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That would probably depend on the the cache hit/miss ratio.

My question was meant rhetorically, but I guess there might be some even more interesting exceptions to this out there.

There should be no cost. Which game will constantly use DNS to resolve addresses after being launched?

Latency has a big impact on user experience in most multiplayer games and players with a low latency have an advantage in many games. I am not sure how satisfied people will be with low cost low powered systems made for game streaming in the long run when other users have a much better experience and even advantages in gameplay.

Of course, it solves a lot of problems. But you have to pay for it by increasing the load on the servers by orders of magnitude. This makes it a brute force approach in my opinion.

This is of course depending on your meaning of „elegant“, but for me this would imply to solve these issues without increasing the server load so much. Let the client decide as much as possible, but check the decisions randomly and in case of suspicious player stats. And DRM for multiplayer games should be no problem anyways? Verify the accounts or your users, but that applies to stadia like services and also the „conventional“ ones. Solving the data mining issue is another topic and yes, giving the server more authority for things that the player should be able to see might be the only way to deal with this. But maybe the server could hand out client specific decryption keys when they are needed? That would be elegant, and not just keeping all the content server-side.

Game streaming services will find their place, but they address mainly the entry hurdle and not the issue of game state synchronization.

How is that elegant? In return for easy synchronization the server has to perform ALL computations. Sounds more like brute force to me.

Tried a lot of settings, but with enabled network I never got the standby power consumption down. It should also be expected that the TV uses the advertised amount of energy in standby mode with the default settings, which was really not the case for me. And don’t get me started on this „might increase power consumption“ message. This might actually not be Sony‘s fault, but the EU‘s, but it really gets annoying when it pops up all the time.

And despite these rules my Sony TV (KD-65XG9505) bought in 2019 uses 20 to 30 watts in standby. Only disabling the internal Wi-Fi and restarting it gets this down to about 1 watt. This seems to be a very common problem with Sony TVs and I have no idea how they don’t get into any kind of trouble with this.

I am surprised to read that Safe Mode did not automatically disable all non essential systems. That seems to be very risky behavior.

Redmine works just fine.

I agree. That’s why both get a bit from me on Patreon.

I am the same. I also started to play a few times, but not knowing the mechanics and not having enough time/motivation to learn them in detail is frustrating. But there’s a nice alternative: https://youtube.com/c/kruggsmash

Watching someone else play Dwarf Fortress can be surprisingly entertaining. Just start one of his series from the start.

You really wouldn't want to know, whether there are superintelligent beings here that are watching us, or not?

And do you really think, that we wouldn't put a LOT of effort into researching another inhabited planet if we had the opportunity to do so completely undetected?

I just got this ad on the unifi Controller hosted on my own server. Not happy about this.

Pretty sure that I am conscious. I am just not 100% sure that everyone else is.

Also: Peter Watts‘ novel Blindsight comes to mind here.

Why is it a silly thought experiment? It makes us aware of exactly what you are describing.

Some Netflix series are really bad in this regard. Sometimes the upper and lower part of the picture are really blurry. Maybe they do this to achieve a more cinematic look? But to me it feels like forced tunnel vision and it makes me really uncomfortable.

No, I am not sure about the delay. But the app informed me a few times about things that were happening (fires, bomb disposals) that I would otherwise not have know about.

And it looks like the delay yesterday was actually caused by the bavarians (http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a1a4ef27). But that something like this is even possible in this system is ridiculous of course -.-

Yes, that’s what I tried to say. Not a native speaker ;)

Not so easy to implement this the right way I guess. For local emergencies the German app solution seems to work adequately, but for big emergencies the cell broadcast should definitely be an option.

But I see your point, a system like that should be used in a reasonable manner.

Edit: and by „not foreseen to be used“ I mean that Germany can’t, because we don’t have the required technical infrastructure.

Until the 90s the sirens in west Germany were also used for civil defense purposes. After the Cold War the system was dismantled on federal level and only some cities have it now.

Very good question. I also read about another city (can’t remember which) that could have used the sirens, but didn’t, because the test happens already on other dates.

I really expected much more from this test. Feels like we are living in an underdeveloped country.

Neither has Bremen, or a lot of other cities. Justifications seem to be that sirens are not suitable to alert only certain districts, and that a siren going off is not enough to communicate what exactly is happening. Pretty flimsy I think, because a siren as a trigger for people to get informed via radio or TV is the most resilient way to get information to everyone if something really bad happens.

Cell broadcast is not foreseen to be used in Germany. And my guess is that this „Warntag“ was introduced to prove that the German approach to notify its citizens in these situations (smartphone app, sirens, radio and tv broadcasts) is sufficient and nothing else has to be done to fulfill the upcoming EU-Alert standard that has to be implemented by the member states by 2022. The incompetence of the responsible agencies is ridiculous. Curious to see what the outcome of this will be and if there is any improvement next year.

You probably heard of Isotopium: Chernobyl. Interesting concept and a solid implementation of a similar idea.

https://youtu.be/TET-xQIgZQE

I use a few different devices from them with zigbee2mqtt and it’s working great. It’s perfect for combining devices from different manufacturers and not having to use their individual gateways.

You can easily integrate Zigbee devices. The Aqara or Xiaomi door/window sensors for example are cheap and pretty nice.

What’s the agenda here? To calm people down? Statistically this thing might even cause some deaths if enough people see it. We will see how the numbers change when our health care systems have to operate beyond their capacities.

The project has a new leader now: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/1289

The birds cared, at least about the ocean. But Eugene didn’t.

That person is seeing suicide as the only way out of whatever they are going through. You should try to see it their way and not the other way around. Ask questions and try to be understanding.