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This has been Factorio's MO from the beginning. It was in Early Access forver, and all that time it was way more polished and stable than many fully released games with much higher budgets.

In the decade or so that I've played Factorio, I can't even remember a single crash of the base game. It was always mods that crashed.

Factorio performance is also fantastic, running smoothly on potato PC's until you get in to the megabase range. It's mostly mods that cause performance problems, but even those have gotten a lot better over the years.

The Factorio devs could really give a master class on how to make games moddable. Factorio's ecosystem of over 5000 mods is a testament to that.
What’s wrong with the `except (Exception, OtherException):` syntax
> I got so annoyed with bundler I wrote a simple shell script to provide the moral equivalent of Python venvs to gem:

This already exists: https://rvm.io/gemsets

Most people don't use it because they haven't felt the need. Bundler already makes sure it loads exactly the right versions of gems for your project, so there's no need to isolate them from each other.
Going after Taiwan won't let them "absorb their economy". It will destroy Taiwan's economy (as well as their own). It may let them look strong, though.

> Definitely has dictator trying to look strong vibes as things aren't going well internally.

Xi has tied his personal prestige (and the prestige of the CCP) to the goal of conquering (or at least unifying with) Taiwan. He has done so for several years. So either he saw things "not going well internally" for several years, or else that is not his (primary) motivation.
By proven itself over many flights, I wasn't quite referring to reuse, but rather just that by the time it is flying people - unless it's something that Congress couldn't care less about killing people with (like SLS) - the class of rocket will have flown many times.

Also, reusable rockets were not considered worse. It was obvious to everyone that in a technical sense, a properly designed reusable rocket was better (ie not the Shuttle, where most of its design was dictated by missions it might be required to handle).

What other companies/agencies disagreed on was if they were economical. For example, ULA expected to have to fly a booster 10 times to break even on it for reuse and Arianespace similarly believed that they weren't having to launch often enough to justify a reusable rocket, arguing that if they went reusable they'd just have a bunch of people with nothing to do most of the time.
but not the way of the programmer
No really. The scheduler isn’t really like an event loop. The scheduler will only allow a task so many units of execution before pulling it off the processing queue and scheduling other work. You can block an event loop, but not the scheduler.
Tape drives will, when writing, re-read the data as it is written to make sure no errors are written and will transparently correct any errors. In addition, quite a bit of error correcting code is written, making it possible to correct simple errors.

So perhaps not 100% immune, but partial immunity to bit-rot is a pretty important part of the LTO spec.
> How would you ensure there is no existing backdoor in the chip's firmware?

What is the worst thing that backdoor could do?
I am running Asahi on a 13” MacBook Air M2. The only real show stoppers are that the speakers and sleep/hibernation don’t work. Otherwise completely usable. WiFi, Bluetooth and all they keyboard functions like setting screen brightness work. There is no support for TouchID, either, which is somewhat obvious.

In my opinion it’s ready to be a daily driver if you can stand using Arch or Fedora. I’m waiting for a Debian version, personally (there’s some instructions on getting it going already but I haven’t tried yet).
I'm unsure if you know this, but everyone with ADHD responds differently to different stimuli.

I have ADHD and am, and always have been, a reader and writer. Once I get locked in on something, I have trouble refocusing my attention elsewhere.

I work with individuals with ADHD who regularly point out that I have provided too much text for them to process.

We each have our own unique challenges in this, and recognizing that helps strengthen the community as a whole IMO.
You neglected to mention the machine gun turrets shattering large asteroids into manageable chunks! Art style here reminds me of classic Metal Slug ;)
Very disappointing article, and a reminder to me that, when the headline is a question, the article rarely contains the answer.

It's as though the author went down a rabbit hole of her own curiosity for a couple hours, came up with next to nothing, but had to justify the time spent.
Let me know when platforms arrive to Arrakis and melange is finally introduced to the interplanetary trading system.
They redact some video's to not give away the type of rocket used etc. Perhaps that is the case here as well? Also the direction of the missile could be information that you don't want to give out for example.
Strange I had to scroll this far down to read what seems obvious on face if it.
"It's everyone else you should be worried about."

Sure, but also worry about the government. First, the government has no more business knowing your personal details than any other organization. If they want info, that's what warrants are for.

Second, people tend to thing of the government as some sort of single entity. It's not. Government is made up of people: some good, some evil, most just trying to get through the day. There have been numerous examples of the evil types abusing access to personal data, for a variety of personal (usually illegal) purposes.
If you allow arbitrary code to terminate the process, then the control flow of the program is effectively non-deterministic, and impossible to model, or even really understand. Software written in this way is fundamentally unreliable.
I played through the demo levels, loved it, and then decided NOT to buy it for exactly this reason - it’s so perfectly addictive! No thanks I already played TTD for thousands of hours in the 90s, can’t do another game that sucks you in like that.
I am conversant in three programming languages: C++, Python…and Factorio.
Well I guess it’s already been 5 years since I’ve used tailwind and everyone still agrees that:

mb-5 = margin-bottom: 5x (something)

There’s a use for utility css, it’s becoming standardised in a way, and I predict it will continue to be used and understood in another 5 years
What are shareholder funds? Are you saying that there would be a capital call to shareholders to pay operating expenses? I’m not sure I understand this term as related to how corporations pay expenses.
Pretty much. It was so absurd it was almost funny.
Hello, author here. I wrote this guide up after spending a long time trying to wrap my head around LangChain and the associated ecosystem, and hope others find it useful. Would be happy to answer any questions or feedback anyone has.
In fact, small amounts of strontium seem to be good for your bones

https://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/strontium-treatment-osteo...
Education and deprivation are issues that could be addressed at the governmental level, diabetes too.
You can probably beat the game in two weekends though, just FYI. I haven't felt that much need to replay it since then (though I'll probably try Space Age) but it's great fun.
Oh good, my life being utterly dominated by Factorio again is at least a year away. That gives me some time to get my affairs in order.

I really wish this were a joke.

Also, if anyone wants to play a game similar to Factorio while you wait - https://shapez.io is like Factorio without a player character and a cleaner aesthetic. I played it first, and really enjoyed it.
How much is 1.5PB of tapes, and 1.5PB of hard drives?
Not true now with PacBio Revio and new Oxford Nanopore chemistry and flow cells. We still use a bit of older Illumina data for polishing, but long read methods now as accurate. HiC and Bionano more important as supplements than 150 nucleotide pair-end reads.

And the cost of a T2T using a combination of these technologies is already well under $10,000 in reagent costs. The assembly is still a complex art especially for a messy chromosome like Y.
> but they just had zero interest in following any of the laws.

Just like Uber and Airbnb.
Wait until you have children and then play it with them.
There’s no evidence that Homo Sapiens, aside from some interbreeding with other hominids interacted with other hominids who were capable of complex language for that to be possible. And a multiple origin scenario for behaviourally modern humans flies in the face of modern science, archaeology, and palaeontology to such a degree that it would basically require magic.
I find it fascinating that you know about Mindustry but not Factorio. It's like being into block games but not know what Minecraft is.
That's right. Thank you!

Phrasing is important. There are few different pieces of functionality we are talking about here:

1. Eppie is a client to a p2p network based on its own protocol for decentralized messaging between Eppie users.

2. Eppie can also work as a conventional IMAP/SMTP email client. Obviously, you need to connect your centralized email account.

3. While doing so, you can optionally choose to move your data from that server to Eppie. Whether that email provider actually removes it from its storage is not under our control.

4. You can also use conventional email addresses for decentralized messaging. For this to work both users need to be Eppie clients.

5. When you message some user@email.com and they are not using Eppie, your message is sent over a traditional email network and does land on provider’s server, in which case it won’t be private anymore.
You're probably underestimating JavaScript for GenAI
It will be interesting to see Mojo, but in the meantime, JavaScript and TypeScript have some serious advantages for speed of iteration.
Agree on that, but my point is still that GitS isn't a good example because cybernetics are there because of setting, not necessary the "modern Prometheus" thingy.
Why didn't you go the retrieval augmented generation route with a vector store?
I have thousands of hours in, all vanilla. I consider launching the first rocket to be the end of the early game and the beginning of the midgame.
The main reason for HV DC historically was that it doesn't require grids to be synchronous, or even of the same frequency. This is often desirable because a synchronous grid requires deep organizational integration. HV DC also lets you use mono-pole systems fairly easily, since they're single phase; sea or ground becomes the return path.
I also love that all of their genomic tools are released as a virtualbox virtual machine and their entire site can basically be run locally with personal genomic data. I think it’s called genome in a box.

And if I remember correctly BLAT was so useful because it could be run on machines with less cpu power by loading more data into memory…or was it the other way around?
>It was almost there; it was almost good enough such that we could almost ship

I feel like that a lot but we've been shipping for years.
Coptic is as dead as Latin. No one speaks it as a native language.
Space Exploration goes out of it’s way _not_ to make things pointlessly grindy. Yes, you’ll need to scale your home base up more than in the vanilla game, but the space construction all involves different challenges than merely scaling out. The space sciences are each a different kind of puzzle. And it adds three new kinds of logistics network (cargo rockets, rail guns, and space ships), each with different strengths and weaknesses. Automating them well requires building circuit networks, whereas automating the vanilla networks is very much optional.
Step 0. Explain the process, end-to-end, in plain written English.

It's amazing how many people jump directly from "oh here's a problem" to "let's automate it" without a suitable definition of the problem. A runbook as you've described it above, is a perfect intermediate step. You can refine the process, add error handling and special cases, tune it based on empirical data, and adjust the process on the fly until it's boring. Then you can automate it :-)
Unfortunately, the guy who actually ran this account fat fingered one of the addresses (name@abc.cm instead of name@abc.com) - so there is no way to access the account, put in a credit card, and disassociate it.

I asked them what the process would be if myself or one of these former employees had died - and was given the run-around. Every single thing they told me to do did not work and just exposed another exception.
Do you have any ideas about how to make software cheaper?
Labor shortage it BS. It's rhetoric to increase immigration so we can continue sustaining a slave class and don't have to pay people properly. Canada's been very successful at this.
The time sink risk is for the whole factory building genre, not just the excelent Factorio.
Yep, 57% of the world's uranium mining is in-situ leaching, which is basically two pipes in the ground. One pumps water down, the other brings uranium-rich water back up, into a building where the uranium is filtered out.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...
The good news is that the shale was determined to be frackable, so you were able to sell hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil and drive to Beverly Hills in your ancient jalopy
I rather enjoyed the book Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. It considers all these problems in depth through it's narrative.
the idea of counterculture being gone was a feature of cyberpunk too though. I've heard the core theme of cyberpunk expressed as 'whither bohemia in a hyperconnected world?'.

There's not really a mainstream culture now. Even the biggest consent-manufactories like the 'mainstream media' are actually a minority in an overall fragmented and dissenting pseudoculture that's becoming more like an ecosystem than an expanding monoculture. What would have been 'the dominant culture' in the civil rights era, the domain of the Cronkites of that era, is now just another minority, perhaps the largest single minority but still distrusted or ignored by the majority.
And Jim Kent!
They don't call it "cracktorio" for nothing.
I used to do consulting work for storage vendors and anytime someone would imply a technology was legacy or on the way out they'd bring up how tape and mainframe still made money so nothing old ever dies... To be fair, I suspect some very cold tier cloud storage services have tape behind them.
FWIW the metaverse goes back to True Names, with cyberdeck roots in Web of Angels…
What makes a spokesperson lying “capitalism?” One can think of lying spokespersons like good ol’ Baghdad Bob operating outside of a business context.
I guess one of the other ways is: "have a phone because it's required for website accounts and work -- don't do anything on it." Talk to your friends and family in person, which is _kinda_ arguably healthier. No social media, or hell, maybe not videogames either.
Apple has had internal memos leaked in the past where incompatibilities were specifically engineered in macOS with plausible deniability, so I wouldn't be so quick to give a benefit of doubt.
There's definitely a code component to them, but most of reading about and understanding them would come from reading the surrounding documentation or reasoning. Most of that text would be prose, rather than a language consumed by any computer system.

I'm not sure what you mean by "understand good architecture." One thing that makes an architecture good is its simplicity and clarity. If it's hard to understand, it can't be that good. I can say for certain: if you understand the problem being solved but not the architecture, then it is for sure a bad architecture.
Yeah, it's frustrating that he doesn't call out the specific limits.
True, but I meant for the typical person who has to work 9-5 to get their money. Like people who work 9-5 for tech companies...doesn't seem worth it to me.
I see a lot more indie dev type games that go through these super long development times, long early access, and really are committed to the game longer term.

I suspect where some games might just move on these folks really are committed to "hey let's rewrite that" type decisions that don't fit in traditional commercial game development.

It has been very encouraging to see that there room for an arguably improving quality when it comes to some games.
> I merely stated that I have no trouble running old projects using stack.

I was referring to the linked forum thread.

> Not sure why you would want to do that. Either you use stack and let it handle your ghc install, or you don't, and I really don't see why you would use stack only for compiler install.

What I mean is that when I start VS Code on my Haskell project again after a couple months, it tells me that it needs to donwload a new version of GHC. And I don't know why since I didn't change anything about my project. And when I try to click on update, it fails and the HLS extension crashes. I can't tell you where exactly this goes wrong, but it's obvious that these tools don't all work well together.

edit: Now I see that my wording was confusing. You quoted me as saying that I want HLS to overwrite my GHC version, but what I meant was that I want to prevent HLS (actually, I should have said the VS Code Haskell plugin) from doing that. The subject of "want" in that sentence you quoted is "HLS".
> In a few decades after filling that place in

It won't be filled until the last nuclear reactor is closed. With current plan that is 60 years from now (or 80/100 depending on extensions for OL3).

It is actually a bit more then that (a decade or two in worst case) as the plan is to also store a some of the waste from decommission of the reactors down there.

Maybe even further if we decide to build more reactors which would mean adding new caverns into the site.
As much as I love the base game, I would have quit long ago if it weren't for mods.

Mods are what keep me coming back.
Why insist that everything is fine while the house burns down around you?
Exactly.

IBM's had several generations of tape tech in the can, and has managed the rollouts with calm competence for at least back to '97 when I got started in the backup business.

Their research is a prominent part of the LTO platform, too. My observation of that landscape was that they gave toys to LTO at a rate calculated to extinguish the utility of tape research in other places. This means there's a plausible competition, which IBM wins all the time.

This may sound like I'm down on them for it; I'm not. Their hardware was rock solid, performed as advertised.
Move to LA? Everyone says they have squats and ineffectual policing. Not much work for shadowrunners yet that I've heard of, but then, I would would I?
Anyone know of a purely functional version?
Could you elaborate a little on the work you’re doing with contracts?
Postponing cliff explosives makes be extremely sad. I'm perfectionist freak and my factorio gameplay basically divides "before" and "after" cliff explosives. I hate when I can't fix terrain for my plans, I prefer to terraform as much as needed, turning lake into plains, if needed, but I'm not going to adapt my grand plan.

I understand that there are players who find fun in adapting their bases to the environment, building defenses around natural obstacles, but I'm completely the opposite of that. It's deep grained in my nature: to bend the world rather than to bend my plans.

Hopefully they'll rethink that part. And may be even make it possible to "build" water (or to build water pump at arbitrary locations).
I think blast is for mapping sequences on existing genomes, which uses similar algorithms but applied for a different purpose.
Totally, just try EVE for a bit to blow some time.

Less sarcastically, it killed a couple weeks of my life, but it does have a natural ending point. If you don't get into modding or ramp up the difficulty it's not too bad to pull away from the brink.
Sam Altman: How to Build the Future (Video, 2016)
Seems to me like a weakness. Imagine if hundreds of those protesters had lasers and shot them at the helicopters? No way you're arresting all of them and it would quickly render the police surveillance from the air moot.
More like there are two piles of food: one large and easy to access, one small and harder. Which is a starving person more likely to take?

Starving people are just as rationale as the next person, there’s no reason to think they stop making decisions the same way a non-starving person would.

I made no logical statement about whether stealing indicates you’re starving or not. I said that starving people are less likely to steal from the dollar store.

Logically, these are very different things.
>shrieking

No one is doing any such thing.
This seems like mostly clickbait? They don't actually share your scores, they share your search history? If you score a 2400 but search for colleges that accept 1600 then fb gets the 1600 number, not your real number of 2400.

I would rather fb get nothing, but as far as data sharing and ad tracking goes, this seems fairly standard. The only surprising part of this story is that they managed to find a stupid pr person who gave a bad quote
Oh, I'm sure if you extend it to "what percentage of the population has experienced mistreatment from medical staff", it's much higher than 20%. But it's still shocking that it's so high from a single medical situation.
Those incidents are exactly why we have requirements like the ability to safely abort (ie separate the capsule and safely bring it down to somewhere near a coast for quick recovery, or abort to orbit) at every point of the flight, which those vehicles did not have but current ones do.
Erm, that webmd article you linked is for strontium, not strontium ferrite -- Sr vs SrO6Fe2O3.
An often overlooked advantage of the JS/TS ecosystem is that it's easy to spin-up user interfaces of any level of complexity. When working with an API and JS in the browser, you can prototype and develop an UI over your LLM that can eventually go all the way to production.
We haven't actually given it an honest try. Most places aren't even putting in a robust safety net that lets the folks with the worst luck live a life that includes adequate food and shelter.

Edit: Of course some people are going to have less if we redistribute income in any way. There is no real reason that we have such income disparity. It really seems unfair for a few professions, but mostly because the job can be really stressful. Doctors and nurses and teachers, for example: Then again, not all of these jobs are paid well now and some folks would benefit from some of the distribution.
The operator of the service hasn't taken that haughty attitude. A fellow user of the service has. They're feeling haughtier by the minute, it seems.
That seems pretty good honestly for its intended use case.
Plus, wasn't Arabic based on Aramaic, which is still spoken today?
Following up on this, this paper was recently posted to HN: https://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla23-larose-et-al-ast-v...

It shows performance approximately equal to V8 if you write an interpreter + a few optimizations and feed it to Graal.
Why would they use SipHash at all? That’s a significantly slower hash algo than, say, wyhash, and any additional DOS protection SipHash might have (assuming it does) seems irrelevant for this use case
FLOSS power the world IT essentially, and was born distributed, with typically 100% remote developers since most projects do not even have a forma HQ.

Density for IT is the least thing we need, communication, like classic Usenet, yes, but not physical density.

For economy in general beware: economy of scale works with a good but not too much density. If you densify too much the model collapse being unable to evolve at reasonable costs. Nowadays since we dream a near future with cars substituted by flying drones the right density is less than any modern city typical density and the right scale is being spread over vast territory.

Only few, industrial, activities demand higher density and localization.