I think on HN, people waste too much time arguing about the phrasing of the headline, whether it is clickbait, etc. and not enough discussing the actual substance of the article.
Not at all crazy. You could very easily get a game with the same art style, features, number of missions done now in a month but people want much more. QOL features, multiple platforms, high quality graphics - $50 (average game price back then) is $105 now - you can't sell any game for that price nowadays, and a game at WC2 level of features wouldn't be accepted by customers for more than $5. A full price $59.99 game now needs a billion different side quests, character customisation, full VA, multiplayer servers, an orchestral score, etc etc or people just won't buy it.
I would like a revision to bitfields and structs to make them behave the way a programmer things, with the compiler free to suggest changes which optimize the layout. As well as some flag that indicates the compiler should not, it's a finalized structure.
> Hating nazis for the harm they've caused is, in fact, just fine.
Sure. Where did I say it isn't?
The problem is the author (and yourself) is okay with branding fully half the population, including the people you are pretending to speak on behalf off, as "having no business" being somewhere.
All thoughts are welcome, unless you have different thoughts.
Square is likely the POS terminal you've been using your card on. They pioneered those neat headphone jack adaptors that let small businesses use their iPhone to take payment years before tapping phones together was a thing. Not a bad business, made jack Dorsey rich, now he gets to play around with crypto junk
you're kinda right, {% partial ... %} vs {% include ... %} is not a big difference, but my mind was vaguely thinking that "includes" have often been seen as large templates, whereas partial have been after the component era with the idea of making small blocks. (my 2 cents)
> Look, the term "open source" has a specific, shared meaning
No, YOU look. The term "open source", being made from two common words with actual specific, shared meanings, unfortunately together create a common-sense meaning that is NOT the "specific, shared" meaning that the Open Source Initiative defines it as. So, we'll spin and spin, stuck in this endless debate. And no amount of beating people over the head (except, maybe if you can find a way to reach through the computer and do it physically) will change that.
You could use real vim in there with ghosttext, but it's not a native integration, you'd have a separate editor window
Another upside is (if your editor is properly setup to not lose data) that a page crash will never lose your precious long carefully crafted comment since it will persist in the editor
I feel that I need to preface my answer with the defusing disclaimer: I understand that you love the language very much. And statements like the ones I make may hurt, because they say bad stuff about the thing you love. But getting defensive might detract from otherwise interesting discussion.
In fact, I also love Scala. I've dedicated lots of my time to working with it (almost 15 years at this point!), I've been with it since 2.8.x days. And I really lament that it fell out of favor and huge swaths of the community left.
> Stating this, which is not, and never was true creates the impression you're talking about things you have no clue about.
Of course it is possible that I have misremembered, so I went and checked. It was a mistake on my part to make such a statement and not to provide an actual link.
All the code examples there use the new syntax. And I would guess that "Scala 3 reference" is the document that Scala 2 veterans (like myself) would have been using when learning about new features and contemplating migration to the new version.
> You need a degree to understand something such obvious? Never mind…
It might be obvious, but I felt that it wasn't obvious to some people (including the ones that were in charge of the documentation for Scala 3), so I wanted to expand a bit on that.
> The point is: New syntax is only new in the first few hours of contact with it.
Of course, but these "first few hours" are exactly the hours that were spent reading the documentation for the Scala 3, and I feel that making those hours harder wasn't the smart choice.
I think that Scala development team made a decision to chase growth, focusing on attracting new users and disregarding the old ones. Looks like they lost that bet - new users didn't come, and many old users were disappointed and left.
New syntax isn't the only problem of Scala 3, and probably it isn't even the biggest one. But it was the most glaring and visible issue - for me, almost every code example in the reference really felt like a spit in the face. Exactly this kind of off-hand dismissal of old-time users was one of the reasons some of the users started moving away from Scala (myself included).
> Braces in code are 100% redundant, useless noise.
The debate about "braces vs significant whitespace" is raging literally for decades. Like many similar debates, it seems that there's no "true solution" and no "true winner" - both sides have heaps of valid arguments.
I assume that both sides have their merits, and it's always a tradeoff between pros and cons of each approach. I use languages that have braces, and I use languages that use indentation - I see pros and cons of each approach. Outright dismissing the other side of the debate by saying that it's "100% useless" seems to be missing lots of nuance.
The spiritual successor of Starcraft is Stormgate. I cannot comment on it, I have no idea how good it is. AFAIK it is multiplayer only. I played Dune II, Warcraft II, C&C, Red Alert, Starcraft (didn't like, I never understood the hype), Dark Reign, Total Annihilation, Warcraft III as kid, but... only single player (at various difficulties). That is just how games were generally played in the 90s. I do remember using a null modem cable at some point, but IIRC was only to play Doom and Duke3d.
I believe the RTS genre at a whole got superseded by the MOBA genre (with DotA and LoL). A genre I tried once (HotS) and was terrible at. If you're shit and you're not improving (I didn't enjoy it either, I felt forced to do it for a reward in another game), stop trying. I never tried any other MOBA, except maybe a touchscreen one, Warcraft Rumble? Either way, I got burned by Hearthstone Mercs and fell once more in the trap with Rumble. After Blizzard announced removed of addons from combat, I've finally said goodbye to the Warcraft franchise and Blizzard in general.
There's one game I really do like which has a kind of RTS with map feeling to it: Total War: Warhammer series (though I laud their BS with DLCs and multiple game versions). I suppose the whole Total War series is as good, I just like the Warhammer universe. The other day, Settlers II was discussed on here, including a FOSS clone. Settlers II is also a game I liked (III not so much though artwork was nice, never played the orig.). Supposedly it isn't RTS, tho I am pretty sure back then it was called RTS.
EVs are just going to further escalate the race to the bottom with traffic that we’re already seeing with services like DoorDash.
Driving down the marginal cost per hour to operate a vehicle on the road and removing humans who are averse to sitting in endless traffic is not going to result in the utopia people think it will.
True, Scala (the language) offers lots of great functionality. And Scala 3 brought some important improvements.
But safety is not the only important aspect of a programming language. For me personally the community (libraries, tools, forums, blogs, etc) became much more important over the years, and I feel that Scala 3 really hurt the community angle.
An easy-to-use end-user programming and hypertext system for the 68K Mac, with MacPaint-like visual layout and an English-like (AppleScript-like) scripting language (HyperTalk). [1]
Also a cult favorite on HN, as it was an end-user programming system that actually resulted in a million (or so) end users creating their own apps (perhaps foreshadowing the era of people creating their own web sites with html and javascript, or games using Flash and actionscript.) And famously used to create the game Myst.
HyperCard came out of a leave of absence that Bill Atkinson took from Apple after Microsoft had forced Apple to kill MacBASIC. Unfortunately the deal he made with Apple to distribute it for free with every Mac was only for two years, and Apple replaced it with a playback-only "HyperCard Player" while the authoring capability was sold as a separate product by Claris - effectively killing in-the-box end-user programming on the Mac. [2] (AppleScript resembled HyperTalk, but didn't include an easy-to-use authoring environment, perhaps to avoid competing with HyperCard). Development stagnated as well; no native PowerPC version was created, and HyperCard never evolved to run over a network, much less the internet (even though HyperCard influenced NCSA Mosaic and Apple was certainly aware of early networked hypertext systems like Intermedia, which ran on the Mac).
Yeah, 9 patches for the original game, then the Battle.net Edition in 1999 (which added support for TCP/IP networking and Battle.net matchmaking), and at least one downloadable patch for that.
Just as people once hated being told that Earth isn't the center of the universe, so goes the ego when it comes down to discovering the origin of our thoughts.
Alrighty, well I might through it into the BrowserBox mix. We are currently using a variety of tunnels for punching through network layers and providing networking flexibility.
> The fact that you consider that a blond ashkenazi ukrainian jew has the same "legitimate claim" than a Palestinian to live in the West Bank tells me all about your bias here. A large part of Palestinians have lived uninterrupted for 2000 years there - you can find sects such as the Samaritans that were referenced in the Bible. And even then, it's stupid to consider a religious book as a sufficient proof for a "claim".
When did I reference a religious book as proof of anything? I'm just referring to historical evidence in general regarding Jews being clearly native to the region as well. Jews have of course maintained a presence in Israel for the past 2000 years to various degrees.
> Most of the actions of the Irgun were assassinations against the British, which weren't exactly doing pogroms in Palestine at the time. The Irgun was a terrorist organization, Israel continued to operate with the same rulebook after.
The British were however preventing Jewish immigration to some degree and I'm not really convinced all those attacks on British officers would fall under terrorism due to the military nature of British officers...western countries preventing Jewish immigration is one of the reasons so many Jews died in the Holocaust. The Irgun was dissolved by the IDF shortly after Israel became independent, essentially by force[0], having rogue militias operating within ones borders tends to be incompatible with a stable state(i.e. Lebanon). It's interesting that you seem far more concerned about a short lived Jewish paramilitary organization with a history of some terrorism compared to the long standing Palestinian paramilitary organizations with an extensive history of terrorism.
> Israel decided unilaterally to steal, colonize and support settler violence. The argument "but both parties don't want peace" is really a manipulation when there are 250 settler attacks per month and the Israeli police refuses to act.
Unilateral disengagement simply does not lead to peace regardless of how the conflict started, this is mostly an argument that peace must be negotiated prior to disengagement from a conflict, otherwise the conflict will simply continue. Israel learned that disengagements without a negotiated peace deal like in Gaza/Lebanon do not work. Obviously right now neither side seems to be all that interested in negotiating peace, Israelis in general probably want to see some sort of peace agreement but after Oct 7 they are obviously not likely to think the Palestinians are really interested in peace(the second intifada came after peace negotiations failed, largely due to Palestinian leadership being unwilling to finalize a deal).
> the balance of power is so unbalanced that it's hard to blame Palestinians for not wanting to give their last sovereignty rights.
Maybe Palestinian leadership could try something new like making a good faith attempt at a real peace deal? I mean clearly terrorism as a strategy for them to get sovereignty rights isn't working out too well.
You're linking to an agreement that more or less deferred many things like borders to be negotiated at a later point...so yeah international law is not very clear in general.
I'm 52 and I'm alone and isolated, so age has very little to do with any of it. There is no reason to pass laws to solve what technology caused and technology will undo or we will go extinct and it won't even matter anyways.
That would have severe economical impact, so nobody dares to go there which is why all these salami tactic solutions are being thrown around. Personally, I think your suggestion has merit, since we can observe that not only children's mental health is severely impacted. Another advantage I see with this is that clear lines allow for clear enforcement that would then get a lot less expensive. I mean, the overabundance of malicious ads should also go into this pot. Another idea would be to put social media companies under strict rules and compel them to install human moderators to enforce them, think dang or tomhow.
Edit: it works on HN (rule wise and moderation wise), so it could work on other platforms, too. Of course that would be expensive for the companies, but frankly, the companies are causing the current upset, so why not place the cost with the ones causing it instead of impacting everyone and even socialising the fallout like lawsuits.
You may not realize this, but there are numerous rail systems around the world that are not subsidized and are in fact profitable. See Japan, for instance
