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Re:Being Raised by the Internet on Sunday September 29, 2024 @08:30PM (#41692198)
I was booting Linux while sleeping in a car, and in and out of motels, eating from food banks, with drug addicted parents, as a teenager. There was something to "the internet" back in the day as a way to cope when faced with that sort of situation. The author is not alone. We were blessed to have a computer through it all.

I hope "kids these days" have the same opportunity with their phones.

Re:Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:52PM (#35544847)
I haven't been impressed with the GPT for X thus far but having it filter search results sounds excellent. If it could figure out which results are not SEO junk then Google would be fixed.
Re:Best books recommended by 80 profitable founders on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:01PM (#33563327)
Does this post not provide the list of books at all? I would think with a title like that the list would be there. Instead there are illegible screenshots with confusing graphs... I think your site would get more hits if the list was there to reference.
In evolutionary terms, "fit" means like a piece in a puzzle and doesn't an ethical connotation or anything like that. More like a model fits, eg in the above game related to ML.
I've thought about building something like this for a while. There is definitely a need.

I've found a huge problem with products is that their quality changes over time. So, a product may be named the same but the SKU changes or the products from a couple of years back were much better made for whatever reason while the company has gutted them and continues to sell on reputation. I've wondered if there's a way to track product changes (user reported maybe?) between revisions of products on a wide scale. Can you convert the "years owned" to a purchase date somewhere? Are you tracking SKUs?

How will you handle fake reviews?

Re:Luna – Cloud gaming service on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:58PM (#24586440)
The latency metric seems baked. As a long time PC FPS player where latency is king, I'd like to know if there is a real advantage versus USB or 2.4/5ghz dongle and a PC/console connected to the streaming server. I'm imagining a lot of thought went toward the back end architecture for the service and will definitely be giving it a go. Was not impressed by Google's attempt. If the latency issues with streamed games can be overcome through a direct device connection to streamlined infrastructure at Amazon, something like what Riot has done on their backend for League and Valorant, then it would be a real game changer (haha) for these services.

The power to be had offloading rendering could totally kill console and PC one day just from a technical angle. Imagining a Pixar like experience coming soon, straight from AWS. Can a home PC or console ever compete with a render farm?