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- bentcorner parentMy gut says there's something like an inverse-square law that governs how far away they can effectively charge.
- It's a balance between allowing linux and (theoretically) opening the door for more cheaters. Saying "players can't play our game because every match has a cheater" is just as bad.
I can't say which has more weight but it's not a cut and dry situation, at least until Linux has anti-cheat.
Right now developers could make an "unattested" queue for linux and other non-TPM windows systems. Which could also serve as a black-hole for cheaters, so maybe there's some value in that.
- I don't think AI reduces cost of marketing in any significant way. Everybody has access to these tools so at best it just allows marketing companies to employ fewer ad-creation teams to pump out the same amount of advertisements.
Pushed to the extreme, where a single person could create an oscar-worthy advertisement in seconds, it doesn't suddenly mean that the superbowl will charge pennies for an ad slot.
I suspect the end state will be just-in-time rich ad creation (not bidding) tailored specifically to you.
- For casual use I use lightroom web and it's good enough for me, if you haven't tried it, I highly recommend.
I'm sure for some workflows it isn't sufficient but for basic edits and raw development it works quite well.
- > As an American, I’m glad to see an authoritarian dictator removed
Personally I'm not. This is like kidnapping the CEO of Kroger because your eggs are too expensive, and then telling everyone you did it because he wasn't listening to his employees enough.
We can't undo this and this was a very big stick we used. I highly doubt this was done with the interests of the common American in mind.
- > I'm writing from a position of ignorance on the state of mouse/keys with current consoles
I'm far from an authority on this topic but from my understanding both Sony/MS have introduced mkb support, but so far it looks to be an opt-in kind of thing and it's still relatively new.
- Is that bad?
I black-hole plenty of sites via pihole above and beyond the typical adblock lists. On a very few rare occasions I have turned off the pihole to unblock a site because I was curious after following a link that was blocked by said pihole. Every single time I quickly learned why that site was blocked, and visiting that site gained me nothing.
- I'm all for dogfooding but if you work for a bicycle company it shouldn't mean you can't drive to work. The right tool for the right job.
- I love this paragrpah and I think it provides an interesting insight:
> They are entertainment platforms that delegate media creation to the users themselves the same way Uber replaced taxis by having people drive others in their own car.
Taking this analogy further, is today's end goal of social media to provide AI generated content that users can endlessly consume? I think Facebook is heading this direction.
- In my experience hotels throttle wifi connection per device (IP/Mac address or whatever) and so you'd be better off using something that can use the wired connection in your room (which is usually unthrottled or has higher bandwidth) and be an AP for your personal devices.
If you don't have a wired connection then this wouldn't be any better, except for any connectivity features it might offer (probably some vpn capability).
I have a gl-inet device and it does pretty much all I need whenever I travel.
- "It's not just X, it's Y"
I find it really hard to read articles that use AI slop aphorisms. Please use your own words, it matters.
- Far be it from me to tell automakers how to roll out software but I would expect them to have relatively slow and gradual rollouts, segmented by region and environment (e.g., Phoenix might be first while downtown London might be last).
- Windows went through a pendulum swing of integrating touch (I think they ended up in a place where they expect users to use more of a multi-modal approach instead of touch-only).
I suspect Mac is going through the same thing right now as ipad is "growing up" and they're trying to reconcile all their UI. I'm a little surprised that Macs have never introduced touch.
- I think a lot of techies would be surprised with how much some users embrace their products. We see and know the man behind the curtain, other people believe in the magic.
- While that's true even today there really isn't a product that wraps that API that is as simple to use as any of the major chat applications.
I've used OpenUI and it's fine but it's incredibly fiddly to configure and web integration is almost nonexistent (this was as of a few months ago so maybe it's better today).
- This doesn't make any sense. If you make a thing, the price you set for selling that thing in a country has little to do with where you happen to be living when you made that thing.
- > Some people on the right blame birth control or women not knowing their place or whatever, but it seems odd that propagation of a species would rely on essentially forced participation of prospective parents.
The simple explanation is that there is no local "cost" to doubling your household's income. The only thing you "pay" is to have fewer children. As smaller households become more competitive, average costs rise and the only way to stay competitive is for other households to also stay small.
Looking at world-wide graphs and it's extremely worrying - many countries are completely upside-down and over the next 25-50 years as the elderly die, these populations will crash.
IMO governments should have started doing something about 20 years ago if they wanted to keep things on-track, I suspect the children of today are just going to have to suffer the consequences of a large population decrease.
It's certainly plausible that this is all for the best for Earth's sustainability, but I expect the coming years to be turbulent nonetheless.
- Interestingly enough if you change the filter to "US" and rewind the data to 1950 (it looks like that's how far this graph goes), if you advance up by 5 years you can see the "bulge" of baby boomers age up into retirement where they are right now.
- > If you truly care about making more semantic history, split the work into multiple PRs.
This exactly - if your commit history for a PR is interesting enough to split apart, then the original PR was too large and should have been split up to begin with.
This is also a team culture thing - people won't make "clean" commits into a PR if they know people aren't going to be bisecting into them and trying to build. OTOH, having people spend time prepping good commits is potentially time wasted if nobody ever looks at the PR commit history aside from the PR reviewers.
- It all depends on what you want to do. If you want to get started cheaply the kit lens is more than enough.
Prime lenses will have larger apertures that can give you more creative options.
How close do you want to stand? Indoor/outdoors? What are you planning on taking pictures of? D7100 is APS-C, I find that 50mm (~75mm ff) on APS-C doesn't give you quite enough room indoors to take photos. So you might want a 35mm prime or a zoom that goes down there. If you're planning on taking portraits you don't want something too wide (~20mm and below can be good for real estate/architecture) because it makes people look weird.
Most everything else is dictated by how much you want to spend and how large/heavy you want your camera to be.
Personally I have a 35mm f1.8 on my camera and am happy with it, I use it for family outings, a lot of portrait-level shots and just general "hey we're at the museum" kind of photos.
- I should look at iOS again - every so often I try something like this in Android and people commonly suggest Tasker, but it's such a PITA to write anything in Tasker that I usually abandon the project.
- A lot of aspirational tech was consumed by builders. I dare you to find a nerd who has watched Star Trek and hasn't once thought "wouldn't it be cool if I could interact with the computer with my voice", or "using touchscreens for everything looks so futuristic"?
And yet here we are complaining that our phones are over-listening to us and our cars no longer have knobs.
- A lot of home routers will give you a traffic graph - if yours doesn't you can either find one that does or flash/build one.
I currently run opnsense which has an ok graph out of the box, I haven't fiddled with it to see if there's something fancy I could do here.
I also used to use IPFire which was slightly clunkier but had a nicer usage graph.
- I have a g-cloud and it's about 30% lighter than a steam deck and pretty ergonomic to hold.
Yes it can't play Cyberpunk but it'll handle native Android games, classic emulation, and any cloud streaming very well. You can also install moonlight on it and stream full fat desktop games too.
- IMO there's a gap between "charge every day" and "charge once a week" that needs to be crossed.
In other words, if they made the battery last twice as long it'd still be equally as annoying (since your daily routine would be nearly the same, except now you also need to remember if it's a charge day or non-charge day).
To be fair maybe 3/4 days buys you some convenience. But anyways charging once a day is a reasonable place to get to, to get something better would require at minimum a 3x improvement which probably means a ground-up rework instead of continuous refinement.
A battery band might get you there but I suspect it'd be too clunky. At best Apple may redesign their watch to support a battery band and allow 3rd parties to make them for folks that need weeks of battery life.
- It depends on what kind of code you're working on and what tools you're using. There's a sliding scale of "well known language + coding patterns" combined with "useful coding tools that make it easy to leverage AI", where AI can predict what you're going to type, and also you can throw problems at the AI and it is capable of solving "bigger" problems.
Personally I've found that it struggles if you're using a language that is off the beaten path. The more content on the public internet that the model could have consumed, the better it will be.
- I use this script: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/441566-hn-avatars-in-396-b...
Doesn't really help a ton with recognizing but it makes it easier to track within a thread.
- I use live captions for this a lot and find that it's pretty accurate. It's helpful if someone says something that I don't catch and I can just scroll up the captions to make sure I understand.
Also helps if someone tries to interrupts and the live caption can notate who was the breaker so I can call on them without a dumb-sounding "uh who was that?"