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No, the problem is no one is willing to pay for any of these services.

How many people are paying for their news? For something like YouTube? That stuff costs mega $$$

Back in the day, you were forced to pay for things. You wanted news? You had to put in some coins for a newspaper.

Now you sign on and you get news and YouTube seemingly for free… open standards or not, someone has to pay for it one way or another.

The article says Apple won though?

It probably has nothing to do with getting the car back.

It’s probably to avoid lending the car to higher risk demographics.

It’s a test.

The rental car company basically loses fewer cars overall and thus has lower insurance premiums, and thus can offer cars cheaper than other rental companies that do not require a credit card (if any even still exist?) that have higher premiums to pay.

Credit reporting makes getting loans easier because lenders are more willing to give loans when they can look up your credit rating instead playing it safe and declining you because they have nothing to judge the risk with.

You also get fraud protection.

It’s not free, but you’re not necessarily paying for it. The main concern is that some people are definitely paying for it disproportionally more than others.

They did not invent credit cards. Diners Club was a charge card. They did not invent that either. American Airlines had their own charge card a few decades before.

They did start the first payment card that wasn’t linked to a specific company (i.e. the American Airlines card).

But imagine a world where everyone had 2Gbps Internet but your site could only push 0.2Gbps per user.

Then soon your site will be the slowest one around and you’d want to catch up.

Personally I think the innovation required to refine something pales in comparison to first inventing something new. It’s just so less risky and so less expensive. You start with something that already know works and that’s huge.

If you’ve ever tried to DIY something, it’s so so much harder if you can’t find someone who has done it already.

So to me, the people who may have made 3D printing cheaper aren’t exactly in the same class of innovation and risk.

There will always be investment.

But it’s not black and white. Some people will do things for $10, others $20, others $50. We all have a different price.

With patents, it’s basically offering $50 so you get the most people doing it as possible.

If we did away with patents, it would be like offering $20. Sure, R&D will still happen… just less.

Log + LUT as a final product would look the same but take up more file size.

Right now we can transmit levels of black with a regular 8-bit PNG file. The issue is that you can’t display it unless you are using an OLED screen, which your phone probably has but your computer monitor doesn’t (usually due to $$ for your average person).

Well I could reasonably bike up one specific very steep hill near my place without downshifting much until I got covid.

Then it took me more then half a year to get back to that point. It was a very slow recovery but most importantly, it could be quantitatively measured first from how far until I had to disembark my bike to walk up the rest of the hill to eventually the lowest gear I had to to shift into to get to the top without ever disembarking.

I’ve never had any other flu-like sickness cause me to be weak for so long.

Storing data on a logarithmic scale requires a higher bitrate otherwise it will actually look worse.

So for a finished product, the way it is now is better.

Plus storing extra data in the dark areas for display is pointless. You only do it because you want to manipulate the data and maybe bring something out of the dark area, but in the final product, dark is dark.

If you, for whatever reason, wanted to give the user more data, then you would provide a 10-bit or 12-bit linear file.

Not OP but what you’re saying is absolutely true.

But first someone has to invent it. Nobody’s gonna spend a few thousand or million dollars to invent something unless they get their money and more back, so that’s the point of patents.

And if they patent something and don’t capitalize on it enough, that’s their loss, because they had to detail their invention in their patent application and that’s public information. Patents last only 20 years and for most industries, that’s not very long.

(That said, I think software patents are a different beast. Because 20 years in software engineering is like 100 years in civil engineering, for example, since software engineering is like a few thousand years younger discipline than civil.)

Once you meet enough people you realize DUI has nothing to do with driving ability.

One of the most to-the-book buddies I know is also the worst driver I know. He once had a gnarly accident where he flipped his car a few times because he had to look at his GPS briefly. I hate sitting in his car. He insists on always being the driver too because you can tell he finds driving overwhelming but thinks he’s actually good at it. Lol.

I have another buddy who does have a past DUI. He’s extremely coordinated and I have never felt unsafe in his car.

At the end of the day, if I had to choose someone to suspend their license forever, it would be my first buddy. I don’t care if he has a clean record. He simply was not gifted hand-eye coordination and is already a menace while sober.

It isn’t when high quality sites don’t really exist.

The high quality sites ARE reddit and the like.

No normal person is going to spend the time to make and maintain a blog, especially if it doesn’t make them any money unless they spam it with ads.

But that’s the point. You get a bunch of competing opinions in one spot and writing a reddit comment doesn’t require maintaining a blog so you get a greater diversity of opinions.

I rarely see a good independent blog.

Honestly the barrier to entry for a blog is very low and the benefit isn’t very high unless you spam it with ads, so who is exactly taking the time to make a blog?

That’s because for everyone who needs a beefier CPU, the Raspberry Pi 4 hasn’t even been on the table.

People add reddit to searches because it gives high quality answers.

That’s not a Google problem. That’s a problem with the Internet.

Your average independent website or blog puts up some heavily biased answer that is just limited to that one writer’s perspective.

Umm what? I hear “50% more time” all the time.

50% to 200% is 0.5x slower to 2x slower.

People seem to be confusing “% slower/more time” vs “% of current time”

Yeah that’s nothing.

My busy discussion forum built in PHP running on a toaster of a server was handling way more load than that 15 years ago.

Wouldn’t be surprised.

Truthfully I’m most worried about the thumbs. I feel like they can ache if I’ve been doomscrolling for hours

Maybe I’m a leet kid but I type 65 WPM on my phone so I find actual typing on my phone on par with typing on desktop, except if special punctuation is involved.

…but the whole mobile experience is still terrible with a lot of scrolling, panning, and annoying text selection.

I’m aware most people don’t type that fast so they would never type on mobile but for those that do, it would be sweet if the mobile experience was better.

One thing I found out on iOS recently is that you can shake your phone for text undo.

I wouldn't say airline regulation was a great exercise about command economies planning and allocating resources.

The whole point of regulation was to keep prices up so the airlines wouldn't implode like rail did. It was not meant to keep prices down.

So when we got rid of airline regulation, prices went down. Some airlines did implode, but not as badly as rail did.

Thankfully for airlines, it seems flying is a lot more indispensable than riding by rail.

Pretty sure this is by design, not by a side effect. National ID systems are not super popular.

Inefficiency is strangely sometimes the only reliable way to prevent consolidation of power.

Truthfully, as someone who has done a lot small scale growing between over the last few years, using everything from soil to hydroponics, I find it hard to believe that natural techniques will ever come close to mechanization and artificial means. Pesticides and chemical fertilization are so extremely effective. You get hand over fist yield with them.

A world with shared food forests and locally grown food is probably a world with far fewer people.

I think high population and natural farming are mutually exclusive.

Well most games usually get built once on one version so it doesn’t matter if the engine changes.

I have an M1 but I first remember thinking it was very impressive that my Mac could run these AI models…

…until I tried the same on my RTX 4070 and it made my Mac look like a joke.

For the 30 seconds my Mac would have taken for 1 result, which will probably need revising, the RTX would give me 30 results.

However the RTX was half the cost of my Mac, so it’s not a good investment if I just want to generate some images. I’d rather pay for the cloud if I didn’t have the RTX already.

Definitely referring to anonymous unions too. Without them, there’s still friction sometimes which makes union types unnatural.

I haven’t written Java in a while and I can’t remember if you could sometimes fake a type union using a generic type on a method, but if you can, it’s definitely super ugly and would raise eyebrows during any code review.

Well when Sun imploded and Oracle stepped in, Java stopped getting regular releases for 10 years. Java versions literally came out every 2 years before Oracle happened.

So that’s why they’re 10 years behind. But now they come out like 2+ times a year so they’re on track making major progress.

Also the null thing hasn’t been an issue for over 10 years. Just use null annotations and both your static checker and your IDE will catch every NPE.

This problem is partly a type system limitation however.

In a more flexible type system with union types and other magical features, your example problem would be less of an issue.

However Java has an extremely limited type system so there is no middle ground between composition and inheritance. Once you choose one way, there is no “middle step” to migrate over.