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by drusepth 4y ago
GFN works by linking your accounts on existing storefronts (Steam, Epic, GOG). Not all games from those libraries are supported (publishers have to opt in, not out), but if you own a supported game already, you can stream it on GFN for free
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by drusepth 4y ago
It's always nice to be able to take your save with you to friends' houses, traveling, or even just to your couch/bed without lugging your computer everywhere (or worrying about copying/syncing saves across devices), or j
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by drusepth 4y ago
The controller connected to wifi instead of the device you were playing on. That meant it could send inputs directly to the game servers in the cloud (without knowing anything about the device you were playing on) and not worry about extra
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by drusepth 4y ago
IIRC, Google said from the beginning they'd refund purchases if they shut down. >Question though: Did you get to keep your progress in the games, or did you lose that with the shutdown? You can get all your game savedata from Google
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by drusepth 4y ago
>Counterexample: I was happily playing Destiny (a "twitchy" FPS) on an iPad in AirBnBs by Lake Tahoe or in Washington. I was really impressed. Another anecdote: I played through the entirety of Celeste (an extremely difficult f
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by drusepth 4y ago
Why? It was still usable by just using USB before this update.
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by drusepth 4y ago
The Stadia controller is/was my favorite controller of any recent consoles (with my next-fave being maybe a PS1 variant). I've been using it wired with looong cords on other platforms because it just feels so good in hand. Very, v
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by drusepth 4y ago
Does M1/M2 really outperform CUDA on beefy ML GPUs in tasks like this? I'd love to see numbers if so; this seems extremely surprising.
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by drusepth 4y ago
Then why does the article claim Mercedes is the first automaker to offer L3 driving?
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Every single one of those links (sans the Apple Card) says they, by default, share your payment/transaction history, account balances, income, SSN, and other data with affiliates for the express purpose of enabling those affiliates and
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Anyone who doesn't have a problem with the latter will inherently have a problem with the former when it's in excess (e.g. almost every site you go to).
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>Technically the complete list of things you have purchased is a record of interactions with your bank, but I think it's incredibly privacy violating for a bank to sell infomation about what products I buy. Isn't it in almost e
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by drusepth 4y ago
>Do you have money burning a hole in your pocket? I don't want to be constantly prompted to buy and consume things. On the other hand, I like to be constantly made aware of new things I might like to buy and/or consume. That wa
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by drusepth 4y ago
Plex, Calibre, Photoprism, some homebrew backup scripts that interact with other computers on the network, some private security/camera stuff, and a slew of StableDiffusion/GPT models for text/image generation (which is what
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by drusepth 4y ago
I love this. It reminds me of [1], which I wrote years ago to do something similar with undefined method calls: Rather than erroring, a modified `method_missing` triggers and searches Stack Overflow for code snippets with the same method na
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by drusepth 4y ago
As AI progresses and improves over time, it seems like the expected trust one would put in this data will trend upward, maybe eventually to "I trust this data". What is a (great) joke now might be less of a joke 5-10 years from no
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by drusepth 4y ago
>Will the evil domino of "No Bots Allowed" fall at HN next? "You sounds like a bot. Off with yer head!" You jest, but people are already asking/accusing others of ChatGPT writing their human-written comments here
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by drusepth 4y ago
It's always a shame when content is banned based on who wrote it (or didn't write it), rather than the actual content. I have a sneaking suspicion that in a few years time, sites that explicitly ban AI content will either reverse
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>One of the difficulties with these training datasets is the currently understood rules around web scraping. The current legal precedent [0] is that web scraping is perfectly legal, despite what is in the websites terms of service, &quot
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People also talk about "sending email", not "sending gmail". Brand separation naturally emerges over time.
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by drusepth 4y ago
And lots of other popular sites, like Tumblr, are adding Fediverse support as well.
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>not sure how much inspiration to a small kid a SpaceX launch is, but i know exactly how much the shuttle was. From what I've seen, it sounds like many kids these days feel the same way about SpaceX launches now as you did about the
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by drusepth 4y ago
That sounds like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33910863 which was posted here on HN a few weeks ago. It's a ChatGPT-esque model that provides URLs for where it synthesized each individual sentence from, but also
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by drusepth 4y ago
I just treat ChatGPT as another source. It's become a go-to for questions (according to my log, this week I've asked it about naturopathic medicine, game development, algorithms, FSAs, vocabulary, and general trivia). It's wa
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by drusepth 4y ago
> drusepth is the online alias of Andrew Brown, an independent software developer from Portland, OR. He is the creator of several projects such as Tales From the Tavern, a weird solitaire game, and Quora Chrome Extension, among others. H
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I still think there's value in a solution already existing if someone were to have that problem. As long as the site isn't hemmoraging money and/or needs users to survive, I don't see any reason the site couldn't
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by drusepth 4y ago
Well, the comment is about Firefox not improving their browser and instead doing other things; I imagine the comments will continue until Firefox commits to improving their browser instead of doing other things.
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People that write ruby usually do so because they like ruby (as opposed to just doing it for a job, etc). Therefore, people who write ruby are probably going to upvote submissions about the cool quirks of ruby -- and there are a lot of peop
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by drusepth 4y ago
> His tweets with nazi coded language like "88"? Do you have links to these tweets? I couldn't find any from a brief perusal of this recent tweets.
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by drusepth 4y ago
By the numbers, I'm now receiving ~2.2 spam/DAY via DMs, up from ~2.4 spam/WEEK via DMs averaged over Jan-Oct.

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