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Dropbox is still unmatched as a service not trying to push you into a trillion dollar monopoly (One Drive, iCloud, Google Drive). It's admittedly been a while but I tested a whole bunch of automatic cloud backup software at one point because I got pissed about some annoying niche cases and Dropbox just worked throughout everything I threw at it, automatic versioning and recovery included. It doesn't mangle file names, handles huge files, folders with tens of thousands of small files, recovering old versions of accidentally overwritten files, works on Mac and Windows without losing a beat, sending people files always works.

I guess for collaboration you want to use stuff like Google Docs and advanced versioning software for coding (I'm not talking about coding stuff here, btw, which might throw off some people on hacker news). But Dropbox delivers for "I need a backup and I don't want to think about it except when I mess up and need its help".

I'm not pretending to understand half the words uttered in this discussion but I'm constantly reminded of how much it helps me to articulate things (explain them to others, write them down, etc) to understand them. Maybe that thinking indeed happens almost entirely on a linguistic level and I'm not doing half as much other thinking (visualization, abstract logic, etc.) in the process as I thought. That feels weird.

>Its solar cells are working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight, the agency said.

>It could not generate power when it landed on 20 January as the solar cells pointed away from the Sun.

Sounds like they were just lucky with the angle of sunlight.

Hyper-naive take: Couldn't nearly all of these attacks be blocked by a white-list approach, essentially hiding every file or directory from the internet except a very controlled list of paths and escaping all text sent so it can't contain code?

I somehow always imagine these types of hacks to be more clever, like, I dunno, sending harmless-looking stuff that causes the program receiving it to crash and send some instructions into unprotected parts of RAM or whatever. This all looks like "echo ; /bin/cat /etc/passwd" and somehow the server just spitting it out. Is that really the state of web security?

I know Nintendo will never allow it to exist in the open but is this a way to archive the actual levels or just a list of names/codes? I'm genuinely sad thinking about the (very real) possibility of them vanishing forever.

>Users love PayPal.

Genuinely surprised to hear all the love for PayPal, recently. I don't use it much these days (did, years ago but found the experience fairly neutral) but remember a period of everyone seemingly hating PayPal because... I actually don't know? Maybe something about niche cases where it was harder to get them sorted out via PayPal vs other services (which I can imagine to be annoying)?

Is this one of these innocent little articles popping up that people refer to as "the SVB moment" in the future?

Or was this bank just uniquely fucked?

None of this should matter as long as the algorithm determining randomness is deterministic.

The bottleneck is player input which is the most overestimated bandwidth stat in gaming. It's mouse movements and a couple of keys strokes per second. Top Starcraft players are in the 300 actions per minute range, that's still just 5 per second.

Ok, that's worse.

Naive question: Once they get out more than they spend, can they just loop the generated energy back in and keep increasing this exponentially?

As I understand it, if you're a huge company, you want ToS that ban an obvious, easily enforceable line before anything illegal is said because enforcing just the very edge of legality causes some fuzziness that will likely end in court. Basically what Elon isn't doing with Twitter.

>Why they just don't release a law that forbids people from making bugs?

The more I think about it, isn't that literally what the law is about, lol?

Just had the video play without sound and my girlfriend said she thought it was real before she noticed the overlay text being weird. We just went to Amsterdam, too

I agree that we'll be shaving off these last 3% of visual artifacts for a while (honestly, on a good setup, games have been looking like this for 5+ years, the main thing this video has is photogrammetry and lighting). But this does look realistic.