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If you were a dev selling a game years ago when physical distribution was the only method, you'd likely end up with a lot less than 70% after both the publisher and retailer take their cut.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/company-town-blog/sto...

I don't have access to the actual study but I wonder if they had access to any metrics for the individuals that could quantify the intensity of the insomnia. Chronic insomnia/sleep deprivation is already correlated with heart disease. Could it be that the people with worse insomnia were more likely to take melatonin but also more likely to have heart issues due to the insomnia alone?

I feel like hosting in NYC is even more of a public service given that space is limited and not everyone has a living situation suited for it. Props to you for making it happen. Been doing what I can here as well. Cheers!

Yup, I agree HSA is superior but depending on your situation (and plans offered), the HDHP can be much more expensive out of pocket[1], even if you're paying with after tax dollars. Sweet spot I think is using a good low deductible plan when it makes sense but having a spouse with an HSA which both spouses can use for expenses.

[1]: or so it seems, I tried to figure this out earlier in the year and the data is just lacking in order to make a perfect decision.

> OpenAI paid Microsoft 20% of its revenue under an existing agreement.

Wow that's a great deal MSFT made, not sure what it cost them. Better than say a stock dividend which would pay out of net income (if any), even better than a bond payment probably, this is straight off the top of revenue.

I understand what you're saying but I don't think I'm conflating. OP specifically said "USD assets", which I took to mean things like stocks.

>flight from USD assets given views that one cannot depend on US assets as safe havens

I keep seeing this but then I also keep seeing the opposite: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/foreigners-buying-us-stocks-r...

Is it common to default to a signed integer for tracking a timer? I realize being unsigned it would still overflow but at least you'd get twice the time, no?

Think I found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGDQZjVfd4

I watched a 2 hour video on the history of computer RPGs, I think it was specific to DND, and found it captivating. Would also like to hear your recs.

The rich class will have to shrink. Think about poor countries like North Korea, there's still a rich/powerful class, it's just a lot smaller.

From the official docs:

>This section describes how to install Docker Engine on Linux, also known as Docker CE. Docker Engine is also available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, through Docker Desktop.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

I'm not an expert but everything I read online says that Docker runs on Linux so with Mac you need a virtual environment like Docker Desktop, Colima, or Podman to run it.

How is due process a technicality?

This post went from mid 20s on the front page to 37 on 2nd page in a matter of less than 5 minutes. What would cause that? Total points didn't go down. It isn't flagged.

Didn't realize there was a MIPS build of Windows NT. Which led me to wikipedia to find there were a lot of other architectures supported in the past.

As an absolute number, yes. Remember though that a lot of money was printed in the last few years. Comparing against GDP[1] or Currency in Circulation[2] the levels are still elevated but not at records, yet.

[1]: https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/4266/finra-inv... [2]: https://en.macromicro.me/collections/34/us-stock-relative/89...

Actually I miss typed and can't edit but I have co-pays and meant to type $0 co-insurance.

Looked into HSA recently at work but legally you need a high deductible health care plan to be eligible. Looking at the options, just nothing looked good compared to my current $0 deductible/$0 co-pay plan. Hard to know for sure but just seemed like I would be paying a lot more out of pocket every year.

1 million seconds -> 11.5 days

1 billion seconds -> 31.5 years

> pokemon try-catch

I've seen LLM's do this in other languages as well but didn't realize there was a term for it. Wrapping entire function bodies in try/catch, at the very least please just wrap the caller so you don't have to indent the entire body for no reason. Not to mention a lot of commands inside can't even throw.

Oh this is outside the context of encryption. My curiosity was, is there such a compression function that permits operations on the compressed data without first decompressing it?

This made me wonder if there is such a thing as homomorphic compression. A cursory search says yes but seems like limited information.

Has anyone used Quad9 and also NextDNS and have thoughts on how they compare?

I did something like this at an employer a while ago as well. Taking it a step further, we wanted to be able to dynamically build the templates that the browser would then use for building the HTML. Senior dev felt the best way would be to have a "master" xslt that would then generate the xslt for the browser. I ended up building the initial implementation and it was a bit of a mind bender. Fun, but not developer friendly for sure .

Just looking this up but appears NY finally caught up here in 2023 https://newyork.public.law/laws/n.y._labor_law_section_203-f

Reminds me about "Pulling JPEGs From Thin Air": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8571879

> So now, DC current in some key AC lines is monitored continuously...

Can power lines have multiple currents in them at once? What would that mean for when the AC phase is moving opposite the DC direction?

> The authors say that the 570 megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) may be useful for follow-up observations.

I was curious what kind of resolution you'd have at this distance but not sure I did the math right. The camera has a resolution of 0.27"/pixel[1] which is 0.000075 degrees. Then to get size at 500AU -> tan((pi/180) * 0.000075)(500 149597870700) ~98megameters, which is like 8 earth diameters. Is this right?

[1]: https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/instrument/...

Anyone remember when you could buy a physical copy of Netscape Navigator off a store shelf? I personally feel in this weird position where I don't want to pay for software and expect it for free but maybe not fully grasping that "free" software (particularly from for-profit companies) still comes at a cost. Trying to make myself more open to paying for good software again. Unfortunately the subscription model everyone is moving to doesn't make that easier.

Slight tangent but I've wondered about something similar to this, has there been much initiative to make games that directly boot on modern PC hardware? So not load a full OS but just go directly to the game. Similar to older generation gaming consoles. It should be possible, granted if you want to stay simple, things like wifi, bt, GPU would be hard to utilize without modern drivers, but a keyboard and mouse should be fairly doable as they seem to have some sort of default BIOS access? (probably wrong terms there but hopefully my point is understandable)