Agreed. I’d really like RISC-V to be where ARM is, but having some competition is a good thing since it keeps that door open.

it can be compromised in a breach

Sure, and then that one password is compromised. Password managers make it trivial to use unique passwords for every service, so if a service is breached, you’re basically as screwed with passwords as passkeys.

The switching cost here is high, and the security benefits are marginal in practice IMO. I’m not against passkeys, but it should be something password managers handle, and I don’t have a strong preference between TOTP baked into your PW manager and passkeys.

I don’t think that’s true, but it depends on what metrics you’re taking into account (startup costs, energy storage, etc). In pretty much every study I’ve seen, nuclear is competitive, with the main issue being time to build a new reactor and arrange waste disposal, not long term running costs.

If small nuclear plants are so impractical, why is Google funding seven of them?

Depending on the implementation, WCF can be really easy to adapt to new clients. If you wanted to support Linux, macOS, or web, you just implement the part of your service that make sense for those platforms.

I obviously don’t know your app at all, but it sounds like a 10 person dev team could probably build a new app in just a few months since the backend is already there. It wouldn’t have all of the features, but generally speaking it’s a lot easier to rebuild an app than refactor an existing one. Whether that would bring value is another concern entirely.

Eh, I honestly like their DLC policy. Basically, every year or two, I come back and buy some DLC on sale and basically treat it like a new game. I’ll play EU4 for a couple hundred hours, take a break for a few months, then buy some DLC for a couple hundred more hours. I’d much rather have this than new releases every few years, since I can just add new systems instead of dealing with a bunch of UI and core system changes.

The main problem I see is that they launch things half-baked, which means their games and DLC aren’t worth the price at launch, and by the time they’re properly patched, they’re on a pretty significant discount. I think they’d do much better if they delayed their releases until they’re actually done and cut prices by 25% or so. If they consistently delivered high quality products, I’d probably buy near launch.

The next biggest problem is a shift toward flavor DLC instead of actual mechanics. While I like the flavor, I mostly come for the new mechanics to play with, and at least in EU4, they’ve been reducing the actual amount of new gameplay with each DLC.

That would be sick, and I could probably drop my mileage needs to 100-150 if solar charging is effective. I basically just need to get to/from work in the winter, and our winters tend to have pretty clear skies unless there’s a storm (in which case I’d WFH).

Some inexpensive options would get more people interested in EVs.

Give me like 150-200 miles range and charge ~$20k and I’d buy it. Don’t need anything fancy, just something to get to work and back.

I keep hearing about micro nuclear reactors, and I hear there are some in testing in my general area (I’m in Utah, and I hear there are some projects in Wyoming and Idaho). So here’s hoping that’ll become a thing.

Also, solar panels should work pretty well. I’m thinking:

1. solar -> batteries -> hydrogen
2. hydrogen -> trucks and recharging batteries

So, basically like a massive UPS with some physical, local energy storage. Here’s hoping these will become practical in the near future.

You do realize that federal judges crib notes from judges in other jurisdictions, right? As in, while this ruling probably doesn’t directly effect you, if there’s a similar case in your jurisdiction, they’ll look at this decision and probably side with it if the facts of the case are similar enough.

There’s a difference between primary content like a website, and secondary content like a cache of a page. I think services doing the latter should be a bit more aggressive about charging fees for commercial entities linking to them, since they’re providing a service separate from the primary source.

Cool! So does this mean there’s a Steam Deck 2 announcement coming soon? Can’t let those Aussies catch up too much with the rest of the world. ;)

Yeah.

I really don’t want to see text like this.

It would make things a lot more annoying to read.

I much prefer combining sentences by default. It’s natural to put a blank line between paragraphs, and Markdown was designed to make the natural thing render decently. You can put things on separate lines if you want, and it’ll always read nicely.

But definitely break things up into paragraphs if it makes sense.

Well yeah, Telegram is basically intended for one on one or group discussion, there’s pretty much no content filtering. TikTok is about curating a content stream. There are a lot more opportunities to mess with what content you see on TikTok vs Telegram.

So a social media app like TikTok, Facebook, etc will have a lot more say in what gets presented compared to a communication platform like Telegram.

Comparing Telegram to TikTok is nonsensical.

Looked cool until I saw it’s PVPVE. I think this would be a ton of fun as a single player game. Watching the ladder climbing and time to activate the radio was painful, and I’d hate for that to be a major part of the gameplay loop.

They’re just really into food. We watched a Korean cooking competition last night (Culinary Class Wars, basically Michelin star chefs vs other well-respected chefs), and it had a lot of that “watch other people eat” bits, but with some actual entertainment (i.e. descriptions of how dishes are prepared). My SO liked the descriptions of the food (mouth feel and whatnot), whereas I was more interested in the ingredients and cooking process.

I don’t really understand it (food isn’t particularly important to me), and they probably don’t understand my weird fascination with other things (e.g. watching personal finance videos that I strongly disagree with), so I guess we just accept that we’re into different things.

Just build stuff. The best way to learn is to work through a project you care about.

I don’t recommend random online exercises, actually build something interesting. Maybe that’s a website, game, or CLI tool. Whatever it is, build it, and once it’s working, refactor it to be better or move on to another project.

I think the actual claim is that the truck in general is bulletproof (meaning the metal bits), not that every part of the truck is bulletproof. Here’s a video testing that claim, it is bulletproof for certain calibers, but not for larger calibers.

Exactly. The people watching videos were doing QC, not actually operating the entire thing. Closer scrutiny with the first few stores makes a ton of sense (i.e. watching every interaction) because there will be a bunch of bugs. But as they scale out, I would expect a much smaller portion of videos to be actually watched live.

I honestly don’t see an issue with it. These robots aren’t for sale, there’s no estimated sale date, nor are they likely in production in any meaningful sense. Yes, he gave a price range, but that’s obviously aspirational and not confirmed seeing as there’s no expected release date whatsoever.

From the video I watched, it seemed obvious the robots were limited to a handful of interactions, such as:

• hand gift bag to person - it certainly seemed to go through a certain routine each time, but the person seemed to be able to point at the one they want
• rock paper scissors
• fill and hand drink to someone (didn’t see it in the video)
• dance according to some choreography

There certainly seemed to be some AI happening (i.e. detect which bag, let go of gift, etc), but it seemed like a very on-rails experience.

And I got that from watching it live, not looking at someone dissect what was going on. Having a handler there to push the robot into one of a handful of pre-programmed routines seems absolutely reasonable.

And I only need human interaction every few days. Take that AI… :)