protimewaster

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by protimewaster 2mo ago
I think some of them do a better job of limiting their cruelty to their job. Jobs allegedly spent years lying about whether his daughter was his daughter. That's not necessary for Apple to succeed. That's just being a dick.
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by protimewaster 2mo ago
> In many countries car is not something essential thanks to public transport. Is that true in many entire countries? It seems like most of the countries I've visited, there are usually places within the country where transit isn&#x
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by protimewaster 2mo ago
That's what gets me too. I've been tasked previously to help a young relative with budgeting, and there were so many "It's only $x a month!" items we found that it was ridiculous. It's pushed me in the other di
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by protimewaster 2mo ago
> It’s not this complex everytime, luckily I'm glad it was straightforward when it come up for me. In my case, I was dealing with an airline based in my county of residence, and I just emailed them saying that the law says I get the
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by protimewaster 2mo ago
That's interesting, and I did not know that! For those asserting that Kimi identifying as another model is evidence of distillation, is this evidence that Claude was distilled from Chinese models?
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by protimewaster 2mo ago
I agree. I honestly think it's strange that it's often viewed as "good enough" to get a refund. If I paid $5 for a movie, I did that because I want the movie more than the $5. If I didn't, I would've kept the $
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
They also have cut off people who paid, though. It's currently being paid for and had another cutoff for Ukraine in early February.
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
I do always think it's interesting that the "bad" guys like EA had, for a long time, much friendlier store terms (refunds) than Valve did. I also never thought that it was very nice of Valve to historically have security prac
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
The guy in charge of it has demonstrated that he'll cut people off from accessing it on a whim, though, so it's not really cheap and easy access for the entire globe. It's access for the selected people.
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
If you want to see it outside the context of tech forums, you can look up the industry reports and see the numbers yourself. There are some media types that are dropping, obviously, but there are multiple types of physical media that have s
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
> I doubt that they will go back to where Sony are now. I agree. However, I do think they would get some positive attention (and some accompanying sales) if they were to backtrack and announce a console more like the 360. It feels doable
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
Xbox has an interesting opportunity going forward, that I expect they'll fumble. Interest in physical media has actually been on the upswing, and, with Sony announcing their plans to abandon physical media, it feels like MS has a chanc
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
Yeah, it definitely requires some luck or planning. I mostly meant that all simply to say, I think that, with Blu-ray physical media, the odds are pretty good you'll be able to watch it in the future, via some means. Right now, used PS
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
> What happens when those servers go offline? Funny enough, if you keep your PS4 on an old version and jailbreak it, you can just go in and activate the license yourself. No internet or servers required. Turns out, you can also pirate ga
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
For what it's worth, if it was a PS4, they only require internet access the first time a Blu-ray is played. And, I don't mean the first time a specific Blu-ray is played, but the first time any Blu-ray video is played. My guess is
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
The AI companies seem to take the viewpoint that everything on the internet is free, except their stuff. It's okay to hammer some random website with AI crawlers, ignoring robots.txt, and causing bandwidth costs to skyrocket. But if yo
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
Games at a certain point in their life are cheaper on console. At least, physically. I remember being shocked at this years ago, because I expected PC to be cheapest. But, a few years back, I went through and looked up a bunch of AAA games
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
Doesn't Steam do that too? For a long time, offline mode in Steam didn't work for many people, and, when it did, it wasn't reliable for being offline for long periods of time. Is that all sorted?
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by protimewaster 3mo ago
> It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company. Honestly, I'm fine with just placing extra requirements on very successful companies.
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
I don't understand why anyone who sees how the world works would expect us to end up with a utopia where people work less. The trend has almost always been to work the same, or more, hours as new technologies come out, and you'll
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
Isn't a solar panel going to be a poor heatsink, though? It's flat, and thus has relatively small surface area compared to its size.
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
You're ignoring the fact that timing has a lot to do with a short position. There was a long period where shorting Enron would've ruined you, and a short period when it'd make you rich.
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
Companies that are 80, 100, 200 years old or more have trouble with founders dying. One of the disadvantages of relying on the founder is that founders die. If I'm trying to keep a fund going for the next 100 years, investing in a comp
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
I don't even remember what it is I have learned about Creative Labs in the past, but I went into this pretty sure that Creative Labs was going to fuck it up somehow.
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
I'm expecting most everything to go this route eventually. Charging a subscription fee and having ads seems to be a money maker, so most services will get here eventually. This is also one of the reasons I don't like the direction
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
If someone comes in and points out a bunch of valid similarities, are you going to start being nice, or are you just going to call that person's ideas stupid too?
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
I can think of a couple of possible explanations. One is that they don't really want to sell a lifetime subscription, but it'll look bad if they discontinue the option. This way, they effectively don't sell them anymore, but
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
> Musk at one time said something like "I work 80+ hours a week, so the people around me should work that much too". They are completely blind to how sociopathic they are. It's a totally unhealthy amount to work for one, b
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
I'm starting to think that the most likely solution to this problem is that one or more generations leave things in such bad shape that everyone dies. Problem solved, no future generations to be worse off than prior ones!
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by protimewaster 4mo ago
I imagine it'll be a while before Amazon wants to build another phone, after what a spectacular failure the Fire Phone was. I'm guessing they'll try again at some point, though.

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