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Even with steam I can buy a game on steam and install it on steam. Then when I go run it, I need to first install another company's launcher. This includes signing up, confirming my email, etc.

Even single player games will require you launch, sign up, and auth with EA's servers before you can play said game.
Intel up 65% this year. Not too far from their all time high now.
I would argue that aircraft are massively inefficient. Lets just look at the biggest cause, pilots. When flying the aircraft has to deal with cruse and takeoff and landing. Basically, the less you have to re-work the aircraft for takeoff/landing the more you can optimize it for cruse. Looking at just one thing, flaps, it becomes obvious how much aircraft could be improved by radical changes. When taking off, flaps are set much less aggressively than when landing. This is because most of the additional lift and subsequent reduction in stall speed, come with just a little flap extension. In landing however the flaps are extended considerably more. This is not for stall issues, but just so the pilots can see the runway. By increasing the flaps we are increasing the angle of attack of the aircraft and that allows the pilots to drop the nose, so they can see the numbers better. Land flaps are a huge change to the configuration of the aircraft and require a lot of structural changes to happen, just so pilots can see. Those changes cost cruse performance massively. There are many other things like this in air frame design, materials, etc. Just look at the experimental aircraft world compared to certified designs. The differences in performance are massive but they don't come to market because the industry is so stuck in its rut.
Wait, wait, wait does MW2: Mercenaries run on DOS? The copy I have runs on Windows, do I need different version?
Sony uses LG panels for their high-end TVs, but with custom image processors and heatsinks that are pretty nice.
It is okay to change you mind when given new evidence or the circumstances change.
Same! At first I thought it might be a Firefox problem, but it's equally broken in Chrome.

Predictably it's a React site, using some widget library (MUI) that is going out of it's way to provide a text input that is inferior to what's built in to any modern browser. Great!
I really don't understand what you're getting at. I don't disagree with you.

The difference between this website existing for MAX and not for others is the repetition of issues though, to the point that now more people have had enough.

When the glass spills, the last drop might be the trigger for the glass finally spilling but it's the accumulation of water that's the issue, not just that one final drop.
> In theory, there is no domain (or finite set of domains) that cannot be accurately modeled using tuples of things and their relations.

That seems right to me, but is it really provably true?
When Takata airbags failed across the industry, we blamed Takata, even if the manufacturers had to clean up the mess.
When I ask what it knows about me it gives details that I didn’t provide - if it’s not hallucinating then it’s leaking data across chats.
Because other countries have—in general—a demonstrably poorer track record than major airlines in the U.S. for a wide variety of factors, including poorer training programs, maintenance regimes, operational expectations, and sometimes cultural norms that interfere with good CRM (crew resource management).

I'll address the elephant in the room and say that I don't think it's coincidence that the two airframe losses in the MAX 9 were with Indonesian and Ethiopian carriers and not American or European ones, despite American and European carriers having received—as far as I can tell—the bulk of the deliveries of this airframe and at least a plurality (if not majority) of hours in use (if someone else can find good data on this I'd be grateful). I suspect that more resources put toward pilot training played a meaningful difference here. For example, the first officer of the Ethiopian flight had less than 200 hours of flight experience. This would be completely unacceptable for a U.S. major.

I want to be clear that I am not saying that it's the pilots' fault, but that the swiss-cheese model relies on multiple overlapping failures. The additional resources spent on training, maintenance, operations, and CRM at American and European airlines in general ensures fewer overlaps and thus fewer incidents.
The end of 0% interest rates: what it means for tech startups
Looks like the "d" in "git" was upside down from the start...
We might be doing fine on average, despite it. Yet, there are seemingly links to autoimmune diseases and cancers, and still more research to do.

So maybe a good % of the population could be doing more fine without the micro plastics?
The Mongol Khanates were indiscriminate murderers who burned the library of Baghdad and ended the Islamic Golden Age.

They also destroyed proto-democratic cities like Novgorod in the proto-Russian territory, creating a culture of 'might is right' strongmen with absolute power.

Why are we trying to rehabilitate their image, exactly?
I worked as an electrical contractor for several years, before and after an IBEW apprenticeship. I think this is a fabulous idea, and hope that they'll allow non-citizens to participate without retalatory citizenship issues.

In particular, I hope they'll look into common builder practices, e.g. LLC for each structure/subdivision.
Each time you clean your dryer lint trap I think you inhale more microplastics than a lifetime of food.
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If you look at the actual data, tofu had the third lowest concentration of microplastic particles per gram (0.03, vs 0.02 for pork loin chop and 0.01 for whole chicken breast).

The press release does a disservice to the study by referring to the highly processed group as a whole and not excluding tofu. For reference, the breaded shrimp and fish sticks were measured to have 1.2 and 0.26 particles per gram.

Table 3.7 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974912...

Regardless if a processed food like tofu has minimal plastic concentration, I would assume minimally processed whole plant food like beans and nuts would also have low microplastic exposure. The study found little total plastic from packaging, their evidence pointed towards the processing.
The good thing is you'll never know.
Artificial Intelligence - a Modern Approach was published in 1995.

It should be fairly obvious that what we think of as 'conventional AI' might have changed in the last 28 years, even if we hadn't just been living through a twelve month or so explosion in the availability and power of generative AI models that transformed what people associate the term with.
Looks like something out of Alien
That orange was incredibly hard on my eyes
> There are a surprising amount of that on various discord servers.

I'm never surprised anymore by how much productive discussion is entombed in Discord servers, just sad. Servers are hidden from the public, not web-searchable, barely searchable internally, horrible threading, notification hell, proprietary software, zero data ownership - it could hardly be a worse public discussion forum if it tried. Which makes sense because it was designed to be something else. Sigh... got a link to any of these servers that have better discussion than HN?
It might already do.
Downvoted for having compassion for people? Interesting.
Is there any medium size company that keeps all its data in 1 place?
Sometimes you just need a DBA to help you optimise your DB for your workload and future growth. In general, developers make shitty DBA's and vice versa.
Gross negligence. Claw back their wages to compensate the postmasters.
Yep, you need Google-scale for your shitty startup from the get-go. Otherwise why bother? Especially now, when who have single servers with only a few terabytes of RAM at your disposal.
You're fine to have whatever rules you want of course, but perhaps a more useful rule would be "Does this game have enough content to justify its price?" regardless of its finished-ness. There are finished games for which that answer is "No" and there are unfinished games like this one for which the answer (IMO) is "Yes".
Hell, what about the security requirements?
Looking into this now - very cool!
> People not wanting to fly this plane will change airlines purchasing decisions.

It actually may not, much, unfortunately; there's only one real competing line of products, and they're so massively backlogged that people will buy this anyway.
What games using Godot have you released?
Move Boeing back to Seattle!
This stuff is too new to have been thoroughly researched.

> What you get out of long-term human social bonding is just not something you can replace with an LLM, no matter how good they get.

Most of my interactions with friends and family are via text messaging. I have close friends that I haven't seen in person for ages because they moved across the country/world and getting to visit all of them is expensive. I realize that not everyone socializes like I do, but for the contingent of people who do, I wouldn't be surprised if this is sufficient, especially as a replacement for those ancillary friends that you just chat about hobbies with.
Not trying to be facetious or anything, but this civilization was profoundly destructive to human history.
Well, fuck, so is WiFi and three dozen other things. Means nothing. That’s what any 2.4GHz thing would have…

Also bit timing and phase are NOT software. They are very much hardware state machines in all implementations.
NASA postpones landing astronauts on the moon until at least 2026
Why don’t they read the memo before the meeting?
I bet Firefox won't be around in 10 years or less
I just double-checked and I got my initial spelling (LoRA) wrong. Its actually spelled (LoRa) (lower-case a, not an upper-case). I've edited my earlier message to correct my mistake.

LoRA is the LLM / deep learning stuff. LoRa is the radio. Hurrah, overloaded terms!
Maybe it's just not bad at all for impressions and engagement metrics?
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Emoji are not just iMessage characters.
It's hard to have a reasonable discussion when someone flippantly says an entire legal team is committing malpractice when talking about something they have no way of knowing anything about.
"Free Speech Massacre"

I thought Gizmodo was on the team ranting against X having "free speech." But now that something went wrong with it, they are on the pro "free speech" side?

We need a stronger word than hypocrite. Though, I shouldn't be surprised - G/O Media (who owns Gizmodo, Jezebel, Kotaku) is well known for being peddlers of poppycock.
For myself, I think it was true. Other grads that 'failed' either took a job in the trades, or moved back in with parents. I had a disability, trades were off the table. It wasn't really safe for me to live under the same roof as my father, so living at home was out as well.

Maybe 'living under a bridge' is hyperbolic. I'm sure I could have couch surfed, or at worst lived out of my truck, but my life back then revolved around how many weeks or months living expenses I had on hand.
Yeah, and almost all of them suck, in terms of build quality, features, privacy and software.
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A car tire is not purely rubber, it is combined with synthetic polymers derived from petroleum and petroleum derivatives (same as plastics).
I would set the date 170 years from now if I could. I think 200 years is a nice duration to live.
Quick feedback if the founders are watching this: Please allow controls on your keynote video. The video production quality looks great. But I am not watching it if I don't know if it's a 30s one or a 30minute one.
You can never have 1 database.

Something operates the database. That thing is going to need a database.

Postgres and etcd are very different. SQLite is very different. Look at this microk8s thread - https://github.com/canonical/microk8s/issues/3227 - as a canonical example. Context is they use dqlite, which is multi-master SQLite with raft. Here people come to actually use the data and it’s a disaster. Just use etcd!

Then people will deploy Postgres on top of Kubernetes. Great. Maybe they will deploy it differently, and their database is a bunch of files in /etc/. Whatever. But you can’t run Kubernetes on Postgres, you wouldn’t want to anyway, the choice to use etcd is very thoughtful. This is an environment designed to simplify the layers of bootstrapping, Kubernetes’s superpower is that it runs as much of its own stuff on top of itself as safe as it is to do so.

It still needs a database that is going to be separate from your applications, and unfortunately, for all interesting applications, the line between deployment and business-logical concerns is blurred.

So IMO, you will have multiple databases, because logical and deployment concerns are intertwined; deployment concerns need databases; and thus to solve chicken and egg, you’ll have at least 2, hopefully the 1st is super easy to administer.

Perhaps you disagree. Maybe you should use dqlite as the only database. It’s so naive to think anything is CP as long as there’s consensus in front of it. And if there’s no strong opinion about the arcane issue I just said, worse if it’s meaningless gobbledygook; or if the strong opinion is “use Postgres,” the data is screwed and the users are screwed.
There is nothing lawful about mass surveillance of Americans by the government. It's explicitly against the Constitution.
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Industrial designers can create amazing prototypes, but when a product is shipped it becomes subject to some very cruel market forces. The Nokia N-gage had huge potential, but was quickly lambasted as the ''taco phone'' due to layout decisions that broke common mobile phone paradigms.

> had a laughably ugly form, would it be used?

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is the perfect example. Love it or hate it, the aesthetics of that aircraft are far from ''normal''.
Uhh.. damning praise. I think that can be rephrased as: "It's pretty, but despite being almost the simplest thing you can imagine, it still has ridiculous, unnecessary usability problems"
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One database as source of truth, & backups that are tested. Use replication to run analysis on

Citus offered being able to have most of your database be plain postgres & then having the few tables that take up most the database be distributed

But for a small company you probably don't need scaling period
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I agree with that too, but “accountability” is a loaded concept. Hold politicians accountable for what? That depends on your vision for what America should look like.
> may be closed any day soon. It has been doing this since 1961

Kind of contradictory, no? Nobody is going to shut Private Eye down any time soon.
"Everything wrong blogs that do not support reader view"

Why does anyone create a blog like that?
>Right, so the solution is more complexity? Of course it is. Sigh

More complexity? The writer makes it very simple. Just use their product Rama.
It's _especially_ in the bottled water.
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Sometimes they're put there by the hosting provider. The blog author doesn't get the money, it all goes towards hosting costs. Which are, you know, real. Running a blog costs continuous money even if you don't have many visitors because of constant crawling, spam attacks, the need to have a machine online 24/7 etc.
This is more an advertisement for a type of database than a statement that they are unnecessary.

From what I can tell in the article it seems their differentiator is Event Sourcing and having arbitrary complex index builders on top of the events. It seems similar to EventStoreDB[1].

I have always been interested by the concept of an event sourcing database with projections and I want to build one eventually so it is interesting to see how they have approached the problem.

Also they mention on their site:

> Rama is programmed entirely with a Java API – no custom languages or DSLs.

It makes sense why they have gone this route if they want a "Turing-complete dataflow API" but this can be a major barrier to adoption. This is a big challenge with implementing these databases in my opinion because you want to allow for any logic to build out your indexes/projections/views but then you are stuck between a new complicated DSL or using a particular language.

1: https://developers.eventstore.com/server/v23.10/#getting-sta...
By my reading, it's a variant of the "Kappa architecture" (aka "event sourcing").

You have a "Depot", which is an append-only log of events, and then build arbitrary views on top of it, which they call "P-States". The Rama software promises low-latency updates of these views. Applications built on this would query the views, and submit new events/commands to the Depot.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aura-frames/id990062908

I didn’t check to see if it can play from a photo stream directly, because I prefer to use the share button in Photos to send to the app. It handles Live Photos just fine, and will put vertical photos side by side.
Imagine in countries like Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos where they dam up rivers for hydro so badly that it prevents downstream flows, wiping out the downstream natural ecology.

They also have wet/dry seasons, so for part of the year everything gets flooded, overruns the dams and wipes out whole villages.

Pretty much a complete eco disaster that few talk about.
> why are lifespans still increasing

We are burning huge amounts of fossil fuels to run the economy. This economic boon leads to longer lifetimes, at a huge but externalized and delayed cost.

> it seems like most people are doing... just fine?

Where do you live?

Outside of affluent areas, I think most people these days would laugh at such an absurd claim. We are not fine, physically or mentally.

Our soil isn't fine. Our air isn't fine. Our water isn't fine - not our wells, our rivers, our lakes, our oceans, or even our icecaps. Our species are being made extinct at 1000x the background rate of extinction. Anyone fine with this is on the ignorant side of blissful.
An even stranger but annoying problem is even if you buy 100% cotton, the stitching is usually a polyester. It is difficult to buy cotton threads for home sewing
Having listened to Musk speak on the topic: he seems to believe in community notes as an effective way to suss out truth in a less biased way. He sounds like a fan.
Negative SQL?
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I've seen plenty of departments managed by people who don't come from the background of the department. My current boss is extremely good and came from a different discipline.

Although I don't deny it can help to have the background, it is not necessary to be a good manager of something. Also seen plenty of good techies promoted to management and failing badly.
Apple should just pull that windows app/feature if they’re being this shitty with their users. That thread was infuriating.
Consider all the people who are naturally inclined or conditioned to behave like the example, and then consider that many of them will miss the subtlety.

Especially those who for whom American business culture might be foreign. "Oh, they have politeness and trust-building conventions, much like we do. This is more pleasant than Hollywood led us to believe. It seems the difference is that you also verbalize what you are doing in their conventions. Maybe that's because they are a nation with a diverse immigrant mix, so they evolved that to reduce misunderstandings, and to help integrate people to common conventions. That's nice of them, and I will be sure to emulate."

I think the subtlety on that page is tuned for humor to those who already know, not to educate or persuade those who don't.
100% cotton would seem to be widely available? Certainly for shirts, t-shirts, jumpers, trousers, socks. I don't wear anything other than cotton really for those items.

For some reason they have started putting stretchy stuff into cotton jeans - maybe style, or maybe (my pet theory) that good quality cotton is no longer economic for jean production, and so they have to use rougher cotton, which needs the stretchy stuff to be comfortable enough to wear.
What world do these deluded people live in?
Data models are restrictive

That's kind of the point. Model your data. Think about it. Don't (mis)treat your database as a "persistence layer" -- it's not. It's a knowledge base. The "restriction" in the relational model is making you think about knowledge, facts, data, and then structure them in a way that is then more universal and less restrictive for the future.

Relations are very expressive and done right is far more flexible than the others named there. That was Codd's entire point:

https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf

"Future users of large data banks must be protected from
having to know how the data is organized in the machine (the
internal representation) ..." and then goes on to explain how the predicate-logic based relational data model is a more universal and flexible model that protects users/developers from the static impositions of tree-structured/network structure models.

All the other stuff in this article is getting stuck in the technical minutiae of how SQL RDBMSs are implemented (author seems obsessed with indexes). But that's somewhat beside the point. A purely relational database that jettisons SQL doesn't have to have the limitations the author is poking at.

It's so frustrating we're still going over this stuff decades later. This was a painful read. People developing databases should already be schooled in this stuff.
It's a backend development platform that can handle all the data ingestion, processing, indexing, and querying needs of an application, at any scale. Rather than construct your backend using a hodgepodge of databases, processing systems, queues, and schedulers, you can do everything within Rama within a single platform.

Rama runs as a cluster, and any number of applications (called "modules") are deployed onto that cluster. Deep and detailed telemetry is also built-in.

The programming model of Rama is event sourcing plus materialized views. When building a Rama application, you materialize as many indexes as you need as whatever shapes you need (different combinations of durable data structures). Indexes are materialized using a distributed dataflow API.

Since Rama is so different than anything that's existed before, that's about as good of a high-level explanation as I can do. The best resource for learning the basics is rama-demo-gallery, which contains short, end-to-end, thoroughly commented examples of applying Rama towards very different use cases (all completely scalable and fault-tolerant): https://github.com/redplanetlabs/rama-demo-gallery
> It's even in the bottled water

The bottled water that comes in plastic bottles? Not that surprising?
100% cotton shirts and pants are not that rare.
I'd love for someone to prove me wrong here but I have a Google Home that I'd like to replace with an iPad. One thing it does beyond just showing pictures is brighten and dim the screen according to ambient light. When the lights are off it dims entirely into a night mode-like display that just shows the time. I've not seen an iOS app capable of the same (I'm not even sure if API access allows it?)
interesting question.. how many miles have 737max flown without any incidents?
I find the profit metric more useful.
I mean you can believe what you want but NTSB literally had a guy at a podium say into the mic last night that there is so far no evidence "the bolts were ever there", around the 17-18 minute mark if you have nothing better to do. Good luck with your investments.