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As much as I don't like their style of only releasing their games for first-party hardware (and reselling them on every new generation) I have to admit that Nintendo makes some great games. Most of the Super Mario games, Smash, Mario Kart and others are fantastic. On top of that the Switch has seen a plethora of content including many smaller or indie studio games being available. From a purely pick-up-and-play perspective I can see why the Switch is popular.

Not good enough to make me buy their hardware (I very much like PC gaming and hardware that isn't locked down) but I definitely consider it.

Although now that the Steam Deck and it's competitors are out I wouldn't be surprised if that changes. There are still some benefits of the Switch but having fairly direct competitors will surely hurt. Even though I am not a mobile gamer I am really happy to see more competition in this market. (My partner is in the market. She liked her Switch a lot but when it was time to upgrade she decided to go for the Steam Deck and really loves it. Especially since she ended up buying many games on PC and Switch and was frustrated by lack of ability to sync saves and often lack of cross-play.)
wow, thank you for pointing me to IRODS, I was not aware of the project! Big difference I'm seeing as I read the docs for IRODs is a datacenter-grade data management _service_, whereas iroh is a multiplatform SDK for building your own applications.

Seems like one would want IRODs if they have massive amounts of highly sensitive data that needs fine grained access control. You would want iroh if you're building an app that uses direct connections between end-user devices to scale data sync
I used VimWiki for a couple of years and build up a sizeable set of notes with it. Although it seems to have most of the features you'd want, in the end it feels a little clunky to use in practice. A huge minus for me (at the time; perhaps this is fixed now) was the lack of ability to open multiple windows / notes simultaneously. I'm not aware of any other text editor which lacks that feature.

I since switched to Emacs + Org Roam, and I'm much happier. If there's something I don't like or a feature I feel is missing, I can either find a plugin for it or just change it myself.
I don't think it's in any way possible to please everyone, and even if you find the objectively-best solution, someone will hate it and be very vocal about it. Most of the folks will carry on and not say anything.
If a band of professional musicians can put out an album with original music and multi-track mixing for $10, a pre-written book with a single voice performer and minimal production crew shouldn't cost multiples of that.
You don’t have to set up alerts. They automatically notify you when subscriptions are going to be rebilled with the amount, at least for yearly ones.

I don’t think I have any monthly or weekly subscriptions so I can’t be sure about those. I would expect they’re the same though.
>not everything needs the window url to be updated.

The user needs it to be. It is the single most important handle of information for a layman. Of copying and pasting URL to someone else so that's kinda should be non negotiable for any pro user developer/engineer.

I find React to be too convoluted through its evolution multiple times over (plus the virtual DOM and horrendous ergonomics of hooks) but at the time, I'm pretty content with SvelteKit's way of doing things. Even in SPA mode, it keeps the whole thing in sync and the state management is awesome, comes built in, damn simple, just works.

But honestly, torn towards htmx but undecided.
The fact that some universities, such as Oxford, were founded in the Middle Ages does not mean that universities, today, as institutions, should be judged by the standards of the Middle Ages. Universities claim to be institutions of the Enlightenment (and Harvard was not founded in the Middle Ages anyway). They should be held to the standards they claim to be following.
https://xkcd.com/927/

From what I understand, there's no standard implementation of the standard. So each implementation is unique in some ways. Therefore a "unified" experience is impossible.
You're right. Instead of asking for art in the style of Van Gogh, I totally should have commissioned him to do it instead. I've replaced Van Gogh!
> the market for audiobooks is still very minuscule

> A song of Ice and Fire is $39 in Audible

Is this really surprising? Production costs for a single audiobook are _significantly_ less than something like a movie, but the audiobook is more than double the cost of seeing a movie?!? I straight up refuse to buy audiobooks based on the price alone. Ebook prices are bad enough, but audiobook prices are ludicrous.
The sentiment from most of the replies, that others have to learn the way you did and that there’s not an accelerated way to learn a topic through explicit practice is deeply exhausting.

Will people learn on their own? Yes. Is there a better or faster way possible? Hopefully.
I think it works great, though.
The comment actually demonstrate desirable difficulty, not the fact that you can't teach someone. The way they taught debugging is flawed.
In a related vane, has there ever been a map/routing app that included weather forecasts visually on the map? Like, a storm cloud on route ahead that is based on the forecast for that position at the estimated time you'll reach it.

I feel like routing apps have completely stagnated basically since the Waze acquisition by Google.
This doesn’t apply to the EU.
Bluetooth is technology for location, tracking, and fingerprinting. Started as a wireless audio input/output protocol but there are too many incentives for other "smart" applications. It's like asking why search from Google is bad or why social networking website from Facebook is bad.
The comments on Troy's website seems to agree with our general sentiment: "There is really nothing actionable with this notification. Would be nice to at least know which service(s) were associated with my email."
What is the difference between biochar and charcoal? It would be good to hear what is physically different, as well as what is different in the process
That’s functionally equivalent.
As a visitor to many Western Europe / rich Asia cities, this is a fair point.
Being in the business district / rich residential / fancy shopping districts, you'd be hard pressed in most of those cities to actually walk into a "bad part of town".

In NYC and a lot of US cities, things can vary from block to block. You could live in Manhattan in a $3M apartment and the nearest grocery is the same one that NYCHA residents use. I'm not saying being poor makes you do crime, but if you are someone who is in a gang and doing crime, you are more likely to live in NYCHA than in the $3M apartment.

It's pretty normal in neighborhoods like UWS, Chelsea, LES/East Village, North Brooklyn to have block to block variance like this.

My subway stop has had 2 drug/gang related murders in the last 2 years, and it's also the first stop into Brooklyn from Manhattan. You'd not expect that.

So yeah, I think we also hide the problem less in our cities than Europe.
Which you need a Mac to run
I'll do my best to answer, what i've learned about this.

> 1. Devices from the same manufacturer can't see each other

There are different versions of 'bluetooth' if the host cant negotiate with the client it doesn't know how to deal with it.

> 2. Bluetooth turns choppy for no reason.

From my limited experience, I have noticed that there are different audio profiles, one of them is high quality but when you add a microphone into the mix it downgrades significantly. The microphone AND the audio output are both downgraded in quality, I think because the device switches profiles.

> 3. I have never seen BT work at all on Windows, even in 2024. I cannot think of a single example where I managed to connect a BT device to a Windows computer.

Sorry, I run linux, I assume people do bluetooth on windows.

> 4. BT audio is sensitive to my body moving, for example bluetooth headphones
consistently drop audio when I walk at a specific pace.

You are walking at 2.4ghz, stop that. (Seriously, i have no idea what that is, that sounds awful and awesome).
To be fair, that’s a common enough problem in games it’s developed a name: ludonarrative dissonance
why, why, why did i chose IT as a job.

should have been a lawyer :>
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I barely noticed. I thought so little of it that, after reading your comment, I had to first go back to the article and verify that it even was the case.
I’ve experienced both learning to drive in the United Kingdom, and later, in the United States (you have to test again if you immigrate). In summarizing both experiences I’m trying hard to avoid being too biased.

In the UK, almost everyone learned (and learns) using a manual/stick shift vehicle, and if you learn and test in an automatic gearbox, your license is limited and you legally can’t drive manual. Hill starts and clutch control can be much fun! Lessons and the test involved difficult city situations ranging from extremely narrow streets, through 7-lane roundabouts, country roads both single-track and unrestricted (so 60mph speed limit, but not necessarily safe to drive that quickly - good judgement is required). You must pass a theory and hazard perception exercise, and the testing is government-administered.

In the US it seems almost everyone learns in an automatic vehicle, your license then lets you drive stick with no restriction. At least near cities, the roads you learn and test on are seemingly not 2” wider than your vehicle (measured at the mirrors), the situations are comparatively simple as well. There’s no hazard perception test. In my state, the test is administered by the instructor and not an impartial/neutral party.

I haven’t gone looking for large datasets to support this but it feels like the “I just passed my test” driver competence is going to be different.

I would be extremely happy to buy and trust a system like Ultra Cruise if it could navigate UK roads and city situations autonomously with less accidents/incidents than drivers at the 75th percentile in those environment, meaning with widespread adoption the system would raise the bar, and improve median safety properties of being a driver/participant on the roads. However, I would guess had they not cancelled it, being acceptably good for US driving conditions / better than the average US driver really just means you’ve built a system which can work in the US but absolutely won’t work in London, Paris, Berlin or anywhere else?
This strikes me as so odd. My CS degree had tons of practical classes but it was all application of things you learned because, being quasi vocational, the best way to learn to program is by doing so the learning to program portion of the degree were the assignments to the classes. We had loads; your standard welcome to Java course, the second level where we had some of the early Google Nexus phones and experimented with building little apps [0], then a whole class on development methodologies which had a lab/group project portion where we were adding to a little digital health document system that was actually passed from class to class taking the best version(s) from each semester and adding to it on the next, and at the end a Senior capstone project. Each semester generally had at least one largely practical class.

> It is as if you expected architects (the house-designing kind) to build houses, but never even give them any training in how to nail two planks together.

Well architects don't build houses, they design them. The learning of computer programming is best to learn by doing after an introduction to the basics of some language. I have a hard time believing programs just fail to mention the existence of debuggers over the entirety of their program. There's a lot of the programs that expect you to figure out the precise tools you want to use for yourself.

[0] The core assignment of this actually kind of failed because it was flawed from the beginning but it was still quite useful. We were supposed to build a lock screen that "locked" the phone when we went above a configurable speed. The main issue was the GPS data available to the apps in that early version of Android was very spotty.
It’s truly amazing what the team has done with ryujinx. It’s such a masterpiece of software and I‘m excited to see what’s coming
It's a strange thing to see ML now making computers work how non-programmers think they've always worked.
Affluent Chinese have been moving to Japan since the Covid lockdowns
You use the word documents on the site, but you don't make it clear that it is for making pdfs. I thought that this was just an html/css webpage editor.

"Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS"

really should be the H1 on that page for clarity.
Most of the time the joint that you describe works for me. Sometimes I use the side of my palm. It has worked for me on pretty much any keyboard so far, regardless of the height of the caps or the travel. On those with an fn-key I have had to remap the key somehow, sometimes in the BIOS sometimes using software. The exception is a smallish bluetooth keyboard I bought for a tablet. It's fn-key is hard to remap inside mobile OSes.
> Shopify

Is a flat fee structure?

Basic: $39/mo

Shopify: $105/mo

Advanced: $399/mo
In a comment on another Rust-related post, the author noted that, "rust definitely skews younger than average. i don't have statistics on hand, but almost all people i know working on the project are younger than 35, and a surprising number are 17-25."
I've messed with Rust a bit and I like it. I like the ideas and lack of compromise. But good ideas and a lack of compromises are what you get from youth, along with the arrogance of style choices that make things harder to understand. Will Rust stick around once these folks have bigger responsibilities?
What makes it “obvious”? They tried to kill Linux and Open Source. I will never forgive them, and I sure as hell would never trust them not to try again.
Most of my issues with self-checkout are with the anti-theft measures. What is especially galling is that I live in a state that charges for bags to encourage you to bring your own bags, so of course I bring my own bags. If you use your own bags, a /very/ common thing, it throws off the weight sensors and requires someone to clear every 3-5 items, and lags between every scan. When I was much younger I worked briefly as a check clerk at a grocery store, my typical shopping I could scan and finish in 1-2 minutes on a register lane, but because of the stupidity of self-checkout it takes me 10-15 minutes.

I get that "this is why we can't have nice things", that people will take a sticker off a can of beans and put it on a PS5 or other shenanigans to try to steal/shoplift/cheat. I'm not doing that, and it makes it a massively worse experience. The worst thing of all is companies have huge self-checkout areas and then don't open any registers (or maybe 1 to sell tobacco products). Which means I have no choice. I actually prefer delivery, because it's a flat $5 fee and I don't have to mess with any of this anti-consumer bullshit, but it also reduces profitability for me as a customer because I don't make incidental purchases by not being in the store at all.
I can’t plug the Steam Deck into my TV, pop in a cartridge, and start playing with four players on excellent controllers, all with almost zero screwing-about. And have that all keep working for years with no intervention on my part.

And my kids can operate a switch, easily.

(I do own both a steam deck and a switch—I can’t let my kids use the deck at all because of some of the games I have on it, with no ability to hide them, even if their account can’t play them; overall the Deck is more a toy for the at-least-slightly tech-“literate”, I’d say. I do like it, in fact, but it’s not a switch replacement, at all)
One factor is Bluetooth is on the 2.4GHz band, and WiFi on that band is many times more powerful - so Bluetooth packets can only get through in the gaps between Wifi transmissions. Many of the Bluetooth devices around use Nordic Semi nrf5x chips, and we know that with those chips if there's a single wifi transmitting at one end of the frequency band and all the BT-type devices up at the other end there's still significant interference effects. Also the short wavelength (~10cm) means the RF bounces and refracts all over the place, often resulting in small dead spots where devices fail to communicate (and the dead spots move about as the environment changes,e.g people moving around).

As a result, getting anything through relies on lots of error handling and quite a lot of software is not the highest quality, shall we say? It's also not helped by lying user interfaces telling you a device is connected when snooping packets manifestly shows its not (looking at you, Apple).

Bluetooth can be pretty reliable - in RF-quiet environments. Low data rate stuff with error handlng/repeat transmissions often works by getting through during periods when there happen to be few interfering signals. Trying to use BT for relatively high rate date (e.g. audio) with lots of nearby wifi's is always going to be hit and miss.
Last year I got a new prescription and the optometrist convinced me to switch to higher refractive index lenses, because they are thin, light, don't have a subtle yellow hue like CR-39, don't distort the facial features and so on. I agreed and couldn't wear them at all due to insane chromatic aberration. After a few complaints they relented and replaced the lenses with CR-39 and I have been happy ever since.
I was in this boat in October. The market was brutal back then. The contract market is pretty much dead now except for fintech. Sent out probably more than 100 applications, and didn’t hear back from almost every single one. One of the recruiters has said it’s picked up a little since then, so fingers crossed

I don’t see anything especially wrong with your CV. Maybe add a few sentences at the top about who you are, what you’re looking for etc.

How was Arts Alliance Media? I was going to go there as my first job after uni - but they pulled the offer literally one working day before I was meant to start
I played Satisfactory and Factorio. Plenty of fun to be had with trains in those games. Definitely scratched that itch, and I didn't need to buy a bunch of expensive physical pieces.
I believe the GP is referring to price look-up codes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_look-up_code). These are often applied via sticker to the produce, as shown in the Wiki images. Every self-checkout system I have used has allowed me to directly type in the PLU for produce, which is what a human cashier would normally do as well.

Additionally, my personal experience with things like this is that human cashiers aren't any better than me at looking up produce in the absence of a PLU code. In fact, I'm generally better because I know what I picked up (or intended to pick up), so I just look for the right name.
> So it's a bad ruling because previous administrations didn't try to enforce anti monopoly laws?

Alaska Airlines literally just bought Hawaiian. It hasn't even been two months.

Framing the block of an attempted merger between two airlines that combined are worth less than Alaska (which is itself far from an industry titan) as "anti-monopoly" is simply inane.
... times the amount of exercise.

Otherwise the amount would be arbitrarily close to zero.
For the folks who have been writing these inline HTML views and been wishing to have a more composable way of generating HTMX like in this blogpost try https://github.com/maxpert/htmxido
It can still work; just needs a better implementation.
There's also Org Roam which adds some useful ZK-like features to Org Mode.
The most bang-for-the-buck feature of PIDs I've seen yet is to smooth out game camera movement so that the camera feels less 'mechanical' (works both for the 3rd-person camera behind a character, or the overhead camera in a strategy game which needs to jump between positions).

Just implement the camera positioning and lookat-pointing in the dumbest way possible (including non-continuous, sudden jumps), plug a PID into the position and look-at point, tweak the parameters a bit and voilà, pure magic :)
>why not an AI assistant for the whole website
exactly, good point!! That's how I see it too. In a few years from now, website will be much more interactive compared to the mono-directional ones we see today...

>I'm surprised OpenAI has not made Custom GPTs easily embeddable into a creator's own website
Here, I see it a bit differently. I think they are the best at creating LLMs, so they should focus on that. And just that, at least for now. Why getting things complicated in creating widgets and everything around it? There are so many details they would need to deal with that would dangerously defocus from their core. Like customizations, abuse limits, integrations, history, etc... Of course easy to do, but imho too many different use cases to create something "for everyone". While a great LLM, that can be used by everyone
Yeah the weight check slows everything down enough that my girlfriend and I opt for the grocery store that doesn't do that over the one that does. It's obnoxious the way it works the way I can't just grab a bag without being yelled at or the way it gets mad if one of us leans on it etc.
Txtdot: An HTTP proxy that parses only text, links and pictures from pages
Yeah, I definitely like emulators because I don't have to have a library of consoles beneath the TV and some features such as rendering at higher resolutions and savestates + save management in general are great. But they aren't a seamless experience (especially for newer hardware) and I wouldn't expect the majority of people to prefer it compared to the original hardware.
Which mobile app do you use for todo.txt?
China's emissions are actually set to decrease this year (https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to...)

And China and India are less polluting per capita than the US. The U.S. has the thirteenth-highest per capita emissions at 13.68 tons, while Russia is 20th (11.64), Japan is 26th (8.39), China is 28th (8.20), and India is 110th with a mere 1.74 tons per capita.

"Crippling our economy" is a one-sided and negative way to view it. I question your objectivity.
Ask your employer to let you do it in work hours rather than burning employees out with overtime for essential maintenance tasks
It's not really "deplatforming" when you have the entire mass media establishment still talking about Trump daily. He can't say things to the world but the media sure keeps us up on what they thought he meant, and how bad he is, and how bad anyone is, who doesn't agree with them about how bad Trump is.
Microsoft stopped investing in it for a time and generally less focus on desktop technologies over the years. It’s still fairly popular in .NET shops as far as I can tell with spiritual successors like Avalonia
Contains sample code: https://www.nayuki.io/page/java-biginteger-was-made-for-rsa-...
The market has already degraded into oligopoly. Spirit and/or JetBlue folding will only make that worse.

This seems to be a common theme in politics. A bad decision was made by the previous generation. Now the current generation, seeing that the decision was bad, makes decisions that should have been made in the first place. The problem now is that the bad decisions have already been made, and what at one point would've been a good decision is now either exacerbating the problems caused by the bad decisions or is at best failing to remedy them.

It comes up a lot in healthcare and immigration for example. What constitutes good policy is highly conditional on the current state of the world.
i don't get it. what am i looking at?
As nice as that sounds, I don't think using expensive and high demand charging slots as dumb storage spaces makes much sense at the moment. At least until they're a lot more common.