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lnanek2 commented on Ubisoft+Bungie Scrambling to Evacuate Players Games from Capsizing Google Stadia forbes.com/sites/paultass... · Posted by u/metadat

johnebgd · 3 years ago

Anyone who pays out of their own pocket to launch anything on a newly introduced google product moving forward is an idiot.

Google is going to need to dig deep into their wallets to build an ecosystem in any new market in the future.

Then again, Stadia is too early and costing them too much money. More people need fiber internet before it’s practical. Good thing Google killed their fiber internet rollout years ago…

lnanek2 · 3 years ago

I bought the founder's edition Stadia hardware and I'm thrilled with what I got out of it, personally. I got a free game system for years since they are giving everyone refunds. Played several AAA games I had no access to otherwise. Still going to have the, now free, Chromecast Ultra 4k with ethernet cable power adapter afterward too. It works fine even if I don't pair Stadia controllers with it.

This Ubisoft initiative to transfer licenses to PC is actually worthless to me since my PC doesn't have a GPU capable of playing games anyway and I have no intention to buy one.

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BenGosub · 3 years ago

> All of which is to say, the heterodox viewpoints offered by Corbyn and Carlson don’t represent the usual conflict between Left and Right. Rather, it’s an example of both poles making common cause against the center.

So, the center view seems to be support fot the war? Doesn't make sense to me.

lnanek2 · 3 years ago

> On the Left, opposition to the West’s support for Ukraine isn’t difficult to explain. Leftist figures such as Corbyn, Noam Chomsky, and Australian journalist John Pilger generally view the United States (and the West in general) as the main engine of evil in the world

Maybe it's written from a European view point? Their left is so extreme that to them, the American left is considered center, isn't it? So our left's support of the war is being called center?

lnanek2 commented on Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "Product of USA" foodsafetynews.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/maxwell

kuang_eleven · 4 years ago

That seems like a reasonable ruling.

For any product, if there is a substantive processing step done (other than basic packaging), I would consider the label to be accurate.

Additionally, mandatory COOL seems like a self-serving overreach by the cattle industry. By all means, include optional labeling specifying the country of origin, following whatever (non-fraudulent) criteria you want, and that label can be protected all you want, but don't make it mandatory.

Shades of the equally ridiculous mandatory GMO labeling that thankfully got nixed.

lnanek2 · 4 years ago

Not super interested in GMO or not myself, but knowing where beef comes from seems important. Outbreaks of mad cow disease tend to be confined to certain countries, so it's valuable to be able to know your meat isn't coming from one of those if you don't want to get a prion disease.

Meanwhile it's valuable for corporations to hide where the meat comes from since such a country might sell their beef considerably cheaper to offload it despite the disease. So it's one of those cases where the corporate interests (profit) are against the individual interests (not getting a prion disease) and having government step in and mandate country of origin labeling would be valuable.

I think the US tends to be less strict about meat anyway, though. Our grocery stores still package beef in carbon monoxide to make it look red even though other countries have decided that makes the meat look misleadingly fresher than it really is, for example.

lnanek2 commented on H.264 is Magic (2016) sidbala.com/h-264-is-magi... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

yboris · 4 years ago

PSA: For images, there's a finally successor to jpeg: JPEG XL (.jxl) - has lossy and lossless mode; is progressive (you can download just the first parts of the bitstream to get a lower resolution image; and other benefits!)

https://jpegxl.info/

lnanek2 · 4 years ago

As a mobile developer I generally see WEBP getting served to Android devices and HEIC to Apple devices. Is there any advantage to JPEG XL over those?

If our app supported older iOS devices, maybe JPEG would be needed as a fallback, but it seems like JPEG XL wouldn't be compatible with old devices anyway, right?

lnanek2 commented on New cars make me want to Saab (2020) theoutline.com/post/8743/... · Posted by u/freediver

mgkimsal · 4 years ago

A few years ago (2013/2014?) there was a bare bones Toyota Yaris I looked at. Cheapest 'new' car on the lot, decent mpg, etc. But... no power windows or power locks, no automatically adjustable seat. And... it was, IIRC, around $15k. For $15-16k I could get something else used with more amenities, and similar mpg/economy. Or possibly even something else new at that time with better amenities. For something with so few amenities, I would have preferred at least a 20% discount compared to other options.

lnanek2 · 4 years ago

I bought a Yaris as my first car to go as cheap as possible. Even electrics were more expensive despite the tax breaks. My Dad felt like a new one would break down less than a used one too which is why we avoided used.

Yaris worked well in general. I'm not surprised it's popular with college kids. It was pretty bothersome, though, how at the lowest trim level they even disabled things like cruise control. I'm three times older than any college kid and it made my ankle ache on long drives.

lnanek2 commented on New cars make me want to Saab (2020) theoutline.com/post/8743/... · Posted by u/freediver

sklargh · 4 years ago

Saabs were great cars because they did practicality with a little bit of zest and elan, pure IYKYK. The death of physical buttons and simple interfaces in car interiors is an enormous safety issue. I suspect this serious issue is widely disregarded by industry because it costs less to produce and modify a software interface than a hardware interface.

I hope that cars reach a point where self-driving is real but we aren't there yet, and interfaces that require people to take their eyes off the road to navigate to basic functions are not appropriate for cars.

Don't get me started on touchscreens in planes during turbulence...and yes I am a brown station wagon with a manual kind of person.

lnanek2 · 4 years ago

I used to feel that way, then noticed my friend driving a Tesla. He had this neat use for the LCD that showed a map of where all the cars around him was as output from the sensors. Yes, theoretically, on a traditional car you can adjust the mirrors so you have no blind spot and check them all religiously before lane changes and the like - but I still felt he had more awareness of who was in what lane than someone in a traditional car would have.

lnanek2 commented on New cars make me want to Saab (2020) theoutline.com/post/8743/... · Posted by u/freediver

lnanek2 · 4 years ago

I kind of like how my BMW X3 looks like a spaceship, personally. Especially all the lights at night like in the door handles. Maybe someday we'll have the fairings of all cars 3D printed at the factory and customizable to taste when ordering, though, so we can make simpler looking ones too!

lnanek2 commented on Universe Splitter cheapuniverses.com/univer... · Posted by u/hexomancer

coliveira · 4 years ago

The "split universes" is the new science fiction that took the world by storm. It is an unproven hypothesis that satisfies the psychological needs of people who want to dream of a world that behaves according to their wishes.

lnanek2 · 4 years ago

Most likely true, but that doesn't mean it is useless. Adherents to the split universe religi...er...theory might be more content with their lives, experience less anxiety, etc..

lnanek2 commented on Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software? · Posted by u/etamponi

lnanek2 · 4 years ago

At least where I work, the only thing project managers care about is releasing the next big feature for their resume or next promo packet. Making it work well or be well tested is very low on the priorities. In fact, if you time budget that in as an engineer, they'll find someone else to implement it who will estimate half the time.

lnanek2 commented on Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia asia.nikkei.com/Business/... · Posted by u/brian_herman

jhallenworld · 4 years ago

"Kubota Glass technology works to reduce the increase in axial length associated with myopia by projecting myopically-defocused virtual images generated using micro-LEDS on the peripheral visual field to actively stimulate the retina."

I don't understand why would this work. It implies that stimulating the retina affects the shape of the eye somehow..

lnanek2 · 4 years ago

Why wouldn't it? Bright light and dark light causes your pupils to dilate differently, right? That's muscles actuated by input from the retina. Focusing is also about shaping the eye using muscles. It would actually be kind of weird if retina input wasn't used to shape the eyes.