My first thought upon seeing the Haptic Music feature is to wonder how long until they make compatible headphones and I can relive my high school years, walking around listening to nu-metal and hip-hop with a Panasonic Shockwave walkman.
Readit Newsmdm_ commented on Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/dmd
I don't really think you can dismiss an entire show and cast based on ten minutes of viewing.
I wasn't blown away by the first episode but I'm interested to keep going. People often forget the the first season of many shows (comedies particularly) are particularly ropey while the writers and actors find their groove.
That said I'm considering it an entirely different show to the previous Frasier, much like Cheers was. I'm kind of glad they haven't gone directly back to the old well.
>People often forget the the first season of many shows (comedies particularly) are particularly ropey while the writers and actors find their groove.
Parent mentioned Picard, well the first season of ST:TNG is a prime example of this. Some of the worst episodes in all of Star Trek are in that season.
Crave recently did the same thing in Canada, got rid of their $9.99 “mobile” plan, and now the $24.99 subscription is the only choice available for new subscribers. Sucks because all I want to watch is new Star Trek series, which means paying $28/month after tax to watch about 3.5 hours of content.
mdm_ commented on Netflix launches an ad-supported tier about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/j_kao
> We are excited to begin rolling out a new plan at $6.99/month from November 3 in the US.
You have to click through the link to see that "in the US" actually means
> Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, the UK and the US.
mdm_ commented on The American chip industry’s $1.5T meltdown economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/naves
mdm_ commented on The American chip industry’s $1.5T meltdown economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/naves
The article mentions that carmakers and the like stockpiled a bunch of chips during the Covid shortages, so there is reduced demand from them now while they work through their stockpiles.
I don't understand how that can be true. I put a deposit on a new Hyundai last month and Hyundai Canada is telling me it won't even be built until February 2023, specifically citing chip shortages.
Actually i have experience working un hi loaded env operated by k8s.
But for 99% of projects i see, it’s a waste of time and resources (mostly people resources, not just cpu). HN is a perfect example of a project that doesn’t need it, no matter the traffic.
If you need some additional flexibility and scalability over “bare metal” setup, you can go far with just docker compose or swarm until you have no choice but use k8s
Again, if you know what you are doing.
I worked in an academic library where the scale was on the order of hundreds of users per day, but many of those users were faculty/researchers spread out across the globe who got very grumpy when whatever online archive/exhibit was not available.
I migrated our services from a very “pet” oriented architecture to a 4-node Proxmox cluster with Docker Swarm deploying containers across four VMs and it worked great. Services we brought up on this infra still to this date have 100% uptime, through updates and server reboots and other events that formerly would have taken sites offline temporarily.
I looked at k8s briefly and it seemed like total overkill. I probably would have spent weeks or months learning k8s for no appreciable advantage over swarm.
mdm_ commented on Internet Filtering in Canada: Rogers' NHL Blocking Order typefully.com/kaplanmyrth... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
In Canada, I can't even buy the NHL's own product to watch hockey games! They black out their own local games because they've sold the rights to someone else. The NHL wants me to buy cable, then get not one, but four channels in order to watch one team (since RDS split the rights with TVA Sports and they are both specialty channels, that you must subscribe to their parent channels to get, or in case of RDS it _is_ the parent channel, but _must_ come with their child channels). Thanks but no thanks.
The NHL is 100% the cause of NHL piracy. I have the money, give me an option that isn't retarded.
I live in Leafs region and last I checked I think you have to be subscribed to three different premium cable channels to watch all 82 Leafs games.
Similarly frustrating is trying to follow tennis in Canada. There is no comprehensive tennis streaming option, the ATP and WTA use separate apps that each have a $20/month subscription, and do not have rights to show any major tournaments. So for four months out of the year, you’re actually paying $20 for two weeks of tennis coverage, and you also need to pay for TSN streaming if you want to watch the biggest tournaments. All this adds up to $60+tax/month to follow _one_ sport!
You really have to ask? Because why? You live in an Apple world before Google search has existed because Apple hasn't invented search yet right? Also it's $1500; because no one wants a laptop in a 8 / 256 configuration, no one; it's just there for money extraction purposes.
HP Spectre Laptop Computer 13.5" WUXGA+ Touch Screen Intel Core i7 16 GB memory;
Count the number of ways it's better and cheaper.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Spectre-Laptop-Computer-13-5-W...
Anecdata here, but I owned an HP Spectre 360 laptop a few years ago and I would never buy another HP laptop again. It cost almost as much as a Macbook, and within ~2 years of gentle use, mostly around the house, it blew a speaker, the webcam developed a purple tint, the rubber strips on the base peeled off, and when I tried to open the case to check for a second M.2 slot, one of the Torx screws stripped and remains stuck.