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Supporting your "I don't prefer Steam" point, I make a point of supporting Gog (and SetApp!), only to find out that many of the games sold there are crippleware. Deep in the fine print of the non-DRM'd version distributed as 44 floppy disks (OK, not quite, but it feels like Slackware from the 90s nonetheless) is that this non-DRM version cannot multiplayer, not even offline LAN in the household.

Even more surprising, Gog's DRM'd version multiplayer may require ... STEAM! ... to run.

This is galling.

(For the game that most annoyed me, Baldur's Gate 3, this may have changed once Larian introduced their own cloud sync. I haven't tried again, the first experience was that tedious.)
Yes, the “multi linear map” definition is accessible to an undergraduate who has taken linear algebra. However, the more common meaning of tensor in physics, like the metric tensor of spacetime, requires some more sophisticated background to understand (differential geometry, Lie Groups come to mind).
There are collapsible and even folding ARs. They wouldn't be impossible to get into a regular travel suitcase.
Headaches huh. I'm so glad I have a president that is cracking down on headaches.

Getting rid of corporate red tape... That's nice i suppose. If they could do something about all the government red tape that would be better. I shouldn't have to have any direct contact with my Government ever unless i am charged with a crime or I want to work for them or something. Government is supposed to be something that happens in the background to make sure day to day life goes swimmingly, not something that I have to constantly do stuff for. Take some of my money, run the shit and beyond that stay out of my life.
> It still amazes me how much we argue in this field about which tools should or should not be used

Like any craft.

Is it really a bad thing that people think about how to solve their problems better and want to share with others?

Anyone who doesn't want to listen to that will ignore it and just pursue their own work.
imo that dev should be served with a pip, which means if you dont get your act straight you're about to get fired.

deadlines means cutting down the spec. cutting down the spec means having to make decisions to release before the deadline and moving all the overthinking to the next iteration.
IBM has successfully pivoted to consulting and software solutions these days. It also did $9B in net profit in 2023, while Cisco did $12B in net profit. I'd say that's still pretty healthy.
If you mean human spaceflight, current Boeing has less experience flying humans to anywhere in space than SpaceX, let alone beyond low earth orbit. If you mean general spaceflight, SpaceX has launched more lunar and interplanetary payloads than Boeing has in the past decade or two.

Boeing and its proponents love to talk about things like "spaceflight heritage", but none of that means anything when most if not all of those employees are gone and nothing was done to transfer the knowledge.
> You can be both an Amex and a Visa card Customer.

Yes, which supports my point.

> You can also be an iPhone and Android Customer at the same time as well.

Who does this? Barely anyone. Most people can't afford to buy two smartphones, and even if you could afford two, why in the world would you use two of them simultaneously? That sounds extremely inconvenient, for no apparent benefit. Practically speaking, a smartphone is an exclusive relationship; you pick one at a time.

Yours is such a bizarre hypothetical.

In any case, the crucial difference is that a smartphone is a product of independent value that you can buy, whereas a credit card is not. The piece of plastic is just a container for your credit card number, a means of accessing the service, a line of credit.
Weird how their was no clear motive for the shooter, has that changed?
> but if they don't change their policies at all

Is it not possible to create new policies that are effective while not compromising the privacy of your guests?
While it's certainly possible the ISP could extract the data (and might be forced to by some intelligence agency), it was also possible to just listen to the data in transit. Remember that these were the days of people sending data over telephone wires.
Which is why you should monitor DDL, manually or automatically, and alert you to invalid indices. This can be as simple as a cron that runs something like this:

SELECT indrelid::regclass tbl, indexrelid::regclass idx FROM pg_index WHERE NOT indisvalid;

And then sends that to Slack or whatever if it returns a result.
when i interviewed with nvidia they said they aimed to be the kind of company where people stayed forever and worked on long term projects. ultimately the interview process moved too slowly for me (i had been laid off and needed to find and accept another job fast), but i was impressed with everyone i talked to and would believe that that was not just a pitch but actually reflected their values.
Room inspections are nothing new in Las Vegas, being the norm at many on-strip properties since 2017. In that way, the article perhaps misses the point.

What was new this year were many reports of aggressive, confrontational behavior by security at Resorts World specifically. In particular, there are quite a few stories of Resorts World security staff actively escalating confrontations and of calling over armed colleagues over resistance as minor as asking to see ID. This kind of thing is extremely worrying from a licensed security force with armed members, and suggests a serious defect in the training and security leadership at Resorts World. The problem was not room checks per se, it was the incompetence the people doing the checks repeatedly demonstrated.

I think the press may have been reticent to level accusations at specific resort operators, but I hope journalists will put some pressure on Resorts World. Do they normally mount this type of response to high-risk events? Who planned their handling of DEFCON? Are their security staff trained in deescalation? What is their policy on when and how trespass threats should be issued?

The overall feeling was that the Resorts World security department was exceptionally unprofessional and, through their confrontational behavior, made this into far more of a scandal than it should ever have been. Caesars security, by contrast, is downright militarized, but seems to have been far better trained and more graceful in their handling of similar situations.
Microsoft's Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it's going away
We're the only nation that has ever done it. It seems like unchecked graft is our current main problem. In the scope of all problems of returning people to the Moon this is both expected and the easiest to deal with.
Fifth Circuit being our only check and balance is amusing to me

But I can appreciate the distributed nature of this system
Can you provide some examples of important tensors in physics for which the underlying vector space is infinite dimensional? I’m most familiar with the setting of tensor fields on manifolds, in which case the vector bundle consists of finite dimensional vector spaces. Nevertheless, I suppose in the absence of a pseudo-Riemannian metric one lacks a natural isomorphism between vectors/dual vectors. Does this “bidual” distinction arise in that case as well?
The damage to Boeing is already done I am afraid. But moving forwards there needs to be accountability for management types that destroy companies in such a way. This is a massive destruction of capability for the USA and will continue to be extremely expensive in the future.
Sure, let’s give the richest man on earth who spends more time trolling on Twitter than working more taxpayer dollars for his self enrichment
I don't doubt the results but I cannot imagine how that can be true, I'm not fit but I've had many 20+hours hikes to the high mountain peaks but if I run to a bus stop when I'm late I'm tired beyond belief and I just cannot maintain running, have to stop
Super cool. Great work team! Love the deploy feature to deploy the entire playground to the cloud and get a connection string. Helps devs get started with Postgres projects very quickly.
Copyright infringement case against Stability AI will proceed [pdf]
There are no NIMBYs on the moon, so maybe?
This sounds common for Vegas conventions. The same thing happens every year at Venetian/Palazzo during AWS:Reinvent. They come by 2-3 times during the week.

The excuse I got is that they are trying to prevent another Las Vegas shooter situation.
Is "Moon Policy" anywhere near the ballot box? Particularly for senators? To the extent it might be, isn't it the inverse problem, to cancel the program is to lose jobs. So they're mostly just being held hostage by the monopoly.

The person you are voting for has fantastically small power. Which, is not what we were taught, but it does seem to be the fact.
Meta:

So the negative point value, currently -1, tells me that I am asking a rhetorical question and I should have said that I'm asking a rhetorical question.

Back on topic:

I am an expert on in-app purchases circa 2020 and do know that there's no working around it unless you have a deal with Apple. Used to be my job.

Paypal or any other financial transaction entity Is all the same to Apple, the user is sending their money while using an apple hosted app, and apple wants to make sure that users don't get fleeced! So Apple taxes those transactions ostensibly to provide oversight Services.

So the only way for patreon to get around this is to not mention in their app that you can also sign up on you know patreon.com To give money, and to allow users who have signed up and sent money on patreon.com to use the iOS app.
Because the Jira deadline (or perhaps OKR deadline) or whatever other deadline set by a PM or a Manager or HR is Friday, and I have to mark the checkbox or move the ticket as done before the deadline so I can claim I finished stuff on time for the our support agreements on performance evaluation period or whatever.
I had the same question, "what happened to the track?" I appreciate you asking it.

On second viewing, you can see that some things are very distorted and this is obviously a composite as has been explained.
All the more reason why we should be uplifting the third world. Instead of allowing them to proliferate their own suffering using debt and population booms.
So why would anybody use patreon as app at all? Normal website still works, doesn't it?
Apologies, I misunderstood what you were saying. Generally good reminder to me to regularly take a step back and try to figure out when I'm reading more into a comment than what was intended.

> I'm agreeing that the PC being "open" isn't what makes the difference.

This is a good point, but I do think the "open" part is possibly a pre-condition to making a difference. But that's kind of squabbling over details, I completely agree that iOS being open to sideloading would not be enough to change the dynamics.

And we know this because... well, Android exists. Android is a really good example of how sideloading is great and something that I love, but also not sufficient on its own to curb anti-competitive behavior.
It was Rockwell. It was always Rockwell. Boeing's heritage is that they bought it.
Mainly I don't want the overhead of building and managing container images at all. My apps all run the same way, I have a fleet of servers that are set up to run them, something that can manage distributing apps onto servers and routing with load balancers etc. would be cool just without the docker/container piece. This was a main selling point for Nomad so I'm pretty sure there's no way to run k8s to do that, or at least it's not supported/first-class.
Was your friend perhaps Muhommed Ali, fighting George Foreman in Zaire? Or perhaps Homer Simpson fighting Drederick Tatum?
That’s a Mike-drop type comment.

Agreed 100%.
The one other: a URL-based selector for comments vs. posts. That's one thing Algolia seems to be missing. It defaults to post search, I'm usually looking for comments. That's one additional step, which isn't fatal but is vaguely annoying.

I think that's my main gripes / wants.

And I'm a heavy user of Algolia and other search tools, so I think that's a reasonably complete set.
>and he's a great programmer

The people who had to deal with the Calibre setuid binaries fiasco in 2011 would probably disagree :) ( https://lwn.net/Articles/465311/ )
The most important thing to remember reading this, for most of us (including myself) is the phrase:

I Am Not A Lawyer

The construction of "but what does it mean" invites the response: "it depends". I wouldn't depend on a theory or statement from anyone not involved in the law here. I have no idea how this will or will not limit the use of geofence technology, warrented or otherwise.
Media literacy sounds about as useful as a phd in astrology
Huh, that's interesting. I've never really looked into them before, but could be. Might also be speaking style or which articles we comment on.. I don't really know what metrics they look for :shrug:
> We're the only nation that has ever done it

The USA of the 1960s was very different from the one that exists today.
I believe that the number of people who are forced to view a given piece of brutalist architecture all day constitutes a small fraction of its dislikers.

I walk a mile through my city and I see buildings of all shapes and sizes, and if I don't favor one, I note that I do not favor it, and at worst, look in a different direction, and am past it in a matter of seconds (and I don't think it should be destroyed either). Beyond that, I could walk 1 block one way or another to avoid it, if it was sufficiently objectionable.

Having said that, if you work or live in a building you do not favor, or perhaps across the street from one which obscures your view (assuming you have one), that isn't great.
Well, in the America we've got something called corporate personhood and it's this odd concept. It seems like an unfair concept to I don't know to me as a citizen of America.

And you know laws are supposed to keep feeling like you're living in a fair world right?

So, nuke the company That cause billions Of dollars in losses, millions of hours of wasted human time, potentially loss of life though we haven't you know had a study yet that identifies those people who lost their lives because of disruption to healthcare services, heart attacks that were due to stress, etc etc. Nuke them. Nuke that corporate person. Force the humans who comprise that corporation to rebuild it as a better corporation.
I think it assumes you run regularly and are therefore fit for running.

The same way if you lie in bed for a month you're not going to be doing 20 hour hikes either.

Fitness isn't a one-dimensional thing -- our muscles adapt efficiently to our specific activities and only our specific activities.

So comparing the efficiency of walking and running only makes sense for someone who is already well-adapted to both.
Mint charges for eSIM provisioning when changing > 2 times per year.

Also, ensure that you have a backup plan to reset your password.

For example, to reset your password on Mint, they send you a text. What happens when you don't have a SIM? You're stuck.
What “the US” did 50+ years ago has absolutely no say in what “the US” can do now.
Dr. Mengele, USA Style: Lessons from Human Rights Abuses Post-World War II [pdf]
Just curious, were you inspired by Asimov when naming the company?

https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Synnax
In states with a sales tax, you do pay sales tax on the labor charges.
That's the position I'm in. My current employer has not grown as they sold to me when I joined (they've actually got smaller) and has gone through a big cultural shift that doesn't jibe with me.

I've received an offer from a company that seems to have a lot better alignment... But it pays 10% less. Meanwhile my current salary has not kept up with inflation over the past couple of years.
That article doesn't seem to answer the question.
> And yes popular languages do have real type safe enums.

Right, as we already established, but which is only incredibly narrow support within the features in question. While you can find safety within the scope of enums and enums alone, it blows up as soon as you want the same safety applied to anything else. No popular language comes close to completing these features, doing it half-assed at most. We went over this several times now. Typescript goes a little further than most popular languages, but even it doesn't go very far, leaving all kinds of gaps where the type system does not provide the aforementioned safety.

You clearly know how to read, by your own admission, so why are you flailing around like one of those wacky blow up men at the used car lot? Are you just not familiar with programming?
Yeah my first step after discovering SCP was to watch a longplay of the original Containment Breach.
Since it's mention-undocumented-endpoints day, https://news.ycombinator.com/latest?id=$ID does that, where $ID can either be a story (in which case you get the entire thread sorted reverse-chronologically) or a comment (in which case you get the comments in that subthread).

So, for the current thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/latest?id=41228935

or for a subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/latest?id=41229914.
Fair. YW.

Being a deep thinker, which I assume you are, leads to those results, in my view.

It sounds like you don't want to just "do the punchline" either, that you want to lay it out and moreover you want to share kind of the experience of unrolling your thoughts, so it really makes sense that you're not just sharing the punch line.

I mean that's my interpretation and you know I haven't really met you so take what I'm saying with a mountainous size grain of salt.
I asked Google "who is on the dime"
Most of these FWs will not be able run on the device due to secure boot requirement
>What's odd is that, on paper and for the engineering jobs we work with specifically, it doesn't seem like that's actually more justified now than it was a year or two ago. The tech hiring market seems to have bottomed out and to be (unsteadily) on its way back up.

I mean, as someone out of a full time job for 15 months now (4 of those by choice), I can't really blame them. Of course, I'm an extraordinary case in games that seems to be hit the hardest out of most domains, but the fallout hasn't seemed to bottomed out in this industry just yet.

And in tech specifically: it's not like these interview processes are just a drink with the founders and a firm handshake anymore. You gotta weigh the question of "do I REALLY want to study trivia and go through 5 stages of calls" vs. the potential upsides of a new job/pay raise. Many tech professionals are probably not scrap for cash, so there's no financial pressure to jump at the next step up if they are focusing on security.

>Two years ago, prediction markets [2] were pretty confident a recession would occur by this point, but it hasn't.

Layoffs and the previous COVID bailouts probably "helped" in that regard.

And indeed. As you said, it caused an even more extreme dichotomy of financial pressure between the middle class and below and the asset owning or upper-middle+ (who weren't laid off). Where the former may as well be in a depression while the latter two are on cloud nine, trading houses like baseball cards and growing money by just letting it sit.

Is that better than a proper recession? I can't say, but you can understand why the former group can feel that way, and even feels bitter at the latter. Being told that the economy is soaring while your income barely increased 10% that barely covers rent. While rent surged 30% in the past 5-8 years.
The marathon case is interesting.

The top two runners in a marathon keep pace with each other, both know that they're holding some energy in reserve for the final sprint. Perhaps one sprinter could try to push themself a little faster throughout the entire race, but I suspect the consequences of running a little over your optimal pace are worse than running a little under your optimal pace, so they err on the side of running a little under their optimal pace and save energy for the final sprint.
Fair enough, we might be aggressively agreeing with each other. Apologies if I misunderstood you.
We can't know if they wanted to kill it because of Apple or for some other reason. I don't see why they would want to kill it if it weren't for Apple.
One important feature is that in the Apple store the consumer is sure that the unsubscribe button works immediately. Not weird tricks to keep you subscribed forever.
Isn't Samy Kamkar the guy behind poison tap? Dude is a G
Really interesting point about the non-correlation of affinity and PPI probabilities. Disappointing, honestly. Mechanistic systems bio models would really benefit from large scale affinity information, and it would be pretty cool if ML methods trained on binary PPI data learned a kind of latent affinity model. Maybe PPI models could be fine tuned to do that? Or maybe there’s specific neurons in the PPI models that correlate better with affinity, similar to the mechanistic interpretability stuff that people are doing on LLM’s? I only follow this area tangentially so I imagine I’m not the first person to have those ideas…

Anyways I look forward to seeing what you publish!
I suppose they should stop trying to push me into their app then? Every time I visit their site, I have to ignore several messages about how it would be easier to do this in the Patreon app. It’s a mess they could avoid by sticking to a web based app. It still sucks for the creators who relied on them to avoid issues like this.
When that was happening, the US was spending ungodly amount of money to show Soviets that they can take ~a nuke~ sorry people to the Moon and back.

Boeing, Lockheed etc. were still engineering oriented companies full of projects and management opportunities for innovative and risk-taking people. Starting with the Reagan era, they are now emptied out rent seekers full of car salesmen who look up to Jack Welch as a role model.
https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822814018643374260

The protocol for non-DefCon rooms:

* Housekeeping services the room.

* If housekeeping was unable to service the room, security will come take a look.

The protocol for DefCon rooms:

* Security comes and takes a look no matter what, and is, from reports, particularly invasive.
It's pork for states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. The joke for years has been that SLS stands for "Senate Launch System."
Good luck fighting it. The basic human desire to stay out of the line of fire, combined with feudal loyalty trees, lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union despite the great intelligence and administrative ability of the people at the top. The only economic difference between the state monopoly of the USSR and the many companies of the US is that here, it's legal to start new organizations, where in the USSR that would be prosecuted as anti-party activity. The "I have a family to feed" effect worked exactly the same way over there.

Reading about the history of socialism is eye-opening, specifically the period where it turned into a giant bureaucratic corporation that nobody was allowed to leave. That period started even before the mass murder toned down into "repression," so strong was the desire of individual managers to make it impossible to blame them for shortfalls relative to unrealizable plans.

For all that's been said about how different the east and west are, their fatal economic problems were nothing more alien than politics plus monopoly.
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I am not familiar with Patreon on iOS but Why is it Patreon only get charged 30% now, and not previously. After all their competitor also have 30% requirement for a long time, so Patreon had been the special case all these years?

It is unfortunate Google isn't even competing hard. Microsoft doesn't seems to be interested in Mobile any time soon.