evujumenuk

Eh, did War of the Lions not happen? Doesn’t that imply some missing content in this remaster?

https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/24646/what-should-the-arbiter-and-what-should-have-i-done-in-this-case

If your idea of a federated Twitter is a bunch of mini-Twitters that sometimes exchange indirect replies or something, then the Fediverse fulfills that purpose completely. Mission accomplished, we can all go home now.

If your idea is that the replies to every post look the same to any user, anywhere, at any time, even the thing Mastodon merged half a year ago that supposedly fetches all replies if you remember to navigate to the topmost post, and wait up to 15 minutes for your view of the thread to coalesce, falls short.

And this is why hosting Mastodon is cheap, it fundamentally cannot provide the functionality BlueSky offers. Of course, you might think that such functionality is not desirable anyway, and that’s entirely fair. But if you’re looking for the immediacy that centralized Twitter gave users, I don’t see a way for Fedi to ever provide that, whereas there is a path to BlueSky decentralization. It’s a fact that your UX is diminished if all of your followers and followeds are not on the same instance.

But in the end, I think there is space for both.

It’s been a while since I last touched Rust, but there’s a discussion on whether to commit Cargo lockfiles to version control, and the consensus is basically that you should do it if your crate is primarily a binary, and, conversely, you shouldn’t if it’s primarily a library. It acknowledges that code at the apex of the dependency graph should follow different rules than everything below it, and this kind of reasoning could apply to licenses in similar ways.

That’s the most sensible thing I’ve read all day. I think much of the reasoning for Cargo lockfiles could apply here as well.

I don’t deny that Old Prey was an innovative game. But stating that everything that wasn’t Doom was stripped out while implying that nothing else was added in feels a bit disingenuous.

What aspects of the newer Prey make it more like Doom than the older Prey? To me, that’s kinda like saying, “System Shock was just Wolfenstein 3D 🎶 in space 🎶”

It depends on whether you’re using apps that require Play Integrity attestation, like some banking apps do.

If that’s the case, consider the humble iPhone!

Income tax doesn’t do anything to the 1%. You have unrealized gains, and borrow against your assets? You owe zero tax.

A wealth tax, or income tax on yet unrealized gains, would be better. Of course, that comes with its own set of issues. But, I don’t think they are insurmountable.

It really looks like Microsoft made the worst call with their Series S compatibility mandate. Now games come out so late that as an Xbox owner, you’re automatically a Patient Gamer, without the upsides. That is, if a port is released at all.

These days you can play games like Death Stranding more than half a year earlier on your iPhone.

I went to the HSBC Main Building, rode up the escalator to the retail banking department, and, after some waiting time, asked one exceptionally well dressed clerk for a simple checking account. Mostly, I wanted one because it makes paying for things easier in some specific corner cases. (Fortunately, 95% of the time you’ll be fine with just your Octopus card and any old contactless credit or debit card from wherever you’re from.)

After clarifying I wouldn’t be drawing a HK salary or taking profits from investments in HK securities, the very polite agent let me know that her company wasn’t terribly interested in accommodating me.

I think that’s fair, because there’s like at least half a dozen reasons this business relationship could go bad, and not a lot of upside for the bank. I wasn’t devastated or anything; I was pretty much just curious if it was possible at all, and under which circumstances.

When I went to ICBC in China a week later, I walked out of there with an account and a debit card in my name. Chinese banks just have a lot less abuse to deal with, I’d imagine.

This was me at HSBC in Hong Kong.

Granted, I neither live nor pay taxes there, so… fair

That’s pretty interesting. Do you happen to have any introductory material to that topic?

I mean, it might even have applications outside of running a techno-communist nation state. For example, for designing economic simulation game mechanics.

I open new browser tabs and type into a pastebin.

Pastery going login-only majorly screwed me over; now I use GitHub gists.

It’s a gross approximation, but…

Your desktop or laptop computer is probably toast, your phone probably isn’t.

A mask ROM is a kind of read-only memory where the desired data is directly etched into a semiconductor during the same photolithographic process that actually makes a circuit out of a planar sheet of silicon. It’s pretty much hard-wired data storage, with an indefinite lifespan.

As far as I remember, Game Cards are not mask ROM. In other words, they’ll eventually lose their data and become e-waste anyhow.

This applies to both “real” Game Cards, and Game Key Cards. It’s already been a problem with the OG Switch.

Even with Game Key Cards, an actual, physical object has to be produced, at drastically higher marginal cost than what a purely digital license costs in production (basically nothing). And there is a secondary market, which doesn’t exist in the digital realm.

Essentially, I don’t see the reasoning behind counting them as digital. All the aspects that seem relevant to any publisher (and, to a first approximation, any user that isn’t a conservationist) make them identical to physical sales.

Anti-abuse measures such as this are generally designed to not provide that kind of feedback. The website developer is modeled to be an adversary, and you don’t volunteer valuable information on what has worked against your countermeasures, and what hasn’t, to your designated enemy.

Session disables forward secrecy for no reason.

Personally, I assume it’s a honeypot.