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> Does anyone have experience shipping monetized games that do not rely on ads? Were any of these titles successful?

I don't think I've ever played a PC or console game that relied on ads for revenue (nor would I ever.)

Does >1% of all power used feel unreasonably high? I know people complain about Bitcoin power consumption, but I had no idea mining consumed power anyone on this sort of scale. Though, the Texas Blockchain Association may have an interest in overestimating the percentage of power ceded.

Even if Amazon gets in trouble for union busting, it may be the case that the consequences of getting caught are outweighed by the costs associated with rising wages/benefits/conditions for labor under a union.

> "obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group"

This is just the fallacy of definition. Technically being anti-racist or anti-terrorism is "bigotry" on a fallaciously "strict" interpretation of some short definition of the word if one refuses to acknowledge its social and historical context (and how the word is used in the real world.)

> but did nothing to erase the fundamental feeling that all of reality and my actions within it are pointless

There may not be some cosmic teleology for your life, but that doesn't mean it's pointless; it just means you have a clean slate for deciding what you want that point to be.

I think embracing the absurdity of existence can be liberating.

Same boat.

I'm not a vegan, and I try my absolute best to avoid thinking about what we put animals through. It certainly sits in a specific category of intrusive thoughts. The only real analog to this in my mind is being aware of my own mortality; I just avoid that thought and shove it out of my mind. Occasionally my comparatively relaxed life is harshly interrupted by an awareness of these facts and I'm ripped back to these realities for just a short, terrifying moment. Graciously, a distraction is always readily available.

What the peasants didn't understand was that having a Monarch is fine. In fact, I bet in a few generations it will be a totally different royal family running the show.

> My experience with former prostitutes who started out young was that they were unaware of the price they eventually paid for their actions. They were taken advantage of because they were at a disadvantage.

It feels like this line of thought would apply even stronger toward military service.

Honestly no. Pretty much the only folks I've heard talking about Rust are in the application dev space. Generally the space I'm familiar with is lately being called "deeply embedded" to differentiate it from IoT platforms (which sometimes run full-blown Android)

Typically the real time space is very conservative on what types of changes are implemented, and that's largely because a lot of rt software exists on safety critical systems that need to be supported for decades.

Unless you are going for their post-bacc (which is a really good deal), doing their full online undergrad program would be an absolute nightmare. I'd go just about anywhere else.

If you have experience with software, learning embedded concepts isn't a huge leap. At least in my area, aerospace, defense, and automotive tend to be the biggest, easiest employers to get started with. They will hire basically anyone with a solid grasp of C, OSes, and basic computer architecture (at an undergrad level.)

I find embedded really rewarding. A 20 year old embedded-C code base generally follows the same design patterns and coding conventions and styles that you'd use today, and don't feel "old" or like they need to be rewritten. A 7 year old JS code base, on the other hand, is largely outdated, and may be written in a nearly extinct framework by the time it is your turn to maintain it. If you get tired of giving up time on the weekends so you can learn a new framework, consider hopping over!

I currently work in embedded software which involves a lot of overlapping interaction with EE and hardware design folks. The consensus is that the hardest, most fascinating field is the one you currently have the least exposure to. The easiest, least exciting field is the one you have a degree in.

In CS, you may have spent thousands or tens of thousands of hours across many years learning and growing, and still being limited in your understanding of the field as a whole. It's daunting to explore other related fields just to find out that they each have similar levels of complexity, filled with professionals who've sunk similar levels of effort, time, and years of their life into their work (who are often equally struck by the complexity of your field.)

Important note: the largest "SFW" Deepfake community, r/SFWdeepfakes, was not banned, rather a smaller competing subreddit which doesn't have a recent archive on the popular archive sites.

What makes you think a more expensive ISP will go against their interests and refuse to maximize their profits by selling access to information that they are legally allowed to share? Are there expensive "privacy"-branded ISPs I'm not aware of?

>When I got my first Android phone I could root it pretty trivially and run a fully customized ROM, these days it's not really practical on many devices.

Some of the easiest phones to do this to today, namely the Pixel phones, are also some of the most secure stock Android phones on the market. Freedom and security are not mutually exclusive.

Note: I am not the OP

Eh, sending $1200 on a hobby doesn't seem all that problematic to me, especially if one is getting additional utility from it. It's not like the cat is going to go missing behind a pile of hard drives any time soon.

Maybe my experience was in part shaped by the fact that I took classes at night. Were the classes you took exclusive to members of the dual credit program? It does make sense, as basically every teacher I had at my cc was phenomenal. Though I did go to a truly massive cc.

This was my experience as well. I went to cc prior to going to a 4-year institution for CS. The instruction in the math classes at my local community college were far more impressive than anything I've ever taken anywhere else.

My theory on why this is the case is that they are prepared to teach math to 30-somethings who haven't cracked open a math textbook in a decade+.

This isn't about fearmongering, it is about consistent application of the principle. If the legal principle of privacy and autonomy doesn't apply in Roe, then its reasonable to conclude that it doesn't apply for marriage equality either.

The question is, is it reasonable that we should allow one's right to privacy and autonomy to only exist in some states? And if so, then this principle could apply to more than just abortion. Yes, reimplementing a ban on interracial marriage in any state seems completely unreasonable now, but so did banning abortion a decade ago. Things change. A senator just recently stated that anti-interracial marriage laws should not have been struck down by the courts [1]

Interracial marriage is brought up for multiple reasons:

- To demonstrate that the roll-back of constitutionally protected rights to individual privacy and autonomy have negative unintended consequences

- To demonstrate that some who are opposed to constitutionally-protected privacy apply the principle inconsistently (usually contingent on whether it meshes with their personal/religious views)

- To demonstrate that those who do support this rollback consistently are willing to let gay and interracial couples be collateral damage in the pursuit of their ideological goals

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/republican-sen-m...

>it would be a great day for human dignity and sanctity of innocent lives in the US.

Yes, having a country that forces an 11-year-old to carry a pregnancy to term would be amazing for human dignity.

Do you think the "correct default" for deciding whether gay or interracial couples can get married is whether or not one is in a blue state?

Why was this post flagged?

I think fascism is often thought of as reactionary backlash against modernity.

This isn't the first time "tunneling" has appeared on HN, nor the first that it intersected with the techy/hacker community.

There was the case where a hacker who gave talks at Defcon built a tunnel, and paid someone to continue the work. The worker died and he went to prison [1]. There was some discussion about this case on HN in 2019 [2], and a Darknet Diaries episode about the whole multi-year scenario [3].

Note: The DD Episode link contains pictures

[1] https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-nuclear-bunker...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219228 (2019)

[3] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/39/

> Think long term. Eventually AI will be able to do most of human jobs. As a result, products and services will become cheaper. As a result, people will have to work less for a living. As a result, more people will be able to draw and paint for pleasure, and not necessarily to make a buck.

This is ahistorical. The fact is that you must at least seem to produce more market value than your total compensation in order for a company to hire you. There will simply be less people who make a "livable" wage while those who own these automations will become increasingly wealthy. Depending on how the market changes, there may also be increasing unemployment. But why would that matter? Unless unemployment gets too high, the market will continue to work as usual.

There's simply no reason for the owners and inheritors of an increasingly automated economy to share the value increase with their workers. The worker's wages will be market-determined just as before. Perhaps if unemployment gets too high it will be in their interests to offer something like UBI, though no reason for anything beyond what's strictly necessary for the economy to function, and the minimum required to avoid excessive social turmoil.

> To me the most interesting leak/investigation that can come out of NSO is what happens once a 0-day is patched, is there downtime? do customers need to wait for a software update? is there automatic rotation of exploits?

I'd have to think NSO Group has the finances to bank at least a few 0-click, zero-days. It seems that the price of such vulnerabilities is increasing however. Zerodium, a large zero-day broker, is paying up to 2.5 million USD for 0-click Android and 2 million USD for iOS: https://zerodium.com/program.html

I think maybe either my comment was misinterpreted or I wasn't clear enough.

As I stated before, I'm not wanting to start a debate on whether nuking Japan was justified nor am I taking a position one way or the other. What my comment aims to do is to push back on specific claims made about this position (that the bombing was unjustified,) namely the claims that this position is recent, not rooted in primary sources, is a fringe out-there position to give academics a name for themselves, and originates in Russian propaganda.

It is not recent, it is rooted in primary sources, and it was a position held from the very beginning by the top brass of the US military at the time.

BLUF: The fact that nuking Japan wasn't necessary isn't some Russian propaganda, it was a sentiment strong even among many of the top brass of the military and Truman administration.

Not to start a whole debate on the utility of nuking Japanese civilians, but that "narrative" of the bombing being unjustified is nearly as old as the event itself, certainly not something that just became "popular in the last decade."

- Gen Eisenhower famously stated "It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing."

- Fleet Admiral Nimitz, Commander and Chief of the Pacific Fleet, stated "The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan." (Though Nimitz's perspective is slightly diminished from reports that he initially supported using atomic weapons.)

- Major General Curtis LeMay, XXI Bomber Command (a unit of the Twentieth Air Force in the Mariana Islands for strategic bombing during World War II.), stated "The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all."

- Fleet Admiral William Halsey Jr, "The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment ... It was a mistake to ever drop it ... [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it."

Other high ranking officials like Fleet Admiral Leahy (Truman Chief of Staff), are on the record stating that nuking Japan wasn't necessary. Now maybe even given these perspectives, perhaps they are all wrong. What I can say for certain is that this perspective isn't without "any real rooting in primary source materials and is pushed on a speculative basis by fringe academics looking to make a name with an out-there theory."

It is interesting to see the tensions play out between managers/"entrepreneurs" and workers in threads like this.

The idea that the establishment of a working week is government tyranny is obvious to one side and bizarre to the other.