datendefekt

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t recommended DE enough, and for that price it’s a must buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My backlog has reached that point where I need to be a responsible adult and finally beat some games, so this time I’ll pass.

  But the PS games like Horizon: Zero Dawn are tempting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And nothing of value was lost…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple introduces M4 chip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the sarcasm, but isn’t that exactly what E-Paper tablets are really good at?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One Friday afternoon, Gary called the engineering staff together and announced that he would give them all a raise over the weekend. On Monday, when they returned to work, contractors began raising the building to make room in the basement for a new Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/750 computer system. After several weeks, supported by heavy wooden beams and house jacks, the engineers’ desks were five feet higher.

  I’d have loved to work for him!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, OP uses his Switch way more than expected. The Deck is an extremely flexible device in a similar form factor. I’ve been able to beat so many games in my backlog with it, just excellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Beyond the proven addictive effects of handing a dopamine device to your kid, there are legal ramifications many parents aren’t aware of.

  WhatsApp and TikTok aren’t just there like air, free for all to consume. They are service providers and both sides are bound by a contract, the EULA. IIRC, WhatsApp recently reduced it minimum age from 16 to 12. So if you install WhatsApp on your 8 year old’s phone, you have broken the contract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That writeup from Xiph is excellent. The comparison with adding ultraviolet and infrared to video makes so much sense. But you’re dealing with audiophiles who seriously consider getting hi-end power and ethernet cables. I read somewhere that there was a listening test with speakers connected with hanger wire - and audiophiles couldn’t tell.

  In the end, it’s all physics. I could never hear a quality improvement beyond normal 16bit, 320kbps, no matter how demanding the music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A few years ago I did listening comparisons of Amazon Music, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal and Quobuzz. At least for my ears, Tidal was way better, with engaging dynamic range and clarity. Quobuzz was just a little better, while listening to Spotify and Amazon Music was like FM radio in comparison, loud and compressed.

  Pricewise, they’re all somewhat similar. I went with Tidal because it has good quality, a good catalogue, and pays the artists better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world's toughest physical games in just six hours⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I also had a toy like that! Cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who could’ve imagined that Google is becoming just as mediocre and boring as any other large corporation. What a surprise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boffins find AI models tend to escalate conflicts to all-out nuclear war⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do the LLMs have any knowledge of the effects of violence or the consequences of their decisions? Do they know that resorting to nuclear war will lead to their destruction?

  I think that this shows that LLMs are not intelligent, in that they repeat what they’ve been fed, without any deeper understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re just expected to bow to authority.

  Even if you’re the authority yourself? Also: that sounds like a great place for con-men 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a bit closer to the C-Level of a larger company, I can assert that lack of vision and jumping on bandwagons is not exclusive to one nationality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Chinese typewriter from the 1930s⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thoroughly recommend the book “The Chinese Typewriter”. It goes through the various challenges that the Chinese language pose. How do you order characters, like in an alphabet? How it was encoded in Morse, or later on, in ASCII. And of course, the various attempts at Chinese typewriting. Actually quite fascinating!