The graphical user interface.
They don’t invent it (xerox PARC did), but Apple correctly identified that the user experience of existing computer systems was holding it back from being a thing everyone owns, and made computers a bad fit for many types of work that seem extremely obvious now (digital media creation particularly)
They did this more or less again with the smartphone: business folks and super nerds were the smartphone market before Apple. Now it’s the average person’s computer.
Moving too dumb. Something caused Microsoft to ban OpenAI for its employees last week, probably a massive security blunder that we hopefully get to find out about eventually.
Literally the only property of Eidos that I care about, and it was bad enough that the studio wasted so much time on that garbage avengers game rather than finish the deus ex story they left hanging.
Maybe it’s because cars suck now: filled with spyware, massively complex systems that aren’t better at doing car things than similar systems in the 90s, and with a price tag that considers this garbage as worth something to the consumer.
Give it 5 years and the board is going to have the “I told you so” of a generation
Hard to find on non-pc gear, but that’s a fair point
There is a whole lot of sky, my dude. I don’t think it’s plausible that we could capture even 1% of the kinetic energy of wind currents if we wanted to.
But also, wind is ultimately solar energy: the sun heats up parts of the planet at a time, the temperature differences cause pressure differences, and pressure flows from high to low. If we could somehow capture most of that kinetic energy, the result would be that areas which heat up stay warmer, and areas which don’t heat up as much stay cooler.
But we’re talking about gravity-bound gases, here. If we tried to capture too much, the gases would just find an easier route to equalize, such as going above our turbine network.
Homeschooling is child abuse, in the majority of cases. Kids need to interact with other kids, and be taught by people who are trained to do it effectively with curriculum that isn’t based on the invisible man in the sky’s alleged preferences.
I had my policy canceled for having a 15 year old roof, no heads up or chance to remediate any actual issues. Insurance companies are just dicking Californians because they hate being regulated.
Upsides:
Downsides:
Well, to be “fair,” a significant portion of homophobes believe an invisible man in the sky said it was bad, according to some guys who knew some guys who knew a guy that died several hundred years before they wrote that into their “things the invisible man in the sky said” collection of fan fiction.
Idk, if it keeps incels from shooting up schools let them fuck their computers.
Cybersecurity, as a profession, is a fool’s errand.
Dedicated security staff exist solely to teach real engineers how to do their job, and the fact that such personnel exist is a catastrophic failure in computer science curriculum
And it’d be illegal to provide education on why conflating those facts is inappropriate
There’s a time to think, and a time to act. And this, gentlemen, is no time to think.
Government shutdown should force an emergency election for everyone in Congress. Fucking get it together, leaders.
It would probably cost like $1 of components to make most led bulbs resilient to all but spookiest of power delivery, but why sell something once when you can make them buy it over and over again
Yeah I mean that’s why we declared war on airplanes after 9/11
We’re hitting the point where people who played Bioshock and missed the lesson have money.
When they go forward with this, ad and privacy blocking will stop working and people will be pissed off enough to switch to Firefox
To be fair, I still bitch about the 2000 election, and I’m not even Al Gore
Austin hasn’t been affordable since well before the pandemic, and has higher overall taxes for most of the people moving there. Also it’s hot, the electrical grid sucks, and you can’t get an abortion. I just don’t get it.
Steam has a two hour refund window. Watch a stream and then set a timer and try it out.
Or the revolutionary war. Pretty fundamental.
“Open”AI is entirely proprietary and closed-source.
Meta’s Llama series are kind of open source, but don’t publish the weights and so can’t really be reproduced with full accuracy without a ton of manual effort.
These and many other companies in the hype-space are using the same published research from a few years ago, which is why they have similar qualities.
200 vulnerabilities, 2-3 that might actually be exploitable, and no prioritization. But look at these metrics!
That petition and a nickel is worth about 5 cents. Go get a better OS.
Fast food will always be at the forefront of enshittification. Ghost Kitchens are yet another innovation that takes advantage of the fact that you, as the customer, have no idea how much of a horror show their operation is because they aren’t a physical presence you can just walk into (I guess you could pretend to be a doordasher). You have to put complete faith in the health inspector.
Props to Bethesda for releasing an original IP, but unfortunately the game sucked
Orion supports Firefox and chrome extensions
https://archive.is/6mRkf archive of the pluralistic article in full, which lacks the shitty authwall.
They share ram with gpu, which means they need more of it for equivalent memory space, not less. There’s no magic that makes less memory work like more other than swap, and swap is slow as fuck, even with a high speed ssd (which the m3’s actually have slower ones).
Compute costs money, it’s more ethical to charge your users than it is to throw shady ads at them which link to malware.
A stealth-action game where walpeach kidnaps each of bowsers kids
It’s moderately common in my social circles to argue that South Dakota is a hoax
Homework should be reading, class should be demonstration and practice
lol you’re dreaming if you think Apple is going to introduce a new computing platform and not wall its garden off so it can take a cut of all sales. That’s just how it is now, and every year they take a little freedom away from macOS. Mac users haven’t had true root for years.
If this guy isn’t rolling his own distro he’s basically a scrub like the rest of us.
That usage data is neat! Also really fucking creepy. I hate that we’ve normalized just whole-hog spying on people.
Sounds like hdmi Forum are a bunch of twats. Time for a new format.