JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz

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JohnEdwa,

Xen was really rushed and shorter than originally intended in HL1 though, and part of the idea with BM was to flesh it out properly. Might have gone a bit too far, but it was also one of the few places in the project where they could truly come up with something new and unique, and not just redo what Valve had made before them.

JohnEdwa,

Hopefully they can make use or get rid of it fast, as the upkeep with these superyachts can be ridiculously expensive, and if you slack on it, you’ll quickly end up with an even bigger repair bill or just a worthless pile of scrap.

The Amadea costs the US government almost $1 million a month for example.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

NACS is just the standard CCS protocol shoved in the objectively better Tesla plug, and part of making it a standard is the requirement of opening the design for everyone to use. So while the plug is from Tesla, they actually were the ones that switched to the CCS protocol first and dropped their own proprietary system, which is how they were able to open the Supercharger network to other cars in the first place.

And that’s also why NACS is backwards compatible with all current EV chargers that already exist with a simple adapter - either by the driver, or by swapping the cable.

JohnEdwa,

There’s also the Verbatim search found under Tools -> All Results. The URL parameters are &udm=14 for web search and &tbs=li:1 for verbatim.
Combine the two and you get a very clean page with search results that actually have all the terms you were looking for.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

The public votes for one thing, and the “professional” jury selects someone entirely different -Switzerland came fifth, but won.

JohnEdwa,

But not why our clothes are so “cheap”. If you have never checked AliBaba, you just can’t understand what kind of price points we are talking about. Printed T-shirts for $0.39. Hot pots for $3.70. USB hubs with HDMI out for $2.90. The list goes on and on.

A $10 T-shirt, 25x more than wholesale, could go up to $10.80 and you would hardly notice, but that would mean the worker could be paid three times as much for making it. Instead, the worker gets paid nothing, the manufacturer gets paid peanuts, and whoever is reselling them to us takes in 90% of the profit.

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during ‘Replay’ moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being...

JohnEdwa,

Spot the part in the article how they want to do it “again”? Now think what that implies.

Hint: Burnout Paradise, a racing game published by EA, was released in 2008.

JohnEdwa,

CC attribution doesn’t require you to necessarily have the credits immediately with the content, but it would result in one of the world’s longest web pages as it would need to have the name of the poster and a link to every single comment they used as training data, and stack overflow has roughly 60 million questions and answers combined.

JohnEdwa,

That is how it started. It was a non-profit with the goal to release all their patents and research for free.

That lasted for a few years, and then the people running it realized they could instead all become filthy rich and nobody could do anything about it. So they did that.

But don’t worry, they are a capped for-profit now! They can only make 100 time the amount of money as they have investments. So they’ll stop when they have reached … checks notes… Around $1.3 trillion.

JohnEdwa,

appropriate credit — If supplied, you must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties, a copyright notice, a license notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material. CC licenses prior to Version 4.0 also require you to provide the title of the material if supplied, and may have other slight differences.

Maybe that could be just a link to the user page, but otherwise I would see it as needing to link to each message or comment they used.

JohnEdwa,

TikTok is solely responsible for that AI voice. Instagram and Twitter have never done anything that compares to the pain and suffering that has caused to humanity.

JohnEdwa,

Assuming 1 second per swap, a 64 disk tower of hanoi would take 585 billion years to solve - it has 2^64 -1 swaps.

JohnEdwa,

They also pay Mozilla over $400 million a year for the same. And as around 90% of the income for Mozilla is from the search engine deals, they’d go out of business without them.

JohnEdwa,

The actual Nokia hasn’t been in the mobile phone business for a decade. They sold it all to Microsoft in 2014 with a licence deal for using the Nokia name, and they then sold it to HMD Mobile in 2016. That name deal should expire this year, but they might renew it.

JohnEdwa,

Emulation isn’t illegal, reversing encryption isn’t illegal, software patents aren’t valid in some countries.

That’s for example why the US can’t do anything about VLC “breaking” DVD encryption, as they are based in France and aren’t doing anything wrong.

JohnEdwa,

It’s not about the speed - the minimum requirements for Win 11 are a 1Ghz dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM- it’s because of the processor generation. Not sure if there’s been an official explanation, but the going consensus is that they aren’t going to officially support almost anything that is susceptible to Meltdown or Spectre.
That doesn’t mean Win 11 doesn’t work or couldn’t be installed on that hardware, they just don’t officially support it.

JohnEdwa,

SSE4.2 specifically, POPCNT is part of that. It was introduced in 2008, while the previous requirement for Win 10, Win 8, and in Win 7 after a 2018 update has been SSE2 from 2000. So Windows 11 bumps the oldest hardware requirement from 18 years up when introduces to 16/17 years.

FWIW, I believe from Linux Mint 20 onward it doesn’t have 32-bit builds so it isn’t compatible with processors that don’t support x86-64, and the first Intel processor to support that is from 2004.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

Libraries buy either physical books, or licenses to ebooks, and can only lend out as many of them as they own at a time. IA skirted the line by lending out self-digitized versions based on how many physical books they had, which was a grey area, but technically maybe not illegal.
They then disabled that lending limitation.

There’s really nobody who would argue that taking a CD, ripping it to MP3s, and providing those for unlimited download is anything except piracy, and the people suing IA are claiming same goes for books. And it is rather hard to find a compelling legal reason why it isn’t.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

They should. But you can’t exactly be surprised if you get in trouble because you broke the law, no matter how stupid you think that law is.
I think it’s stupid that you can’t always turn right on a red light. Plenty of people would agree. I’ll get a ticket if I do it anyway, and it’ll be my own fault.

JohnEdwa, (edited )

Because the internet has made it both easier to do, and to enforce.

But it’s not a new thing at all, patents and copyrights have been enforced from pirates for well over a hundred years. This is from 1906

After printing ABS almost exclusively for about a decade, I'm rediscovering PLA and its fancy variants (feddit.it)

I think 1kg spools are too much, I want to experiment with ALL THE COLORS… But few manufacturers offer 250g, and they are sometimes twice the cost by weight. https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/2658590c-535c-4523-9dd2-25663ba7bc23.webp

JohnEdwa,

PLA as a raw material is really cheap - you can get it for as little as a few dollars a kilo - and a lot of the cost of a filament roll is just making the spool, packaging, and shipping it. In the end, the price difference between 250g and 1kg of PLA on a roll is rather tiny. Goes the other way too, you can buy 5kg rolls that come down to just $10-15/kg.

The same reason why a can of cola is so expensive compared to a big bottle.

JohnEdwa,

You did try drying it in a dehydrator before you did that, right?
Because I have spools almost that old, they print fine after a night in there. Brittle as dry spaghetti if I don’t though.

JohnEdwa,

NACS is essentially CCS in a Tesla plug, so the only reason there isn’t any yet is that nobody has made the switch yet - any CCS charger could be converted by just swapping the plug.
But it also means passive adapters work and are cheap, so there’s no hurry really.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I’m sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I’m sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I’m sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it’s been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one...

JohnEdwa,

Predictive text is literally the one thing LLM AI would be the best at, and for some reason we don’t seem to use it for it.

JohnEdwa,

I absolutely loved the Mako. I know I’m in the minority, but I just love how it drives. And stomping on a Colossus with the jump jets is always funny.

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