reednj

The article has basically nothing to do with the title. It is a recap of the plot of the foundation series and an extended analogy about how trump is the same as the Mule

From reading a bunch of biographies from that time, I do get the feeling that buzz was a bit of a loud mouth asshole, but I don’t see Why you think that makes the dedication sarcastic? He wrote this well before he joined nasa

I think the point is they shouldn't pay for the R&D or the construction of the rockets either - just pay for the launches and let the market sort out what vehicles are required.

> drone AI that can out-think a human;

But doesn't this assume that there will be some sort of 1v1 matchup between the pilots and the drones? I don't see any reason why this should be true, as the drones should be able to be produced much cheaper. So sure, maybe I human pilot could always shoot down a single drone, but how would they go against a swarm of 50 drones all perfectly coordinating with each other.

Your example of Alan Kay isn't a very good one though, because we can objectively test their opinions on say, the best way to implement `malloc` by having them do it and testing the results against the computer. There is no such equivalent for literature.

Its much easier to manage multiple accounts. I think on the website you can only be logged in as one account at a time. The twitter app has a vertical 'tab' for each account.

Seems like it would have all the problems of housing in a shipping container, but at 10x the cost

Why not? Trump didn't win them by much, but it can still be a big swing if Obama won these states by a lot. A quick google shows that this appears to be the case.

Trump may have won michigan by only 10k votes, but Obama had a margin of half a million in 2012.

> Unfortunately, most of the deplorables would just find new reasons to hate Democrats

That is objectively false - Trump won because white voters in the rust belt swung 25 points from Obama to Trump. If you were right that they voted only Republican out of tribalism then Obama would never have won those states.

Theres a server wide option to turn off auto-truncate for MySQL, which I believe is on by default, at least on ubuntu

I wasn't aware of that syntax? It will just pass the arguments from the parent to the child in order?

Sorry... I didn't see that it was a dup. Usually it tells you when the exact url has been submitted before?

Haven't seen any offical annocement for this, but it looks like they open sourced every version before the current releases

If they purchased it, then they would own the copyright, so they can relicense it any way they want can't they?

I host https://babbl.xyz on DO with a single $10 server for the socket and the web, and a $10 server for mysql. This can support around 500 active players.

I also did a more action asteroids clone (http://triangle-wars.com), and this would only support I guess 50 players on a $10 server.

The limiting factor seems to be the number of packets / sec that need to be broadcast to all players. If each player is changing state 2/sec, and you have 50 players, then the sever needs to relay 100 packets/sec...

Unlike some other comments in this thread, I didn't find JSON parsing to have any effect on performance.

Is there a page where you can actually see the 100 icons? Or am I missing something?

It's not stable though is it? Their revenue has gone down 22 quarters in a row

More like the new silverlight, especially in the way that big companies are jumping on board. I think it will suffer the same fate as well and be quietly abandoned.

I made a very similar site a few years ago, except you can't overwrite other peoples work: http://paint.reednj.com

(Its not moderated, so probably NSFW)

I have a 100k / month web app, and I have one $10 server for the app, and one for the db on DO. Based off the CPU + disk usage, I'd say I could grow 4x and stay with the same setup. It will be a lonngg time before I need a load balancer.

Either my workload is atypical or people massively overestimate the server power they need.

I use this multiple times a day. Not convinced its going to come back up :( Maybe time to try out pocket or something...

I find ruby plenty fast enough for sites in the 1k/min requests range, but I have serious problems getting it to run fast enough with websockets. Even 40 concurrent websockets connections through ruby is enough to bring down my hosts.

Does anyone have any experience using this with websockets? How does it perform?

80% of people working in PR are women. Is that a pink ghetto as well?

"why people who are less educated than me are too stupid to vote for who I tell them too"

I like this too, but it is pretty hard to use without a directory, so I created a simple one here where you can register your username: http://twtxt.reednj.com

It asks you to enter a username when you set it up, but when you follow someone you have to set a username for them yourself. Am I missing something? It seems that the username is never exposed

Yeah, that's definitely a concern. I made it deliberately difficult to delete to at least stop people from destroying what is there already. But of course if you are there while someone is making something, you could still ruin it

Some things people have made so far:

megaman: http://paint.reednj.com/p/-208/149/14)

some cubes: http://paint.reednj.com/p/-180/-24/10

cookie monster: http://paint.reednj.com/p/439/-79/17

a race car: http://paint.reednj.com/p/-346/37/17

I disagree, music isn't going anywhere, but the music industry is fundamentally a publishing industry, and they face the same problems that all publishers do, in that the internet makes the problems of distribution and marketing that they solve much less difficult.

I don't really know what that will mean in terms of startups, but it seems like there would be money to be made exploiting these changing in circumstances while the bigger companies are fumbling about wondering what is happening.