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I'm pretty sure most parents (nowadays) will reach the exact opposite conclusion after reading your comment: the game should be rated as ESRB 17+ and banned for a young child.
Motion blurred backgrounds naturally convey speed or motion. Animation, especially anime, heavily relies on this technique. The subject is stationary relative to the frame, and the background moves. The blurrier the background, the more speed is implied. Of course this is partially to save on production costs, but it is also a very effective technique. If we are tracking a moving subject with our eyes in real life, we spend less effort on processing the background. Honestly, who cares about the detail in the asphalt? I think the blur does a great job framing the subject.
>So all this tells us is that you are someone who personally finds Elon credible. Given your own stated views of China, this seems like just confirmation bias.

Could be. I'm asking you to watch that statement and judge for yourself. I don't believe or trust Elon utterly and completely. I'm not even close to being a huge fan. But from watching that statement I do both agree with him and believe he is being honest in that specific case.

>I see no evidence that you have the expertise to make this claim. It’s just an opinion you are stating as fact.

I'm Chinese by race. I'm born in the US, grew up in the US, lived in China for years.

But what I'm saying here is more common sense. Look at hollywood. There's a huge market in China for hollywood movies. So hollywood does pander to Chinas business requirements. What do you see in Hollywood movies? Do you see people fawning over the greatness of China? No. In hollywood you just see movies with complete absence of criticism against China. This is in stark contrast to the American media and cultural landscape which hollywood usually reflects accurately.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/09/how-holl...

So just use your own eyes in all the movies you watch. Hollwood panders to China by not criticising china. They don't pander to China by praising China.

That is physical evidence.
The people from other countries who are genuine hackers aren't qualified enough to get approved for H-1B visas.
Public transit does not work in a place like Montana or Wyoming. Sorry. Too large, too sparsely populated.

Same reason it won't work for most of Texas either. It's fine in Dallas or Austin, parts of Fort Worth... it doesn't scale to Lubbock or New Braunfels.

A lot of people have no interest in living in your concrete jungle... myself included.
Using a reversible hash function to store encoded keys is certainly a domain-specific optimization, but integer keys are so common that I don't understand why I don't see this optimization more often. For non-integer keys, you can just store truncated hash codes to eliminate hash function calls in most cases (note that the hash value is needed both to calculate the preferred bucket and to determine the order of entries in that bucket). The smaller the table, the smaller the truncated hash codes can be. When you resize the table, you can increase the truncated hash code size if necessary (one bit for each doubling, which you can amortize by adding a byte every 8 doublings). This of course requires rehashing all keys, but conventional hash tables already rehash all keys on resizing.
There isn't a problem with companies using software licensed under the MIT. There's a problem with the developer who made it: they're devaluing software as a whole. If companies get into the habit of receiving software for free, without any limitations, they value software as a whole less.

In contrast, a good, upstanding developer publishing under the GPL/LGPL/AGPL doesn't create the same negative externality: they establish that the cost of using open source software is contributing to open source software. Which should be the cost of open source software. Want functionality added to a project? Add it yourself, or hire somebody to add it, and then share the result openly. The original person who wrote the code is a pretty compelling candidate for that contract, but far from the only person available.
I feel anxious and excited just thinking of clicking this link. But it’s a unique kind of anxious I haven’t felt in many years… I think I trace it most recently to when I met my wife in-person for the first time. That bus ride…

Without even participating you sent me on a journey. Thank you and Well done.
Actual production figures are what determines the supply of batteries available, not what the factories hypothetically could produce if they had unlimited inputs. Your factory could make 1000 GWh of batteries per year, but if you only have enough input materials to build 500 GWh then that extra capacity is useless.
They successfully kicked the can into the future. That is arguably the best approach to technical debt: wait until you can wait no longer but failure is not a result. And they have deep pockets where millions per day in spend is immaterial ($384B in annual revenue, $167B in profit).
> These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features

It doesn't seem to directly require comporting with someone's limited view of how a particular app is supposed to work
Ask HN: How to build infinite grid in the browser?
If you wanted to build a tool in the browser that allowed you to add, edit, connect, and move elements on an infinite grid like 1) https://natto.dev/example/2444ffca064a4890a7f05ca1de386c5a and 2) https://stately.ai/registry/new, where would you start? How would you build an infinite grid? I kinda expected to find an open source library with the base functionality, but I've turned up nothing so far.
Why Intel adopted AMD's x86-64 ISA (the Inquirer, 2003)
How is it theatre? Do Firefox's containers not actually isolate Facebook from the rest of your browsing? I don't really understand your gripe.
> Manifest V3 doesn't get rid of the permissions that allow an extension to spy on you.

Yes, but extensions have to go through review to be in supported channels, and review will absolutely look at over-entitlement of submitted extensions.
> a fat 250lb'er

Honestly, I'd worry more about that seat. Bike seats can pinch nerves even if you're not a big guy, and if you are, you probably want to be careful with a narrow seat like that.
I know this is a dumb comment, but I am entertained by the idea of some entity enjoying eating the universe like I would enjoy eating an oyster.
I genuinely agree, especially for gamers of my particular demographic who knew Final Fantasy VI as "Final Fantasy III".

I would like to point out, though, that there are plenty of games that the English-speaking world didn't get, at least not on their initial release, and there is one in particular that I want to highlight here as I don't see it get the fanfare I think its owed.

That game is Dragon Quest V, which takes a sampling of the mature themes you highlighted from Final Fantasy VI (and then some), but has coated them in a layer of whimsy that gives the whole experience the feeling of an oddly compelling fairy tale. I highly recommend it if you still have the time and patience for JRPGs. (And if you don't, the movie Dragon Quest Your Story is available in English on Netflix and is based on Dragon Quest V, albeit with a bit of a controversial addition towards the end.)

I'd also like to highlight Earthbound as a curiously mature JRPG for the time. I like to cite it as an example of a game that is more about the journey than the destination. It's not about saving the world, it's about painting cows blue and the third strongest mole and bubble monkeys. But it's also about accepting the world as it is, facing things that you might not be ready to face, the impermanence of everything, and making sure to stop and take a coffee break every now and then.
> For the things that you have deep knowledge on you will sometimes find yourself solving a problem just by constructing sentences.

That's what rubber duck debugging is, no?

LLMs are rubber ducks that can talk back, for better or worse.
I have no doubt that driving a car would be very convenient, but how would that choice affect my neighbors? Because car traffic in the stroads around here make our homes noisy, our air polluted and our streets unsafe for children to play and be independent.

It's inconceivable to me that my kids can't bike to school because of all the car traffic around it... caused by parents dropping off their kids to school. Cars increase the safety of the people inside them at the detriment of everybody else.

We can thankfully begin to hear the death rattles of car-dependent urban planning and our cities will be much better once it's behind us.
The problem I’ve found with moca is that every time I’ve tried it (3x now), there’s always something going on behind the walls that ends up completely ruining it. Someone put filters or splitters in, or something to that extent, and it turns out there’s insane packet loss or sub MB speed or it just doesn’t work for some reason.
Wasn't DEC doing that with VAX/VMS 40 years ago with VAXclusters?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMScluster
NATO had invasion plans? I thought the plans were defensive since the Warsaw Pact was expected to have a superior land force.
Last year the DoD's CFO Mike McCord said "I am disappointed that we didn't show more progress this year" https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-disappointed-failed-audit-ag... And this year he said "Things are showing progress, but it's not enough". https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-audit-sixth-... The improvements are too gradual.
Well that goes back to my point that you do not need to use a bike all day every day for everything. A few years back, here it snowed like two feet in a day. I did not, in fact, ride bikes that day!
> Public transport is never door to door and there are always changeovers and cancellations, while self driving cars on demand can be door to door and is far less dependant on whether there's a labour dispute or leaves on the tracks.

My city's automated metro comes every 90 seconds at rush hour, and every 3 minutes the rest of the day. The commute from my old neighborhood was 25 minutes including walking, and now that I moved to the suburbs I added a 10 minute bus ride to get to the station.

My parents recently gave me their old car, and it's fun to have it for weekend adventures. (I'm not an anti-car extremist!) But for commuting to work it isn't much better to be sitting in traffic while the train zips past.

This infrastructure wasn't all that expensive to build and your city could have it too. The only special requirement to make it succeed is to rezone the areas around stations for high density housing, so they'll have lots of built-in demand.
Crazy how being in the US (not a super dense area like NYC but still a big city) and reading this headline immediately results in a disconnect for me.

I don't believe I have ever encountered a moped in the wild, and I've never even seen an e-bike (literally would not be able to describe what it looks like to you if you paid me, other than "a bike with two wheels and a handlebar, I assume").
Also, the post ww2 US period is unique in that the rest of the world either didn’t have skilled manufacturing at all or not at the scale the Americans had immediately after the war. Everyone else was bombed or not fully developed yet - it’s hard to draw universal lessons from the American experience, but it makes sense to look at the other nations that progressed after that. Like Japan for example, which was industrialized but industrialized further up the value chain after WW2
Haha, but it is though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-v2-qyCc8

"Throwing Good Money After Bad Car Infrastructure - Wonderland Road" - on the road widening project of Wonderland Road in Toronto.
True but if you don’t care about another power brick on both ends… it’s a quick, dirty, fast and effective way to bring wired Ethernet to every room with a cable jack.
Apple doesn't believe the App Store is the driving factor for users installing applications.

They believe the App Store is one part of the total value of the iOS platform, and one which they chose to monetize.

And while the Mac App Store is a solid counter example to "do users value this?", the other counter-example is the Play Store, where, despite the availability of side-loading on Android, the Play Store is still, by far, the preferred way that users download and install applications on their Android device.
Nobody I know wants to root their phone. Me neither.

Again, same market pressure, a useful actually used feature will never be removed because people will not buy the device.

Most people don't care about replaceable batteries, headphone jacks or rooting.

In fact not allowing rooting is net benefit for the vast majority because it prevents spyware being installed on the device by a controlling partner, ...
> You can't patch the C-core, can you? Another necessary implementation-detail.

The C core contains low-level things or performance-sensitive things that one really doesn't want to patch. Nevertheless, lots of things in the C core are configurable and extendable through hooks.

> Except more ability, more heritage, more users... At the end, it's all a matter of managing the tradeoffs, the implementation-details.

Regarding heritage, you can't get more than Enacs has, which was around when GUI didn't even exist yet.

Users who are put off by the choice of configuration language are unlikely to be productive extension writers [edit: in any language].
And suburbs are not built around public transit anymore, those old enough to have been have mostly shut it down.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb
We spend half our lives trying to find that place where the demons are few and apart.
Enabling the camera?
Defies all reason.
Yeah, it just seems like we've spent an inordinate amount of time on things that would either (1) save what amounts to peanuts in the context of the Army and DoD budgets or (2) not save any money at all.

I guess the primary purpose of the audit is to make all the numbers add up, and maybe that can inform cost-saving decisions down the road, like you said about warehouse storage space(?).

I'd rather see a number of "elephant in the room" programs ruthlessly cut, or processes changed, to start saving many billions of dollars now.
I haven't experienced the "facts" you describe - which makes me think they are opinions, or personal perceptions on pretty standard product practices, rather than facts.

Whenever there is a major update, they put a big button for me to enable Bing and a smaller button for me to not do that, and I just need to click on the smaller button. They sometimes enable brand new features I don't want by default, but they do that to make features discoverable; in years of Windows use, all I needed to do is disable the things I didn't want.

I'm not a Windows fanboy. It's just an operating system, not a way of life. While it does have some things I don't like, I'm quite productive using it and I'm a satisfied user.

If it wasn't trivial to disable/reject these things, Bing would have a 50%+ desktop market share and that's not what we see. People aren't going in mass from Windows to Linux/Mac, what is happening instead is that desktop OSs are becoming less and less useful as people who used to be desktop users do everything they need on mobile platforms.
NYC is one of the safest places in the US...

and even with fairly poor mass transit system - it's still is incredibly good by American standards.

I moved from NYC an hour north, to be more isolated than the "impersonal big cities". I barely know any of my neighbors - because there are no sidewalks and everyone is forced to drive for anything.

Car dependence kills people, kills communities and reduces your QoL.
> As such most ebikes give the same fitness benefit but let you go faster

This is simply not true. A pedal-assist bike will go faster with the same amount of W put into the pedals, yes. But will people put in the same amount of W if 60 % will get you to your "target speed"? I doubt it. And then you get less health benefits for the same distance traveled.

On my 8 kilometer commute I average 150 W. Not because I use it as exercise. That's just where I find my comfortable level of output. Every time I've ridden on ebikes I've put in much, much less effort. I'd be surprised if I put in even a third of the energy. That's great if you just need a mode of transport. Bikes are practical, efficient, and planning for them improves cities. Even ignoring the potential health benefits. But claiming that a pedalassist bike gives the same fitness benefits just doesn't pass the smell test.
I wish I could use DataGrip. I work in health IT but the database is over 1 TB and literally has over 1 thousand tables. DataGrip basically crashes.

I refunded my purchase.
If you've lived in NYC for the last decade this is completely obvious. First came CitiBike, then came Vision Zero, and now years later we have growing infrastructure to support new methods of transportation. Is it perfect? Oh god no. But it IS so much better than ten years ago.

It's also not happening because we're a bunch of flower loving hippies. Instead it's pure economics and practicality. Faster, more enjoyable, and cheaper that both cars or public transport.

Electric transportation with appropriate infrastructure is more practical.
I think it just sits in the mutli-ghz bands. It shouldn’t conflict with cable, which uses lower frequency bands. You just gotta make sure to install a low pass filter at your demarcation point so you aren’t broadcasting your MoCA stuff beyond your home.

You also have to use appropriate splitters that are rated for the top ends of the spectrum.
There's no difference here. Adblockers need to continually update their blocklists; if a hard limit is put on blocklist length, then the adblocker's job is being prevented.
> No thanks. Also, some people like cars. Deal with it, i'm not ditching for an e-bike or whatever.

I don't think it's really about taking away peoples choices, just mostly about policy impacts.

Currently car ownership and sub/exurban housing are subsidized in various direct and indirect ways. If policies changed and other things were emphasized instead, you could still choose to live in the same way, it would just be more expensive.
It would be nice if Apple dove into the open source chat assistant ecosystem, sorta-kinda like they did with Apple Maps.

Being Apple, I'm sure they are trying to do everything from scratch "better," but I think they could have already improved on Siri with Whisper, an open source LLM and some TTS out of the box.
This is exactly what you wrote, a vision. The first major obstacle is our urge to lower the effort one needs to get through the day doing all the chores, groceries, work etc. If you tell someone that now they need to move their lazy ass, and ride a bike for a some for kilometers, a couple of times a week and then some more for the so called „greater good”, I’d expect a lot of push back.
> Running low-voltage ethernet through an attic or crawlspace is within the skills of anyone with functioning limbs.

Except the whole point of his post was that he didn't know how to do it competently, there's no way he wants to enter the crawlspace, so has resorted to wacky workarounds.

So, no, it clearly isn't within the skill (or desire) of anyone, but many would rather resort to hackery and hubris rather than pay someone to do it correctly.

I'll counter that and say there's probably minimum wage coders in India who write equal or better code than you at 1/10th of the pay, certainly possible as they have two functioning hands.
I have written a rudimentary implementation to avoid external dependencies. If you don't mind, a quick google comes up with a couple:

https://github.com/vultix/ts-results

https://github.com/badrap/result
In this case, saying "I emptied the trashcans trash" and there are multiple cans, wouldn't clearly indicate that I only emptied one vs all of them.
Around 8% total fees in France as well. Property taxes are next to nothing as well compared to the US.
I've been out of Google for a year now so I can share this story:

I created the AI suggestion chip at Google, which combined with an internal project called Jane, became the Google Assistant. At the time Sundar was desperate for a narrative to counter Alexa in front of investors and wanted a HUGE I/O announcement, so off we sprinted.

But I went to the executives at the time in charge and said look, this really isn't going to be an assistant if it doesn't have the APIs into services that users need to accomplish actual tasks. Sharing some information and changing the music isn't what a butler does, a butler anticipates your needs and executes on them -- and we can't do that until we have the APIs to anticipate and execute.

I was, of course, ignored, because in my naiveness at the time and I didn't realize it didn't matter what the assistant DID, it mattered what the narrative to investors was about its potential. So 2017 I/O Sundar announces the assistant and it looks great inside Allo, and it's a great demo -- mission accomplished.

Now 6 years+ later, it's a stagnant, overspent team across the space -- because why? Because it can't do anything for users. All these years and billions later it still can't do anything important -- it has no user journey.

And it took me equally as long to realize, that still doesn't matter. FAANG has gotten so large that the stock bump that comes from narrative outpaces actual revenue from working products. It makes for a crazy world... because ironically Google ALSO invented the truly disruptive transformer technology behind the LLM and when we tried to launch that with MINA, Sundar blocked it! Too disruptive, no narrative, too scary...

I don't know the lesson to be learned here, but wow, it just makes me want to give up...
There's an audiobook version...

Edit: And a TV version, apparently.
I love it, even though I find it terrifying.
I could see it now, every time you run yarn install it charges you $1 USD per dependency.
What are you proposing exactly? Hire more accountants? Shut down the military until they pass an audit?
The 7 line extension cost over $3 billion dollars in 2023 terms to build 1.5 miles of track from Times Sq to Hudson Yards and build one new station there. I defy anyone to conclude this represented good value.
zsnes is an older SNES emulator that definitely in its earlier days had some issues with transparent/translucent layers and had keys to turn each layer off. I think I remember needing to use those toggles for the same fog layers in Chrono Trigger that you're talking about (though I definitely wasn't on a 486). I think esnes may be a little bit older?
At the cost of some portion of your future revenue
package-list-packages does not do network operations in the foreground unless package-menu-async is nil. It's t by default. package-refresh-contents does, but I've always been able to C-g to abort at any time.
I do think the one area that Alphabet is still genuinely innovating is Waymo. With Cruise sidelined, if they can manage to turn it into something that makes money (have ridden in SF, and the tech seems to work great), it could be up there with Youtube & Android, maybe even bigger.
>Not everyone lives in large cities with whole mass transit systems or works the usual 9-5. Even in large urban areas it's tricky to get around past a certain time. I remember working unexpected shifts and later staring at closed metro stations, having to walk in the rain to get home.

These conversations are difficult to have here.

You get people from large metropolitan areas who have no clue how "the deplorables" live, making calls to "ban cars".

"I can walk around and talk to my neighbours and it's so quiet!". Yeah, I have all that where I live, and I own two cars.
On an ebike that distance is reasonable. On a regular bike it is possible, but not reasonable. I have a 7 mile trip to work, I have used a regular bike for it, but it takes too long and so I wouldn't do it often. On my ebike it is a reasonable trip to work, my truck isn't that much faster (and is much harder to drive)