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>The same is true of most modern smartphones. If you wrote an app for an early version of iOS or Android, it simply won't run on modern hardware or software. APIs have changed, SDKs weren't designed with forward compatibility, and app store requirements have evolved.

I wrote a simple niche app for Android a decade ago, when I got my first Android phone, just to play around: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abragame

Forward compatibility is not perfect, it got taken down a few times for compliance reasons (I think I had to fill out a form on whether my app was intended to be primarily used by kids?)

Still, it runs on modern devices with modern OS versions without a hitch. (Much faster than it used to on my HTC Hero in 2012). If you wanted to bemoan mobile functionality degradation, I'd aim at dependencies on communication with proprietary servers, which various companies don't feel obliged to keep around for long.

>They are the best search engine by far for politically controversial topics.

This is an interesting take given the political censorship in Russia (for some ineffable reason much harsher now than it used to be 4 months ago) and cases like https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1510944781492531208.

>Turned out that urban warfare didn't really happen much.

Siege of Mariupol is ongoing since the start of the war. It has seen very brutal urban fighting.

Javelin rockets are $80k-$100k a piece, $170k figure is the launcher and the rocket together. Unlike NLAW the launcher is reusable (and even useful on its own because the targeting unit is detachable and has thermal vision)

Because only people with a high enough conviction of benefits of moderate drinking are commenting here and arguing for. However I have no idea how they do become so strongly convinced in that, given the low quality of the data that exists, the general reproducibility crisis in bio-sciences, precedent of complete compromise of a large study, things like https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-..., the argument that if moderate amounts of ethanol were beneficial we would have just evolved to synthesize it, etc.

I think the most likely outcome is boring: moderate amounts of alcohol are moderately harmful, but not harmful enough to be immensely obvious and not harmful enough to outweigh the non-biological benefits some people extract from it.

Sorry, what does "bake a request for records" mean?

Do I understand correctly that it does not do hole-punching, and e.g. unlike with a VPN a host behind NAT will not be able to accept incoming connections?

>The Autoverse is an artificial life simulator based on a cellular automaton complex enough to represent the substratum of an artificial chemistry. It is deterministic, internally consistent and vaguely resembles real chemistry. Tiny environments, simulated in the Autoverse and filled with populations of a simple, designed lifeform, Autobacterium lamberti, are maintained by a community of enthusiasts obsessed with getting A. lamberti to evolve, something the Autoverse chemistry seems to make extremely difficult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City

Quite insightful, thanks for writing this.

Move slowly and be unable to fix things fast.

In competitive programming circles I've heard the basic idea called root or sqrt decomposition.

A great read, thank you!

BTW, is there any way to get the chat archive from the original marathon? Is it saved at all somewhere? rechat.org does a similar thing, but its retention period is only one week.

No, never heard of it. What's this 'malware'?

Also, you use the squire on your own volition.

Squire dev here. We were DDoSed, infiltrated about 4 times and had an author of another similar extension turn on us. But we will persevere.

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