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by skohan 5y ago
Arguably Linux is a better UX than Windows, but I know it's a matter of opinion.
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by skohan 5y ago
What do you mean "move over my whole game library"? All you have to do is install steam and use it just like you would on Windows.
843.
by skohan 5y ago
So you cannot imagine a world, say 5-10 years from now, where 100% of games work on Linux, where PC game enthusiasts choose a cheaper and equally capable OS?
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by skohan 5y ago
Have you tried Proton? It works great, and Valve is bringing quality first-party hardware this time around by every indication. I don't think Linux will replace Windows for gaming any time soon, but Linux gaming has a very real value
845.
by skohan 5y ago
Most work quite well in my experience. I have run into small issues, like videos not playing, and sometimes games do not run at launch and take some time to patch, but all in all gaming on Linux has been a surprisingly good product experie
846.
by skohan 5y ago
Similar story for me. I installed Ubuntu a few years ago to try out proton, fully expecting to boot most of the time into Windows, and I could count on one hand the number of times I have used Windows in the past year.
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by skohan 5y ago
Is there a possibility it would be solved only on Steam Deck but not other hardware?
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by skohan 5y ago
Why not? Not that I think it's an unreasonable position, but there's generally going to be some payment processor who knows who your paying customers are, right?
849.
by skohan 5y ago
Come on, to assert that a "smart toaster" is not categorically different than a laptop or a smartphone is a bad faith argument. I think market forces don't work well in cases where you have a lot of vertical integration, and
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by skohan 5y ago
A toaster is clearly not a general purpose computer. Should a car manufacturer be able to dictate which destinations you're allowed to reach with it?
851.
by skohan 5y ago
Why not just have common sense property rights enforced by law?
852.
by skohan 5y ago
I can't speak to where it stands in the current legal framework, but personally I don't think the vendor of any product should have any rights to determine how it's used once the customer has paid for it.
853.
by skohan 5y ago
Yes exactly. It's not the bundling that's the problem, it's preventing free use of the hardware.
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by skohan 5y ago
The tinfoil hat interpretation would be that this is Unity's Embrace/Extend/Extinguish. First hire Mike Acton to build an ECS feature for Unity. patent it, and ensure that neither him nor anybody else can use this design pat
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by skohan 5y ago
Oh I totally agree. My only point would be, I think older people tend to over-estimate coef1 and under-estimate coef3. In other words, since aging has an effect on speed of skill acquisition, people over 30 might be more likely to blame t
856.
by skohan 5y ago
Not to bring politics into a HN discussion, but based on their recent outcome in Afghanistan, I'm not sure if the US military is an organization I would currently turn to for insight.
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by skohan 5y ago
I agree, for something like this to take off, you need someone to invest heavily up front in creating a user experience which is worth using - which means content. The tech is the easy part, you need to have a place that is worth going be
858.
by skohan 5y ago
I think there's obviously a confluence of nature and nurture which is going to lead to the final outcome in terms of skill attainment. I think the extent to which genetics varies probably varies a lot depending on the domain. For inst
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by skohan 5y ago
I don't know if it's general consensus in the states, but this is my mental model as well.
860.
by skohan 5y ago
I think the broader point is that this term is getting less and less relevant in general. It would be like if you defined any company that transported goods by rail a “train company”. It would have seemed relevant as a classification when
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by skohan 5y ago
You forgot to mention that TikTok enables the use of high quality copywrited music in their videos.
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by skohan 5y ago
The obvious answer is that most people just want to watch funny and entertaining videos, and don't care about some externalities which don't even seem real to them.
863.
by skohan 5y ago
That's a severely strained comparison. We have only seen elementary particles at CERN etc. because we designed those systems to create the extreme situations which we predicted should be able to make elementary particles measurable, b
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by skohan 5y ago
> It's because subjective experience (SE) cannot even be defined in physical terms. Or any terms, really. What makes you think that it's undefinable , rather than that we're just not capable of defining it? For instance,
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by skohan 5y ago
If it's not arising from neurons firing, what is it arising from?
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by skohan 5y ago
> it does not explain the qualia of consciousness, or why we are not p-zombies. This is a very hard problem to chip away at from a scientific perspective. Why do you think so? What makes you think subjective experience is not just anoth
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by skohan 5y ago
So you are correct that it can probably never be proven that empiricism is really enough to explain reality, but in my opinion it's a very good place to start. Science has a very successful track record of claiming explanations from
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by skohan 5y ago
I honestly don't understand the need some people seem to have to reach for an extra-physical domain for the mind to exist in. It seems to me quite obvious that the human nervous system is necessary and sufficient to create subjective
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by skohan 5y ago
ANN's aren't, but the human brain in vivo certainly is
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by skohan 5y ago
Maybe they could spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a ballot measure to overturn it. It seems they had some success in the past with this.

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