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> Linux doesn’t have a good equivalent for these.

That literally does not imply a need for those features. It points out a thing that Linux lacks, which is true. And that's where it stops. You are projecting an implication that "Linux does need x, y, or z because Windows has X, Y, or Z."

We're not sitting in a thread talking about what makes Linux/Windows better than the other, we're in a thread talking about just factual differences between the two. You can talk about two things, compare them, and even state your own preference for one or the other without stating that each should do everything that the other can do.

E.g. snowmobiles are easier to handle while driving in the snow than a Boeing 737. I like driving my snowmobile in the snow more than I like taxiing a Boeing 737 in the snow.

We can talk about things without implying changes that need to happen.
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> You could set her back 8 iOS versions and she probably wouldn't notice. Because she uses none of the hundreds of features released since. Not because she dislikes them, she doesn't know they even exist.

Which seems totally fine to me since those features probably don't solve any real problems that she has. It's weird to me that the tech industry has this implicit idea that every product has to get better every year and users are missing out if they don't follow along. Not all products work that way indefinitely and that approach is driven more by corporate financial reasons than by anything else.

Apple starts from a position of "How can we continually increase our sales of this product", not "How can we make the best possible product for users". There can be a lot of overlap there, but not always. The number one rule with corporate product and sales is: Number Go Up. Consumers shouldn't have any obligation to follow along though.
You'd guess wrong. We have record keeping around how most people use words, and according to those records "white collar" is used in this fashion of: "relating to the work done or those who work in an office or other professional environment."

And you confirm that they work in an office environment, so that bit isn't in question. Perhaps you are confusing most with all? It is certain that not everyone sees "white collar" that way, but we're not talking about everyone.
"Mere discovery" in general is a gray area, which many jurisdictions do not recognize as eligible for patent. Patents are supposed to incentivize creation. It's much less helpful to society to grant a monopoly on a naturally occurring thing, that already exists, to the first person to happen to stumble across it. Supposing it wasn't a protein from a single human, but a protein contained in all blueberries. Blueberries are now known to be a cure for Covid-19 if you eat tons of them. Should the discoverer of this world-changing fact be suddenly granted a monopoly on blueberries?
I don't own a modern console other than the switch.

Can you play a ps5 game from optical media without having ever connected your ps5 to the internet or will some refuse to run?
Hotmail as a brand is still around. And it's easy to miss this change if you are not using it yourself. At least I wasn't aware of this, and will probably have forgotten it tomorrow again, and will continue to see Hotmail mentioned in documentations and discussions here and there.
Agree. But the company also pays a large chunk of its services R&D and operations by bundling it with the hardware and have people pay upfront for it.

New hardware would not be needed for most of it, but then Apple would have to make every iOS user a fixed yearly fee for a generic package of "some services at our disclosure". And that's quite impossible to achieve and stay competitive...
> we can just refuse to buy Fords.

I'm trying to think back to a situation where a product was shipped with something intrusive like this and customers didn't buy it. Can you help?
> 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.

Well, yes for the NES. There's a limited number of cartridges made, there is no digital substitute, and the official cartridges are not being manufactured anymore. The demand for NES games is a product of their scarcity.

But have you tried actually selling a physical copy of a modern game? It's not like you're making your money back, you're lucky to recoup 1/3rd of the MSRP if there's even anyone interested in waiting for your copy to arrive in the mail. But there's also complicating factors like piracy, the immediacy of digital storefronts, and the used market controlling (and lowering) the price of used games. Famously, a trip to GameStop with a stack of PS3 games is worth maybe $5 of in-store credit and a complimentary soda pop.
I don't think you can get anywhere close to the performance of a PS5Pro with an 8-900 bucks PC.

There's also the matter of the user experience, the fact that a lot of people have a large catalog of games on the PS platform.

On the other hand, there's a lot of stuff that can be done on a PC that's just impossible on a console.

On the one hand, the console is a bargain. On the other, not nearly as much. Apples, oranges.
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> Revocation can occur at any time

Given most games won’t work without online activation, does it even matter in the case of PS? Or you’ll contain yourself to non Sony/Microsoft platforms?
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Handling it this way in a user process is insane and essentially cargo culting. If your data is that valuable, you have redundant systems.
I do like T-Mobile for their 5GB free/included international data (and unlimited texting).

The other concern I’ve read about with MVNOs is that some people were unable to transfer their number out. Don’t really want to lose my number.
Not just buying used games, but borrowing games as well. Being able to swap games with friends is a pretty compelling offer.

(I'm all-digital and have been for the last nine years, but there are compelling reasons not to go that route)
> If Ford starts snooping on our in-car conversations and injecting ads into our Spotify streams, we can just refuse to buy Fords.

In practice often we can’t - people often prefer worse products and with user hostile features as long as they’re cheaper.
Was hoping for more backwards compatibility with older generations.
Holy crap, this guy made the future
This is true in theory, but in practice is a nightmare.

YMMV, but even small bits of python, Go, or (yes) Rust that have crept into the robotics stacks at the various places I've worked have created problems for incoming new-hires, or for maintenance even for senior folks. Python less so than others, but python is challenging to deploy on vehicle, b/c of various hard and soft problems.

In particular, Rust interop with CPP is poor. Should I recompile all ros packages to allow me to call a few things in Rust? Not at this time.

I'm hopeful for the "Rust is robotics" movement, however https://robotics.rs/

The state of the field is so entrenched in CPP though there's more hope in embedded land with the widespread use of C.
On the original PS5, yes.

On the PS5 refresh, no, an internet connection is required to activate the drive, whether or not it came in the box.

On the Xbox One... you haven't been able to, for over a decade.

On Switch... Switch is just delightful. The game cards even come with the required system updates (criticism for lack of theming or music aside, the whole OS is under 400MB, so amazing things are possible). You can also update your game or system wirelessly, from any other Switch, which has a higher version of either, no internet necessary.
There's empirical evidence to knowing what you actually want, vs what you say you want.

And I've made a lot of money on disregarding maximalist user requests, thank you very much.
That's a positive way to look at it! Shame that SwiftUI is tied to the OS version though, I guess that's why apps are slowly dropping support for iOS 15.
It’s actually just because they all use unreal.

4k also requires upscaling or minimizing work per pixel, which encourages everyone to use similar methods.
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In house production makes it even easier, because you are in control of the process and don't have to wait for vendors to update their process.
Yeah, gaming on a self built PC only makes sense if your time is worth ~$0.
We went back to DVDs for my kid, actually. My wife and I really like the idea of a hard start and end to a video (with no chance for algorithmic tendrils to reach you) and we like the idea of having to put in some amount of effort to start the video. It's on demand, but not as on demand as scrolling through a streaming service is.

I can't quite articulate why this feels like an improvement to me. Maybe it's because I have experienced decision paralysis on streaming services so many times.

Tons of DVD collections being given away for almost nothing on FB marketplace right now, too.
I've always wondered how you or it chooses which charges from which!
I suppose the "Ultra" model is going to come with either the optical drive or an even better chipset...

Seriously now, at $700 and at the pace Ryzen mini-PCs (with the 780m chipset) or new Alder Lake chips (with Xe2) are evolving, by next year you'll be able to build yourself a 4K Steam box running Bazzite.

(you can already spend that much and have a very good HD, maybe even 1440p gaming experience - I have a 680m iGPU machine I stream Steam games from, and it's pretty good for 1080p)
Lots of PS2 games look similar, too with lots of games with colour palettes being variations on the theme of brown.
So I'm not sure it's a new thing, but I do get what you mean when you see the "Triple AAAAAAAAAAA" game of the day.
The web has a different audience now, old things can be new again.
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A similar performing 4070ti alone will cost $750, and thats just gpu. Including cpu, memory, storage it will be more than $1500.
they're being dumb/conservative in marketing material. my 7 year old apple watch still lasts > 24 hours - I wear it ~22.5 hours a day, just plugging it in to charge while I'm getting ready in the morning.
This, plus the best machines tend to come with high quality monitors, and testing your web apps a using lower resolution can expose all kinds of UI and accessibility gotchas.
They do it wrong: Nobody needs to expand mobile apps to a large screen. There is only one company which does it right: Shrink desktop apps to mobile: https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-co...
Is this expensive because of the components or because you feel systems were priced lower in the past and this is a small upgrade?

I think for the number of hours people put into it gaming systems are actually quite cheap. You get to have them functioning for 5-10 years with 100s of hours played. On a per hour level, it provides massive amount of entertainment.

Now, if you already have a strong PC (which you allude to) and game on that, your ROI is probably going to be a lot lower.
JSON but with the structure of YAML, would be nearly perfect to me. JSON was not designed for humans to read and write directly, it happens to be easy enough that it's quite common but it's not exactly a nice experience. Take that base and remove the need to quote key values, enforce indentation for clear structure and to remove the need for braces and commas (the no trailing commas rule in JSON kills me too), and support the markdown-like list syntax alternative and I think really that's all most people want out of YAML anyways. I don't understand or ever want to work with their references or variables or whatever the hell they add, any of that is much better off in code than in config as far as I'm concerned.
I will never understand this. libsigrok (the driver backend) supports over 130 oscilloscope models. Why not just write a GUI that uses libsigrok, and instantly get access to all of those?

edit: actually I think that's azonenberg's project. IIRC I discussed it with him once, and the reason was licensing, not technical.
That sentence (from Sony) read too much like an Apple keynote prompt.
Are there side by side videos or something of how this is better than a plain old PS5?
What kind of work can I do with it?
We do quantization-aware training, so the model should minimize the loss w.r.t. the ternary weights, hence no degradation in performance.
PCs are a lot more hassle if you just want to chill and play games.

Not such a big deal if you’re using the computer for other stuff, but a 2nd living room PC just never made sense to me.
Or just rip out the circuitry and hook up the wires to a power source with something like an ESP8266 or - for the real Luddites - a rheostat.

Then again walking is quite healthy and if you have a train station nearby, why not. Writing this from a train going between the Netherlands and Sweden, a trip I make regularly. Quicker and cheaper than driving and I get to hack away while going places.
This is true for us, but is also anthropocentric. We can't assume that everyone would have this problem.

Technological change is probably a sigmoid like most things. There could be people out there who have already won physics, figured out the entire unified theory of how everything works, and have developed most of the core technological stuff they ever will. At that point they might calm back down and become more stable over long periods of time. These are the kinds of civilizations that would send slow probes or one-way colony ships out and would be willing and able to wait.

It's very hard to think about potential aliens without dragging in anthropocentric or even recent-history-centric assumptions.
The same government that divested DNS after owning it? For years, ALL DNS was run by the US government. They decided to hand it over to a handful of organizations so no one could control it. Now, it looks like we will all have different versions, the same activity can have hugely different outcomes.
> More likely than movies, you might find your game patched to add or remove content you do not want.

Well this is a complicated point. A lot of games these days rely on digital distribution for day-one patches, a practice which allows developers to continue working on and polishing the game even after it goes gold. Physical only really gives you the option of "no updates at all" (including no day-one patch) or "every update so far to date" (including updates you don't want).

I agree with the rest of your points, but I think that this one would be relevant only in a few extremely niche cases.
Where is the source of data for that graph?
Is there any way to even use this today? I’ve been waiting for the server and file system components to be open sourced for a couple years now
That doesn't make it better, it makes it worse.
I previously memorized pi to 100 decimals. Was fun, and now I'll never forget 3.1415926535897932384626433 ... how many is that? 25?

There are a several little triplet "patterns" in this first batch that make it easy to this point:

3.1415 926 535 8 979 323 84 626 433.
> trying to think back to a situation where a product was shipped with something intrusive like this and customers didn't buy it

There aren’t many because most consumers don’t particularly value privacy. They presumably wouldn’t mind this. It’s only a problem for us if there is no choice in the market, or their choices have a negative externality on us.
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Used games + retailers regularly sell games for much cheaper than the online store (which is a monopoly by PS/Xbox)
Yea, most large companies I know of transfer auditors and financial people in and out all the time to avoid long term fraud.
This is just a guess, but I suspect it wouldn't be in The Google's best interest for other engineering departments to be too involved with the ones that deal with data mining, otherwise they'll end up knowing too much. Even if someone working on a particular web product at The Google thought it would be a good idea to use the existing tracking to improve the user experience, I imagine there would be so much organizational friction in place that they're likely to give up.
On the other hand, you can sell a physical copy of a game you're not interested anymore. You can potentially buy another used game for the same money you got from the sales. Keep repeating and in theory you could play infinite games for the price of 1.
We bought an off-the-shelf product like this (though, audio only) for our toddler. "Yoto Player." She can self-serve some stories or songs using cards to select a collection and it works great.
There are privacy and data integrity issues with GitHub for both enterprise and personal use. Gitlab and other self-hosted alternatives are nearly exactly the same. I don't know if "by harder for me as a user" they mean the web-facing frontend, or something else. And even then something like Gitlab offers the exact same feature set as Github does on the web frontend.

On a sidenote this is the same "but x is so much more convenient" mentality that is driving open source projects to lock all their documentation behind something like a Discord chatroom instead of having a proper docs page or wiki.
Oh, please! If this prevents or makes as targeting more expensive for every other car company, I’m all for it. And I refuse to buy Fords.

Win-win all round.
Yes the cast. Aside from James Earl Jones it had the following actors who at one point or another had Academy Award nominees (or won) for acting:

Robert Redford

Sidney Poitier

David Strathairn

River Phoenix

Ben Kingsley

Mary McDonnell

And In addition to those it had Dan Aykroyd and Stephen Toblowsky
Wow, the console is effectively 25% more expensive in Europe? That's crazy.

Yes, I'm aware of taxes, extended warranty and other requirements in the EU, but still. Usually, you had a simple 1:1 mapping $->EUR, which effectively is about 10% markup.
Our math prof (who moonlighted as a "mathemagician") taught us a trick for two-digit squares:

For e.g. 23 x 23, subtract three from the first number, add three to the second, and then add 3² to the product. So 20 x 26 + 9, the idea being that multiplying by a multiple of 10 is easier to do mentally.
Yeah... I was cautiously excited for the PS5 pro as I don't have a PS5 yet, but this announcement was disappointing. Long live the PS2, I say.
Finally a blog post with a trie.
Those trie leetcodes didn't go in vain ;)
Agreed. I’m still rocking the ps4 and enjoying its vast library of solid games. PS5 lacks games and is expensive.

They should have a $350 model with optical drive and one remote. Sell it on a plastic shopping bag for all I care.
Honestly, the more photos I take with my phone, the more I find myself craving a film camera.

It's not just the look of film which I find more appealing than digital photos, the physicality of the whole thing. Operating a film camera (especially older ones like Leica rangefinders or large format view cameras) is a very hands-on and deliberate process. You don't take a photo with an old camera, you make a photo.

This means you need to spend a lot more time composing the shot, focusing on the subject, metering the light (or using the zone system [1] if you want to go really old-school), setting the lens aperture and shutter speed, and finally taking the picture. In the case of a large format camera, you find yourself ducking under a dark cloth and focusing the (upside-down) image on a piece of ground glass, even using a magnifying glass for critical focusing!

The deliberate process doesn't stop with exposing the image. It continues into the dark room with creative control over the development and printing processes. From a single negative you can spend hours making test prints and playing with the exposure of the final print, using techniques such as dodging, burning, and masking. You can also do some crazy things with an enlarger; even producing wall-sized prints at home!
all of my games are discs when it comes to consoles. i will be forced to skip this, even ignoring the ludicrous price.
Theoretically there is no problem with keeping your PS5 100% offline. It can read and play game disks perfectly fine without the internet. In practice though, plenty of games download additional content even if you have a disk, and there's no way to know in advance.
Your smartphone

Anything by meta

Amazon Alexa/dot

All smart-tvs are uploading your screen and what you watch constantly. Source: I worked on adding interactivity to ads on certain TVs when they used content recognition on your sceeen caps
I don't know about optical drives but I bought ~75% of my switch games as used cartridge.

I think a lot of people would stop buying consoles if they couldn't sell the games they have finished or do not like anymore to fund the purchase of other games.
If you're serious about making this a standard, you should think about making it a proposal to be an ISO standard, much like how QR codes are.
I'm not sure. I don't think anyone knows for sure, but obesity probably heavily factors into it.

53% of Europeans are overweight or obese. The same figure in the US is 72%. That's a 36% difference.

More than that, 17% of Europeans are obese (BMI >30) compared to the US's 42%.

The fact that the US has a life expectancy of 79.1 compared to the EU's 81.5 years with that kind of difference in obesity levels is actually surprising. You would expect it to be lower than that in the US.
It's stochastic gradient descent, so slightly better than blind brute force
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41501580
UTF-16 also didn't exist when the decision was made. It was UCS-2.

Microsoft absolutely made the right decision at the time and really the only decision that could have been made. They didn't have the luxury to ignore internationalization until UTF-8 made it viable for Linux.
This is a step in the right direction against the medical cartels. The amber alert functionality still frightens me, though.
Oxide Computer published their Request for Discussion (RFD) site software [1] that they use for internal published documentation and discussion. Many are published to the public, but some are private. [2] They talk about how they use it and where it came from in their most recent podcast: RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide [3].

I suspect this would be a good 'substitute' for documents that are often hosted on internal wikis.

[1]: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/rfd-site

[2] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0001

[3]: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/2065190
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> Internally, we call the request’s destination server its “origin”

Origin: The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.

How can the request's destination server be the origin, if it is the destination server?
Sony released this tutorial years ago in response to Microsoft making it harder to share Xbox games with your friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA

That's lived in my head since.
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Exactly. Keyboard and mouse? Desk? Software updates? Heaven forbid: Windows? PS5 on the couch is by far the better experience.
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Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu0NA6CnkjY
We’re starting to see this. For instance, some cars have absurdly overactive VESS (engine tone) systems.

Some are so loud they wake up neighbors. Others don’t shut off at the NHTSA recommended 30kph, and sound like distant ambulances on the freeway.

Even if it is legal to disable them, many insurance policies include a carve out that invalidates your coverage if you do so. So, you could lose your house as punishment without ever getting to defend yourself in front of a jury.
The $700 PS5 Pro doesn't come with a disc drive