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> I have a lot of fond memories of playing on stupid custom TF2 maps.

typical pl_badwater fan vs average koth_trainsawlaser enjoyer

my guilty pleasure was 32v32 fast spawn on the usual payload and a/d standards, with regulars it is a very fun format. Yes, it is highly spammy and teams generally run multiple combos, and that changes up the tactics a lot. A pair of krubered demos (two combos) can break through (mk V.battlefield.wmv) or you can have a really dynamic playing field with very frequent pops. Multiple sentries are common on defense... but you have the krickies. Or you can use short-circuit engineers as minesweepers. With 32 players actually there is a lot more flexing between classes and a whole class of multi-combo plays that become possible, it is a lot of fun on a pub server where anything can happen.

Custom maps (like the one 32v32 all-custom Topnotch clan server) are often balanced better for a larger number of players, but, 32v32 payload was a very fun and intense game format, it's all the fun of pubbing (fun bullshit loadouts because there's lots of room to flex) but just more focused and dynamic. Can you pull off some weird bullshit that pops both their meds? fuck it go for it

The late-game balance changes (iron bomber, air strike, parachute, combo pyro nerf, everything) really all made the game worse in the name of "e-sports matchmaking" that never materialized. I would like to go back to the Love and War update plz, but keep the airblast changes and maybe a very few choice others, but that was peak funhaving and then the nerf bat came down for fun and meme loadouts to make the game "good for esports". Give me TF2014 plz, nocrits.

The decline of the self-hosted instance is tragic, when most of the newer games are gone they're gone. You will never get The Division back or BF1/BFV/2042/etc. Oops server rental program gone. Enjoy ur singleplayer battlefield experience.

Sadly it's also the only way to fight the bot plague, what Valve has allowed to happen to TF2 is disgusting. Can't wait for everyone to migrate to Team Comtress 2.

I once read someone call Touhou "the closest thing to an open-source fandom" and of course there's the "do they make touhou but for BOYS? -> TF2" meme and honestly that's very apropos too, TF2 is one of the latest and most advanced multiplayer games before things really went off the rails, and it's one of the few you can selfhost, it is a common cultural heritage in the way that very little will be afterwards. And now the source is leaked. Behold the strange death and eternal life of team fortress the second, born october 10th, the 2007th of our era. It will outlast hats and inventory and all of us, a powerful memeplex and a really good game.

I do look on it with such mixed emotions though because hats were the prototype for knife skins in CS:GO and that perked everyone else up at the giant wheelbarrows of money steam was bringing in, and that eventually destroyed AAA gaming. TF2 was gambling but it wasn't that predatory (ok grandpa).

I mean yes Valve literally does measure player arousal/stimulation to calibrate the Director in L4D but that's just good game design really.

Hey wait
You can criticize and explain what's wrong with it instead of insulting it.
> This feels like concern baiting.

I'll agree with you on this because I am trying to switch the concern - putting it back on how bad MLMs are in line with the article.

If you read the article and then read the most upvoted comment, it says "Oh yeah that's terrible, and look at how startup's terrible too in really similar ways!" That is "what-about-ism" - This is bad, "but what about..." Focus shifting.
There’s something about social media that makes people confidently extrapolate their local observations to global scale.

Meta’s apps have 3.7 billion active monthly users. That’s half the population of the world! It’s impossible to guess their behavioral trends based only on what you and I see around us.

Even Facebook is growing despite nearly a decade of HN users declaring it’s only used by retirees and will soon die out.
Meta is lame company that’s never had a good product or an original idea. They stole the idea of Friendster/MySpace and used anticompetitive tactics to monopolize. Instagram is sort of cool, but that was just an acquisition. They are the first company that comes to mind when I hear Peter Thiel talk about stagnation. Not that the other fangs are impressive, but Facebook is by far the most underwhelming of the lot. All that money and talent and what have they built. 15 years later and it’s still just a MySpace data mining advertising machine.
Your comment is unrelated too the parents comment.
Maybe if Facebook was building their own Roblox or similar people might get behind that. It seems to be all in on VR though.
Yes, actually flatpak triggered some interesting projects that are going beyong flatpak now:
- pipewire for audio/video stream management that allows sandboxing
- xdg-desktop portals to integrate the sandboxed apps in the host desktop environment and operating system. It's what allows the host DE ui to grant permissions (like reading/writing a file, accessing screen share, etc...)

It will depend how an app has been packaged, but when well done the sandboxing is invisible.
Don’t EVER use PayPal! They will routinely lock your account for 6 months based on a single false claim of your downloadable product not “being delivered”. With zero options to simply reimburse the customer or in any other way resolve the situation. They have done it for years and continue to do it. Don’t use PayPal!
I just don't understand how come this is so much of an oversight, neural networks today can synthesise voice, pictures. ALSO neural networks today can reliably detect if a picture or voice was generated by neural networks. How come someone skipping the latter in a security application? A BANK? I just don't understand.
Then every conceivable tool is to blame, especially within computer science, they’re all definitely used wrong more often than not.
It's working in Germany.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3P_S7pL7Yg
Those people should take the subway in, e.g. Munich, when children go to school. A nice mix of people commuting to the office and 6 year olds commuting to school in the same crampted subway cars.

Looking from the outside in, the US are just a wierd country.
A bit of a ramble, but: There is something fundamentally broken about connection (messaging, email, phone, whatever) information being cloneable. Either a) the identifier of the channel by which you contact me requires something from your identity to use, so it can't be used by other people, or b) there is no core address, they are all tear-off contacts (analagous to a TCP session, I guess?) I suppose you would message the main core address, but it just sends a redirect to a new channel. New channels have low reputation by default, and if you delete it (because the other end shared it, or whatever,) they have to get a new tear-off and start over.
I did run this debloater in these two machines from the beginning of their setup:
https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

These are paid and fully licensed versions of Windows 10, and yes, I am now aware of the registry hacks to try to delay this. Only run these two laptops, because are forced to use some apps that are only available for Win10. Otherwise would dumpster fire the whole Microsoft crap.

What shocked me was the whole intrusiveness of window. A complete grab of the screen that makes you believe this is some kind of forced emergency upgrade. Under Windows Updates, you can choose the "Delay for Now". It was not there before, and must have been installed in one of false Microsoft Security Updates. The whole Microsoft thing stinks of lack of respect for the user, and misleading dishonest patterns and I had enough of it...Win 11 is not yet stable, and not all apps are compatible and had or my assistant upgraded it, could have causes serious compatibility issues.

Somebody else messes with your systems with no warning, before an important meeting, either at my office or 2000 km away from Redmond, I am going to bitch about it...
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you realize every single thing you said would have been true when talking about the first smartphones?

The iPhone in 2007 was not a good general computing device, and people were made fun of for looking like dorks because they stared constantly at their screens. And yet here we are, in a future where smartphones diligently satisfy all of consumer's needs and zoning out by looking at your black slab is normalized.
EU riles Big Tech with telecoms network costs consultation
UK GDPR under threat? Do you have a link?
Ask HN: Are there Falsehoods Programmers believe about opening hours formatting?
Every place I've ever lived the format for representing opening - closing times has been

Opening hour - Closing Hour.

I suppose in countries with different direction of text it will be

Closing Hour - Opening Hour.

But is there any localization problems with the use of the - sign as the separator?

Are there any other formatting issues in countries that I am unaware of for how opening hours are displayed?
People want to be liked as individuals, not fetishised as members of a group.
You could also hide the bits in eg timing of package transmission or omiting an expected package every once in a while, it'll just look like udp dropped a package.

You can use a channel with lots of noise, because you can use error correcting codes to to restore the intended message.

(To elaborate with an example: sometimes a package might already drop randomly, or timings might be slightly delayed anyway.)
No, it's not reducing. In theory you can define anything as "power". If I know any fact you don't then, by your definition, I have power. But describing that as a power imbalance is a 100% hindrance to communication.
The US may be the most extreme case of this problem, but not every country has it as good as Norway either.

I'm from Spain and sadly no kid here goes to school on their own at 5 or 6. Most start at 8 or 9, and typically "experts" recommend 7 as the absolute lower bound. While not as car-centric as the US, we still have too many cars in every city (and too fast) to feel safe leaving kids alone at 5 or 6.
Not my experience at all. PayPal locked my account for 6 months because of a single false customer complaint. I offered to simply reimburse the customer but nothing I said made any difference. RUN AWAY FROM PAYPAL.
If the so called legit folks sell you, then they are not legit.
i dont think it's scientific at all, does my dental filling make me a cyborg and where is that line crossed. And then u have what is 'mind control', what is 'mind'

That many paper titles use it does not mean it's a common scientific term. This is context-dependent, could be ok in an opinion or philosophy paper, but in an experimenal paper about locomotion control via brain-machine interfaces it s just unacceptable imo
MLM targets mostly women, not men (probably because more socialization is required for that particular kind of scam). Everyone loves easy money, we have reached perfect gender equality in that respect )
I have accidentally spent far too much on Azure logging before, so I am a firm believer in giving as much (read-only) access as possible!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

> 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action ... Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay

had colluded to not hire workers from each other, to suppress salaries. Facebook actually didn't play along, ultimately leading to the decade's compensation explosion.
No, fy_iceworld had guns lying on the ground. The article mentions it too.
I’ve found what you said to be completely untrue unless you’re totally lazy. If you’re building up a bunch of components, the tailwind classes are mainly within the basic components.

In the first example of vanilla extract, it uses exact px measurements which already demonstrates it’s not geared to solve one of the primary selling points of tailwind (using config as a constraint to reduce mental overhead when building things).
Those were good (we had DEC Terminals). Fast to start searching, fast results back.
Concorde was also useful in general, yet thanks to sound breaking noise was not allowed to fly over land supersonic.

Now imagine 4, 8 or bigger combo of flying vacuum cleaners in 3am. People are going to eat you alive.
Microsoft forcing Windows 11 on you?
After taking a quick look at their documentation page, I noticed that some of the buttons, especially the default secondary and a few of the outline buttons, seem to have a low contrast ratio when viewed in default light mode: https://daisyui.com/components/button/ Hopefully, developers won't use these components as is.

Although I'm not very familiar with Tailwind and its component library ecosystem, I found the DIY approach taken by https://github.com/shadcn/ui to be better suited to my needs. This approach offers greater customization and flexibility in designing UI components, which is where I find the most enjoyment in building UI. Of course, pre-built component libraries like OP can provide a quicker solution if resources are limited.
So should we develop everything using the criterion "will it prove useful in an active warzone" ?
> Self-Hosted Next.js

> The Next.js Cache also works fully self-hosted. When self-hosting, an LRU cache is used, which defaults to 50 MB (which can be increased). All entries in the cache are automatically written to disk by default. This filesystem cache can be shared between nodes if they have the same cache key, similar to how ISR works today.

> For developers looking to further customize and modify the core of the Next.js Cache, they can modify underlying cache keys and change how and where cache entries are persisted, including disabling persistence entirely.

Does anything need to be done to enable this when running node myself, or it works automatically?
I used Framework7 for an app. It was good. I hadn't realised the dev had pulled out the UI library into a standalone project.
> there's nothing that suggests Wi-Fi is involved at all. It rather sounds to me like the author was listening at the Ethernet port that the TV was plugged in

Author here. Everything on the article was received on the guest Wi-Fi network on my laptop without plugging into anything.
Also, you can find a lot of Tailwind templates/components and they just work. You don't have to worry about a snippet clashing with or overwriting some other CSS you have like you would with plain HTML/CSS snippets.

Sure, HTML looks uglier when I add a dozen classes to an element instead of adding one class with a dozen of CSS rules, but I'm more than willing to accept that as a compromise.

Overall, Tailwind made frontend design more accessible to me than it ever was, and I never have to use `!important` again.
Also processor licenses, library costs for devs, etc. I recently stumbled over a Java domain specific development system (for insurance), where the dev seat did cost 100k euros.

Franz and LispWorks has different licensing models for companies. Franz is going the route of per usage/value and LispWorks has no extra cost for delivery (without the dev environment).

These licensing models are specific for tools in small niches. You'll see similar models for example for commercial Smalltalk systems.
Encryption is in another layer.

Basically, you'd use steganography to hide that you send a message. And that message would be encrypted. You can use almost any standard encryption scheme, as long as you remove headers etc. Any ciphertext of a crypto-system worth its salt will be indistinguishable from random noise without the key.
Probably because they googled 'list of html template creators ' and this was that which came out as a result on some random site they got presented as the first link.
It's not the output, it's the input.

To reach the scifi potential of VR, you need to be able to put on your VR headset, recline in a comfy chair, and then run and jump around a virtual world without moving your body.

As long as you need a controller or to physically walk around your living room, it's a neat trick, but a limited one.
Good point :)

Those things are quite subjective, I am just trying to avoid fruitless discussions
Yeah because you’ve jumped in on the attack on a post about something built with a tool that clearly gives a lot of people joy, in order to hawk your own thing. Getting whiny about people defending their own thing in response is kind of disingenuous.

People got tired of vue people continuously doing the same thing about anything vaguely related to react, too.
The modern equivalent is probably mall music?
It's especially painful as some of the greediest modern games released (COD franchise) used to have some of the most flexible modding tools I've ever worked with.

COD4 was incredible, could change pretty much everything about it, custom maps, modes, models you name it (here's one I worked on back in the day https://www.moddb.com/mods/cod4-minigames).

I agree Roblox is a cesspit of overly monetized P2W experiences, and minecraft from what I've heard has most its audience on micro transaction (p2w) based servers.

As I mentioned in another comment, fingers crossed s&box can bring back the glory days. Although I worry there's now been a shift in how people play, and the "why" people build things (money, versus personal gratification / fun), similar to how the same thing has happened on Youtube (most people don't seem to create for the fun of it anymore, but rather to make money).
Hah. I have a friend like this and we find it hilarious. Literally every time a cryptocurrency or a meme stock blows up, he's shot himself in the face.

Not for nothing, he's also prone to talking about taking radical measures to protect his kids from climate change, and doesn't feel it's worth living if the climate warms up by 3ºC.

He's one of my oldest and best friends, so I've spent a lot of time thinking about where this all comes from. His grandfather was an SS officer (and I'm a Jew- my grandparents, of course, were also Jews)... his father, a wonderful human being, and a serious anti-racist Austrian. Yet this form of obsession continues.

Timothy Snyder makes some great remarks in "The Black Earth"-

"There need not be any compelling reason for concern about life and death, as the Nazi example shows, only a momentary conviction that dramatic action is needed to preserve a way of life. [...] Perhaps the experience of unprecedented storms or relentless droughts will jar expectations about the security of basic resources and make Hitlerian politics more resonant. As Hitler demonstrated [...] humans are able to portray a looming crisis in such a way as to justify drastic measures in the present."

No one is immune from this kind of thought process, but all of us should be immunized by our socialization with one another. And rational investment (as opposed to irrational risk-taking) is a security token for society. The opposite is a bet against a rational future.
A better competitor does make your AI app less valuable. Mine is coming up, https://inventai.xyz.
I saw this exact same thing happen locally. We have a Ramen restaurant whose squatter website opened before they got their own website up and running, and its SEO is better, too.
This reeks of victim blaming. We should be able to go about our lives and not get scammed trying to order food from the local Thai food place.
It's a good piece of software indeed, but I have a question: why the fanaticism of using a terminal for e v e r y t h i n g
What ways have they been anti-competitive? I hear lots of people refer to fb specifically as a monopoly, and talk about the need to break them up or punish them for behavior. Compared to other fangs, I don’t know what they’ve done? I’m not denying it but genuinely curious what people have to say.

Eg Apple has taken heat for its restrictions on App stores and the double standards they impose on competitors. I’ve also heard of Google slowing down YouTube on competitors browsers to push chrome.

I can’t think of any direct anticompetitive behavior beyond building a product that benefits from the network affect.
A (Relatively Easy to Understand) Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2013)
I do like it as well. It has MB character, whether you like it or not.

What are those significantly better options?
>Don't crops grow better in warmer weather?

some crops grow better in warmer weather, and some crops also die if the weather is too warm.

Land is fought over the for the resources it has, it's arability, or because you need space to put people.

Water is a resource, arability of land is how much food you can get out of it.

Wars have often been fought for water and food, but not so much in recent centuries.
If you want to grow your startup, then you will need playbooks. here is a quick guide on how to create your own playbooks. you can also check out our playbook templates.
It is not legal to represent yourself as being a business when you are not in fact a representative of that business.
But that is life - you will die at the end. This is not a reason to be depressive, there is a way to find freedom accepting the volatile nature of everything. Enjoy your life, do not harm anybody and do positive work.
Wait what? You don't seem to realize the Cyberpunk dystopia we are living in? Yes it is amazing that we can order online! But having a company that is a near monopoly search and decides what is 'true' benefits by an otiose 15% markup that steals from the local economy is not! These are two different things...

It is amazing that I can watch videos on youtube for free but it is not awesome that they freely present alcohol ads to alcoholics and it is near impossible to get rid of them unless you are savvy enough to block them and/or pay for youtube premium. It is not okay to have predatory get-rich-quick-schemes categorized in the ads for creators that they can opt out of. It is nice that creators have that option not to advertise something that is designed pray upon vulnerable people, but what the fuck.... if youtube categorize the ads then they should be able to say no to them wholesale and not benefit from that. There are videos get-rich-quick-schemes uploaded that you need to search for that is another ballgame, it is easier to report them and having them removed because they are not giving them money.
And have you had to work on hundreds of components that you had to refactor before? It's a write only language.

> I’ve found what you said to be completely untrue unless you’re totally lazy.

Ah yes, the laziness argument. Let's not blame our tools but ourselves for the tools are always good and righteous. If only those darn C programmers weren't so lazy writing their memory leaks.
You want to see that. You immediately see how an element is styled without any hidden CSS that has applied styles through cascading. You immediately know what to change and where when you need to update it, without it indirectly affecting other elements. It's self-contained and you can copy paste it everywhere without any dependencies.
Understood. But...what's distrustworthy about that?