Arainach

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by Arainach 11mo ago
I don't understand the appeal here. When Microsoft added some RAW support for Windows, I've never used it for anything except thumbnails in File Explorer. If you're shooting RAW it's because you want to edit the photos
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by Arainach 11mo ago
>the short-term min/maxing can leave you stuck in a particular global minimum, with no clear way out. Short term min/maxing leaves you in a local maximum (the opposite of what you said)
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by Arainach 11mo ago
For now. Features that are opt-in in developer preview have a way of becoming defaults later. Fundamentally, having a model that makes it easy to give access to an entire library instead of requiring explicit tight scoping of access to ind
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by Arainach 11mo ago
It's worse because they're exposing these features to the kind of people who aren't running agents now.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
I disagree. Maybe certain sensitive things are outside that folder such as browser cookies, but most users have a LOT of sensitive stuff there. "Tax forms 2023.pdf" for instance. It's similar to UAC - a good and important pr
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by Arainach 11mo ago
(Potentially) making a better product does not mean better for a consumer, especially when a company has a dominant share of the marketplace. It potentially means you can only get parts going through the company that sells the complete prod
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Vertical integration is, in general, bad for competition and often bad for consumers. There can be benefits, but too much control limits availability of parts, confuses incentives, etc.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Telling kids not to run around indoors where they can collide with objects or people, break things, injure themselves, and generally get in the way isn't damaging - or at least is significantly less damaging than the perception in this
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Sorry, but no. You shouldn't be running in crowded areas like food courts (or indoor areas not specifically created for athletics), and playing smug semantic arguments like that doesn't help. The kids aren't running because t
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by Arainach 1y ago
LoL can't be played on the Steam Deck. This is common among the top multiplayer games due to anticheat. It's almost certain no one bought a Steam Deck primarily to play DotA, and it remains to be seen if any has a meaningful impa
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by Arainach 1y ago
This isn't a piracy argument, it's a "leeching infrastructure that has real costs without contributing" problem. Tapping into your neighbor's cable TV for free channels may not physically deprive anyone of something
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by Arainach 1y ago
The implicit contract is that you see the content while letting the ads that support it play. If you disagree with ads, the ethical choice is to not watch the video, not to leech. It's also ethical to change browser tabs or leave the r
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by Arainach 1y ago
The Steam Deck has sold only 4 million units in 3 years, which is a rounding error in the console market, not a huge success. The Switch 2 has generally been considered a failure (due in no small part to a serious lack of interesting exclu
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by Arainach 1y ago
None at the AAA-tier which sell consoles.
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by Arainach 1y ago
The Switch 2 has exclusives that people DO want. The Steam Machine does not.
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by Arainach 1y ago
That still requires picking a specific window. If I have 6 browser windows I need to find the correct one of six. With a native app it's just alt+tab - or, if the app is pinned to the taskbar, Win+(1/2/3/4...)
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by Arainach 1y ago
Now you have to switch apps to the browser, find which browser window has the session you want, switch to the tab, etc., instead of just switching to WhatsApp app via keyboard or taskbar directly. The ergonomics are significantly worse. I w
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by Arainach 1y ago
You can absolutely have that. You can pay for YouTube Premium and you don't get ads. It's shockingly reasonable in my opinion* - dollars spent to hours I watch, it's my personal best value streaming service. *Bias disclaimer
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by Arainach 1y ago
Making a profit doesn't mean that their costs aren't so high that adblocking isn't compatible. Walmart has profits of $157B in 2024, but their business model isn't compatible with people just walking in and grabbing stuf
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by Arainach 1y ago
>outright blocking adblockers, which has no bearing on youtube's service The scale of data storage, transcoding compute, and bandwidth to run YouTube is staggering. I'm open to the idea that adblocking doesn't have much e
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by Arainach 1y ago
Testing blood pressure after a shot seems weird. I have high blood pressure, managed with a low dose of medication. I've had plenty of advice from my PCP and other actual doctors on how to take blood pressure - how to sit, how long
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by Arainach 1y ago
> could impact our planet as early as 16 UTC on 12 November Is that 16:00 or 00:16?
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by Arainach 1y ago
>know people complain about car manufacturers being hostile to CarPlay and Android Auto. But I think in the long run, the executives are being smart. Looking down the history of other companies that turned over responsibility of their us
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Is that market segment important to them? No, it is not. Cheaper fridges with ads sell more and make more.
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by Arainach 1y ago
So now the plan is to lie to people to get them to do something for you under false pretenses?
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by Arainach 1y ago
Technology has enabled greed and exploitation to increase exponentially. The ability to regulate it has been slashed at every opportunity - such as cutting funding to the IRS.
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by Arainach 1y ago
> think they are very self centered and don't want to make sacrifices How dare they not want to spend decades doing something they don't want at enormous personal and financial cost just to keep your favorite economic pyramid s
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by Arainach 1y ago
Costs are out of control. I know families where both parents were big tech SWEs and one quit their job because losing that huge salary was about the same cost as childcare.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>How could they have afford to have had kids back then? Most families had only one person working, and one available for childcare. Housing was dramatically cheaper. So was a university education. So was food. And no - unregulated cap
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by Arainach 1y ago
> modern, affluent states are commiting voluntarily suicide because their citizens are not too willing in giving birth Phrase things with the blame assigned accordingly. Your phrasing blames people for not becoming parents. A more accura

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