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> Epic is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart, they're doing it because it is beneficial to them. Epic is a multi-billion dollar corporation part owned by a massive conglomerate.

Holy straw man! And there’s certainly no self-interest involved with me using their engine without giving them a cut under 1 mill right?

You can make this argument about literally anything.

Godot must have no self-interest in releasing their engine for free and making $30k a month to develop their project.

Who cares what the motivation is if it gives real benefits to devs. If anything it tells me they’ve picked a business model that’s mutually beneficial unlike Unity
> WhatsApp messages are end to end encrypted, so in theory they can't use your message data to make money, even if they would like to.

They've probably realized the message payload isn't very valuable to mine. The metadata (when did who talk to who?) and IRL identity (ip address, phone number, timezone, location, on the move?) is much more valuable if you're in the add targeting business.

Trivial to infer coarse grained tracking and build a connectivity graph. Plenty of information to target adds.
Sad that a vitriolic rant with zero technical discussion is the top post. This is hacker news, not whinging news.

I think the design is too big and the battery life too uncompelling but open source means better luck at being improved. Amazon sells a lot of bunk as I’ve tried a few and only had luck with jiobit. I’d like to tinker with this.
I prefer to read this in such a way that implies that programmers are not people. :p

I jokingly refer to our customers/users as "humans" at work.
TrueNAS Scale (formerly FreeNAS) server with 6 x 4TB ZFS storage in a Raidz2 (or was it z3?) configuration.

I rsync my picture and document library from my MBP to the NAS. The MBP also has a Backblaze backup. 2-4 times a year I sync my pics, docs, and backups to a 6TB drive that’s offline.
Intel plans to overtake Samsung and TSMC with its 1.8nm chips by 2025
AR5 UAV report (2021,PDF): A single bit error switched off the engines
Saw a Tekever AR5 [1] fixed wing UAV on flightradar [2], and that led me to a Serious Incident report where both engines switched off as it was preparing to land. Fortunately an external pilot had line of sight and was able to land the UAV.

It seems that commands are sent as 11 bit values, 50 per second, and the command to send the "Ignition Off" value is any value over a set threshold.

From the doc: "A such, a single bit error would be sufficient to modify the 'Ignition ON' signal value so that it exceeded the 'Ignition OFF' threshold."

(This has now been fixed by the manufacturer so that there must be 10 consecutive Ignition OFF commands)

[1] https://www.tekever.com/models/ar5/
[2] https://www.flightradar24.com/GTEKG/32088166
I feel sorry for them. Maybe write up an email about RTO to lighten the mood a little?
It might exist but open-core model ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model ) is much more commmn. I went through QT project licensing FAQ and I still don't see any situation when I would be forced to pay for commercial license when creating commercial software. Some SO answers suggest that complying with LGPL is harder on mobile OSes. Anyway - if you release something on open license, you can't really limit its use, no matter how your second license is constructed. That is probably why paid add-ons are so popular.
Laptop documents folder and outlook inbox
Flowers are crucial for human IDs as well. A lot of tropical tree leaves are very similar, so without context they're virtually impossible to visually distinguish.
I have to say i'd love to read about those sorts of things if you have a link. I've long been interested in british warfare, since learning about trench warfare going on in new zealand Māori and east india company battles
I guess you could pirate the comics, it's legal now.
I'm glad I did! But never say never. I worked in the industry with Java, C# and SQL and Python for six years before I did my PhD and started working exclusively in Prolog (almost - I do a bit of plotting in R on the side). Even outside of academia, there are opportunities to work with Prolog- though you will probably have to try harder than usual to find them, and maybe have to make those opportunities yourself. I encourage you to try if that's what you want.
I totally agree. And you can always write mutating “functions” (what get called “algorithms” in the C++ world), like C++’s `std::ranges::sort(range)`.
> .. if EU and America hadn’t assassinated Gaddafi

Gaddafi was assassinated by his own people. America and a few European countries gave military support to the rebels after Gaddafi had started trying to violently suppress the rebellion of his people, that is true.
If they wouldn't have done that, he might have succeeded in murdering enough of his people to stay in power, who knows.
A Synology NAS running Portainer (https://www.portainer.io/) running Paperless NGX (https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx)

This works better than I can possibly tell you.

I have an Epson WorkForce ES-580W that I bought when my mother passed away to bulk scan documents and it scans everything, double-sided if required, multi-page PDFs if required, at very high speed and uploads everything to OneDrive, at which point I drag and drop everything into Paperless.

I could, thinking about it, have the scanner email stuff to Paperless. Might investigate that today.

Paperless will OCR it and make it all searchable. This setup is amazing, I love living in the future.
https://archive.ph/vT3Bj
> Months of battery life with gps is impossible.

Apple air tags last for 12 months apparently

https://www.tile.com/en-au/blog/airtag-battery-life#
Fables wouldn't exist without public domain, so in a way its come full circle.
Whataboutism doesn't change the fact feral cats, or domestic cats going feral are significant pests in many parts of the world. My argument is about advocating responsible pet ownership of small predators that can easily stray and become an environmental problem.
I would expect the Venn diagram of:

1) actually using autoscaling in prod

2) using it for a stateful workload (with PV’s)

3) needing to scale that workload during this time window

4) using this specific k8s version

To be razor thin.

I’m honestly surprised they’ve reported the impact on this dashboard; but good to see they did.
Interesting solution. Looking at the pricing for rsync: do they charge you for data transferred or data at rest? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding their pricing altogether. Also what are you using to actually sync?
No, that doesn't work. You can't retroactively change a license like that. What could happen is that future versions get licensed differently (if either all contributors agree, the project used a CLA or is permissively licensed).

Either way however then you could either stop using it or fork the project.
Wow, what a great response to the issue by the Cloudflare team!

Something I've learned based on years of bad experiences with DNS-based load-balancing is that geo-distributed systems really ought to use anycast routing instead. It used to be prohibitively difficult to set up, but is available as a turnkey cloud service these days.
OneDrive and a fire resistant box. I suppose I actually store far more in my emails than I should!
If you understood the problem then you’d know that their argument is about how Unity’s new pricing change is retroactive, affecting all Unity versions and charging fees to devs for games made years ago.

Unreal uses perpetual licenses for their versions meaning this kind of bullshit behavior is not possible
> When ever I see something like this I can’t help but wonder if it would have happened if EU and America hadn’t assassinated Gaddafi.

Gaddafi would have died sooner or later anyway, and he was a kleptocrat like all other dictators were and are.

> but really what is happening in lybia now? What’s the plan? Protect the oil pipelines and just don’t look too close anymore?

What would be needed is an intervention force that takes over the entire country and stabilizes it similar to the current setup in Bosnia and Kosovo - the warlords are in a stalemate. The problem is, NATO is too busy with Ukraine (and even that engagement is sadly controversial enough despite there being no troops involved), the US wants to focus on China, Europe can't be arsed to actually do anything (not that we could, we can't even supply Ukraine without seriously endangering the capabilities of our own armies), the French are even more reviled than Islamists are in Africa (see the recent putsches), the African Union is more of a paper tiger that's additionally focusing on the before-mentioned putsches, and China doesn't care as it's not part of their New Belt Road.

And even assuming that there would be someone interested in intervening in that shitshow, they won't get the UNSC mandate required for that, as either Russia or the US will veto such an operation.

The only way that any troops will deal with Libya is when Islamists make a resurgence because that is about the only threat that neither the US, Russia nor China really want to be able to rise.
I've been doing the data storage tango for thirty years now, and the one constant is that everything requires maintenance or has to be moved to a different platform and software eventually. Today, everything is in Google Drive and Google Photos; about 600 GB worth of data and media. Maintenance consists of an annual Takeout ordeal with copies going on two different removable drives, one of which is stored in a so-called fireproof bag.

The fireproof bag also has my account/password list (printed out once a year), birth certificates, titles, and passports.

If you are the tech person in your family, think about what happens if you die. Will your family be able to figure out and maintain your system? Mine is far from perfect, but most of my family can figure out Google Drive.
Very much depends on the naming and arch.

If the naming and architecture are good, then it reads like a book.
> I don't think "FOREVER" is very long any more.

I can still run my first 3d engine from 2003 on Windows. Windows actually does a really good job with backwards compatibility.
Project: ICE cube thruster
Why is it RE-uploaded? Was it taken down for some (legal?) reasons?

Does it support KWP2000 protocol? (Is that the legacy protocol?)
I'm hailing from an era where "getting a game engine license" involved several in-person meetings between top-level management of both companies, followed by multiple technical meetings between engineers from both companies, followed by exhaustive due diligence investigations from both sides, followed by intense haggling and shady backroom deals for several months, and finally signing a proper "contract", handing over absurd amounts of money upfront and then paying equally absurd amounts of royalties after release.

That's basically what I understand as "getting a license for a game engine" (this is also why Unity got popular in the first place, because they skipped all this nonsense).

OTH I accept probably 5..10 EULAs a week without thinking or even reading the text (most of them are not enforceable anyway).
If the sub-functions could be reused and people would be tempted to change them, then that’s what your tests are for. In fact, it’s often tricky to test the sun-function logic without pulling them out because to write the test you have to figure out how to trick the outer function to get into certain states. Follow the Beyoncé rule: if you like it: put a test on it. Otherwise it’s on you if someone breaks it.
EU/US has supported a rebellion in Lybia (equals created a rebellion in Lybia) and then used direct military force to topple Lybian regime.

I'm not even sure who administered the city which was crushed by the flood in 2023 considering the free-for-all in Lybia ever since.

As usual with Western-induced rebellions, everybody ended up losing. I'm also not sure why you are confident that Gaffafi was going to "obliterate the civilians" (read - his own citizens).
We certainly hope so. It was a bad joke last year that the fighters protecting the whole Europe from fascist hordes were mostly equipped by the USA. Germany's initial offer of 5000 helmets will live in infamy...

However, there are certain types of equipment only US can offer, being so technologically ahead of EU. StarLink (with all its controversies) comes to mind.
So my friend is an iPhone owner, she's a retired teacher, and the iPhone is her only computer and communication device.

She's asked me a couple of times, because she does worry, whether smartphones are sending harmful radiation into her body. And I've always assured her, explained how there are different types of radiation, EMF is non-ionizing, and the wattage/power levels are so small, that it's not a concern.

I may have egg on my face when she starts reading these headlines.
Users of dedicated servers: LOL.
LLMs don't just regurgitate examples, but the have some internal model of the world and can learn new things. See this example: https://szopa.medium.com/teaching-chatgpt-to-speak-my-sons-i.... A sophisticated enough LLM should be able to read a documentation and learn a language faster than a human programmer, but we're nowhere near that stage yet.

Aside, this is not going to stop people learning and using a language if it provides benefits. Not everyone is on the AI hype train. I personally couldn't care less - I don't trust any current AIs to write correct, bug-free code and so I just avoid them. Then again, I also don't trust most humans to write bug-free code and I tend to avoid them too. Formal verification should be the way forward, and this is why new languages, which can embed proofs, should continue being developed and improved, ignoring the AI hype.

When the AI can write code in formal verification languages, I might consider it.
I don't necessarily have opinions on ML languages. Haven't used any of it to the extent of writing more or less complex production system.
In Germany, the government entities also rarely, if ever, communicate with each other. I'm offered a citizenship and while I'm extremely grateful and even considering the fact that Germany is the country I love the most by a huge margin, I couldn't bring myself to start gathering the documents they need from various government offices. It's been many years, I wonder if I'll get on with it sometime in the future.
Clickbait title -_-
I suppose. There's quite a few companies in Unity's position right now for a reason though.

For better or worse the "growth at all costs" strategy was the strategy companies like Unity had to employ for the last decade to attract investor capital so I tend to blame the low interest rate "easy money" environment more than companies like Unity being reckless.

Although that said, it does seem Unity made some stupid moves in recent years. I don't follow the company that closely, but I'm aware they made some large acquisitions funded in-part with debt during the pandemic. It's one thing taking on debt if you have a strong balance sheet, but it seems a little short-sighted for a company losing billions to use debt to fund an acquisition – especially at the elevated prices they paid during the pandemic.
The "EU and America" didn't assassinate Gaddafi.

Right. "We came, we saw, he died! [lol]"

Gaddafi was "assassinated" because there was a full-on civil war and the EU and America bombed the massive convoy he had sent to crush the rebellion in Benghazi and enforced a no-fly zone otherwise Gaddafi's planes would obliterate the rebel forces and the civilians living in those cities

This is just revisionist nonsense. There was no "full on" civil war in Libya until NATO intervened and turned it into such. This video [1] (from 9 years ago) does a good job laying out the counterargument - the US took the opportunity of a small-scale uprising to regime change Gaddafi and plunged the country into now a decade of chaos and destruction with no end in sight, destabilizing most of North Africa and flooding Europe with refugees in the process.

Everyone's "performance" has been bad, but why don't we talk about Syria/Russia/[Al-Qaeda] dealings in Libya in the last ~5 years?

Why don't we talk about how the US illegally invaded Syria, allied itself with Al-Qaeda offshoots and tried to topple another antagonist Ba'athist government, failed, and plunged that country also into now an effectively permanent low-level civil war? Why is it the US and NATO can invade and bomb and occupy the territory of anyone they want by claiming "their leaders are bad" but if anyone else does it to our friends (many of whom are also bad) it's all "territorial integrity" and "national sovereignty" and "the rules based order"?

Because our foreign policy is run by utter amoral hypocrites and liars. We are the flailing, declining hegemon, leaving a path of destruction in our wake. And in cases like Syria or Libya its hard to avoid the conclusion our perspective is "if we can't have it we'll settle for wrecking it".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH3D-sOLpHE
> Epic is a multi-billion dollar corporation part owned by a massive conglomerate.

More then 50% of the shares/votes is owned by a single person. The founder and CEO Tim Sweeney.
We scan every document and put it in a folder synced with SyncThing. We throw the original away unless it is something official like a birth certificate.

We use SyncThing because it is free, doesn't require user accounts, and works across Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS (Möbius) and Android.

We have a bunch of high level folders (eg. Health, School, etc). Inside that folder every document is named starting with a date, eg: "2023-09-11 Invoice Dentist Kid1.pdf".

So far I've always found every document.
Losing a billion means they spent more than that, but on what? I haven’t used unity since 2016 and never in a professional capacity but I can’t imagine anything significant was improved or added in the last year.
Similar service is available in India : see digilocker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiLocker
Apparently this is exactly what is happening with Unity[1], where the TOS previously said that you can continue using an old version, but now they are walking this back and trying to apply fees retroactively. Whether this is legal or not might be debatable, but unless users mount a legal challenge they are probably stuck paying or finding another engine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499731
While I agree with you I think it's pretty easy to do the processing on device, encrypt the relevant topics and communicate them in innocent looking calls?
The intervention was to implement a UN resolution to force a cease fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci...

Not even Russia or China voted against it at the time so apparently most of the world agreed it was a good idea.
Sorry I wasn't clear enough. Yes I meant future use.
Both Apple and Meta would love buy Unity, but my understanding is that regulators likely wouldn't allow it.

If you haven't seen it already:
https://sriramk.com/memos/zuck-unity.pdf
That is a fascinating article, thanks!
That’s what tests are for. And if `print_table` is factored properly then they won’t want to add flags, they’ll make a new function out of the pieces of `print_table` that has distinct behavior of its own.
Let's be real, byte is plenty.
Does the analysis change for you if you consider the difficulty of wrangling the important stuff for someone else in your family, should something untimely happen to you?
Whether your servers are in the US or not, if you do business in the EU, EU rules apply. It might be that you will legally not be able to offer your services in the EU, if you have servers in the US, because those can the accessed by US authorities at any time, without you even learning about it.
It is probably safer to have servers in the EU, if you want to do business in the EU. Servers in the EU not provided by any US hoster, since that hoster is vulnerable to being ordered in the US to transfer data from EU to the US.
Having built complicated storage systems during work hours I had a strong urge to build a home NAS. What stops me is that I have this Documents directory on my laptop, which was salvaged from another disk that failed about three years ago, and served for 11 years prior to that, and some documents were copied to it from a PC I owned before then... and going farther back doesn't really make sense as none of the documents would be really relevant / authorities at the time couldn't deal with digital copies of documents, so, storing them made no sense.

So, in the end, I just keep them in the Documents directory. Some, most commonly used are also in my email. That's it.
You seem to miss the point that "global" is a geographic indication. It does not mean "all features" or "all users".

> anything that already exists will be fine and continue operating.

Any pod that already exists will be fine, but that doesn't extend to services, as they may autoscale volumes along with pods. I'm not sure many users on such an antiquated kube version would have done that, but if no one did, there would probably not be a notice.
How are you estimating sales? Or how accurate is it?
And it's at exactly this moment the community would fork the project and development of a free version would continue. This is not a real risk for a community-driven project, only for corporate-driven projects where a single entity owns copyright on the on all or close to all of the codebase.
Why isn’t there a charity that specialise in “liberating” IPs & patents into public domain?
As a fresh dev, I’d like to know the answer to this as well. Abstract to function w multiple params, abstract to multiple functions, no abstraction and keep as switch statement.

`print_table() + print_table_without_emoji()`

vs

`print_table(remove_emoji= False)`

vs

`switch table_name:
case emoji:
print(table)
case no_emoji:
print(table no emoji)`
So maybe it’ll force companies to stop making freemium trash that only targets the 2% whales and actually make good games?
You mean the guy who has been retired from comics since 2017?

'In 2022 he confirmed it, saying "I'm definitely done with comics, I haven't written one for getting on for five years.'

Not sure why he'd be interested.
Are we on the edge of a “chat-GPT moment” for Autonomous Driving?
Where do you guys live to need to store birth certificate in a fireproof bag?
I can just login into my government website with a digital identity provider and print one legally valid copy any time. Same for any identity related certificate.
Yes you can.

You just can't redistribute the source to anyone else but using it internally for your own projects to build executable that you share (and sell as long as you pay the royalties to Epic) is fine.

The last UE3 game released in 2021. UE4 came out in 2014 and UE5 in 2020.

Unreal Engine license are per engine version and perpetual. This is something Sweeney has been pointing out for years. And again a few days ago when Unity started this shit storm. And as Sweeney points out the big studios/publishers usually negotiate even better terms.

https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/170161922085161792...
When I use the find command I get Operation not permitted how do you do it?
A legal and secure dead man's switch?