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Become? I believe that’s the point.

I guess that means no Cowork. (edit: assuming that there is no virtualization support)

Looks good so far - I hope Windows support follows soon!

I don’t believe this will cause the collapse in the economy (short to mid term) that you are expecting, where I am defining “this” as a federal funds rate that is politically driven and lower than what Chair Powell would have otherwise set. On the contrary, I think it will largely benefit the kinds of affluent asset holders that comprise the top say 5% of the country, which probably accounts for most members of congress and the senate. I think those people will look around them and think this is ugly but otherwise fine. The inflation that follows will be painful to the rest of the country and, with any luck, an opposition party will be able to create a political narrative out of some solution to that pain.

This is false - the way these data centers are financed and built is a direct result of the financial and legal systems established and enforced by our government. I do not say this to argue for more or less construction, but to point out that it is as much a creation of our society as the NHS is of the UK.

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Perez Hilton tried this with some success: https://www.cjr.org/feature/perez-hilton-og-original-news-in...

I think that choice is already happening in a way that is as natural as we're going to get. I found the recent legal business with Perez Hilton kind of interesting. Take this passage from this story https://www.cjr.org/feature/perez-hilton-og-original-news-in...:

> Still, there was a problem. Hilton’s insurance would not foot the bill for a lawyer to defend against a subpoena. He would have to cover his legal costs out of pocket. Instead of finding an attorney, he did two things legal experts always advise against: he decided to represent himself and to use ChatGPT to help draft his legal briefs. At first, this did not go smoothly. An early filing written by ChatGPT, which Hilton nicknamed Dad, invented several legal references. “There’s this phenomenon called ghost law,” Hilton said. “They make up citations, they make up anything.” After a set of embarrassing errors was called out on social media, Hilton started double- and triple-checking every citation, and asked ChatGPT to review its own output. The process went more smoothly from there—so much so that Hilton came to see AI as a great legal leveler. “Now that I know that I can so effectively use ChatGPT, I’m not going to be paying a lawyer unless it’s absolutely necessary,” he told me.

The (imperfect) tools gave him the ability to keep his case alive, and he was eventually taken up by the ACLU. While Hilton is far from a sympathetic underdog, the levelling effect is pretty compelling.

I agree, though I suspect we'll see something similar to what has happened with Doctors, where companies essentially rent the credentials.

Not sure it will replace them, but a tool that allows folks to have a better understanding of the legal system and how to navigate it will certainly impact the existing power systems (of which lawyers are a part).

They are partnering with Delphi Interactive, which I hadn't heard of, though they are some partner with IO on the new 007 game.

> Delphi builds AAA games based on the most desirable IP franchises in the world. Delphi has pioneered a proven model to de-risk titles, reduce development costs, and create unprecedented alignment between IP owners, creatives, and developers.

I assume they are some kind of broker between IP and dev studios, though the PR implies they are developing it. The corporate slop tagline isn't encouraging but we'll see.

Predictable cash flows are good for more-or-less everyone. Luckily Apple has a massive cash reserve and can easily take the short term hit. I suppose you can take advantage of that knowledge and buy when the reactionary investors sell on, perhaps, lower revenues if and when the time comes.

I do this as well but with a slightly cheaper solution. You can find a used SNES, Super Gameboy, and Gameboy Camera for a reasonable price on Ebay if you look around and are willing to do some minor cleanup and repairs. If you're fine with a bit of analog noise, you can capture it with a cheap composite -> USB ADC you can find on Amazon for under $10.

As an aside, I also do photography with the Gameboy Camera. A company called Epilogue makes the Operator, a USB device for dumping Gameboy carts. It has native Gameboy Camera support, allowing you to dump pixel-perfect pngs of your on-cart shots. The 2-bit dithering is lovely.

That's a fair criticism - this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. What I find interesting about this is the cost of running the service. Being able to run a twitter-like thing on a hundred or so large aws instances is neat and I'm sure that many folks here dream of that kind of efficiency at their day jobs, but I'm more excited about how this scales down. Can you run a community of a thousand or so posters on a micro or nano instance for a few bucks a month or less? At that scale and cost, donations should easily be able to cover hosting fees and you would surely be able to deputize enough mods to keep things civil (for whatever definition of civil your instance lands on). Ads, monetization, personalization are non-issues (well, not major issues) at that scale.

I’m not familiar with Godot networking primitives in 3.X, but 4.0 contains WebRTC support which, combined with a STUN/TURN server, solves the hole-punching problem. You need to run a signaling backend to pass connection info between the peers, but you’ll probably want to build a messaging service anyway for matchmaking.

This is fascinating, thanks for sharing! Oddly enough I worked on something similar in grad school in 2008 (https://cowboyscott.gg/research/micro08.pdf). Our methods and models were quite primitive (though we did have a nice eye tracker) and the work had mixed success. It's great seeing related approaches, but with proper budgets and teams!

This is exactly what happened at Mt Gox almost a decade ago.

I'm in the middle of this course and finding it to be very good: https://www.udemy.com/course/blendertutorial/

Don't let the long total length fool you - the course was updated for 3.2, but still contains the 2.8 lessons as an appendix.

Lessons are very brisk and the instructor narrates every action and keypress. I'm flying through the course.

>They repeatedly demonstrate that they are a company of bullies, with how they ban people from their service that don't conform to the left orthodoxy.

So the manner in which they conduct their private business, which is well within the rule of law, makes them ineligible for protection from those violating securities and contract law?

> We acknowledge and take responsibility for the experience of those impacted.

No; apart from a bit of severance pay, the responsibility is on your former hires to restart their job hunts or plead for their previous roles. "Taking responsibility" is not a declaration but an action.

Fantastic idea - love the historical performance and fake money testing features. Can I grab an invitation code?

While I don’t mean to compare apples and oranges, I did get a chuckle remembering the message embedded in the genesis block:

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

> You don’t own the picture of the dog, you don’t own 20% of the picture of the dog, it is just, like, you come in every day and someone is playing a new weird game and you try to get the high score in today’s game and tomorrow will be a different game.

Say what you will about crypto more broadly, but this is a wonderful perspective on these sort of flash-in-the-pan financial manias.

With respect to the author, I found the article a bit overwrought and folks may bounce before getting the gist.

tl;dr Apple will be more generous in allowing developers to message their customers about payment options outside the app. This is a big deal for virtual game economies (and others!) because now Epic can email/message you about a fortnite vbuck bundle sold from their website, where epic can pay their payment provider, say, 3% plus $0.25 for a $10 transaction rather than the 30% App Store fee, saving $2.45!

The revenant Apple text:

> To give developers even more flexibility to reach their customers, Apple is also clarifying that developers can use communications, such as email, to share information about payment methods outside of their iOS app. As always, developers will not pay Apple a commission on any purchases taking place outside of their app or the App Store. Users must consent to the communication and have the right to opt out.

Very exciting stuff, and Patrick is right that this messaging will be rolled out quickly by games and others.

I’ve been building a set of web based tools for making little multiplayer (and single player) games.

https://www.miniboss.gg

All the tools, including programming, art, and sound are baked in. I’m reworking the editor now and hope to have a proper release this year.

Judging from this comment, the choice to remove fluoride seems to be a way to avoid additional FDA testing (including animal studies).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12507965

Anecdotal evidence, but I've hardly paid for a Lyft ride (aside from driver tips) for the last few months. This thanks to a long-running 50% off promotion in my area (Austin, TX, USA) and a pile of promotional credit added to my account. I wonder how much of this loss is due to these marketing efforts.

Now that the promotion is over and credit depleted, my default ride app is back to Uber.

Guessing here, but I suspect Prime Video runs at a thin margin (perhaps at a loss) and is used largely as a gateway for purchasing or renting non-prime video content. Amazon could only sell that content on device by giving Apple a 30% revenue cut, which may be unacceptably high.

Anyone have experience living in one of these? Even at 20 grand, sleeping above a chemical toilet is bound to get old fast.