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by buran77 3mo ago
> Apart from steam, I don't think I've heard anything but bad news from modern consoles. Gabe is in his mid 60s, I'm prepared that in the next decade or so there will be a change of guard at Valve and the slow train of ens
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by buran77 3mo ago
> Is there evidence that European courts have sided with that? Is there evidence of the contrary? Maybe any store can just delete your personal data right after charging your card and claim GDPR prevents them from shipping your product.
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by buran77 3mo ago
It's safe to assume that once the secret location of the secretive conference stopped being so secret, the organizers and attendees went looking for a more private venue.
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by buran77 3mo ago
Look, first you were wrong with the confidence of an LLM and claimed an argument that was literally in the definition of copyright fair use had absolutely no relevance whatsoever for copyright. Even now you are surprised that I invoked fair
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by buran77 3mo ago
> None of those are relevant factors when it comes to copyright law. And yet they very much are. US copyright law has the concept of "fair use" in 17 U.S. Code § 107 [0]. I'll paste here for your benefit, #3 is the one I r
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by buran77 3mo ago
Can you remember every part? Can you do this for every book in a library? Can you remember all that forever? If you just ignore anything that's inconvenient for your argument, you can make any argument you want.
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by buran77 3mo ago
> Attacking someone for leaving Google Did I? And who would this person I attacked for leaving Google be? My comment's right up there, feel free to just copy/paste the "you're shit because you left Google" pa
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by buran77 3mo ago
> It was different 9 years ago, in ways that are specifically described in the blog post you're ignoring I'm not OP but I'm not ignoring anything. In 2017 Google was doing just as many "questionable" things for
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by buran77 3mo ago
> You can’t hold together your premise for 2 sentences Or maybe you were so eager to lob a snarky remark that you failed to put in your full attention and intellectual capacity to understand what I said. See, this is how you assume good
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by buran77 3mo ago
> I am not personally answerable for all the faults of a megacorp It's not very fair for you to answer for the faults of the megacorp but to be honest you kind of put yourself in that position when you defended the indefensible. For
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by buran77 3mo ago
> There is a product development strategy (I'm not sure if there's a formal name for it) where you're given a lead on a finite-but-large supply of parts you can acquire for absurdly cheap; so you buy the batch; This is how
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by buran77 3mo ago
Discs are less convenient so people have slowly moved to digital sales. This worked even better for console manufacturers, cheaper to drop that disc reader, and the second hand market is effectively dead which increases new game sales. The
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by buran77 3mo ago
> This line of reasoning leads to It doesn't "lead to". Supporting a wrong conclusion even with a valid argument is as old as time. Fans of eugenics don't need an excuse to go down that path. Our natural and artificia
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by buran77 3mo ago
The circus would be there regardless. The reason this happens is because football leagues have a lot of money and some judges have a lot of pockets to fill and many are also utterly nontechnical.
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by buran77 3mo ago
> How is Google supposed to know if Ellie Piee is a real person? That doesn't really matter. Anyway it's silly to question whether Google, a multi-trillion dollar company, can validate someone's ID when they already do it
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by buran77 4mo ago
It's the age old "Help me, politicians. You're my only hope". Anthropic, Open AI & Co. realized at some point that if they can't make money with barely any competition they sure as hell won't if the market
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by buran77 4mo ago
> logic technology can extend for the first time below the 1 nm node, advancing the era of angstrom-level scaling, where dimensions approach the size of individual atoms. While transistor nodes now refer to a generation of manufacturing
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by buran77 4mo ago
> As usual it's communism for the plebs and something entirely different for the capital wielding class. Bad example. Ask Bezos how much he paid his wife after the divorce.
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by buran77 4mo ago
Oh, I just meant it's not just "quack doctors" doing it. it's a fairly common practice.
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by buran77 4mo ago
> Quack doctors spruiking amazing new treatments (that they hold shares in). Doctors commonly have kickback arrangements to prescribe specific medication. Sometimes it's the correct course of action they just always go for the parti
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by buran77 4mo ago
What about the extra costs of handling cash, the practical effort to count it, prepare it for transport (including bags, counters, and so on), transporting to the bank, increased security, possibly more cash registers, counterfeit detectors
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by buran77 4mo ago
I think they see it all too well. They still think they can make bank today while it lasts, whatever comes after is some other shareholder's problem. And if we're talking about open source, killing it might be a positive side effe
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by buran77 4mo ago
> I do _hate_ the blurriness that the matte coatings introduce Doesn't apply in this case, does it? Can you really see it watching media on a large TV at the usual viewing distances?
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by buran77 4mo ago
> It took 7 years for the first patent assertion claim against AV1 This might just mean that if the claim is found valid, there's seven years' worth of inertia slowing down any effort to move on. Seven years in which HW and SW
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by buran77 5mo ago
A meaningless distinction and unnecessarily nitpicky. From a scientific perspective it's not a myth, it's a valuable tool. For the average person (see what I did there?) it's not a mathematical formula, it's way of sayin
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by buran77 5mo ago
> It is the sugar daddy of Firefox. Talking about bad faith, with Google's single, enormously powerful voice surely you can hear what it says. So why not answer to literally the first thing I asked in my comment instead of skipping
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by buran77 5mo ago
> Firefox is controlled opposition practically owned by Google And how does that "ownership" look like in practice? Has Google ever decided how things should be done "or else"? What Google does is pay a protection tax
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by buran77 5mo ago
The author probably means CarPlay and Android Auto. In wireless mode they share the phone's internet connection. The adapter linked in the article is a CarPlay adapter, not plain BT.
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by buran77 5mo ago
> Probably 80% of the recent PhD grads I know are looking to leave academia, despite the fact that they went into it to pursue a career in academia. I think this was always the case. The disillusionment isn't new and not all who are
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by buran77 5mo ago
There's no technical hurdle to achieving both modes or access types (local and cloud) simultaneously. This isn't a technical issue. Selling "Home" and "Pro" devices that are differentiated is also not necessari

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