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For me, clicking that hides shorts for 30 days and then I need to click it again. So it's a monthly ritual.

> There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16

My iPhone X is stuck on iOS 16 with no way to upgrade.

However, the phone is still working well. Despite being in daily use for 8 years it still has 81% battery capacity, has never been dropped, has a great OLED screen, can record 4K@60 video. It is far more responsive than a brand new 2025 $200 Android phone from e.g. Xiaomi. It still gets security patches from Apple. The only real shortcoming compared to a modern iPhone is the low light camera performance. That and some app developers don't support iOS 16 anymore, so e.g. I can't use the ChatGPT app and have to use it via the browser, but the Gemini app works fine.

It impacts the buyer experience.

These two statements have a very different impact:

1. I love product X and I won't get paid if you buy it too.

2. I love product X and I will get paid if you buy it too.

Money motivates people to claim they love a product or that a product is good, even if not true. It's a problem that has plagued the internet for decades.

It's not about being anti-west, it's about the likelyhood of being invaded.

Kids have their own debit cards with their own bank accounts. Others can transfer money to the kid's account.

The other account may provide IMAP but it won't help you because GMail only supports POP (which is now going away). GMail does NOT support IMAP for 3rd party accounts.

The GMail mobile app does support IMAP, but that is different from GMail as a service supporting it. The mobile app having IMAP support does nothing for people who use a web browser.

Asus doesn't even test basic features, nevermind the extra ones. I have the 2017 Zephyrus GX501, which came with a Nvidia GTX 1080 which introduced HDMI 2.0 support. The Asus Zephyrus marketing material is boasting about HDMI 2.0 capability, the manual talks about HDMI 2.0 etc. However, in reality the device is limited to HDMI 1.4 bandwidth.

The problem isn't limited to some units, there was plenty of discussion online of this issue at the time of release. [1]

Asus never recalled, fixed, or even responded to the issue. Indeed, even the marketing page [2] still talks about how you can use HDMI 2.0 to connect 4K TVs at 60Hz.

It was also an interesting showcase of laptop reviewer incompetence. All the reviews just regurgitated Asus marketing material on how it has HDMI 2.0, but apparently nobody actually tested it.

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[1] https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/rog-zephyrus-series/gx501-zeph...

[2] https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-zephyrus/rog-zephyrus-gx501...

30 fps was not the norm, at least not with competitive games. Like Counter-Strike in 2000 on a CRT. Yes 1024x768 was common, but at 100 fps. Alternatively you would go to 800x600 to reach 120 fps.

It’s only when LCDs appeared that 60 Hz started being a thing on PCs and 60 fps followed as a consequence, because the display can’t show more anyway.

It’s true that competitive gaming has pushed the priority of performance, but this happened in the 90s already with Quake II. There’s nothing fake about it either. At the time a lot of playing happened at LANs not online. The person with the better PC got better results. Repeatedly reproduced by rotating people around on the available PCs.

Doesn’t Manhattan have radio based ISPs like 5G providers? Perhaps not ideal but far from a single ISP provider.

> unsolicited advice

He was the CTO of Oculus. Surely it is appropriate for the CTO to give advice on any big technical decisions, if not outright have veto power.

So they can sell you the next model which upgrades the RAM capacity.

They didn't transition out of game development. Dota 2 was under heavy development all these years after it "came out". It was only when Deadlock started heavy development that Dota 2 was winding down.

In addition to generation, there are also differences based on capacity. I know less about DDR5 specifics, but with DDR4 you had Micron having the best chips for 32GB dual-rank sticks, while Samsung had the best for smaller capacities.

Britain, or at the very least England, is also well known for its extreme politeness culture. Also, it's not that the US has a culture of genuine politeness, just a facade of it.

I have only spent about a year in the US, but to me the difference was stark from what I'm used to in Europe. As an example, I've never encountered a single shop cashier who didn't talk to me. Everyone had something to say, usually a variation of How's it going?. Contrasting this to my native Estonia, where I'd say at least 90% of my interactions with cashiers involves them not making a single sound. Not even in response to me saying hello, or to state the total sum. If they're depressed or in an otherwise non-euphoric mood, they make no attempt to fake it. I'm personally fine with it, because I don't go looking for social connections from cashiers. Also, when they do talk to me in a happy manner, I know it's genuine.

Better healthcare for fewer people. Might work well for space exploration.

> that sophisticated scams require

Yes, but most of these scam call centeres don't engage in sophisticated scams. They have pople fumbling through scripts. There's not much improvising. It's all about the quantity and finding the victims who are willing to look past the sea of red flags.

> Non-Schengen EU Passports are basically the same thing

It's not about passports, it's about border controls within the area. Before Schengen you would have to wait for hours and hours in a queue at the border. Now that border check doesn't exist anymore. The check doesn't exist regardless of what passport you have, there's just nobody there.

> Joining benefits the country's elites, rather than its general populace -- and it's these elites who decide whether to join.

That's bullshit. The decision to join is made via referendum.

Schengen is incredibly useful, especially if you have to transit through several countries. It's also true that the decrease in cash usage has reduced the benefit of the euro.

However, the benefits of a single currency go beyond cash. It's also about understanding prices. You see a sign for coffee and it's 1199 Hungarian Forint -- or it's 14.99 Polish złoty. It's not clear at all what those numbers mean. Sure it's possible to pull out a currency calculator app to see what the rate is today and what it means in euros. It's not an insurmountable problem, but it is bigger than a mere inconvenience. It's constant friction on not really understanding what's going on. If those coffee prices were instead 2.99 € vs 3.53 €, you would immediately see that the Polish coffee is 20% more expensive.

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As for the payment terminals offering to pay in Euro, as others have already noted, that's a scam. There is a hidden fee, usually around 3.5% - 5.0% of your total, that you get charged for this "convenience". Refusing this and paying in the listed currency will mean that your own bank will do the conversion, which is basically always going to be far cheaper.

Unfortunately this currency conversion scam is so lucrative that even big brands engage in it. Amazon for example asks what currency your card is in. If you select some currency other than what this sepecific Amazon's listed prices are in, well, you're in for another juicy hidden fee, this time to Amazon.

The core difference is that when Twitch plays an ad, they'll never send you that part of the video. [1] So buffering doesn't help. If YouTube would do this, you could have a custom player that preloads enough of the video so that all ads could be automatically skipped and as a viewer you wouldn't notice their existence. However, on Twitch, even if you're willing to give up the live factor and would buffer, you still would have missing parts of the video where an ad was placed. So you would lose content. [2]

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[1] They do send a super low resolution stream with no audio, but not the actual quality you are watching in.

[2] Right now Twitch does not stop sending content in markets where they don't have ad inventory. So there are actually browser extensions already that will use a custom foreign market server to proxy the video during ad breaks, so that you can still have an 100% effective ad blocker.

They do it when their real goal is to funnel you into a newsletter to later sell you stuff. The only purpose of the article is to show you that prompt.

Probably because most interactions were on company time. Because of course if the relationships were outside of work, then changing jobs would have little effect.

A transistor is just a way of connecting some wires, and that's exactly what it's good for. It's reducing a phenomenon into some core essence and pretending like there's not a bigger picture.

The beta versions contain lots of bug fixes. Some of those bugs are bad enough to want the fix fast.

The answer is probably profit margin. It's also not unusual at all for Nvidia to leave performance on the table in terms of production nodes. I mean just look at the RTX 3000 series which was made with Samsung 8LPH, categorized as a "10nm node". Even at the time, for a late 2020 launch, TSMC already had several generations which were better, in both the "7nm" an "5nm" categories.

Such answers are weak when verified by customer support. An attcker can try saying oh I just entered a bunch of random letters, I didn’t think I’d need to remember it and an unsuspecting non—security-expert customer service rep confirms the answer as accurate.

> Were the people working on this game dogfooding it themselves?

Well they certainly weren't dogfooding it after launch. The Concord credits list 1,972 professional roles [1] while a week after release the game had fewer than 150 players on Steam. [2] The game was so bad that not even the people who spent 8 years working on it had any interest in it.

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[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/229488/concord/credits/playst...

[2] https://steamdb.info/app/2443720/charts/#max

Sony also has other viable business and a lot of fans that will be more easily convinced to try the game. Concord isn't some random game, it's a massive bet by Sony, a giant in the gaming industry.

> usually quite delayed.

I used to be a regular reader of AnandTech since the early 2000s and the delays are what drove me off the site. Specifically when the Nvidia GTX 1080 launched on May 27, 2016. The AnandTech review came out 2 months later on July 20, 2016. [1] I had no problem waiting a whole week, but after that it was getting ridiculous. They just didn't serve their readers.

After I found replacement reviewers, mostly on YouTube, for my in depth reviews, I never went back to regularly visiting AnandTech. Their time had already passed in 2016 as far as I'm concerned. Not only were they delayed, but their reviews weren't even the most in depth any more.

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[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-...

It's definitely a cat and mouse game and no single method, including statistical analysis, is a silver bullet.

I'm definitely not advocating for doing less to counter cheaters. I'm just talking about how more could be done. As in, continue with existing methods and add new ones.

Also, yeah many cheaters would start being more conservative and manage to evade detection. However that is also a win. It's the aggressive obvious cheaters that are the worst, because it makes it obvious that the fight was unfair. If the cheater made it look plausibly legit, then the victim won't feel as bad.