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by musicale 1y ago
It's a platform fee.
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The phone/necessity part of smartphones seems largely independent from the game store part, since you can usually choose from multiple wireless providers, sms/mms (and now rcs) all work, email works, and web browsers also work.
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> On the flip side, all the original hardware is now ancient and at least somewhat broken (or going that way), and it's a pain to keep it running as an ongoing prospect Fortunately there are FPGA implementations, though you might wa
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> The input latency is always detectably worse, especially without a CRT Apple 2e for the win! 1 MHz is (apparently) enough for anyone. ;-) https://danluu.com/input-lag/ discussion: https://news.ycombinat
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> The DOJ/FTC need to end app stores on phones. Game developers like Epic would certainly like to pay less money to Apple and Google than they pay to Nintendo and Sony (and Microsoft for the Xbox game store), but what's the leg
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You're not wrong, but Apple and Google probably remember things like the Facebook VPN fiasco of 2018, where Facebook's VPN app was banned from the app store for breaking privacy rules – and then they turned around and abused enter
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It's a shame they hide these things below the fold.
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Apple made one concession to consumer protection law and the FTC by changing the "free" button to "get", but I'm sure they know how those slot machines work, and where the money comes from. At one point in-app purch
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When games went "free to play", platform commissions for in-app purchases (sometimes misleadingly called "payment processing charges") were the only way that walled-garden game stores could make money from them. The iron
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> Future AI Network This seems to be a network for running AI workloads, rather than an AI-managed network. > And there you have it. Or, more precisely, there you don’t have it until all of these ideas are implemented by the Ultra Eth
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> driver of an SUV on West Hudson Boulevard Tall, heavy vehicles that make pedestrians and cyclists invisible: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/new-suvs-hav... https://www.theautopian.
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Since we haven't worked out etiquette for messaging systems we end up with things like: Hi. : ... can I ask a question? : apparently
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I'm partial to cursive italic, which dates at least to the Renaissance. You don't have to learn two sets of letter forms (printed and cursive italic use the same forms), and the joins are simple. It is easy to learn, and works wel
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> The net result is that a PL/I programmer would have to work very hard to program a buffer overflow error, while a C programmer has to work very hard to avoid programming a buffer overflow error. ;-) I am in favor of -fbounds-safet
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Though its authenticity may be discredited in the modern AI era, many computer scientists still venerate the shroud of Turing.
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The whole site has that look, doesn't it? But the article seems somewhat better than typical AI-generated slop, so .... ?? It's sad that now whenever I read something I am like... wait, was this really written by a human? I wonder
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> un-plugged-in AC electric motor's coil an important instruction, perhaps > It is absolutely harmless in every respect. There is probably an argument here both for and against toy safety standards.
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I assume that's a rhetorical question.
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> The problem with Apple laptops is they have a notch at the top of the display Well, yes.
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You may be reading too much into the original question, which was simply: > What does stanford offer undergrads that berkeley doesnt? IMO access to legacies and the larger alumni network is about it Non-academic advantages (e.g. athletic
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As I understand it, the (medieval?) tutorial system is still used at some universities, notably Oxford and Cambridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system Much of graduate education in the US seems similar.
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Maybe you should get a wooden iPad case - they look amazing. ;-)
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> Wasn't the first iPhone basically just an iPod with a sim card? It's the other way around. The iPod touch (introduced September 2007) was basically an iPhone (announced January 2007) without the phone part. > I mean smart
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Now we live in obnoxiously loud cities with 24/7 emergency vehicle sirens (hey! there's an emergency somewhere!), loud aircraft flying overhead at all hours, loud low-frequency rumbling from ground vehicles, jet engines, power pla
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This is an interesting point. Most US universities are accredited overall, but their individual engineering programs aren't always accredited by engineering accreditors. For example, UC Berkeley's EECS department lost its ABET acc
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> devs are doing work that more closely resembles pipe fitting or carpentry Yet plumbers and carpenters (and electricians) are all licensed.
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At many schools, CS departments emerged from Electrical Engineering departments. Some (MIT, Berkeley, ...) even have a combined EECS department, while others (Stanford) are part of the school of engineering. However, it does not seem to be
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It seems fair and appropriate to pay applicants (or employees for that matter) to compensate them for the additional time required for a take-home assignment, even if it's not actual production work for the company.
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This is a nice explanation; I wish that duolingo hadn't removed their user comment/explanation section, which used to contain similar (though not always correct, which is probably part of why they removed them.)
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Admissions has a tricky job since there are many more outstanding students than they have slots for - even limiting to perfect test scores and grades (usually with top quality essays, recommendations, etc. as well.) Many applicants end up w

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