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by SllX 3mo ago
Metroid is a secondary or tertiary IP, and the Metroid Prime subseries has always had more smoke online than its sale figures would ever suggest, with only the original on Gamecube selling north of 2 million, and it was a pack-in title.
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by SllX 3mo ago
They might have the ability to do so. The motivation? Well let me put it this way: I tried Amazon’s grocery delivery service, and stopped using it because everything— everything —kept arriving in its own individual bag regardless of whether
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by SllX 3mo ago
In Australia, Rugby League and Rugby Union can both be referred to as just “football”, though there are also other more distinctive terms for the sake of clarity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Australia#Te
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by SllX 3mo ago
> and especially the football vs. soccer thing with the world cup right now My favorite thing about this is that the term “soccer” originated in British English in the late 19th Century as an abbreviation for association football, yet we
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by SllX 3mo ago
No. Platforms are better when the owners of them continue to invest directly in & improve the user experience. Turning them into white label runtimes for apps is something only nerds & bureaucrats with visions of grandeur dream of.
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by SllX 3mo ago
It’s a swipe at Apple since Apple’s M.O. is to lock in long term memory contracts at guaranteed prices for a couple of years. Contracts Micron has been happy to sign before, so yeah, Micron’s still full of shit.
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by SllX 3mo ago
Finding additional ways to waste more of people’s time on the web isn’t a good solution to anything. Doing so in a privacy invading way from a company that has a vested interest in collecting as much data as possible, exhausting all utility
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WebKit in Safari 27 Beta(webkit.org)
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by SllX 4mo ago
I’ll add onto this the PA system & noise from the trains themselves. BART isn’t exactly a quiet train system, and MUNI is far too comfortable blasting announcements & propaganda through its PA system telling you not to commit crimes
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by SllX 4mo ago
Well let’s see: > Plenty of younger people are already reverting to more primitive phones or physical media, and I wonder if it's just older addicted richer millenials that'll keep buying at even more than the already idiotic p
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by SllX 4mo ago
Not enough to have stopped the iPhone 17 Pro line from being a runaway success that even Apple—famously excellent at projecting demand and already invested in selling as many as possible given its the flagship model line of their flagship p
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by SllX 4mo ago
No. I just switched away from Apple Maps too when they added ads. If I’m dealing with adware either way, may as well use the best.
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by SllX 4mo ago
LLMs can’t lie. They are incapable of telling either the truth or lying. To the extent that they are in any way useful, it’s recognizing that they are text generators attached to crawlers and other tools that can with the right inputs produ
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by SllX 4mo ago
I read the article and I’m aware of the failure modes of Google’s AI summary. They’re actually one of the worst in the space on this shit which is why I don’t use Gemini and it’s fine that they get slapped for this, but what I was respondin
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by SllX 4mo ago
If those are things you legitimately care about before you spend one penny on a T-Shirt, then you are. Or you did your research before hand. Or you’re just not buying the T-Shirt. Or you don’t care about those things at all, and you will bu
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by SllX 4mo ago
Strawmen are for scaring off the crows, not discussion fodder. Take it out to the farm where it belongs.
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by SllX 4mo ago
The AI summary is still useful for narrowing down the results, even if you fully check the citations. > Obviously the marketing point of the AI tools is it just gives you an answer straight up so you don't have to bother reading nor
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by SllX 4mo ago
By checking the citations rather than taking what’s generated at face value. If it’s important, check it. If it’s not important, then it is pretty much just entertainment. LLMs can be very useful in a general web search and save some time,
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by SllX 4mo ago
Pricing is looking to be complicated and not clear cut. Some of it is free on-device. Some of it is free & rate limited per day. They mentioned in the WWDC infomercial that users with iCloud+ (the storage tier subscriptions, Apple likes
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by SllX 4mo ago
Population Control ≠ Immigration Control. Saying that you’re going to cap your population necessarily implies you’re going to take policy measures to grow no further than the capped amount, which are by their nature, repressive. That said I
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by SllX 4mo ago
There’s never anything sane with population caps by fiat. If that’s a form of insanity they wish to indulge though, then democracy allows them that.
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by SllX 4mo ago
I read The Intercept rarely and never saw enough of them to form any kind of take on their “typical” headline-style. 404 Media has been popping off everywhere though—including here-since they launched. This may sound pre-judgmental, but a h
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by SllX 4mo ago
Nobody is disputing that it is a legitimate choice. It is also legitimately off-putting. If their audience is into it though, good for them.
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by SllX 4mo ago
> My experience with 404 Media is that they treat every article like they've just released the Pentagon Papers I think you’ve perfectly phrased exactly what it is that annoys me when I see a 404 Media headline. When it was a new sho
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by SllX 5mo ago
> Not Sweden, but one Swedish startup. Just as an aside jumping off this sentence from the article, I am far less tolerant of the practice of naming countries of origin or general locales rather than specific organizations in headlines a
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by SllX 5mo ago
The article is talking about a link tax, or put another way: Italy forcing a website to pay for the privilege of referring traffic to the referees who benefit from the additional traffic when their mutual users link to news sites. The onl
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by SllX 5mo ago
I’m calling horseshit. Every job I worked in the past that required handling a register was a Japanese cash register where we could just not charge tax, and which had multiple options depending on what kind of tax it was (drive-thrus for ex
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by SllX 5mo ago
You would be a very sad teapot then. :(
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by SllX 5mo ago
If he were just squatting on a trademark this would be an open and shut case under US Trademark law. The trademark is still in active use for Notepad++ though. That’s not squatting.
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by SllX 5mo ago
Is the ferry at least, free?

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