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> Downloading versus ripping yourself is a dumb technicality that most people don't care about. The important part is whether you own the game.

Agreed. I just don't believe that the number of people doing this is more than a rounding error.

Imagine: You hear that a recent update has made Tears of the Kingdom playable in Yuzu! You consider going to your favorite piracy site to grab a copy, but you remember that you need to actually buy a copy first. It would be morally wrong to hit the download button without first ordering your $70 piracy-absolution ticket from Amazon: a box you will never open as you don't own a Switch.

I think there are some people who really do this, but I think it takes a special type of person. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more people who buy Switch games to dump them than buy Switch games as piracy absolution tickets, because at least in the former case, you are physically using your purchase for something. Human psychology is relevant here.

There may be a substantial number of people who bought Mario Odyssey on release to play on their Switch, and downloaded a rom years later to replay in Yuzu. This situation cannot apply to new releases.

> That's the part Nintendo actually cares about too.

Nintendo likely isn't thrilled that people can play their games without buying their hardware even if the games were legitimately purchased, for the same reason Apple cares if people can use iMessage without an iPhone. But that is Nintendo's problem; adversarial interoperability is a good thing.

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Also, you know what, fine, this theoretical USB cart reader doesn't have to stay plugged in. Just plug it in once while running Yuzu, and you can play the copied rom on that machine indefinitely. Put some cryptographic system in place that makes it reasonably difficult to transfer the game validation between machines.

The system does not have to be foolproof; if Yuzu's developers did this, I'm sure there would still be modified builds floating around without that requirement. Yuzu's moral responsibility is merely to ensure that playing a legitimately purchased game is substantially easier than playing a pirated one.
No mention of what seems more likely to me than it being down to prestige or feelings of self-worth: if you're making a fortune, you may well have huge mortgage payments, car payments, expenses related to your children, your parents, etc. 'Escaping' those is likely much harder than finding the confidence to switch careers.
Or have the singular versions and just roll the thing after landing.
I flew quite a lot in Europe in the 90s and it was definitely a completely different experience compared to nowadays.

I do remember walking on the tarmac yes. I had my ticket before but could seat wherever. I could just show up 60 to 30min before take off. I was also - as a kid - always asked by the stewardess if i wanted to visit the cockpit.

I remember telling that to a friend of mine who was 10 years younger and never flew before 9/11 and he thought I was making it up.
Just a quick and easy way to see if someone important opened the shortened URLs you sent them
I remember reading before that given the consistency and weight of moon dust that electrostatic protection of assets is viable.

I guess the concept would be to surround the motors in a electrostatic force that results in propulsive removal of particulates away from the drivetrain.

I don't know if it has been practically used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_male_speech?wprov=sfla1

HTH.
Stabilizers are made of matter, and matter has mass. Lifting mass off of the Earth and on to the Moon takes fuel. Fuel is made of matter too, and has mass. Lifting the fuel to lift the fuel to lift the mass is expensive.

So much cheaper just to have an altimeter and no extra stabilizers. Sadly, their altimeter didn’t work. They forgot to turn it on correctly.

Honestly, they’re lucky that it got so close to landing correctly; if it had been going faster the damage would have been even worse than just a crumpled landing leg.
I don't think SCEA started the lawsuit because they were sure they would win, I think the intent was to make Bleem run out of money.

"Bleem!, financially unable to defend itself, was forced to go out of business."

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem%21
Wait, the M2 MBP is listed as 2 external monitors?

I've been running three for a while. 2 Thunderbolt 3 + 1 Thunderbolt 2 daisy chained. They work. There are a couple glitches, but they work.

I'm on my work machine now but I believe it also works with the laptop open.
I’ve been building an interactive fiction platform built in C# with a world model contained within a bidirectional graph data structure.

Since IF stories are relatively small in graph terms, it’s a reasonable solution.

Locations and objects are nodes and movement and location of objects are edges. Nodes and edges both can have dynamic properties.

I’ve also noticed the lack of graph structures in programming languages, so this article was very enlightening.
I disagree. The speaker is not part of the context when evaluating the correctness of a given assertion. This is a fundamental fact, for example when the speaker is unknown. If it helps, in situations where you’re reading something controversial or where you’d be tempted to make unfounded inferences based on the speaker, you can simply pretend that you’ve “discovered” the assertion rather than that someone has said it to you.

Granted, it can be a bit unnerving to accept something without a human being willing to stand with you to defend it when you reach the limits of objective reality (such as the issue of varying perspective). Typically the advice here is to “stand up for what you believe in” - but honestly that’s overrated when survival is on the line (and you potentially haven’t yet absorbed the info as part of your identity).
That's almost the same. You could say it's being creative by not following directions.

Creativity isn't well-defined. If you generate things at random, they are all unique. If you then filter them to remove all the bad output, the result could be just as "creative" as anything someone could write. (In principle. In practice, it's not that easy.)

And that's how evolution works. Many organisms have very "creative" designs. Filtering at scale, over a long enough period of time, is very powerful.

Generative models are sort of like that in that they often use a random number generator as input, and they could generate thousands of possible outputs. So it's not clear why this couldn't be just as creative as anything else, in principle.

The filtering step is often not that good, though. Sometimes it's done manually, and we call that cherry-picking.
"Embedded" is a diverse concept. No need for Rust on ATtiny with all variables static and Harvard architecture. In fact, even C often is overkill, and Assembler is a better choice for a simple LED flasher or really tight high performance loop.
Bessemer VP's Ariel Sterman: "Why are we not already sweeping through Rafah?"
That just makes it sound like he knows what he's talking about
Mars Pathfinder did exactly this. It was a tetrahedron which could land in any orientation. As it happened they rolled a 4, but if it was on one of the other 3 sides it would have pushed itself upright as the sides folded open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder
>Graph drawing tools

It's hard

Graphviz-like generic graph-drawing library. More options, more control.

https://eclipse.dev/elk/

Experiments by the same team responsible for the development of ELK, at Kiel University

https://github.com/kieler/KLighD

Kieler project wiki

https://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/confluence/display/KIEL...

Constraint-based graph drawing libraries

https://www.adaptagrams.org/

JS implementation

https://ialab.it.monash.edu/webcola/

Some cool stuff:

HOLA: Human-like Orthogonal Network Layout

https://ialab.it.monash.edu/~dwyer/papers/hola2015.pdf

Confluent Graphs demos: makes edges more readable.

https://www.aviz.fr/~bbach/confluentgraphs/

Stress-Minimizing Orthogonal Layout of Data Flow Diagrams with Ports

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.4626.pdf

Improved Optimal and Approximate Power Graph Compression for Clearer Visualisation of Dense Graphs

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.6996v1.pdf
Any demos of this to listen to? It sounds potentially really good.
What does market share have to do with which market you are targeting?
The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have "near-human" abilities
I tried it 10 times and while the wording is different, the answer remained correct every time. I used the exact question from the comment above, nothing else. While determinism is a possible source of error, I find that in these cases people usually just use the wrong model on ChatGPT for whatever reason. And unless you set the temperature way too high, it is pretty unlikely that you will end up outside of correct responses as far as the internal world model is concerned. It just mixes up wording by using the next most likely tokens. So if the correct answer is "one", you might find "single" or "1" as similarly likely tokens, but not "two." For that to happen something must be seriously wrong either in the model or in the temperature setting.
I am aware :-). It was the direction Amiga (although not Commodore) was headed. The key is that Commodore didn't see it as strategic nor could they justify re-organizing around it once the end of the runway was pretty clear.
This is a great question! Here's a related failure case that I think illustrates the issue.

In my country, public restroom facilities replaced all the buttons and levers on faucets, towel dispensers, etc. with sensors that detect your hand under the faucet. Black people tell me they aren't able to easily use these restrooms. I was surprised when I heard this, but if you google this, it's apparently a thing.

Why does this happen? After all, the companies that made these products aren't obviously biased against black people (outwardly, anyway). So this sort of mistake must be easy to fall into, even for smart teams in good companies.

The answer ultimately boils down to ignorance. When we make hand detector sensors for faucets, we typically calibrate them with white people in mind. Of course different skin tones have different albedo and different reflectance properties, so sensors are less likely to fire. Some black folks have a workaround where they hold a (white) napkin in their hand to get the faucet to work.

How do we prevent this particular case from happening in the products we build? One approach is to ensure that the development teams for skin sensors have a wide variety of skin types. If the product development team had a black guy for example, he could say "hey, this doesn't work with my skin, we need to tune the threshold." Another approach is to ensure that different skin types are reflected in the data used to fit the skin statistical models we use. Today's push for "ethics in ML" is borne out of this second path as a direct desire to avoid these sorts of problems.

I like this handwashing example because it's immediately apparent to everyone. You don't have to "prioritize DEI programs" to understand the importance of making sure your skin detector works for all skin types. But, teams that already prioritize accessibility, user diversity, etc. are less likely to fall into these traps when conducting their ordinary business.

For this audio codec, I could imagine that voices outside the "standard English dialect" (e.g. thick accents, different voices) might take more bytes to encode the same signal. That would raise bandwidth requirements, worsen latency, and increase data costs for these users. If the codec is designed for a standard American audience, that's less of an issue, but codecs work best when they fit reasonably well for all kinds of human physiology.
I do not think the last sentence is an adequate description of what linear logic is, or how it's used and understood.

It is interesting in itself, I admit that. But I don't see how it would admit contradiction, or how logicians are clueless how to handle it. It is in fact well understood, and used in many places, e.g. computer science [1,2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_logic

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-linear/
Sure, but most people don’t use more than two external monitors. Most people don’t use more than one.

The people who complain about specs per dollar were never Apple’s customers. “Why buy an Audi when a Dodge Neon SRT4 costs half as much and goes faster?” It has been this way for 40 years now. This just isn’t how they operate. When they design a product they don’t start from the specs, they start from how people use the product.

There are much cheaper ways to own a Max system if that specific spec is something you’re desperate for. For one thing, Apple themselves is selling the current model for $2700 refurbished. $500 off and it’s the exact same system with a brand new battery and full warranty.

Also, you should never buy a Mac without the student discount at the very least. Anyone can get it.

Finally, a used M1 Max system will cost you under $2000 and is barely 3 years old.

Keep in mind that if you were buying a MacBook Air in 2010 you were paying over $1800 in today’s money.
I think part of the goal is to have, in the record, a statement that any app that is otherwise legal but requires the user to download cryptographic keys to use is a de facto violation of the DMCA. I think that's why they're settling so easily here and likely paying the settlement for the Yuzu folks. They're hoping that they can use that as precedent for future cases.
What part exactly? The worktrees?

If you're just talking worktrees, the benefit is what it says on the tin, multiple parallel working directories. They're a nice to have, not world-changing or anything.

The example in the article is contrived to sell a separate kind of workflow tool in the product he's building. I don't use worktrees like that.

My use case is heretical software development, but sometimes I work with projects that take a long time to build. And even longer to test. Worktrees let me minimize the amount of rebuilding when switching branches, or kick off a full test run and go work in another branch.
that isn't generally how hardlinks work: you need to delete all instances of it to delete the file, as opposed to having one 'real' file like with symlinks.
Thinkpad X230 with Xubuntu
Gosh I forget the name of the airfield at the moment but by any chance was it near the Clearlake suburb of Houston (Hobby perhaps?)

I used that airfield to get to Bush international several times back in the day. It was strange flying from one airfield to another in the same city to connect to my regularly scheduled flight.

Thanks for the memories!
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/location-maximum-land-subs...

Keep in mind this picture was taken 47 years ago
> yeah it is a shame when headlines lies about what happened to pretend "tech culture hates women"

What should the headline say? I don't see any place in the headline that says tech culture hates women. The article goes on to say she was harrased and other people are speaking up as well.

>>Fed up with what they see as their industry's tolerance of men's transgressions and predatory behavior
>wait what? tech "culture" condones drunk dudes at bars who pull knives on people?

Do you really think anyone speaking out about this is based on one incident? I'm not sure what's offending you, but if you've been around conferences, bars, and people enough, none of this is hard to imagine.
New hybrids can't beat the efficiency of old gas powered sedans, because they're too heavy. The arms race that is car sizes in the US is insane.

I drive a 2021 Lexus hybrid that gets about 35 mpg (in practice, not what the EPA rating says). My buddy drives a 2001 Civic and gets about 42 mpg. I'm pretty sure that Civic is going to outlive both of us, while I doubt that the Lexus is going to last a decade.

And for reasons, I'm in the market for a car but don't want to pay EV prices. The PHEVs and hybrids are pretty compelling in terms of price, but their fuel economy leaves something to be desired. They're just too heavy.
"Linux integrated " is a very optimistic way to put it lol.

Its Unix-like under the hood, with mostly same syntax for the terminal, but linux and MacOS are very fundamentally different.
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I think this might be kinda right.

Take rust. Tree edges use Box, and DAG edges use Arc or Rc. Rust doesn’t really help with building non-DAG graphs as native data types - you can drop back to using “handles” for more generic graphs.

And I actually think that is kinda fair. Languages and standard libraries should support trees and DAGs out of the box. Perhaps Hillel is right that more complex graphs should be in a user-space library or something.
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There's more going on here. They are adding a notion of "places" (what I would call "field paths") and an explicit syntax for "modes" (what I would call "privileges"). So you can now say:

shared(x.a.b.c)

or:

mut(y.d.e.f)

That makes it possible to pass around a reference with the promise that the callee will only access a subset of the fields of whatever referenced type you're talking about, as well as other things.

Superficially it looks very much like what I did in Regent [1] though I am sure the details differ widely.

[1]: https://regent-lang.org/tutorial/06_privileges/
I wouldn't want to give up my toys. I don't have enough brain cells left to accommodate to 1960s style programming, let alone the outward appearance needed to convince someone to let me use their mainframe back then.
> Apple choose to make a nonrepairable, non-upgradable product.

They can get away with it because other manufacturers are lazy.
>I wouldn't want to go on a craft where [jacking it back upright] was in the top ten on the list of recovery options to get home.

For a counter, I wouldn't want to be on a lander so fragile[0] that being manipulated upright is infeasible. Something will go wrong, maybe not on that lander, but when it does go wrong it'll have to get duct taped together.

[0]Not just mechanically, but in terms of operation scope. Planning that everything must go perfectly or people die is a recipe for the latter.
Isn't this coming out from the politics of the EU? Isn't politics suppose to act on the desires of citizens? (In principle in Democracy). Would there be a lot of citizens that would want huge companies to easily gain a monopoly position? Is that what you want?
I commented this earlier as well. Relating brings a lot of energy to a conversation, but it's also trickier.
I wish I had a better solution

When I was at Amaravati the head monk constantly brought up stories from his life, sometimes endlessly, and it was always nice to sit next to him since it was so energetic.

Here, I related something, and it brings a new thing to talk about, a few new edges.
I think ThinkPads are better than MacBooks. You can get P14 with 32gb of RAM, 1TB SSD, very fast and quiet CPU (AMD U series), decent battery, 2.8k OLED screen and it weights 1.34kg (weight between 13 inch and 15inch new Airs).

It also has imo better ports and a track point.

The problem is that Windows sucks more and more with every iteration and there is nothing Lenovo or other manufacturers can do about it. Lenovo also keeps shipping hot and loud Intel CPUs which hurt reputation of the ThinkPad line and may confuse new buyers. Still if you know what to choose you will get more for your money with P14 than Macbook air imo.
If we allow half-sisters as sisters, and half-brothers as brothers (and why would we not?), the answer is not unique, and could actually be zero.
"The San Francisco police department has arrested a man in connection with the burning of two Teslas, but he is not a suspect in the torching of a Waymo robotaxi in Chinatown last month as the department initially said. "
You'd be surprised how stupidly stubborn corps can be.
Fun fact, the M3 Air is exactly the weight of one m3 air at room temperature; at 15C, one m3 of air at 1ATM is 1.23kg, which is the exact same weight as the M3 Air.
Does this new Opus version close the gap to xHE-AAC, which is (was?) superior at lower bitrates?
> Have you ever used a Apple computer for long, like 1-3 months?

I've used many apple computers for the last ~10 years. I work on them daily.

> I ask because I used to be like you, calling Apple users "fanboys"

I'm not calling 'apple users' fanboys, I'm calling people who are literally fanboying in the comments fanboys.

> Started using macOS in the meantime, it had the shell utilities I needed so I kept using it while checking how you install some Linux on it, the UI worked flawlessly,

Ahahaha, there are soooooo many bugs in the macos UI and macos in general, many of these are well known and have existed for years.

> the OS was a breeze to learn,

What kind of point is this? You said you've used Windows and Linux before... what else is there to learn for macos? A few new shortcuts?

> I'd just turn it on and work.

I turn my windows and linux laptops on and they just work! Magic!

So again, you didn't make a single rational argument for why macbooks and macos are actually better... literally a fanboy.
Shorter WSJ: "A cheeseburger just doesn't taste as good unless it's served by somebody teetering on the edge of poverty!"
Jup. This is my field of work. I am ot a full time embedded developer, I run an electronics workshop at an artschool. So a lot of arduino-ish things, and aometimes more sophisticated stuff. But I ain't got no time to write drivers.
Of course they were heftier, but "nicest keyboard" and "nicest keyboard given ridiculous thickness constraints" are a world apart. No idea what you mean about crappy Thinkpad keyboards. The old Thinkpad keyboards are widely acknowledged to have been great.
The thing that annoys me about worktrees is that you can't have two checked out to the same commit at the same time [0], which can be inconvenient when I forget about one that I had open a few days ago. This also breaks the feeling of isolation, since the issue doesn't exist if I do a fresh `git clone` to another directory, so it begs the question of what fragility is present in worktrees that isn't in a fresh clone.

In other words, I wouldn't feel safe doing weird Git operations in a worktree, so why use one in the first place? If I want a true throwaway repo, I'll just re-clone in another directory (and make sure to remove the remote, to be extra safe in case I accidentally push).

Also, git worktree requires me to make a new directory anyway! So why would I not just put a fresh clone in there? To save a few megabytes of the .git index?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/39668520
Is a generic time travel debugging solution too much overhead? A good multithreaded time travel debugger (not deterministic replay based) should only incur ~100% overhead in the memory bandwidth bound case. If you are not saturating your memory bus without instrumentation then the overhead should be proportionally less.
Yes, graphs are ubiquitous because they are so abstract. They live on the same level of abstraction as pure numbers. There are useful "numerical" libraries that exist, and by analogy I think you could say there are also useful "graphical" libraries that exist. But we don't really have "number" libraries, and we don't really have "graph" libraries, because those concepts are a bit too abstract to write APIs against.
So:

1. It happened at a midtown bar, not at the conference

2. The person who assaulted them was not a conference attendee

3. The conference wasn't even a tech conference (!!), it was a legal conference

Not to detract from how upsetting I'm sure it was, or the other reports from other women. But, how is this not an incredibly misleading attempt to get clicks by making it tech-related?
It's funny, I was expecting the article to be about the Opus music font and was trying to figure out how ML could be involved.