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> as it turns out nuclear power plants require long regular maintenance periods.

That's because everyone has been operating their PWRs/BWRs way beyond the design lifespan, which would be fine if we didn't just stop building new ones in the past 20-40 years (depending on country) to prevent too many of them needing regular maintenance at once.

Likely written by a support rep who definitely wasn't in on todays announcement.

Jitter is what really kills it. I found out that my ISP (who own switches in the basement) limits bandwidth based on a rolling time window, so whenever someone in the house starts a download they can briefly saturate the entire link. Wish they'd know how to configure QoS on their very expensive network gear.

I tried Shadow and, well, you could really tell they host in a budget datacenter with how often there was stutter or missing keyframes (they host with OVH in Europe). I never had such issues with GeForce Now.

Also, I found it kind of scummy how they will not actually tell you what hardware you'll be getting beyond "4c/8t". Mine turned out to be a low-clocked Haswell, a CPU so outdated that Steam downloads were CPU throttled. I used it for about an afternoon and then immediately cancelled.

Bandwidth isn't that important with game streaming after ~40-70 Mbps, latency and jitter (essentially latency consistency) is.

I'm assuming this is for the blue keys? Those go for ~30 EUR where I live.

It's sad to see an innovation driver like Cloudflare be incompatible with my conscience, but to then see another product that just raised retail prices be offered for a third of the market price exclusively there... meh.

Hetzner/OVH are HN darlings not because of how innovative they are in features, but in pricing.

They tend to show up as submissions mostly when something bad happens (e.g. price increase), but they still show up in comments a lot when people discuss how comically expensive cloud providers are in a direct comparison and how you can be similarly effective running on such pricing-focused hosts, especially if you know how to build the redundancy yourself (or don't need it).

I've had this happen in the real world.

In this case it was a GraphQL implementation that gradually grew in size, complexity and scope. The team maintaining it never adjusted the initial resource requirements within about 2 years because it has never been a problem - until a different (much larger by total CPU allocated) service started consuming all the bursting it could get and the GraphQL service just stopped processing requests. Before any autoscaling could kick in, it went into CrashLoopBackoff with failing liveness.

You can and should catch such cases early with monitoring, but our platform team was extremely tiny, especially for how many developers it served.

Please. I was strictly speaking about the worst case outcome. You know, game theory. And also, we're not talking about "a little more power".

Maybe you should look up the main author of age.

(Hint: he owns the Go stdlib crypto packages)

Finland will have one operational next year. [1]

That aside, even in a worst case scenario, nuclear waste destroys local ecosystems. That cost would still be worthwhile if we can prevent the destruction of the global ecosystem.

We're at a stage of impeding global disaster that I'd rather have a 50km exclusion zone around Asse (or whatever other site) than not being carbon neutral or negative.

But then again, nuclear waste disposal is mostly an unsolved problem because it's expensive - and the resources aren't being allocated to it because it's not seen as a priority, not because it's impossible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

If you want to self-host, Keycloak. You can then either find OIDC/SAML integrations for your systems or use something like Pomerium to add authentication via a proxy.

Just remember that properly upgrading Keycloak without downtime is nearly impossible without booting up a second instance on a clone of your database and moving traffic over there, so if you have anything that needs to work 24/7, wait for HA upgrades feature that's supposedly coming soon.

But how long is such a password stuck in the system, e.g. if the downstream is unreachable.

Very nit-picky. I didn't say DLC itself was bad, but the scale at which TF2 and Portal 2 had these elements was rather unprecedented (having bundles going into the hundreds of dollars).

Also, sure, you can't withdraw from a Steam account. But that doesn't mean it's not monetary value. It's easy enough to find someone who wants a game and you buy them a gift and they give you the money instead. And paying for CSGO items outside the ecosystem is tolerated enough that people still do it.

> Long time steam user and have never felt compelled to buy any of that.

That's really the trick. Valve is targeting "whales" in the same way that mobile games are. Just not as blatently.

CS:GO and the attached gambling economy regularly goes on to destroy wallets of parents and others at risk of gambling behavior.

EGS offers the same return window.

"Felt" is really the right word for this, because almost every bad practice in the industry was pioneered by Valve, particularly in TF2. They're just really good at inducing reciprocity.

Large scale Microtransactions (TF2).

Cosmetic Microtransactions in a Single Player / Coop game (Portal 2).

Loot Boxes (TF2, though they really got bad with CS:GO).

And worst of all, a planned economy that collects "sales tax" and enables children to gamble. Not even "simulated" gambling where all you get is a cosmetic locked to your account. Just straight up gambling. With cashing out if you happen to be lucky and know when to stop.

Oh, and don't forget paid mods - a concept that has similarities to previous Steam Workshop games, but blew up right in their face when it involved a third party that people usually just joke about having their players fix all bugs for them after ship.

I'm sure some retailers also pumped the price.

>first, high-end cards are the ones that miners liked

Last I checked most miners went for 3070s and below, because they're energy efficient. Though when supply ran short they used everything they could get.

And you really didn't get the point about high end cards. EVGA previously served a segment of enthusiast consumers that would spend exorbitant amounts of money for slight performance gains / overclocking sport. But under the new NVIDIA rules you can't take a 3090 and put the highest quality components and beefiest coolers on it, because the price of a 3090 is limited by NVIDIA to be around the range of a FE 3090.

RDNA2 APUs are in a similar place as the Tegra X1 was when the Switch first came out; I don't think it's impossible Nintendo switches back to AMD graphics, they have a long history of shipping Radeon in their home consoles all the way back to the GameCube.

Fun fact: Early on into Vanguard, Valorant's Anticheat, some system monitoring software would not run at all - even with Valorant not running, because cheaters used a vulnerable kernel module included with that software to get their code into kernel mode.

But that's built by the OS developers. I already trusted them. Now I need to trust Riot and EA and Blizzard and EAC to not fuck up basics of kernel module security.

Getting a machine dedicated to games where I don't do much else has been a decision that, although costly and annoying, keeps being correct.

For those that prefer a local environment that's disposable but still supports most graphical apps as well, there's Fedora's Toolbox for pet containers.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/toolb...

For one, it's similar to the "nobody ever got fired for picking IBM" saying. Especially in Germany. As far as I remember, one of the managers involved was former SAP too.

But also, SAP has a lot of accounting and legal process knowledge baked in that is reusable even if you customize everything about it. That's what "mildly competent" developers are missing.

Essentially, they used SAP as a framework.

I've known one place that did bend SAP to their will, and they were stuck on a soon to lose support version despite having almost 100 SAP developers on staff (almost half their entire IT)

The answer is nothing, because a browser without significant adoption is bound to have some inevitable issues. I've tried Orion, for instance, but the fact that 1Password is not signing extensions so that IPC works on these browsers (rightfully so, because it'd be easy to grab your entire vault) already makes it not worth considering. It also would likely need to be proprietary, because selling binaries doesn't really work too well if your product picks up steam. Which then conflicts with the privacy promise.

Ungoogled Chromium is probably your best bet.

> Chrome-based browsers have poor support for side tabs.

Edge has the best side tabs, closely followed by Vivaldi.

KF users love their correlation attacks. I'd just recommend giving them as little information as possible if you have any reason to believe they might be targeting you.

This post should be replaced with an archive link; for one because the availability of KF isn't particularly great and for another because funneling people to a doxing website with Referrer and IP intact is a bit dangerous.