2d spectrums exist. autism being one example where it’s both sensory under / overstimulation and repetitive activity preference / avoidance.

I suspect that autism is more a cluster of conditions than a single line. I may be wrong.

There is a fashion for calling everything a spectrum. Maybe "range" would be a better term for a linear progression.

In my experience, so is dyslexia

yeah this was more my point. even eyesight deficiencies are 2d.

yeah. autism is a bunch of 3d clustering things for sure. any single dimension of autism can be sliced 2d imo.

for sure. macroblock hinting seems like a good place for research.

but fr at facebook we just had unit tests. if someone else broke your code it’s your fault unless you have tests.

there are of course microservices for things like news feed etc, but iirc all of fb.com and mobile app graphql is from the monolith by default.

whoa til microsoft owns blizzard.

You're one of today's lucky 10,000. It was huge news at the time. The FTC considered not allowing it and the acquisition got delayed for months while back and forth public debate raged.

Easy to forget all the big moves that happened recently, especially since there haven't been (afaict) any major changes to service. I forgot the other day that Sony had bought Bungie, though it'd be pretty memorable if Sony announced Destiny 3 as a PS5 timed exclusive.

Massive media/telecom/tech companies get passed around between other massive media/telecom/tech companies so much that regardless of how much you saw the news at the time, a couple of years later it's tough to remember "Now who is it that owns Warner Bros. currently? AOL? AT&T? Netflix? The sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia?"

And Sierra. It would be amazing if MS released the source code to some of Sierra classic Hi-Res/AGI/SCI games, or the engines themselves.

IIRC, Al Lowe had retained copies of source code from the early Sierra days, and was planning to release some of it publicly a few years ago, but Activision shut him down. Maybe MS would be willing to reconsider that now that they're pursuing historical preservation.

Space Quest IV!!!

yeah i think this is totally reasonable.

Microsoft owns lots of studios, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Gaming_studi...

Hence why when people think it is only a XBox console and nothing else, couldn't be more wrong.

can’t go down is better than won’t go down.

the problem isn’t with centralized internet services, the problem is a fundamental flaw with http and our centralized client server model. the solution doesn’t exist. i’ll build it in a few years if nobody else does.

so just to be clear: for every board position there are no more than 218 moves available? is that the understanding?

It's your turn and you have 218 moves to choose from. This is the best possible and the article proves this (assuming no bugs in machine or mind).

if anything that’s great. it’s cool to hear about a place that has swung that dramatically during my lifetime.

they’re at every new york subway station. i don’t know why.

Surprised that they are still there.

It’s an old Microsoft standard. I’m pretty sure that MS rolled it up, years ago, so they may not be valid, anymore.

They are Navilens, new thing: https://www.mta.info/accessibility/innovations/navilens

Ah. That makes sense. Different look, though. The Microsoft ones used triangles.

oh cool it’s an accessibility thing! had no idea.

there’s no downside as far as i’m aware.

There isn't much downside, but it probably involves a small amount of money (paid for the certification) and it means spending time making sure that everything remains 100% within spec. There's lots of little edge cases where BSDs differ from the spec and it means that Apple needs to take care not to drift from the spec.

Apple remaining in spec sounds like a good thing from a compatibility point of view.

Am I missing something? I’m not sure why it’s coming off like people are complaining about this?

It’s a spec that doesn’t really matter in practice. Like some other comments said, Linux, BSD and Solaris are “Unix but not Unix(tm)”, and nobody cares.

As pointed out by amiga386 both here[1] and in earlier posts, macOS is not actually compliant with the Unix spec and never has been. This has apparently not been a hindrance for the certification of every single non-compliant version. Unix certification for Apple might not involve anything other than payment.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239534

Presumably certification costs money (?)

Probably a small amount especially when they just need to tell them what changed

Given how little their target market cares about being a "real" unix, a small amount is probably more than the benefit it brings in.

We are talking about it.

Talk is cheap.

In marketing, getting others to talk about you is not cheap.

I don’t know what to tell you. Pick your theory:

A) apple does it for no reason and it is a waste of money B) they do it because they are aware or benefits that outweighs the small certification cost

one time i ran nmap against my dev box at facebook. i was definitely worried someone was going to give me a stern talking to.

I ran 'neoprint.php' on myself at Facebook in 2007 and immediately got a stern email about it... It was some script that collected info for responding to law enforcement requests. But after chastising me, the email said "I was gratified that you ran it on yourself". (as opposed to snooping on someone else!)

It was just a summer internship and FB was like 'only' 80 engineers back then. But they still took it seriously.

I think that's a little different. It sounds like neoprint.php is an internal Facebook tool for looking up data on Facebook users. So improper usage of it is a privacy problem for users. It's something misbehaving employees might run against celbrities, exes, etc. (e.g. https://www.gawkerarchives.com/5637234/gcreep-google-enginee... )

Otoh nmap isn't a privacy problem for users of Facebook (or any other tech company).

Yea totally agree. Mainly just wanted to shoehorn in my own story about stern emails at FB! Also I think running nmap on your own development machine is totally legitimate. Lots of reasons you might want to do it.

I use nmap routinely at work to see what’s on a subnet, has anything new appeared, or where it should not be.

+1. If I can't run nap or netcat, or have to justify it each time, I can't do my job. Better off elsewhere.

I've departed early at least twice over this. Draconian IT serves nobody. Been doing this long enough I deliberately poke any new employer; see what's in store.

Nobody cares, though. EDR appliances sell without careful administration. The industry will outlive us all.