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Ruby Gillman had very little marketing and had to compete with spider-man and Elemental (which also wasn't well marketed, and lost a lot of sales to spider-man). At this point the Pixar name itself should be enough to get kids into theaters, though I'll admit when I first saw the designs for Elemental I was underwhelmed. I'm kind of tired of brightly colored blob characters from Pixar. We waited until Elemental hit Disney+ and it was better than I expected.
Skimmed the code, seems like https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/pledge/v/tip/f/pledge.go ought to call xUnveilEnd() (...right?)
Wayland will not and should not try to replicate all X functionality. Apps should be updated to work with the way Wayland does things.

This is absolutely necessary to reap some of the benefits provided by Wayland. There is no way around it. A big one is Wayland's security model, of which X has none, and adding such access controls to X would end up breaking the same apps.

The longer everyone sticks to X, the further it will fall behind Windows and macOS.
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>> the whole thing is remarkably cliched rock-and-roll nonsense

They were married almost 30 years. It's a rock cliche to be dead by the age of 30, not to get a divorce after being married that long.
I used to run over 150,000 nodes and I agree with me.
The boring way to do guaranteed execution with retries is to store the work items in Postgres and use a pool of workers. The workers store intermediate results in a cache.

Such systems need tooling for diagnosing and fixing problems: metrics, logging, dead-letter queue, inspecting and evicting cached items, retrying dead jobs, adjusting worker settings. Flawless and similar systems will have the same problems and need the same tools.
Opposite anecdote. I had my phone stolen from the gym. I showed up with the police and the guy denied having it - ended up he was telling the truth.

Then I saw the phone was at someone else’s house right by the one I showed up to the following evening. I used public records to track down the owner and he said it was a rental. He called his tenants and they said they didn’t have it. They were also telling the truth. Once I told them where it was stolen they said that another neighbor actually worked at the gym.

He did have my iPhone and returned it once his manager told him to. I worked at the gym part time as a fitness instructor.

This was back in the iPhone 4 days admittedly when Find My relied on GPS.
I just have the one, and we named him Pablo.

Named after the old labrador of one of my previous neighbours.
I drove a Lamborghini Huracan a while back and whilst I loved the car, I absolutely hated that the turn signals were buttons on the steering wheel. It took me a while to even find them at first.
> When has increased barrier to communication ever been good?

Phone call costs used to mean you probably wanted to answer every phone call you received, rather than missing calls you should have answered because you're so used to ignoring them since most are spam and fraud. IDK about good in terms of humanity or whatever, but if I could snap my fingers and set a $0.05/minute rate on all phone calls, and $0.15 for long distance connections of any kind, I'd do it, because it'd be a net-improvement for everyone I know.

> It's better to reduce barrier and change training rather increase barrier

The medium is the message. You want to change the message, look at the medium, not the people.
All the Plasma desktop gestures are broken on x11, and if memory serves it's the same situation on GNOME. I spent a long time on x11 trying to get it to work (via Touchegg et. al) but eventually left for Wayland where it worked out-of-box.

And to be fair, some gestures do work on x11. 2-finger trackpad scrolling isn't precise but it works, and Chromium/Firefox both seem to work with libinput-gestures. The situation is completely different for native applications and desktops though (unfortunately). On Wayland, gestures work like they do on MacOS and Windows. On x11 they work like they did in Compiz.
Managed ARM CI for CNCF Projects
Why is this even an answer? ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
Is there alternatives that can be controlled via smartphone instead? That menu looks like nightmare.
Oh, nice, thanks
Yep, fixed (you're too fast! :).

Although the statement still holds, but it's "slightly" not "greatly" now.
The Only Unbreakable Law – Conway's Law and Domain Modeling [video]
Unity. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A little bit of Photoshop using GNAT for CUDA
I wonder if you were to start your days with an unripe banana if your GI problems would go away. Have you already tried that?
Depth of field is often more nuanced than simply postprocessing filtering, it generally also swaps textures and models based on distance from camera.
This is welfare queen Reagan-era propaganda. Pure nonsense.
Note, search "all" is available again. (And type= story & comment now fails.)

Thanks checkmeyer for devoting some time to this resource, I really appreciate having hn history available at a keypress!
Interactive intro to shaders
I finally found the courage to write and expose myself to the internet. I've always wanted to learn shaders so I thought it would be nice to document my learning and share it with others.
Eyes connect to one of the best diagnostic systems in the universe.

IMHO, we should WANT TO waste tons and tons and tons on payload capacity of food, water, air, and toilet paper, to establish a permanent, viable, and most importantly independent colony on Mars.

At our stage, having that come from the private sector versus public sector makes more sense. Similar to how the New World was colonized (minus/following the annihilation of ancient cultures), governments explored but private companies promised the reward settled.

People will die. Inevitably. Cannot be stopped. But we should grow and expand as a species. Intelligence and comprehension of beauty are unique and wonderful things, in my opinion worth preserving across several planets, solar systems, and I hope galaxies.
what, inform me please, which distros and DEs say that? I couldnt find it by search.
They won't even tell you how much a rack will cost. Infuriating typically B2B "talk to Sales so we can decide exactly how much we can get out of you and segment the market on the fly" approach persists even here, it seems.
It have corrupted my drive several times.
Premises and conclusion seems quite incorrect:
-Build a -good- language (a good -everything-, actually) is still difficult, theory is more solid after 50+ years, but design is really an art.
-(G)PL are not all sequential, function based, and synchro-obsessed.

One -real- problem can be the recurrent re-invention of the same ideas, when a good use of old ones can solve the problems, but this is general, not only about PL.
It's a 3000$ computer playing at low resolution, of course it is.
Why is it so hard to make digital fire look good?
> I refuse to go to restaurants that have QR-code menus that download a PDF with unusably small entries.

It gets worse. I've been to a restaurant in Silicon Valley where not only were the menus reached through a QR code, the linked page was not the menu. It was the onboarding funnel to get customers to sign up for a food-delivery service. You had to sign up to get menu access. Then you could order online. Dine-in was just ordering food delivered with a really short delivery trip.
you are at the mercy of whatever that link decides to resolve to, which makes it vulnerable to squatting, cache poisoning attacks, etc.
My mistake as I rushed to cut the title down to fit. Probably doesn't help that I'm sick...
Bad actors who abuse power often seek to delegitimize the structures that bind us together for their own short-sighted gain. Call them fascists or whatever pejorative you prefer, but the general anti-social bent in their behavior makes it clear that they can only truly be stopped by force.

It's a shame these disputes usually end in catastrophic violence, but the aggregate behavior of humans hasn't been altered by technology, only exaggerated.
Not quite sure what you're getting at, but that claim is not true. The US economy was roughly comparable in size to the EU's 15 years ago but is now nearly 1/3 larger than the EU + UK, or about 1/2 larger than the EU without the UK: https://www.ft.com/content/80ace07f-3acb-40cb-9960-8bb4a44fd...
At my home airport, I was in a rush to meet the CTO for dinner after flying half way across the world. I didn’t have time to grab my luggage, so I just left it. I was home, so even if it got lost, I didn’t care in that moment.

My luggage showed up at my door the next morning.

Since I was flying fairly regularly, I did the same thing again when I landed at home. Sure enough, my luggage showed up at the door the next day. I wasn’t charged anything. It was magic.

I did this for years (about 6 times), until one day I caught the guy dropping it off. He apparently worked in lost luggage and my house was right down the street from his house, so he just brought it over each time to be nice.

I felt like an ass, but also, I thought there was some magic going on. We had a good laugh about it, but I waited for my luggage after that.
> the most common mobile browser resolution is 800x360

Really? You're saying most people are using their mobile phone in landscape mode?
I think I'm giving people the opposite impression that I intended.

Well-compensated people (like engineers) are more likely to own a 4K monitor and high-end GPU, so I meant to convey that there's probably a large overlap with the type of people who play city builders (like engineers), so they really should have accounted for that.

It was only after I bought my 4K 120Hz OLED that I found out how popular they are for sims, including pinball. It's been awesome.
Yeah, one unspoken theme of this blog post is "look how nice torch.compile" is :)

Fun fact, I had to put in extra work to get torch.compile working with my code, for understandable reasons. My library, Vexpr, literally runs an interpreter inside of Python, reading a big tree-like namedtuple-of-namedtuples "expression" data structure and evaluating it recursively. That data structure was way too fancy for torch.compile's guards, so I actually wrote code [1] that converts a Vexpr expression into a big Python code string and evals it, factoring the interpreter out of the code, then I pass that eval'd string into torch.compile.

One torch.compile capability I would be excited to see is compatibility with torch.vmap. One selling point of Vexpr is that you can use vmap with it, so I was sad when I found I couldn't use vmap and still support torch.compile. This made me convert a bunch of my GP kernels [2] to be batch-aware. (This missing capability is also understandable -- both vmap and compile are new.)

Anyway, I'm a fan of what y'all are doing!

[1] https://github.com/outergroup/vexpr/blob/e732e034768443386f9...
[2] https://github.com/outergroup/outer-loop-cookbook/blob/5d94c...
I don't think CS2 is exactly the kind of game that lacked abundance of streamers waiting for the release to be honest.
We just returned from Japan having used luggage shipping the whole way and it's definitely the way to go.

The pricing in the article is a bit off. It was about twice what he suggested, but it might have been because our luggage was heavy.

As an experiment, we took a cab from Tokyo to Narita and avoided shipping the luggage. This was expensive (~$200 USD+) and in retrospect, I think I'd rather ship the luggages and take the metro + backpacks.

Don't use roads in Japan!
As I said, I was not arguing about regulation being bad. My point was its completely false to say that earth based astronomy is over. A minority of telescopes are not effected or slightly effected. But even small effects now will grow if you imagine sats going exponential.

The very broad survey orient visible telescopes are most effected of course.

Regulation both for visibility and for debris is warranted. But getting their by streaming 'earth astronomy is over and Kessler syndrome' is pretty counter-productive. If we can get away from that kind of language maybe we can actually make reasonable progress on these questions.

Unfortunately I can not find the series of lectures from astronomers and SpaceX. That had really go information. But there is an active working group somewhere that is meeting regularly that can probably be found somewhere.
> Why should they limit the highest possible graphics settings only to existing technology?

This assumes Cities Skylines 2 is using some next gen graphics technology when in practice it is a Unity game without any cutting edge graphics. Another comment mentioned they are doing 10k+ draw calls per frame - it's just poorly optimized.
I honestly don't understand your comment at all. I'm not super familiar with Wayland.

Is it possible for a "smaller DE" or a lightweight WM to properly support Wayland or is Wayland support only possible with layers upon layers of bloat?

I'm asking because I'm still on X but I see that either I'll have to quit using Linux or I'll have to eventually move to Wayland. And I like my WM/DE ultra lean and ultra small.

If Wayland implies KDE or Gnome, I'm leaving Linux the day I cannot use X anymore...
Lugg is awesome! My go-to for moving
I love this in so many ways!
Thank you for doing this.

Someone had uploaded a cover CD from 1994 recently and I was able to download my first piece of commercial software :)
> Let's share the index as public data

Common crawl[1] data has been in AWS for over a decade.

[1]: https://commoncrawl.org
> Symptoms worsen if I eat too much at once and/or if I consume chocolate, citrus, tomatoes, maybe dairy, and coffee & alcohol (both of which I'd already given up for other reasons).

TBH this sounds like it could be histamine intolerance.
Quake is sufficient, no need to apply designations.
We analyzed 425k favicons (2021)
>You don't need anything higher than 720p.

I don't want the UI to look horrible on my 27" 1440p monitor.
That's the economies of scale at work. It's more profitable to address larger markets with cheaper and worse products, than a smaller market with better but more expensive products.

Now, given the near-zero up-front costs to making software, there should still be enough room for all the niche needs, but the annoying thing is, the computing ecosystem itself - the hardware, the software platforms (OS, browsers) and even the tools used to make them - it's all being optimized for the mass market / lowest common denominator. As silly as it is, professionals can't get good tools, because the tooling is caught in the gravity well of more generic, mass market products.

The part that really gets me is how this starts making effective use of computers ("bicycle for the mind" stuff) impossible. My go-to example: it doesn't matter if you figure out how to make fully open source & open hardware smartphones for nerds. Even if you make them competitive on price and power with mass-market products. It doesn't matter that you somehow hired John Ousterhout and Edward Tufte to make the maximally ergonomic and functional apps for the platform. I'm still going to buy a regular locked down smartphone, because I need one to be able to use my bank account, and my bank - like all other banks - demand you use a locked-down device from a major vendor, with full device attestation ("because security").

The freedom of computing stops at the network.
prolly referring to https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Eyes-No-X11-Session
CS2 devs reportedly had 30 FPS as a target. Which is actually fine for that kind of game, but it sounds like that is NOT for low-end hardware ?
Progress doesn't wait for anyone!
I do hope you're being sarcastic.
Building a lower emission maritime transport fleet – Airbus
the new cosmic DE doesnt support x11 at all. Fedora KDE SIG plans to not offer the x11 session in the session chooser.
To me, that is WAY more impressive (so is the 4700m altitude!). The bird got completely tossed around for hours in extremely high winds and then still navigated back to it's breeding ground.

That's some amazing navigation skill.
Oof. Does that mean it could lock in at any time?

Internal dynamics are weeeeird.

Wonder if the moon affects this.
Historical New England Photos Destined for the Trash Saved by Photographer
> Pedantry is neither clever nor educational.

What about irony?
they'll get that settled properly at some point, since chromeos is switching to a wayland compositor.
I mean if you have time to make guides, you had time to implement some presets in the ui...
Record Labels Shut Down FileWarez, Brazil's Oldest Pirate Forum
Seems plausible to me. Many of the largest emitter have peaked.

The USA is the number 2 emitter and peaked somewhere around 2007 and is currently down around 15%.

China is number 1, so a lot hinges on how quickly China gets off coal.

[edit] You could probably make an argument that CO2 emissions already peaked around 2016. The highest ever year over year CO2 gains was in 2016 at 3.03 ppm/yr. 2022 was "only" increasing at 1.81 ppm/yr.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.html

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.html
Tsk. Should have listened to more Gordon Lightfoot :-)
I just went to Google and searched “recipes”. The top link is allrecipes.com, where the homepage leads me to numerous recipes. No stories.

It absolutely exists for commercial gain. It’s also a lot more useful than what existed 30 years ago.
Who in the UN has called for that? It's a forum.
AWS only rents their racks and are very expensive.

I do wonder if AWS will eventually go down market if oxide gets any scale.

It seems like AWS has all the pieces to compete with Oxide if they care to.
there are many wayland compositors like sway, hyprland, labwc and others i'm not aware of. sway is just i3, but done as a wayland compositor. i would expect you'll see more popular ones in the future. XFCE is goign that way as well, but slowly as expected.
Oh oh! I built one of these at work a 3-4 years ago! It was awesome! We were using it to store features for the AI which needed to query them as of a specific time. It was built on top of Hadoop/HBase.

AMA, it was scrapped eventually, so I don’t think anyone cares if I share details.
I don't use autocorrect, I type words out manually on the phone when I have a spare five minutes. It often produces typos.

I'm sure you already get the concept of a typo and in effect only added your judgement of my comment in the form of a question, to the thread.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Hackernews (generally) is increasingly becoming that old philosophical trope: the unbearable truth must be shown to be false.
No criticism intended, just a difference in British/American orthography :-)
> Chances are, Mars may have local concentrations of nitrous minerals

Which would have to be found, ideally near the equator (otherwise landing and solar power generation is going to be a problem), mined and transported. And since Nitrous minerals aren't fertilizer, it would have to be processed (which is an energy intensive process even on earth, where we get to use atmospheric Nitrogen in the Haber-Bosch-Process).

And of course there is no soil on mars, so we have to bring that as well.
I'm surprised this doesn't mention attestation. That's the one super evil part of passkeys.
InstallAware Adds Ethereum Transactions to Rid Risky Software Bundles (2020)
Huawei also does this. Built to order, single container. Completely isolated, plug’n’play.
Finding a Job in Tech Is Almost Becoming Impossible
Well, at least all the channels from my country are either public or advertisement funded channels that you can see for free, can you give some examples of pirated content?
The gap is getting wider for a very specific reason: Wayland. Unlike X.org, it doesn't have a single reference implementation that virtually everybody is using. Furthermore it is under-specified so DEs are forced to implement their own proprietary solutions to common problems until Wayland comes along with a third "official" way of doing it several years layer. These two factors result in deteriorating compatibility between the different desktop environments.

It used to be that if you used Gnome but really liked some KDE applications or utilities, you could just use those KDE applications under Gnome and it was fine. People can and did mix and match whichever parts of the different desktop systems they liked the most. I remember when I first figured out that it worked this way as a teenager, it was absolutely magical. But now, thanks to those two properties of Wayland this interoperability is being ruined. Application developers are burdened to support one, the other, or write even more code to support both. In their pursuit of simplicity, Wayland designers burdened application designers with this complexity.
More like c-suite, there's no chance PMs have anything to say in this and won't report issues upstairs just to be told "you can fix it after launch".
Licenses are just the government's way of getting all the sheep to tag themselves. -SvrnCtzn1776

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IIRC, Andy Gavin said during the development of Crash Bandicoot, he stomped pages in the Sony system/OS libraries. As long as the game kept running, all good!
They were like a child's toy; you would spin it a dozen times counterclockwise, and then it would slowly rotate clockwise for the next several minutes. Obviously, it couldn't be battery-powered.

Thinking about it now, it must have had some kind of plastic spring mechanism. Wish I had busted it open and looked.
The Hero's Journey Is a Jammed Door
iPhones became popular through the bring your own device movement. You aren’t going to see that with racks in a data center
I've never figured out what people mean by the tech elite. Internally I only see regular rich people and folks who find blinking lights fascinating. Using interest in a subject as a barrier to entry seems like a fairly straightforward noise filter.
> If the key gets compromised, having it password protected does nothing

I apologize for my ignorance in advance: having a private key file password-protected does nothing?

I guess I'm not understanding what you mean by "compromised"?
I’ve been playing Pillars of Eternity and I’m amazed just how poorly it runs given what it is.

I’d love a no-judgment, no-blame post mortem on a game like that, which tries to dig into the technical reasons why it’s so poorly optimized and the non-technical reasons for how they get there.

I’d imagine it usually boils down to having a deadline and a budget, but I’m quite interested in understanding the in-between portion much more intimately.
The devs supposedly aimed for 30 FPS (but missed it, because that would be for low end hardware?)

In my experience 30 FPS is perfectly fine for a game like this, I'm not sure what do you mean about "scrolling" ?

It's the much more fast paced, mostly first person games that really need those 60+ FPS...
There is no shortage of titanium ore. Titanium is the 9th most abundant element in the earths crust, at roughly .5%.

There was at the time a severe shortage of usable titanium refined metal. Refining Titanium is much more difficult than aluminum.

The soviets had over invested in the ability to produce it, so it was more economic to get it from them than try to produce the capacity here.
I'm not even the target market for this and I completely understand the feeling there. There's a lot of people who just have no conception of computing hardware anymore. People who are tied to AWS and have spent their entire careers working with AWS and now simply believe with a passion that "that's just how it is" as AWS continues to raise prices while their own cost of compute continues to get cheaper and cheaper. This is a race to the bottom.

This is a hot take, but I think Moore's law/Wright's Law has actually been disastrous for the entire field of software engineering even while it's been an amazing boon to software businesses.
Many things may quake, friends.
Well, they both use the same engine. That might be a hint. Yes, to be clear, I'm talking about Unity.