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Re:One Year of Sponsored Servo Development on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:50PM (#49744222)
They can always reimplement it later.

Focus on core right now, you can change js engines further down the line if need be.

Re:Stealth Model on Friday August 21, 2026 @05:11AM (#49385638)
Because they know that in the end there will only be a few winners, and if you are one of them, you will settle even if its for billions, and if not it doesn't matter because you will be bankrupt anyway.

And besides various companies have been caught ripping torrents and other copyright data, what makes you so sure that same companies wont rip your data too.

Thats on top of 50 to a 100 years of companies straight up breaking the law to get ahead. Various ubers and food delivery app being the latest example.

I dont trust a lot of companies that i have to work with in some form or other anyway, with Oracle being on top of my personal shit list, followed by Salesforce and Broadcom.

And I dont think most of the AI companies are more ethical than any of the above.

Re:FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:16AM (#47100560)
They have 2 versions.

One is cloud based one is local install. They are pushing cloud based one because, their local installer is really bad (it's also bad for commercial version, people often joked, that the hardest thing about SW is getting it to run)

But yes, you pay yearly subscription. Which I am not a fan of, but it's a decent price, and I understand that such niche programs, can't sustain themselves on volume

Re:FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:14AM (#47100546)
Problem is, its not available in many countries including mine.

They are saying "we are expending countries" but i check once in a while and hasn't changed in years.

Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @04:47AM (#46286631)
In a lot of smaller cars, you can fold down back row.

And if you are ok, with having trunk open, and tied down, you can transport fridges (I used reno clio, that is slightly bigger). Done that myself (not two door wide ones, one door fridge).

That's said I just found out you can hire van for 35EUR 20min away from where I live, so nowdays I just do that.

Re:Valve is about to win the console generation on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:52AM (#45915562)
>As a gamer, why would you want to spend a few hundred bucks on a gaming box, when it isn't able to play the biggest hits? Who would want to deliberately limit their ecosystem to indie games?

???

Look at steam top 100, sure there are 2 or 3 games you wont be able to play on there, but there rest work just fine. And sure there are popular games outside steam, but even if none of them worked (which is not true), for most gamers its a non issue. (And Valve is probably not really concerned about them)

The only games this limits are online competitive (most of the time FPS) games. There are plenty of gamers, myself included, that have 0 interest in such games.

In short even if 0 online FPS games are playable on steam console(which is not true), there are still 10s of millions of gamers, who wouldn't care.

As far as why wouldn't people pick something that can play 100% of games is because they cant. Even the best PC cant play Nintendo games, not all PS games are on PC or xbox, etc. You always have a trade off. And plenty of people still buy PC's,Deck, PS5's and Switch consoles.

My guess id more people won't buy it because, they want better specs, not because a few games wont work on them.

But that still leaves millions, potentially tens of millions of people.

Re:You can't build Nixpkgs if you are in the UK on Friday October 10, 2025 @03:30PM (#45542801)
it's not just porn blocking. That's just what is in newspapers. Porn blocking is only small part.

Essentially, you have to preform risk assessment if your site contains any child inappropriate content (according to new law that is defined kind of vague ), you have to age verify all the visitors from UK or risk getting fines.

Since service allows for user upload, this means that their site could protentional qualify. And even if it does not, you need a lawyer to go through everything, to make sure you don't. Sure the chances their site get targeted is small, but not zero.

Re:Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:35AM (#45370555)
Exactly, but a lot of studios thought they could get away without that, so now they are paying the price.
Re:Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @06:33AM (#45358493)
It's not that I think that UE5 is good for low end hardware, it's not.

One of the reasons that a lot of studios struggle with bad performance on UE5, is because a lot of studios, fired their most experienced devs and hired bunch of cheaper new programmers, because they bought into the whole make game with blueprints idea. I have several friends (I know just one datapoint ), that were in games industry from 6 to 12 years that got fired, just for the studio to replace them with cheaper more inexperienced devs.

Baicly UE5 overpromised how easy it was. You still get some great working games that use UE5, but this are from studios that have experienced devs.

Re:Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty on Saturday September 20, 2025 @01:50PM (#45315556)
C is 50 years old or something like that, and it still doesn't have a standard hash map.

Sure its not impossible for C to get that, but at the same time, they are trying to write git not fix C.

* My point is, that hash maps and data structures like that are clearly not the priority of C or they would **exist by now.

** by exist I mean either in C standard, or a at least a community consensus about which one you pick, unless you need something specific.

Re:Our European search index goes live on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:43PM (#44850551)
Ursela is there because politicians(individual countries leaders) want here there. She is convenient scape goat for things that would hurt politicians image at home, so they let commission do the dirty work, so they can say it wasn't their fault.
Re:Our European search index goes live on Saturday August 09, 2025 @05:34PM (#44850477)
We are getting fucked by USA because we do not feel strong enough without them.

Everybody is blaming Ursula for the deal with Trump, like it was her decision. The individual countries politicians made the call, she is just a convenient scape goat (Probably precisely why her position was created for, to push things politicians know will be unpopular). Politicians (leaders of EU states) have and do have all the power to give her the marching orders.

We are getting fuck on a lot of things because we feel the need to rely on USA. With better/bigger militaries ourselves, USA will have les leverage.

Re:Why Does the U.S. Always Run a Trade Deficit? on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @12:02PM (#44052895)
If USD stops being global currency, there probably will not be just one that replaces it, but there will be several competing ones (USD still probably being there), for foreseeable future, with countries hedging bets.
Re:Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:14AM (#43137182)
Even if you are releasing such a solution today, it will take months/years to build knowledge and toolchains and best practices. Then have traind developers to be able to use it.

> youre risking getting trapped in a local minimum.

Or you are risking years of searching for perfect when you already have good enough.

Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google on Thursday November 14, 2024 @03:10AM (#42134078)
> You're thinking too much by the rules. You can absolutely scrape them anyway. Probably the biggest relevant factor is CGNAT and other technologies that make you blend in with a crowd. If I run a scraper on my cellphone hotspot, the site can't block me without blocking a quarter of all cellphones in the country.

I am familiar with most of that, and there is a BIG difference between trying to find a workaround for one site, that you scrape ocasionaly, than to to find workaround for all of the sites.

Big sites will definitely put entire ISP's behind annoying capachas that are designed to stop exactly this (if you ever wonder why you sometimes get capatchas that seem slow to load, have long animations, or other annoying slow things, that is why etc.)

And once you start making enough money to employ all the people you need for doing that consistently, they will find a jurisdiction or 3 where they can sue you.

Also good luck finding residential/mobile ISP's that will stand by, and not try to throttle you after a while.

You definitively can get away with doing all of that for a while, but you absolutely can't build sustainable businesses on that.

Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:03AM (#42115528)
Because nowdays more than ever content you need is in silos.

Your facebooks/twiters/instagram/stack overflow/reddit ... And they all have limited expensive api's, and have bulk scrapping detection. Sure you can clobber together something that will work for a while, but you can't runn a buissness on that.

Aditionaly most paywalled sites (like news) explicitly whitlist google and bing, and if someone cretes new site, they do the same. As an upstart you would have to reach out to them to get them to whitelist you. and you would need to do it not only in USA but globaly.

Anothe problem is cloudflare and other cdns/web firewalls, so even trying to index mom and pops blog site could be problematic. An d most of the mom and pop blogs are nowdays on som ploging platform that is just another silo.

Now that i think about it, cloudflare might be in a good position to do it.

The AI hype and scraping for content to feed the models have increased dificulty for anyone new to start new index.

Re:Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:18AM (#38567679)
> management's thirst for elimiating pesky problems that come with dealing with human bodies

But that's what 95% management is for. If you don't have humans, you don't need majority of managers.

And I know of plenty of asshole managers, who enjoy their job because they get to boss people around.

And another thing people are forgetting. That end users AKA consumers will be able to use similar tech as well. So for something they used to hire a company for, they will just use AI, so you don't even need CEO's and financial managers in the end :)

Because , if software CEO can push a button to create an app that he wants to sell, so can his end-users.

Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice on Friday December 08, 2023 @03:13AM (#38566550)
> Wow this is such an awful excuse.

yes for whomever organized such a curse and didn't give such guidance.

And besides curse asked for project to do something. It did. It printed lines. We can call the email gimmick, the marketeering strategy, making a turd look good.

Don't blame students for failure of whomever designed the curse.

Re:Bram Moolenaar Passed Away on Saturday August 05, 2023 @09:00AM (#37011594)
Rest In Peace.

VIM is still among my top used editors. And Bram was the one that made sure it kept improving and being useful for all those years, since I first used it on my Slackware install.

Problem in big companies is that its is filled with people that , especially the higher you go, have their own plans and agendas. Sometimes they align with each other and oftentimes some part of company is actively trying to sabotage some other part of company.

Individuals also have their own personal goals such as high bonuses or maybe high IPO, where you will sell out and become rich.

And as CEO you have to not only have a plan, but also set up initiatives for people to follow it, which is often harder than it seems. That is why it sometimes seems a company is sabotaging itself. Sometimes there is something deeper going on but sometimes they are sabotaging themselves.

Maybe visible, but as someone who works in EU, behind the screen there is a lot more emphasis on either not collecting data, or being more strict with what you collect and how you collect it.

PII data identifying, documenting it, and periodic review's of that is becoming standard procedure.

I remember when GDPR was announced, where for most projects, there was not anyone who could tell you for any given project, what all data is being collected and stored where.

So GDPR did have positive* effect at least with the part of the market I am familiar with.

* As in positive for people privacy

> Will you volunteer to tell the retiring teacher or firefighter that they will have to starve because you’d rather punish the ultimate perpetrators rather than hold the actually guilty (the then CEO and the board) accountable to the law?

I would. And firefighters and teachers are used to getting fucked by everybody anyway. (mom is a teacher, and have several friends who are firefighters).

But in reality, big union funds, invest only a little bit in any one company, so no, some big company loosing some of it market cap, would make little difference to each individual teacher and firefighter.

>It's a broken system where effort and performance isn't acknowledged and rewarded and the whole purpose of being there is undermined. At some point the whole enterprise is destructive and should be shut down.

The point of presentation is usably not to put up great presentation, but to get certain points across.

If you successfully do that with quickly thrown presentation, then its waste of time spending more on it.

Re:Is writer pay up or down? Depends how you look at it on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:33AM (#35872742)
> ... critically acclaimed ... > ... bait so it wins awards.

So if you are a producer that wants "critically acclaimed" and "wins awards", author , hire her ? Maybe that answers why she is getting paid that much.

> Writing 1000 episodes of those shows isn't comparable to a single good bond film. This is why quantity and quality are not the same.

That's debatable. Personally I wasn't impressed with neither her work or last few James Bond (with the last one being the best of the lot.)

For me the best and most consistent author of past decade has been Randall Munroe of https://xkcd.com/ fame. Does he count ?

Re:Discord’s username change is causing discord on Saturday May 06, 2023 @03:14PM (#35844472)
Problem with this is that for a lot of games and integrations, having the same name on server as you have in game is expected. This will screw that up, for a lot of people.

Same is true for various YouTube/twitch channel communities.

And then of course, some smaller companies use discords as a better TeamSpeak alternative.

Right now you could just have one identity and change nick for each server. Now I'll probably end up having half a dozen different accounts, each with some servers.

This is kind of stupid, and will kill some neat things.

Oh well we knew it couldn't last and VC's will want their money back.

Re:Waymo doubles service area in Phoenix Metro on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:40AM (#35839414)
Just because humans can generally do it without lidar and other sensors, does not mean that lidar and other sensors, would not improve human driving, if we could somehow integrate them seamlessly (and well reduce their price).

A car equipped with more sensors, will always be better at handling more situations, than the one without them, no matter how "smart" their drivers become.

> If you auction of the tickets in the first place, you don't have to criminalize the secondary market.

it's the world where people with money get all of the advantages, and people with less get leftovers.

I will agree, that in many cases this is close to reality we live in currently (for instance holiday destinations, private resorts, etc.). But that doesn't mean people can't fight it and occasionally win. And I would think it would be important for public parks (and other institutions) to do so.

Otherwise what is the point of public institutions. Just privatize everything.

> Naturally, you can forbid poor people from reselling their ticket to prevent that. We all know they would only use the proceeds for booze, wouldn't they? /s

> proceeds for booze, wouldn't they?

Who tf said that. nobody in this said that. you are the only one in this thread insinuating that people who disagree with your (brilliant /s) thoughts are doing so out of ulterior motives.

And sure in perfect world selling your tickets on secondary market would work.

But in our world, some already well of prick, would develop a scrapping bot, using lots of residential ip's (sometimes obtained in questionable ways), to spoil everything for the rest of us.

> Give poor people money, if you want to help them.

Giving poor people money will not help the situation. How much money do you need to give to a family, that would want to have a picnic over the weekend, so that Bill Gates and Elon Musk and others, could not outbid them.

Yeah wont happen in real world. I wont assume bad faith from you, but generally speaking saying just give them money is a huge copout.

> Auctions work just fine for eg van Gogh paintings, and they have been in decidedly fixed supply since 1890.

Glad you brought that up.

Van Goh sold his paintings and owners of such paintings then sell their works etc.

There are people in the art world who would argue that such paintings do belong in Museums, so that public can enjoy them. So they band together and collect money so that their local museum can afford to buy such Van Goh painting.

After such painting are displayed in Museum where anyone can view them, for a fixed price, that generally covers the upkeep.

Which is the same situation as here. there is a public park (that is by definition there to be used by the public), that sells tickets, that should cover the upkeep. But since the demand is too high, it sometimes need to raffle them.

Auctions would defeat the purpose.

Not from USA, but my opinion on raffles vs auctions:

Raffle is not giving them money. Raffle is giving them a chance. No matter how much money you give to poor people, rich people will always be able to afford to outbid them.

So sure, giving money to poor people (or better jet, making sure they get decent pay in the first place) is good idea.

And raffle makes sure, prices stay reasonable so that even poor/middle class people can on occasion enjoy the parks.

You do auctions when you want to maximize profit. You do raffles when you need to rate limit access to a limited resource.

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