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by technobabbler 5y ago
Well, that doesn't help when you're trying to skim the front page headlines though. There are so many in a day that I don't have time to click into each one. Many of them have very low information density, especially when the
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Glad you're interested! That genre (narrative nonfiction with a focus on natural science) is an exploding genre, and there are a ton more books that recently came out on everything from otters to octopuses. Those are just the most famo
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Yeah, it does take some getting used to. It's nice having a real shell though, and not have to worry about Windows Subsystem for Linux to get work done. As someone who grew up with MS-DOS, Windows used to be really good until Microsoft
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Cool, thanks for the tip! I've been having nonstop issues with my Google Router and ISP modem, will have to try that instead.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Roger that, will have to check it out!
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Great point. Meanwhile Steam and the other platforms spent years and years making great tooling and ecosystems to court developers. Stadia just feels like an executive's half assed demo...
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Not Stadia maybe but GeForce Now gets you a 3080 and 120Hz (not necessarily fps) at 4k. But sorry, it's apparently $200 a year now, not $100. My bad.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
What is a UDM? And I believe you. I wish I knew what the variables were. I really wanted to like Remote Play and even got special hardware for it (Steam Link, Shield TV, etc.) and still couldn't get it to be reliable.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
An observation: Given the choice between two leaders, one who calls people evil and selfish, and another who (however cynically) defends their behavior and shares in their denialism, the latter is going to have way more followers. It's
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by technobabbler 5y ago
I don't think Google really has a game plan (no pun intended). They never gave Stadia the dev and marketing resources it needed so it just died on the vine. Their "pivot" is more like a surrender, I think, an act of desperati
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Every time I've tried Steam Play, even over hardwired gigabit, it's been laggy, buggy, and crash prone. There was always display switching problems, controllers and keyboards not being detected correctly, graphical issues, etc. Ju
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by technobabbler 5y ago
$100 or so a year for a game steaming service is a heck lot cheaper than a gaming PC and a graphics card update every few years. And you can play anywhere, on any device, where you have a fast connection. It was a godsend for me before I co
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Google never really tried with stadia. It's just another dead Google product, now changing into some sort of B2B thing. Shrug. Meanwhile Nvidia kept improving geforce now and it's actually really good now, running on everything fr
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Yeah, this. Macos is my daily driver and it does a good job of staying out of my way. I recently got a windows pc just for gaming, and god DAMN it's annoying. Even worse than Vista. Nothing is consistent anymore and everything is alway
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by technobabbler 5y ago
FYI there is also an illustrated edition, with cool pictures illustrating cool tree things: https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-hidden-life-of-trees... ! If you like scientific nonfiction in this vein, I'd also
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Thank you for the explanation. Submissions like this are when I wish HN didn't have the "original title" policy. It doesn't give you any context about a link and why someone should care about it.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Is it really the media's fault when they've reported at length about Snowden and Assange and Manning and in the end... nobody cared? Investigative journalism was THRIVING in the last few years. Trump, Kavanaugh, Epstein... can&#x2
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by technobabbler 5y ago
I don't think it's that black and white? Google Docs, for example, lets you individually review and accept/deny/revise each individual suggested change. It's not a 3-way merge like programmers are used to seeing, bu
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Make a web series out of it and livestream it? Have your viewers vote on what kind of donuts to send? Silly, but probably a better choice than becoming the next Ted Kaczynski.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
> If the government going to use tax dollars to collect all my data. They might as well turn it into a searchable service: "I know I email bob 20 years ago, I wish I could find that recipe I gave him". Maybe, they could email m
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Wikipedia, Google Docs, Microsoft Word... they're far simpler systems, but still useful for everyday edits
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Cloudflare charges by the minutes delivered though, so if one of your videos unexpectedly gets popular, your monthly bill might spike up. That's a scary level of unpredictability when you're a small team (or lone wolf) that doesn&
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Graft is just one problem out of many though. Lack of public investment in public institutions, I'd argue, is another, bigger problem. I'd like to see graft tackled by more competitive elections (multi-party, ranked-choice, easier
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Healthcare? Renewables? Carbon sequestration? Cybersec? Underground power lines? Housing? Repairing existing roads & bridges? Education? There is so much we could & should build, but we don't...
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by technobabbler 5y ago
That's awesome, thank you. I did not realize hosting prices were so cheap now... good to know for the future.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Yeah, I apologize if I was unclear. Didn't mean to imply that Gmail was unlimited, only that it was in a similar situation (i.e. offering way more disk than most users needed, with the bet that 99% of them won't use anywhere near
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Where can you get a gigabit host that serves many TB a month for $100? Not being sarcastic, genuinely interested in such a service.
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Yeah... back in the day, someone made a virtual file system layer that could span 1 or more Gmail accounts, basically using it as a block storage thing. IIRC (it's been a while) there was also some built-in redundancy, like the same fi
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by technobabbler 5y ago
But should it be her job as a content producer to understand Vimeo's costs and margins? Vimeo is one of those who liked to advertise seemingly unmetered bandwidth behind an fine-print fair-use policy, luring people into a cheap pro pla
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by technobabbler 5y ago
Maybe it doesn't have to be as binary as more vs fewer police? I wish the call wasn't "defund the police" but "create institutional alternatives to militarized policing". That same heavily-armed force you use t

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