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Even some first party Nintendo games can't be relied on to run at a stable framerate so I'm going to have to disagree with you there. Link's Awakening has some nasty and inconsistent stutter issues, Breath of the Wild runs better than on the Wii U but it still has its moments.

Then you have games like Hyrule Warriors where it just feels actively bad.

Lots of Switch Games actually run a lot better under even a very mild overclock (Nintendo even officially lets the CPU get OC'd during loading screens for limited periods of time, to great effect).

This is beating the Switch on most aspects outside of first-party Nintendo library.
Even most US dentists are reluctant to use it in my experience. Ours has it in the back corner, though. My wife likes to get a whiff before the numbing injections so that the injections don’t hurt so much. It helps with the anxiety, as you say. I don’t think it is as effective at blocking procedure pain as the more modern anesthetics.
Well, wouldn't it be a killer move to announce HL3 on steam, with heavy com on the mobile gameplay?
And then that design philosophy ended up at NVIDIA. (in the Tegra processor family, with the Denver, Denver 2 and Carmel CPU cores)

I wonder what will happen next... they didn't release a new CPU core since 2018 now. (and they are on the gen using stock Arm cores in the cycle, so Tegra Orin gets Cortex-A78AE)
> The divide is on topics like anti-vax, nonexistent election fraud, et cetera. IE, actual lies.

It's funny that the party of "my body my choice" is so against people wanting a say over what goes into their bodies. I am personally vaccinated, but I think it's reasonable to let individuals make that choice.

Also regarding election fraud, when on election night you see charts like [1] with enormous one party spikes, it is entirely natural for people to be suspicious. Those people then asked for audits and were told to go to hell. If you want to undermine trust in the election system, that is exactly how to accomplish it.

None of this is "you aren't allowed to lie" it's "You aren't allowed to ask questions"

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/jo.nova/politics/us/2020/michigan-w...
Rather than a laptop, it would make a handy remote control for eg. a robot, with visualization integrated.
They’re planning on dumping the first few super heavy boosters in the ocean. This is in the authorizations from the FAA.
It's rainfall at high speed. The wind blows downward at 80MPH or more, then when it hits the ground is spreads rapidly in all directions. They're very destructive and being in one feels a lot like a hurricane.
“Installing Linux is hard” is about to flip on its head as people find themselves with Linux installed by default and instead having to figure out how to install Windows (and pay for it explicitly).
Maybe a mod can correct the title to "Steam Deck". This post made me think Valve had introduced a second product, Steam Desk, in addition to Steam Deck.
Sadly, I'm not convinced that strategy has any long term effect.

I'm still bitter about how bad & expensive Internet access is in the Silicon Valley
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> Apples to oranges

Apple to Valve?
This is great! I don't know how much of it is open in the -all specs open- sense, but being able to install usual OSes on it, paired with the really nice price, makes the platform interesting for a lot more uses other than gaming.
In fact, I don't see it as a simple gaming platform but also a portable terminal with lots of buttons.
Hopefully more competition in this field will also help bring down prices of other interesting gear such as the GPD handhelds and mini-PCs, the One Xplayer etc.
It's based on Arch? That really is exciting. I never expected something like this.
My old accountant maintained that $1+$1=$2, which was very harmful to my finances. I fired them immediately for such unhelpful stereotypes.

My new accountant agrees that $1+$1=$3, creating a much less hostile work environment. S/He even practises intersectionality wrt profit vs debt - me and my employees have never been happier!
hello fellow Arch user. I too approve of this message and sudo pacman -Syu without fear.
The US would definitely lose against China if a war was fought today.
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It's better shown than told. Just see this: 7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOuZyOKa91o
Impressions:

* 1.47 pounds is 666g, versus the Switch’s 398g (with Joy-Con attatched). 67% heavier.

* I do like that the two people I can see on the landing page both appear to be female, and not overtly "models" at that. I don’t want to read into whether this implies anything about what the marketing for this system might be — rather, I just like that we’re seeing a further erosion of the video-games-as-boys-club trope.

* The visual appearance of this console is brazenly ugly. It sure feels like they were unwilling to compromise something for the sake of appearance, though I’m not sure what that something is.

* They claim that there’s no performance difference between tiers, but obviously disk speed has an impact on how games perform whenever they need to fetch data. This feels like a bit of skating by on ambiguity rather than being fully forthright about tradeoffs — which only hurts since the price jump from the entry level to the middle tier is so dramatic, and we don’t yet know pricing for the dock.

* Countdown until this thing is EOL? Any bet on what the firesale will look like? No, I’m not assuming it’ll flop necessarily, we just all know Valve’s track record for being fickle about hardware.

* This really goes to show how much prowess Nintendo has at hardware, and how hard mass-market product design is. According to my napkin math, Nintendo and Valve are both in the same ballpark in terms of financial status / resources. Though if the Xbox and Surface has shown us anything, if you keep trying and trying in earnest, you’ll eventually get there.
Yes. I think they agreed to these repair conditions as part of the contracts to make the things. Right to repair would protect consumers who don't have any special contract and didn't really think about negotiating that.
I dont think so. Users already don't want to be tracked. Companies don't care. Nothing will change.
The device has a USB-C port so I think it will probably work. People have been successful connecting up their eGPUs to the GPD Win 3 (which is a similar device)
Java was an answer to C++, not to Smalltalk, which had already been dead for a while by the time Java started taking off.
This is interesting.

But I think you'd violate Disney's copyright by uploading their pictures to the website.

To make it work, Disney would have to upload the pictures themselves and agree to the TOS.
Here's his model: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14UkIkzBCfcQzYZagC5qo...

It looks like the 7% and 13.6% figures the article quotes are the initial revenue decreases for a single quarter, which the model assumes would recover thereafter. In general, the model is based on some very, um, stylized assumptions. I'm really skeptical that a 12.5% increase in the number of users who block tracking (from 80% to 90%) would result in a 60% increase in the impact of that blocking on revenue.

That said, I don't think the numbers are drastically out of line. Apparently >60% of Facebook's revenue is from iOS, so it wouldn't take that large of a decrease in efficiency for the revenue hit to end up in the 10% ballpark. The main question to me is the extent to which the loss is borne by Facebook or by advertisers. It's possible that advertisers are effectively price-takers and will keep paying basically the same amount despite a decrease in efficiency.
I wasn't meaning that it was the number alone that set the direction. Yes, they did not want to deal with bad PR of telling everyone that your very expensive device that you've had for no more than 2 years is now antiquated requiring the purchase of a new device. Could you possibly imagine the mass public spending $1000+ dollars each year on a brand new device? The PR hit from the masses must be extremely negative that no industry would ever do that, right? Some device that is nothing but entertainment? Each year? Replacing a fully functional device annually? No, surely the masses would never accept that.
Do you remember when that happened? I vaguely remember that I used to experience problems installing packages in Aptitude and it would make me "fix" them without a way forward that I liked, but that was years ago.
This doesn't agree with the FBI stats, and I'd prefer if you don't contaminate my arguments with 2nd Amendment nonsense. According to the FBI, gang kills are also a tiny cause of homicides. Killings of people by their own spouses are more common.
Actually - I was working internationally. What these kids didn't realize is that where I was - I really was in charge from the locals point of view. Local law enforcement was sometimes a wack and a "spot fine" or pre-trial / charge detention (formal judicial cases took forever/unreliable so this method of on the spot justice/corruption was tolerated).

None of my kids had this happen, but overseas the tolerance for foreigner bad behavior can be low in some cases if there is a perception of disrespect. Some of the rich kids in another group stole some liquor "as a joke". Hahaha. They were jailed and the locals squeezed cash out of parents before parents had to charter a flight to get them out (program required parents to pay repatriation expenses in these cases).

Only real downer culturally at times was treatment of women - the US kids are used to bikinis and the girls are used to agency / freedom as it should be. Locally dress / behavior etc can send a message that generates a metric ton of harassment - and it can be no holds barred even under age. Only thing I really disliked I think and female counselors doubly so - locals would sometimes not respect even the female counselor push back but need the guy to intervene. For trips that were in part about independence building a bummer. My sense over some time though was that this was changing though so by now I suspect probably much much better.

We did have all the paperwork in place of course. But what really works is actually peer pressure. I mean -> it's insane how powerful that is. Kids that age will do almost anything if it's the thing to do based on peer behavior. So you want to get the dynamic going and you are home free if you can.
And? The goal of education should not be to force people to conform. Necessary but not sufficient, is a well known phrase that applies to the situation.
I don’t get this, if you’re using it for gaming then storage isn’t a huge deal. Even on a dedicated gaming PC, most people don’t have their entire Steam library installed at once.

Not only is it just too much space, but it’d be wasted since there’s no way you’re going to play all of those games.

The 64gb version of this definitely is too small though. That’s less than the average AAA game. And while there are certainly people out there who don’t play AAA games, I don’t think the average Joe will do the math ahead of time when buying one of these, and will be very disappointed/angry when they find they can’t play the game they want (without using external storage/a dock).

But, if this thing does have an SD card slot (idk, I haven’t checked), it should solve the problem. SD cards aren’t super fast, but the Nintendo switch is proof that they’re at least good enough for gaming.
Given all that, it's understandable that it's not released and completely reasonable - a support structure is needed if the code should be released.
Don't release your pets. Ever. Most likely, they will die horribly. If they survive and find others to reproduce with, then you've got a breeding population which is not endemic to the area and has high potential to cause damage to the ecosystem.
I'm going to buy this just to support Valve for their continued support in making Linux desktop a viable gaming platform. Their reasons may not be entirely altruistic, but there's no doubt that they had a tremendous impact on the Linux gaming ecosystem.

And it's not just the Linux gamers that are benefiting from their work. They also seem to be doing good work on lower-level parts of the stack (e.g.: graphic drivers, Flatpak, etc) that are improving the Linux desktop in general.
You mean the recent very secure elections where 120 000 test votes snuck in?

The very secure elections that are so secure in some counties that nobody is allowed to verify?

I don't think there was substantial election fraud but I must say America keeps trying to convince me otherwise.

Couple this with media who is unable or unwilling to tell us what is done to prevent fraud (the only thing I have actually learned was from someone here on HN who served at a voting center and had a very
good explanation).

For the record: I don't think there was election fraud but I do think that if major media and tech companies had pushed Trump the way they pushed Biden there had been well deserved outcry.

Personally I like Biden more than Trump but that doesn't mean the election wasn't ugly.
Not a William Gibson fan I take it - I heartily recommend you read Neuromancer if you enjoyed the Matrix / any cyberpunk at all.
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Yeah, I don't think bettering their products includes verbatim incorporation of code into those products.

Also, for the part about small snippets being non copyrightable. I would suggest looking at the Google/Oracle case. Google was found guilty of infringement for a very small number of lines, but the award to Oracle was IIRC rather a joke (something like one dollar, indicating it was infringing but largely irrelevant).
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/china-pape...
Using Arch probably allows for faster updates, since Steam won't have to wait for ages to use some of the newest Linux kernels.
Same goes for other supporting software.

Ubuntu is good as a stable platform, but it's probably too slow moving.
What exactly is the evil that Facebook is supposedly trying to not see? And how would making reach data available make it easier for Facebook to see evil?

Or if Facebook is trying to hide the evil, what evil is it they are trying to hide? What will the reach data reveal that is so evil? And if the evil is manifest without reach data, why does it matter?
The video looked like it was running KDE.
It really is a great controller. The omission of the d-pad was a mistake, but the real reason it failed was because people already had a preference for the X-Box controller. Most games worked with the X-Box controller with no extra configuration.

This is why I think the Deck has done it right: include all the standard buttons plus the extra stuff.
> Wait, what? So many articles and journals I read on the topic just talk about prime fields, modular reduction and blah blah blah like it’s asking someone to buy milk and eggs at the grocery store.

No kidding, it's so frustrating! I have to read some articles/ papers like 20x and open a bunch of wikipedia tabs to understand wtf they're talking about. If they gave a simple, high level explanation it would save tons of time - while a wikipedia article is going to be very in depth, it's not tailored to the context of what I'm reading, so I often have to look at a whole bunch of things to start to build a good model in my head for wtf they're trying to convey.

This post, on the other hand, is perfect for me. Thank you so much for writing it I'm learning a ton.
I think the bigger question is whether GitHub will be able to honor DMCA requests that pertain to copyrighted materials showing up in Copilot's suggestions.
> When trained on many sources, it becomes much harder to claim that its a derivative of another work.

Sounds good in theory, until it starts producing snippets verbatim from uniquely-identifiable sources.
The legal market isn't cheap because there are "sin taxes" on cannabis that make it expensive.

Often the high taxes are supposed to be a disincentive for consumption or overconsumption. Cigarettes are too expensive for teenagers, etc.

See also bootleggers, cigarettes trucked from low-tax states (Eric Garner), etc.
> those who are often don't think it's fixable

Yeah I pretty much agree with you and I fall into this category myself. It's obvious we need a movement like that, but society (as it exists right now) won't even acknowledge the need, let alone would actually tolerate the existence of such a movement. Maybe my grandchildren will be able to live in a world that's kinder to men.
There are different schools of constructivism. But if you insist on only dealing with mathematical objects that admit of finite descriptions with finite symbols, there is a surjection from a countable set onto the entire universe of possible mathematical objects.

That said, an enumeration of all mathematical objects is not possible. That's because we may not be able to resolve the question of whether 2 descriptions of a mathematical object actually refer to the same object or not.
In time of full scale war (or potentially whenever they want) the gov't can do whatever they want including changing the deal. This of course doesn't obviate your claims, because in case of all out war all the broken equipment contractors have been milking might cause huge problems. Also, it might be nuclear already, so who knows if anyone will be there to fix it, or even pull the trigger.

Regardless, this looks to me like a function of the huge $$$ that is referred to as the "Military Industrial Congressional Complex[0]", in which the mostly protected cost center of "defense" and of course those thousands of global US mil installations essentially milk these degenerate spasms of cash all over each others faces in the name of patriotism, service, the public, and whatever else.

Also refer to "War is a Racket" (1935)[1] by medals of honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_co...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket and https://feralhouse.com/war-is-a-racket/
In a war between nuclear powers, I expect both sides to lose.
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I think both that the US is vulnerable for these reasons, but systemic issues like this are worse in China, and Russia is not a substantial threat outside of nuclear engagement. I think the US military is actually much better than China at maintaining decently competent people in positions of power. You'd be much more critical of China if you were able to witness their actually attempting a military objective.
When people say “hoarding cash” we mean something a little more nuanced than literally stuffing it into a vault: just because the wealthy are investing, doesn’t mean it’s beneficial. The desperate search for any returns means tons of cash is getting plowed into things like real estate in expensive cities (which prices out more people) and startups like Wash.io that crash and burn because they have no market but in the process take down tons of small businesses with them which cannot bounce back because of the hysteresis involved. A lot of the “investing” done by the wealthy is at best useless if not actually a net negative to society, and a lot of that money would have more social benefit if it was middle- or working-class people spending on goods and services instead.
Two adults are ok with one bedroom. I lived as a kid in a one bedroom very tiny house with my parents and we had two beds in the bedroom. No life for them but they made it happen. No living room, the dining table was one chair away from the countertop, and at the other end of the table was the tv (21 in CRT that took half the space of the table).
At one point we also added a computer desk lol!

You can make it happen. I was a happy kid. Luckily we figured something out by the time I was 12 because it would’ve been too weird.

Americans are used to luxury poverty. Where being poor still means having a car and a smartphone and consider two bedroom apartments a minimum.

If you’re too poor to afford more room then maybe don’t have a kid. We need to stop ignoring this and start educating people instead of just feeling bad for them when they have 3 kids and a minimum wage job.

Now, I’m not saying “don’t help them, this is fine”, I want everyone to live comfortably and have a fair wage. But I can’t agree with “it’s impossible”. Really it’s not that bad, but consumerism in the US makes everyone feel bad if they can’t buy unnecessary shit on amazon every month
Behavior of a program after data (as in value) races can be defined and constrained.

If you have wild pointer writes (aka arbitrary memory corruption) and almost any non-trivial control flow, the results are pretty much undefined. As in, it is pretty much impossible to specify or reason about what a program will do.

The article:

> ... such races can in turn lead to arbitrary memory corruption.

Tearing writes themselves are not undefined behavior, but use them wrong and you're off into undefined territory, with no way back.

> Undefined behavior is .. because of the optimizations.

Optimizations are popular, but it doesn't matter why the behavior is undefined.
Exactly this.

Again, I don't believe there was widespread fraud but people who refuse to discuss what happened and refuse inspections sure aren't helping us becomong more confident.
> The problem is that the sides don't even agree on the same facts anymore.

That's certainly going to be the case at times, but that's also no reason to give up. Where substantial outcomes rely on facts, good institutions build ways of addressing contention about the facts themselves into to the order they impose on discourse. It can't guarantee a correct outcome -- as you say, sometimes you have to wiggle around the truth for a while first -- but it's better than the nihilism of failing to engage the problem altogether.

> some think there was election fraud, and some don't.

The institutions where questions of election fraud were mediated were accessible to both sides in equal measure -- arguably biased toward the side that lost, given how the privilege of selecting judicial appointments has shaken out over the last two decades and who held the resources/power available to federal and various state executive authorities last fall. And they seem to have determined that evidence of systemic outcome-changing fraud was thin indeed.

I suppose it's possible to imagine a different outcome from a similarly robust process over time, but if there are "other auditors that show very convincing evidence" of outcome-changing fraud, it would be interesting hear what that specifically is, and why that evidence didn't make its way into the venues that actually mattered in a moment when the outgoing administration had considerable advantages.
> We partnered with AMD to create Steam Deck's custom APU, optimized for handheld gaming.

From the hardware section on the website.
SD cards are slow. This is important for large size games that need to load large assets. Loading times will be long.
Micro SD cards are up to about ~290 MB/s for read times these days, IIRC. That's the same as low-end SSDs.