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I don't disagree with you about the problems related to wealth distribution. (I just watched the documentary "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" about 2 days ago and so I'm feeling primed there.)

I do think you're being excessively cynical about electoral reform.

Ultimately, we live in a democracy, and voters have power. The parties putting forward these reforms are advocating for things like democracy vouchers:

https://democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-country/open-gov...

which is a very anti-oligarchic/anti-plutocratic measure.

Reforms like instant runoff voting make third parties more viable by eliminating spoiler effects. In our present system, if you run as (or vote for) (say) a socialist candidate, you end up helping the right-wing by preferentially stealing votes from the moderate left-wing candidate. In this scenario, it's not rational for you to participate in politics because you end up hurting your own interests. Electoral reform can eliminate the perverse incentives here. In this scenario you can imagine the socialist candidate would say, "Hi, I'm the socialist, I care about issue X; and make your option 2 the green party candidate because of issue Y; or your option 3 the democrat because of issue Z". There are incentives for politicians to act civilly (since transferable votes mean they no longer strictly compete) and to offer better options to voters.

See: "Electoral rules discourage problem-solving and reward conflict" in https://www.americanprogress.org/article/its-time-to-talk-ab...
When this friend of mine spoke to employees at Mercedes, they said that nowadays they play all the value on the "electronic butler" features and that if you dislike the model they prefer not to sell you the car.

When he spoke to BMW, they could not utter a sentence that did not include terms in the set 'credit card', 'subscription', 'smartphone', 'app', 'telematic board', 'remote connection' (etc.) in some mental framework that made them as granted, implicit and necessary as 'axle' and 'engine'.
That seems like monopolistic behavior on Unity's part. Wouldn't this action run afoul of antitrust laws?
It'll phone home and likely disable itself.
I'm not sure collecting kids biometrics makes anything better. Fingerprints are easy to find, capture, and replicate using things students have readily available like glue or gummy bears (https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/10/28/0124242/aussie-kids-f...). Once a fingerprint is compromised the user is screwed forever because it can't be reset.
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My xv copy has a mtime of Aug 4 1998 (pre-compiled binary from the RPM on the website). It runs on my current Void Linux system. Not GTK, but that's a detail: point is it runs, and is 25 years old. I've also run old Opera copies from the 90s, although that's longer ago and I'm not sure if that still works.
Co-founder of GitHub (defunkt) “launching a game dev project in '24.”
This has all the devices and dates: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366
Slowdown can also be due to the soldered NAND flash slowly wearing out - not necessarily because the device is underpowered.

Certainly the Nexus 7 (2012) had that problem (became completely unusably slow after a few years) and I am sure I have seen the same issue with other devices (Android phones and one iPad I had).
https://github.com/oniony/TMSU/wiki/FAQ#why-does-tmsu-not-au...

There are a couple very barebones wrappers around mv and rm, though they could be better (pass through arguments, etc.).

https://github.com/oniony/TMSU/wiki/Tricks-and-Tips#filesyst...
> looked like Mercedes and Subaru had opt-outs

Oh cool, here is Subaru's [1].

[1] https://www.subaru.com/support/consumer-privacy.html
Sounds like you were waiting for Godot.
But then you still have the original problem: it's illegal to say the words, but it's also illegal to tell people not to say the words? You already know that there's explicit precedent that these words are considered indicative of illegal behavior, and you're just supposed to ignore that information in your effort to comply with the law?
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You can try to git fsck in case that identifies the missing object. But I’m not sure there’s any ready made command to identify through which path a missing object is reached.

It could actually be the reflog. Pruning the reflog then running “git gc —prune=now” might do the trick.
they should be wearing gloves
This happened to me with AT&T herein Mexico: I have an AT&T pre-paid sim card that expires after a year. At the end of the year I got a call supposedly from someone form AT&T and told me about some special discount offer if I pre-paid for another year. The catch is that I needed to pay over there by phone ... (give my card details).

I told her that I preferred to call the AT&T number and for her to tell me what options should I press to get to her. She couldn't give me an answer to that.

Most likely a scam I guess.
> I'm sure that there are a lot of Internet-empowered and recent-political-era-inspired mentally ill people who will make death threats casually. It's sad and shameful.

Most of these people probably released shitty furry dating games for 1,99€ on Steam, so nothing new.
I was just mentioning to a friend of mine, a lady in her late 60s early 70s about spiders using electrostatics to travel.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.0...

And she remarked, "isn't evolution amazing! It figured out so many things"

When someone says "Isn't science cool?", they are saying lots of things

* I appreciate facts/truth

* Knowing things is fun

* Figuring things out is fun

* There is so much we don't know about the universe

I think you are putting to much semantic meaning into the grammar they are using to express their sentiments. Same goes for, "science says". It isn't enjoyable to discuss things and at the same time qualify every single statement.
They [don't have a PR department](https://electrek.co/2020/10/06/tesla-dissolves-pr-department...) so the press can't even ask them for comment
That depends on the game, it seems everyone rolls their own protocol stack and the Switch only provides IPv4, TCP and UDP but nothing more.
Can you please point to where I ever endorsed sending death threats?

PRO TIP: You can't.
This reminds me of the set of interesting job titles (eg. the cooler-down) for British steam locomotive maintenance:

https://youtu.be/stPkjtlRj24?feature=shared
There is something interesting though that while the audience of superhero movies is super large and while there are a lot of overly toxic complaints and clearly a number of people who are super angry about various things, I haven't seen news reports of any offices at Warner Brothers or Disney being closed due to credible threats of violence.
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How should I phrase my intent to squeeze the life out of someone then?
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> What's very bad, that people have the freedom to use personal transportation?

"Sometimes the things you do impact other people" is something we learn in very early childhood.

> Would you rather see us on a bus or something?

Yes?
This is exactly what’s happening. Studios’ strategies are moving off of Unity. None of the ones I know are going to do any further development in the engine on any future projects. One studio is rewriting their game right now to run on Godot. It’s been the biggest exodus I’ve ever seen.
Cheaper than to have a microcontroller that results in a smaller PCB vs discrete components that make the PCB bigger.
It's not instead of anything. A township government can only enforce the code, even if you paid 200% property tax. And codes are pretty loose because to change it you need some kind of majority in the town government. And even if something has been made a code it doesn't mean the government can enforce it, for example my city is barred from enforcing the code on short term rentals by a law suit, which will take years to resolve.
It's an argument for having dentists compete, as they do, and picking the one who does a good job.
It’s not deliberate. It’s the tragedy of the commons. They are tapping into a shared resource (our well being) and everyone else is doing it.
In highschool I was lucky enough to join a program run by the CSIRO (Australia's Government funded scientific research body), where students would assist scientists on experiments they were conducting.

I was tasked with measuring the water resistance of a proposed environmentally friendly paper coating.

I asked my supervising scientist what numbers I should expect to get back from the experiment. I distinctly remember my surprise and thrill when he looked at me and said "I have no idea, that's why you're running the experiment".

It was such a new concept to me! A scientific experiment where the correct answer wasn't written in a teacher's lesson guide, or even known to anyone!
I can't determine if your /s indicates you're joking about this specifically, but Apple Health/HealthKit has been around since 2014, whereas Google's Health Connect (the subject of this API) was introduced late 2022 and is still in beta.
> My understanding is that a large number of Unity installs are mobile games, and a lot of those are free to play with microtransactions

So an horrible market is dying. Good.
We are yet to see for how long Apple is going to support their Apple Silicon machines, but this definitely sets a precedent for Apple. It would be really shameful if they go the iPhone route and cut support after 6 years of updates.

On the other hand, Apple is still selling the iMac with a 2020 chipset, so we could say that they look like they are committed to providing updates. I hope they wouldn't just cut off support in 3 years time.
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One of the all-time best quotes from the series.
Be aware that most of the cheap knockoffs just use a motorized wheel. For example, see the videos on https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VTJ4LZ8/#ive-videos-for-this-pr...
To me, a Brit, the primary meaning of 'knock up' means to make something in a hurry.
More succinctly, "avoid words monopolists use" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-hid-evide...
Tech companies stopped making products for their users and started making products for their investors instead. It's devolved to the point tech companies don't even care about profitability anymore, only marketability to the investor class and Wall St. It's just a shell game of metrics and markets now.
Exactly. Milk the cow until its dead and preferably little longer.
Doubtful it was anything so logical. Humans like to believe magic, and are very easy to manipulate.
Google has already tried something similar:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-routinely...
Maybe they prefer dominance over profit. Make less money but maximise revenue. They want you to spend 100 hours a month not 50 even if you pay the same so that you are not spending time at a competitor such as Disney or hanging out with friends at a bar.

Eventually they may go like Amazon with infinite upsells and hunt for whales.
So they really want you to use Tor - where the fact that you are connecting to a Tor node is extremely obvious, and flags you as a being part of the fractional percentage of internet users who do so - but don't want you to use a VPN, the use of which, while still not exactly baseline, is increasingly common? That may give you privacy, but it hardly seems like it makes you anonymous. Rather, wouldn't that send up a giant beacon for anyone at your ISP who cares to look at connections they (or the authorities) might want to pay more attention to?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7PjrrLaK5w
Tell me more. I’ve recently (past two weeks) gotten more into shaders and I’d like to hear more about this story. What was the shader cache compilation stutter?
Yes but the difference is that Blueprint is actually a good language while SSIS is a dumpster-fire.
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Wondering if Microsoft shouldn't have bought Unity, It could have made sense, because of its focus on developer, because of its interests in gaming and because it's a huge showcase for C# and .Net as many of the features of unity could have been folded into regular .Net or there could have been an opportunity to have a '.GameNet' version, maybe.
Without batteries you are charging your cellphones and maybe not running the generators as much to cool food, which may make up for some of the fuel subsidies.
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So many of the Victorian era's jobs are starkly low-value by today's standards. Even poorer parts of the world today don't have a need for knocker-uppers and can leapfrog directly from rising with the sun to an alarm clock.
I think kind of silly. I remember a probability lesson involving a study of pigeons and how pigeons, if they believe doing some activity has an X% chance of getting a rewarding, will do it X% of the time roughly. Kind of the opposite finding of the corvids, and mathematically less optimal but perhaps more interesting.
In my case, it was almost out of existential need. I could see myself falling apart to the point of not being functional or even doing something to myself, and I knew that my parents were depending on me.

So out of existential need, I intentionally starting taking on large, creative projects at work that I knew would hold my interest and consume my thoughts. In some cases, this meant undertaking projects of my own volition and "asking for forgiveness rather than permission" at work.

In part because of a couple of articles I read on the scientifically shown improvement of outcomes of cancer patients with positive attitudes, and because I knew my mom already had several negative voices around her daily, I decided my role with her would be relentlessly positive.

An attitude of "we don't know the future, all things are possible, and anything can be overcome with the right set of inputs -- we just need to find what those are". I quickly adopted this attitude for myself, and it allowed me to embrace failure more - because the attitude wasn't predicated on being the best, but rather of overcoming.

Granted, this was all about 6 years ago. Since then, much has changed, and I do find myself facing similar issues again. Without the presence of something "existential" pushing me, I am finding it harder to overcome this time myself.

As with most things, though, feedback cycles are a thing. Negativity feeds on itself, and success begets success, so the first step is finding whatever you can to help break the feedback loop. Catch any negative thoughts as quickly as you can, and redirect them from fatalistic into something malleable.

Catch any random, distracting "I need to Google this" type thoughts as they happen, and write them down on a notebook as something you should Google later, but not right now.

One important thing at the start is that, you don't have to necessarily believe every positive mantra or habit you say, you just have to do it. Over time, the believability will come on its own.

If you can get momentum going towards the positive instead of the negative, break the feedback loop, and get onto the "success begets success" side of it, it gets much easier.

Hope that helps and makes sense. Wish I had an actual, easy answer, but a lot of it is just trying things until you see what works, and being consistent above all else.

Good luck, and if you come up with any of your own tips, please let me know, because as I said - for as much as I've been through this before successfully, I can see it happening again, and I'm realizing it's time to deal with it again myself.
Interesting, because at the time I didn’t get that either. His rig was a lot more impressive than my VIC-20 and cassette drive. A bit less impressive than my Intellivoice for speech/games but good enough.

The movie is probably what taught me modems existed however.

Recently I’ve watched it and wondered why he’s using an (expensive but old) 70s style computer rather than a cheap 80s home computer and now I know, thanks.
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If you look at the policies these parties are actually backing, they're all about democratic reform:

* campaign finance reform

* voting reform

* legislative transparency

"Civility" would be a consequence of structural reforms; not a good-intentions effort.
>If you have to find incriminating statements to tell if a crime has even happened, that is really a different thing.

That's what it sounds like:

>Alphabet Inc.’s Google is on trial in Washington DC over US allegations that it illegally maintained a monopoly in the online search business.

They aren't 100% sure so they are finding statements and actions to prove that Google is engaging in anti-competitive behavior.
"All but two of the 25 car brands we reviewed earned our “ding” for data control, meaning only two car brands, Renault and Dacia (which are owned by the same parent company) say that all drivers have the right to have their personal data deleted."

Incidentally, while their SUV are as disgusting to drive as other SUVs, according to a mechanic i went to school with, Dacia is a really good brand if you want to be able to repair your car for cheap. easy to get parts, almost no electronics. I don't think they have backup camera though, so they might be illegal in the US.
What's very bad is that we have an ongoing tragedy of the commons in the form of global climate change caused by human activity. What's even worse is that we know this, yet are not changing our society to alleviate the effects of our unsustainable carbon usage.
The best resource I've found is https://www.theartstory.org/. They've got tons of artists and also do a good job of linking between them through movements.
Lots of studios still build engines from scratch for this very reason: get exactly what they want and avoid vendor lockin. A good FOSS engine that gets them 50% of the way there for free? Seems like a pretty good deal to me. So long as the engine can be extended to get the features they want, it makes sense to use a FOSS one instead of building from scratch.

Also, inhouse tooling will need to be built regardless, whether the engine is commercial, in house from scratch, or FOSS.

If the studios give back to the FOSS engine source code, it creates a virtuous cycle, like with the Linux kernel. Everyone wins.
I'm one of the founders/ maintainers. Happy to answer any questions!
> Sorry for a stupid question; but does not Discord have full-text search?

So if I grep something in /var/log/foo.log, find an error, I can copy-paste it into a search bar to start seeing what others have said about.

How does that work with Discord? I now have to sign up for the channel(s) of that software… and do that for every piece of software that decides to go with Discord.

Whereas if folks go with publicly accessible web forums, Github tickets, mailing lists (either old school Mailman or Google Groups), all those discussions and threads are universally available to web search.
I don't mind someone working on their car in their driveway, I do it myself quite often. I would mind if a neighbor started using their residential yard as a car junkyard. I would mind if they're effectively running an auto repair shop out of their residential garage. Both of those then create hazards and harms to their neighbors around them.

I don't live in an area with an HOA currently. I do agree HOAs can often go extreme on code enforcement. However I do think people should respect each other and not just say "its my property I'll do whatever I want with it!" Because, yeah, sure, its your property, but your actions affect other people. You might feel painting your house pink with purple polka dots doesn't hurt anyone, but it does affect other people. You're not an island, you live in a community.
Love my Pixelbook Go and now I have until June 2027 to find a replacement or drain the battery to death.
That explanation makes no sense, because their changes were achieving the exact opposite. Genshin has a high ARPU, $0.01 per install will capture basically none of that. (Yes, $0.01 because the Unity fees are regressive, the fewer installs you have the more you have to pay per install. Genshin Impact obviously will fall into the bucket with the lowest cost.)

If the goal were to get a cut of Genshin while treating everyone else as a rounding error, they'd have changed the contract to be a revenue share. Or they would not have made the install fees regressive.
I'm shocked at what people continue to be willing to say/do while on camera. Imagine this guy without a camera around.
You can construct a "this article = Theranos" argument with the same techniques. It's just picking and choosing similarities in order to make insinuations, and it's immediately suspect.
It's more the feeling of the mechanics, game-play. Certain aspects carry through regardless of the genre and how modified the engine has.

A game to me modeled in Unreal engine feels like all others created in Unreal.
There’s quite a few. The biggest one right now is Godot. There’s still MonoGame, Open3D, Unreal, and others. Unity has one thing these others don’t (outside of Unreal) and that’s a healthy asset store. Solo indie devs aren’t necessarily the best artists. We know the math, but lack the eye.
Are there more than 0 serious investors in the UK that can't access the US capital markets?
California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks
> Reforms like instant runoff voting make third parties more viable by eliminating spoiler effects.

IRV doesn't eliminate spoiler effects, it just makes them more complex by creating more points where they apply.

It also isn't at all good among single-winner ranked-ballots methods for making more parties viable, and in any case, the by-far best way to make more parties viable is to have legislative elections not run in winner-take-all races, but in multiseat races with an election method that has proportional results (STV in small multimember districts is the easiest candidate focussed system. Party List PR at the whole-legislature level is what most peoole think of when you hear “proportional” systems, and there are a large number of alternatives that are largely in-between those poles in some sense.)
Global food system could help achieve net negative emissions by 2050
After bombing Calculus II twice I had to abandon Computer Science but found my real passion and talent in English - let’s be honest, it’s harder than any code to execute dynamically. It doesn’t borrow grammar, it throws a rave and picks up the pieces afterwards. Anyway, over to a first-class English literature and creative writing (poetry, short fiction) taught by mostly Ivy League scholars active in the field.

My point?

“If you practice speaking with the attention to language and punctuation you would when writing, not only will you impress people and communicate well, but when you write it will be familiar.”

- paraphrased from a certain Romantic Period Poetry Professor with a Penchant for Bow Ties

He had fantastic insights. Especially with respect to drama and comedy. If the voice in your head isn’t helpful, maybe train it better? Worked for me and still does in a diverse manner of endeavors.
I just checked from a different computer using both Firefox and Chrome, and I had no issues, even when in incognito mode ¯\_(ツ)_/¯