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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> You don't own the software's intellectual property I don't own the intellectual property of a physical book I purchase, but I do own a copy of the book and the copyright owner can't just show up at my house and reda
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
But in your analogy, the base Duolingo app without its gamification is the gamification of learning a language. The streaks and points and everything else is a gamification of gamification of learning.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
People should be allowed to game themselves. But this isn't language learners setting up little games for themselves to learn more. This is 1 version of gamification pushed on all of it's users, whether or not it would work for th
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
I disagree with this in principle. Gamification is something we should be very wary of because it is inherently bad. It reduces what you care about in an activity to points and a progress bar. Instead of sticking with language learning beca
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AMD vs. Nvidia Inference Benchmark: Performance per Cost / Million Tokens(semianalysis.com)
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
This kind of tech will probably have better applications in custom imaging sensors. Instead of a standard bayer filter you have these applied as filters, letting you map NIR into the visible spectrum and then capturing it using standard sil
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Classic schoolyard bully behavior.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Nobody is talking about replacing all cars overnight. You don't have to ban existing cars, they will phase themselves out. Give every X years and ban the sales of any non-hybrids for all but a few niche applications. Then in X+Y years
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Even pricing CO2 output from burning fossil gas, plus a % for upstream leaks, and the same for car combustion will go a long way. Mind you people won't like that since we're so used to using the atmosphere as a free sewer. The ide
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Some of these would benefit from changes (e.g. electric heating -> heat pump). Others would be better off with other changes. E.g. too much cooling? Consider better awnings, stronger blinds, or even IR rejecting films. As for the stove,
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Is that why it released it with built in integration in android so that android users automatically are notified of tags following them? Or is that why the tag flashes and makes sounds frequently so that people without phones can know they’
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
> I think there is anger at the left for oppression during COVID. Are we remembering the same history? Because I clearly remember COVID lockdowns and measures implemented and supported by the president in power at the time: Trump. > o
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Yes. > if it stops working. It doesn't magically stop working though, it would be apple explicitly putting in effort to break this functionality and forcing you to update a device you own, forcing you to use it only how they want yo
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
The lack of trust in the purchase comes from Apple, not from this seller. It's apple that's reaching into your device and force updating the firmware without your consent.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Flashback to a few weeks ago when RFK's anti-water-floridation stance was once again in the news and countless people were ready to go to bat for him: "No, he's just removing the mandatory health experiment of fluoride in the
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
The fact that this was seen as an acceptable design decision both by the creators, and then taken up by the industry is in an of itself a sign of a serious issue.
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Oh yeah, I didn't even touch on devs being used to working on super faster internet. If you're on Mac, go install Network Link Conditioner and crank that download an upload speed way down. (Xcode > Open Developer Tools > Mor
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
I'd wager that a 2021 MacBook, like the one I have, is stronger than the laptop used by majority of people in the world. Life on an entry or even mid level windows laptop is a very different world.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
It shows up in different ways, and I agree that some of my examples are planned obsolescence. I'm not so sure they're that different though. I do think that in the end most boil down to the same problem: no emphasis or care about
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
There's servers and there's all of the rest of consumer hardware. I need to buy a new phone every few years simply because the manufacturer refuses to update it. Or they add progressively more computationally expensive effects tha
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Except we've squandered that 1000x not on bounds checking but on countless layers of abstractions and inefficiency.
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Yes they are. Look at what happened when deepseek came out. Altman started crying and alleging that deepseek was trained on OpenAI model outputs without an inkling of irony
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No, the closest comparison is Apple's own devices that they also sell, Macs. The exact same store features many of the exact same apps (often literally the same executable). That store also takes 30%, but is not the only way to get a
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
I’m perfectly fine with disallowing Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo from doing the same thing. They can have their store and their cut, but they must allow people to sell games through their own stores or bring their own games to the console. Pri
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
The macOS App Store is still around despite having competition, so I see that as a point against the iOS one going away if there is competition. But even if it does, the profitability of Apple's business is Apple's problem. If the
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
The same options that exist on macOS. Use the App Store and the benefits it gives you if they're worth it for you, or distribute and install apps from elsewhere if that's what you want.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Do you think they’re also due 30% of all sales through Safari? Or 30% of all sales on macOS? Surely the work there is just as worthwhile as on iOS. They have been compensated, when people bought the hardware. Anything beyond that is blatant
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
Yeah “lost” is one way to describe no longer taking what doesn’t belong to you.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
I don’t know of that many plants that failed to finishing building after construction started. Unit economics are important. Managing to build doesn’t mean much if you can’t turn a profit.
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by _aavaa_ 1y ago
I think this is actually backwards. The reactors are build big to get economies of scale. Building 4 small ones, each of which will also go over budget, only to produce a more expensive product out of each (electricity) puts your economics

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