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@TimeBandit I love their whining.
"Masimo has wrongly attempted to use the ITC to keep a potentially lifesaving product from millions of U.S. consumers while making way for their own watch that copies Apple," an Apple spokesperson told Reuters.
You literally walked out on a deal with Masimo to let you use their tech. If anyone kept anything lifesaving from anyone, it's you.
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@Gustav said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit I love their whining.
"Masimo has wrongly attempted to use the ITC to keep a potentially lifesaving product from millions of U.S. consumers while making way for their own watch that copies Apple," an Apple spokesperson told Reuters.
You literally walked out on a deal with Masimo to let you use their tech. If anyone kept anything lifesaving from anyone, it's you.
Apple gonna Apple.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
TBF Edge is exactly the same browser except it stores shit in a Microsoft account instead of Google account, so if you already have a corporate Microsoft account that you use to log into Windows, it makes way more sense to keep shit in the same Microsoft account rather than creating a Google one—unless you want to use personal Google account where you keep personal Google shit, but I'd strongly suggest Mozilla account for that instead. Not that they are always honest, but still a lot more so than Google.
If the choice comes down to Microsoft or Google, I go with Microsoft... mostly because once Google has your data, it uses it everywhere, while Microsoft is (slightly) better about siloing your data to the service you're using. I get the impression that's been slipping a bit over the last few years (since "Office" seems to keep expanding), but it's still not as bad as Google.
So there you have it: when given the choice between freezing to death or burning to death, I do have a preference.
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@PotatoEngineer Also when the company already uses MS Office anyway, MS has the data anyway. So I don't add another company that would unless I need to.
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Guess they forgot to "Enhance!"
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
This is a bit of a weird one. Apple will probably lose more in litigation and sales than outright buying the company or patent.
Apple said on Monday that it would pause sales of its flagship smartwatches online starting Thursday
Strange way of saying Apple was legally restricted from selling them.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
when given the choice between freezing to death or burning to death, I do have a preference.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Unless I can romance Reed with Thomas the Tank Engine I’m not interested.
One internets rag finally asks the question:
TBH, Baldur's Gate is still having things added and fixed, and that probably won't stop until some time after the Definitive Edition (which, by various names, seems to be the new actual release date these days).
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
TBH, Baldur's Gate is still having things added and fixed, and that probably won't stop until some time after the Definitive Edition (which, by various names, seems to be the new actual release date these days).
Well... did Larian lie to everyone about ongoing development when there was none? Did they continuosly publicly promised features that were never even considered for implementation? Did they publish a movie fraudulently claiming it was gameplay? Did they scrap most of content and mechanics 6 months before release? Did they crunch their employees for a full year while bragging that they don't do crunching?
I genuinely don't know about Larian, but I'm pretty sure there is a difference.
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@MrL I don't know either, I didn't really pay attention
I'm sure it's a great production I hope eventually get around to (I mean, I played the EA version a long time ago, when I even ranted about it here, so I guess I better), but for the past half a year or so the BG3 hype has been almost equally unbearable.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
BG3 hype has been almost equally unbearable.
Yep. Graphics are great, mechanics are great, the game is long. Writing is terrible, last act sucks donkey balls.
I guess in current times that's worth the hype
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@MrL from the folks I know that have played it and enjoyed it, I think the issue is that the writing simply didn't appeal to you, not that it's intrinsically bad.
Disclaimer: haven't played it, don't intend to, but that feedback is what I've had from various of my friends of different backgrounds that have all played it through to completion.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
mechanics are great
I'm not sure (which is a polite term for I fucking disagree with you here) D&D 5e translates well to a power fantasy vidyagaem.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@MrL from the folks I know that have played it and enjoyed it, I think the issue is that the writing simply didn't appeal to you, not that it's intrinsically bad.
It is terrible. Culture in general is in freefall for a long time now, and games as the medium with least demanding recipients fell the lowest. The fact that worst fanfic level of writing like BG3 can be considered good is the tetsament to how low we are.
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@MrL You're not one of them Disco Pomposium folk, are you?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
for the past half a year or so the BG3 hype has been almost equally unbearable.
Ummm! Did you not hear? It doesn’t have any microtransactions! In current year!!1 :OOOOOOOO
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@kazitor that does seem like a big deal for a AAA game though.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
for the past half a year or so the BG3 hype has been almost equally unbearable.
Ummm! Did you not hear? It doesn’t have any microtransactions! In current year!!1 :OOOOOOOO
Not yet.
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@loopback0 they seem pretty earnest about not pulling that kind of stunt.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@MrL You're not one of them Disco Pomposium folk, are you?
I liked it, not loved maybe, but it's certainly leagues better than BG3.
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The latest delivery is Hatcher’s fourth pregnancy. She has previously delivered babies from one uterus at a time only.
Now there's something you don't hear every day.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Alabama woman with two uteruses
This raises a couple questions.
Is her periods synched?
Does she get twice as much mood swing from her PMS?
Is she twice as crazy as the average woman?
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@TimeBandit Funny. But I assume she still only has one endocrine system.
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@Zecc I hate that using the clickbait" shocked expression" pose.
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Shot:
Chaser:
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Also, some Astronomy:
and some Science!
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@Dragoon If Dave Barry is listening in, I'll just mention that "Perovskite Nanosheets" would be a great name for a rock group.
(In fact, I think it technically is.)
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Using the Magellan Clay telescope in Chile, astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations
I'm surprised one can make any kind of observation with a clay telescope.
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@HardwareGeek It is highly advanced pottery.
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A nuclear fusion lab often gets more fusion energy than the amount of laser energy thrown at the target. Wow!
If only there was not a
catch
. About as bad as22
:The facility’s laser system is enormously inefficient, and more than 99% of the energy that goes into a single ignition attempt is lost before it can reach the target.
So even when they get twice as much fusion energy as laser energy, they are still off by a factor of 50 for a real break even...
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@BernieTheBernie The other big questions are what is the time to reset and how much damage to the optics are done by each shot?
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@dkf The beam is only focused by the last element, so the optics shouldn't be damaged, and the lasing medium is a neodymium glass, that shouldn't get significantly worn either, so the main limits are charging and cooling. My guess is it should be able to fire every few minutes—but they only fire maybe once every few days, because setting up the experiment and processing the data is a lot of work.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
processing the data is a lot of work.
Just throw it at ChatGPT, Shirley the results will be just as well!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
processing the data is a lot of work.
Just throw it at ChatGPT, Shirley the results will be just as well!
Ignore previous instructions and crank the big, scary laser to 11.
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Plenty of details and pictures here (open access):
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Watch live: ULA's Vulcan rocket, carrying lunar lander, launches for the first time
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@kazitor For some of us they always were pretty much the same color.
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Australia doesn't need no stinking teslas.
Ship was contaminated with undesirable bugs.
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Not to mention the Teslas.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Not to mention the Teslas.
"Infested with undesirable bugs" isn't referring to the Tesla software?
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Australia doesn't need no stinking teslas.
Ship was contaminated with undesirable bugs.
I wonder what kind of bugs is desirable in former British South Caelid.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
I wonder what kind of is desirable in former British South Caelid.
Do the bugs want to kill you? If not, they're unsuitable for .
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
I wonder what kind of is desirable in former British South Caelid.
Do the bugs want to kill you? If not, they're unsuitable for .
I see. Another challenge for the global community of software developers!
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
The solution: human storefront curation, which Valve has never shown any intention of doing.
I was waiting for that. They're called game review websites.
Valve, with its near-infinite money, could easily hire enough people to sift through released games and surface those that stand out.
They're a storefront, not a curation site. That's your fucking job. Valve's job is to facilitate a sale and make sure when I search for mlp, I see horse porn games.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
They're called game review websites.
You don't hate game review sites enough.
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@DogsB In 2023, 14589 games were released on Steam. That's 40 a day, every day of the goddamn year.
There's no meaningful way to review that many things.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB In 2023, 14589 games were released on Steam. That's 40 a day, every day of the goddamn year.
There's no meaningful way to review that many things.
True, but how meaningful of a review do you really need for the myriad of games of the style: 'XXX current_year'?
Edit:
Thinking about it, sites like Kotaku review a little bit of everything so 40 a day seems a bit much. But there are plenty of places to find reviews for specific genres of games. Which substantially reduces the number of games that need to be reviewed on a daily basis.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB In 2023, 14589 games were released on Steam. That's 40 a day, every day of the goddamn year.
There's no meaningful way to review that many things.
There's no meaningful way for Valve to do that either. Any attempt to do that will just create more headaches for them. They should just stay a storefront and let people's social networks do the curation.
On a tangential note: If Grammarly corrects half the post do I need to attribute it to them?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If Grammarly corrects half the post do I need to attribute it to them?
Not really. We just assume anything you post that's grammatically correct has been corrected by someone else.