Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
>I don't understand why it always has to be one or the other? Why can't we have both? I basically agree with you but I think the other point here is valid too. Solar (and some other renewables) are so cheap they basically make
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
Solar can be deployed by hundreds of thousands of individual efforts and financing at the same time, with almost no bureaucracy. It starts to produce electricity basically the same day. I can't imagine anything being able to compete wi
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
I'm guessing you play FPS competitively and are in your 20s, and for you it might be true, I won't argue that. The issue for me is that even if your experience was true for all gamers in the world, that would still be a tiny minor
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
Wealth reporting in the press is so bad it seems like WWE-style entertainment for people who like money more than they like men in tights.
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
>Which is the right choice No damn it, it's not! Everyone I know can immediately see a clear difference between 120 ppi and 200 ppi, but I've yet to encounter anyone who can reliably tell 120hz from 200hz. We have monitors that
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
This complaint is made with a level of consideration and effort that Apple should aspire to when they make the OS itself. Bravo!
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
Max Payne 1 is a fun playthrough during xmas, kinda like watching Die Hard. Takes place during a blizzard. A remake/remaster of Max Payne 1&2 is in the works by the original developer (Remedy). Stated to be financed by Rockstar (wh
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
I agree with the OP that I can get LLM's to do things now that I wouldn't even attempt a year ago, but I feel it has more to do with my own experience using LLM's (and the surrounding tools) than the actual models themselves.
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
The hobby of caring about cameras sometimes overtakes the hobby of taking pictures.
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
I assume you are speaking as a publisher and considering costs of marketing, editors, lawyers and such? Otherwise printing and distributing 1000 copies of a book is surely vastly more expensive compared to having 1000 downloads of an epub f
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
I agree that it is probably impossible to maintain the economy around selling copies of a work when those copies are practically free, but making your works actually free in the current business models is giving up too soon. There needs
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
I get your reaction, authors should of course be paid, but GP has a point. If the same payment model that is applied to books and music were applied to carrots, it would be illegal to plant carrots. If you think about it like that it's
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
>I just had the dispiriting thought that it's about twenty years since I first used Ubuntu. At that point it all seemed tantalizingly close to being "ready for primetime". I feel the same and find it a bit strange. I am ha
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
Wayland being contemporary with the financial crisis makes sense in my head but I'll probably spend the rest of today processing that it's 18 years ago.
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
>Or they are just simply not on the happy path. I believe this is a very good point! Linux as an OS is so fragmented that the number of paths are basically innumerable. Many of them are "happy" but they can be hard to find and
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
I think the main problem for Linux is the fragmentation and lack of focus. If you can live without the Adobe suite and such, any number of distros and desktops can serve you well, but it often tries to do so An initiative like Omarchy got a
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
I think Windows has improved as a basic OS tremendously in the past decade, with things like WSL, winget, terminal, storage spaces, fancyzones and such. The components of perhaps the best general purpose OS available right now are there, bu
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
>Apple is #4 in laptop sales. Lenovo, Dell and HP each have at least as much volume. True but they divide their sales among several models. Gaming models, 2-in-1s, 13" to 17" and so on. Apple not only has fewer models they ofte
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by Kon5ole 10mo ago
Volvo still design, develop, prototype and even mass produce cars in Sweden just like they always did. They haven't had Swedish majority ownership this century but still do their thing. That could change of course, but so far so good f
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by Kon5ole 11mo ago
I think this old quote can come around to being accurate in a way, if you consider that from the user's perspective every cloud service is like one system. Aws, Azure, Google cloud...how many will there be when the dust settles? ;-)
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by Kon5ole 11mo ago
When someone uses a violin to hammer nails, we don't laugh at the violin. ...although to be fair, LLM's are like violins that are really good at pretending to be hammers. :)
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by Kon5ole 11mo ago
I think Uncle Bobs advice is mostly bad and am afraid to admit it because it’s like a (cargo) cult now.
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by Kon5ole 11mo ago
Why no power? The forests, hydro dams, heat plants and such that gave power long before wind became a thing are still there.
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by Kon5ole 11mo ago
>The option up here really truly is "do we use fossil fuels, or do we use nuclear". Renewables do not help. Hey now - renewables gave us electricity up here long before Einstein started thinking about atoms! We are very few peo
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
I think the fragmentation is good, it allows many talents working in the same area at once and lets users choose what fits best. The problem is that this leaves a lot of the polishing work to the users, and the defaults - which most stick w
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>There's no content This is exactly why 8K tv's failed in the market, but the point here is that your computer desktop is _great_ 8k content. The tv's that were sold for sub-1000 usd just a few years ago should be sold as
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
HDMI 2.1 is required, and the cables are not too expensive now. For newer gpus (nvidia 3000+ or equivalent) and high end (or M4+) macs hdmi 2.1 works fine but Linux drivers have some licensing issue that makes hdmi 2.1 problematic. It works
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>> You can get 8K TVs for <$1000 now. >8K at jumbo TV size has relatively large pixels compared to an 8K desktop monitor. It’s easier to manufacture. I don't think that's true. I've been using a 8k 55" TV as
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
> Why is this flagged? Probably the juvenile title-altering script that could get people in trouble depending on where they’re from.
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by Kon5ole 1y ago
>The point here is that even if one uses the grid rarely, one is still depending on it being there. And that dependency means one is still exploiting things with fixed costs Obviously the grid is needed and anyone using it should pay. Bu

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