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Well, if msft wants to restore confidence: day one, ALL games from ALL their studios with top notch elf/linux builds (not a few games here and there, day 42389, hardly working and supported).

Well, this is exactly the same for Sony though.

Hard truth: what sells to the people the need of current powerful hardware is nearly only video games... Namely, if you want sell powerful hardware "en masse", you want beautiful 3D games.

Roughly speaking, most people not playing video games will be fine with a risc-v mini-computer. Ok, maybe with some vector instruction or video decoding hardware.
Why is HN not as popular as it used to be?
The other day i came across this site https://hn.curiosity.ai/#/trends. I didn't manage to work out properly how to use it but i analysed a handful of everyday terms. According to the graphs the amount of traffic on hn has experienced a couple of historic declines. this suggests that hn is far less popular then it used to be. I'm a relative newcomer and i like this site so this surprised me. Why is this the case? do you feel the quality of hn has gone down in recent years?
I get that for some classes of "local-only" apps like compilers (famous from a recent discussion on the same topic), network communication can be surprising and therefore feel unnecessary. But for an app whose sole purpose is sending and receiving lots of sensitive private data to Dropbox servers, who has the energy to be outraged that there is also some other anonymous data sent such as program crash info?

I mean Dropbox has the contents of my files should I find it creepy or unnecessary that they know my RAM amount or what the last exception was?
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Whoa this is pathetic coming from microsoft. Needs breaking into smaller pieces. Right along with amazon and google.
Every time this subject comes up people wheel out "the only obligation a company has is to its _shareholders_". Usually when they're complaining about DEI or social obligations being imposed on them.

Competence you can argue, but there is no guarantee that any company is more aligned with _the public as a whole_ than an elected government. It may turn out that they are in particular cases, but elections remain a real means for public to control governments that doesn't apply to companies.
This has nothing to do with "wokeism" or Disney.

George Lucas just saw making sci-fi movies as an effort to get reality as close as possible as the images he had in his mind. That meant seeing FX as an approximation, a constant compromise to reach the limits of what is possible to film. Lucasfilm were pioneers in digital FX and 3D for that very reason.

However, that also meant that each new work looked different from the previous, as real and digital FX diverged more and more with each passing year. He tried to rectify this by updating old works with new scenes and new effects. Had he stopped there, I reckon most people would have just plauded the novelty and moved on.

Unfortunately, while doing that, he also took the chance to modify what he saw as plot problems in the original movies - particularly the first, which was shot in isolation as a one-off, since there was no indication it would be as successful as it did (most actors thought it would be a one-and-done piece of trash, just to make a quick buck, particularly Sir Alex McGuinness). He made some dubious choices and the fandom never forgave him for that.
Does it say you have to ask author, though? Machine translations might take it as such, being only able to handle word-perfect transpositions that aren't guaranteed to make sense, but 本人 is not a typical first person pronoun in Chinese vocabulary.

I think it just means you'll have to make sure the transliteration is accepted by primary person - bearers of translated names. That'd make sense, CJK transliterations are all but canonical.
Notion is far from ideal but I use it for note taking and knowledge storing. I want clean UI, set of functionalities included out of the box, I don't want to be editing in Markdown, I like how the blocks are modular so that they can be rearranged on the screen, I like Notion automation(buttons) and databases. As long as you're not trying to "plan your whole life" in Notion it's a good product.
I can operate physical buttons without taking my eyes off the road.

I know where the volume knob is and I can easily grab it and turn it without looking away. If it's slow to respond I can go again and dial it back down, without looking away. Or I can just keep my hand on the dial and spin it back a bit.

With a digital screen I can't leave my hand on it without continually pressing the input, and if I want to put the volume down I have to look and see where that button is.

A physical control absolutely fixes this
Syncthing is so much better than Dropbox. There are no accounts, so it's much easier to set up syncing between multiple machines that may not belong to the same user, or to shared devices. I use it to sync family documents, work documents, for syncing Factorio save games, ...

I've also never had problems with CPU usage (Dropbox often caused high CPU usage in some cases)

The only downside is that background sync on iOS with Möbius Sync doesn't work reliably, but I think that is mainly because of how Apple cripples background processing. It does sync quickly if you manually start the app.

It's a bit challenging for new users (you need to understand machine keys, folder identifiers, ignore lists), but once it's set up it just works.
>I recall reading that some Black artist was told his song about wanting to kill the cops was not okay. Cops can kill Blacks. Blacks can't sing about how that makes them feel.

If a black person killed someone close to me and I released my newest single about how I want to murder black people would it get published? Doubt it.

Besides it's not like cops are allowed to kill black people either.
I guess it depends on the car, I don't need to look at the buttons in my car, at least not the ones on the steering wheel and the ones by the main console that are used for navigation (including a navigation wheel).

There are a few buttons I would need to look at but they are not something I would usually need while driving.
It's polite to be transparent about telemetry, but it's not like there is a requirement in any regulation anywhere to ask for explicit consent (e.g. similar to how GDPR works when PII is involved)
Wayland Explorer
https://github.com/nektro/zig-oauth2
You mentioned about you. Your thoughts, your opinions, your dogmas.

The society is far greater than you. Different people have (and have the right to have) different opinions.
It's obvious from the discussion that the GDPR isn't an issue here as there is no PII involved (as should be the case with all telemetry)
Kind of like that Shell report.

Money now is more important than any future consequences.
Having used it pretty heavily in a containerized desktop environment, I wouldn't use it in production for anything business critical. It's a mix of "there's too much unknown" under the hood, and "there's weird things that I can't reproduce". It hadn't really reached critical mass as of yet, so support from the community is lackluster.

I'd sooner pay a bucket for something like Tines to offload critical mechanisms, and then do the dirt-cheap stuff on n8n.
It depends what you mean by rare. In the UK it's a story because it's happened to Agatha Christie and Roald Dahl. Christie is the biggest selling fiction author of all time. Roald Dahl is among the biggest selling children's authors of all time—he's on a par with Tolkien for sales. So it's not that rare.
It's very simple. Their argument is that no company should ever challenge a government, that if this happens, the company is too powerful and should be broken apart.

Just to make this clear, in a normal democracy, anyone can challenge a government or institution, even separate individuals, as long as they have merit, legal or moral, to their claim and they can demonstrate it.

The user proposes that by default all claims of a corporation to a country are illegal and harmful and they should be punished and split apart for it.

So... if that's a valid argument, it suggests an unchecked government, with no comparable size organization to challenge it is better somehow. Governments are better. But are they?

Prove it.
Furious? Did I watch a different interview than everyone else?
Well, over last two decades my mp3s, flacs, avis, mkvs, pdfs, epubs and others moved between CDs, DVDs, HDDs to land at a ZFS array replicated to another ZFS array at the moment. The way I use them has changed over the years (cloud streaming from navidrome, kodi for local playing, azuracast for radio broadcast etc.), but the media files themselves are the same.
I think that's fine. To me that's no different than having a theatrical vs director's cut editions and what not. Even if ultimately the reason for the cut is censorship(see western films released in China) - it's still an official release, and not something edited later because someone got offended.
As usual, the headline does match the content; I see disappointment but no fury.
I find only the very first pic somehow appealing. I do not really see any "beauty" there.
Microsoft is not an average company.

And government is only as good as the people let them be.

Corporations are only as good as the regulation and competition.

In other word they are completely different from each other.
Stopped using Dropbox a long time ago. Their constant "marketing" emails were bordering on scammy "Your dropbox is almost full!" etc - I try not to deal with companies that play these games.
OAuth is too abstract and that’s why it’s bad.

I’m not a backend guy, for a hobby php site I’m trying to get Oauth2 with gmail free smtp, and the token refresh part to run on its own and even with packages like Phpmailer there’s no simple working copy/paste examples, just loads and loads of bits and pieces and outdated examples and small print about Google changed this or that… I mean wtf is the point of having a package that is supposed to abstract OAuth if you still end up having to dig for hours and having to figure OAuth2’s flow in detail?

I’m so disgusted I figured maybe I’ll do the password with 2fa on that email acct and be done with it even though OAuth shpuld be the better option.
Truly radical ideas have almost vanished from mainstream works. As a random example, the famous science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, published in 1961, contains passages that pretty openly advocate for cannibalism. Time Enough for Love by the same author presents incestuous relationships as positive and completely normal. I dare you to show me anything comparable to that in today's literature.
Blackberry. If you know, you know.
Not even the artist, if they are ashamed, they get depressed and depressed artist make good art, so it is an absolute win.
Anything you find better for complex layouts?
Will English supplant Dutch and German in a few generations?

In a way they are related, is it why people from those countries pick it up so easily?

Like kids growing up in metropolitan areas immersed in English only environments
Yes, turns out the things that greatly improves graphics rendering within non-exponential algorithmic where discovered quite fast. Either someone comes with a unconventional breakthrough, or we're stuck with heuristics optimizations and FSR/DSSL.
There's a number of issues with the creation of adulterated versions of classic works cause by their mere existence.

Unless you were already an expert in that particular topic, even knowing that the most accessible version is the censored one is difficult, since it's presumably not being published under the title "Classic Book: Current-Year Approved Edition", but just "Classic Book".

The current dominance of streaming services also means that for most people the newest version may effectively be the only version that exists.

And then there's the even worse practice of replacing version even for people who bought the original.

In theory this could be done correctly. Products would announce that they're an edited version (and name the editor), and whatever digital storefront would enable people interested in the original to view it at no additional cost. But I don't trust modern platforms to do either of these things.

Semi-related: Any video game developer that allows rolling back their game to any past version as a standard feature of their launcher deserves praise for this. And those whose remasters can be configured to be played exactly as the original should the user so wish.
Which would have never happened if the car had normal physical controls for that function. Mine has a little rocker on the wiper stalk.
I don't know if I'd use words like 'feel like they deserve'. I'd rather use 'feel like it isn't possible because somebody said so'. It evidently is possible technically and people (IMHO correctly) are fed up with studios not being able politically to work together to provide a good service - IOW they vote with their wallets.
https://nitter.net/FedeItaliano76/status/1650871570137600000
I remember when Dropbox was new and it was possibly the only solution I could find to seamlessly sync files on multiple computers (or at least the only one I knew about).

There was this "Dropbox" folder in your home folder, and anything put in there would show up in the home folder on your other computer or operating system or eventually even your phone. I also knew about Apple File Sharing and it was basically that but much more intuitive and worked on separate networks and on Windows (maybe Dropbox was inspired by AFS and the write-only "Drop Box"). Drop Box just worked, and to less tech-savvy younger me that was the only thing that mattered.

Now we have 300+ other programs which can do the same thing, and I use Git/Github for syncing and woof/AirDrop for individual files, so no Dropbox for me. And probably not for most technical users either.

But the average non tech-savvy user still needs a cross-platform service which "just works". And I'm sure their are alternatives which also "just work", but Dropbox is popular, and they don't care about the telemetry.
All while movie-goers watch TikTok during the movie. Maybe the movies are 3 hours now because you only watch 1 hour 30 minutes of it anyway?
Your [1] <https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6167> is a really interesting choice for examining the use of "emergence" in the broad among quantum gravity researchers.

I think looking down to the start of §6 of your [1] is even more fruitful than §2.2:

"... novel form of dynamics that can be applied to a unique system -- the universe as a whole [--] that is neither quantum mechanics nor general relativity[,] from which quantum physics and space-time emerge as approximate descriptions of systems that may be regarded to a sufficient degree of approximation as isolated subsystems."

Or, more succintly and focusing on the gravitational content, "the Einstein Field Equations may be derived for some part(s) of a universe described by our theory", with the additional constraint, "but our theory cannot be derived from General Relativity".

Compare with Newton's gravitation and its ability to be derived in the weak field, low speed limit of General Relativity (and that physically interesting generally curved spacetimes have large regions that are effectively flat).

Generalizing, a theory of gravity is emergent when its fundamental equation(s) can be derived from a different dynamical theory, and the derivation is a one-way street.

However, "emergent" gets used in a different sense only a few paragraphs later in [1]: "Time reversal invariance is amongst the symmetries that must emerge from the coarse graining that neglects the unique identity of each event. From our perspective fundamental physics is time asymmetric and the apparent time symmetry of the laws of nature is approximate and emergent."

In this case they are not strictly speaking deriving time symmetry from their dynamical theory, but rather they are claiming that averaging the behaviour of their theory across some region(s) matches observation.
America’s first IVF baby is pitching a way to pick the DNA of your kids
Well, I'm not wheeling out any of that. Politicians are only truly obligated to their sponsors as well, but they won't say that out loud. Does this make things better?

In truth, a government also depends on its voters, and a company also depends on its customers. But none of this what I'm talking about. I'm talking about governments implementing FORCE on corporations because they're big enough to be heard and seen and to challenge them. Is that good? Why?

Take a country like Russia where only what Putin says matters, everyone else is his pawn, even if on paper they may be billionaires holding big companies. Is that an improvement over having genuine corporate voices making their point?
Is there a threat here, though? Even veiled, I don't see more here than "well we'll take our ball and go home", and the actual words are closer to "we and our friends will have to think harder about bringing in more balls".

An actual threat might be closer to "Nice independent nuclear deterrent you got there, be a pity if we stopped supplying security patches for Windows for Warships…"

(But I absolutely agree that any company "too big to fail" should be treated as a potential disaster waiting to happen, and broken apart accordingly; even when I happen to like them or their work, that big is too big).
I don’t see how OO is at fault here, though.
Did they remove Tropic Thunder too?
Lucas hasn't shown any real passion or talent since Star Wars IV. Except perhaps for pitching ideas for the Indy films. He thankfully relegated the V and VI to other directors and screenwriters (even for IV, a lot of his contributions were cringe, and rightfully resisted by the rest of the crew). And let's not talk about the prequels (Jar Jar and midichlorians anyone? Not to mention his choice of protagonist).

My take is that he became complacent with the big money rolling in after the first Star Wars, and never had much to show for afterwards or subsequently cared for movies that much. Contrast this with his pal Spielberg who churned out great film after great film, and continued mastering his craft. Lucas is a "director" who made four movies and stooped for two decades when he made it big. That says it all about his "passion" or lack thereof.

Ah, wait. He did found a great passion in the early 80s: merchandise.
I wasn't about to give socialists the benefit of the doubt, especially not in this thread where people actually created sockpuppet accounts just to call me a "bolsonaro minion" who needs to move to Afghanistan. You seem to be posting in good faith though.

I believe socialism inevitably leads to oppressive totalitarian states. Simply because nobody wants to work for no reward. People must be forced into such slavery and that's inevitably what happens. It's what's happened every time it was tried. Because the alternative is starvation.

The only way that could possibly work is if nobody had to work. That's only possible if there's abundance instead of scarcity. If there's no scarcity, then there is no need to economize. In other words, real socialism is actually a fully automated economy-less post-scarcity society.

Brazil is so ridiculously far from that ideal that it's comical to even suggest implanting socialism here. Comical. The damage caused by that idea is worse than literal nazis roaming free. These people have infiltrated every school, every university.
If it was any good they'd be charging for it. /s but there are plenty of people that actually think it.
I can move my left hand down to leg height, and feel 4 buttons and a jog dial (and that's for things that aren't on the steering wheel). I know what all of them do. I don't need to look. The menus are at eye level so I don't need to look away from the road. This sort of thing should not be changed to touchscreens.
Yeah, added :)

bin/rails generate migration CreateChats user:references
bin/rails generate migration CreateMessages chat:references role:integer content:string

Will need to add null: false and default: 0 on the enum manually if you so desire as Rails apparently doesn't support generating with those options.

https://gist.github.com/alexrudall/cb5ee1e109353ef358adb4e66...
In Spector.js it looks like the demo is using a very small number of draw calls, and those can sometimes have hundreds of thousands of triangles. For old low-end mobile GPUs this might start to become a problem, but it's nothing for the last 20 years of desktop GPUs.

In any case, it looks like a good base for further optimisation to ignore offscreen UI elements early (e.g. not sure if egui has something like Dear ImGui's ListClipper).
The word "censorship" has gotten frivolous, imo.

I don't claim any specific boundaries for the term, but... there are more angles to this than censorship. Spielberg is from perhaps the most commercial art form, cinema. They make Airplane cuts, TV cuts, video cuts. They remaster the score, cut regional releases... These are all commercially oriented "censorship," arguably. Cinema is an art form that's literally pitched to investors and financiers. Purity and absolutes don't exist here.

Meanwhile... Books have come in editions since printing. Before that, stories evolved too. Especially for important or really old texts, we're always interested in "The Original." That tends to be when the history matters to us more than the story. That's somewhat at odds with stories "Living." We have stories today that originated milenia ago in forgotten civilisations. They've been written countless times.

The original Nancy Drew may be an important cultural artefact. But, solving mysteries by racial profiling or otherwise violating "modern sensibilities" makes it a dead story. Revising additions keeps Nancy Drew suitable reading material for 9 year olds, which is what being a living story means here.

Anyway... I'm taking the dissident position. I do like and want the raw, "uncensored" cuts. I want Reservoir Dogs. I want even edgier materials that large, centralised studios

OTOH, I have no hard objection to releasing updated editions that reflect updated morals. The freedom & openness obligation that we have is to keep the original intact and available. Intellectual property tends to be the barrier to this, not censorship.

It's often fine to rewrite, recut. In fact, it can keep art alive. Guns and Roses pulled a track from an old album, because it had bigoted lyrics. IDK why exactly they "censored" the album, but my guess is that the band doesn't want to sell the album like that anymore... they definitely don't want to play it anymore. Maybe social norms changed. Maybe Axl changed. What seemed edgy and rebellious to 20 year old Axl just seems asshole now.

"Anti-Censorship" is a failing paradigm, currently.

Is moderating HN or a subreddit censorship? Is having a a newsroom editor censorship? IMO it's a lot more about who makes the decision than what they do. If GnR revise an album, IMO it's ridiculous to call it censorship. Same for having moderation on HN, revised editions of children's books etc.

Censorship is a feature of power and monopoly. A subreddit does not have power to "censor," just moderate. Facebook or Twitter's moderation policies are censorious by default. You can't have global-scale, medium-wide content policies that are not censorship.
Cryptocurrency Ethereum has slashed its energy use by 99.99 per cent
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