Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | MisterTea's commentslogin

> Some have suggested that we should have chosen to remove OpenTTD from Steam and GOG entirely, but that would have caused unnecessary disruption to the many thousands of people currently enjoying the game on these platforms, and would have potentially prevented new players from discovering the game in future.

Is there no way either platform can simply stop selling the game and de-list it from the store yet people who purchased it can continue to play uninterrupted?


This guy should get a medal for having the balls to fight ass hole drivers.

> US Politics seems to get more of a pass,

This goes beyond US politics. The US and Israel do not exist in a bubble. This conflict can and will have big repercussions which will impact our technical and entrepreneurial institutions.


All events in the universe are connected to all others. If the rule is that anything that could affect anyone is fair game, then there simply are no rules, to subject guidelines, no filter whatsoever. It's hackernews.com without the "hacker"

All events are connected, but the only superpower is a little more connected.

Nothing exists in total isolation, you have to draw lines anyway.

Came for the Firefly. Stayed for the Trek flame wars. Anyone else feeling all warm and cozy like its the 90s again?

DS9 raised the bar so high that it's past the Oort cloud. I've watched everything up to Enterprise and I will say that I enjoyed all of them despite their flaws. I tried watching the newer trek series: lower decks, discovery and picard. Lower decks was an instant turn-off and I fell asleep on the first episodes of the other two, twice. The free month of paramount ran out before I bothered trying to watch them again. I should give them a go one day.

It is a bit frustrating looking at how technology can help elevate poor people yet at the same time moves the goal posts due to some unforeseen side effect. One step forward sand two backwards.

This also shines a light on why technology as a fix is more than just giving people products - its about how to manage those products throughout and after their lifetimes.


Did you read the article? This isn’t about the lifetimes of the panels, it’s about lead acid batteries used to store energy from the panels.

I keep hearing this repeated but I have yet to read any proof of it. Might as well be a thoughtless meme.

Detached single family homes use more energy than apartments per resident[1]. You need more sewer pipe, more road, more wiring to service the same number of people living in detached single family homes.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2015/c&e/pd... (See site energy consumption per household member by housing type on page 2).


ZFS on FreeBSD is first class. I had an old FreeNAS raid z5 array on 5x 500GB disks that I wanted to check 4 years after decommissioning the system. I put together a temporary machine with all the disks plugged in and without doing anything the live FreeBSD image found and configured the array. I was instantly able to look through the file system and even dump it to my current FreeBSD server with almost 0 effort. I was sold after that. These days I prefer to run small systems and basic services. I don't want webguis or docker images anymore.

Just so you know: the zfs in freebsd and in linux are the same codebase. Literally. It’s OpenZFS.

Also, a few years ago the FreeBSD people decided to throw away their own ZFS implementation and import the linux one (OpenZFS) because they couldn’t keep up with the development pace.

Nowadays ZFS development is collaborative but in each major freebsd release it’s clearly marked which OpenZFS releases they imported in the FreeBSD codebase.


Right. On my development workstation I use Arch and I'm always worried a kernel upgrade is going to break the ZFS module. For those that aren't familiar, ZFS isn't part of mainline Linux because of licensing incompatibility (and general distrust of Oracle).

On FreeBSD I know its always going to work.


>I use Arch and I'm always worried a kernel upgrade is going to break the ZFS modulet

That can only happen if you use the unreliable DKMS way of installing it. If you use zfs-linux provided by archzfs it will only allow updating if it's compatible with the kernel, which in linux-lts case is within couple hours of a kernel update.

https://github.com/archzfs/archzfs https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ZFS#Kernel-specific_package...


> … For those that aren't familiar, ZFS isn't part of mainline Linux because of licensing incompatibility (and general distrust of Oracle). …

It's probably fair to say that trust in Oracle is irrelevant to OpenZFS.

Where Linux does use ZFS: to the best of my knowledge, it's typically OpenZFS – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407937 is my own use case.


I was mainly referring to statements made by Linus Torvalds that got a lot of press. Canonical seems undeterred by any such arguments.

I find it hard to believe the people who built Go, coming from designing Plan 9 and Inferno, would build a language where it is difficult to swap out a component.

I have this feeling that in their quest to make Go simple, they added complexity in other areas. Then again, this was built at Google, not Bell Labs so the culture of building absurdly complex things likely influenced this.


The same people refused to support generics for several years, and the current design still has some issues to iron out.

Go also lacks some of Limbo features, e.g. plugin package is kind of abandoned. Thus even though dynamic loading is supported, it is hardly usable.


> . There was a project regarding dropping telephone pole sized pieces of metal from space as an offensive weapon

I remember it was nicknamed "Rods From God". Kinetic energy weapon using 9 ton tungsten rods dropped from an orbiting platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: