I'm sure those cops are still on the job and only got a slap on the wrist though.

So it's basically Reddit NFTs. Let's just call it as it is.

It is time for them to take back ownership and control. It is time for a change.

Lol. You're still on Reddit. You're not controlling shit.

As blockchain tokens that are owned and controlled by communities themselves — not by any app or platform — Community Points represent a way for Redditors to own a piece of their favorite communities.

You don't own it, it's made by Reddit, distributed by Reddit, and only useful on Reddit and not anywhere else. What's the meaning of decentralization and ownership if it's only useful in one place?

JFC, I just learned that they are retroactively applying this new rule. This means that games that are out already or have been on sale for multiple years will have to pay the runtime fee too. Insane. They can bankrupt a studio before they even release their next game.

There are a lot of things to hate about Apple, but this I can get behind. Get people using 3rd party messaging apps too! Preferably ones with e2e encryption.

Note that it's "per install" (they clarified that reinstalling on the same device only counts as one install), not per unit sold. And Unity will also track pirated copies, so the devs would still have to pay the fee even if they didn't sell it to you.

Megumin from KonoSuba. It's a hilarious show, I'd recommend giving it a watch.

"The new verification system will prevent bot spam!" - Some rich guy who has no idea how the internet works

Seriously, it's been such a pain reading Chinese content on Twitter/X/whatever. If you post any stuff that says something critical about China, no matter if it's news, opinions, or just shit posts, and have some amount of Chinese speaking followers, you are now guaranteed to have sex-bots spam commenting your every post. And you can't do anything about it, since they have multiple accounts, and some just leave the comment and block you so you can't remove it.

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I see your point, though I wouldn't put it that far. It's an edge case that has to happen in a very short duration.
Similar effects can be acheived with traditional cameras with rolling shutter.
If you're only concerned of relative positions of different people during a time frame, I don't think you need to be that worried. Being aware of it is enough.

I don't understand why the media isn't focusing more on United airlines maintenance issues, and still hammering on Boeing. I mean, Boeing deserves all the criticism, but a lot of the Boeing plane issues in the news recently are all old ones flown by United.

Where did you get your information that airliners send planes back to Boeing for maintenance? My quick search tells me that they generally don't, and they either do it themselves, or rely on third parties called Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) providers for heavier maintenance. In the case of United airlines, their MRO provider is called United Technical Operations, their own division.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance-disturbing-truth
https://simpleflying.com/aircraft-maintenance-checks/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I remember that SSDs lifespan mainly depends on how much you overwrite the drive. For 128TB, it should take you a very long time to overwrite the entire drive, let alone couple hundred or thousand times to kill the drive. I know that bit rot also happens on SSDs, but that applies to HDDs as well, and good drive maintenance practices should alleviate the issue. Though for archival purposes/cold storage, tape drives are probably better.

Tax breaks. Woohoo!

How this shitty legal manoeuvre is even allowed is so infuriating.

Physical media doesn't have the luxury of endlessly replicating itself via a simple copy and paste.

So I couldn't find a membership-free version of this article, and not considering to sign up for another website, so I'm commenting on what I can see. Edit: I signed up with 10 minute mail, it's an okay article.

I did the same search on Google Scholar, and it gave me 188 results. A good chunk of it are actually legitimate papers that discuss ChatGPT / AI capabilities and quoted responses from it. Still, a lot of papers that have nothing to do with machine learning have the same text in it, which I'm both surprised and not surprised.

As FaceDeer pointed out, the amount of papers schools have to churn out each year is astounding, and there are bound to be unremarkable ones. Most of them are, actually. When something becomes a chore, people will find an easier way to get through it. I won't be surprised if there were actually more papers that use ChatGPT to generate parts of it that didn't have the quote, students already do that with Wikipedia for their homework before ChatGPT was even a thing, this is just a better version of it. To be fair, it is a powerful tool that aggregates information with a single line of text, and most of the time its reliable. Most of the time. That's why you have to do your own research and verify its validity afterwards. I have used Microsofts Copilot, and while I do like that it gives me sources, it sometimes still gives me stuff that the original source did not say.

What I am surprised about is that, the professor, institute, or even the publisher didn't even think to do the basic amount of verification, and let something so blatantly obvious slip through. Some of the quotes appear right at the beginning of a paragraph, which is just laughable.

WHY? It's one of the reasons why I like Pixel cameras?!

I'm disappointed that so many features seem locked to the Pro and not the regular P8, and a lot of them don't make sense to me.
A lot of the AI stuff they talked about towards the end of the keynote seem to be locked with the P8P, even though the regular P8 shares the same chip so it has no reason not to be able to do the same things. Why?
Video Boost also seems to be locked to the P8P, which is more disappointing since half of it is run in the cloud and not on device, along with manual camera controls, which I think should be a basic feature every phone camera should have.

I was originally eyeing the P8P already, but I'm going to wait for reviews before making a decision. I currently have the P6a, and I already feel frustrated that a few software features like motion mode do not get updated to the earlier models. I feel the same frustration for people who want a regular P8 but are going to be missing out on software features not limited by hardware.

Apple M3 uses LPDDR5 and have transfer speeds of up to 6400 MT/s while LPDDR5X will have 8533 MT/s. LPCAMM2 is the connector type to replace SO-DIMM slots, it still uses LPDDR chips. According to this article, it would support speeds of up to 9600 MT/s. So unless I'm missing something, shouldn't speed not be much of a concern? I'm open to corrections.

Now comes the Great Russian Firewall.

Then we'll be able to see their communities and posts without having to give Reddit ad revenue, so they probably won't do that unless they are really desperate. Even if they attempt something like federate their posts as links to their site, instance owners could just defederate with them, then we're back to square one.

Although in the case of Starlink, one company is already putting enough space junk in LEO to affect astronomy research and photography. I can't imagine if there were more than one competitor.

Nebula works for now because it still has nowhere near the amount of videos being served and uploaded per minute than YouTube. Having to cache videos in servers all around the globe takes up significant cost too.

I guess having only one phone every year makes it immensely easier to support than having multiple models at every price range every year. Apple does it, why couldn't Android phone manufacturers do it?

To add on to that, signal BEFORE turning! I see so many drivers signal just when the lights go green and they are about to turn.

The point of signalling is to notify other drivers and pedestrians, not for yourself!

They kind of have to, otherwise it would be an Airbus monopoly, and there are plenty of planes they still need to deliver to customers. Management needs a total reshuffle for sure though.

China is deseparately trying to flip off every neighboring country, aren't they?

Foreign interference Anyone who opposes us

Anything to do with politics.
Your background will have to be audited thoroughly. Anything you say or do is going to get reported or even worse twisted. No financial freedom otherwise it would be seen as corruption no matter how small. You are expected to make the correct decisions for the future while not knowing how it would turn out, so you can't fix everything no matter how hard you try, you aren't going to make everyone happy, there are always people who are going to be pissed at you, you will get called in the worst names possible, and you are expected to have to take on all of that shit in the name of criticism.

A pair of Stardew Valley pendants from Etsy is probably more meaningful than diamond rings, tbh.

1. You probably would want to link the subreddit vote next time you claim there are extreme disparities between the vote count and user count. The mods may very well have not given enough time for people to vote, or people just plain didn't vote at all. But we don't know, except from your claim.

2. The users who vote will ALWAYS be much less than the people who lurk on social media, no exceptions. I'm of the opinion that if you don't vote/engage in the community you're in, you are complicit to anything the active users decide. Democracy.

There's another side to this. "Pre-planning" without proper forecast led to the housing crisis we are seeing today in China, with one of the largest developers in China Evergrande defaulting and filing for bankruptcy. A lot of people who were promised a good property and sunk their life savings into the project, now have no choice but to live in unfinished buildings in ghost towns without electricity nor water.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/10/31/crumbling-buildings-and-broken-dreams-chinas-unfinished-homes
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-home-buyers-occupy-their-rotting-unfinished-properties-2022-09-26/

Yup. When the game ends, you will see a list of player IDs you've met during your journey

From what I understand, colleges focus mainly on undergraduates, while universities provide undergraduate and graduate programs. It doesn't necessarily mean that colleges are always smaller or have less resources than universities though.

It's a very valuable spot geographically in the island chain too. With Taiwan under their control, they basically oversee all cargo ships coming through the South China Sea to East Asian countries like Japan and Korea, not to mention the additional economic area and military potential.

For the past few months if people were to say the P8 leaks were from Google to drive up hype, I would have believed them. But at this point, I just convinced that Google is just plain incompetent in keeping products under cover.
P8 and P8P are on preorder now, and Google would very much want all the hype and leaks to point to their upcoming higher-priced products to drive up preorder sales, and not a lower-priced product that would not be coming out yet in months, and may or may not be competing with the base model P8 for its value after the review embargo for the P8 drops. Putting out leaks intentionally for the P8a is just stupid at this point and time imo. Can anyone convince me why this would be a good idea?

It's pretty useful if you know exactly what you want and how to work within it's limitations.

Coworkers around me already use ChatGPT to generate code snippets for Python, Excel VBA, etc. to good success.

If only high end smartphone chips focus more on efficiency rather than performance, which for most people is already powerful enough for day to day use.

You're making an argument against LiDAR with it using UV/visible spectrum, guess what uses visible spectrum to see stuff? Cameras. And they also have an unfortunate downside of not having good dynamic range, so in very bright/low light situations they probably don't work that well either. Teslas aren't even using infrared cameras to see in the dark to my knowledge.

I don't think you need to be that worried about "tightening control to the likes of Apple". Given that they encourage people build their own cases for the motherboards, design and 3d print custom expansion cards, I won't be surprised if some 3rd party designs a whole new motherboard to fit in their chassis since the size is supposed to be standard. Iirc, Louis Rossman did do a video on them in the past that confirmed Framework would be willing to work with repair shops to provide them the schematics that they are able to provide to aid in repairs.

On the other topic, I agree that most people won't be needing to swap out parts that often. But that's also the beauty of modularity though. You buy the parts that you actually need and nothing else. Framework can sell the exact same chassis that still fills the need for different people who have different needs for ports. And since they're supposed to reuse the same chassis down the line, you are almost guaranteed to have parts still be available multiple generations after, unlike modern laptops where parts would be much harder to find after a couple of hardware refreshes.

Framework is still a niche product, thus they will definitely still be much more expensive than regular laptops due to scale and whatnot. Most people would be better off buying those tbh. But if you care about upgradability or repairability multiple years after purchase, I think they're still worth considering.

Can't speak for other people, but I use Twitter and Reddit for different reasons. I use Reddit for communities I have an interest in, so when the move to Lemmy/kbin started, it wasn't that hard for me to migrate over. For Twitter though, I use it to follow specific people and/or company news, so unless they decide to migrate to Mastodon or other platforms, Twitter will still be a site I visit.

Everything is magic if you don't understand how the thing works.