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You should play Dragon Age: Origins. It's a lot tighter, way less filler. I look at these games with a million copy-paste quest markers and "points of interest" and just know there's little actual substance there.

Or you can play Baldur's Gate 3 like everyone else is now :) The DnD systems take a bit of getting used to. The game is an excellent story-telling experience, despite that ("despite" in my opinion).
When Signal becomes illegal in, say, the UK, will you support the extradition of Signal developers to the UK simply because they're knowingly breaking the law? At what point does it matter what's right?
Could also just be a battery lifetime issue? 8 years is a long time. If they made it rechargeable, they might still need to replace it every 8 years anyway just for safety.
https://github.com/minio/console#minio-console is AGPL if that aligns with your needs
I guess you mean 3D location. Now I’m wondering how fast the temperature change during dive/rise.
Kotor 2 was Obsidian, not BioWare.
Provided you use mods and community patches, sure. I had to replay all of Nar Shaddaa, and kept getting the bug where it's skipping all the dialogue. (Also, I felt my ending was underwhelming.)
In no particular order:

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Code Complete

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

The Pragmatic Programmer
Nintendo is the same as ~ever.
Maybe wishful thinking, but the ideal for me would be reverting back to small forums that are dedicated to specific topics. This would easier to moderate and more decentralized than the current model of only using a handful of social media sites.
Mankind Divided was developed by Eidos Montreal, not Bioware.
I've been doing more or less this with a small pocket size notebook since October. I admit that I initially fell for the romance of the idea and made an impulse purchase, but started to use them a couple of weeks after I bought them.

I tried different formats and pre-planning and have basically made peace with my reality, that I don't know what I'll be doing in it on any given day. So I operate like a log, whatever is next comes next. Sequentially. But I'll also jump to a page, or two-page spread, for notes on a particular project.

Here's what I use:

Moleskine Cahier Journal, Soft Cover, Pocket (3.5" x 5.5") Dotted, Black, 64 Pages (Set of 3) https://a.co/d/9jXRxNt

I also use a 4 color flexion erasable pen, but I can't recommend that since you're liable to lose all your notes if you leave it in a hot car. Not so bad though, it comes back if you stick it in the freezer. No joke.
There’s no competitor to Nvidia for the next 10 years.

They’ve got a monopoly. And with AI’s coming explosion, I’d wager 50/50 odds Jensen becomes the world’s first trillionaire.
The 970 was amazing for gaming; the 3.5GB problem was just for CUDA.
Most people have no understanding of housing economics. Look at Rent Control, the idea that you can make housing more affordable by making it illegal to charge higher prices. People vote for this stuff and then act shocked when there is no affordable housing available. I guess supply and demand isn't taught in school any more.
I got the same thing and am very confused. They are the ones generating the image. Why did they generate porn if they don't allow it? Also apparently clothed teenagers are now pornographic? I think their image analysis needs some work.
Very much this. It is actually a real scandal that realtors make a share of the sale as opposed to a flat fee. The paperwork and all is the same regardless of if it's a condo or a mansion.
Not a Bioware game. They have no involvement with that franchise at all.
I dunno, if you're an adult who moves from India to America, you're not going to be speaking Hindi much (unless you speak it at home, to be fair). You'll be conducting your life entirely in English. And if you move to the States for university then you'll be doing academics in English too. You'll easily achieve thousands of hours of practice in this way.

While most people don't have time to put that many hours into studying a second language outside of a country where it's the native tongue, many immigrants have no choice but to immerse themselves in a new language just by the default behavior of living their life in a new country that doesn't speak their first language.

Yes, such immigrants will always be a few thousand hours behind people who started in America, but surely there's some plateau where the improvements become marginal. I don't think the critical period advantage is about the early volume of hours so much as the age period when they're spent - i.e. if you compare someone who moves at 20 vs. 40, the results will be the same, but both will be worse than someone who moved at 8.
The purpose of kicking puppies is not embedded in the concept of a Nike sneaker.
Who said any of that? I mean our elected government (US and Canada alike) is evidently unwilling to enact & enforce toothsome antitrust. And that's a source of a huge portion of our bigger problems. Outsized influence by a small number of voices, and a toxic cycle of using the proceeds to buy more deregulation via political donation.
I agree. And furthermore, I think these binary labels for personality traits facilitate dehumanization. Labeling somebody a narcissist, psychopath, etc is often a prelude to applying a totally different ethical standard when dealing with that person; e.g. attacking them in vicious ways they wouldn't normally consider as acceptable, but this time it's okay because that person is a narcissist..

It may sometimes be necessary to do this, but I think it's important to be very careful when doing so, particularly when somebody is judging a situation they're personally involved with. Nobody is a truly impartial judge of others, and when somebody has a personal stake in the dispute the biases are even stronger. Applying a dehumanizing clinical label to people I can't get along with could be an easy (ego-preserving) way to contextualize a dispute, but if I'm personally involved in the dispute then my ability to impartially analyze and categorize that person has been compromised. And if my analysis of that person is incorrect, then I've sabotaged myself by miscategorizing that other person.
People here are obviously working backwards from a strong desire to work from home. It's not worth your time to take the specific arguments literally or seriously. It's a community of severe introverts I guess, I don't consider it representative of the greater culture.
Creating a shoe specifically designed for kicking puppies with enhanced puppy kicking features and instructions on how to kick puppies with said shoe
MDK2
Personally this seems extremely obvious. Not sure we need a new architecture name to describe it.
Except the infamously underwhelming ending, ME3 was excellent.
I feel that setting up the infrastructure to specifically exclude certain “luxury” foods would not only be a giant waste of money, but weirdly cruel and punitive.

Just give people the resources to buy what they need.
Working in-office and I still use Zoom pretty regularly. I don't think this negates it's value as a tool...
Are you kidding? The third title in their famous Baldur's Gate series just came out and everyone is talking about it. It's being called a triumph of PC gaming and a return to form.

Oh wait. They only made the first two. (The answer to your question is ME1)
That's a very big "what if". What data could demonstrate that to be true or false?
Software IS writing. Software IS literature. You might disagree right now but that’s what it is.
I wouldn't be surprised if crypto makes up a good chunk of their cash right now. They have definitely stepped up their hacking attempts in the last decade.
The developers of Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, Matrix, Tor, and BitTorrent would also be liable under this logic.
> I would say Intel likely keeps pushing, but I'm less convinced they can actually make much headway in the near future.

It seems that Intel is making great headway on their fabs and may somehow pull off 5 nodes in 4 years. Intel 3 is entering high volume production soon and according to Gelsinger 20A is 6 months ahead of schedule and planned for H2 2024.

If they do pull this off and regain leadership that would change outlook.
BioWare had nothing to do with Makind Divided or Human Revolution.
That's a good summary, thanks. I think AI-generated will lead to actual child porn not making financial sense (hopefully, anyway). I also don't think that the "whetting the appetite" argument is true, from other areas I've seen (eg playing violent games doesn't lead you to becoming a murderer), but I have no data on that.
Given that Zoom is paid for monthly but accrues costs by the use, maybe they want to lower the average use of the product to save money. Like how people subscribed to HBO just for GoT.
Baldur’s Gate 2, which is also BioWare’s best game.
Afaik, he is not relevant in Germany, but for some reason Americans tend to take him seriously.
This is how anti-money laundering laws, bank account closures and money freeze work.

Any compliance officer, as long as they follow the rulebook, can decide to freeze your account on mere suspicion. How the law is written, they do not need to justify their actions any way, there is no lower threshold for suspicious activity, where a suspicion can be anything. To make matter more complex, compliance staff members, or anyone, are not allowed to tell about this to the customer because of “tip off” risk. In fact it is a criminal act to tip off money launderers. Any freeze can last as long as is needed for “investigation” which does not need to be an investigation by authorities.

And oh boy, this gets abused.
I sold 600C for this Friday an hour or so before earnings. Free money with 168% IV.
> How exactly do we square this with freedom of speech

Freedom of speech in the US is not, and never has been, absolute. There is all sorts of speech that is illegal to engage in.

> That is a serious question, how come he was able to get away?

He was absolutely investigated for ITAR violations, but the government elected not to press charges in the end. I forget why they made that decision, but I think it was a combination of the book being published only in the US at the time (which was undeniably legal) plus the huge amount of pressure -- especially public ridicule -- from the hacker community about the ridiculousness of the ITAR regulations.
Interestingly Huberman talks about double breath in, then long breath out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdhqBGqiMc
> Aren't contract clauses that relate to the distribution of material preempted by the copyright act?

Generally, no. It's possible for there to be interactions in some cases, but the Copyright Act wouldn't generally preempt contract terms. (Its closer to the other way around, in that—to the extent copyright rights exist that could otherwise be enforced—a relevant contract will generally limit enforcement and recover to breach of contract rather than bare copyright action.)
Adoption and contribution are not aligned. Cue xkcd so cliche by now I don't even need to link to it.

The OSS Community is full of projects that are both immensely popular and yet maintained by individuals or very small numbers of contributors.
> We are doing everything we can to ensure the process is handled with empathy, respect, and clear communication.

Zero mention of what these employees are getting in terms of severance. Passing mention that there are “other roles in other studios”. Spends the rest of the announcement talking about what it means for the games in development, doesn’t even mention the people involved again
The list you need to process is large enough that it would be prohibitive to put it all in memory at once. Furthermore you do not start knowing things like how many primes to look at. Therefore generating and dealing with them iteratively makes for simple code and a lot fewer headaches.
The section starting at 827 is what I'm currently using, but it just covers the basics. Somewhere in there is also the kiosk launch script to run Chromium without breaking the card. If you use apache you'll need to add a service to create the logfile though.

https://github.com/EternityForest/KaithemAutomation/blob/dev...
Switzerland is not EU nor Euro member, what do they have to do with it? Why not Italy with its 134% GDP debt?

>Germany's Lindner said it had become habit for the state to always rush to the rescue with borrowed money and that had to stop.

No shit. Bit late to figure that one out, eh? Hindsight 20/20.

>"Otherwise, Germany will have to raise taxes to finance the interest on the debts of the past. That would strangle the economy," Lindner said.

Oh, so first you print free money and dump it into inflating assets making the rich obscenely rich, and now Joe Schmoe will have to be taxed to pay for it?

So that's how trickle down at works. Privatize the winnings, socialize the losses.
You just described Obsidian. Its UX atop .md files is simply amazing.
Good news, they've got several other, better RPGs :)
I’ve heard rumors Microsoft was going to buy BioWare from EA, but when that fell through, they pursued Activision instead.

It’s too bad. With MSFT they wouldn’t have had to do this.
It's not the same, but the most recent games aren't total disasters IMO. I liked the character story quests in SW: The Old Republic, for example -- Jedi Knight's storyline was enjoyable. (Plus the game is f2p.)
A tangent to this I've been thinking about quite a bit is how big a moat drivers are to the software/hardware ecosystem.

They're a major moat/hurdle (depending on your perspective) for operating systems, new hardware platforms, graphics cards, custom chips, and more.

It's interesting to think that we're not _that_ far from being able to generate decent drivers for things on the fly with the latest code gen advancements. Relevant to this, that could reduce the monopolies here, but perhaps as interesting is we can have more new complete OSes with more resources allocated to the user experience vs hardware compatibility.
None of those are money transfer protocols, AFAIK. Except wasn't Signal adding some cryptocurrency silliness too? So maybe they would be liable.
I use a hand-rolled Money class that’s an ergonomic wrapper around big.js, an arbitrary precision decimal library.

I think using a separate language is massive overkill.
I'm still lost on how you reached the conclusion Bing Chat should do be able that? Does MS imply it can do that somewhere?

Did you assume Whisper is from OpenAI => OpenAI is related to Microsoft => Bing Chat can transcribe MP3s?

I'm really just lost on the thought process here.
Huh, that does sound pretty appealing for sure.
Thanks for that. I've used RunPod GPU cloud to setup vLLM as an Open-AI API compatible endpoint before, but haven't tried any of the serverless options yet.
Danish dairy products have a huge market in Asia and the Middle East
I disagree. Plenty of folks incurred very high fines and even jail time over backdated options. People still backdate options. The risk is low enough, and the return is high enough, for people to creatively interpret the law. As long as there is an interpretation that could be valid, laws will be bent.
Movement of money is different from movement of information. That being said I believe Signal has a cryptocoin nowadays.
To me, this is the core bait and switch problem. It’s not just that expectations and commitments are suddenly unilaterally changed. Is that the core subject of the license (an open-source codebase) has quite often been built collaboratively with the agreement and contribution of entities outside of the organization unilaterally claiming domain over the underlying work.

If this is somehow permissible under the original license, it points to needing licenses that offer more consistency and protection. If I contribute to your project, I want to make sure that you can’t close the door on the codebase whenever you feel that you’ve harvested enough value from me, value that you’re now going to go monetize with others.
Doctors make mistakes too, they're average people too. Should we go with our gut on medical decisions?

At what point does someone stop becoming "average people" for us to think that our gut doesn't outsmart them?

Lets not forget that "average people" are commonly barely better than animals in emergency situations. Look at how much training it takes to ensure a building full of people don't trample each other to death in the event of a building emergency.

There's a very wide gulf between being ultimately responsible for your own safety and assuming that your immediate, uneducated gut reactions are more informed than professionals with training.
Selling at a loss over wholesale is not, specifically, price dumping. In particular, price dumping is something that is specific to producers. Consider the old "movie theaters lose money showing the movies, but make it up on the concessions." By the naive argument, that would not be allowed. Yet here we are.

My main claim with regards to Amazon is mainly if they were guilty of price fixing, than it would have been pursued. Can you find any legal proceedings that take that charge against them? Heck, if they were guilty of price discrimination, that would likely have been pursued. It has been brought against them, but it has not gone anywhere that I can remember.

The discussion, per the top post of mine in this thread, is over whether or not Apple could be afoul of antitrust. I entered this branch by pointing out that antitrust != monopoly. It is a type of antitrust concern, but it is not the only one. You keep trying to pull up non-sequitur points that don't change that. Apple has been guilty of antitrust law in the past despite not having a monopoly.

If you are worried that Amazon has a monopoly on ebooks, note that their current ebook share is evidently close to what Apple's phone share is in Japan. Which... doesn't look good for your monopoly argument there, to be honest. That all said, I don't think that should change much of the legal issues here.
Again with the hysterical straw man. Right now I'm experiencing the outcome of heavy handed corporate control. There are a whole range of outcomes between that and full state control of the markets.

Do you believe that competitive markets are good? The App Store isn't one, I'm advocating for more competition, more trade and prosperity.
Did Bioware even make either Baldur's Gate game?

I thought they were just the publisher, Black Isle was the developer? Do I have that backwards?

Edit: I looked it up and I do have it backwards.
The thing is if you are advertising generating infinite photorealistic humans, your automatically generated prompts should probably not be things that do not serve that end.
I can see the value in putting a product or project out there and facing the scrutiny and pressure from the public.

However, I am not sure pulling the curtains back and exposing the process is as valuable. My personal site would expose code and raw thoughts regarding my process and philosophy. I'm fine with the end result being scrutinized, but why open up the process to scrutiny? Perhaps the philosophy could be scrutinized, but it's not as valuable as the end result.

Judge what I make, not the process. I'll have to give it more thought.
I think the huge blindspot in American understanding of human behavior is individualism, the idea that you there is a model of human behavior that makes sense in some complete way even if that human were living perpetually alone on and island.

To me, that's like trying to understand a single worker ant without knowing anything about ant colonies. How can this creature be sterile yet survive as a species? Why is it constantly gathering food it does not eat? How does it defend itself from predators?

So much of human behavior that is perplexing or seemingly irrational makes obvious sense once you consider that humans are a species that evolved to live in an environment primarily made of other humans, some of whom are friend and some of whom are foe. And, further, a species that can't survive without a tribe of friends, and whose greatest threat to survival is members of other tribes. And, most vexing of all, a species where distinguishing friend or foe is next to impossible just from surface attributes.

Once you imagine the evolutionary pressure of a species in that environment, a whole lot of human behavior falls into place.
Prisons?
How far do you go? Should organic chicken be allowed over factory farmed? Fresh chicken over canned? Fresh milk over shelf stable, or shelf stable over powdered?

Why not just feed everyone on food stamps a vitamin slurry?
> I DO agree with OP that you _shouldn't_ state what your current salary/comp is (unless you don't care about negotiating on comp but want to ensure you maintain what you're making).

I wonder how much of this information the companies already have access to. Like, they probably use ADP or Paychex as their payroll service, and I wouldn't be surprised if they can ask the payroll company or just look up what you currently make.

The last time I interviewed (at a FAANG), they didn't do any kind of negotiation dance about pay. They didn't ask me what I make or what I wanted. After the interviewing, they said "Here's your offer, it is non-negotiable." and lo and behold it was about 0.2% or so above what I was currently making. Like a difference of under $500 for the yearly figure. Uncanny how they came so close! I tried negotiating but they were indeed unwilling to negotiate on anything.
Crypto’s still alive. The grifters get indicted, the greedy pivot to AI and only the true believers will remain.

And they’re building, and they’ll keep building, and a more open financial system will be built.

It might take decades but it will happen.
Every time I have tried baklava it was so overpoweringly sweet that I could not manage to finish even a tiny piece. The sugar/honey overwhelmed everything else. So count me as one that agrees with baklava being "boring".
I have the same question. I know people who created blockchains that were specifically not privacy coins (when they could have done it) specifically because they were scared of going to prison.
> wouldn't it be a duopoly considering that AMD is also a big player?

I don't think GPUs are commoditized. You can't swap a Nvida GPU with a AMD GPU, and get the same performance/results.
Reread the parent. They were attempting sarcasm.
Ask HN: Best marketplace for side income/new gigs?
Upwork & Fiver are really super hard to get started. Trying to find a good upcoming marketplace for freelancers.
> The complaint itself cites 'writing instructions on how to use a VPN' as evidence that the developers were knowingly doing something criminal. A VPN!

Do you have a link and paragraph number for this quote? I searched in the press release [0] and OCR'd the indictment [1] and can't find any match to any part of that quote ("VPN", "writing", or "instructions"). I also can't find any match for that quote anywhere on Google.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/tornado-cash-founders-c...

[1] https://www.justice.gov/media/1311391/dl?inline
> cash should not be outlawed

Good news! It's not.
You really shouldn't say that so confidently. I know for a fact that at least in the US military (well, DoD civilian analysts), they're using models like AlphaZero for theatre-win condition modelling. It's probably being used because it allows analysts to find better solutions and they probably started using it after winning wargames with it - both guesses on my part, all I know for sure is that they are using the tech to model westpac.