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- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 week ago:
Didn’t Linus say that he is a tiny investor, they only let him in for the press. (Unless he has invested more?)
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 1 week ago:
Sounds like a good ‘nudge’ law - David Cameron would be proud
- Comment on Intel in early talks to add AMD as foundry customer 2 weeks ago:
It’s the fabs that the us gov cares about though. You could end up with ex intel fabs producing AMD chips, with intel bankrupt.
- Comment on United States of Autism 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s the point
- Comment on Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem 3 weeks ago:
That requires you to buy all your music though, for those (like me) that own basically nothing, it’s crazy to change.
They need to force the free streaming of owned tracks or something. Qobuz allows this I think, but only if you buy through them.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 3 weeks ago:
It’s one of those things, that if done well, in a privacy respecting way, would be awesome!
… But they don’t want it to be privacy respecting…
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 3 weeks ago:
Does the article actually list the target altitude for this version?
I think I was imagining something much higher. You’re probably right.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 3 weeks ago:
A wind turbine automatically feathers. Why can’t the airship automatically raise and lower itself?
With modern forecasting, getting it’s height right shouldn’t be too hard?
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 4 weeks ago:
There are plenty of profitable companies with lower PE ratios.
- Comment on Wealthy parents rush to give children their assets as tougher UK inheritance tax rules loom 4 weeks ago:
I understand the complains when it comes down to family businesses, it’s not just wealth, it’s the business. Getting a loan against the company big enough to pay the tax bill could be difficult/unaffordable.
Maybe there should be an option to give a share of the company to the taxman as collateral and split the bill over years or something.
See the Samsung inheritance tax debacle to see the extremes of this kind of stuff.
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 month ago:
There should be age walls for some stuff. What that stuff is and how the walls work is up for debate.
In this situation (a store) using a payment method as the age wall works well. In other use cases it would not be as good.
IMO: the new law is overreaching, they needed to set up privacy protecting ID verification system first if they were going to go that far. It’s an own goal so far…
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 month ago:
Ironically, this means that they are more likely to be used to pay for porn games though…
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 month ago:
What are you trusting them with? Most people have already given steam this information.
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 month ago:
It’s not asking for an ID?
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 month ago:
Screenshot is from here
It’s the best option I can think of, not privacy invasive stuff. My only concern would be if it’s good enough. My only problem is that it requires you to have a credit card.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Could Be Getting A Sequel Or DLC 1 month ago:
It does get harder later, I had to leave areas to level some more/rebuild characters. Some areas are just weak/strong Vs some builds too.
I still haven’t finished it either, actually 2 seems to go on forever (don’t even know if it’s the last act).
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 1 month ago:
I still don’t understand why apps these sizes need that many people in the first place, what do they do!?!
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 1 month ago:
I switched to Qobuz. They use soundiiz.com to migrate, I think it was free transfering to them?
- Comment on YSK that JetBrains IDEs do not remove old share and cache files from the previous version when upgrading. Every folder includes a local LLM, plugin executables, and old search indices. They go unused. Removing old versions freed up 14.8 GB storage for me. 1 month ago:
Equally, when your install is fubar, you can uninstall, reinstall an old version and it will re-upgrade all your old (not broken) configs.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 month ago:
Cryptocurrency that is pegged 1-1 against a normal currency. I think they have some limitations though.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 month ago:
Is it a payment processor problem, or a card issued problem though?
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 month ago:
What about the so called ‘stablecoins’?
(Although those sound dodgy AF to me?, not backed 1-1 anymore?)
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 1 month ago:
The trick is to split up the tasks into chunks.
Ask it to identify the blocks.
Then ask it to identify the connections.
Then ask it to produce the diagram.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 1 month ago:
The idea of the mental model CAN be done by AI.
In my experience, if you get it to build a requirements doc first, then ask it to implement that while updating it as required (effectively it’s mental state). you will get a pretty good output with decent ‘debugging’ ability.
This even works ok with the older ‘dumber’ models.
That only works when you have a comprehensive set of requirements available though. It works when you want to add a new screen/process (mostly) but good luck updating an existing one! (I haven’t tried getting it to convert existing code to a requirements doc - anyone tried that?)
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 1 month ago:
We then forgot how to cure it: www.bluesci.co.uk/posts/forgotten-knowledge#%3A~%….
And had to rediscover it.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 months ago:
Ah, I turned off auto play because it would randomly start playing other music instead of continuing my massive playlist…
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 months ago:
Yeh, found it in the android app (on tracks, not artists). Not there on desktop though.
I can play the radio on the app to my desktop though… Guess that works. Not exactly great UX though.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 months ago:
At my PC now, where the radio option doesn’t seem to exist at all!?!
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 months ago:
Tha is for the long reply.
Did not know the radio function existed. On mobile at least I can’t find it on the artists page? I have to go into the … Menu on a track in a playlist?
I listen to a lot of instrumental stuff while working, so I may be going too indy? Someone like soundcriters should should have something on their page?
I dislike that you have to go to a playlists page to play it in shuffle, you can’t do it from the playlists menu.
Double clicking should play a track but doesn’t.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 months ago:
They don’t have any other recommendations apart from those human made ones though? Couldn’t find what I wanted.
The UI is awful and their artist pages are normally blank for indy artists.
The migration is pretty seamless though, and they apparently pay their artists way better.