echodot
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- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 1 day ago:
I’m colour blind so there’s basically only three colours on this graph but what I’m assuming is showing is that windows is decreasing in popularity and apparently so is OS X. I’m assuming the other colour is Linux or crown but no idea which is which.
The reference when making graphs make them in black and white first and if they are visually distinct then you can add whatever colours you want.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 day ago:
Given that it’s the engine Egyptians, they’ll be cat videos.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 1 day ago:
Well they are competing with Minecraft.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 1 day ago:
I watched the gameplay trailer when it came out and I can’t say it was particularly invigorating. It was mostly endlessly slash at zombies then endlessly slash skeletons.
Doesn’t exactly scream deep combat mechanics.
- Comment on Don't leave home without it 2 days ago:
Let’s go back to bartering, 1 egg = 256kb of RAM
For an ostrich egg you can get RGB too
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 days ago:
It’s the only way to get a pay rise. You have to work with the idiots or they don’t give you any money.
The problem is the people in charge are not the people that should be in charge. I suppose it’s my fault for not getting an MBA.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 2 days ago:
This guy is into some really weird stuff, and not the normal henti that everyone else is asking for.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 days ago:
I don’t think openAI is as well-known a Google.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 days ago:
Oh good. AI is collapsing and it’s taking Oracle with it.
- Comment on [id Software, the] Studio Behind Doom [and Quake, Wolfenstein] Just Unionized 2 days ago:
Good for them. Know one likes been ionized
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 3 days ago:
But it’s just as easy to blow up with a bomb. So it evens out.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 days ago:
Oh yeah, and and they would mostly be terrible, except one brand no one has ever heard of but, it’s apparently a big name in China, and called something like Zloks would inexplicably be the king of that particular niche product.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 days ago:
I hate the Wi-Fi remote thing. My TV has a Wi-Fi remote and it runs off of AA battery and they last about 4 days and then run out. If I hadn’t replaced them with rechargeable ones they would have probably had to open a new landfill site just for my old batteries.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 days ago:
As much as I agree I think it would have been a bad move for them to do that. The device is success is already highly dependant on its price, which is still in flux as far as I understand, there is no reason for them to make the decision even more difficult.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 days ago:
It’s got DP as well though so it’s not all that bad. We really should be pushing manufacturers over to DP anyway.
It’s literally the same feature set.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 3 days ago:
Well I used to go to Vegas quite often for conferences and now that’s stopped because apparently no one else wants to go either. I think they are having it in Leeds this year, which is quite the downgrade let me tell you.
Better food though.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
To be honest you don’t need to either of them. You can just upload images to your own instance unless some instances of disabled image uploading?
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
That second paragraph might as well be written in Cyrillic for all the sense it made. Do I want to know what gone mild goblin girls look like, I feel like I don’t, but I’m also morbidly curious.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 5 days ago:
What if you’re not a 15-year-old girl and therefore don’t have TikTok and Instagram are they going to arrest you? What a truly stupid country.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 5 days ago:
So does the US just want to totally kill its tourist industry because that seems to be the objective.
- Comment on Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future 6 days ago:
It’s been the logo forever. Even when the trains were nationalised it was still the symbol for a train station, it’s become somewhat of an international symbol for a train even in countries without context.
Because there’s only one thing better than a good design (not that I’m saying it isn’t a good design) and that is a standard.
For better or worse that’s the iconography that means trains. There’s no point in trying to change that.
- Comment on No it won’t 1 week ago:
I don’t think I’ve carried a wallet in about 5 years. I just have my phone in my pocket, if I need to buy something I just use my phone.
- Comment on No it won’t 1 week ago:
The one in the screenshot has a digital interface, which it made it look like a phone cover but it’s way too small to be a phone cover.
I honestly think the image is AI generated and it’s just based on a wallet.
- Comment on No it won’t 1 week ago:
All metal what? I can’t even work out what it is. Given the fact that I don’t know what this is, I’m reasonably confident that I don’t want it.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 week ago:
There’s no point telling it not to do x because as soon as you mention it x it goes into its context window.
It has no filter, it’s like if you had no choice in your actions, and just had to do every thought that came into your head, if you were told not to do a thing you would immediately start thinking about doing it.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 week ago:
We have so many tickets open with third party companies that almost certainly won’t get resolved until the new year that there’s no point worrying about our productivity.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 week ago:
Yeah, god dam Europeans, having a different culture to me.
- Comment on Meta to cut up to 30% of metaverse budget, Bloomberg News reports 1 week ago:
Zuckerberg just wants to build his own universe way he’s in charge of everything and everything costs money and there no taxes.
You can bet there were picture ideas such as paying people with game money.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 1 week ago:
The problem is if you have anything that obviously requires medical intervention, even if non-serious, they can’t just issue a prescription over the phone, so you up having to go to the GP or A&E anyway, so why not just go there directly and skip the phone call?
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 1 week ago:
The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized
Really? The US is really unsophisticated in certain key areas that you wouldn’t expect.