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That’s all partly true too but the architecture was definitely impactful because it didn’t render triangles. It was a sprite machine that faked 3D by using a second processor to skew spites into triangles (which also broke alpha blending in the process).

I also don’t think it’s entirely fair to say that SDKs were unknown to Sega at the time. They were being occasionally used on earlier consoles too (even if it wasn’t the norm). The real reason Sony had an SDK on launch and Sega didn’t was simply because Sega had a massive development resource whereas Sony had to rely entirely solely on 3rd party developers. So releasing an SDK was always on the roadmap for Sega but a lesser priority than it wouldn’t have been for Sony.

An SDK would certainly have made it easier to program for the Saturn but ultimately it would still have been significantly harder than the PlayStation.

Your overall point that there were lots of contributing factors is correct though. I wasn’t intending to suggest that the Saturns failure was down to one specific thing.

Edit: just to add, I agree there are some awesome 3D games on the Saturn. I own one and have a few. But the existence of good 3D games doesn’t negate the point that it was architecturally a challenging platform to do 3D on. I’d describe it really more of a 2D console that can do 3D via an official hack.
It depends on what part of the industry you're working in. If you're looking at FAANG-style companies, that's absolutely true. But there's much more to the industry than that.
Nothing you wrote made any sense at all. So, explain the whole thing again, I guess?
So like... what about the way CA taxes people who live in other states...

Seems kind of like hidden fees to me... folks livign out of state, but went on vacation to CA, or flew to the the bay area on a business trip, or whatever...

The biggest hidden fee of all time is CA taxing out of state entities.
This is something I've been struggling with myself. I remember how easy it was to just kill time with friends in high school, but now as an adult it feels so much harder. Thankfully, I think I've found a solution (or at least part of one): poker. Poker is like social crack. It makes players directly engage with each other, acts as a conversational centerpiece, and provides the perfect backdrop for shooting the shit. You start talking a smack after winning a hand, your buddy fires back, and people start laughing. Someone starts a sentence with "that reminds me of..." and suddenly you're all hanging out. As people get more comfortable (and inebriated) the game slows down. Add in some music or a game on TV, some snacks, drinks, and maybe some weed, and the entire experience becomes sublime. It's also easy to invite new people. Maybe you've always thought your coworker was a cool guy, but you've never been able to find a non-awkward way to start the transition from work-friends to just friends. With poker it's as easy as "hey, I'm hosting a poker game this Friday. Want to come?"

I was inspired by my Dad; he and his poker buddies (mostly other dads in the neighborhood) have been playing together for over a decade. They take trips to cities like Vegas every couple of years for milestones like 50th birthdays, and occasionally meet up on lazy sundays at sports bars. I started my own poker group with my friends after my dad brought me to one of his games.

A few tips for your first game:

- make sure at least one person has the rules down pat

- play with a small amount of money at stake (I do a $20 buy in). Without money on the line it's way to easy for people to lose interest and play recklessly, derailing the game

- start the game late if you're worried about the group not gelling together. Starting late (I'd recommend 9 pm, YMMV) makes it feel more intimate, lessens the pressure to sustain a good time for hours, and reduces the suffering if the game flops

- if the game is a success reach out within a couple of days to schedule the next one

- you only need about two friends to put together a poker game. If they each bring a buddy then you've got a 5 person game
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It's not entirely that you have to execute people. It's that you have to restrict the rights of people to have sex with who they want. And you have to force others to give up their genetic material to produce offspring they may not want to.

There's also the issue of the definition of "suffering". Once you control for the traits people mostly agree are detrimental, where do we stop? Do we control for height? Intelligence? Decreased propensity for certain behaviors? Where's the line?

And no, Thanos was not right. Thanos was written by a fucking moron. It took Earth about 50 years to go from 4 billion people to 8 billion. So, in the most generous interpretation of his action, he gave the universe 50 more years. Next, it's kind of implied that it was all life, including animals. You know, livestock. And then you also have the matter of plant life. If that was or was not affected. Regardless, cutting out half of all life also cuts roughly half of your resources as well. It also ignores that at 4 billion people, we were doing a fucking bang up job of thrashing the environment still. And it ignores the fact that there's just a better answer, make more stuff. Or change reality so that far fewer resources are consumed through certain actions. Make energy free. Make it so people don't need to eat. Everything is on the fucking table. The Infinity Stones are essentially limitless. His justification in the films just do not hold up. Both in reasoning and execution. At least in the comic he was doing it to get laid. As base as that is, it's a reason with no issues.
20 years too late :')

But the problem is the old webview crap based on IE is still embedded in the system everywhere. Only yesterday I got a popup from something with the "image missing" icon that clearly originates in IE.
> If you believe this is going to happen, how should you prepare for it? Start learning prompting now? Get involved with building these AIs? Etc.

Short of advocating for artists' unions...

Law is still going to govern anything AI creates, so anyone who develops a skillset in both art and law would be well-positioned to gatekeep as a copyright troll. This carves out a career for yourself and enacts revenge by making it a liability for employers to use AI to replace artists.

HR is the theocratic version of that, since law school isn't cheap. You can still gatekeep, but you'd be playing by more-arbitrary rules ("you can't use that AI because it incorporates images of Women Without Penises," etc.).

Security is pragmatic, but I worry about the long-term stability of it. Every time a breach is announced, there are no consequences, so why even pretend to need it?

I used to suggest pivoting to tangible works and experiences (architecture, sculpture, etc.), but those are easily displaced as well-- I would bet against it now.

Look at porn-- what started as a handful of performers in studios is now done by any college student with a webcam in their bedroom (next up to be replaced with AI-generated content).

For now, you can still add value as a sex worker by offering the GFE, but even that's about to be obsolete. You can get your fix of flirting from a chatbot (TTS or sexting) and 3D print a copy of anybody else's genitalia. Remote-controls, vibrators and fluid pumps add some life to it. And you don't even have to leave the house, which affords you privacy to pursue darker subjects without oversight and save you more time for repeat consumption.

Truly, what a wonderful world...
I don't much care if people don't want to read stories where fat children are put into humiliating situations and portrayed as greedy animalistic cretin's, but the correct solution is to not read the book, not to have some hack edit it. Many fine and underrated children's books have come out since 1964 which are smothered by the popularity of a few classics which arguably teach children the wrong lessons.

It's fine to not want to read such a book or read such a book to children. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is rather mean and dark for a children's book, that's a huge part of the appeal, I would just prefer a mean dark book to remain a mean dark book instead of trying to water down the story to cash in on it's existing commercial value while trying to make it blander and tolerable by more audiences. It's hardly just Augustus Gloop who is treated in a cruel way either, it's just that he by far seems to be getting the most sympathy from the editors, but the book doesn't really teach one to be kind to say... rich spoilt children either.

Changes like “But Augustus was deaf to everything except the call of his enormous stomach” to “But Augustus was ignoring everything” takes the punch and wit out of the story while not actually making it so children can't read between the lines. You're replacing a line that'll make children laugh at a fat character with one that just won't make them laugh at all and calling it an improvement.
It isn't exactly a "glitch", just something Google doesn't care about (but absolutely will care about if too many people start doing it).

I remember way back in the day someone came up with a clever way of using Gmail attachments to build a cloud storage drive mounted to your filesystem. Then Google themselves released Drive soon after.
And that 37-50 percent is just what is necessary to sustain the people already on benefits there, in that geographical location.

If you throw in people that live in earthquake/typhoon/volcanic/etc locales, with different diseases and food production, natural resources, climate, and scale up the population of people to administer all those benefits by a couple orders of magnitude, you can bet you’ll be paying a lot more in taxes to try to afford the same quality of life for everyone.
Yeah that is annoying as hell. Comcast mobile is actually very clear and open- they have no hidden fees. Surprising from them.

Verizon can f off, 20%+ extra "fees" all the time.. glad I'm done with them.
Sales tax rates change too often in the US for this to work. I like the idea in concept, but I can understand why it doesn't work in practice in the US given the current tax regime.
I definitely wouldn't mind it broken out in the details section but the main displayed price should always reflect all costs (including taxes!) IMO. If I'm going to need to do math on the pricing it should be for the corner cases like comparing the daily price of stays at different places for different lengths of time not for finding out how much something costs on its own.
There's so many better options better than .com (commercial)

.net
.org
.me
.io
.blog
.info

You can make it topical too
.expert
.engineer
.doctor
.camera
.software

Or have fun with it
.lol
.wtf
.foo
That's been around for years. There are two versions. This is the longer, tougher version.

The interesting thing about the culture is that 1) US practice is that TV showrunners are writers, and 2) that all the writing for the season isn't done before starting production. Movies are not usually made that way. The script is usually set before production gets a green light.
Employee owned businesses are a thing. Management still gets paid. They all profit equally.
You have 2 very big problems happening at the same time:
1. You don't have a job
2. You are transitioning to a new career

Acknowledge this is very difficult situation. Usually people can deal with 1 problem at a time but its still very stressful. 2 is really hard. If you can deal with 3 you are a mensch. (eg: dealing with new baby, starting a company, deal with aged parent all at same time).

What you can do:

1. Work at your skills. Create a 40 hour schedule for yourself filled with job applications, becoming better at skills (educative.io is a great resource for indepth technical topics and interviewing skills ) .

2. Enjoy this break. Weird as this sounds - you have the rest of your life to work. What you can do is workout, get back into the best shape of yourlife.
Travel either locally or with spouse - make sure she is happy.

3. Help others. Helping anyone will help your mental health tremendously. It can be at a soup kitchen or anywhere else. Help friends in similar situations. Write a blog for others in similar situation.
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> Abiotic theory says that it is produced die to the high heat and pressures of the earth's core.

This is bullshit, though. Our best model for the Earth core has it made of iron, with an outer core of liquid iron and nickel. Lighter elements would not make sense from a simple physics perspective. Plus, we don’t really have any mechanism for stuff to get out of the core to the crust through the mantle. So I guess you mean mantle, but then that’s silicates. Again, that’s denser than carbon. We do know a couple of ways for matter to go from the upper mantle to the crust, but that matter is silicates.

From a physical and thermodynamic all perspective, the only mechanisms that makes sense to get hydrocarbons underground imply that they come from the surface and get submerged.

> The peak oil supply curve may be a lot more deep on the right tail than is assumed.

That is an argument that can be made, but…

> The peak may simply have been the draw down of the initial surplus, but known fields refill with time, and new fields can be discovered with search techniques based on abiotic theory.

This is simply not happening.

> Western corporations have bet a lot of money on a peak oil transition driven crisis. It may never come.

Because it makes sense. They employ some of the best geologists and geophysicists, have access to more data than anyone else, and have more computing power than most other research entities to run their models on. They also hedge their bets because there are trillions of dollars at stake, so you’d think they’d be all over anything vaguely plausible.
There is! See https://petals.ml/ for inference of models like BLOOM-176B over the internet or https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11913 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01288 that show you how to do pretraining from scratch in the same setting. Disclaimer: I'm a coauthor of these systems (including the one in OP)
Why would ensuring people know how much they are paying in taxes be a bad thing?
I am the "weird dude who writes raw HTML" LOL.

I had a self-hosted WordPress blog from 2006-2010, but security updates become a burden, especially since I had to modify the WP source code a little to do exactly what I wanted with the RSS feeds.

After a few years of not blogging at all, I decided to use the simplest possible "system", which is writing blog posts in raw HTML in a text editor, as well as writing the RSS feed in raw XML in a text editor. It's not pretty, but it's zero maintenance. I've been doing that for 10 years now, and I don't think I'd ever go back to a third-party dependency.

I should mention my other motivation: occasionally one of my blog posts will get massive traffic, such as #1 HN, or getting linked by the tech media. In cases like these, static HTML files are great. My website never gets overwhelmed and becomes unresponsive from the load, even though it's just on a little shared hosted server.
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That sort of thing falls into the "cost" category.
Nothing about Oracle is pleasant so for me it would be an easy decision :)
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I don't use things like Uber Eats very much.. but I did last week. It would literally NOT SHOW ME the all in price before I had to click order. It only showed me what the restaurant was charging me. I think earlier in the process it did show the delivery fees of some sort, to be fair.

But at the very final point they hide it from you, which is absolutely insane it's even legal.
No shame there. I figured out the answer to a question posed by a professor (which later evolved into my master's thesis), while sitting on the porcelain throne. Letting go of a few solids perhaps let's your mental obstacles loosen.
Definitely agree. Getting all the licenses in order is a huge pain when setting up a machine. I use notes in the iCloud Keychain but that’s a bit of a kludge. Some first party support would be great. The infrastructure is already there for this stuff to be encrypted and protected properly.
Does this mean hospitals will have to tell you what they charge upfront?
The point is, presumably, the websites of major hotel brands work the same for everyone. I would be interested in seeing an example of a “hidden” fee at a hotel.

Same with airline prices. Google flight search has always shown me the total price, as have the airline websites themselves.
We are a loose group of people who interact a little bit!

The person maintaining OCJS works on in bursts - it depends on the time he has. He is doing a great job at it!

The difference between replicad and Cascade Studio is that replicad is a library first - that you can include in your specific project. As a proof of concept I built a development environment while Cascade Studio is meant as a development environment first. Different aims with different tradeoffs.

People around code cad have been interacting a bit in the CadHub discord - but it is a bit quieter lately!
From the relevant product page [0]:

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Further reading on pointer authentication [1].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets...
Basically it means that your ISP, which so far was mostly on your side in regards to tracking in Germany (or at least not actively working against you), will start actively tracking you and selling your data.

Technically it's a reaction to the increasing crackdown on first- & third-party cookies in browsers, which makes tracking more difficult. And the idea those providers have is quite simple: They know who you are as you connect through their network, so they can just pass along that information to third parties. Hence, a publisher will no longer try to set a cookie in your browser or fingerprint you, instead it will simply call an endpoint provided by the TrustPid providers, passing along your IP address. The provider will then look up that IP in their database and return a pseudonymous ID, which basically is the same like a cookie ID. The important difference here is that everything happens on the server-side, so there's no way to block this using browser technology. And that's also why it's so interesting to these providers, as they're finally seeing their chance to get a big piece of the advertising / tracking cake due to the crackdown on cookies. Normally data protection would step in and block this, but the second ingredient is what I call "weaponized consent", i.e. make users explicitly agree to this form of invasive tracking. That will be quite easy as people are used to click "Accept" on cookie banners everywhere, so a large percentage of users will opt-in to this practice. I'm not 100 % sure about the technical details but I think the broad picture is correct.

Pretty much the only chance of stopping this is if the regulators step up and forbid this practice, otherwise it's shockingly effective. In general we can expect a lot more server-side technologies that try to replicate / replace client-side tracking, as those are harder to detect and block.
Some of the best engineers I've ever worked don't even have a bachelor's degree. These autodidacts will suffer greatly if the wrong kind of "software guild" gains control over licensing tech employees.
The Republican response:

Smart politics, but bad economics.

Ban baggage fees = higher ticket prices
Ban resort fees = higher room prices
Ban credit card late fees = higher interest rates

These proposals just make some consumers pay more to cover the costs of other consumers.

https://twitter.com/George_A_Callas/status/16233291827793182...

There is a point hidden in there, in that banning optional fees makes the price go up for people who refuse the option.

But when the fee is mandatory, hiding it is basically pure evil.

Much more developed argument than my pure evil comment: https://www.slowboring.com/p/junk-fees
We can have both. Sticker price can be all-inclusive price with taxes and fees required to be listed in detail on the receipt.
How often is sales tax changing that it becomes infeasible to update the shelf price tags? The grocery stores seem to handle it just fine changing the "buy one get one" type tags every month!
So, I came to the UK when I was 15, studied for over 10 years, got my citizenship. All legal, privately paid for. Incidentally, I worked as a solicitor for over 10 years, large part of my work was immigration law. There is no such thing as "uncontrolled" immigration outside the EU. When we were within the EU, we __chose__ not to enforce the rules. The arguments about it being non-practical (which is what Home Office told MPs select committee) are rubbish - Sweden, Denmark and Netherlands do so successfully from my personal experience. We could have done that too, __if we wanted to__. We just weren't bothered until the rise of UKIP.

Now about being poor. It took me 13 years, 4 of which working in Saudi Arabia, and a career change into software engineering, to make enough money to pay off my debts from school and start earning enough to live on without worrying about the next bill and looking after my wife and kids. Most immigrants I know do work hard. There is also a large swathe of people (immigrants and natives) who for variety of reasons rely on the welfare state. I do agree that welfare state should be downsized significantly. The reality, perhaps surprisingly, is that such a downsizing will hit the natives the most.
No, it’s a coordination problem. If you’re the only one hiding your prices in fees, it can be an advantage since it looks like you’re charging less. Everyone has to do it to keep up, but since everyone does it, no one really gets an advantage. With mandated transparent pricing, no one has an opportunity to “cheat” and everyone can specialize (in cost or quality or features/amenities, or some mix of those).
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