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> The only real issue the Switch had was being able to keep up with some of the games put on it with FPS but it still had beautiful games (like Tears of the Kingdom)

A bit of an aside, but... Tears of the Kingdom looks just awful to me. My kids played Breath of the Wild and when they got Tears of the Kingdom I walked in and was astonished at the graphic quality. I think I had just finished Doom 2016 at the time and I felt like I was rewinding the clock 15 years in graphical quality. I've heard literally zero other people have this complaint, so I suspect it's just my take on the aesthetics of the game.

I think the state-of-the-art on Switch is really Panic Button's work on the Doom and Doom Eternal ports, but those are frame locked at 30 FPS, so I think getting a spec bump in Switch 2 would certainly help the demographic that plays games like that. My family has left the Switch ecosystem for Steam Deck, and that does a lot better. Would be interesting to compare with the Switch 2 in terms of specs.
In my experience, most people don't care because they are lazy. Initiative on the job requires effort, IF they're allowed to have initiative. If someone is put into a thinking job, but are more suited to have an assembly line job, failure will ensue.
He highlights that this is his subjective opinion and preference right before announcing that he’s going to try and stop the talk from happening by sitting down on the stage. I think this is an extraordinarily rude thing to do at a volunteer led event and really demands a better justification than subjective dislike.
Nintendo has tended to maintain at most 1 generation of backwards compatibility, though you can get some fuzzy ideas of "generations" in a few cases.

Game Boy Color: plays original Game Boy games
Game Boy Advance: plays Game Boy and Game Boy Color games
Nintendo DS: plays Game Boy Advance games
Nintendo DSi: plays Nintendo DS games
Nintendo 3DS: plays Nintendo DS and DSi games
Nintendo New 3DS: plays Nintendo DS, DSi, and (old) 3DS games
Nintendo Wii: plays GameCube games
Nintendo Wii U: plays Wii games

The Switch is a notable break in both of these lines, playing neither 3DS nor Wii U games.
The problem is that the number of suppliers seems to be constantly going down. Chains are taking over public spaces, successful smaller companies get bought out, and the successful independent ones eventually get a new CEO who is incentivized to maximize profits (see e.g., Chipotle hiring Taco Bell's CEO.)
For the PHEVs yes they are battery constrained. They have great products and a ton of demand and difficulty keeping up manufacturing due to limited batteries.

For their EV, they have yet to make something that is competitive. Their EV is slow to charge, slow to accelerate, somewhat short in range, and quite expensive before they started adding—-in some cases five figure—-incentives to move them. It even had a recall for the wheels coming off.
Intel and Nvidia drivers holding back a public SteamOS release, Valve not trying
I was there as this played out. Nokia had a lot of good software and software engineers but not the management structure to do anything good with that.

Nokia was huge as an organization and parts of that organization recognized the threat early on. The problem was at the board and executive level. These people had a blind spot for software. They thought they were still in the electronics business. Lots of people with an electronics and radio background. Not a lot of people with software competence. And they had bought into the notion that Symbian was going to magically fix all their problems.

A lot of effort was spent on looking for other solutions. And one of the things that was good (Linux) around 2005 was actually quite close to displacing Symbian as the key future proof replacement for their legacy platforms. Symbian was just rolling out for a few years and they had made a big investment in that. And management (those same people with a huge blind spot for software) backed the wrong horse.

Linux never really died in Nokia but it wasn't allowed to prosper either. Devices were cancelled or repurposed for Symbian. This happened to the N8, for example. By the time they switched to windows phone, they actually had two Linux platforms (Meego and Meltemi) and an Android phone in the works as well. Meego had one last product phone launch and the team and platform were killed in the same week. Any devices for that platform were labeled as developer phones. Nokia never marketed them as a consumer phone. Meltemi never saw any product launch at all; it was aimed at feature phones. Both were good ideas but poorly executed. Nokia killed them along with Symbian in order to back windows phone. Classic baby and bathwater situation.

And MS ended up killing the one Nokia Android phone that was launched shortly before they acquired the whole phone division. Kind of a desperate/ballsy move. I suspect Nokia did this as a stick to ensure MS followed through with the acquisition. That was their "oh we could just switch from windows phone to Android unless.. " move. Nokia was at point the only OEM that still believed in Windows Phone.

MS killed the whole division shortly after Satya Nadella took over and was sorting out the mess left by Steve Ballmer. The iphone was solidly in charge by then and the rest of the market was Android. Courtesy of lots of Linux contributions by the Meego and Maemo team.
Switch 1 was released on March 3, 2017 - what a great run!
You clearly have not seen the wrinkles on my body.
That doesn't look like an internal presentation though.
This is a great way to get all doctors who care out of the profession.

Healthcare is always going to have the most severe consequences when mistakes are made. Diagnosis are also hard and there are many risks with treatments. If you are going to demand punishment for mistakes consider punishing yourself next time you make a normal mistake at your job.
Nintendo sold an all-gray Switch 1, that’s the one I got.

Yes this console does feel like a more “grown up” Switch but I don’t think it’s a sign of chasing after Steam Deck; switch has sold 2 orders of magnitude more copies than Valve ever will.

If anything it’s following the same pattern as Wii (white) WiiU (dark) for the successor to be a bit more serious and grown up looking.

Kids who got their Switch 1 when they were 10 are now 17, ready for a more grown up console.
Status symbols can be shifted with marketing. BEVs are heavy as fuck, and (at least theoretically) torquey as fuck at zero speed - both of those seem pretty manly if you put the right spin on them.
Babylon wasn't a village at that time - it was likely a population of
200,000 +- 100,000 people. It was cultural Zenith of the planet at that time.
The kernel/dtb support was what held me back from buying a Turing Pi 2, I'm still debating on buying something ampere based instead... the rk3588 has been out for ages, I don't see what the holdup is getting it mainlined.
This feature is really bad (unreliable) and they don’t even make a good case for _why_ you would want to use this over literally any other reminder system. I guess it can execute an LLM to decide what to send to you at the scheduled time but its unreliability would never have me relying on it.
Some use cases that might be interesting
* Let me know the closing stock price for XXXXX
* Compile a list of highlights from the XXXX game after it finishes
But everything I can think of is just a toy, cool if it works but not ground breaking and possible with much more reliable methods.
OpenAI really seems just be throwing stuff at the wall to see if it sticks then moving on and never iterating on the previous features. Dall-e is kind of a joke compared to other things (one-shot only), I trust Claude more for programming, o1 was ho-hum for my needs, desktop app still feels like a solution in search of a problem, etc.
Didn't you see the section where joycons appear to slide over a table? If anything, the video confirms the rumor
Steve Jobs was a boomer.
They were screwed from the start...

The Xbox came out when the PS2 did. When it came time for the next generation, Sony went with the obvious PS3. Microsoft of course couldn't compete with an "Xbox 2" vs a "PS3", and they couldn't skip right to "Xbox 3", so they called it the "Xbox 360", which was frankly genius because it had the 3 there anyway and put it on the same level in consumers' eyes.

But after that it all fell apart -- they had no good options. They still couldn't jump to "Xbox 4". Maybe "720" would have worked. Someone decided to have a clean break and restart at "One" but of course that fell apart immediately at "Two". So another clean break to "Series..". And by that point it's so screwy they've lost any chance of fixing it...
I initially read your username as boehm, and I was like wow, ok, this is a guy who knows his memory. :)

What situations would an arena allocator prove problematic or non-optimal, aside from the many allocations/deallocations scenario?

This is an area I'm very interested in, so any info would be appreciated.
Wow. Bibi claiming Hamas is not accepting the agreement. Typical
At the same time, a larger handheld to fit those big bezels is unfortunate because we don't have a proper replacement for the gameboy/ds line.
Just to be clear, these are about 1-3 years old. So yes they probably weren't purple on the day they were installed, but this is a defect and not normal aging. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/136nz3b/til_...
Yes, this is the correct understanding of the problem. The thing is, correctly understanding the problem is highly disincentivized, much less doing anything about it.
And this is a problem with company policies, not with the design of macOS or Docker.

I'm sorry, but there's just no sane system design that can make up for such abjectly counterproductive policies, no matter how common they may be.
> Wouldn't these embellishments eventually come to haunt them when their promises are not realized? This seems to be Tesla FSD all over again.

Is Tesla "haunted" by their repeated failure to deliver Full Self-Driving? I haven't been following, but it doesn't really seem like it.

Having something concrete to promise seems like a winning tactic: you don't want to actually deliver the thing, because then you'd have to train the public to expect something else (and that takes more creativity). Whether it's AGI, FSD, the Second Coming, a border wall, universal Medicare, peace in the Middle East... there doesn't seem to be any particular downside to promising the public something that repeatedly fails to happen. After all, if it didn't happen yesterday, that means it could still happen tomorrow — so you'd better make sure you're prepared!
Yes, because our chiseled bellies don’t get in the way.
I think even when companies project arrogance from their c-suite, it’s more to keep the market happy and calm nerves. I’d be shocked if RIM wasn’t also sweating bullets internally after that iPhone presentation. They weren’t morons, and saw what happened with iPods.
Unless this concept becomes a mass phenomenon with many implementations, isn’t this pretty easy to filter out? And furthermore, since this antagonizes billion-dollar companies that can spin up teams doing nothing but browse Github and HN for software like this to prevent polluting their datalakes, I wonder whether this is a very efficient approach.
Musk to PG: Don’t be a retard who believes bogus polls
It's not a tablet. It has physical controllers. You don't use a switch by grabbing the screen.
SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin will all three be on Space Force's National Security Space Launch Phase III Lane 2 IDIQ.

Blue Origin won't replace ULA on that contract, but will compete head to head with SpaceX and ULA to win launch task orders.
I don't see the comparison. BYD is a decent car for an impressive price, but they're ... just cars. The iPhone wasn't "just a phone" that was cheaper than its contemporaries and a little better in very specific areas, it was a complete overhaul of the entire market.

You can look at a BYD and a Nissan and make a decision based on minor trade-offs between different aspects of the car. You couldn't do the same between iPhone and a Sony Ericsson.
Unless you can find a person who's deepest passion is feeding others.
Our times are like they are in part thanks to their work.

Yes, there is much more knowledge at least content-wise nowadays than then. Does that make their contributions ignorant, or invalid? Remove what they did in their day, what are we left with?
"You're at the airport. There's a group in front of you on the escalator taking up the full width, preventing anyone from walking by"
take the stairs
Would you be okay with being responsible for the never before seen bloodshed that would result in, with millions of innocent people dying as the direct result of your actions?
VR and, at some point, 3D.
Yeah I've heard of uploading entire repos several times now and I'm really surprised there isn't more concern about this. Prior to this, the thought of any developer uploading source code to any 3rd party would likely result in a bad outcome for that employee. And now we have juniors through seniors uploading not only single classes but entire projects. I suppose it's one thing if the company has some sort of corporate account with an AI partner and you login with your company credentials. But I doubt this is the case for most devs.
These "frameworks" are useless, and as you say you can do what they offer in a few hours and better. So, stop using them. It's not a popularity contest.

Case in point: I don't use any frameworks whatsoever. I wrote a conversational AI Agent that helps me write AI Agents, integrated that into an office suite, unleashed that at the law office where I'm CTO, and we currently have just shy of 900 agents created by me, the attorneys and their staff. They support new client interviews, legal research, document authoring, case financial modeling, and pretty much whatever the staff needs to help them do what they already did before AI, just now they have idiot savant help.

Everything is based upon chat completion with most using structured output that is I/O with the office suite's internal data structures. The AI Agents act as virtual co-workers inside the office software used by staff, and they each personalize their agents to their needs.

If I tried to do this with these frameworks, I'd still be dinking around with their abstractions and lack of documentation.
I worked at SE when the iPhone was released and that is not how I remember it. :) The mood was more like "lol, it has no buttons!", "too expensive!" and "it can't work without a stylus!" I think many seriously misjudged how "cool" Apple was back then (and consequently how much they'd be willing to spend on status symbols) and how good a snappy touch ui could be.
Liberation/Croscore fonts are more relevant here because they are designed to be drop-in replacements (metrically compatible) for MS fonts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts
Show HN: I built a hub to centralize and access all event data effortlessly
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“More powerful” was enough to be a step change at the time. You’d get huge improvements in image quality, realism, and immersion.

Now, compare a new game with one from ten years ago. The new one looks a little better. Not much.
So how are you going to charge them then? Have the old Switch 1 lying around as a charging station?
> It's because America has been known for it's car market for the past 100 years

Of course, in EU is knowledge that it is better to avoid American cars. Ford seems to be the exception though.
It's a portable device, at some point or another I'm going to handle it without the side controllers. Having some place to grab the thing is basic ergonomics, much less something designed with kids in mind.
I was traveling through Asia with the original Switch and got a cute girl who didn't speak English to play Mario Kart with me on the ferry.

The detachable controllers were pretty magical, modulo the reliability problems.
I read this after doing a time travel back to 2007. I was using Blackberry/Nokia E## at the time. Remember thinking about a phone without a full keyboard!

Seems like Nokia had a good grasp of what had happened. Also a sense of immediacy to act.

But then - Nokia, Palm, Blackberry....
DLSS is disappointing compared to actual resolution increases. It adds plenty of artifacts like shimmer, ghosting, occlusion issues. I’m expecting Nintendo to use it unfortunately.
Show HN: Every meeting from first 8 years of scaling up [video]
I had so much fun with this. Shows the change from early days of building Sanity.io through to growth (and the pretty intense 2020-2021 period).

Calendar data processed in Python (filtering >3h events and Reclaim entries), then animated with Geometry Nodes in Blender. The 2K animation was rendered in Cycles on runpod.io (12 RTX 4090s for 48hrs). Colors indicate meeting types - blue for 1:1s, block size/saturation scaling with attendee count. Soundtrack driven by MIDI from exported from Python to Ableton Live.
An NPU with no driver support in the main Linux kernel, only in a vendor-provided fork containing dubious-quality drivers:

https://forum.radxa.com/t/lack-of-concern-for-security-in-bs...

https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2024/03/rockchip-npu-update-1-w...
The CTO of Motorola was dismissive of the iPhone in her first review and acted like Apple was a little child just learning how to take its first baby steps. I remember reading this and just shaking my head at her cockiness. She left the company before the year was out.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070114215511/https://blogs.mot...
What difference does it make what font a website uses? I get having a monotype, a serif and possibly a sans-serif, obviously setting the font size should be a thing, but the actual font?

I just don't see what difference it makes if a website is in Helvetica, Times New Roman or Arial. If one font is easier for me to read than another I can chance it in my browser, which makes more sense than letting some web designer, who's more focused on brand identity, pick a font for me.

There might be some cases where you really wish you could pick a specific font, but you can't really use it to convey meaning anyway, because that would not work for screen readers or people who chance the font on their system to help readability.
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> BYD+CATL

Unless these two companies change the laws of physics in order to exponentially improve the overall performance of batteries (exponentially faster charging times, from hours to 5-10 minutes, exponentially cheaper batteries that would last longer) then, no, they won't be the next Apple. Just ask VW, they almost bet it all on EVs and now they're already with one foot in the grave because of that.
> Evolution selects for efficiency.

I think this is a poor argument here.
From an evolutionary point of view, our brains are optimized to:

- Provide fine-motor control to craft weapons and tools (enhancing adaptibility and enabling us to hunt way outside our weight class)

- Communicate/coordinate effectively in small groups

- Do sensor processing and the above with a low energy budget

Our brains are *not* selected to be minimum-complexity intelligences, and a lot of what our brain does is completely useless for AGI building (motor control, sensor processing, ...).

Furthermore, the cost/complexity (from a evolutionary PoV) is a totally different beast from what complexity means to us.

Just consider flight as an example: A fruitfly is an insanely simple and straightforward beast, but to us, a biochemically fuelled, beating-wing design is still infeasibly complicated. If our approach to flight had been to ape after how nature does it in detail, we likely still would not have planes.

I do agree that todays LLMs still have clear architectural flaws that we need to overcome (online learning being a very glaring one), but, to pick up the flight analogy, we might well have the main wing structure already down, and we won't necessarily have to make those wings beat to get into the air...
Are we seeing the same thing, though?

The average consumer replaces their smartphone about every 3 years (at least in the western world, places like India are on an even shorter cycle). Additionally, the global average price of a smartphone is about 400 USD. That's a much faster moving market than cars and the investment is much lower.

BYD is very impressive, but I wouldn't look at the situation as the same.
This is a very narrow and simplistic view on the extremely complex topics of market dynamics and consumer behaviour.
For those of us with zero interest in playing a console on the go I wish they would release a non-mobile version and put the money saved into beefier specs.
State of the art imo is Metroid Prime
3DS has hardware support for GBA games too, actually, though these only got distributed via the Ambassador program.

Also had VC for most of Nintendo's platform.
Their Lumia with the Windows OS was great too. Unfortunately no market => no apps => death. But I loved it when I had it. They made great phones no doubt.
Did you work with Symbian/UIQ software, feature phone software or something else? The feature phone team actually showed signs of getting the idea of no-jank and a rich UI very early.
> The question is: Why companies moved from monolithic to microservices? What do they try to avoid?

One of the main reasons why companies move from monoliths to microservices is to promote ownership and accountability in large codebases.

In a monolith where everyone owns the code, developers can break each other's code.

With microservices, each team becomes responsible for one part, and (as long as they keep their SLAs) they can't break each other's code.

When something fails it's easier to identify who needs to fix what.

Microservices don't make much sense for small teams if they don't need or don't have the headcount to split responsibilities.
>> He isn't boycotting. He is planning to peacefully protest, which I think is reasonable.

No. He's planning to forcefully disrupt by blocking the stage. Narcissistic to the core: "My views and need for attention are more important than the other 8000 people here who may want to see this talk."
I love the phrase "virtue signaling," because someone non-ironically using it is openly admitting that the behavior question is virtuous, thus implying that the opposite behavior is wrong. This seems to be lost on most people.
Yeah the sensors are there, you can see them if you look closely
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