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Well, it is just counting natural numbers and making up placeholders for whenever a subtraction or division wouldn't work out.

Upper left corner: "Block Vibes, Curated by Jay-Z" is probably the most silicon valley thing I've ever seen on a website.

It's all going to crash horribly, isn't it?

Ineresting!

The first line: "This demo requires a decent graphics card and up-to-date drivers." made me chuckle at the humbleness since I'm running this in Firefox on a 10 year old laptop. Buttery smooth (I'd say 60fps) at what seems full native resolution.

I guess it's the "up-to-date" drivers part (or rather, browsers playing along with existing drivers) that makes the difference.

I'm sorry, but I can't connect the dots in that story.

1) He did great (like, there's actual metrics mentioned)

2) Others wanted a different direction (even though he did great?) and didn't tell him

3) They excluded him from meetings

4) They fired him

5) He blamed not "re-centering" himself

In the notes, he mentions that one of his later decisions (splitting engineering) was a bad choice. So isn't that the core of it, then?

The way he describes it, it sounds like the problem was him not being himself but it sounds like it's a simple management error that the others were too socially awkward to point out to him, instead firing him outright.

But wouldn't this allow to decrypt any future patch data and see exactly what was changed, thus allowing to bypass it?

>Are consoles cheaper “per transistor” or sth? If so, why?

Yes. Because of scale and optimization.

But that's more of a side-effect than the real reason. It's mostly about having a device you can switch on and instantly play. No installing drivers. No picking parts. No incompatibilities.

I've been building my own PCs for over a decade but I'm losing interest. It's such a hassle. I do 90% of my gaming on my Switch. Games I had on Steam for years and barely touched I suddenly play through in a week on the Switch. Why? Convenience.

What I don't get about the touch bar is: Why didn't they put it above the F-keys as an additional input? There's room there. Why remove the F-keys (and, even more insanely, the ESC key)? People were more upset about that than any limitation in the touch bar's usability. It obviously adds some possibilities. It's just that some programs actually use the F-keys and have for decades. They provided a no-look keypress feedback for many tasks. What ever was the genius idea of taking that away?

I want this to be true but to be honest, I care less about the Ive angle than them simply doing it! It seems like someone with power said, "hey, what are these letters P, R and O standing for, again?".

Team SE! I miss absolutely zero features on it, which is bizarre for a pocket computer. What happened in these 5 years?

Ancient life is all romantic until you think of what you're going to do when you need a dentist.

Still a good thing.

Hyper-naive question: If something can run in 5 minutes, how can it bother an ISP?

Wait, they're just photoshoping her face? That's a whole less impressive than I thought.

Recent advancements in AI made me wonder whether human intelligence is little more than a "stochastic parrot" with a large enough training set. If I dig down far enough, almost any knowledge could be learned and understood that way. You can write a math book using natural language. Even smart people occasionally make simple mistakes when doing math, isn't that just a "stochastic" error as well?

Why does T-Mobile have driver license information? Or social security numbers, for that matter?

Microsoft‘s UX incompetence to market dominance ratio continues to baffle me. I’ve pretty much settled on blaming this on MS winning some race to first OS/Office software useable enough for mass adoption and just forcing all the rest since. If you think of productivity hours destroyed because of Excel quirks and Windows rebooting at the worst possible time, this is maybe the most damage a monopoly has ever done to the economy. But the people who had the power to stop this probably use Word and own Microsoft stock. We’re stuck.

Thank god this is the top comment. I came in here thinking, "that can't possibly be legal". I understand there's advantages to larger acquisitions but the past decades have been ridiculous. The fact that "AOL Time Warner" was ever allowed to exist is ridiculous.

And it puts the entire structure behind a giant blackbox. Yucky.

As if fate tries to prove a point, I recently struggled with a random ass google docs document and just wanted to download and import to use in my own spreadsheet software. There probably would have been a Google Approved way of doing it but if there was, they intentionally made it hard. I ended up copying the HTML somehow. I guess that will no longer be possible in the near future.

That should be the headline, really, lol.

I don't really get how trends like this one (and IMO that's just the tip of the ice berg – this is companies preparing for the inevitable legislation that will make most forms of tracking illegal within the next 10 years) don't affect facebook or google stock.

This IMO makes two scenarios likely:

1) The market is currently just dragging along, hoping this will all go away and we're really in a major ad-bubble that's about to pop.

2) Tracking... isn't that profitable after all. All the personalized tracking shit can be replaced with a simple "users who clicked on canon printer also clicked on cheap ink refill kits" type of model that gets the same results or better. Which also puts into question a lot of what FB and Google are actually doing.

Feature counts are meaningless. There’s only like a dozen things in Photoshop you actually need. What counts is a smart, efficient UI with a good hierarchy and consistent arrangement. Gimp fails entirely at this, not any feature issues. I’d happily strip 80% of its features for an interface that doesn’t awkwardly overlap buttons at the least convenient moment.

Photopea instead copies Photoshop’s interface, which is its real asset.

Considering how niche it is, that's a super snappy and well designed site!

EDIT: Just saw they had outages, but I guess nobody ever expected it to be trending on twitter. Works fine for me.

I find it interesting how hard it is to think of a question that truly cannot be answered by just reading lots of text. Stuff like "how can you carry water without a vessel?" (you freeze it!), which might stump a lot of AI models. But then you think... there should be texts that explain that ice is water and that ice can be carried. Similarly, the problem with numbers (lenghth, height, etc) isn't a lack of data, it's messy notation which is still easily parsed by human readers and probably could be solved.

If anything, I've become more convinced that text alone has enough information to solve some eerily specific problems. It's quite a powerful tool.

"First I didn't like it because it takes longer to learn, then I discovered the obvious features that are the reason TypeScript was invented in the first place."

Anyone know the bandwidth they're working with, at least roughly?

I never believed in VR as a mainstream thing but AR keeps me curious. There's a Hololens demo on youtube that shows a bunch of virtual monitors of arbitrary size and shape floating around the user. That's potentially awesome. Think the desktop "windows" concepts but with virtual monitors, 3D UI elements where useful. This could have potential. I'd say the technology to make it workable as something you wanna wear for 8 hours a day still isn't there yet, though, and probably won't be until some major breakthrough. It's not just resolution, it's battery, contrast, size... I don't see anything I'd personally want to use with current or next-year tech.

I tried about half a dozen cloud backup solutions and Dropbox, so far, is the only one who can deliver the only thing that matters to me: Consistency. Dropbox actually works and it works well. It can handle suddenly having thousands of tiny text files, it can handle a 5GB PDF, it handles foreign letters in file names and it has a sane way of determining which file version is the current one when switching between platforms.

It gives me cold sweat to read headlines like this since there aren't enough alternatives to Dropbox that "just work". Similar to what happens to Apple. I have no idea why Dropbox is fucking around with their shit so much. I'd happily pay a dollar more here and there (and they just increased pricing!), just don't do bullshit in the background.

It always seemed like RAD makes the kinds of tools you want as a developer who likes to run its own core systems and license powerful components for key issues. To think these tools will now be locked into the bloated Unreal Engine makes me feel a bit sad. It's like a lot of game companies get bought up by giants in a "just because we can" fashion, recently, and I can't help but wonder how this de-prioritizes quality and diversity in the industry.

I've seen a few of these kinds of interactive articles on hackernews but this is on a whole new level. Wow. One of the best explanations of just about anything I have ever seen.

What’s holding back VR (for 30 years, now) isn’t tech, it’s a lack of real use cases. Maybe AR for more of an office environment thing. But VR gaming is a niche, just conceptually.