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Godot is only a handful of years younger than Unity. Both engines are more than 10 years old and less than 20 years old. Godot was used to ship first-party games (before becoming open-source), which is not something Unity has ever done.
I suspect it was the video transcript or a lightly edited version of the transcript.
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This seems a bit odd:

> TOML forces arrays to be encapsulated within square brackets (exactly like section paths do), although humans do not need square brackets for recognizing when something is a list.

> # not an array in TOML

> wishes = apples, cars, elephants, chairs

But earlier he didn't want strings to be quoted. If these two criticisms were both applied, how do you distinguish the string "apples, cars, elephants, chairs" and the list ["apples", "cars", "elephants", "chairs"]?
I wonder if this segment is ready for disruption. Splunk is very expensive, ElasticSearch is still lacking many of the features of Splunk and when hosted on AWS is very expensive. SumoLogic was acquired by private equity, which means that it won't get cheaper. DataDog is also very expensive.

Solution like SnowFlake for logs / telemetry where compute and storage are separated might be the future.
Avoid Devo, querying across data sets with their system was hot garbage in comparison to both splunk and elastic. Then when you try and break up with them it becomes a whole thing.
After Game of Thrones season 3 I've began ignoring film adaptations of books I enjoy. I think the risk of tarnishing my experience with a good book is much worse than any possible film enhancement I've experienced.

The screenshots from Blade Runner 2 and Dune do look cool though.
I sure as hell don't want that choice screen every damned time I open my browser, if that's what they're suggesting.

A 'select browser' option in the OS menu would be plenty, and it's essentially what we have today.
Ive a 270 and never gone much under 7 for espresso. Maybe ill try!
Police already have discretion to enforce the law on whomever, and however they wish. It is inappropriate to try and shift blame entirely to lawmakers, when (obviously) the police have culpability here because of the choices they make regarding the enforcement of those laws. That's why the sentiment is so common. Obviously. Come on.
I mean...I use Obsidian daily to take notes for my own reference for work every day. It's also typically the place I write blog posts before I publish them to various sites.

I feel like you're giving a very specific use case for production to a tool that isn't really geared for that thing. If I was going to write a book, and I may one day, I don't know whether Obsidian is the tool I'd use or if I'd be better off using tools that are designed for it?
I suspect that one airline made the first step with that, and it was name-and-shame until everyone fell in line at that point.
The author hasn't heard about southwest.
I didn't know that. That really cool. I didn't get to experience it because I am quite a happy customer. (Knock on wood and don't publicly cross them huh)

What was up with the Altra? I have a free instance (4 cores) on oracle cloud. Seems really capable.
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Well, if your goal is to cut carbon emissions getting somebody to be car-free is probably better than an electric car.

I think the right policy for carbon control would be a global carbon tax that is rebated to make it fair and revenue neutral although people won't agree about the "fair" and that probably makes it impossible.

If an electric car has 1/3 the carbon footprint of an electric car (say), such a policy effectively gives you a 2/3 rebate for the electric car and a full rebate for no car at all.

In Europe there really is good public transportation in many places and better alternatives so it wouldn't be cruel to discourage car ownership the way it would be in most of the US.

I'd imagine some EU legislators and administrators really do want to discourage car ownership systematically but I think there is an element to policy which is shambolic and involves "unintended consequences" and as the EU has many separate policies and interest groups (e.g. German carmakers that dream of an e-Fuel future) it will play out in complex ways. At least in the short term the "tough on China" policies will put the brake on the energy transition but in the long term we might build some overcapacity in the rest of the world that will speed things up.
There are some pretty bad takes here. An integer and a version string are obviously different.

> no apparent motivation behind this rule, except that of conforming TOML to JSON...TOML's reason remains somewhat mysterious.

No, it's not mysterious, you figured it out! TOML is designed in part to work fairly well with other common formats, like JSON.

> ...except that a value can also be a date. There is something intriguing in all this. Even forgetting that an application might not need dates at all, why constraining something so particular and that can be formatted in so many different ways into a rigid primitive?

Once again, you answered your own question. Dates can be formatted in many different ways, so TOML offers a standard date type. It's really helpful!

> And even if you do survive the process of writing a parser that is fully compliant with TOML (some people don't), you still have done only half of the job, that of writing a parser, without really thinking of any real case usage.

In my experience TOML parsers are more consistent than INI parsers in terms of behavior. They have been immediately helpful to me, as they support a configuration format I vastly prefer.

What a funny write-up. TOML isn't perfect, but I like it much more than INI.
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Good point. English has both actor (=someone who acts) and agent (=someone who acts) from agere = to act, and both doctor (=someone who teaches) and docent (=someone who teaches) from docere = to teach.
What happened? Corruption, stagnation (CDU and Merkel), neo-liberalism, privatisation of profits and nationalisation of losses, slow internet, horrible public transport, massive bureaucracy, dismantling of social services, ...
Noctua heatsinks include maximum torque specifications in the instruction manuals, in Nm. I expected this to be standard, but I checked the manuals of popular high-end models from other manufacturers (Cooler Master, DeepCool, Be Quiet, Akasa), and I was unable to find torque specifications.
Not claiming this is the best solution, but with a formal HOA there are mandatory annual/quarterly dues, a proper budget for services/maintenance, reserve funds, etc.

I'd prefer road maintenance was handled by the state, but the HOA works for maintaining common space and other services not handled by the government (trash collection).
The "just one community" and "topic interests" parts are BS. Nobody says that an account at https://functional.cafe cannot post things that are not related to functional programming. Source: I have an account a https://functional.cafe, and I post about everything - that includes functional programming, non-functional programming, calligraphy, Fediverse, socializing, and shitposting.

As for administration policies - find a server whose moderation policy you enjoy. Unlike on Xitter, you have a choice of these policies and have immediate contact to the admins and moderators of your instance and other instances, and you can consult them.
I’m curious. What exactly is Elixir good for? What do you find in it more appealing than other languages?
"Major" and "developed" are not some kind of sneaky euphemisms. They're perfectly reasonable simplifications. They are more descriptive than "rich", and simply do not mean "European" at all.
I guess, but in this instance it wasn't the Russians that shut off the gas, the pipelines were blown (by idk who).
I think we all do. The last country I went to from the US, though, I had difficulty finding anything worse except higher taxes.
They have like 2-3 dozen credit cards stored in there.
Producthunt seems more like feature hunt with the multiple launches (releases).
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I have at various times in my life tried to use vim or emacs. Each time I get comfortable enough in them to appreciate them but I run into the same problem every single time: it is annoying to switch back out of them.

I had an acquaintance that told how he had spent years investing in Dvorak. He came back to QWERTY because he got a job where he had to jump onto others computers on occasion. The friction he felt fighting against his muscle memory was more annoying than any benefit he got from the supposed better Dvorak layout.

I now use VSCode for 90% of my stuff and I use vim whenever I ssh into boxes or if I really need a quick edit from the CLI. But I keep vim totally stock, not a single thing in my dot file. There are aspects of my previous highly-customized and personalized vim setup that I miss - but I am free from the frustration of them not being there.

As I get older, freedom from frustration has become more important than the marginal improvements of customization for efficiency.
> Those would never be taxable, as you paid for the miles

Good point.

> If I flew for work for a decade and accrued a bunch of miles and redeemed them only later, in what year would they be taxable?

The year you redeem them I would think. Just like you don't recognize typically recognize investment gains until you actually sell and receive those gains. It'd be nonsensical to tax me on fake airline bucks for an airline that might be out of business later this year, or might devalue their points. The (as I would see it) taxable benefit occurs when I successfully redeem those fake airline bucks for a real, valuable service.

> If I mixed personal and business travel in earning miles, what portions would be taxable and when?

Seems like you'd need to maintain separate accounts, so when you redeem them you say, "yeah I'm using 20k points from my personal account and 30k from my employer-paid perk account, knowing I'll be taxed on the current value of the 30k taxable points".

Overall it does seem like a PITA, it's just funny to me because "this is too much of a pain to deal with so let's ignore it" doesn't seem like something the IRS usually says. I suppose overall the issue must be (as another commenter put it) "small potatoes" to the IRS.
Modern medicine acts on available evidence, not unverified hypothesis.

I am not dismissive of observational studies. I am dismissive of the attitude of the public when reading observational studies.
No, they have not. There are likely far more people taking notes on paper, than there are people who are using Obsidian or similar. Especially when we are not just looking at the present world.
> Now we have this... ODIN—a way to outsource your intellectual note-taking procrastination to AI.

I'm not sure but it sounds like you're scoffing at that. To me it sounds like the solution to people spending too much time tagging and linking their notes.
I've learned the Register isn't a very good rag, they push the cattiness so much, you can only get information from between the lines. The reality is "AI" is an important part of the future, local AI if it's going to be a good future. The other reality is Apple is way ahead with its M chips for consumer devices, with their tremendous memory bandwidth and GPU well suited to running LLMs up to the speed of a 4080. If they didn't limit RAM so much and could scale up to the level of professional GPUs, they would be very compelling.

AMD is being very flaky with their rollout. They only provide the ML chip on some of their new chips, and let some vendors block it out in BIOS. I've been watching their github demo site, and they won't commit to anything but a very limited demo for Windows.

Intel at least released an open source kit earlier this year and will support their VPU on all Meteor Lake+ chips, as well as other processors. Consistency and openness is needed to break NVidia's deadlock here, OpenVINO could be a good step.

Meteor Lake will have 128GB/s for on-chip RAM bandwidth, that's a fraction of M-chips, it really remains to be seen how this will shake out, but it seems likely there will be a new class of computing device, and it may make all others very second class.
This is an extremely terrible defence/criticism, for many of the reasons pointed out by others already, but I’ll add some more: INI came from Windows, and if you’re going to call it INI I think it’s reasonable to expect it to work with Windows’ INI functions—or else you can call it conf, embracing the still-very-ad-hoc format used across Linux and such. (And yeah, I recognise that the library name invokes both labels, but beyond that they’re focusing on INI.)

But not one of the INI examples shown will actually work as you’d expect using Windows’ GetPrivateProfileString function. Windows’ INI-reading functions are extremely simplistic; about the most magic thing is case-insensitivity of keys. You can’t put a space around the equals sign: that gives you a key name that ends with a space and a value that starts with a space. There are no line continuations (section 5). You can’t do what they call a composite configuration file (section 8). Empty keys (section 10) are fine. Implicit keys (section 12) don’t work.
Some of your points are very curious. Biologists did not reject horizontal gene transfer. Or at any rate it has been part of the canon for pretty much the last 60 years which is essentially forever in biology. (The mechanisms for heredity, i.e. DNA were only discovered in the early 1950s). Besides, scientists are always "tweaking" theories as you put it. More precisely, a fruitful and productive scientific program leads to more and more discovers and elaborations that have to be accomodated. Look at the changes in the Standard Model in particle physics. The current controversy is whether and why the Standard Model is no longer being "tweaked". In other words, some physicist wonder whether current research is no longer yielding discoveries that allow advances and hences changes or elaborations to the Standard Model.
Carbon Output became the metric.

That measurement was/is gamed, and has become worthless as a metric.

There are currently no viable metrics to use which won’t be gamed.

The statement: ‘Carbon Neutral’ is currently meaningless.
Do you remember PhpBB? It's the same thing.

Heck, I had two twitter profiles because I had two different sets of interests. This isn't uncommon.
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Mastodon.social is one of the riskier places to be if you're concerned about defederation.

There's a very large segment of the mastodon population that thinks servers ad big as .social are very bad for the ecosystem. A lot of instances defederate them out of principle.

The argument is that .social is so big that it's not possible to moderate effectively. It also presents a very large and inviting place to launch attacks from. We frequently see waves of spam, abuse, and just bot accounts originating from .social.

A lot of severs are already defederated from .social for these reasons
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I know Hacker News doesn't want you messing with article titles... but you couldn't have added "Rupert Murdoch: " to the title of your submission?
That's true, but I think you're missing the context that NFT's are in fact intrinsically worthless and merely a vehicle for scammers and the terminally gullible. NFT's have shown for a while now what they're really about, as have the people promoting them. It isn't really journalists' fault for no longer trusting "the system" to be honest or even capable of honesty.

At this point I wouldn't believe a sale is legit without both parties coming forward and submitting themselves to forensic accountancy.
Weird acquisition.
>All of this looks like MobX

Shhhh. Don't tell the Vue/Svelte community that they're just reinventing the React ecosystem on a 5 year delay. It will spoil all of their fun.
Personally I love working on legacy software, I actually dislike greenfield projects, but even in the context of legacy software and system maintenance, backporting fixes would still not rate highly or provide much in the way of interesting work for me.
Accountable for what? Shilling is usually not provable in a legal sense even if you can smell it miles away.
Its almost like being open allows people to choose what they do with your stuff, and whether or not they decide to contribute back is part of that choice. Crazy right?

Hashicorp has really done a number. They didnt footgun themselves, they shot both their legs off in one go. They displaced a community, who, at least in some part, were contributing back, AND they destroyed trust in their company, thus trust with the rest of their products. The license change made me really start questioning the continued use of their other tools; i already have issues with their toolset in general (various things depending on the tool).

Contributors to (F)OSS projects is always a very low percentage of the userbase, in fact statistically outside of small projects where the developer and their friend are the only one using it, as a project gains popularity there will be fewer contributors (by percentage). And on that note, if you (not you specifically, in this case im saying you as in Hashicorp) dont like that people dont contribute back to OSS projects, then dont release open software, or make a nasty license that says you can only use the software if you make meaningful contributions back to the software within a reasonable time. I bet you can guess the result; no one uses your software. Being a(n) (F)OSS project means more than just gaining contributors and a community. Those are side effects of being open source, not a (valid) reason to make an oss project to start. Its not only giving the world a source to work their own things from and learn from, its also providing the world a tool (most often for free) that doesnt necessarily rely on some blackbox corporation pinky swearing its not stealing data or turning around and doing something nasty later
It's up to the judicial process to decide if Google is liable or not. But in my opinion the county is most at fault here for not blocking off the road. It's an odd choice to go after Google since they have world class lawyers and the case would open a floodgate of lawsuits for Google.
They didn’t figure it out. Technology enabled it.
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It cuts both ways. Most *nix installers will happily use the windows Efi partition and the only way to get it to use its own is to either deflag existing efi partitions or disconnect the drives
> Hopefully the world can bid goodbye to the last of the sith lords one of these days.

It'd take a lot more than Murdock fading from the scene for that to happen. Don't fool yourself into thinking that all will be right in the world because ${prolific figure} is less involved in it. The Mafia didn't cease to exist after Capone, they just learned from his mistakes and didn't make showmen of themselves.
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Secrecy is an integral part of the effectiveness of the system. If you know how the algorithm works, you can find ways to game it. That doesn't make the practice acceptable, but I think it explains the approach.

FWIW, the same secretive approach prevents anyone from knowing why their social media accounts were banned, or how changes to a website will affect their ranking in the search engines. Exposing the underlying algorithms creates an arms race that will lead to even bigger problems.
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> "Just a bank" doesn't fly airplanes. It may own them, but it doesn't fly them.

I don't know. Big companies sometimes do silly stuff - even if this day it's mostly outsourced to marketing agencies. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that some bank somewhere is operating a de-facto airline for some reason that somehow makes them money...
All technical workarounds for bad pricing.
Also a cyclist / commuter. I spend 10-12+ hours a week on my bike. It's wild out there. I follow all the laws, including Colorado's safety stop law. And I get yelled at constantly. Meanwhile every Ram 3500/F-350 that's rolling coal and jacked 3 miles in the air is going 95MPH in a 45, blasting through red lights and stop signs and turning right in front of me. I also love how I'm simultaneously an "elitist cyclist" and "too poor to drive" I get both of those yelled at me all the time, sometimes from the same person. There's also a clear "othering" of cyclists campaign going on. Everyone from Barstool sports to rightwing commentators are joking constantly about how it would be fun to run over cyclists, how cyclists deserve to die, etc...

Just yesterday, I was riding through the town of Morrison in the foothills outside Denver heading towards the mountains. I came up to a red light, stopped and then continued because it was clear. A few seconds later a Camaro with a ~65YO guy pulls up next to me and this guy is fucking livid. Red face, yelling, and the first thing I hear clearly is "I'm gonna smear you on this bumper f***t." I ignore and continue on and wee hit another red light, he's in the left turn lane. He continues to berate me, I ignore him, and he turns and I continue on. But I see that he turns left but immediately pulls an illegal u-turn into the grass and is using the oncoming traffic exit to re-enter the road. I forget to mention that a cop was also at the last light next to me. I just stopped, waved frantically at the cop and started pointing at the wacko. Thankfully, the cop stopped. Had they not been there not sure what I would've done.
Yeah, but it's not $500. It's frequently people being tricked into transferring huge chunks of their life savings to the scammers. Like 5+ figure sums.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596497
They almost had it there for a while too.
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There's a term for these big, expensive, hard-to-get-rid-of software packages:

"RansomWare"

My leading example is SAP. Actually, most of the big ERP packages are ransomware.
I believe it was originally submitted as such and was then changed to the actual title.
> Now it's been nearly impossible to work without one for around a decade.

How true this is probably depends on where you live. In my part of the US, this isn't even close to being true. You can get along just fine without a smartphone.
He's suggesting that everyday people should just use their noggin, and that's basically what the terms are saying too.
I have accounts on two different instances: one small and very subject focussed, and one on a big instance. I try to keep roughly to topic on the former, but no one is shouting at me when I have a little fun on either.
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These would probably be put behind a breakwater
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Yes, strings are a real pain point. And I absolutely believe that if Erlang were to be created from scratch today it would be much closer to Elixir than to the Erlang that is there with all of the historical baggage. But what surprises me is how well it is geared to the problems of the modern web, almost no other platform seems to be so tailor made for web scale event and request processing.