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by cwyers 6y ago
I'm sure that app review is a hard problem. But it seems like Apple has the worst of both worlds sometimes -- HN frequently puts cases where an existing, very successful app gets suddenly dinged for something, or a new app from a big v
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by cwyers 6y ago
> I know you said not counting VR but I feel like skipping Half-Life:Alyx, a game in a well beloved franchise that was very highly rated, is a little disingenuous How? Stadia doesn't support VR.
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by cwyers 6y ago
The value prop for Stadia is console-class gaming without hardware. Most devices where Stadia is able to run could run a port of a decade-old PC game. Similarly, most Steam games that could run unmodified on Stadia's custom server hard
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by cwyers 6y ago
Huh, so they did. I don't think that materially changes my point, but, yes.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Valve also has shipped exactly one first-party game since Dota 2 in 2013, outside of VR stuff, and it's a card game. I don't think they're tops on the list of studios that could give Google a big hit game to put on their new
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by cwyers 6y ago
I agree with most of this, but the Superhot game that's on Stadia Pro is a new release. (It's basically a Superhot roguelike, and I don't like it, but it is a new game.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Only if they evaluated RDS and found it wanting. They don't even mention testing it.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Well, no, he is wrong. Postgres can run on either x86 or ARM. You can do replication between them, no problem. There's no reason to run workloads on x86 just to get access to larger instance sizes at some point down the road. You can m
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by cwyers 6y ago
> they could have chosen AGPL if they wanted someone hosting a service to publish their changes, for example. So... you admit that the people who created the GPL decided their license wasn't sufficient to cover a certain usecase and
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by cwyers 6y ago
There are always going to be communities like that. The problem with Facebook and Twitter is that they provide a "radicalization pipeline" to get people into communities like that. And one of the big issues with the riot at the Ca
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by cwyers 6y ago
I think this is a very compelling point, and much better than most of the "fediverse is for freedom" talking points I have seen on HN: > I have participated in many a public forum on Internet governance, and whenever anyone poi
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Are We Engineers?(hillelwayne.com)
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by cwyers 6y ago
Yeah, I think Greenwald has blinders about Winner because what she leaked doesn't fit his narratives about the Dems and Russia. I wouldn't link his quitting because they tried to edit his Hunter Biden takes with Poitras' very
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by cwyers 6y ago
Some context to the context: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/useful-i... > Greenwald rebuts Ben Smith’s recent New York Times piece on The Intercept publishing the Reality Winner leak. “It w
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by cwyers 6y ago
Another thing that I think takes a little getting used to coming from 3rd (or Pathfinder) to 5th is the idea of bounded accuracy: https://olddungeonmaster.com/2014/08/30/bounded-accuracy/ The TL;DR is th
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by cwyers 6y ago
I get where you're coming from here, but the basic crunch of it is delivered on a 3rd Edition base. If you look at a 4th Edition Wizard, they have at-will, encounter and daily powers, just like any other 4e class. If you look at a 5th
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by cwyers 6y ago
D&D 5e basically acts like 4th Edition never existed, and you will find it very familiar as someone who ahs played 3rd Edition.
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by cwyers 6y ago
This isn't really accurate. So, a brief history: Once Upon A Time there was TSR, which published two lines of D&D books, based on the original D&D: Dungeons and Dragons (which started with the Basic Set and added other sets ove
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by cwyers 6y ago
"Near clone" undersells it, even. Most of the rules come from the D&D 3.5th Edition System Reference Document, under the terms of the Open Gaming License (basically the GPL of tabletop game systems). It's basically a hard
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by cwyers 6y ago
Kobold Press has a PDF 'zine on their Patreon for 5E content as well: https://www.patreon.com/koboldpress
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by cwyers 6y ago
A bunch of people just stormed the Capitol less than a week ago on account of being Terminally Online, I don't think there's a lot of evidence for this hypothesis.
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by cwyers 6y ago
The name alludes to the Ship of Theseus, a thought experiment where, over the course of many repairs, every piece of a ship is eventually replaced. Given that, I found it interesting that this is applied to a novel greenfield OS effort, ins
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by cwyers 6y ago
> Its protocol author argues that TLS is just a simple dependency no different than a TCP server module, so it should be trivial to implement in any client or server. But if your computer’s CPU is so slow that a modern TLS negotiation wo
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by cwyers 6y ago
That doesn't help you install the dependencies for a notebook, if you don't know what they are.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Flip it around for a second. You sign up for online banking. You use your GMail account as your e-mail address. You get banking statements in your e-mail, you can reset your password to the bank with that e-mail address, etc. Now, a scammer
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by cwyers 6y ago
From the article, Shared.com and its subbrands already didn't have a relationship with Facebook, they had a relationship with "third-party contractors." They already had stopped working for them.
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by cwyers 6y ago
So, a Lisp.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Okay, thanks for the explanation.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Could you change the title too, then, please? The new URL talks about this, but as part of a larger conversation.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Let's be honest. Nobody is running workloads on Mac Mini servers because they think it's a good server OS or good server hardware. They're doing it to run Xcode as part of a CI/CD pipeline (or some other kind of automate

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