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by sbarre 3y ago
> UE5 was previously provided for free in non-video game contexts, as they clearly were trying to expand their presence in say film production. Now they've succeeded, they are charging for it, what is so unfair about it? The problem
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by sbarre 3y ago
Fair enough, TIL. Do you have any details on the signature spec? Is this something anyone can generate or only Google?
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yeah this is all nice and good except that's not what the URL is... There's a bunch more after the q parameter: &sa=D&source=editors&ust=16965233434352076&usg=Ade5344w26X85-pHzoD-rVkkdfdfBQnJ7B That
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by sbarre 3y ago
How do I get in touch with you (re: niche agency)
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by sbarre 3y ago
I remember some popular sites would detect and swap out hotlinked images for, let's say, less-than-savoury images instead.
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by sbarre 3y ago
Everyone seems really focused on JR (the CEO) but I haven't heard much talk about Tomer Bar-Zeev who came to Unity via the ironSource merger (he was a founder), and is "President, Grow" of Unity, and also on the board. I susp
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yeah if you look at the Unity leadership and board, you can see clearly who is in charge and what their values are. If that doesn't change, then talk is cheap. Unity has entered the enshittification (or more generously "value ext
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by sbarre 3y ago
I have heard so many stories - all anecdotal of course but it's been a pattern over the last 20 years - of people crossing the US/Can border on buses specifically being abnormally questioned, searched or detained. I wonder if t
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by sbarre 3y ago
Most thieves are smash-and-grab, and not smart or motivated enough to go seek out your NAS to take with them. Danny Ocean is not breaking into your house. Besides, if the thieves were savvy enough to find and take your surveillance gear wi
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by sbarre 3y ago
At least as far back as 2018 there's also a distinction between using the font when designing website assets that will be graphics like JPEGs or PNGs, vs embedding the font files themselves to use for the text elements of the website.
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by sbarre 3y ago
At, and beyond, a certain size, a lot of companies (but not all of course) end up full of self-serving "yes people".. Business- and money-focused people who joined the company after it took off with success, intent on "hitc
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yes I agree with that, I think the over-reliance of tracking and ads has put us in a bad place, and has reduced the incentive and space to innovate. If all the time and money spent on figuring out tracking and ads had been put into micro-pa
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by sbarre 3y ago
I also have a micro 4/3 camera with an adapter and a bunch of vintage (70s) Pentax lenses from the Super Takumar range (M42 screw mount). You can get them off eBay for under 100$ each in almost-new condition, and they're super fun
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yeah sorry I just don't agree with that reasoning. Even if cost per user hasn't gone up (which I would actually bet it has, if we had a way to measure it), the total cost has gone up, and for a distributed non-commercial Internet
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by sbarre 3y ago
Lol sure I want a 90% worse experience on an Android tablet just for that? This is like me complaining about gas mileage on a 1000km car trip and someone saying "you could always walk there!"... Yes I could but it's such a
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by sbarre 3y ago
Not if you're on a device or a tablet, sadly.
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yeah but scale matters. The number of people who are on the Internet now, and therefore the cost to serve them (at least for major or popular platforms) is much higher than it was back in the early days of the web. I too long for those day
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by sbarre 3y ago
I am in a similar boat, I pay for Premium and I don't want to see Shorts anywhere in my feed, but I can't not have them.. I can snooze them for 30 days or something (I mostly use an iPad) but that's not what I want. As a
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by sbarre 3y ago
> We haven't all been there. This is not a common use case at all. I'll speak anecdotally for myself here: I have seen - and experienced - this enough times in my almost 30 years, and I have heard from plenty of colleagues who
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by sbarre 3y ago
I never claimed what you are asking me to refute. As I did say, it has been getting worse and more concentrated in the last few decades. And I guess combined with the loss of commercial viability of local news due to the Internet, a point
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by sbarre 3y ago
It's easy to sit on this kind of high horse when you yourself are not a target of fascist aggression. I don't want to make assumptions here, maybe you are in fact part of a group that is actively targeted by violent fascists (and
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by sbarre 3y ago
I suspect you are relatively young? Because this concentration of ownership of news and journalism into fewer and fewer hands is a new-ish thing, at least in the last few decades. So on the timeline of journalism, it is not rare for this
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by sbarre 3y ago
I think the answer is as always nuanced. There are good/proactive/available and bad/lazy/overworked doctors, just like there are smart and less smart lay people.. Some people do good research, some people do bad resear
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by sbarre 3y ago
I think you give doctors too much credit here. I will say that from direct family and friends experience, a lot of family doctors are not aware of everything that's out there, particularly older doctors who may not be keeping up with n
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by sbarre 3y ago
Speaking truth to power has always been a cornerstone of journalism, so I don't know that I would attribute this to growth hacking (although this is HN so I guess the startup distortion lens is always on). They are writing and publishi
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by sbarre 3y ago
If they were smart they would just lean into this and add support for easily looping shorter tracks into some kind of "atmospheric listening" product. Surely that would bring down their bandwidth costs at the very least. There are
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by sbarre 3y ago
For your grandparents ?
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by sbarre 3y ago
Yeah but sadly with video games things tend to get a bit touchier, particularly when assets start getting extracted, converted and re-purposed. Hopefully that's not the case here!
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by sbarre 3y ago
Ah, there were no buttons for me anywhere on screen, so maybe it didn't fully load. Thanks!
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by sbarre 3y ago
It's called "virtual test drive" but is it really just a turntable of a car? I tried a bunch of keyboard commands and nothing happened. Can I test drive the car?

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