Redex68

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    Redex68 ,

    Had a period here where it was like 4 on average, now it's usually 1-2, trying to make it midnight or 23, but that hasn't happened in like 5 years probably so doubt.

    Redex68 ,

    I mean, a lot of the points are valid, but the Pixel phones are pretty great, Android is pretty great and getting better, and the Chromebook gamble is playing a really long term game where they could end up uprooting Microsoft if they play their cards right. From my understanding, US kids now on average know Chromebook OS better than Windows by far, and will probably prefer to continue using it if they could. If Google makes the OS more viable for professional use and flexible and play their cards right, they'd have a really good chance at uppending Microsoft's dominance, especially since Microsoft is seemingly trying to shoot itself in the foot with Windows.

    Redex68 ,

    ?
    Where did you get 9x=5 -> x=1
    and 5/9 is 0.555... so it checks out.

    Redex68 ,

    Man this still hits so hard, god damn nostalgia.

    Redex68 ,

    Honestly, the worst part of the AI craze is that so many people hear AI now and immediately hate it even though it can really do some amazing stuff, e.g. in medicine. AI as a blanket term just has so much variance, there's a ton of trash and a ton of great stuff.

    Recommendation Algorithms & Advertising - Where do you draw the line?

    I think recommendation algorithms and advertising are separate things, however think with defaults and when it comes to what specific data is collected, where do you draw the line? Absolutely no recommendations at all based on an algorithm? Would you say using your 'like' history to recommend you more videos is okay? What about...

    Redex68 ,

    One thing I don't get is that e.g. I have Revolut installed, I use it regularly, Google knows this yet still half or a quarter of my ads for months now has still been Revolut. Why??

    Redex68 ,

    Half of these have nothing to do with oil lol

    Redex68 ,

    I mean if you make a gmail account just for your Google account, you'll either have to log into your Gmail account to check emails or miss potential important emails related to your account, which you would get if they were sent to your main email.

    Redex68 ,

    Who decides stuff like this? Who's like "hmm, yeah a group of owls is definitely a parliament"

    Redex68 ,

    How are you gonna slash their budget if you add so many requirements and remove benefits? By default that will mean there will be less interest in being a cop, which means you'll have to offer a quite substantial increase in pay to compensate. And in most places there already is a shortage of cops.

    Redex68 ,

    For students a gaming laptop makes a bunch of sense, since taking a PC with you back an forth every time you go back home can be a major hassle.

    Redex68 ,

    When I get a job and settle down, I definitely plan on getting a PC. It just has so much more bang for the buck, and you can actually use the entire performance. My laptop basically overheats immediately if there's an intense load on it, even though it has the raw power to actually run it. But the reality is that currently, as a student, a gaming laptop is a lot more practical to me.

    Redex68 ,

    Well I personally need my laptop for collage as well. And it comes in handy if it has a powerful GPU if I need to do anything more intensive on it (e.g. machine learning or game dev). Steam Deck wouldn't really be adequate there. And even if it wasn't for my usecase (which isn't representative of every student), most students will probably still need a laptop to bring with themselves sometimes to collage, and if they also want to game, makes sense to buy a gaming laptop instead of a gaming PC + a regular laptop.

    Redex68 ,

    Boats are actually one of the most efficient and scalable methods of transport. Sure they produce a lot of emissions, but it's still very small in the context of global emissions (2.5%) and are an invaluable asset. There are many other things you should go after before shipping.

    Redex68 ,

    Croatia stronk. We have more people that emigrated outside of our country than stayed in it.

    Redex68 ,

    Sometimes people don't vote by logic. They see stuf going to shit, hear grand promises of how "we'll fix everything, the establishment is incompetent/evil", and hope they'll deliver.

    Redex68 ,

    Yeah but on the other hand you also have to wrestle with Linux a lot, and personally usually a lot more time wise. It's all tradeoffs and what people care more about.

    Redex68 ,

    To some extent that is true. But on the other hand, Windows is both usually easier to learn (has a UI for 99% of stuff, basic design principles dictate that it's much easier to remember what to click on than what to type), and it just works. I rarely have to interact with the OS in any way to get something to work. I've tried multiple times to switch to Linux, but it just has so much stuff that doesn't work out of the box, or at all. Da Vinci Resolve has a native version which is completely broken, Dota 2 has a native version but doesn't pre compile shaders, so whenever e.g. I open a new hero in the hero list it lags for 1-2s, many games with anti cheat don't work, good luck with anything in VR, no popular distro that I've seen has a clipboard and the ones I found online are just worse than the Windows one, etc.

    I want to switch, I really do, but I'm already a power user on Windows, I would have to learn a lot to be on the same level on Linux, add onto that the fact that a lot of stuf that's important to me just doesn't work properly on Linux, it just doesn't make sense for me, and for most people they're gonna be a lot less willing to switch. Most people will not bother trying to change something, even if it's objectively better. Most people just want to stick with what already works for them, and until Linux is able to just work with no need for user intervention, especially through terminals which people fear, it's still a long way from mainstream adoption.

    Redex68 ,

    Isn't that usually in the discretion of the country that built the fighter? E.g. the US? Usually the US has the final say on whether a fighter they sold to a country can be resold, and I find it weird that they would then allow the Netherlands to do something like that without their approval.

    Redex68 ,

    Yeah but that should probably just be a comment then.

    Redex68 ,

    Fair enough

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