Also check out this which has many of the datasets that NASA has for earth facing satellites:

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

Can you check the first sentence under the section "Saying No"?

Just to keep it in memory? Postgres does this already-- it will put tables or parts of tables in memory to speed up reads [1].

[1] Source: https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/hw_performance/

It's not about "just" keeping it in memory, it's about handling hundreds of updates per second without creating un-vacuumable bloat (per description in OP's link).

I don't know much about pypy, but do you need to compile it each time? Just use pypy to live interpret the interpreter.

I'm happy that Gavan is Open Sourcing his work and that people are generally happy with the outcome.

That being said I would not be surprised if Gavan announced a brand new voxel project and kickstarter a few years from now, starting from scratch like last time.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491456

Yep, to be honest I don't think I have it in me to do another 3D game. I have a lot of other 2D game ideas I'd like to tackle at some point though. :)

Genesis failed out the gate because (as mentioned in that thread) I got very little in terms of donations ($700 would not carry me more than a month in California).

VQ was my honest shot at it, and I learned many painful lessons from it. Seriously, drag me out in the back alley and shoot me if I think I need a third go at this. :)

Just give it a little time... you forget the pain, and just remember the good times. Otherwise no one would have a second child! Much less a third.

That's true. In fact, I always say the first child is the "warning shot"

Or book.

One comment: The “dragging a slider to the right” math is assuming all players that pay $25/month are playing the entire month non-stop. In reality it goes in waves. Using the "22.7 hours a week" from WoW, that's only 0.13/user/month. Cloud computing capitalizes on this by renting per hour to capture the waves. This means a 25$/month user is only costing $2.5 for server usage which seems right.

I think the reason bankruptcy doesn't apply is so that lenders are more willing to give out student loans (which is good, more educated society, more opportunities) and also so they lend them out at a lower rate.

Without this, banks might require very good credit to give out loans (hard for young students to acquire).

Actually, the government guarantees the loans on behalf of the student. So if the student fails to pay, then the government will foot the bill.

The reason bankruptcy doesn't apply to student loans anymore is because a bunch of a-holes in the 70s started getting massive loans for their graduate degrees and immediately declaring bankruptcy after graduation (but before getting a job).

> Actually, the government guarantees the loans on behalf of the student. So if the student fails to pay, then the government will foot the bill. The reason bankruptcy doesn't apply...

So what are the conditions in which the guarantor will be required to take ownership of the loan? Death? Anything else?

The article is just recapping the description of and linking to this site:

http://brutalistwebsites.com

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517491

Both sides think their solution is decentralized and the other is centralized.

Big blocks wanted limited growth that still works on domestic machines. Big blockers believe in using Bitcoin as-is; small blockers want to "spam filter" (i.e. control) some transactions or use some third-party thing like Lightning.

If you're looking for a simple data pipeline, there's pipeless: https://github.com/andychase/pipeless

Also reparse if you want to parse natural language with regular expressions: https://github.com/andychase/reparse