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If I spend 6k hours coding a project and was making noise because I was about to have access to my source code taken away ...

would you say i'm an addict?
You do you but I hope you've also turned off JavaScript in your web browser.
None of that is threatened with the loss of a virtual character in RD2.
Yes, entering a market with a huge war-chest and dumping an absolute fuckton of free product is one way to attack a monopoly. There's a reason they had to do that to gain any traction.

I've paid for one game on there. It was an exclusive and is the only reason I finally installed the damn thing. I think I'm up to about 150 games on Epic, and I didn't even get in near the beginning and have missed a few since. What they've managed to buy from me, with that, is a +1 in their install-base stat because the free games every couple weeks keep me from uninstalling it, but I still buy everything on GoG or Steam. I don't even care if epic has a lower price, I use one of those.

If Stadia had taken the same approach, the average account would have spent $100 or less but would "have" $3000+ worth of games.
It also might save them from ever writing any Javasript!
I think he's deluding himself a little. I think VR is going to be a niche product for a long, long time. AR, if cool enough, could maybe catch on. But it needs to be as easy as putting on shades.
I think most folks will.
> He's literally spent 33% of his waking life in the ~4 years since release doing nothing but playing RDR2 or RDR Online? That seems... perhaps unhealthy, certainly unbalanced

A lot of tech people have a blind spot for excessive video game addiction that goes beyond having some fun with your friends on nights and weekends. The mainstream focus is all about social media apps, but at least among tech people I believe video game addiction is a serious problem for a significant number of people.

I've known several people who lost their social lives almost completely to WoW, EVE Online, competitive multi-player games, or just burying themselves in the 1000 on-sale or free games they've collected in their Steam accounts. Losing entire years to video games during the formative stages of young adulthood can be devastating for social development.
>As consumers start understanding exactly how adtech works

I can assure you that consumers do not. Even someone in this comment section of a technical form didn't know what attribution is which is an important part of how adtech works. Even from an extremely high level the prevalence of the phrase "XYZ is selling your data" despite that not happening is a clear sign that most people just parrot what they hear than actually understand. There has been a large amount of scaremongering about how bad this tracking is to people. This scaremongering drives more people to opt out than people opting out who actually understand how it works.

>Businesses would be more viable if they learned to market through mechanisms that were less distasteful to consumers.

That is not true. If the cost of that alternative marketing costs more than what you will make from doing it then the business is not viable.
> publishers have to agree to allow their games to be played on GFN

Hrm. I have an "eclectic" mix of native Steam games, non-Steam games (added to my Steam library) and some emulators. I can't imagine those will be available, thanks for this info.

>it's cool to be able to max out every single graphics setting without thinking about it.

I certainly like this.

Do you use it with your TV? Do you need a Shield too for the controller?
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https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item/1014-ibm-ps2-d...

How about that. TIL. Thank you.
That would probably destroy the solar system. Without the moon, the earth would just exit the solar system. Increasing the mass of earth by mining too much asteroids would cause the earth to fall into the sun. It’s a quite delicate balance.
People need to understand corporations dont care about people.

So we shouldn't trust them.
I know remember the pitch meeting Google gave to a studio I worked at. Sleazy as hell.
Anything up to the maximum of the particular cable used (eg the cable could be maxed out at 24V)

It would only power devices which do not draw more current than (240 W/Voltage) Amps
If you have pressures above 3,000psi any sudden leak or hole will be pretty catastrophic. Not an explosion like a fire explosion, something more like explosive decompression in a plane.

Anyway I think they Swedes have pinned it down to an explosion, as in a bomb, based on seismometers.
“So long as it’s legal” is an interesting caveat to universal service. Utility companies, e.g. electricity suppliers, don’t check whether you’re using the utility for illegal purposes. It seems like a true “utility” internet company would only take down content on receiving a court order.

It’s possible that a “choose to be utility or publisher” world would have an extremely polarised internet. On one hand, “utility” services with a lot of illegal content and the police playing whack-a-mole. On the other hand, “publisher” services with liability and therefore intensely risk averse, allowing only the most anaemic content.
All the celebratory bullets keep flying over into my neighborhood, so yeah.
Would you say the same about a 6k hour investment coding a game?

This "if it isn't productive it isn't worthwhile" attitude is toxic.
As I wrote in the post above, they still retain the levarage through the Druzhba [1] and Yamal [2] pipelines (passing via Belarus and Ukraine). These combined have a MUCH greater capacity than Nord Stream 1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druzhba_pipeline
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamal%E2%80%93Europe_pipeline
This is a really good point - regardless of whether you believe that losing his save file is a net good or net bad for this person (and I believe the latter), it's incredibly important to realize that this guy has no control over what happens from this point on - Google does.

We want to be in charge of making our own decisions - not Google, or Apple, or Facebook, or some other SaaS provider.

(this same argument also applies to the government, by the way)
12 work-days of a hobby and your partner labels it an addiction thats divorce worthy? sounds pretty terrible. I strongly suspect he/she is probably spending atleast as much time on his/her hobby.
My first question would be is random internet guy from one of the most likely suspects if this were sabotage? If so, their opinion is probably like many such opinions and based more on projection and defensive posturing than anything else.
Doesn't seem like it collapses anymore. We have MMT and QE so we all keep going. Perhaps this is the peak-capitalism environment. People stop caring about striving.
What bothers me about video games is that they're so accessible. Sometimes I wonder how I would spend my time if I really had many more options at my disposal. The angle has some merit, it just needs quite a few asterisks and the topic has to be evaluated carefully.

I don't doubt that millions of gamers have no such cognitive dissonance and simply enjoy their games, of course. For certain specific games, I certainly have no regrets. Some games such as SOMA were even transformative experiences.
I believe some buy games to farm trading cards and artificially increase their playtime. How skewed this data is only Valve knows as they have capabilities to identify farmers but don't do much.
I'm of the opinion that all the telemetry is used to identify the remaining parts of Windows users can still rely upon and so they can be 'improved' by a PM looking to redirect an existing user base onto some new-crap.

In this way, users have nowhere to hide. Any refuge from the new UI changes will be tracked, identified and targeted for termination.
> If Russia didn't self-sabotage they may feel some obligation to retaliate proportionally against someone else's energy infrastructure.

Why do they have to retaliate against the energy infrastructure? I read some article saying it would be much easier for them to cut off some major internet cables between North America and Europe.

Seems plausible to me. It's probably much easier to do without trace and leave the enemy without a hard proof that they did it.
> positive escape to help cope.

This is certainly true. Though public health analysis only shows correlations, not causations, between video game playing and decreased alcohol and drug use. And in my life, whenever I knew men whose girlfriends would relentlessly harp on their video game playing, it gets substituted by alcohol.

In medicine it is called video game fixation. I’m concerned though that it is not open as a possibility that what they are calling a disease is closer to a medicine than certainly alcohol, tobacco or drug use are. Closer to how coffee is used for tiredness, maybe, for a depressed 15-25yo male, than to any of those things. That said this guy is spending 33% of his life, and video game fixation can also look like 90%, which is certainly pathological.
Love to see Postgres FDW used. It’s a really powerful and imo not utilized as much as it could be.
Power On Hours seem to indicate the disk has been on for a good chunk of time, so I would think you're doing fine. Percentage used says 6%, so that seems decent too.

What model SSD is this?
Not an electrical engineer, but 240w through typical USB wire gauges doesn't seem safe at all.

Does somebody have a good resource for the state of the USB-C ecosystem? How to determine which cables support what features, which icons mean what, etc.
Thanks and it makes sense.

The link was a mistake. I typed it in and didn't realize that where it was place. I don't post here often. I tried to delete the post but couldn't. Sorry, I didn't mean to mislead.
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Could Putin-opposers in Russia potentially benefit by removing a series of future moves from the Russian government?
macOS (even back when it was OS X, and I assume before that) systematically refers to special keys with symbols, not written names. In addition to the CMD symbol, SHIFT is ⇧, CTRL is ^, and ALT/OPT is ⌥.
Backend developer here.

Most (non FAANG) sites are a mess because they're made by inexperienced developers turning everything they touch into a tangled slow mess.

The process goes like this:

- Devs ditch the legacy (often monolithic) code

- They start creating microservices fron scratch

- They don't see the need to optimize or even make readable code. It's a clean slate! the project is small, the new code is just whatever they write.

- They do that with the idea that the legacy code is "bad" and the new code is "good"

- Requirements either scale or downright change

- To the code made before, they add a "tiny" special case and patch here and there. After all, the code is "good"

Repeat

Now you have a new messy project. The dev will either quit or work in a new project. The next dev will do the same.
And the new team will probably push for another replacement from scratch, so they can feel that they re creating "good" code again
ahhh yes, 12 gauge USB-C.
One of these days, I think we're going to be able to feed a book to one of these models and have it create a movie/show/cartoon out of it.

Which as a writer quite excites me, even though it'll probably be quite bad at the beginning, with a flood of terrible products similar to the flood of Unity games.
So the problem wasn't the avocado toasts?
Don't know why it's so surprising. Google has had ads for Pixel phones right below the search box. I remember Stadia ads that showed up there too.

The newtab on Chrome is not even considered a web page so you can see those ads that show up there as a part of Chrome which is not so surprising either
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Could someone use this query across many hundreds of accounts?
A decent kettle needs 240V, which I don’t think you want to send down an Amazon Basics USB cable.
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> So you went AWOL? I’m a little confused on how an 11B E-2 can “decide“ he’s not deploying.

E-3 actually. I was an Eagle Scout, Civil Air Patrol cadet, three years of high school JROTC - the full nine yards. Completely brainwashed. But yes, I ultimately went AWOL.

A week before our deployment, I hitchhiked out to the desert and lived in a tent for a month. Turned myself in right before the 30 day desertion mark, took my article 15 and got busted to E-1. I was able to secure an honorable discharge with the help of a few sympathetic commanding officers after explaining everything, but they put me out pretty quickly “in the best interest of the Army”.

This was the height of the surge in '07, where we were losing over a hundred guys a month. My mom's best friend had already seen her son come home in a casket. The guys I served with came back as shattered husks. I have zero regrets choosing life over death.
*looks nervously at time spent on HN*
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There's no argument for "running on the opposite direction". The OP piece doesn't meet any reasonable standard to be considered an intellectual submission and hence the terse response.

Highly speculative opinion not grounded in fact and blatantly pushing a conclusion . . . what else can you say? Why is this even submitted to HN? A conversation starter?
It's the same as right now.

We have 100W (so 20V at 5A), we will have 240W (48V at 5A).

Gauge doesn't change, since current stays the same
I often think about this, but to be frank, I can’t do anything directly about the inequalities inherent in our current global economic system. I try to help in my local community and donate money to worthy causes (one of my favorites is world central kitchen)

Trying to focus too much on this doesn’t help me or the system. I just recognize how blessed I am and move on.
Glad to see we agree.

My whole point is that claiming that we cannot regulate a company because they are "private" is an obvious fallacy - and that's exactly what the folks defending these companies claim... "They are private, so we cannot stop them from arbitrarily locking people out". But that's utter bullshit, and I'm growing very weary of the argument we should give companies the power to arbitrarily deny service with no explanation and no recourse. I don't mind the ban, I mind the lack of proper recourse.

> Sometimes they didn't get there by themselves, but the public definitely didn't generally get there by itself either.

It's almost like we're a society, and we must balance the needs of all parties. I'm pretty sure that being arbitrarily locked out of a digital system with no recourse is a potential major harm for folks - and I don't think the justification that "it's part of the EULA" is appropriate. At a minimum, I'd expect to see laws demanding the return of any relevant data (the user's property). But we don't even have that. It's time for regulation...
It is pretty well known at this point by much of the industry that Uber has the same promo policy incentives as Google. That’s what happens when you ape google.
"Professional" streamer?
> 240w through typical USB wire gauges doesn't seem safe at all

That's why you need an e-marked cable to be able to do that.
I've used Kettles that are 150W, it takes a long time to heat even a cup of water

Realistically you need 1.5-2.5kW+ to heat anything in a decent time frame
I suppose also means this is some kind of Free Decimal Time, vs Swatch Time, which has the hint of proprietary. Thx.
Obligatory: https://i.imgur.com/Vt4U9wv.png
You can't measure an addiction just by total hours invested in something.

That equals 2.4hrs/day, 16hrs/week since the game was released, which might be more indicative but still depends on the reset of their life obligations and what else they seek value from.
Russians have kind of the same possible motivation as everyone.

To take the option of some future DE/RU agreement regarding restoring the flow of gas off the table. To force everyone to fully commit to their current strategy.
So you are saying that they are not even close to being all-in but may still do it some time in the future? Okay then.
The safety depends entirely on the voltage, no?
He grew up with freedom of speech in apartheid South Africa?
Tell that to the millions of victims of medical malpractice. Doctors make mistakes just like everyone else.

You might attack people for having a healthy skepticism of both doctors and deeply corrupt government regulatory agencies that have a revolving door with big business - I encourage it.

Most people work 8-10 hours and sleep about 8 hours. That leaves a lot of time to perform a perfunctory reading of the Wikipedia article on the drug you were just prescribed before taking it.

Go look at the very first (2002) version of the wikipedia page for Oxycodone, for crying out loud. This drug was publicly known as dangerous and addictive on what is probably the most accessible source of information for common people since 2002 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxycodone&oldid...
the problem is that there is no "standard" usb-c cable. there's usb 3.0, usb 3.1, usb 3.2, usb 3.2 gen 2, usb-c thunderbolt, etc.

this is a major problem they need to figure out imo.

edit: or move to a new major version (usb 4.0) and make all new cables do all of that so if you get a 4.0 cable, you know you can use it for everything at once. i have no idea if this is currently the plan or not.
I’m always amazed when people seem to miss the obvious answer. Robots won’t get us there. Digitizing consciousness won’t either. We already have perfectly good nanotechnology capable of adapting to any environment. It’s staring us in the face, literally when you look in a mirror. DNA and proteins are how you do nanotechnology right. Add to that a guiding consciousness so we don’t have to wait millions of years for the slow search algorithm of evolution to find the answer and there’s nothing we can’t do. Our biggest task is reverse engineering the machine and learning to control it but given the tools we have now I believe we can master it within this century.

Interstellar distances at sub light speed are no obstacle if you have complete control over your biology/lifespan/metabolism. Just bring a big enough pile of enriched uranium, water and biomass and you’re good to go for hundreds of years.

Yes we do still need mechanical and electrical machines where they are more efficient but biology can provide for the lion’s share of our needs once it is under our control.
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Yes, we've focused on SELECT for read only - which provides a lot of value as a "universal API" to live query these many sources. Steampipe is built on Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers [1] under the hood, so could be extended to full CRUD in time. Our current belief is that it's better to follow CQRS [2] in this case though - using SQL for the queries and more native tools for the commands.

1 - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-foreign-data.htm...
2 - https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
blog post with details: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/30/action-transcription/
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. If I had 6k hours invested in literally anything I'd be pretty upset with it being taken away.
It’s slowly happening - a great many small electronics have been transitioning to various USB connectors
for charging (everything from bicycle lights to small drones). Those are all 5V though, which is great for typical one cell lithium, which is 3.7-4.2V, and where 500ma-2A is the most you’d need or want anyway.

The issue so far is that for higher power levels or voltages the electronics are still complex
and expensive, even with the PD standards, so it adds a lot of cost doing it that way compared to a typical barrel connector.

Maybe in another 4-5 years and with some standardized and hopefully dirt cheap PD chips?
I jokingly made a 6 gauge USB to Anderson SB50 cable to piss off a coworker

Maybe next time I'll use JST?
I would note that VSCode is instantaneous on my M1 Pro..but yeah.
These two pipelines have very different operational histories so the simultaneous formation of a 'methane hydrate plug' in both pipelines seems highly unlikely at best. There's also no apparent reason why such a methane hydrate plug should cause seismic-scale explosions in both pipelines.

As far as motivation, the US agenda on Europe's fossil fuel market since at least 2008 has been to lock out Russian suppliers (who don't bank their oil profits with Wall Street) in favor of American and Middle Eastern importers (those who do bank their funds appropriately, i.e. Qatar/Saudi/Kuwait/UAE good, Iran bad). This has gained extra impetus since the fracking boom and the rise in production in the USA, leading to pushes to open up export markets.

Now, would Russia want to blow up its own pipelines when it can simply shut them down for 'maintenance' until sanctions are lifted if it wanted to cut off the flow of gas? That's a ludicrous stretch of the imagination. This leaves the USA as the one with the obvious motive to do this.

I personally think Europe would have been better off pushing rapid renewable development for the past few decades, which it has to some extent, but a more concentrated effort over the past few decades would have put them in a position where their economies were not dependent on either the USA or Russia.

[edit: relevant quote - "There are many ways to light Europe" - from the movie, Syriana]
Somehow I doubt your partner would say the same of you watching TV or using social media for 450 hours.
Which destroys their present and future income.
We have done incredible things just not flying cars yet. I am talking 100s of millions of years (if we survive that far of course)
Assuming everything on the modern internet is some form of propaganda is safer than the alternative of believing you can find unbiased and well grounded analysis for free.
We are all Parag Agrawal on this blessed day.

The good thing of standing up to bullies in a privileged place like SF is that there is essentially no downside, only missed upside.

Also talking about missed upside...once your net worth is 10M (Parag should be there I think) you have "fuck you money" special powers over everybody including people like Musk, Bezos, Gates etc.

There is no amount of money that would convince a mentally stable and financially secure person to deal with these bullies bullshit.

Show them the finger without looking back, never love your passions more than you love yourself and your mental health.
This is a classic example of how propaganda works. The layman's definition of recession, which has never been used officially or by policy-makers in America, is this bit about "negative GDP growth for two quarters".

But despite that not being how we've always determined recessions here, if you read the reply above, the user has literally invented a political conspiracy about their ignorance about economics. The layman's definition isn't right? It's more complicated than a one-liner on the news? No! It's a conspiracy!

This is EXACTLY how the propaganda is designed to affect them. Empower the ignorance such that layman's understanding is the only valid understanding, impugn the experts until economics is nothing more than an election year conspiracy.

For anyone interested in the truth of how recessions have been determined in the United States for the past sixty years, it's only about three paragraphs of information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Economic_Re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%E2%80%93drug_intera...
The key point here is 6k hours. The game has been on Stadia for 2 and a half years.

No one is attacking hobbies or video games, the argument was: The argument of playing 6k hours of RDR2 in 2 years being too much might have some merit.
240W @ 48V (voltage limit for "low voltage" stuff) is "only" 5A. On the high side for a small cable but feasible nevertheless.
Unfortunately you can't, because Red Dead (((Online))) locks your account on the platform you play, his account on Stadia will simply be erased into oblivion.