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Creative energy is fairly zero sum though. You can't spend 100% of your day producing creative works. It's taxing, it takes time, it takes failures. Abstractions are one way engineers take away the requirement for creative energy and build on top of it. We don't start our jobs inventing an operating system for our new job so we can start to write some programs with it, we just use linux/macos/windows, and move on. You don't need to be creative with the video driver on your laptop while you build some business crud app, and you don't need to be creative with your infrastructure either. UNLESS that is where your company will succeed. Spend all of your creative energy there.
If there is no application manifest, you will get Windows NT4 / Windows 9x style buttons. Just tested this on Windows 11.
Asking this as a PC gamer who went fully digital ~15 years ago: why are optical drives such a big deal, is that because of buying/selling used games?
mastodon.social is the largest, one of the most tech/HN-crowd focused ones is hachyderm.io, universeodon.com and mstdn.social are both pretty big. I don't think any of the above block Threads.
A lot of people seem to be unhappy with the price? Especially if you want to have disc drive. As someone who played through many of current gen titles already, I don't see the appeal. Might be worth it still if you already own a PS5 that you can trade in. Shame there's no comparison on how PSSR differs from DLSS/FSR.
Of course consumers will get some benefit in return, like heating seats for free instead of paying a subscription to turn on a resistor... right?
> thus why most consider them to be white collar

You've claimed this twice, but I would guess that almost no one thinks a bank teller is white collar.

Sure they work in an office environment, but their role is more similar to the cleaning crew than to the branch manager.

Nothing about the day-to-day work in terms of autonomy, education, responsibility or any other key intangibles of the job match "white collar". It's akin to being a secretary or a mailman or working in a call center.
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Beyond the exclusives, if you're willing to spend this much for a playstation why not just spend a bit more for a nice PC? I have the PS5 but barely play it since the gaming experience on PC is just better and you have a lot more selection and can upgrade it piece by piece as needed over the years, which I'm finding I rarely need to do.
This reminds me a bit of the Airbus patent for using bike seats on airplanes to save weight.[1][2] Of course it's a "good" idea in one narrow sense, saving weight on flights, but it's a bad idea in a few other senses, including safety and comfort.

Remember folks, filing a patent doesn't ensure implementation. If Ford starts snooping on our in-car conversations and injecting ads into our Spotify streams, we can just refuse to buy Fords. They know this. The patent actually makes it less likely that other companies will copy them, so we're less likely to end up in a situation where we have no choice.

Now if the NHTSA mandates that all new vehicles come with in-car microphones and AI to listen to conversations to stop drunk driving or some other crazy reason, we're in real trouble. That's why we have touchscreens in every car now - backup cams are mandatory, and if they have to have the screen, they'll use it for everything.

1: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/airbus-s-retractable-bicycle-s...

2: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140159444A1/en
I think you should attempt to retain everyone. Option 2 for a low performer sounds better to me: “The other path is document the violation and give an opportunity to improve”.

A few months into one of my first jobs after college I was given a stern lecture from my manager “we don’t mind you leaving early on Friday if your work is getting done, but it’s not”. That was the wake up call I needed and I worked for the company for another 8 years, becoming, I’d like to think, a valuable high performer.

If they remain a low performer, then that’s another story…
> our most advanced and innovative console hardware to date.

This is a bit hyperbolic - there's no way a PS5 iteration is more innovative than the hardware in the PS3 or even 2, unless it suddenly stopped being an AMD box with a slightly funky system architecture.
Author just wrote the article so they could make an Erdos number joke at the end.
Partly due to used games, but even when buying new it's often cheaper to buy physical than digital due to retailers undercutting each other, while the digital store strictly adheres to MSRP until the game has been out for a while.
I do believe I'd rather fucking walk than have this.
The economics of efficiency come in. You can say it is lack of imagination and all that, but the graveyard of bitcoin miners would disagree. Yes we might come up with some novel usage for computation that would somehow exceed the power costs, but like, that is not an easy problem to do even at some very low margin rate. CPU and computation is cheap and linear. LLMs are one of the few things that produce value for all that computation in recent times outside of the normal workloads we have always been progressing (e.g. serving sites, etc.).
I have an iPhone 11 Pro. One of the lenses is broken and it makes a weird snaring sound while recording video. Battery life is still okay at about 80% capacity. It does everything I need it to do without fail.

If it weren’t for those defects I’d keep it at least for another year.
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Sounds like a variant on the "induced demand" theory that people who are opposed to road building always trot out.
Right-to-repair should cover hackability to cut microphone and antennae wires
I refuse to have any business with digital only purchases; for a few reasons:

1. Just like movies, you don't own anything. Revocation can occur at any time.

2. More likely than movies, you might find your game patched to add or remove content you do not want.

3. You can't give your games to the next generation. Which matters a lot when your exposure to gaming started from NES and Atari hand-me-downs.

4. Every game you purchase is chained to just yourself. Which is actually stupidly selfish when you have a large extended family also interested in games. The Switch is a hit for borrowing back and forth from a large network of relatives and friends (and, if Nintendo's reading this and questioning the resale market - this has caused a lot of games to get bought that wouldn't have).

5. If you have a large NES collection, there will be someone interested in paying for it. If you have a large Switch collection, there will be someone interested in paying for it. Physical games have some asset value, and it can be thousands of dollars for larger collections. Digital games have zero value.
That depends on the person. I refuse to ever buy a Tesla because it’s filled with smart technology insanity and then they charge a subscription for this punishment they force on you.

All I need is a stick shift and radio smart enough to parse and navigate mp3 files. The car doesn’t even have to come with that radio as it’s a trivial aftermarket upgrade.
How can it reverse time? Does it record a stack of every decision point?
You didn't cite anything you made up numbers that have nothing to do with what you linked.

Batteries are permanently connected to the grid and I'm not an electrician but I'm pretty sure that makes them available 100% of the time.

I get that you're anti battery for some reason and you're trying hard to play word games and twist definitions, but this isn't reality.
The post is from four years ago however, does anybody have an update on that topic?
I'm currently working on a portable computer vision project using Pi/Jetson with some Luxonis camera modules and I completely see where you're headed. In the long-game I think you could capture hw accelerated robotics CV.
It's an abbreviation of "proctology"
Well, could I interest you in a Nintendo Switch?

Switch games still have markedly diverse graphic styles (and _great_ art direction).
I don't have the data. I think it depends on the severity of the correction. Also, age factors in, if you get it too young your eyes can go blurry again by middle age.
Of course it is not that simple.

The more frequently you are stopped by the police, the greater the chance they will find something to charge you with.
Since people of color are stopped more often by police, they face a higher likelihood of being charged.
well, it's time for another abstraction layer.
>genai is not doing anything to our daily lives.

I've used generative AI(specifically Claude 3 Opus and 3.5 Sonnet) for quite a lot of things in my daily life. Including using it to achieve the desired outcome where a legal process was being subverted and by writing a letter to the right department(drafted and edited with Claude's help); it helped a lot of other people out too in that instance. Not to mention my backlog of "programs/ideas I'd like to sketch out but don't have time for". Other than word processors, though, I've rarely had a computer program reconfigure itself to be helpful in wordsmithing with me, so maybe you should reevaluate your stance on genai with regards to how people are actually using it in their lives rather than paint over everyone's experience with your broad brush.
the appeal will probably come from gta6.

not sure if it helps anyone here, but:
$700 is $575 in 2020 money
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Anecdotal evidence from Germany: Nobody uses iMessage. Everybody uses WhatsApp. Everbody!
Perhaps we need to stop believing that government intervention can solve problems. The elites taking most of the benefits of increased productivity, to the extent that it's happening, is happening because of government regulations, not in spite of them. Government regulations make it much harder for people to start new businesses that could out-compete the existing ones. Much of the reason that large corporations dominate so many industries is not economies of scale--they are actually less productive than multiple smaller businesses producing the same goods or services would be--but the fact that only large corporations can afford to absorb the costs of regulatory compliance.
The PlayStation Store is a monopoly on the PS5, so there's no price competition there.

I compared the prices of disc releases and digital releases on the PS5 in early 2023 and you could often get the physical disc release for cheaper than the digital:

Final Fantasy XVI (PS5): 65€ disc / 80€ digital.
Hogwarts Legacy (PS5): 59€ disc / 75€ digital.
Diablo IV (PS5): 70€ disc / 80€ digital.
Resident Evil 4 (PS5): 60€ disc / 70€ digital.
There is no future for dumb cars. They will be outlawed just like ICE ones in the coming decades.

You will not even be able to manually drive as you will be deemed too much of a hazard for all the autonomous cars.
> the developers just took the entire TCP/IP stacks from BSD, and call it a day since BSD license does allows for that.

They didn't, but I don't know why you're putting a sinister spin on this either way. Of course the licence allows for that. It was the express intention of the authors of the BSD networking stack that it be used far and wide.

They went to considerable effort to extract the networking code into an independent distribution (BSD Net/1) which could be released under the BSD licence independently of the rest of the code (parts of which were encumbered at the time). They wanted it to be used.
More Paradise Lost's take than Genesis directly. Overall, I loved it, except for the uncharacteristically slow start.
Require private well owners to pay for a well inspector to collect and process a water sample. For example, this is required when selling a home with a private well in some jurisdictions in the US.
Honestly crazy to me that people will pay 700 for a Playstation instead of 8-900 for a pc
It’s not the cameras that are bad. In fact, I sold my Canon with a 24-70mm f2.8 L because the iPhone photos were great!

The HUGE L by Apple is their shitty Photo App. It’s great if you have under 1Gb of photos, but over 100Gb - forget it - it is fucking. God. Aweful. PAINFUL!

And then they have the nerve of once in a while having a non-compatible Photo database format and so your WHOLE photo collection has to be converted… over 4 days wtf!

I specifically learned Rust so I could make a better Photo app. Sadly, time has shelved that project like many others, but man I would like be for someone to solve the iPhone -> Laptop photo management problem.

… and no, cloud backups? Not for > 400Gb thanks. All it takes is for Apple to kill your account and then ALL your family photos are gone. F that.
Companies like Gartner must be panicking. LLMs can easily spit out the buzzwords and MBA-textbook advice that their analysts currently produce.
On production systems, it may often be better to completely ignore the problem at this level. On modern hardware if a disk is throwing an io error on write you are having a bad day. I can almost guarantee that while you might happily modify your code so it properly returns the error, there almost certainly aren't test cases for ensuring such situations are handled "correctly", especially since the error will almost certainly not occur in isolation.

It may often be better to handle the issue as a system failure with fanotify. https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.ht...
Storage went up from 825 GB to 2 TB though....
And many more bluescreens/crashes/reboots from my experience. Godspeed if you aren't into tinkering and figuring out why your setup that worked yesterday is broken today. I moved from mainly PS5 to a beefy PC and the amount of troubleshooting you have to do is staggering. This kind of things never happened to me in years of playing on a console.
You are basically paying $250 extra for the GPU.
It did. The whole article was about how the NT kernel is better designed.
Well, we’re not going to roll it out.

But it’s not really a theory so much as an established fact that the only way to reduce traffic is to have viable alternatives to driving.
> If Ford starts snooping on our in-car conversations and injecting ads into our Spotify streams, we can just refuse to buy Fords.

If Ford does this, every other car company will find ways to license or come up with competing patents then do the same.

There is every incentive for informal collusion here and regulatory bodies are meant to express public sentiment that things like this are something that we, as a society, do not want.
Sigrok is a really valuable project. Thanks!

The greatest issue I see is that this is a fairly niche field for open source software historically due to the difficulty of acquiring the actual logic analyzers for a personal or student lab at times. People in general see older projects as establish and will often guide their focus to their own greenfield interests.

There are now a growing number of people entering this area of development however and more projects are being founded every month as availability and support for good-quality, stable hardware is increasing!

This is an exciting time for open source analysis, and given the availability and maturity of older 24mhz logic analyzers, on-demand manufacturing and supporting protects (kicad) I expect this to continue.

Hopefully sigrok takes on some new contributors who can engender even greater cooperation from this extremely relevant and exciting project!
I think the pendulum is swinging back on using the touch screen for everything.

My 2024 Toyota Sequoia has a touch screen but it’s only for the infotainment stuff. No essential part of the car is controlled through it. Lots of buttons and knobs in the car. I think it strikes a good balance. Even the audio has a simple knob to turn the volume up and down, and a volume control on the steering wheel. I skipped an entire decade of vehicles because I thought using a screen for everything was absolutely ridiculous.
I’m actually amazed that it’s now Nintendo that is the only console manufacturer with a sane strategy.

Their strategy is simple: affordable portable console for the whole family with exclusive access to a wide library of acclaimed first-party titles. They essentially have zero competitors besides relatively obscure retro handhelds from China that are too difficult to use for the average person.

But Sony’s strategy is seems to be basically begging their users to ditch their PS5 for a PC. Go play our games on PC, here’s a Pro console that costs as much as a new PC or GPU upgrade.

At least Microsoft’s strategy to own a large chunk of the AAA software market makes some level of sense in a world where they see their console hardware possibly exiting the market.
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This has been such a weird generation of consoles from a price standpoint but I know a lot of that is just due to pricing of things being weird anyways.

This is expensive, I am struggling to really justify it at the moment (and I have a 4090 in my PC so it isn't some thoughts about price or power or whatever). Games right now are just not really struggling. Last time around these pro consoles came out we were running up against the limits of the hardware at that time. That isn't the case yet.

It will be interesting to see what Xbox comes out with, the timeline for this coming out is pretty quick. So unless xbox was just about to announce something not sure how realistically they will have an answer to this
> let's forget that the entire market has trended towards catering to a customer desire for long-life batteries

apple sells 34% of smartwatches: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/22/apple-watch-domin...

and most of the rest are deeply crap Android things that don't have week-long battery life.
You don’t need to reverse time if you can deterministically reproduce everything that led up to the point of interest. (In practice we save a snapshot of your system at some intermediate point and replay from there.)
More on fsyncgate: https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/
People generally colloquially use efficiency as effectiveness

Not if they are talking about specific technical definitions. You should ask these hypothetical people if they know anything about batteries.

However in real systems, that power peoples lives & livelihoods, effective systems are both efficient and available.

I don't know what point this vague abstract description is supposed to make, but battery systems are literally working right now and making people money.
Only for a while, after that they'll have to pay if they want it to warm up at a reasonable pace, then they'll have to pay for warm seats when the temperature is above freezing - all to save the environment of course - and then they'll just have to pay no matter what upon which a new cycle starts: camera's recording facial expressions which are used to detect susceptibility to coercion so ads can be launched at the most vulnerable moments but in return you get a premium seat heating subscription at the low, low price of ${lotsomoolah}.
> “The ideas described within a patent application should not be viewed as an indication of our business or product plans,” the statement added. In a followup statement, Ford said it "will always put the customer first in the decision-making behind the development and marketing of new products and services."

Good to see a damage control statement.

Let’s hope they’ve got the message.
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> Starting a $1100 makes this something only very few will purchase on their own. It's an absolutely insane price.

not if you account for inflation.

$1100 is $905 in 2020 money.

basically iphones have become cheaper every year due to inflation.
I'm entirely opposed to the idea. But I also recognize that I'm in a minority and will probably lose that fight.
With 7z compression level 9, the .sqlite archive comes down to 61 MiB, which is about a 92% file size reduction.
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I’ve owned a Tesla since 2018 and never paid a subscription nor needed one.
An argument is that Consoles are easier and safer to give to a child, they can't mess things up and Sony is moderating the online chat.

I do not recommend it , from my experience the moderation is a blackbox, I would get warrningss for my son;s activity with no clue what was wrong, some bullshit like it might have been one of the things in this list of bad things. Then they force you to buy a sbuscription to access online features/multiplayer and if they ban you without any right to appeal they will not return your money for the services they will not longer give you.

So fck subscriptions, fck moderation without transparency and without right to appeal and talk with a human. And also fck Sony for killing online features because are to lazy to keep a few server code safe, lazy and greedy bastards.
I suppose a "dumb car" should be called "feature car", the same way as old-school mobiles are called "feature phones".
It's a weird presentation in my personal opinion. They could have presented it as providing information to vehicle users and only broken out the adverts in the later claims.

It doesn't sound new, based only on the article.
I'm getting really tired of this "Pro" bullshit. The issue with the PlayStation 5 isn't the bloody specs, it the f-ing price. The PlayStation 5 Slim is $600 already, we don't need a $700 one (which it won't be, because that is US pricing and probably not including tax).

Sony needs a $350 model, not this Pro nonsense. Who is the target audience for this?
There's a similar story for the inventor of the blue LED!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Nakamura#Careers
My Model 3 and Model Y do not have AM but do have FM. Did they remove that from base models?

You can also play MP3 files from a flash drive and navigate.

Can't help you with the stick shift though!
I’m certainly familiar with systems growing over time and outgrowing their original schema.

Is this the same phenomenon that resulted in Cloudflare Tunnels apparently being domain names? Or why domains that are proxied by Cloudflare show up as “CNAME” in the DNS panel? (The latter one seems extra strange — wasn’t the reverse proxy service the very first service that Cloudflare offered? There must be some history here.)
Off topic: how does 60M requests a second stack up with other big players like google, Facebook, TikTok?
Yeah, I'm going along assuming a share cultural context and then I have to stop and do a double take that reminds me some things are very much not the same.
I wonder how in-person services like medallion stamps will be affected.
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> For sure, once the LLM hype diminishes

It haven't even started. There are so many places it can be used, expect sci-fi in the next few years. There is no way back. The only thing that may change is the AI technology under the hood. I mean LLM isn't the goal, it's only a tool. Something else may replace or extend it. Many people are actively working on this. GPUs aren't the goal either, there must be more efficient way. But still they are very good at numbers crunching and that is needed for video processing.
> who said anything about downtime? Immutable infrastructure does not require downtime.

Um, the article did.
I haven't had a disc drive in any of my PC for a decade. I bought a USB DVD reader just in case, it's somewhere collecting dust — I've never used it. Why do you want one in a console?