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by wayfinder 3y ago
No, the problem is no one is willing to pay for any of these services. How many people are paying for their news? For something like YouTube? That stuff costs mega $$$ Back in the day, you were forced to pay for things. You wanted news? You
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by wayfinder 3y ago
The article says Apple won though?
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by wayfinder 3y ago
It probably has nothing to do with getting the car back. It’s probably to avoid lending the car to higher risk demographics. It’s a test. The rental car company basically loses fewer cars overall and thus has lower insurance premiums, and t
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Credit reporting makes getting loans easier because lenders are more willing to give loans when they can look up your credit rating instead playing it safe and declining you because they have nothing to judge the risk with. You also get fra
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by wayfinder 3y ago
They did not invent credit cards. Diners Club was a charge card. They did not invent that either. American Airlines had their own charge card a few decades before. They did start the first payment card that wasn’t linked to a specific compa
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by wayfinder 3y ago
But imagine a world where everyone had 2Gbps Internet but your site could only push 0.2Gbps per user. Then soon your site will be the slowest one around and you’d want to catch up.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Personally I think the innovation required to refine something pales in comparison to first inventing something new. It’s just so less risky and so less expensive. You start with something that already know works and that’s huge. If you’ve
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by wayfinder 3y ago
There will always be investment. But it’s not black and white. Some people will do things for $10, others $20, others $50. We all have a different price. With patents, it’s basically offering $50 so you get the most people doing it as poss
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Log + LUT as a final product would look the same but take up more file size. Right now we can transmit levels of black with a regular 8-bit PNG file. The issue is that you can’t display it unless you are using an OLED screen, which your pho
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Well I could reasonably bike up one specific very steep hill near my place without downshifting much until I got covid. Then it took me more then half a year to get back to that point. It was a very slow recovery but most importantly, it co
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Storing data on a logarithmic scale requires a higher bitrate otherwise it will actually look worse. So for a finished product, the way it is now is better. Plus storing extra data in the dark areas for display is pointless. You only do it
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Not OP but what you’re saying is absolutely true. But first someone has to invent it. Nobody’s gonna spend a few thousand or million dollars to invent something unless they get their money and more back, so that’s the point of patents. And
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Once you meet enough people you realize DUI has nothing to do with driving ability. One of the most to-the-book buddies I know is also the worst driver I know. He once had a gnarly accident where he flipped his car a few times because he ha
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by wayfinder 3y ago
It isn’t when high quality sites don’t really exist. The high quality sites ARE reddit and the like. No normal person is going to spend the time to make and maintain a blog, especially if it doesn’t make them any money unless they spam it w
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by wayfinder 3y ago
But that’s the point. You get a bunch of competing opinions in one spot and writing a reddit comment doesn’t require maintaining a blog so you get a greater diversity of opinions.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I rarely see a good independent blog. Honestly the barrier to entry for a blog is very low and the benefit isn’t very high unless you spam it with ads, so who is exactly taking the time to make a blog?
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by wayfinder 3y ago
That’s because for everyone who needs a beefier CPU, the Raspberry Pi 4 hasn’t even been on the table.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
People add reddit to searches because it gives high quality answers. That’s not a Google problem. That’s a problem with the Internet. Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that o
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Umm what? I hear “50% more time” all the time. 50% to 200% is 0.5x slower to 2x slower. People seem to be confusing “% slower/more time” vs “% of current time”
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Yeah that’s nothing. My busy discussion forum built in PHP running on a toaster of a server was handling way more load than that 15 years ago.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Wouldn’t be surprised. Truthfully I’m most worried about the thumbs. I feel like they can ache if I’ve been doomscrolling for hours
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Maybe I’m a leet kid but I type 65 WPM on my phone so I find actual typing on my phone on par with typing on desktop, except if special punctuation is involved. …but the whole mobile experience is still terrible with a lot of scrolling, pan
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I wouldn't say airline regulation was a great exercise about command economies planning and allocating resources. The whole point of regulation was to keep prices up so the airlines wouldn't implode like rail did. It was not mea
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Pretty sure this is by design, not by a side effect. National ID systems are not super popular. Inefficiency is strangely sometimes the only reliable way to prevent consolidation of power.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Truthfully, as someone who has done a lot small scale growing between over the last few years, using everything from soil to hydroponics, I find it hard to believe that natural techniques will ever come close to mechanization and artificial
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Well most games usually get built once on one version so it doesn’t matter if the engine changes.
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by wayfinder 3y ago
I have an M1 but I first remember thinking it was very impressive that my Mac could run these AI models… …until I tried the same on my RTX 4070 and it made my Mac look like a joke. For the 30 seconds my Mac would have taken for 1 result, wh
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Definitely referring to anonymous unions too. Without them, there’s still friction sometimes which makes union types unnatural. I haven’t written Java in a while and I can’t remember if you could sometimes fake a type union using a generic
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by wayfinder 3y ago
Well when Sun imploded and Oracle stepped in, Java stopped getting regular releases for 10 years. Java versions literally came out every 2 years before Oracle happened. So that’s why they’re 10 years behind. But now they come out like 2+ t
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by wayfinder 3y ago
This problem is partly a type system limitation however. In a more flexible type system with union types and other magical features, your example problem would be less of an issue. However Java has an extremely limited type system so there

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