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by jsheard 8mo ago
> My understanding was that market research showed a lot of users were turning off the 3D stuff anyway It was also because young children weren't supposed to use the 3D screen due to fears of it affecting vision development. You cou
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> Removing docking functionality could possibly reduce RAM usage by never enabling 4K screen output. This would be similar to the switch lite. Every version of the Switch 1 had 4GB of RAM, they didn't cut that on the Lite. Going bac
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by jsheard 8mo ago
The cool thing about Pixels is that not only will you have to pay extra for RAM because of AI, but some of the RAM you paid for will also be permanently reserved for local AI features, regardless of whether you use them. https://
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New York sues video game developer Valve, says its 'loot boxes' are gambling(reuters.com)
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by jsheard 8mo ago
It looks like they're cramming 32 Apple Silicon SOCs into each server - they're on upright daughterboards attached to both sides of the heatsinks. That's a lotta chips.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
You can kinda do it in the vertex shader, but the geometry would have to be very finely tessellated for the curve to look right since each individual triangle would still have straight edges. Alternatively you could raytrace the camera in
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Unreal supports Panini out of the box, but very few games seem to use it or any other alternative projection. https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/... HYPER DEMON may be the best known
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Maybe, but I've found Win11 to be stable in general. Not to say there aren't issues elsewhere. https://old.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/1bwesve/1passwor... Seems like it's been a recurr
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Lately their Windows client has been consistently crashing for me when it tries to auto-run on a fresh boot. It always works the second time, but still, how about getting your shit together before dropping a 30% price increase.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
If I had a nickel for each actor who recorded a heavy metal album after their 90th birthday then I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it's happened twice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jsheard 8mo ago
I'd maybe think twice about assuming Meta knows what they're doing after they just pissed $75 billion up the wall on a Metaverse dream that went nowhere.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Not to mention the investment is on another level. We've got companies with valuations in the hundred-billions talking about raising trillions to buy all of the computers in the world, before establishing whether they can even turn a p
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by jsheard 8mo ago
They're trying to kidnap what Anthropic has rightfully stolen! Jokes and complete lack of sympathy aside, it does complicate the narrative that these small labs are always on the heels of the big labs for pennies on the dollar, if they
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> the GPL licenses really do protect open source. They did, until the automatic copyright laundering machine was invented. Pretty much every piece of GPL code ever written is now being magically transmuted into MIT/BSD or propriet
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> I am somewhat concerned about the volatility. Not just volatility but also flip-flopping. Rust was explicitly a contender when they decided to go with Swift 18 months ago, and they've already done a 180 on it despite the language
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> * Memory add-on for bare metal: 575% (effective immediately) > It feels like memory add-on is intentionally set very high to discourage customers from adding more memory. Memory prices are so stupid now that 575% is pretty close to
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by jsheard 8mo ago
I assume that's with/without tax. Those German prices would be inclusive of their 19% VAT.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> It seems we will run out of hardware by March? What happens when an unstoppable force (building everything in Electron because hardware is cheap) meets an immovable object (oh no hardware is expensive now)?
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by jsheard 8mo ago
This was already discussed, but that post got dumped onto page 5 after just a couple of hours for some reason. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120145
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> But it's also not exactly a secret that they are all taking VERY heavy losses even with pricey subscriptions. It's absurd, there's people out there paying $200 for the equivalent of $1600 in API credits. Of course there&
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Likewise OpenAIs browser is still only available on macOS, four months after launch, despite being built on a mature browser engine which already runs on everything under the sun. Seems like low-hanging fruit, and yet...
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by jsheard 8mo ago
The featured blog post where one of their senior engineering PMs presented an allegedly "production grade" Matrix implementation, in which authentication was stubbed out as a TODO, says it all really. I'm glad a quarter of th
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Similarly, the guy who owned nissan.com never sold out and continues to spite Nissan Motors even in death. https://nissan.com/ You've got to actually use a trademark-adjacent domain in good faith though, otherwise you
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Buying AI.com for an AI company just shows they have more money than imagination. Many such cases during the dot-com era (pets.com, mp3.com). The real flex would be for AI.com to have nothing to do with AI whatsoever.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
https://milk.com/value/ Also the server header is "lactoserv"
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by jsheard 8mo ago
I'd file that under "doesn't know what they're doing" because the search console uses a totally different user-agent (Google-InspectionTool) and the site is blindly treating it the same as Googlebot :P Presumably th
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by jsheard 8mo ago
> I figured that they have found an (automated) way to imitate Googlebot really well. If a site (or the WAF in front of it) knows what it's doing then you'll never be able to pass as Googlebot, period, because the canonical v
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by jsheard 8mo ago
I didn't know you can just ask IA to grab a page before their crawler gets to it. In that case yeah it would make sense for Wikipedia to ping them automatically.
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Yeah for historical links it makes sense to fall back on IAs existing archives, but going forward Wikipedia could take their own snapshots of cited pages and substitute them in if/when the original rots. It would be more reliable than
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by jsheard 8mo ago
Does Wikipedia really need to outsource this? They already do basically everything else in-house, even running their own CDN on bare metal, I'm sure they could spin up an archiver which could be implicitly trusted. Bypassing paywalls w

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