feel?
I don't know, you could say the same thing about more popular languages as well. Lots of people get jobs in Java roles from their personal connections. The difference in postings between Clojure and more mainstream languages like Python and Java is multiple orders of magnitude. Clojure has about 500 job postings on LinkedIn in the united states. Compare with Python which has about 750,000, literally 1500 times as many jobs.

The number of roles in all of Canada for Clojure is about 40 on LinkedIn, easily less than the number of applications a job hunter could send out in a day.
> This company is a bloated rotting carcass. The regulators should chop it up and feed it to the seagulls.

Hey man, there's no need to be cruel toward animals here! ;-)
> If you have an outage where your sessions are cleared

Why would that even be allowed to happen in the first place? Sessions should always have some level of redundancy even if the primary retrieval is done in-memory. An outage would imply that an auth service is simply offline. Loss of sessions is a sign of catastrophic failure and possibly inadequate architecture.

> you can hit issues where all your users DDOS your auth service

Even in a case of a breach where all sessions must be cleared, JWT is one potential solution to mitigate DDOS. The others are to not have client-side code that blindly DDOSes your server and to have some level of DDOS protection in front of the rest of your architecture.

Moreover, even if you solve this problem for authentication, there's no obvious reason why you can't end up in a similar situation if some other service in your architecture is down. With JWT, all you've done is take the one service that is fundamentally one of the least complicated (storing hashes in memory) and treated it as if it's a critical point of failure. Sure, it can be, but auth is also one of the easiest things to horizontally scale, distribute, and synchronize at a relatively low cost. In JWT world, you've gone from storing even just random session numbers and now have to manage encryption keys, TTL, and possibly invalidation records (nearly defeating the entire purpose). That leaves even more room for things to go wrong.

> If you persist the sessions you have the same problem except they DDOS the DB.

Again, so what? You're supposed to do things to mitigate DDOS on your services regardless of whether you're using JWT. If your auth service can be that easily DDOSed (presuming this is an average website and not Facebook scale), then it would only take some coordinated enemies with a bone to pick to DDOS you without even using legit JWTs.
Which highly successful SaaS company does exclusively low-price B2C?
That's a promise you can only keep if almost no one buys anything, though. :-)
> The word "significantly" is often significantly misused and vague. It might mean statistically significant or significant to the author. State significance quantitatively, e.g. "increased by 42%". Other alternatives: "substantially, notably"

I think once "substantially" and "notably" become widely used, the goal-posts will shift and those too will lose meaning. I have a strong suspicion some of these standards are just plain fashion.
(Not legal advice). What does your business do? What stage are you in (e.g. pre-revenue)? And what data are you collecting from your customers?

If you are very early-stage and not collecting sensitive data, one place to start is looking at the TOS & Privacy Policies at similar companies. While you should not copy these exactly (which could trigger a claim of copyright infrigement), you can make changes that make sense for your business. If you are collecting sensitive data (financial info, SSN, etc.), then you may want to engage a lawyer, especially if you are in California.
>the reason we have laws to keep things sane.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/us/california-bees-fish-court...

https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Sasquatch-Ordinance-Actuall...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit...

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/anti-jewis...

Oh yes. It's the laws that will save us, and keep everything sane. /s

Let's try this again shall we? Ethics and morality are a priori to any system of legalistic systemitization, not the other way around. You will not find a law that that "stealing is okay". You will find law that goes of it's way to decree that X is not (something morally/ethically unconscionable, but really something else).

>You can call it a slippery slope

It isn't. It's an incontrovertible case of anthropocentric thinking with a dash of self-referential inconsistency, followed by an appeal to pragmatism, stemming from a desire for nearer-term gratification at the expense of normalization of deviance/Overton window shifting.

Slippery slope/heap fallacy my ass. You aren't getting out of this with "I'm just going to disengage with a platitude." You do you, but don't delude yourself into thinking there is some inherent virtue in lowering the bar and managing to traverse the hurdle when someone else is paying the price for you not being capable of being bothered to deal with things the right way.
Isn’t the simple option to simply reverse policies and do whatever returns confidence? No debt funded tax cuts, reduce excessive energy subsidies and so on?

Sure it might be disastrous for Truss, or Government, or The Conservative party. But for the UK as a whole it must be the reasonable way out?
Highly paid sheeple whose paycheck and continued employment is probably correlated with their ability to oversee a technically successful execution of the designs of higher-ups. That sounds like the line that I would use if I had to build something so that I could get paid, even though I might agree with you personally.
I have never used wiki software before. But, some HN users recommend to use Zim [0]. They shared their experience with Zim on this thread [1]. One of the example is here [2]. Hopefully, it can be a reference for you.

> Confluence are very heavy weight and slow. Also, it's a pain to create pages when you need to tab back and forth to copy text and pictures.

I can confirm that since I use Confluence at work.

[0]: https://zim-wiki.org

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30088933

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30089544
Millennials will never get a good home
Most modern web hosts support both SFTP and FTPS. The same applies for FTP clients.
I quite like this guy's choice of green text and background shade of grey... from a post I saw here recently...

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/nightdrive.html

But go with your choices, it can take time over a few sessions. Notice colours in the real world and notice ones you like.
You're being downvoted, and I have no idea why.

It is embarrassing. It's not just embarrassing, it's fucking embarrassing.

Google Stadia could have been enormously successful. What killed it? The same thing killing all manner of innovation in this country - poor broadband Internet service.

But... oh God, if only... if only Google had something they could use... something they could do to solve this problem!?

Oh... wait, yeah. They have their own fucking fiber ISP! Google could have ponied up money and started building out their fiber infrastructure massively, dumping whatever loads of cash were required, and they could easily have eaten up huge chunks of metro and suburban areas in America and might even be one of the leading ISPs in the nation.

But this speaks to the utter weakness and spinelessness of Google leadership up and down the entire chain. If you're stupid and/or naïve enough to think Comcast and Spectrum and Verizon and Charter and AT&T are just going to let you waltz in and steal their customers (and yes, these ISPs do think this way - you are THEIR customer - to be milked of money), you should never have entered into the ISP business in the first place. You have to throw sharp elbows. You have to gouge out eyes. You have to break bones. ISPs are ruthless.

If Google had been willing to sacrifice some of their profits for the past 12 years and bribe - sorry, """""""lobby""""""" all the necessary local, county, state, and federal officials - they could have moved in on all the shitty ISP's territories, laid down a ton of fiber, and might even have a majority control of Internet access both residentially and commercially.

But Google has long suffered from two overlapping problems: fear of failure and intolerance for anything less than instant success. The road to becoming America's best ISP will be a long, hard, miserable, expensive one for any company... but when you've got literally billions of dollars of cash at your disposal, you could throw the shit away on short-term dipshit Wall Street investors... or you could build something that would last for 50+ years and generate an enormous amount of revenue in a decade or two.

Too bad they're focused on short-term dipshit Wall Street investors.
Just a general, friendly reminder to take whatever comes out of Google's mouth with a gigantic grain of salt, circumstantially. In this circumstance, I would trust that they are shutting it down.
What is interesting to me is the decline in both understanding and communication abilities. When I look at modern speech and compare it to books written hundreds of years ago the deficiencies are stark.

I can't imagine how poorly people will speak and mentally process emotions in 20 years.
Defaults matter. Make the api client encrypt everything it sends to you, so you never handle unencrypted customer data.
This was a concern with early adopters of Steam, as well; and Valve made it clear that if Steam were to shut down that purchasers would have an opportunity to download their purchases.

Of course, this was long before they sold ephemeral digital things like trading cards and stickers, and before many games were heavily dependent on the continuation of online services.
Perhaps the problem isn't really the increment operator, but rather folks writing too fancy of code while using it. One should probably not deeply nest things like increments... because they do get difficult to read. That's not an increment operator problem though, that's an engineer problem.

The example with Python doesn't apply here. We cannot just go around removing language features because sometimes people write bad code.

Further, if you read the code and walk through it in your head, finding a mistaken tuple someplace unexpected should have been easy to find... which means your senior principal engineer isn't very good at reading code, even if they are very good at writing code.

Reading code is it's own skillset I've found... that and apparently the debug steppers for python aren't very good either...
I've used it almost exclusively for gaming since it was released. I've occasionally had issues with poor connection over WiFi but most of the time it has worked flawlessly. I know the latency is higher than a locally running game but I'm not doing side by side comparisons so I don't notice it. With this news I guess I'll be switching to GeForce Now which supports higher quality and framerates but a worse UX in my experience. In my opinion the business case for GeForce Now makes less sense than Stadia but I guess the numbers of overs makes more of a difference.
Note that there's an iOS Simulator bug which causes Proxyman to not see all of the traffic, but only for iOS 15 and 16 simulators. Using an iOS 14 simulator is a work-around until Apple fixes this.
aww you make me feel old... webtv was years after I was on the internet.

It was a brainchild of Steve Perlman, who had a number of other interesting ventures as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Perlman_(entrepreneur)
This is why I never went to see them in concert. I love this band but I don't want to damage my hearing.
they have it in their EU store https://pine64eu.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-sol... but currently it is out of stock, not at 25$ though
There must have been hardly anyone stupid enough to buy many games. It’s probably not even much money to refund.
Mortgage rates race toward 7%, hit 15-year high
I'll add LOVR (https://lovr.org/), the 3D analog to LOVE. Haven't used it personally so ymmv.
> Slow startup and long compiles is a hindrance to all kinds of development

What kind of development do you do where you have to recompile the entire program and restart the process on every change? No Clojure developer develops like that, just like no Smalltalk developer would reload the entire environment for every change, or no Rust developer would recompile the entire dependency tree for every change.

In Clojure land, you just compile/eval what changes without restarting the process, that's like 50% of the reason you'd chose to go with Clojure in the first place.
It's open-source, at least. It seems to be popular enough in Asia that if Google abandoned it that Alibaba or someone might be interested enough to pick it up.

https://twitter.com/taodong/status/1141603862740008960 (thread)

Canonical saying Flutter is the future of Ubuntu desktop apps is something too, but I'm not sure how much it's caught on since when it was announced in July 2020.

https://canonical.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far
Wow, both 700 years old and medieval! How lucky!
in what way is a subscription an investment
If I access your API I’m using your server because you offer it publicly. That is not abuse.

The distinction is about whether you should be able to offer something publicly, taking advantage of public infrastructure to do so, and then make demands about what the public do with that.

Companies want to do the electronic equivalent of putting copyrighted media on a billboard in a public square then claiming you need to sign a contract to look at it and then only through special glasses they provide.
> But those projects should have the budget for a real license, so that's not a real issue.

You're missing the whole point.

It's irrelevant whether projects should have a budget or not.

The whole point is that there are plenty of alternatives that do not require thousands of dollars per year*developer, nor do require lawyers to audit releases.
Human reaction times have nothing to do with perceived input latency. There is a latency budget that is different for every individual that determines whether or not something will be an acceptable experience. This budget is divided between everything in the signal chain like the input devices, the computer/console, the monitor/tv, and any other processors along the signal path. Streaming games adds additional latency to the signal chain. Generously if your target is 60fps and you have a round trip latency to their server of 8ms, that's a half frame of added latency. On its own it's almost certainly imperceptible to most people, but it's not working in a vacuum and most people don't live right next to the datacenter. It can very easily go over the threshold for what is acceptable to most people.