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> It really makes me think Nintendo has an untapped market here to sell a little box you plug into your PC that plays switch games

Games that are more locked down and walled than Apple products, that run 30fps on the oldest hardware possible in 2023, made by a company that actively alienates its own fanbase with aggressive copyright claims over the silliest things?

No thanks. Really, you can keep them out of the PC market.
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Has there been a time between 2014 and now where there wasn't an active war somewhere?
> the kernel had an optimized strncpy() routine where instead of copying a single byte at a time and stopping when it saw a zero (NUL), it was doing word-sized strides and stopping whenever the word contained a NUL. This also meant that there could be extra bytes copied after the NUL.

I'm confused. That's not my understanding of what strncpy does, and that behavior is not fine for C use cases.

My man page says:

] The stpncpy() and strncpy() functions copy at most len characters from src into dst. If src is less than len characters long, the remainder of dst is filled with ‘\0’ characters.

and the fallback kernel implementation at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/lib/string.c#L... does that.

So 1) it does not stop when it sees a NUL - it keeps writing NULs until it reaches the count, and 2) if it copies extra bytes it's supposed to then overwrite them with NULs.
It would be like figuring out what Steve Job, Usain Bolt, or Killian Jornet do. It would be interesting and helpful, but you will not be able to replicate it by following a recipe.

Being exceptional is, by definition, exceptional.
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> Goto is a perfectly good command in moderation. So, the first instance of “Considered Harmful” was harmful

You're fighting yesterday's battle, and you're siding with the losing side. The ideas from this article have been the trend for new programming language innovations for several decades now, and it has yet to cause any harm.
> something maybe like Git, most immediately comes to mind, as an example of the de-facto standard for distributed VCS basically since … 1995 when Linus decided to create it?

hot take. might be the most popular, maybe even by a large margin, but I think you'll find a good chunk of people who have actually tried different VCSs don't think it's the best.
That’s not at all equivalent to just plugging a box sold by Nintendo however which was the point I was making. Pirating is an involved process. The fact it exists doesn’t at all make a business case as the parent comment was implying especially considering that PC gaming is already a niche market.
I'm guessing this is GPT3? Because GPT4 says look it up yourself. When I did the whole scene doesn't seem to exist in the book. In other words, this seems to be a hallucination.

When I repeat the experiment with Lord of the Rings and a scene that does exist, it spits it out word for word correct.
Please enter a plead - Not guilty by reason of its a prank bro.
I think I feel sick today.. probably need the day off.
> just the culture of a company focussed on creating a curated experience

Core product on core platform struggles to reach playable FPS at launch. A "curated experience" is waaaay different than this.
> People complaining about the Switch being underpowered are expecting PS5 level performance on a mobile device.

Not really. If you can get better performance emulating a newly released game on the Steam Deck, then the complaints have merit. (See Pokemon Scarlet and Violet for instance.)
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what’s the best way to start with zelda, if you’re on iphone or mac? i can’t reallly get a console.
I haven't found any info on how it runs on the 1st gen Switch.

All of the reviews, including the Digital Foundry one were playing it on the OLED model, which - including the 2nd gen one, have higher clock rates and improved many FPS dips in BOTW.
Clearly there are some red flags, like being terrified of Covid. This person is likely high in neuroticism.
What's that got to do with The Verge? Jackshit.
There is the pg_hint_plan extension that gives most of what you would want in a hinting system.

I think a better fix lies in the direction of making queries more of a first class object with options to nail down plans, add custom logic to pick plans dependent on parameter values, etc.
There is a fork with that available.

as posted below:

For anyone that wants a physical version, SwissMicros makes a calculator based off of Free42: https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42

That website mentions that they use decimal floating point. Since free42 is licensed under gpl3, they have released the source.

https://github.com/swissmicros/DM42PGM/tree/master/lib

https://github.com/swissmicros/free42/tree/master/inteldecim...

They use Intel's library for decimal floating point: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-decimal-floa...

It's still not the real HP-42S with its quirks, but it's nice to have decimal floating point operations.
Lineage may have worked a few years after release. But in the 2020s the old nexus tablet is just too outdated. Can no longer play even YouTube videos well :(

Got a cheap fire tablet to replace it. At some point I'll look at switching that to lineage to get out of Amazon's weird launcher and app store.
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I have a similar relationship with gaming. BOTW and Dark Souls are my favorite games of all time, but I've never gotten around to finish them.
Well it worked out better than somebody who tried to repeat the telephone book stunt in the Sopranos (Phil Leotardo shoots somebody through a telephone book at close range to make his point about next time)

Youtuber forgot it was a tv stunt.
OTOH, I'm still waiting for any pen-enabled Android apps that manage to catch up with XP Tablet PC Edition 2004 in terms of usability and feature set, let alone anything made for iPads (or Windows 8/10/11). Even desktop Linux is doing fractionally less worse.
The new Sony 1 V will cost 1.4kEUR, not much less. Phones in general got expansive. (The Samsung Fold 4 is at 1.3 to 1.2kEUR)
That's assuming there wasn't also anything like crypto involved as a means of transferring value.
I do get that it felt a bit out of place initially, but BOTW has 4 massive mechanical laser-shooting beasts, along with a whole fleet of spider-crawling laser robots and helicopter laser robots... The motorcycle doesn't feel so out of place in that context. But I'll admit, I haven't played many previous Zelda games.

Also, the bike is only unlocked after all the divine beasts, when the game is already "over" and you're just trying to complete all the shrines and quests. I'm so happy to have it in order to help me get around faster for those things.

But yeah, I can't deny it felt weird at first :)
Governments at least are elected and have a lot of checks and balances imposed on them. Law is deliberately more relaxed on the other direction because people doesn’t have the same power a government has.

Which brings up an interesting question - should these checks and balances be proportional to power? In that a corporation like Twitter or Google, that has immense power over society, should have the same kind of burdensome regulation?
How much is a smidgen?
It's in the DLC after you rebeat all of the blights and a new super boss.
I believe there is nobody that can come up with a definition of a threat that this would be warranted.
It's a DLC :)
I remember first seeing the video of the guy crashing his plane. It's one of the rare times I opened up yt-dlp just to download the video and archive it, because I was expecting him to take down the video after sufficiently many people caught on to the act.

While a maximum of 20 years prison sounds rather harsh, intentionally crashing a plane is no joke or laughing matter. It's unfortunate that things had to end this way. The FAA does not mess around.
Yeah, we're already seeing it with SoCs: 3D stacking. The challenge will be getting them cooled.
So then, leaving it off the headline, and including something like your comment as a hefty qualifier when mentioning it in the article would be a way to present that aspect more honestly and without sensationalising it?
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> How many houses did investors build vs how many houses did the government build…

Strictly speaking the answer is zero and zero. They use the money they have to have construction workers build the houses.

> from the money they actually took from somebody else?

Is this supposed to imply someone is taking money from others and the other does not? I know the view that government taxes is basically theft, and I think this view is ludicrous: citizen get that back in the form of infrastructure and public services, and in a functioning democracy it's basically their collective will that decided how to allocate that money. (How functioning the democracy really is is another debate.)

Investors on the other hand… well there are two kinds: those who worked for their money, and those who took it from workers. And it's a spectrum too, it depends how much of your income comes from your work, and how much comes from your possessions. Now I can guess most small landlords like yourself probably paid their houses with money they earned through actual work. Some even have constructed the houses themselves. But if that Second Thought video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1m7WmKJZyQ has any accuracy the majority of rented houses are rented by big landlords, and those definitely did not earn their money through their own work (the clerks that work under them do, but they don't own the houses and are paid a meagre salary, compared to the renting money they manage).

I can't speak for government constructed houses, but given the above, your average investor-owned house was constructed or bought with money that was taken from people working for the investor. (Well strictly speaking the worker creates value for their boss, which gives a salary in return, but there's always a difference between value created and salary returned. That difference is the exploitation/theft part. And I'm glossing over the fact that managing a company is valuable work unto itself.)

> And which houses are nicer, safer and better maintained?

Am I supposed to answer "the investor's houses"? A citation is needed for that answer, and it'd better control for when the house is build (construction norms tend to evolve over time), how much it actually cost, and in some cases who it actually cost. Suburbian houses may be nice for instance, but the car dependency and the unsustainable infrastructure costs definitely are not.
The Switch combines lower powered A57 (a soc from..2012 on a 20nm process) with a Maxwell GPU (9+ years old at this point)

Honestly this is the time to start working on a Switch successor, they could easily more than double the current compute capabilities while keeping the same or lower power envelope.

That doesn't even counts the untapped bonuses from much higher memory speeds.

I would instantly buy this, we would be looking at mobile machines more powerful than a PS4 Pro which is imho more than enough for the type of console.

Nintendo doesn't even need to build it on the latest state of the art TSMC process, even the 5nm should be enough.
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Got a regular Note10, my battery is basically dying slowly. Yes, I used battery helper tools to regularly only charge to 80%...
>(who came highly recommended by a neighbor whose house she sold)

I had a neighbor once tell me how much they loved their agent, and before I could stop myself I blurted out "I can't believe they stayed sober long enough to get your deal done!" It's a sad reality that while agents get to know who is trustworthy / skilled, because we deal with each other every day, the public seldom really gets the whole picture. I think it's worse in large metro areas because there are thousands of agents - so doing your research is hard. I assure you - national brands have very little to do with quality either.

If I'm being really crass - I find a lot of people pick their agents like it is a beauty contest. They pick based on age, looks, they go to the same church we do, our kids are at the same school, etc. And for a lot of people, whether they feel good about the agent has more to do with if they are now "friends" then if there was actually a successful business outcome.
People hold the phone vertically when they shoot videos of other people, and other people happen to be vertical. They can see each other (aspect ratio)^2 times larger: more pixel, and bigger on screen.
Lenovo has the M14 series of portable monitors, which is fairly cheap.
So, like a Renault Twizy, but ugly. Probably unsafe as well.
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Exactly. The smart criminals are the ones not in jail (yet).
While Dijkstra was arguing against jmp instructions other people were trying to get a FORTRAN compiler to execute out of 32k of core memory.
It’s not really like other Zelda games, nor really an RPG. It gives you lots of freedom and bodily autonomy, but personally I found it very hard to piece together an interesting experience out of the (admittedly very flexible) constituent parts. It’s an extremely good physical simulation of a world I struggled to care one iota about, and there were so few ways to express yourself as a character that you can’t really tell your own story in your head. I sometimes feel similarly about the Assassin’s Creed games - what a lovely engine, that gives you this unique feeling of freedom even within a huge, teeming city, but I wish somebody would make a different game with it. I don’t think you’d enjoy it coming from western RPGs, with slightly meatier worlds and a more developed sense of self. It’s more like Minecraft, if anything.
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For sure. When you first play BotW it's somehow like, oh yeah, I get it now, this is what Zelda was supposed to be all along. More than that even, it's like the platonic ideal of a video game.
This might be why i've never understood the Burnout that seems to be rife in the Tech industry, is it USA centric?

As an Australian developer, I am fortunate to receive 25 days of annual leave along with 10 public holidays, and I make sure to use every single one of them.

Whether it's for international travel or exploring different parts of Australia, I prioritise spending time outdoors, camping, and hiking for a few days.

During these periods, I am disconnected from screens and the internet. In fact, even if I wanted to be online, there is no signal in the majority of national parks or campgrounds which is a great bonus..
one have to ask, if this is A) so good people want it, and B) viable, then why haven't this existed yet with the current way of writing news?
No, BotW is more like a theme park than a game, and I don't understand the love for it.

The game is sparse and sterile, the characters are boring and generic, the story/dialogue is cringe inducing, the world is empty and plain, and there's nothing to do.

It borrows heavily from open world game tropes, and it doesn't add anything. Once you've played about 5-6 hours you've seen the entire game, just not all of its permutations.

This is the first game where I've had a real disagreement with everyone else about its fun factor. Previously I was extremely disappointed in Diablo 3, but there were plenty of people who understood and agreed with my sentiments quite vocally.

With BotW it's like people are playing a different game, or they're somehow mentally wired differently. I sincerely don't understand what happened there. I'm usually very good at acknowledging high quality games, even if I don't personally like them... BotW is not a great game, it's mediocre at best.
According to Digital Foundry [0], the game is a perfectly stable 30fps the vast majority of the time

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLlZBwN_-C4
>> 0 to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds

>> 1/4-mile in 12.214 seconds

Those numbers are not to be sniffed at. That’s quite a lot sharper than say an Audi S3 (a quick car that’s still entirely conventional for commuting)
I agree with the poster in that I wouldn't want to live in a cult like society or a socialist commune. The question is: "Why can socialists not develop a more desirable communal order under purely voluntary conditions?"

Naturally, under market forces those socialists would pursue these more desirable arrangements.

>No, it means that as soon as there is a laissez-faire that allow wolves eating sheep, it's better to be a wolf even if your ideal was to be a sheep.

Most analogies are problematic, but this one is especially so. Voluntary association is equated with "wolves eating sheep" or violence. While violent repression of free exchange is somehow peaceful. From that point I'd expect an invocation of the (widely debunked) labor theory of value, followed by a sloppy generalization claiming free exchange is exploitative in all cases.

The well known analogy of wolves and sheep is, "Democracy is like two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner"

At least far back as Plato, the problem of the tyranny of the majority has been raised. Perhaps this is the more desirable outcome?
By not caring about how any random website/app/whatever will survive, and only caring about the ones that add value to me.

I am not saying it makes total sense or is perfectly thought through, but I am asking myself for example, how would it be like if I never used/watched this service/app/creator/whatever ever again? Would I feel I lose something, would I care about it? I am not saying just finding some similar alternative, but about the experience itself regardless of alternatives.

Maybe others think differently, but for me, a vast majority of what I may watch on the internet is not really adding value to me and could just easily do without. To the ones that do add value, I support them, but in reasonable ways. If I do not feel it is reasonable, then I do not, and sad truth is that, for me at least, ads as implemented in most places create a bigger distraction than my incentive to support.

One example, I did not mind facebook's ads until facebook got over aggressive in sending me "suggestions" for various meme groups. It was unusable for me after that point. Then, I decided to use FB purity to get read of all ads and suggestions. If facebook had not done that, then I would have continued fine with its normal ads, one of the few ads that I have actually found useful was in facebook. But the alternative to removing the ads was not just seeing the ads after the change, the alternative was to stop using facebook (I have a very curated home page in facebook and unfollow 99% of my friends there) which is sadly not an option right now due to various social factors. Or maybe disabling the facebook feed itself somehow.

Another example is a supposedly private search engine. It had a banner to disable ads to support it, which I tried but then I just had to scroll down to see the first real results after the ads every time I was searching for something, which was non-sense and very annoying. I tried to find a way to donate or sth but there was no such option, so I gave up trying to support that. Maybe I move to another private search engine some point. I am not sure if I should just tolerate scrolling down to see the results everytime, but if there is a private search engine that uses ads in a better way I would be fine using that.

And as much as it is weird in our times, there are websites that do not depend on ads. For example I use bandcamp to buy the music I like, and with buying my music from there I support both the musicians and the website/service itself.

Other than that, I do subscribe/support/donate/buy services/apps etc that add value to me, even if I am not required to do so to use them freely and non-disruptively. I have even paid for games years after I actually played them through pirate versions, because before I did not have the money and I felt they deserved it. I guess if people do more or less something like that, according to each one's financial abilities, everybody will be happy or sth, and things that offer value to an adequate amount of people will be ok.
Sure, more people writing and running more code that they understand less will work out just fine.
Bike lanes are popular here in Ireland and, boy, let’s talk about weather…

Now, seriously, we don’t get much snow (to the point 10cm halts a city) but we do more than a fair share of cold rain and gusty wind.
Furthermore, why does a 2023 released game, in development since 2018, run like utter garbage on said spec hardware that is orders of magnitude more performant than last years specs ...
It's excellent for some popular games, decent at many others, and garbage at some.
They were not rude. You were not a little cheeky.
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Yes, they have much more work now, that is the point.

Does it pays less on per page basis? It mostly does (but it highly depends on the type of translations: legal, medical, etc have the same fees) but it is more than compensated by being able to churn much more work by focusing on reviewing and interpreting the author's meaning and context.
Did I get this right that this is just a paid API release - no public code/model available?
Many control flow instructions can be expressed as other instructions. The idea of the article was to promote higher level, less ambiguous and less ubiquitous instructions.

Sure, you can express a for-loop in terms of goto. But when you read a for-loop, there are many things you're guaranteed won't happen that could with a goto. In that sense, it takes less attention to make a good for-loop. And a for-loop iterating over a collection also takes less attention than one with a manually-crafted iteration check.

That's the whole point of the article: lower-level instructions should be wrapped in higher-level instruction, more specialized and with less footguns.
It takes a long time to move production facilities.

Even if the original company decides to move production to another facility, it can take 6-12 months to run test batches, tests and submit it all to the FDA for approval.

I’m not sure drug companies need much incentive to not have supply issues. That’s lost sales.

If you dig into the actual causes it’s usually because of DEA limits (Adderal) or massive off-label use (Wegovy) or the fact that the drug is generic and the margins as so small nobody is all that interested in selling it.
This reminded me that after 30 years I need to change batteries on mine.
I don’t actually mind the 1k price tags. If I use it daily for years that’s fair play.

I do try to not drop it on day one though…