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It hits very differently in 2026 with people outsourcing their thinking to AI

There's some more discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/1u76f8l/the_feeling...

For the human players, the map has a data layer where every tile has a number. Tiles not on the track are 0 and tiles along the course are numbered in ascending order.

The game tracks the last numbered tile each player was on. When the players are too far apart so that they can't all fit on the same screen, then the players who have the smallest number get popped / killed. So if you cut a corner, then you're taking a risk -- you might be further ahead visually, but since you left the course, your last waypoint number will be lower than players still on the course. Those players can swerve in the other direction to force the issue and kill you, if they're paying attention.

In another data section, some of the numbered tiles are marked as key waypoints (my term, I don't know what the Codemaster devs called this). If you miss a key waypoint block entirely, then you are popped for cutting too much.

Those two mechanisms work together to encourage a kind of "iterated prisoners dilemma", on top of the normal racing mechanics. It's great fun.

There are some screenshots that illustrate this at https://bradders.org/MMs/ -- see the section titled "Cutting corners"

For AI players, there's a data layer telling them which way to go next on each tile, much like is described in the OP article here in MMs v1.

That's mine! :-)

I still play fairly frequently.

Just this week we had a gathering of 7 people, playing MMv3 all on one big screen, with modified levels burned to a CDROM, using a PS2 with the sticky tape hack. It was awesome!

AMA

Sounds like they're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_Power_Station (200 miles from London, but burns "biomass" and powers 6% of the uk)

So what do you mean by "It is VR-ready"?

You plan to add VR in the future?

floorplanner.com does not appear to support VR (as far as I can make out)

I visited the website in my Quest 3 VR headset's browser and clicked "try it out", but was disappointed to not get it in VR.

Did I miss a button or a link to get a VR demo?

Very exciting space; I think this has great potential!

You are technically correct, but this is still a pointless argument to make.

It's pretty easy to see that any finite machine isn't Turing Complete, because you just ask whether it can compute a function that doesn't fit in its memory. So, for your laptop: define a function that's true on some number larger than would fit in 16GiB (fiddling the definitions as necessary depending on exactly how you define input / output etc.)

As wikipedia says:

> No physical system can have infinite memory, but if the limitation of finite memory is ignored, most programming languages are otherwise Turing-complete.

The convention is to ignore the infinite case, when talking about real systems because a) most things we want answers to are not large enough for this to make a difference and b) otherwise no real system is Turing-complete, and that's not a helpful definition.

Very much agree.

Also, what's it for? None of these articles point to anything worthwhile that it's useful for.

EDIT: this was an attempt to get past the paywall, but looks like it's javascript driven, so this archived version breaks after a moment, unless you disable js

https://web.archive.org/web/20240324050221/https://www.wired...

Probably not, but what can any individual do about it?

It's very difficult to show monetary damages in order to actually sue

Yeah, I really agree with this

I get lots of unsolicited "Microsoft Login" popups and even as a sophisticated user, there's no satisfactory way for me to establish whether this is a trustworthy request or a fake login page.

For example, my company's VPN uses Microsoft SSO and will occasionally pop up a Microsoft Login window without me having requested it.

UK shops do just that, for example milk in supermarkets is still sold in pints but labelled in metric due to EU laws.

Switching "brands" is a false choice when there are 100s of "brands" all owned by the same 4 conglomerates and all coordinating prices.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/illusion-of-choice-consumer...

"greed"? The force that pushes back on corporate greed should be competition. The problem is the modern trend of consolidation, monopolisation and lack of proper competition.

You completely miss the point. The crypto key held by the EIDAS provider is not the weak link. They are very securely attesting ONLY that the signatory controlled a given email address at the time of the signature. If I can get control of your email address then I can sign anything in your name with EIDAS. It's worthless, as the signatory can just claim that their email was hacked. You might as well just rely on emails, as we do in the UK.

Yes, a metaphor for doing it "even more". He means that they will be angry and will do more than just reverse the transaction: they will punish the merchant who fraudulently debited your account. They will levy a fine on them (any merchant who is plugged into the ACH system will have signed a contract with their bank agreeing to accept such fines and possibly put up a bond), or even perhaps ban them from making any future transactions, seriously harming their business.

I think basisword is British (as am I). I think Uber came about because taxis in the US sucked. Over here we never had the same problems with no-shows or overcharging (I'm speaking in general, of course this varied a lot).

Uber hasn't done nearly so well in the UK as in the US. Outside of London, you can't find an Uber anywhere and the same local taxi firms from before Uber are still competing, largely based on their local reputation. (Plus now they all have whitelabel apps which have all Uber's features)

What a horrible comment; totally without compassion or empathy; totally self-congratulating.

What do you propose people who find themselves unhappily addicted to smartphones do? Just feel bad about their lack of "character" and wish they were you?

Pretty weird "joke" or "a slightly funny hypothetical". It's a plausible but false explanation for an event people were trying to understand, posted to a programming forum. It feels more like disinformation to me. I think it was a bit unethical to not mark it as fictional.

I haven't seen this sort of nonsense for ages. That's not how the web or copyright works.

Some workarounds:

* Fetch the page in curl

* Run this in the js console: `document.body.oncontextmenu = null`

* Open the dev tools ui and copy from the "elements" tab

There's a similar 1 page site for that problem: https://nohello.net/en/

No. Two influential tech thinkers that I admire and their views on Facebook / Meta:

1: Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#zucker...

2: Jamie Zawinski (jwz) https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/10/if-you-work-for-facebook-qu...

> If you operate on the assumption that all official data is false

This is a strawman. It is possible to believe (and there is motive and opportunity in this case) that one "official" statistic is manipulated or does not show the whole picture without being a raving conspiracy theorist who trusts no official.

This is a good question. I think the answer is that it's difficult to define up-front what is illegitimate "online tracking" and what is legitimate tracking of users necessary for things like accounts and saving of preferences (without drowning in special cases and loopholes).

The idea was to let users decide for themselves, case by case, whether they wanted the tradeoff of being tracked for the rewards (including things like saving your preferences).

The tracking industry didn't want to be banned and wouldn't give up without a fight, so they looked for a loophole in this fake consent spam.

Do you know that Visa have backed down and not Amazon? Can you share any info? I wasn't able to find any details of the deal.

How would crypto force gaming companies to keep servers for old games online?

Yes. The article doesn't appear to have any new evidence. A few ad-hominem attacks on Nikolay Zak and a few sneering comments about some of Zak's weaker pieces of evidence, but nothing that advances the argument in either direction that I can see.

The "grep" and "wc" commands that are included in that table don't attempt to solve the problem. That wasn't clear to me on first reading.

I suppose they are included as a baseline for reading a file and for tokenising strings into words. See https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/blob/eb2a8adf21c895907...