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... yet. They’re building the hardware infrastructure to change that.

I mean, I get it, it’s fast. That’s good. But it’s so obvious people worry about the trend, not the exact current state.

You're right. This is why "defaults" need to be part of the conversation.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40403706/the-subtle-power-of-def...

There simply doesn't seem to be a culture of usability in Linux environments. "But, it's not that bad, I set up a Google/LibreOffice laptop for my mom!"– yes, it is! I hit a rage-wall any time I try to actually use a Linux distro as an 8+ hours a day working environment. Unless you almost exclusively work in command lines, it's no replacement for macOS (or even Windows, for that matter). And macOS does command lines just fine.

(btw, I admit that some of this has to do with a general lack of support for Linux by software and hardware companies, but there's only one side of this Linux distros can work on and that is making it a more pleasant environment for end users and most Linux users seem to sneer at that thought)

Word literally has this. Certainly InDesign.

To believe that to be a major concern, you'd have to seriously consider the possibility of science being a made up conspiracy theory. Which is a deep rabbit hole that ends up either in an existential crisis or a psych ward.

So much creativity, I got more gameplay out of these than in many 50 hour AAA epics. Great work!

Tech people faced with a perception/biology/social issue in a nutshell. It matters that it feels weird, that's the whole point. "Flip" is a human word, it's not a mathematical definition.

I wish I could side with one of the parties in this case but it's too complicated, too fucked up.

Epic would be perfectly happy with a big-boy exemption for Fortnite that the "little devs" (who actually might be hurt by the 30% cut or "walled gardens") would never see. They're half owned by Tencent, which stands for everything wrong with exploitative F2P tactics and China's foot-in-the-door politics. I don't want them to win.

But Apple, of course, is clearly planning to cut off open platform development in favor of a single-store system, slowly creeping into macOS. Worse: Microsoft is learning from them and will clearly attempt to replicate any such system should they be successful, which would end up in something closer to a true monopoly.

It's kinda awful. I wish this wasn't two companies suing each other over creed but an actual investigation by a government agency for exploiting a monopoly position.

Yea, but it's never spelled out like this.

>~30 TFLOPS

Jesus.

>Up until the release of iOS 9, Applebot ran entirely on four Mac Pro's in an office. Those four Mac Pro's could crawl close to 1B web pages a day.

The scale of web stuff sometimes surprises me. 1B web pages sounds like just about the daily web output of humanity? How can you handle this with 4 (fast) computers?

Software tends to fill the space it lives in. I have seen websites that are more taxing on my CPU than video games.

For me, one reason not to freak out about this is Photoshop.

It's been around for decades. Perfect photographic fakes (literally called "photoshops") are possible. Yet is there a great crisis of fake photographs taking over the news? Not really. The actual "fake news" barely even bother with photoshop (and those for whom it works, don't care about the quality). It's somehow still fairly easy to get context and at some point, you just have to trust a news outlet, just like you had to trust them for text-based news.

All we see is a trend of making it easier for people to subscribe to a bubble of "news" that fits their world view. The quality of the fakeness barely factors into this.

Steve Jobs once said about Microsoft that their only problem is that they have no taste. And it's decisions like this that illustrate what he meant. TikTok is such a clash with everything Microsoft stands for as a company (if there is such a thing). It makes no sense.

It's weird, it should be able to answer "which animal has no legs" and get a snake (or a fish, a worm, etc).

Yo, GPT-3 is freaky!

Even in the most obnoxiously nerdy interpretation, it would be (2*n)^2, not 2^2.

This is IMO a more relevant question than it seems. You'd think so, but it's absurdly rare to see real-world uses of demo techniques like this (not only talking about fluid-sims, here). I long wondered why this is (easy answer: because it's hard).

These things are often designed to run very efficiently and getting maximum effect out of limited hardware and memory. It's perfect for, say, a small indie game looking for a cool background effect or something. I'm sure there's examples, but I couldn't even come up with one.

Notice it also identifies as "Mozilla", because User-Agent strings are more about not breaking shit than actually reporting what's going on.

It's still far from this to "calorie counting is useless". There's very specific health issues you should probably clear with your doctor and there's inaccuracies. But how far off can calorie counting be for simply losing weight? 10%? 20%? It still serves as a good estimate.

I've only ever been slightly overweight but once wanted to lose 8kg to feel a little less chubby. All those highly complex miracle diets just overwhelmed me, I didn't want to limit my range of different food items and I didn't want to set schedules. Counting calories was by far the easiest solution. And it worked!

You don't even have to carry a little notebook with you, entering exact numbers to the single digits and making charts. All you have to do is read the labels on footstuff from the supermarket and look up estimates for common dishes. Keep a rough number (+/- 100 calories) of today's calories consumed in the back of your head and try to stay beneath 2/3 of your body's base level and you're golden. It's so easy and often doesn't even feel like a sacrifice since it's usually just leaving out that stupid chocolate bar (reading those labels is half the exercise, it's a constant reminder that all the cliches about fast food and soft drinks making you fat are true).

Now there's a lot of healthy things you can do to your diet that have nothing to do with losing weight and there's further optimizations that go beyond calorie counting. But if loosing weight is your singular goal, calorie counting is still the easiest way to do it. It might be inaccurate but you don't really need accuracy to remind yourself that this food fills you up 3 times as fast as that other food.

So how fast will this be compared to native? As I understand, it's not "emulation" but something more low level?

I had to resist the urge to post something similar and yea, it's still way too hard to track down documentation for already solved stuff like this, so there's great value in an article demystifying the process.

You’re complaining about two sentences in a 3000 word article. Read on. It’s raw information from there. You are also allowed to skip the pictures.

Haven't been following this, is there any major site where this makes an impact? Youtube?

I've seen fastmail pop up a lot, I should definitely give it a shot. I have to look up that subdomain forwarding, it sounds neat.

>What’s a good privacy-oriented, web-based email service? I’ve heard of ProtonMail but haven’t used it.

Been Firefox user out of conviction for 10+ years, made the switch to DuckDuckGo as my main search engine with about a year ago, no regrets. But Gmail? It's sticky.

I have so much stuff tied to my email account and it just sucks looking for alternatives. I'd even happily pay. The main difficulty is finding a service that's as mature, feature-wise, as Gmail and a sensible way to migrate all my stuff (email-logins for major websites, informing clients of the new address, etc).

I think the best compromise is using two accounts for a couple of years, heavily focusing on the non-Gmail one and dropping Gmail once you had no interaction with it for a while. But all the obvious alternatives people post don't quite cut it for me, I've been searching for ages.

They're getting much better.

I'm seeing AMP in random links non-techy people post all the time, it's depressing and it's become basically 50% of URLs I see posted.

>Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit.

This reminds me of the EU Internet Explorer lawsuit, which was peanuts compared to what Google is doing right now. Between Google Search, Chrome, Android, Youtube, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, AMP and likely 5 more things I forgot, they've stealth-grabbed so much of the internet, it's not even funny. At least force them to split off their ad/datahoarding businesses.