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What a great write up of a fascinating story.

I'm constantly impressed at the writing coming out of the emulation world. I can't think of any other technical niche that produces such consistently approachable writing about such esoteric technical subjects.

I don't understand hardware, I barely program. I don't even use emulators. Yet I will always read write ups like this and from the dolphin blog and elsewhere which give me a great understanding of reverse engineering, the community nuances, and the hacks and shortcuts that made the games possible on the limited hardware available at the time.

I disagree that the sport is about bikes. I think the sport is about cyclists. The olympics is particular is built around human athletic competition not technical competition.

How do you find the best cyclist if the quality of the bikes is wildly different?

In any experiment, you have to control for the factors other than the ones you're looking to test. I don't think its fair to say that they don't care about finding the best, they're just trying to find the best of a different category than you're interested in.

As GP said. There is also space for different competitions about technology (in motorsport, formula 1 has both a driver championship and a constructor championship which is about the technology).

That example is appalling and indefensible.

I think it's important to note that it has been condemned by BDS.

According to the website you linked to - "Even the BDS Movement has called on BDS Boston, a group promoting the Mapping Project, to cease doing so"

I don't know more about the issue than what you shared, and do not know the structure of BDS, but decentralised groups are vulnerable to their sort of thing where one autonomous group undertakes actions that are entirely unacceptable.

It's one of the reasons it is so important for groups to stamp out antisemitism within their own ranks and not let it fester.

If you expect not to be judged for your worst behaviour, then everyone around you won't live a happy life.

The information was in the post - ws2812 (or ws281x, there are variations) which are also known by the semi-brandname "neopixel".

They come in various form factors including fairy lights, strips and matrixes.

They are very easy to work with, and there are good libraries or open source platforms (eg wled) to run them.

The debate isn't about whether the technology should be available to millions but whether (and how much) apple should have to pay for the technology.

Either Apple are guilty or being stingy, or Massimo are guilty of being greedy. Either could be responsible for the conflict.

The impression I got was that Massimo was paying fairly for the development team of a medical product.

As soon as the technology had a consumer application, the market value of the expertise changed drastically.

Im not sure running TrueNAS counts as learning ZFS, which I think is GP's point.

If you want to use ZFS, then TrueNAS with sensible defaults is a great way to go. If you want to learn ZFS enough to roll your own deployment, change the configuration correctly and understand the changes you make then don't start with TrueNAS, and definitely don't listen to the TrueNAS community.

Or at least, that's how I read the GP comment.

I see a thread of people talking about their experience of the game and how aspects of it made them feel. That's exactly what a forum is for, and a very legitimate way to engage with a piece of art.

Particularly for a game with strong sexual representationa and inclusion, it is legitimate to discuss aspects where the inclusion is still lacking. This may be useful for the Devs future plans, or it may change nothing but be useful for other prospective players to understand about the game.

You might not find the thread useful or engaging. I don't find the threads about compatibility with hardware I don't own useful or engaging. Not every thread is for every person.

Most western democracies dont publicise arrests and mugshots like the US. Most of these countries are more free and have better functioning democracies than the USA. In fact, many coutries would consider publicising every minor arrest as an imposition on personal freedom and a massive overstep by the government.

I do agree that police should be filmable in almost all circumstances.

I agree it's common and not underhanded. But it's not always smart business.

Most commercial tenants are still resonsibile for maintenance, which is the primary ongoing expertise.

It can be a useful way to free up capital, but only useful if it's used to expand the business and deliver a greater return.

Too often it's used to artificially increase the share price or pay out dividend. In these cases the company commits to never ending rent payments for no actual benefit.

There are whole bunch of businesses who have bucked this MBA trend, kept their freeholds and have ended up with a more resilient business better able to weather a change of economic circumstances.

Iirc, following the entirely justified backlash he had to back down from that and surrendered the trademark to the wework.

You may have come across this concept already, but this is where clean rooms come in.

One person views the "contaminated" decompiled code and writes a specification. A separate person writes the code based solely on the specification. This is an accepted method of demonstrating that there is no infringement.

This quote supports my position.

Digital goods are treated differently by the act to other goods(hence them being mentioned specifically in this section).

Purchasing non-digital goods online provides a greater right to return them even if they are not faulty. Digital goods, as your quoted section points out, can be returned if they are not of (objectively) satisfactory quality.

The two week mandatory, no-fuss return you mentioned originally only applies to non-digital goods/services bought remotely.

Unreal is not open source.

I think you might mean that unreal is "source available" which doesn't confer any of the rights of open source, but does allow you to view and modify the source code subject to a commercial license (which might be free for personal, small scale use. I don't know unreal's pricing structure).

No, GP is incorrect. Digital goods are treated differently under the act.

Redhat can absolutely stop doing business with someone in a protected class. They can stop doing business with anyone in any protected class.

What they can't do is stop doing business with someone because they belong to a protected class.

You would have to argue that support of the GPL was a religious belief to gain such protections.

Worth noting for the audience - this is a historical issue.

Facebook removed the restriction and changed to a straight forward MIT license in 2017.

The East India Company would like a word.

The same was true for the holy grail too. Other financiers included (iirc) led zeppelin and other British rock greats.

The top marginal rate of income tax was ~90% and this heavily encouraged investments like this. It meant that there was more space for creative risk taking as well as more commercial/industrial capital investment.

(Context, I'm already within the ulez. I can see the boundary from my house.)

The diesel fraud over the last couple of decades is really unfortunate. It's messed over a lot of people and caused a bunch of needless environmental harm in the meantime.

But you don't need to get a new 20k electric car. You can get a cheap second hand petrol car of probably the same age. A quick Google shows your car is worth 10-15k, so you have some good equity for a better ulez car, of which there are plenty in that price range.

Selling a car is a faff and it sucks, but the ulez is designed to change behaviours, it wouldn't be effective of it didn't effect people.

Thats not actually the issue with talc.

The talc itself is not believed to be the carcinagen, but the talc is contaminated with asbestos. Interal documents show that J&J knew about the contamination since 1971. Asbestos was known to be carcinegic at this point and the first bans of asbestos use in construction began rolling out in 1972.

They knew and hid the health risks, just like a cigarette company.

But the combined product is not in being released in accordance with the GPL, so it is incompatible.

This isn't how the games industry works for games at thia scale (or any other media). They are events. Millions of people having the same experience at the same time and having a common cultural touch point.

The 100s of clones would be more like fanfic. A set of people would get very into them, search out the good ones (perhaps better than the original), or revel in the terrible ones. But then the whole community still comes together to watch the latest marvel film anyway.

The main effect would be to build and maintain the community for the next commercial version.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't it have to be the source for an identical rpm package.

If the rpm package is the binary they're distributing, than that's also the source they have to distribute.

The gpl isn't literally about the community, upstream, downstream. The gpl is simply - if you give me a binary, you have to also give me (or ensure I have access to) the source for that binary. The source to a similar binary doesn't cut it.

One could argue that older accounts are even more likely to get hacked, as they are more likely to have older passwords that are weaker that may have been leaked along the way, along with various other accumulated security issues (leaked API keys, out of date 2FA choices etc).

Im not american, so might be missing some context, but what is the monopoly?

You can use Fedex, UPS etc to ship anything from anywhere to anywhere. Nothing is stopping you from using fedex to ship your christmas cards as well. I assume people stick with USPS for simple letters because its cheaper and easier, not because of any enforced monopoly.

The current problem is that the insentives are all wrong.

It is the company being audited that gives the auditers the business. Its not in the interests of a dodgy company to appoint a good auditor, and its not actually in the auditors (short term) interest to uncover wrongdoing as it just means they'd lose a client.

My proposal is that you require every company to have insurance to cover the risks, making the insurers fully liable for fraud (and any other business risk that audits protect against).

Companies then don't appoint their own auditors, but the insurers do. Its in the insurers interest to make sure that any audit is effective as they're on the hook for any liability the audit misses.

This way the insentives for the auditors are aligned with the interests of the people relying on the audit (shareholders, customers, suppliers).

15 years ago it wasn't clear whether Facebook or Twitter was going to be the winner (or if they'd both just be another MySpace).

Jack is responsible for Twitter losing.

It always felt like Twitter co didn't actually understand what Twitter was and almost all of the product innovation came from the community rather than twitter itself.

Null Signal's blog post[0] about the topic seems to entirely contradict your narrative about how this change is being approached. Have there been further developments since this was first announced?

"You will not be banned for referring to brain damage. We prefer that you switch to core damage, and will remind you, but it’s not an enumerated infraction.

However, if a fellow player is harmed by any aspect of your behavior (including using the old term instead of the new term) and politely requests that you stop, you are expected to do so. We have always asked players to be polite and make easy accommodations when asked, as is clarified by our Code of Conduct. This is not a change in policy."

[0] https://nullsignal.games/blog/core-damage/