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by hnick 6y ago
I think there are other cases. An auto-update that goes wrong could still cause wide ranging issues for non-365 Excel users. And if updates are disabled (or MS goes away), we can add yet-to-be-discovered security flaws to the mix. Neither o
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by hnick 6y ago
Someone else mentioned Mr Robot and I think it fits the bill. Without giving too much away there are questions like who is really in control, the nature of reality, the rise of China, the interplay between control/privacy/hacking,
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by hnick 6y ago
Some of them also only allow you to unsubscribe or contact support through logging in to your account. Which I could easily do through a password reset but that's illegal so I'm not going to bother. I'm still getting credit c
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by hnick 6y ago
Battle.net is a store with de facto exclusivity too under those standards, and is less of a failure.
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by hnick 6y ago
Suppose a large group of "helpful" players started advertising/spamming via ingame chat the fact that you can buy VBucks on the official website for cheaper than in game. Totally unaffiliated and not paid for by Epic, of cour
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by hnick 6y ago
As an example, DOS machines came with a form of BASIC and you had these: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QBasic/Sound We had fun in school putting the SOUND command in a loop and either increasing or reducing the Hz
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by hnick 6y ago
We tend to have a web focus on this site but not all IT is like that. If I have a data processing job that takes 3 hours and it fell over at the 1 hour mark (and let's say whoever wrote it didn't have the foresight to make it resu
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by hnick 6y ago
I'd imagine stuff like race conditions would fit into this category nicely. Obvious upon inspection but annoying to test for.
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by hnick 6y ago
I think the point is that if you have to change a test to make it pass or run after refactoring, it is not useful as a regression test. By changing it you might have broken the test itself so you have less confidence. There is also the ques
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by hnick 6y ago
But a name must have some use, or why have one? Non-physical things such as a reputation can be stolen or at least borrowed, too.
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by hnick 6y ago
AKA don't have the player, hate the game.
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by hnick 6y ago
What is the text in the agreement that blocks developers from building against it though? If a third party developer uses an open source library instead of Unreal, must that library belong to an entity that signed an agreement with Apple or
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by hnick 6y ago
The action that triggered these events is that Epic chose to sell some items at a higher price via the Apple store to cover the 30% "tax" and make it clearer to consumers that they are paying a premium to the middleman, or at a lo
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by hnick 6y ago
Easier to remember/link. Domains are cheap ($10 a year or something). Signalling that yes, this is an important enough issue to dedicate a whole site to. SEO (more people stumbling on it by mistake, or a nice cash out later, your choic
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by hnick 6y ago
I will just say "why" or "that depends, I'm busy but maybe I can make room". There seems to be an attitude that we shouldn't be rude to people, but to be honest, I learned such things at a young age from blunt
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by hnick 6y ago
In DOS/Windows the shell does not expand as the sibling comment says (which puts some burden on the programmer - I had to use a Windows DLL in a perl script once to replicate Windows-style argument handling) but as most people know the
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by hnick 6y ago
That seems vulnerable to the Spartacus attack.
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by hnick 6y ago
I think the usual suggestion is a public/private keypair. You then sign accounts saying they are yours. This would also allow you to have multiple identities in cases where that is useful. I've heard of various groups doing this u
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by hnick 6y ago
Yes zero chance. As a lowly developer, even if I get asked a question directly by the media about something the company did I'm not allowed to answer per the stated rules. I have to direct them to the department of spin or whatever it&
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by hnick 6y ago
The letter is only in regards to the Unreal Engine being blocked. It will directly impact Microsoft and other game developers not directly involved in this fight. They did not mention Fortnite or alternate stores at all.
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by hnick 6y ago
General AI probably would learn in real time by most definitions, but setting that aside for a moment I was more referring to gathering production data then using it later. You can gather then re-train, isn't that what Google is doing
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by hnick 6y ago
Gamer would be similar to "film buff" in this context, someone who enjoys it much more than normal or makes it part of their identity.
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by hnick 6y ago
Interestingly, it's the same when you go into space. Around half the people experience it and there doesn't seem to be a link between people who get motion sick and those who get space sick. Symptoms can be mild to relatively seve
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by hnick 6y ago
Well, Twitch is popular for a reason. Plenty of people consume their games vicariously these days. So there's an option.
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by hnick 6y ago
They could've very easily had text on the screen saying what time period the current scene was in. It seems like they left it out deliberately for artistic reasons and many people have been confused as a result.
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by hnick 6y ago
Nier Automata is just something else. Not every part of the game is that well executed, but the music alone is worth the price of entry and the emotional payoff in the story makes me forgive the many clunky elements. I'm so glad I gave
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by hnick 6y ago
How so? Seems very light and fast to me, with or without uBlock.
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by hnick 6y ago
> Not needing 2-5 years of expensive training. It doesn't stop there. You train one AI, you've trained them all. A minor performance increase instantly upgrades the capability of your entire fleet. An AI that can learn from rea
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by hnick 6y ago
If I say no, will you un-ask the question?
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by hnick 6y ago
For an initial message (no hello) this is great. But when we are already chatting and my attention is on the window, I prefer shorter messages.

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