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Quake was an incredible leap forward in desktop games.

But Sandy Peterson is probably right, saying that it ‘Ruined’ the company - as an artistic creative force anyway.

The breakup of the brilliant and well-balanced ID Software team was caused by the trauma of developing Quake.

Romero and others were forced out or quit. This cut the heart out of the team, despite all of Carmack’s drive and technical brilliance

That is why the next leap ahead in games was not Quake 2 (1997), but Half Life (1998) which was, tellingly, based on the older tech Quake 1 engine

Thanks. Here’s a direct xcancel link to the complete chain of Sandy’s posts that John Carmack replied to.

https://xcancel.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/206959220964578529...

Interesting to hear about the conflicts and real personal suffering. In spite of that, they built a classic genre-defining game together

‘Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety’ — Benjamin Franklin

This isn’t a simple solution to the problem but it reminds me that it is not a new problem. We should remember that

Has preventing usage of ad-blocking extensions helped improve speed?

They can’t see it even. The part of their brain which interprets Japanese is much bigger and faster.

On the other side, visitors who can’t read Japanese can’t do anything but try to interpret those letters in the language they know

The helmet protects the ears from direct airflow noise, but it also extends out into the high-speed airflow much more than ears do.

The overall picture is that a helmet’s thick material blocks high frequencies. But it exacerbates and amplifies low frequency sound and white noise. As well, a helmet confuses the ear’s capabilities for identifying direction of sound that’s incoming

If a helmet is helpful is a question of how fast the motorcycle is moving and what kinds of sounds the rider needs to hear.

It’s complicated, but wearing no helmet might be safer at low speeds because the driver is more aware. No helmet, is undoubtedly not safer at high speed because brains are fragile

Edit: a simple experiment for anyone is to put on a full size motorcycle helmet anywhere, and then you can understand how much your hearing is dampened by it. But I guess it’s probably no worse than the experience of someone driving a car, which is soundproof by design

True, but lifting the fuel to power that “small” orbital boost is unintuitively expensive

(Refer to the tyranny of the “Rocket Equation”)

People who believe they are financially secure may move from regions which are considered “wealthy” to regions which are seen to be “poorer” (and cheaper). This outflow can influence this data.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/american-...

>writing a few thousand lines of assembly was what it took to launch a successful software company.

Yes, but that assembly was not DOS, and it wasn’t easy.

Microsoft purchased the DOS code, they didn’t write it. Of course, they did develop and modify DOS. But that was a clever (and lucky) business deal, not a technological accomplishment.

The real beginning of Microsoft was earlier, with Allen, Gates and Davidoff writing the Altair BASIC interpreter. That was a serious achievement.

They had never seen the computer they were writing that assembly code for. They did not even own any computers. It took them 8 weeks on a university computer they were not supposed to be using for that

“Altair agreed to meet them to possibly buy a BASIC interpreter… Gates and Allen had neither a BASIC interpreter nor even an Altair system on which to develop and test one. However, Allen had written an Intel 8008 emulator that ran on a PDP-10 time-sharing computer. Allen adapted this emulator based on the Altair programmer guide, and they developed and tested the interpreter on Harvard's PDP-10.

The finished interpreter, including its own I/O system and line editor, fit in only four kilobytes of memory, leaving plenty of room for the interpreted program. In preparation for the demo, they stored the finished interpreter on a punched tape that the Altair could read, and Paul Allen flew to Albuquerque to meet with Altair…

While on final approach into the Albuquerque airport, Allen realized that they had forgotten to write a bootloader to read the tape into memory. Writing in 8080 machine language, Allen finished the program before the plane landed. Only when they loaded the program onto an Altair and saw a prompt asking for the system's memory size did Gates and Allen know that their interpreter worked on the Altair hardware.”

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

> ‘Signal won't let us download our own data and back it up using our own secure systems.

Signal is slowly, very slowly, moving toward providing real backups and cross-device transfers

I understand why you’d believe Signal still can’t deliver that, because they had been ignoring the user demands for years.

But there is real progress now

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9708267671322-S...

That iris style physical security filter looks very cool, and it’s neat because it’s protected from damage, but a simple one-piece sliding or folding shutter would be so much more reliable

If you use AI to help your writing

1) Let people know that you did that

2) Try to include a link to another page, which shows the prompt and your original version of the writing, even if it is in your native language

This will help people understand what you wanted to say.

Edit: The fact that you used AI to write your post, when your post is saying that you can’t trust AI to do a good job, is… super ironic lol :)

No, because then the rocket would probably launch in the middle of the sentence. He had to start saying that sentence at the right second and pace the words and his movements perfectly.

I was about ready to warn you that was a trademark, but it isn’t I think, only the generic name. Nice work.

“Student hackers”!?!

This is quite like saying that because you’ve “aged out” of high school, you must be suddenly cut off from interacting with all the friends you made in high school

IRL, you stay in touch with some of those old high school friends for years.

I don’t know if it’s the Roblox system deliberately trying to prevent players from maintaining contact outside the game with their friends? Or maybe just that the players haven’t foreseen the need to be ready for the abrupt cut in communication on their next birthday? (Happy Birthday!)

Sounds like a serious strategic error by Roblox though.

51% attack allows you to undo a recent transaction (as if it never happened). It does not allow you to change the destination of a transaction or arbitrarily move bitcoins around.

>At one spin per millisecond (faster than this app runs), you'd expect a hit roughly once per 1.7 × 10⁶² years — about 10⁵² times the current age of the universe. The heat death of the universe occurs first

Alright! Now there’s only the heat death of the universe standing between me and massive wealth? I like these odds.

> The establishment of an Indian parliament is demanded, in which the queen shall be represented by a viceroy,

Britain’s monarch was a king, not a queen, from about 1900-1950. Obviously there is some big “temporal leakage” from the training, which is affecting these predictions

It is sad. That reply, which you rightfully were irritated by, could have been expressed as a polite question.

That sort of question is what the response from user @bsder above helpfully tries to answer. That mode would invite more productive discussion, not more defensive annoyance.

Rules on HN say “Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.” but it is hard.

All I can suggest is: be patient and try to be positive

Yes, that is the point. It’s a good point.

But, if our airship in the Venusian atmosphere finds nothing interesting (no life signs), then there’s not much more to do at Venus, because atmosphere is all mixed and all the same. Going to the surface, even for a day or two, is hard and very expensive.

OTOH Mars - that can be explored for many years, on the surface and below the surface. We might still find nothing, but it’ll take hundreds of years to be sure.

The author’s site is on Vercel.

So I believe the author has exposure to the issue and interest in understanding it, that’s more than AI alone has got.

I think you’re missing the point. This person is implementing various CPU cores on FPGA. The insights they can share from that complex process are sometimes interesting, because they are looking at the system from a new angle.

https://nand2mario.github.io/projects/

Evolution would design the alternative to be something slightly less capable than the minimum. /s

Really, the likelihood is that these mutations must have had an impact that far outweighs their space in the genome.

That’s how all our close competition got murdered by Homo Sapiens. Just significant difference in mental abilities.

Bitter truths: https://archive.is/Oti1j

That’s unbroken 6 weeks of no direct access for almost everyone

Of course information does still get in and out, but that is severely throttled

>documented attempt to capture Salyut-7 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2554/1

This isn’t true. The same article even explains that.

From that article: “It takes only some basic fact checking to debunk all the preposterous allegations…”

>Just slapped 8x the number of computers on it

‘Just’ is not an appropriate word in this context. Much of the article is about the difficulty of synchronization, recovery from faults, and about the redundant backup and recovery systems

I don’t understand what you mean.

Thank you. I didn’t know that.