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by kenhwang 3y ago
Their pricing likely includes the cost of potential ad revenue that an API call is displacing. There's no easy way to integrate ads into an API, so they just offload the advertising/monetization problem to whoever buys the content
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Oh, that explains why my connection was slow from some rooms in the house today. I also have an ASUS RT-AC86U (running 3.0.0.4.386_51255), but as a node in the mesh, it's still online. However, my RT-AX55 (3.0.0.4.386_50460) in the mes
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by kenhwang 3y ago
It's not the framerate itself that bothers me, it's when the framerate drops on demanding scenes. I'd rather have a consistent 30fps than a game constantly fluctuating between 30-60. But even a consistent 30fps is kinda a dre
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by kenhwang 3y ago
On the other hand, the 5th and 7th best selling Switch games (Pokemon SS and SV) were notorious for being unable to maintain 15fps. A lot of the workarounds made the game legitimately awful looking (downscaling shadows on the fly for demand
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by kenhwang 3y ago
They already have to optimize for docked/undocked modes separately anyway since it's rendering different resolutions using different hardware speeds depending on whether it's docked or not. There's already a mobile optim
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I kinda like the charm of the cooking animation. I feel like it's more fun than other games that turns crafting into "just press the button in the menu". Especially with the environmental cooking methods, why shouldn't I
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Rather, I wish it'd have closer to PS5 performance while docked. Mobile performance is totally understandable given the battery/heat limitations. Even smartphones have been thermally limited for performance for the last couple yea
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by kenhwang 3y ago
You'd have to assume history is actually deleted and not just simply hidden from the user. Pretty high bar to pass given it's Google. I personally don't care for better recommendations. I just need a functional subscription&#
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I hope this leads to a viable competitor to Youtube. Youtube being the de-facto video host for medium length content has pretty noticeable effects on how content is created to tailor to Youtube's algorithms and users. I would love to s
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by kenhwang 3y ago
It's rare to see Twitch ads because they don't have very much ad inventory. But if you happen to be a rare match for one of the few ads they have, you'll see that same ad over and over and over again.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I work in ad-tech. The tech to make ads unblockable has existed for years now (server side ad insertion makes ads indistinguishable from content because they're delivered through the same gateway in the same video stream thus bypassing
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by kenhwang 3y ago
You can watch Youtube incognito for free but you need to login to benefit from subscribing.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
My Nest camera is pretty hilariously bad as well. It literally just watches my mailbox and the path to it, and 90% of the time, my mailman is able to sneak past it without setting off the motion detection. They're literally in frame an
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Even on-demand isn't guaranteed capacity. There have been a handful of times in my career where I've tried to spin up a lot more instances and got met with an out of capacity error. There's a special kind of reserved instance
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Sponsors of this bill are Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut). Graham has a track record of being pro-mass surveillance and generally being on the wrong side of every major issue. Blumenthal has a track
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Austria is kinda the same way. We had to sort everything into one of 6 bins. But there was only one bin for all plastics. The 6 bins is fine (metal, glass, paper, organic, plastic, landfill), further sorting the plastics into the 7 kinds cu
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by kenhwang 3y ago
"As long as you're not losing traction on your rear wheels" is the key part. The more you brake, the more weight shifts forward, which results in less traction available to use to recapture. People vastly overestimate how muc
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I think this is just a side effect of most of the current EV offerings being expensive premium products. Once cheap EVs become more common, FWD will return because having the motor in front allows for much more efficient energy recapture wi
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by kenhwang 4y ago
I'm laughing because I did the same thing. Just a loop made with tape so the cord doesn't stick to the tape and then taped somewhere slightly higher. But mouse bungees are cute, so I might upgrade and retire my tape solution.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
The Fidelity card really is a great general purpose low maintenance card. Plus, if your default cash position is SPAXX, it's currently earning 4.4% interest which isn't too shabby.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
New Reddit is for ads. If you turn off adblock and compare old and new, you'll probably notice that there's more prime screen space for "recommended" content with media support. There's still the sidebar carried ove
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Twitter runs their own datacenters, so they should be isolated from what looks like an issue with a cloud provider. Likely AWS, given Reddit, EA, Expedia, Hyatt, Patreon, and especially Chime and Amazon itself are all reported to be having
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by kenhwang 4y ago
YouTube's monetization and algorithms incentivized content to be bloated with fluff like long intros, outros, intermissions, shoutouts, life updates, sponsorships, etc. Basically content that added no value to the user and only exists
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by kenhwang 4y ago
> notable blowing up advertising revenue to the tune of several hundred million dollars per year Twitter booked ~$4b/year in advertising revenue before Musk.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
I work in adtech, and built a product tried to measure the impact of advertising, that Google/Facebook/Twitter all immediately copied. So going to answer from my experience. > I could never figure out if advertisers don't
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by kenhwang 4y ago
> Advertisers/Google Workspace users/GCP users are. They treat those customers worse than Android customers. At least Android has human customer service. If you self-served your way into those advertising/workspace/GC
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by kenhwang 4y ago
It's in the article: $42.6 billion from search $8.5 billion from other ads marketplace products (maps, shopping, display) $7.96 billion from YouTube $7.3 billion from GCP $76 billion total
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by kenhwang 4y ago
This is usually a sign of advertiser flight. Usually big reputable brands are easily the top bidders getting their ads shown, and in the absence of those, the much lower bidding scams can get through.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Meta genuinely has a good ad product. It's not hard to setup a campaign that very cost effectively hits an otherwise difficult to target audience that actually has potential for a conversion. It's very easy for Facebook ads to mix
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by kenhwang 4y ago
> Wow someone really ought to let the rest of the world outside of America know. Or even Southern California. Turns out when you have good weather and properly planned spaces for dining, it's quite popular. This article reeks of New

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