boastful_inaba

The U.S. Internet Preservation Society writes about chokepoints in the financial processing system (inspired by recent events with games stores) and the several layers present that are not obvious to people outside the system.

UPIPS covers why payment networks are effectively immune from competition, and why creating a new competing payment network without restrictions will not provide benefits due to contract lock-in and other problems.

They also cover proposed legislation's benefits and weaknesses for addressing the problem.

They've added in aim assist for the HL rerelease, at least. Annoyingly it's on by default, even in the PC version.

I wonder what the resistance of underground wiring is to rocket attacks. If the space in between is repeatedly getting hit by explosions, it seems likely the blasts would cut wiring at some point.

Interesting article that goes over the cascading systems and tech failure that Hamas exploited to conduct its recent attack.

CUDA only had its initial release in 2007 (compared to the mentioned crack in 2009), and I remember it being a fairly limited product at that point. GPUS were also much slower back then.

I am reminded of the tweet from long-banned Twitter poster Hakan Rotmwrt:

"One of the strangest fixations of AFWL metaphysics is on a substance called 'trauma' that they believe is 'stored in the body' in small saclike organs where it constantly threatens to be 'triggered' and erupt out of its ducts. They assert life itself is about 'processing trauma'"

You can still hit a button to stop the loading from finishing, IIRC, and then just hang around on the combo practice screen as long as you like.

At least they patched out the effect where Curse stacked with each death to the debuff. Imagine playing the game with half health, then a quarter health, then an eighth health...

Present in specialist clients like Eudora, perhaps, but I think for mass-market users that only touched webmail and Outlook the introduction of threading in Gmail must have seemed heavenly.