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by gamepsys 3y ago
In the world where general computing continues to become cheaper over time both of those are not problems in the long term.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
There are enough sensors in a car to know when a collision has occurred. The car is capable of capturing touchscreen use metrics. Bonus points if you can find metrics for the same region/timespan for cars with tactile controls. You
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by gamepsys 3y ago
> Obvious limitation is something like Maps and media I would love to see some data to see how dangerous it is to operate Maps and Media apps on a touch screen while operating a moving vehicle. This is data modern automakers should hav
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by gamepsys 3y ago
As a dev I was getting ~4 years out of Intel MBPs. The old ones still did the job well, but the new ones just did everything fast enough to justify the expense. Now I just realized I have over 3 years on my M1 MBP, and I realize I'm c
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by gamepsys 3y ago
> Mogilevich says that it sold this material to eight buyers Who are these buyers? Do they have criminal intent, or are they professional security conducting an investigation? Obviously the whole thing is just the word of someone who is
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by gamepsys 3y ago
You can run DP over USB-C. It's a use case they specifically support. However, if you are the cutting edge you will be using the actual DP cords. DP2.1 uses 80Gbit/s and Thunderbolt 3 USB-C is only 40 GBit/s. Once you sta
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Downloading entire ROM collections quickly becomes too much data for local storage, starting with Saturn/PS1 and escalating from there.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
This is truly awful for the gaming community at large. If this case makes a ruling then it will most likely have an impact on all emulation projects. If Nintendo decides to sue your open source project, how do you mount a legal defense?
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Replacing an ICU with an electric car reduces carbon output. Training an AI model costs a lot of carbon in manufacturing chips and in electricity. I'm worried that this will negatively impact their goal of being carbon neutral by 203
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by gamepsys 3y ago
I always assumed the sudden leaps forward were a combination of having government funding (no need build hype to sell to VCs), corporate espionage, and an unconcerned attitude towards international intellectual property law. Not say no hard
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by gamepsys 3y ago
RSS cuts out the middleman. I remember sometime around 2007 I noticed people around me started using Google to visit websites they knew the URL of. Websites they visited frequently and could have been bookmarks. I thought it was incredibl
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Vinyls warp and scratch. Film degrades and becomes foggy. Books are damaged by too much moisture or not enough moisture. Most clay tablets have been smoothed by erosion. Optical disk rot is an overstated problem. Every medium has longevi
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by gamepsys 3y ago
To be fair, the lab did upload photos of a DVD sized disc. I think they started the comparison.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
> (writing) an energy per bit of information of 17 μJ [0] It's interesting to think about data as μJ per bit. The article seems to hint that this is too high for practical use, but I'm honestly clueless how this would compare
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by gamepsys 3y ago
The two biggest complaints are: * The headset is too heavy, or too uncomfortable to use for extended periods of time. * The software was lacking. Lack of video content, lack of apps, lack of 'shared experiences'. I think that as
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Why would we assume network bandwidth is a fixed cost? Everyone pays for network transmissions.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
My favorite part is that installing games from the internet is technically more expensive for Sony than installing a game from the disc, because they pay a larger network transfer costs. Is there some spyware involved? Is this just incompe
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by gamepsys 3y ago
At 4x it almost seems worth it to hire out the rest of your day-to-day and let the operation cruise. The company will probably under perform over time but you'll get more juice from the fruit.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Social security is another $1.4T/year budget that is not considered welfare [0]. Medicare is another $0.9B [1] that isn't considered welfalre [1]. If we raided these programs, along with the previously mentioned programs, we reac
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Warning: Ballpark numbers ahead The 2022 budget was $1.2T across all welfare programs[0]. This includes programs people don't normally consider welfare such as the Child Tax Credit and parts of the Pell Grant. There are currently 350M
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Just think, someone doesn't know that xkcd reference and today will be the day they see it for the first time.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
I don't think space is a concern in North America.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Many second tier colleges are having a recruiting problem. I think a license share would be an appealing selling point to attract new students.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
I just checked and Michigian's in-state tuition is currently $17,228/semester[0]. Yeah, cost of tuition is very wrong. Using this new number -- which is just a more accurate estimation -- the student tuition for the class is $4,
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by gamepsys 3y ago
Charge a student $800 in tutition and fees to attend a class. Student writes 3 good papers in the class. License the three papers to 10 AI models for $45 for a total of $450. College increases student revenue by >50%. This setup is c
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by gamepsys 3y ago
I'm confused, I thought I was very critical of these tests in my comment.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
It's legal for companies to make hiring decisions based on the results of personality tests. It's legal for them to make other personal decisions, such as promoting, firing, giving raises etc. It's legal to make these kinds
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by gamepsys 3y ago
The author primarily talks about interviewing interesting but un-interviewed people as a new source of interesting information to write about. The author talks about their process of finding new people to interview.
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by gamepsys 3y ago
This isn't about WoW, this is about Disney & Epic. If Fortnite fails to be stickier than WoW then this investment will be pretty bad. World of Warcraft is probably the stickiest game in history. I can also see how an investment i
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by gamepsys 3y ago
I was actually thinking about World of Warcraft when I was thinking about a game that failed to be sticky. World of Warcraft peaked in subscriber count in 2010, and has generally seen steady decline since then. I think the numbers for WoW

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