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I saw this story. I think the most fascinating part was halfway through (after two hours) the boy decided he had to ditch his life jacket in order to make it to shore.

What a hard and life changing decision to make at 13. Incredible.


I wonder if Steam will finally implement multi-user sign on for local multiplayer games (like all true consoles).

It's something that doesn't get headlines, but a real barrier for enjoyment for a console-like PC. Hate being stuck with 'guest 1' and 'guest 2' or whatever. Many games want each player to progress and without true multi sign on, it just doesn't work. Hence games dropping local multiplayer on PC.


I still wonder how Steam generally handles Linux' multi user setup.

When I last looked into it, it seemed like Steam gets installed into the user's space of the linux user that did the installation.

As in, you have two Linux accounts and each would not only have to install their own Steam client. They would also have to download their own copy of the games they play into their own steam library.

And if the game is like 100GB in size that would mean you would have to se aside 200GB if both linux accounts would buy this game.

I feel like having to muck about with symlinks and stuff just to get both steam installations to believe this path is their library seems like a bit cumbersome.

Especially since I dont know how steam generally reacts when "someone else" aka not them makes changes to that library. I'd hate having to "repair" the library everytime I play just because my steam detected the changes from my brothers steam to that library as suspicious.

Windows does a lot of things wrong. So much that I would love to switch but the way it handles two windows accounts with their own steam account and one steam installation/library is at least working the way i would expect it to.


Steam would need to reliably pass multiple controller inputs to the game before your qualm gets addressed


Valve reports that the Steam Machine will support inputs from up to 4 Steam Controllers [1], so presumably they are updating SteamInput to handle that.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine


I'm not sure what you mean ?

We have been using 3-4 controllers on the Steam Deck lately : Steam Controller, Xbox One gamepad, Switch 1 Joy Pads (together or separate).

There are some quirks with the first time game setup sometimes, but we've never noticed any issues after that ?



They were originally working on a MS teams replacement, with a bunch of things in one app like teams. (I tried it back then, it was pretty green). Now it looks like they are focused on drive, chat and email. The old app seems deprecated, so I presume they forked it into some of this new stuff.


These sorts of projects always seem to end up with the worst doctors. At the end of the day, seeing a good doctor is all the patient wants.


> Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s longtime design chief, said the company is looking to combine the electronic and manual door-release mechanisms, which are currently in separate locations.

I never understood this. I get that the electronic release is "cool" or something, but it never made any sense to me that it wasn't integrated with or connected to a manual release.


That's the way the model s worked. pull the handle a little way and it electronically opens. continue pulling the handle further and it mechanically opens the door.

I think the later models 3, y, cybertruck were severely cost-reduced (either for part cost, or repair cost) to the point that poverty comes to a premium car.

I can see the idea - a part that doesn't exist can't break, but for safety you need redundancy but they went for deletion.


Edit: my math was bad.


> What is the alternative, ask them not to tell?

The moment the seals fired the rifles the mission was over, a complete failure.

So the obvious alternative was to abort without killing everyone. The vaunted seals can't escape from a fishing boat? Nothing was accomplished by this mission other than killing a bunch of fishermen. For shame.


Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44673296

The x.com post was always a little vague to me. I would be interested if we got more background on this.


Completely agree. Iny experience commercial prep was not of the same quality and the actual LSAT questions and doing actual true historical LSAT practice tests was cheap and effective.


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