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nchi3 commented on MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max   apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/ValentineC
TacticalCoder · 3 years ago
> It’s crazy how far ahead Apple is getting in the laptop game with these new chips.

For people who don't mind an ultra-brittle screen or who don't mind paying an extra 20% Apple tax to get their screen replaced when it breaks. Had a M1 Mac. Screen broke overnight. Meanwhile my LG Gram feels way more sturdy and hasn't let me down in years. M1 Mac lasted about 13 months.

Not happy at all with Apple asking 680 EUR to replace the screen on a M1 Mac I paid... 1 000 EUR. 68% after 13 months to replace their shitty screen.

And to get what? Another brittle screen.

Sure, it looks nice. But my LG Gram wins, hands down: I can count on that thing.

nchi3 · 3 years ago
My workplace is all MacBooks, and a lot of employees have gone over to M1s, and I have not heard of a single case of this happening.
nchi3 commented on Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab   ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-6... · Posted by u/zackoverflow
naasking · 3 years ago
Literally everything has diminishing returns because nothing is infinite.

Edit: to clarify, lasers will have some maximum efficiency that is less than 100% and approaching that maximum is subject to diminishing returns.

nchi3 · 3 years ago
Diminishing returns usually applies if you assume there are no major breakthroughs. Can we assume that there won't be any major breakthroughs in this field?
nchi3 commented on WebTorrent   webtorrent.io/faq... · Posted by u/tosh
vaylian · 3 years ago
> WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER.

Not quite. Opera had built-in support for Bittorrent for quite some time: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/ec79j/til_yo...

nchi3 · 3 years ago
It's quite obvious that it means "running in the browser engine" rather than "has the technology implemented in a native language". But sure, you're technically correct.
nchi3 commented on We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot   githubcopilotlitigation.c... · Posted by u/iworshipfaangs2
robbrown451 · 3 years ago
Differentiating between a human and a machine simply because one "is not an algorithm" doesn't make a lot of sense. If it were true, people would very easily game it, by using algorithms to automate the most trivial parts of copying someone's work.

Ultimately the algorithm is automating something a human could do. There is a lot of gray area to copyright law, but you can't get around that simply by offloading to an algorithm.

nchi3 · 3 years ago
>by using algorithms to automate the most trivial parts of copying someone's work

That's basically what copilot is...?

nchi3 commented on Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/tpmx
ZeroGravitas · 3 years ago
Ironically, this is why the interconnects to mainland Europe that let (southern) Sweden sell its electricity at high prices when there is demand elsewhere are a good thing for everyone involved.

Not a good sign when right-wing governments are complaining about market based price signals and trade.

nchi3 · 3 years ago
How is it good for the small local businesses who don't have a choice but shutting down?
nchi3 commented on Ask HN: Which startups are thriving in the downturn?    · Posted by u/roberja90
Izkata · 4 years ago
> We're at extremely low unemployment

Back in 2018/2019, when I got curious and looked at what signals people look at for recessions, too low unemployment was one of them.

nchi3 · 4 years ago
What's the reasoning for this?
nchi3 commented on It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot   jolexxa.medium.com/its-ti... · Posted by u/proxybop
999900000999 · 4 years ago
>You can also use C#’s events, which are strongly typed, but if you need to interface with node events, you should use Godot’s signal system.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope, I wasted 2 hours of my life trying to get these signals to work in GD script.

I'm going to try some other open source engines, but trying to jerry-rig an extra language on top of a relatively immature engine isn't a very good idea.

Now I imagine if Microsoft decided to come out of an engine, they could rationalize supporting six or seven languages. But if you're already a small project, what ends up happening is the other language support just isn't as good

nchi3 · 4 years ago
What didn't work for you? I remember thinking events were surprisingly easy to use with GDScript when I tried the Godot 4 alpha earlier this year.
nchi3 commented on The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos   medium.com/yardcouch-com/... · Posted by u/ko3us
coffeeblack · 4 years ago
Typical deceptive article. It says “inside the Capitol or outside” and many paragraphs later concludes that none of the guns were actually taken inside.

Also interesting that a handful of bad people carrying guns make everybody else a criminal. Is that the world you want to live in?

nchi3 · 4 years ago
Storming the Capitol makes you a criminal though, whether you're carrying a gun or not.
nchi3 commented on Playstation confirms chain of 5 vulnerabilities on PS4/PS5   hackerone.com/reports/137... · Posted by u/guiambros
ornornor · 4 years ago
> allow people to create pirated Blu-Ray disks that work as-expected on vanilla PS5 models.

I don’t understand why there isn’t an industry of selling pirate copies of official games. What I mean is buying an official copy of the game, “image” the disc, and press 1:1 copies for cost + a couple dollars.

Why didn’t that happen? Are there technical issues preventing this from working? I can’t think it’s a matter of cost, BRD can’t cost that much to make at scale.

nchi3 · 4 years ago
Not sure how it works exactly (I'm sure someone else in this thread can fill in!), but that hasn't ever been possible on consoles. Not even the very first Playstation which used CDs would accept copies out of the box.
nchi3 commented on Java record pattern matching in JDK 19   openjdk.java.net/jeps/405... · Posted by u/SemanticStrengh
quilombodigital · 4 years ago
I am an old school java developer. Can someone explain me why this is a "feature"? I can remember by counting my fingers the times I had to use "instanceof", and it was some classical reflection/injection/instantiation framework 'vodu'. If you are using instanceof in a normal java program, you are just making it wrong. It looks like some new javascript guys arrived in the block and are trying to make java look something messy like Scala. What real world problem is this trying to solve? Are you just fucking bored because you are all out of ideas and every JDK release we need "something"? Why these JEPs only have "boxes,rectangles,A,B,I" class examples and not a simple real world class scenario? Why we need to make java "friendly" to work with generic objects? it should be hell! I cant wait for JDK 50.
nchi3 · 4 years ago
Because there are scenarios where pattern matching (or instanceof) is the better and more ergonomic thing to use. One obvious example I can think of is event handling.

If anything, this is _not_ something JS devs are asking for, but rather devs using functional languages.

u/nchi3

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