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by danudey 3y ago
But are average users the ones who are paying extra to use a third-party client? I think we've seen with Twitter that third-party clients are not the majority of users, but rather a vanishingly small yet more technical and more enthusi
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by danudey 3y ago
People are using third-party apps because they're not trying to be all things to all people, while also constantly pivoting to handle whatever it is that management thinks the business should try out next.
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by danudey 3y ago
Let's be clear though: this is exactly what happened. Digg was the place to go, and then they fucked it up and everyone migrated to Reddit. Now Reddit is fucking it up, and even if everyone migrates somewhere else, that new somewhere e
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by danudey 3y ago
I don't understand why they don't either mandate ad display on third-party apps, or waive API fees for third-party apps that show ads in an approved manner. I'm sure there's a reason, but I'd rather be able to use A
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by danudey 3y ago
There is a huge amount of Windows software that's still 32-bit (or at least, installs into `Program Files (x86)`), so unless Microsoft is going to start handling that kind of emulation natively in their OS (which they may decide to d
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by danudey 3y ago
It still blows my mind that a 64-bit i9-13900K with 24 cores, 36 MB of cache, and a turbo speed of 5.8 GHz has to pretend to be a 16-bit 8086, which had a clock speed of 5-10 MHz and was discontinued in 1998, just to properly boot itself. (
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by danudey 3y ago
If you wanted to compile your own kernel, that's an option. You can use the `make oldconfig` target to import the kernel config from your OS; you'd lose any distribution patches that were made, but generally speaking it would be f
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by danudey 3y ago
It rubs me the wrong way that Google fired their whole AI ethics team and then got on stage and talked about how AI can be bad for people and we need to guard against people using it unethically. They've realized that, at this point, t
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by danudey 3y ago
I figured out what you meant eventually, but when I first read this comment I thought you meant paying $50 extra if you didn't want these features.
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by danudey 3y ago
I remember reading about a technology that used the 3D functionality of TVs, along with 3D glasses, to display two separate video feeds to two separate users - split screen, but without splitting the screen. Instead of the video feed altern
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by danudey 3y ago
Steam is better DRM than the DRM options we had before, which were an absolute nightmare. Upgraded your motherboard? Better call customer support to get your account restored. Spore is the worst example[0] that I remember. The article has s
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by danudey 3y ago
Game Pass is doing a lot better than the XBox itself is. I honestly think that Microsoft needs to pull a Sega, stop making hardware and release their games on other people's hardware instead. Game Pass on PS5 would get a lot of subsc
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by danudey 3y ago
Users: "Steam is awful, we need alternatives." Epic: "Okay, we've started buiding one." Users: "Yeah well it sucks because it doesn't have these extra, non-core features it took Steam two decades to build.
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by danudey 3y ago
Two quick notes: 1. Looks like you posted this comment pretty close to when this was posted on HN. It's possible the server was more loaded, as I tried it myself and it wasn't very laggy (though there was a delay, it wasn't n
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by danudey 4y ago
For only $1500 USD you can have the prettiest version of Portal at framerates we haven't seen in fifteen years!
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by danudey 4y ago
I tried this approach and the latency was through the roof, easily a second or so off, making it effectively useless for video conferencing. Switched to an HDMI grabber so I could get something that was actually realtime.
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by danudey 4y ago
You just buy them. I wouldn't trust them for high-power or high-drain devices, personally, but you can just search amazon and see what they have.
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by danudey 4y ago
Groupon initially was great. Then it was great, except only for regular-priced options and not available on weekends or holidays. Then people realized that, instead of getting a Groupon for a new cafe or restaurant or kickboxing studio and
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by danudey 4y ago
I just tested it myself, and it's surprisingly interesting. Unfortunately, ChatGPT still behaves as its normal self, assertions included, as illustrated when I told my "DM" that actually the bad guy and I were good friends an
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by danudey 4y ago
Iceland was absolutely fantastic. Iceland Air started doing direct flights from Vancouver and my wife and I got on the inaugural flight, despite her being several uncomfortable months pregnant. Some highlights: * We saw geysir, the first ge
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by danudey 4y ago
Agreed. This sounds like a nice user-friendly feature until you realize what a colossal privacy disaster this would be for any malicious app that the user grants these permissions to. "DerpCo Derpolizer would like to access your stored
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by danudey 4y ago
Or they don't see the point in arguing with people who are obviously against any sort of progressive or inclusive adjustments to society.
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by danudey 4y ago
They've had since December 2020 to update their cluster, and the breaking-ness in 1.24 is called out in a section titled 'Urgent Update Notes'[0], and subtitled 'No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade'. S
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by danudey 4y ago
If I had to guess, I would say it's probably something like not enough demand from non-Iranian speakers to learn Iranian languages.
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by danudey 4y ago
If you're able to dedicate time and focus to it, Duolingo will at least get you familiar with words and phrases, so that you can read and recognize more common words (street signs, menus, etc.) Depending on your fluency and your curren
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by danudey 4y ago
I haven't used Facebook the way it was meant to be used for maybe a decade; I actually had to create a new Facebook account when my wife and I moved in together because whenever we arranged a large gathering at our house we did it as
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by danudey 4y ago
Those consultants need to be hired because the people with the expertise left the public sector to become those consultants, and now no one on-staff knows how to do anything.
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by danudey 4y ago
I remember ages ago, Canadians were getting ads for airfare that was like $67 return to Las Vegas/Cuba/London, and then you get the total and it's "+ $550 in taxes, service fees, fuel surcharges, airport improvement fees
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by danudey 4y ago
Tried this and got the same result. Then I clicked the button that switched things around, so that it was translating the Korean it gave me into English, and the English result was "쩝". Translation is complicated, but if we can&#x
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by danudey 4y ago
It already made it very clear to a user that it's willing to kill to protect itself, so it's not so far fetched.

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