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They used MB and not MiB on the homepage.

Minor typo in the title: "10Mb" would be 10 Megabits.

They really mean "10 MB" as in 10 Megabytes.

Did you mean 2/3?

We did indeed hit "Peak Oil" for conventional oil fields just as predicted. But we started to access new sources of oil to fill the gap. As long as we find new energy sources that are cheaper than oil we will never run out of oil because we can simply make more from other sources. Every form of good energy can be converted into every form of other energy (at some losses). Food can be turned into energy and energy can be turned into food. The big question is if we will develop cheap energy sources quickly enough.

If we don't we will have to reduce consumption considerably and there are several ways to achieve that.

Lisa Su sounded like she'd be in the boat to open the PSP source when she was on Reddit. It seems that she only learned later that she can't do that.

I'd speculate it's the element of surprise.

Ideally the pause would do nothing to the game. (It could be that the game has some glitches but let's assume it's solid.) Then one could assume that the pause does nothing regarding the AI players. But that is not true because the AI itself is not paused (I assume) and it has to handle this unusual input. This might throw off some versions of it and it probably learns how to handle the pause and how to use it to gain a small advantage. So it's all part of the game. Similar to when a human team uses the pause for tactical purposes.

And game #2!

China invented paper but Germany invented the printing press. Now China exports more printers but Germany exports more paper.

The performance seems great in comparison. But this laptop seems a bit thin for my taste. There would be room to almost double the battery if the thickness was increased. There would also be room for USB-A and a LAN port. Two things I would really like to see.

Also I read a lot of bad experiences here on HN with the XPS line every time it comes up. Personally I know at least two people who had a bad experience with it and ended up replacing the machine with something else. Is Dell improving on that part or has it stabilized?

On paper the machine looks really good but right now I just can't justify pulling the trigger to replace a Retina-MBP.

I see many arguments incoming defending Microsoft and getting more or less visibility depending on the audience at the time. Something along the lines of:

"Let's compare it to some competitor who also does it wrong. See they are not doing any better but they are not criticized as much. How can you complain about this company then? You can't. We must be glad for what they give us. See how much good they do and how little you have achieved compared to an international giant. If you really want to do better go make your own store. You can't? Obviously you can't. Then you can't criticize."

But the bottom line is that all these companies are ruled by money first and foremost. Sure, there are differences in detail and the approach they take but in the end the logic of money trumps all morals.

For the "new" Microsoft this means that they have changed their approach because of money. Whatever good they do for us is because they think it will make them money in the long run. I think of it as a long running PR action and a medium change of company culture. If it suits them, they will change it back over night. WE must keep them under pressure to do the right thing by not letting us be held hostage by monopolies and always having a way out. So support your open source software because in the long run it will dominate in most places.

You can already track most people by their radio tracking devices.

Is the lower power usage at the same clock rate?

Is the same clock rate at the lower power usage?

These questions sound logically equivalent but to marketing they may be not. The values for 1, 2 and 3 might be taken from 3 different processors.

OpenOffice is dead but its fork, LibreOffice, lives on.

You don't necessarily have to fork it, just the possibility of the fork changes the game. It means that the original maintainer cannot shut you down. If enough people deem a fork useful they can work together.

Of course there's a cost associated with it. But how much is it compared to the risk of someone shutting a core element of your business down? You have to evaluate.

This shows one strength of open source where you have the option to fork and maintain your own solution in the case the project heads the wrong way.

Unfortunately the whole world seems to be heading the wrong way with cloud based "everything as a service" where you control nothing. If the provider or cloud goes down you have nothing. Even if they just take your keys you have nothing. It's quick and easy to setup and convenient but you're basically a hostage.

This is what you get if you're missing a proper package management that allows users to easily install their libraries.

That single file is the substitute for a package that you can simply put somewhere, include it and it works.

What I'd like to have is someone to devise a plan on how to seamlessly progress from C++ to a language with a wholly new and cleaned up syntax. A way to slowly break out of the shell given by current backward compatibility. But at the same time being able to seamlessly interact with the old C and C++ world. Maybe something like "unsafe" in Rust.

Having modules in C++ smells like the connector we're missing in order to accomplish something like that.

Working with Python lately I very much got to like the interactive REPL and its immediate feedback.

I actually think I forgot how to program in C. It lacks almost every data structure I'd deem useful to getting complex and mixed problems solved quickly. C++ provides many things and is useful if you are in a tight spot or you want/need the speed.

If Rust keeps evolving at a quick pace I think I'll look into it a lot in the future.

D seems to me like a good thing that is better in many ways but has some critical drawbacks for me like not working on many microcontrollers (an area where C++ really shines). On the other hand it isn't radical enough to really dive into it.

Includes mixed with #ifdef leaks state across module borders and the whole C preprocessor feels like a dirty hack.

What a header actually does depends on compiler flags, #defines from other files and then the order in which you include things as one header file might define something that changes the behavior of another header file. The compiler loses state in between C++-files and caching precompiled header files was still a joke the last time I've checked.

That leads to the problem that every single C++ file needs to include a few hundred thousand lines of nested headers and compilation takes forever. Add in some templates and you get a lot duplicated code in the object files that needs to be weeded out by the linker. Sometimes it's even suggested to put all your classes into one single big C++ file and only compile that in order to get your compilation time down.

Having proper modules would do so much good!

Also if Rust is not cutting it yet in your specific niche.

I fear the times when they can't achieve those 20% and the winds start to change massively.

AMD has the PSP which basically is the same thing. But we don't know for sure what either one does.

Is that an official tool supported by intel?

The news on freeciv.org states:

> 9th Jul 2018 - A new Freeciv-web instance has been launched on isotrident.com. This server has working 2D and 3D single and multiplayer games, play-by-email and all other Freeciv-web features enabled.

That's all I know.

You can also play freeciv in your browser here: https://www.isotrident.com/

The old online playing service was shut down some time ago but they found another host.

Thanks to all developers and anyone helping!

I don't want a patch. I don't use that thing for anything. I want them to disable that thing by default!

Leaving those backdoors open in older products should lead to a recall because the flaw was there all along.

Some people wait for an external trigger. If you're having a good time, meet them from time to time. Don't stress it. It's good.

I don't like the improvements they made that actually make the new MBPs worse for what I do. I also don't trust them regarding the keyboard issues and will wait two years before even considering a new MBP. If my old MBP breaks it will be some other manufacturer with questionable long term quality but much lower price. They lost my faith and doing a major recall would do lift their image in my eyes tremendously.

Are there solutions that don't meet the formal definition but still perform just as good as if they did in practical situations?

(As in the formal definition is not what we actually need to get a consistent and reliable system for our real-world application. We need something a little less and then suddenly it's possible to get a similar solution that actually provides C A and P.)

Was it obvious back then that Flash would be dead by now, Microsoft gives up on phones, x86 fails at gaining any foothold in the phone business and intel fails at performing the next structure shrink?

There's another one:

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