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I'm glad to see Unity finally choosing to play to its strengths here from an economic standpoint by offering rev share. It's an insurance business model, which a game engine is uniquely able to offer due to its horizontal reach.

There's big financial risk inherent in game development for which studios naturally would "pay" some sum to hedge against, in the format of trading away some upside in the success case for a lower cost in the failure case. In fact, risk aversion, which at least in aggregate often models much real world behavior, dictates that studios would be willing to pay generously, entering into a deal that yields negative EV in exchange for flattening the risk curve. On the other hand, underwriting the risk on Unity's part is basically risk-free because of its horizontal reach across studios. Because of the asymmetrical risk, there's considerable economic surplus to be captured in a way that leaves both parties better off.

Of course all of this only works out if Unity only sufficiently benefits from the big successes. To that end, while generous, the choice to let developers pay the lower of rev share vs. per-install fee seems perplexing to me. When customers can pick after they already know whether their game is successful, Unity fails to set up an effective insurance business and ultimately will lose out on the surplus. The winners will no longer automatically subsidize the losers, Unity may have to raise the costs of both deals to cover its operations, and this all just becomes a more convoluted price increase.
> Higher ticket prices would lead to more diehard fans

no? personal utility doesn't work that way in the real world... We have such drastic inequality that $200 is literally impossible for a huge fraction of the population wheras to some people its an afterthought to spend for a laugh. You can literally notice it in a venue when ticket prices are higher, the atmosphere is different, the clothing is different, the energy of the dancing, the singing

profile of somebody with money to spend: 40+, knowledge worker, drained of energy, has a lot of things going on in life

profile of the kind of fan that makes your show trendy: <30, sporadic employment, excess energy, impulsive, carefree
>Closed source laser drivers are the precise reason why free software exists. RMS not just getting on with his life in the face of closed source tomfoolery is why we have the GPL at all.

Typical FOSS person never reads my point clearly: Can you name one printer on the market that is open source? ie. All the parts are able to be purchased and built? (You know since that is the kind of 3D printer I was criticizing...)

>If your budget doesn't get you out of the "kit of parts" range, sure. Compare like with like, though: a new SV06 costs £200. A new X1C costs £1300. The SV06 isn't cheap because it's open source, open source is what lets it exist at all.

Thats all well and good but again it does not change the fact that it is not something you can rely on to just get the job done. That was my point.

Going back to my comment you didn't read fully:

I hope that the X1c or something like it eventually reaches a price point where it is accessible to the mass market and becomes the bare minimum standard of quality and ease of use.
Exactly, a workaround exists and is already installed on your device.
The main thing I use for ad hoc file transfers is Total Commander for Android (https://www.ghisler.com/android.htm). It can copy files to and from a WebDAV inbox on the local network as well as my home directory (although the SFTP plugin I use for that is fiddly to set up and a bit buggy).

For copying the same things on a regular basis, I run rsync scripts in Termux (https://termux.dev/en/). They push photos from my phone to my computer and pull essential backup from my computer to my phone. They also synchronize themselves and Termux configuration. For exchanging files without a direct network connection, I have croc and the Rust version of Magic Wormhole (https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole.rs) installed in Termux.

It may seem arcane and archaic, but I have found this setup better (more predictable and more reliable) than anything "mobile-native". I appreciate that Termux behaves mostly like other Linux machines.

I had a pretty positive experience with Syncthing for Android on my previous phone. It was before I started using Termux. I had a directory called "clipboard" that synchronized between my desktop, laptop, and phone. Sometimes it took a while to notice new files. I would use it if I didn't use Termux or if I needed to keep multiple mobile devices in sync.

If I had to often send files to a mix of Android and iOS devices on the same local network, I would try LocalSend (https://localsend.org/).
Same way how?
It seems libjxl does not compile for WASI, but for emscripten. Hence that minified JS is likely the emscripten glue code that's required at runtime, but which the libjxl documentation fails to mention clearly (as it just tells users to run some python script and get a magic file included at runtime). To run that outside the browser, the author will need to generate a emcripten runtime that works with WASI, which as far as I know is not possible.
“I stayed one day at Disneyworld” doesn’t mean i stayed 24 hours there
Yes. 640 usec should be enough for every mouse.
There is `Mutt` console email, linux mainly , on windows under cygwin, alas does not deal well with HTML emails, it can be connected to Gmail anyway.
A hacker's guide to language models [video]
The strangler pattern. I agree.
I wonder how LLMs take such training data into account
How are you able to tell with that much certainty of the users needs?
This is called cost of business. As long as the fines are smaller than the profit they made from this, it will continue in a form or another.
In game development I believe developers should listen to their players complaints but never to how the players would fix the problems.
No matter what you do the CPU will always have other stuff to do.
Rewrites typically work well when the people behind the rewrite are the same people who wrote the original code and maintain it.

Often, the requirements changed along the way as the problem domain incrementally became better understood. At that point, the original design is not helping, but sabotaging everything.

This is why that first version should always be considered a prototype. And the next version will probably also be.

Not rewriting will have a much larger cost down the line.
Have you used the Bambu Lab?
193nm is the wavelength of the light used. The single digit nm fugue you're probably familiar with is the size of the features on the chip.
Nor expensive data environments.

The NPR One app used to chew through a few hundred mb of data in "caching" every time you started it. No way to restrict this function to wifi only. And no, you can't select bit rates.

Also Zoom has little ability to minimize the audio or video data usage (but I've learned you can reduce how much of others video is sent to you by reducing the window size). Just wish I could set myself to 480p to be present but not destroy my data while working at the cabin.
> That's like saying, "Exhortations to developers not to write bugs don't fail, programmers fail to follow exhortations."

It’s not even the littlest bit like that. Nobody knows how to write software without bugs. Everybody knows how to lose weight. Just do some exercise and eat less calories than you burn. You don’t even have to do the exercise part, but you should do at least a little bit if you’re trying to be healthy. The only problem is that most people don’t want to commit the effort or make the sacrifices required to do that. If anybody’s trying to find something to blame, it’s the legions of obese people desperately in search of any reason for their obesity other than their own lifestyle choices. It’s a lifestyle problem, and it’s unlikely that there will ever be a pharmaceutical intervention for it that doesn’t have pretty bad side effects. But if bad side effects are acceptable for you, then magic drugs already exist for obesity. Anabolic steroids. They’ll do exactly what you’re looking for.
* who got away with it…
Or maybe not quite that hard. Some woods are already hard enough to be inconvenient to work. Though maybe it's still all benefit if you're just trying to make industrial feedstock for cross laminated timber or something.
I wish that were true. I’ve seen ridiculous catastrophic failure twice. I still don’t know if they actually believed their own bullshit, or just wanted to do the rewrite and lied to make it happen.
> Hardware Reverse Oscilloscope 2

A hipster name for a frequency synthetiser. /s
Hey Ramraj07, do you really believe what you're saying? Let's dig in a bit. The idea of lizard people at the Earth's core sounds out there, but let's consider the facts. We don't fully understand what the Earth's core is like. It could be a high-pressure, metallic, molten phase. But we're largely in the dark here; it could be anything.

Now, if you think about honeycomb Earth, filled with caverns and caves, things get more interesting. We know microbes inhabit the subsurface in abundance, types we don't see on the surface. So who's to say what else might be down there? It's a mystery, and dismissing it outright is a mistake.

Now, about lizard people living inside our version of Earth: I believe they could exist. I know that in an alternate timeline where Earth's history took a different turn and lacked the asteroid which 65 million years ago provided the opportunity for mammals to evolve into apes and humans, it was reptiles that evolved into an upright humanoid form. These alternate timeline reptilian humanoids are indigenous to their own version of Earth and exist in a dimension overlaid with our own. Earth humans from this timeline encountering these upright reptilians and their more volcanic planet via transitory dimensional portals have mislabelled them devils and demons, and their world? You guessed it: "hell". So, is it that far-fetched to think that some communities of indigenous terran reptilian humanoids might exist in our timeline, in our dimension? Reports from religions, government insiders, and the public suggest it's possible.

Switching gears, what do you think about octopus species living beneath the ice of Europa? And, why the cynicism? Did you once believe in these things but grew disheartened due to disinformation campaigns? Skepticism is healthy; cynicism is not. Don't let fear or social pressures derail your curiosity.

So why not rejoin those of us willing to consider the unexplained? You'd bring a lot to the table. Humor is good, but mockery doesn't serve anyone, especially when we're talking about the unknown: it only insults your humility in front of the great mystery. And you're better than that, Ramraj07--so act like it, dude! What are your thoughts, man?
Not eating slugs is not “dumb luck” and not all kids are equally “dumb”. Yes, kids are particularly vulnerable to groupthink and peer pressure and can’t evaluate risks properly, but that doesn’t make them dumb.

I grew up in a village, spent my childhood in gardens, on fields or playing in the dirt and *nobody* I ever knew would eat a slug or any other kind of creature for that matter. The thought never even crossed anyone’s mind, why the hell would you even do that?
That's far from a universally held position in suburban America.
Personally I prefer ‘python -m json.tool’

I resent the insular tone of jq. If I’m going to be processing the data in any way I’d prefer to make the leap into a familiar environment rather than kid myself I’m querying the doc like SQL
Why are none of the links in the "reading list" to MDN?
"Most websites do not work with TLS v1.2 anymore."

This has not been true for me. In fact, using a TLS proxy I have tried to force TLSv1.3 for all sites and a large number, possibly even the majority, still use TLSv1.2 and will not accept TLSv1.3.

If using old software/computers, one approach for dealing with changes in TLS is to use a present-day TLS forward proxy, bound to localhost address or running on a relatively recent computer on the LAN if necessary. This way, one does not need to do any encryption using the old software/computer. The proxy converts HTTP to HTTPS.
Some mammoths found in Siberia were said to be edible.
Sadly, we're all eating fossils everyday, in the form of microplastics.
Accessibility is all edge cases. And for every edge cases you anticipate and support, others you don't anticipate are allowed access.
Tables can't be made in plain text, they'll break on reflow (very common in this day and age to have devices of various widths), also it's harder to do tables by hand

Sending as both: what happens to clients that can't be configured as such?
eBay is probably the most common place.
Run has some nice plugins like Everything search integration.
For those unaware, Libet's experiments appeared to show that conscious decisions to move a body part follow unconscious preparation to perform the movement. One interpretation is that consciousness is merely an 'observer' of the unconscious, and hence free will is an illusion.

I'm sure there are better places to read refutations of Libet, both philosophical and neurophysiological, but a quick search pointed me to this, which was interesting:

https://neurosciencenews.com/libet-free-will-23756/

I can't watch the videos in tfa right now, but it sounds from parent's comment that at least the first is worth watching.
Using an IMAP client is not an option on many devices, especially when it is a public or borrowed device.
Can you not override the font in the client?
Advanced type theory dates back to the 90s too, and yet only now we see it being utilized in mainstream languages more and more
Debate on AI and Mind – Searle and Boden (1984) [video]
Devil’s advocate: where’s the evidence that this is caused by anti-competitive practices by Intel?

Most people have no idea what AMD or Intel — let alone a CPU — is. It seems plausible that AMD isn’t popular because the average consumer isn’t demanding it.
nice but i expect microsoft integrating this feature into excel for their enterprise customers soon
Digital tech has been monopolistic from early on.

Like fish in water we dont even know what a truly competitive information technology sector would look like.

My rough guess is that we would be two decades ahead in the quality and variety of hardware and software (a 2 x acceleration vs the stagnation of locked-in artificial equilibria).

Information technology is still a huge phase space of possibilities that lie unexplored so that a tiny set of vested interests can have a predictable monetary return.
"I refuse to succeed!"

To each their own, I guess?
It's not unrealistic but Midori made a lot of changes to C# to make it possible, it was almost a different language by the end of the project
Hey, in case you are still interested, here is a little explanation on the algorithm: https://koljapluemer.com/2023/09/23/arabic-numbers-sr.html
Is he going to be the CEO? That would be fantastic. He was super technical and super knowledgeable about Windows kernel. He was a true hacker.
I think some fields are just chock full of really bitter people that treat their hobby like a religion: Definitely Gaming, 3D Printing, maybe superhero movies etc.

I'm reminded when the whole Elon Twitter saga started, all the techies all threatened to go to mastodon and well they did but a lot of "normie" twitter didn't follow them (or couldn't follow them because mastodon was not user friendly). Shannon Morse of Hak5 made a great point about this. She suddenly realized that a lot of tech drama just went away and so she didn't really leave Twitter but didn't fully move to Mastodon either.

Applying that logic to this field, maybe if some company like Bambu Labs (or maybe Bambu themselves) expand the market by bringing in normies, the "hardcore" people will huff and puff but eventually become a niche voice and just go away.
eBay and Amazon Marketplace is where I normally go
Is Mordor Based on Himalayas?
I saw that, the work done to get WolfSSL to work is truly examplary on how to keep things going.

Do post a link to that SHA256 patch. I suppose it is possible to compile and generate an unsigned 3rd party cryptographic services DLL (CAPICOM) if someone truly wants really old software to work everywhere.

TLS needs to be re-vitalized in general for SMTP and other such protocols as well.

The browsers mentioned in this thread:
https://msfn.org/board/topic/178588-tls-13-in-winxp-sp3-poss... have all stopped building for XP as of today. Happy to try new builds and let people know it goes.
It may be said that it's good to separate children from an incompetent or abusive parent, but how did they get this way?

Are children being taught how to parent? Are girls playing with baby dolls and cook sets and dollhouses? Are they babysitting as teenagers? Are boys taught the roles and responsibilities of husbands and fathers? Do they have younger siblings to supervise for a while, when the parents aren't around? Do they know what it's like to change a diaper, feed an infant, do household chores?

I mean, we expend a lot of energy shoving kids into STEM and soccer and ballet dancing, and they deserve space to play and be children, but what are they going to be when they grow up? Not everyone makes a conscious choice to become a parent.
I was just using that as an example. You are wrong about having “no known pollutants,” though. Pollutants need to be below some agreed-upon level, so they exist but in theory should be below harmful levels.

There can be a perceived difference between industrial chemical wastewater and household wastewater and that’s what I was getting at. One is far riskier for a “spill” accident, and more rigorous prevention measures may need to be discussed upfront. The article didn’t differentiate which it’s going to be.

I feel like by not differentiating, the article may be somewhat sensationalized. Without knowing which it is, I’m left wondering.
> Especially since, if there hadn't been patents, they would have just had everything as trade secrets.

Reverse engineering the x86 instruction set would be rather trivial for even a small company. Releasing a x86 product, however, is not possible because of patents and Intel lawyers.
And if you want to setup an honest mail server as Random Joe, you will struggle to not get blocked by spam filters while these too-big-to-fail mail senders can get away with being on open relay.
Good idea to just use imap clients using auth2, eg Thunderbird.
Look into the Singularity project.
I don't think I'd want a "true hacker" to be a CEO.

"true hacker" feels good when describing people at the top of engineering career paths like fellows,
but for a CEO I'd rather have someone who's mix of decent tech skills and unparalleled business skills. I've had an opportunity to see companies where people didnt know how to do business and that was tragedy. That was way, way worse than non-technical manager trying to push solutions on ya.

How he is doing from business perspective?
Yes, and many people make effort in selling or giving away stuff they know they won't use, whether to get some money back or to reduce the waste in our economy, or both.
Not just image. If normal fans figure they can't go no way, they will loose interest overall.
It shouldn't surprise us that people who want to be able to exploit others for profit, or who advocate for those who do, would claim that exploiting others is somehow a virtuous act.
If people had integrity DRM/Activation would eventually expire with the publisher EOL, and default to an unlocked state for data/media/format migration. There is nothing worse than getting legacy IT issues elevated to a forensic recovery operation.

I think many users agree MS has been on a downward slope since XP and 7. =)
Yep. There'll soon be some opensource alternatives as well.
Reminds me of John Lennon’s famous cheeky jibe at the Royal Variety Performance:

“For our last number I’d like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewellery.”
What's good in Intel WiFi chips? They don't work in access point mode.
This is a feature in the upcoming Excel from Microsoft.
That’s the essential problem with parents: nobody really know how it affects competition. And therefore the status quo doesn’t change.

I think we should swap the burden of proof: patents should be abolished if it cannot be shown that they’re a net positive for consumers. We shouldn’t be supporting a practice whose effect is unknown and possibly detrimental to consumers.
If I do this exercise 30 years from now it will get there.
Or it is consumer choice.

For decades, AMD/ATI have been sold to me as "like Intel/nVidia, but cheaper". I've fallen for that trick several times and I have always regretted my purchase.

AMD will never get any money from me ever again. Perhaps I'm not the only one.
> is pretty concerning from an energy use standpoint

I would agree that efficient LMs should be a focus, but a framing like that is too pretentious and misses the point IMO. I'd expect Apple to heavily double down on this point though, because that's what they always do (see the latest Apple event for more).
Isn't this what Google have started to do internally? Take already working systems and rewrite them.

Goes to show that if you have a money fountain then your business decisions can be indistinguishable from satire and you'll still be fine
"130k+ Happy users" that's a very good traction for a new project. I'm wondering how it got so popular. It got viral somewhere?
Can you secure something you don’t own? [audio]
Why can’t Americans buy cheap Chinese EVs?
Because they would profit from selling data on their users' activity, as usual
Check your display refresh rate. I had issues on Linux with it not supporting the maximum HDMI bandwidth properly so it drops the refresh rate to 30Hz which makes mice super laggy.
He was ~19 years old. If by that time one doesn’t know about microbes, or understands why eating random creatures raw is a bad idea, then they have significant issues.

Nobody’s approving anyone’s death either, your insinuations are unjustified.
If someone were able to properly see themselves and evaluate themselves they are going to be much less likely to be arrogant as they will also consider their flaws
So you agree...
All the proof put forward thus far is: trust me bro.
If it isn't already, it's an obvious thing to add since chatgpt got popular.
This "love" is a lie. A "real fan" is one who wants to be skillfully lied to.
Inferior only by single criteria. If you take multiple, not by a long shot. Ryanair, if I remember correctly, has very good delayed and cancelled flight stats, better than most classic airlines.
If you can even do that, since they [e-mail hosts] go out of their way to make it difficult - even impossible, in some cases - to push people to use their own app.