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Sony doesnt have a monopoly on gaming. There is PC, mobile, Steam, Nintendo, Apple desktop, etc. There are also retro games consoles like Mod64. You don't invest in a game console it is an entertainment expense. You can sell your used PS5 if you disagree with the direction.
Most people are achieving weight loss by dietary changes. It takes a massive amount of exercise to significantly alter your calorie balance. Definitely good for you either way but most people who exercise also want to be toned or muscular.
1. They don't make you stop altogether, they just make you feel full on less calories, which is good when you are in a calorie dense environment like modern society.
2. Not necessary here either if dietary habits are permanently altered, which can happen more easily after several months on GLPs.
3. Perhaps!
The Steam Deck is an ok PC gaming machine, but most PC games aren't optimized for console experience. There's even quite a few Windows games that don't work or have bugs on the Deck. Meanwhile all Switch games are made for that platform and there are a ton of exclusives you can't get on PC. Glad each one has a niche, but Switch is an order of magnitude (or two) more successful than the Steam Deck.
They're not. The Deck is hundreds of dollars more expensive than the Switch 2. The Switch 1 sold 155 million units, making it the second most popular console of all time. Switch 2 is also selling very well.
Its still dominant and a lot higher % wise if you count paying users. Gemini was integrated into Google search so its not necessarily people using Gemini as their daily assistant.
They still have the most recognized AI brand name and they are still the most popular LLM. For most users, a 10% diff between Claude and GPT isnt going to move the needle plus it seems to be a horse race anyways. I think their user base is stickier than you would think. Still, it isn't as sticky as social media and it is cheaper to switch AIs than email accounts.
I hear this VR thing is the future of computing. Why isn't Apple in this space?
Apple released the Vision Pro, which is AR
Lead? Lead was used for millenia. The Romans made copious use of lead.
Corrected my comment, thank you. I mean, if productizing with them, global trade dynamics are certainly a supply chain risk factor, however, security concerns would be the primary reason such chips would be restricted from import.
For what its worth, Espressif chips are open source, but yes, I wouldn't run national security or government devices on these.
Edit: I take it back on OS comment, they are not OS but some components of the SDK are:
https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/23-24/open-source-esp32-wifi-mac/
Typically you look for a development board with the chip embedded on it. The dev board will have a usbc port and multiple pins that can be routed to LEDs, miniscreens, audio devices, etc. To program it you can usually use Lua (a very simple embedded language, almost JS-like) or you can use C/Rust/Zig as well. Arduino IDE works for it, too. You code from desktop and upload ROMs via USBC.
You can plug the dev board into sandwich board for easier prototyping. To go to mass production, you'll need to hand off your prototype spec to a custom PCB maker that you can order from, prices vary a lot based on volume and some shops specialize in low volume for early products.
Your end product should basically be a circuit board, case, battery, and any external components like LEDs or screens, then you assemble with plugs or wiring/soldering.
It is sometimes possible to make a product from the dev boards, especially the small ones, but your product still has to get a custom FCC certification (not a deal breaker, just a hoop to jump through), whether using dev board or custom.
My 2019 Ford has this as well, this is not novel.
The U.S. would do just fine but the rest of the world would descend into chaos and we know this for a fact because it happened twice in just the first 50 years of the 20th century.
A gun doesn't kill a person without being driven to action by a human. There are numerous alternative weapons to use, like using a candlestick in the conservatory or a rope in the lead pipe in the study for example.
The author, George Hotz, owns an AI company: https://comma.ai/
He is just making a moment-in-time assessment of how he feels about current state of LLM coding. I don't think it's a super-strongly held opinion, I'm sure he would be willing to change his opinion if the next two years of LLM development produce exponentially better results.
Modern shoes are made by a mix of machine and hand. There is still quite a bit of manual labor to produce shoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8pcAYapXQ
This is effectively what's happening to software. We are getting some forms of automation but I believe there's plenty of manual work and coordination left for humans to do.
Good news! Buggy/carriage mechanics became auto mechanics and the number of mechanics jobs increased overall.
Yes, the U.S. is very concerned that the E.U. is pivoting to LibreOffice. There is an ongoing war in Ukraine right now as there has been for 4 years. Will the E.U. deploy forces there to save Ukraine from Russia? Or will it instead resort to virtue signalling against the U.S. because they were asked to pay more for their defense or lose free access to American markets?
Toothless E.U. never came to anyone's defense.
Oh boy, equivocating the U.S. military to the IRGC, which murdered tens of thousands of Iranian protestors just 4 months ago, which jails and murders women for failing to wear a hijab or burka or protesting in public, the IRGC which fired missiles at 8 different countries in the middle east less than 2 months ago, is the highest form of privilege coming from people largely shielded by the US military from inevitable global war in its absence.
I guess, you know nowadays it seems like if an enemy scratches one of our ships it is called a total loss for the U.S. meanwhile other nations have their entire air force taken out along with all of their targeting systems and most of their missile supplies and even their heads of state are taken out by F35s or arrested by special forces and somehow that is called "losing" by armchair internet dwellers.
It's a historical reference to the events that led to World War 1.
This is how Congress works, for better or worse. Bills get proposed all the time by any one of its five hundred or so members, it doesn't mean either one will pass. That's democracy.
Thats nice but that doesnt work for vast majority of the United States. Cars are here to stay. People live in the suburbs you aren't going to mass migrate hundreds of millions of people.
Not one U.S. ship was damaged by the Houthis. Meanwhile airstrikes took out a ton of Houthi assets.
Iran has been funding terrorists for decades and the IRGC has murdered tens of thousands of Iranians. There are no reparations for terrorists getting their comeuppance.
Thank you for sharing, first I've heard of this tree type.
It is like the go to explanation for things they don't have an answer to. What if the quartz arrow head was just a status symbol or was traded as a luxury item?
-9MB on Win/Linux and unchanged on Mac. It wasn't a 100% pure idiomatic migration there was some cleanup done.
Zig is every bit as fast with typically even lower memory footprint as Rust. The main thing Rust promises that Zig cannot already do natively is memory safety. This is not about Python vs Rust. It is one systems language vs another.