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> Our strategy will more tightly integrate esports, music, and entertainment with our games. Esports isn't just about competition; it's about the highs, the lows, and the communities that flourish around the games.

From my perspective, Riot Games began a course for the rocks the moment they started chasing esports and "meta". Imagine developing a game where you apply punitive actions to players for selecting game play paths you openly allowed them to pick. "Oops! you're having fun slightly wrong so enjoy this ban". I could get over some of this in support of high stakes gameplay objectives, but if it's all the time at every level it's like a cancer. The exact moment I stopped playing League of Legends was the day they released the patch that said we could no longer stack items. I felt the fun go away like a light switch being flipped off.

I am done with consuming games as of 2024. I used to game more than I worked not too long ago. The MBAs and related types have completely sucked the fun out of the room. I feel for the developers and artists who will be job hunting this year. Their leaders have failed them on many levels and over such a long period of time. LoL was the game to play for a solid decade and there isn't any obvious reason it couldn't have continued for another.

Blizzard and Overwatch are a carbon copy of this if you need one. In this case, the original game didn't even survive. They had to increment the integer and completely kill & bury the original title to justify their insanity to investors. The only viable path I can see at this point is to start a game studio from the ground up and avoid all external capital by burning gigantic piles of my own cash. Fun at all costs.
FIFAs achievement was licensing the original kit and players of basically every professional football team on earth. They monetize that fandom
Their feedback is welcome!
its a ground effect plane - they can be a bit more efficient vs traditional ferries and airplanes especially in a role were it just relatively short hops between islands.

Also since its effectively float-able by design it has the potential to be very safe even if its propulsion breaks during the trip. you could just send another plane to take the passengers off then take the broken plane home pulled by a ship. This capability should be designed in.

The limited trip length might even lend itself to concepts that are fully or partially battery powered.

one downside is that the plane might not be able to be used in rougher weather.
Many offices have taps with instant hot water dispensers. Or just refillable dispenser, popular in Japan - IIRC they don’t waste much energy due to insulation.
Before AI fakes, people used to claim that images and videos are photoshopped and CGI. Nothing has changed, only the bar for entry is lower.
You can read old George Orwell essays about his experience with the media in the Spanish Civil War that sound like they could have been written yesterday. He talks about how he felt the media was entering some sort of post truth era even then from the blatant lies and total split in reality the newspapers would have amongst themselves
The "ancient" code probably already speaks IPv6 due to whatever method used to hook IP connectivity to its VTAM interfaces. Or due to its age it has multiprotocol support anyway.

It's the BSD Sockets using code that is a problem - the OSes has supported v6 for a long time now.
Bed-tents are a thing
There's at least a few? E.g.

* Lexical scoped imports a-la python

* Pass state to modules explicitly, which I think is what newspeak was doing (i.e there's no global state)

Either way you'd lose ruby's "let's add methods to Kernel and have them pop up everywhere" so it's a trade off.

Worth nothing: there are a few proposals around to have some sort of namespaces in Ruby, but it's unclear they'll ever happen.

E.g.

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19744
What I propose is not the same scale.

Thing with returning tv would be more “I did not watch 10 days this month, reimburse these for me.”.

I don’t agree it should go this direction.

If someone did not even open list of movies for whole month or two that is a reasonable question to ask - should they get money back or at least a question via email if they really want any to keep the subscription.
There are plenty of 'middile rated schools, and even top 50' that have things like target average grades. It's also not uncommon across the world for entire programs to have dropout rates around 50%, it's just rare in reputable anglophone schools.
Check out the Python bytecode in the article, and remember that bytecode is only generated once from the text of the program (but executed many times). "{}" is translated into a simple "make a dict" instruction.
Empowering Product Managers and Engineers in Job Interviews
Depends on the climate.

Houses built in southern Italy are like that (white paint, shutters on windows, ...)

But in the Sweeden the opposite, optimize for heat.
I had this database in mind too, thanks! Btw Bard has deterministic output as I learned
Absolute zero is very far away for all practical purposes to act as a bound.
It’s all electric, yes
The benefit of having X now rather than later can still be more valuable than the price drop.
Isn't a 1040-EZ free and takes 10 minutes? My tax situation is kind of complicated and costs me like $150 for all of the things TurboTax finds, figures out, calculates, submits, and all in a nice UI. Can someone please explain to me what is so horrible about paying a reasonable fee to figure out some complicated stuff that amounts to 80+ pages of filing docs? And free if it's EZ? And free if low income?
Drop those ideas. Ideas are cheap. If it relevant in two year's time it will resurface naturally.
OP may have been thinking of the Russian ekranoplans, which are similar nautical ground effect vehicles capable of 400± mph.
Thanks for confirming! Sounds like my error handling logic needs work.

I built it from London so the sky-area I calibrated it for might be really small for someone in the rural Americas
Yeah this is so annoying! It especially seems to happen with 3rd party music player apps.
I submit it’s under-noted: many people want very different venues for generating an audience than for consuming information/content, a phenomena that’s gone some kind of parabolic since there started being serious money in being an influencer.

You see this in the way high-ish follower count folks are constantly pruning their follows to signal some kind of ratio. I guess that signal produces some outcome.

HN’s staying power as just about the best forum of remotely general interest might have a lot to do with there not being followers (along with a crack team of elite mods and other things). You can rack up karma but it’s a side quest, join date matters a bit on a boundary condition, but mostly there’s not really any raw fame factor outside a few hyper-famous folks.

I wonder if there’s any scalability past HN size on that.
One is DXVK which replaces DirectX calls with Vulkan calls
Java StringTemplates and logging, or why f-strings are not enough
One thing TFA hammers home is that NASA is not to be trusted.
Perhaps you meant the "Caspian Sea Monster" [0] or similiar Ekranoplans? [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea_Monster

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle
and people are wondering why v6 never took off...
That's not what GP said.

Of course IPv4 devices wouldn't be able to use IPv6 addresses, that would be impossible. But it is possible to "keep" IPv4 addresses, just make a.b.c.d to correspond 0.0.a.b.c.d.
I thought the problem with the ferry was not doing the underwater environmental review
Implement account spoofing

Account spoofing is a really easy way to test for issues in production, but it also means you have to trust your support and dev teams with production data. In some industries that is a huge problem for customers. The last startup I worked with gave devs no access to production data at all (customers were all large law firms who wouldn't have bought in of it meant giving access to data). This should really be seen as a last resort; it's much, much better from a security standpoint to work assuming you can't ever access customer data. Your software will be higher quality if you do.
When I read about 90s games I realize that I at least know about pretty much every single one. Obviously I was way more of a gamer then but the biggest difference is the sheer volume nowadays. I am sure steam sees as many releases in a quarter as all of the 90s
Hey! I created a script to fine-tune gpt3.5 with all the Whatsapp discussions I had with my GF during the last year. Let's see if she will notice the difference...
I'm unfamiliar with Anglo-Saxon used like this. Do you mean people from the US?
When I don't make as much in a year, I go through all of the same exact steps just to see the standard deduction is better :D . It's a nice walk down memory lane though.
Can you explain how this is perverse incentives? Wouldn’t this actually be a good way to align incentives of the employee and the company (it makes both of them want to save money)? Or do you mean it makes the employee increase cost unnecessarily from time to time so he can reduce it later?
This is a very fair point. I think I got hung up a little on making it look like a control panel rather than making the UX good.

And you certainly aren't going crazy either, I shipped a last-minute bug-fix where I got the cloud icon the wrong way around compared to everything else
pricing was projected to be pretty cheap compared with interisland flights today
My grand father used the dots in the address!
My father used the dots in the address!
I used the dots in the address!
Henceforth every human being should use the dots in the address till heat death of the universe!
It was a mix of a time constraints we gave ourselves to finish and ship the product by mid December, keeping costs lower for us and players, while also maintaining a level of product quality that we were comfortable with. We didn't necessarily do extensive research into the options, but from what we did find we didn't believe we'd be able to have unique voices that we'd be satisfied with across 31 current characters without also having to pay top shelf prices for them or do lots of manual tweaking ourselves.

Given the silly cartoony nature of the game, the current implementation is working fine for now. We are of course always looking at options when they present themselves, and as costs go down with the advancement of tech, it's more possible we'll see our characters speaking as well someday in the near future.

That's our answer from a design and product standpoint at least. Hope it's helpful!
OSH Autodoc: make high-quality assembly instructions for CAD designs
“Bankers don’t want to work anymore.”
RIP Arno
Really appreciate the ideas!

Wondering if I can get my hands on a vision pro for #1 :)
So the problem is in the behaviour of the browser, but not the extension.

Read the code, don't update 'till you read the code, don't use the browser which knows better what is good for you.
Or they were unmortgaged home owners already - You really don't need that much money to just keep on living for a few months at that point.
Games has a more developed culture of not talking outside the company in public spaces mostly around in development games but that tends to extend beyond that as well.
ElevenLabs, a two-year-old voice technology research startup based in London, has successfully raised $80 million in a Series B funding round. The round was co-led by prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, with participation from Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Smash Capital, BroadLight Capital, and Credo Ventures. The funding aims to solidify ElevenLabs' position as a leading force in voice AI research and the deployment of innovative products.
Just to save you some time: the numbers written on the sockets indicate the size of the socket. So you don't even need to read them, just put them in order of size and you'll have them in order of number automatically.
AI replacing jobs hype is exactly like Bitcoin replacing banks hype. The hype engines are cheap to run 24x7 at global scale and are running at max efficiency these days. One day they are hyping Politicians. Next day It's aliens. Never ending with no fix in sight.
It's an ekranoplan. The USSR made several.
The actual vehicle is from a company called Regent.[1] They do have a quarter-scale prototype, and a video. This web site is from some group trying to get funding for a service.

The current Regent ekranoplan, not yet shipping, is a 12 passenger model. That seems small for an inter-island ferry. It would be faster than a ferry, but since the existing inter-island ferry routes only run about an hour, more speed may not be worth the trouble.

Probably just a tourist attraction.

[1] https://archive.is/CkcJI
If automation is an indicator (see: the Luddite movement), it will make our jobs disappear.
Yeah but that bolt Flys off on the runway and strikes the following small commuter plane in just the wrong place and you have an accident on your hands
It didn't work in practice. In many situations names don't work. One example would be games with local lan support, and you use IP addresses to make sure you are connecting to the right server. Other would be tiny embedded devices, that are not powerful enough to scan the network and need a hard-coded or user configurable IP address to connect to the right place.
Because that would be starting from scratch the migration with all the warts and less of the benefits.

About the only part that would be easier is that more people use less broken APIs compared to BSD Sockets, with getaddrinfo and similar solutions ported from XTI/Plan9 finally becoming the norm.

So no more "you need to duplicate code to add support for new IP version".

But that's still worse than migrating to v6, which has widespread hardware support in switching equipment, considerable preference in mobile networks and not only (TL;Dr it's cheaper to use v6 to carry v4 traffic using 464 stateless translation rather than other forms of CGNAT), and some IOT systems (industrial, not home stuff) are v6-only if they have IP connectivity on the embedded side at all.
> $10M USD

Hah. You take a strong starting position in the negotiations ;)
Can a ground effect plane really be more efficient than a ferry or a hyperfoil? It just seems like a boat that can carry cargo etc would be useful infrastructure instead of a fast taxi service. Pour que no los dos perhaps...

To be clear, what I read about the ferry service being shut down made it sound like Hawaii has some dysfunction preventing good and normal things from happening, just sounds like this would be less feasible
The job of people who write titles like this is to be very pedantic about word choice. I’ll have to disagree with you on this being a “plain wrong” interpretation of the given wording.
> "... anti-thetical to to the very idea of the web"

I'm genuinely curious and not trying to pick a fight here. The core idea behind html when it was first conceived was that it allowed you as the viewer to present that info in any way that you chose. You can change the font, etc to suit your own preferences.

This idea got killed by content providers who mostly want to hardwire their content layout because they know better. So where is this "idea of the web" coming from. Surely there's no longer a central core idea, it's just what each of us make of it, and as a result we're often in conflict about how things go.

Did choice get formally taken away? Does the content provider get to choose how it's done now?
It's cheap and sleazy to steal a name from another project to ride it's fame.
Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet software that offers a wide range of benefits across various industries and professions. Here are some key benefits of using Microsoft Excel:
1. Data Organization and Management:
• Excel provides a structured platform for organizing and managing large sets of data. It allows users to input, sort, and filter data, making it easy to handle and analyze information.
Housing (and plumbing, electrical, etc).
One week per year of service is so standard, no company is going to be shamed by it. That doesn't mean it's not lame.
So then the question becomes: does a theoretical "boat with electric motor" succeed more or less with energy efficiency. I say theoretical, but I feel like you could take any ferry and replace the motor with an electric one? Maybe that's not true.
I assumed the average New York Times reader is above average in intellect and could appreciate an irrefutable word choice, like “advanced” in place of “confirmed.” I could be wrong.
The only option for AST expanding isn't just competing for Starlink's customers. There's also growing the market as a whole. Satellite internet is still a tiny market so there's a lot of potential there.

It's entirely possible for there to be more money in providing launch services to AST even if it kills off Starlink, IF it grows the market enough.
SpaceX won't block them. No one is getting to SpaceX pricing to LEO
Here's my guesses as to what's going on:

1. The recruiter got fired between reaching out and the call.

2. The recruiter discussed you with a hiring manager, and it turns out the hiring manager didn't think you were a good fit for the role.

3. The role got eliminated, and the recruiter just found out about it.

4. The recruiter is disorganized.

5. The recruiter had something else come up during that time slot, and decided it was easier to ghost you than reschedule.
I had a look at this passage of the talk. Generally S3 is more obvious for OLAP where insert are very batchy and reads are large.

For OLTP, the equation is less obvious.
I'd be scared to suffer from the cost associated with PUT/GET requests.
(Pushing once every 30s or so equates to a few dollars per month.)

Since Scylla is based on an LSM-Tree (I think), I would have expected the talk to be about saving sstables on S3 but keeping the WAL on disk... But the slides seem to point to pushing the WAL to S3.
Also apps and or websites pausing my music but play no sound… ugh. I want an iPod.app to come along.

Tiny player does nice but the os level issues are getting insane.

Also apps that have their data deleted (Apple tv infuse app, play:sub iOS) because the os said so. I have plenty of space but things get deleted. I want to FILL my 256 phone please.
Do people think the NY Times reports hearsay as fact?

Here, straight from the horse's mouth:

https://awrestaurants.com/blog/aw-third-pound-burger-fractio...
Yeah at that point just pirate things. Much easier and I don't think even the most moral person could argue against pirating something you can legally access anyway.
"Complicating our efforts, our child does not share a last name with either my wife or me. We gave our child a different last name to avoid picking either of our surnames or a lengthy compound name.
A side-effect of the new surname is additional privacy: our child’s first and last name is a truly unique combination. "

I think this is extremely bad advice.

1. First of all, having a unique name means that you are easy to find. I spent some time finding former classmates. Those with common names are practically impossible to find if you don't have any other keywords, like an employer. For some there are hundreds or thousands of people with the same name, typically in the same age group. The worst ones are those whose name is the same as a famous person. One of my former class mate has the same name as a poet who is famous enough to have several streets and even a school named after him. No chance finding him. Another classmate has the same name as a lawyer who seems to be in hundreds of news articles and court documents. One shares the name of a record company manager, who also seems to be all over the internet.

But those who have very unusual names are trivial to find. As soon as they are mentioned anywhere on the internet, they are at the top of every google search.

If you want to protect your child's privacy, call her Taylor Swift.

2. Not sharing the last name of the kid makes your life more complicated. Every time you cross a border you need to proof to the immigration officer it's your kid. You can't easily open a savings account, get insurance.. there are many situations where you can easily do things for your kid when you share a last name, no questions asked, but if the last name is different you must proof guardianship.
This is the same as if you get a /24 from your ISP, but the ISP has the .1 address on their router. In this case, you can't (easily) subnet the v4 range either, since the ISP router expects to be able to arp for all the 254 ips, meaning you have to resort to trickery in order to make subnetting almost work.

Same goes for ipv6. If you get one single net (and a 'small' one at that), you once again have to resort to trickery to subnet at your end.

Preferably in both cases, you would get a small (/31 for v4, /127 for v6) transport net that goes to the ISP router or your first fw device, then the ISP routes the real net /24 (or whatever size you can get from it on v6) behind your IP on the /31,/127 so that your first device can split this in any way you prefer.
Globalstar said they paid 64 million
Good Ol' Notepad with AI
This is also something I don’t understand. Would like to know the answer
Nothing presented here or at the WWDC keynote makes me eager to pick this device up. The 180k+ units sold seem more tied to its status as a symbol rather than a compelling innovation. The only killer feature is the 4k per eye resolution.

What I've seen here is basically apps in a box at the same distance and size of roughly a 100" TV. What I really wanted to see out of the headset which I don't see is:

1. "pass through" mode of a physical keyboard and mouse into the virtual world

2. apps leveraging more use of the real estate provided by 180 degree+ FOV

3. apps using depth perception

For instance, a showcase of Final Cut Pro featuring the timeline prominently in focus "closer" to the user, the monitor showing the preview at far distance, in mid-range depth the scopes for color grading and to the immediate peripheries the media library and inspector.

The eye movement for UI focus and the pinch-to-interact coordination don't feel very intuitive to me. And based on what The Verge is reporting it just looks unnatural. [1]

What sold me on the Quest 3 was AR painting with Gravity Sketch. [2] Using the controllers it felt natural. There are hints that Gravity Sketch might make its way to Vision Pro. [3] However, I'm skeptical about how intuitive and precise it could be without handheld controllers like the ones on the Quest 3. It seems like Apple might be following a pattern similar to what they did with the stylus – initially dismissing its necessity, only to backtrack later on.

Nonetheless excited to test it out firsthand at an Apple Store.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23753618/apple-vision-pro-...

[2] https://www.meta.com/experiences/1587090851394426/

[3] https://mixed-news.com/en/gravity-sketch-update-apple-vision...
I'd like to recognise the QR code on my Bose speaker, which comes back with a serial number that GS1 doesn't recognise. I scanned the barcode on my TP-Link mesh router and GS1 doesn't recognise that either, because both have alphanumeric values and it wants numeric. Maybe it wants a special option selected on the site, shrug.

I scanned a box of tissues and it came up with "Company with GLN 40 8850000 000 9 requested data privacy" and no item identification.

My intuition says these should be pretty easy to identify, but after trying a few apps and services I still haven't found one that just works.
Which is fine, you can then save even more effort by never writing them down at all.
Neat! I couldn't see where they intend to run it (though it may be hidden in an article). They give a 300km range, which is almost exactly Christchurch–Wellington, so I wonder if that's possible.