olkingcole

Fundamentally tying the OS to the cloud and AI makes me think this is really a pretense to move windows to a subscription model, and likely to end data privacy on windows as we know it, paving the way for ad supported OS. Two huge wins for their shareholders and upper execs. I think whether these features a good idea for users, are wanted by anyone, or if they will even work remotely like they are pitching it, is all incidental to achieving the two goals above. Just my guess though.

I'll point out that just on this comment string from telmac are 3 different interpretations of what is wrong with the code and what should be done instead.

I was just wondering what has come out of silicon valley since say 2003 that has been a net positive for humanity. Just because something is profitable doesn't mean it's progress.

(If I'm understanding correctly) one example is if have two places where you x++ in the loop, so if you make an error in there you might end up hitting both of them and incrementing from y-1 to y+1.

I can't see VR being a better home video experience for most people. For one thing, watching is often a group experience with friends, spouse, kids, etc regardless of content. But even alone I don't think most people want to feel so completely disconnected from their environment just for regular casual viewing. I think most people just won't see the appeal beyond the initial novelty. It's already only a subset of people who care much at all about video quality. There could be niche for enthusiasts of course.

On a personal level I also dislike the idea of being home in the evening and myself or my spouse decide to watch something and put on some goggles and completely shut off to the outside world and the other person. Or going in the living room and seeing 3 kids with goggles locked away in different worlds. If we actually did start using VR as the main way to consume media I think it would do us a lot more harm than good. Just my opinion.

I think the main reason, besides chess being fundamentally a great and timeless game, is streaming. Popular streamers picked it up and many top level players also started streaming online chess, which can be very entertaining. Often they are playing fast, exciting time controls like 1 or 2 minutes. Chess.com and others brought flavorful tournament coverage and hosted events with guests from outside the chess world. Chess.com and lichess have great apps and strong competitive communities.

Basically, it's all there. Chess is born anew for the 21st century.

Great vibe. My only gripe is the music doesn't seem to be lofi at all, just like slow beats. Maybe it's just where I'm at in the playlist though.

Funny but I have to say that satire has lost a lot of its appeal in these times. It is far too apparent how vulnerable we are to people who don't get it and who will walk away happily unaware and, in this example, MORE confident about using AI for just anything. But surely out institutional safeguards will protect us, right? /s

Thank you for this comment. I would like to add that social media and foreign manipulation thereof has been demonstrated to be spectacularly capable of affecting peoples' mental states and beliefs and by extension our stability as a country. We haven't figured out how to deal with it yet in a way that balances with our values of free speech and enterprise but a platform with tiktok's pervasiveness taking orders directly from the Chinese government is a huge, bright and shining risk that our government knows it needs to address.

Not to mention the data collection.

Does this mean they got access to unencrypted vaults? I have had a few beers and cannot comprehend from the article or lastpass's statement.

Thoughts on Bitwarden vs 1Password? I have seen them both suggested by users on this site.

I think we have to stop thinking "what do we do about these bad individuals". Disinformation is a force that is increasingly shaping what americans think, which is obviously a big deal in a society which has individual choice as its foundation (in government, economy, etc). This force is being used by bad actors from every corner, within the country and without, and has already threatened societal upheaval. It just _can not_ be ignored. It will get worse, not better. Forget trump, putin, musk, whoever the current individuals are, we need an answer to this force.

Now, I am also a believer in your first point. The cure _must not_ be worse than the poison. And I don't know what the right solution is. But we need one because we are not equipped to deal with this. Just a couple days ago a single individual bought one of the biggest speech platforms in the world and proceeded to post a defamatory conspiracy theory from a "fake news" outlet about a political target. The way the world is set up right now I think things can really go sideways. And while I am sure most people here prides themselves on their ability to discern the truth, remember that the electorate is not comprised of hacker news users. Thanks

The newer stuff (magni/modi 3) has fixed the Audio Science Review guy's complaints and he now recommends those models. I went through all this when I was shopping for reasonably (to me) priced gear.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...

I am recommending the Schiit Modi 3 without reservations.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...

Both Topping A30 and Schiit Magni 3 are recommended for budget friendly choices in headphone amplifiers. Let your preferences in looks, usability, etc. guide you in your selection.

Imagine for a split second an idea of value that doesn't start and end with private profit

Even if online sales are slowing overall maybe it is still growing in some areas, requiring more capacity. As for the land purchasing, maybe it is partly an investment to get cash off the books and/or positioning for some long term strategy (this is just a guess, I don't know much about how large businesses operate).

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it just entirely about competition with the app store? That they don't want to invest in features for apps on a platform "owned" by their largest competitor that then compete with apps on their own platform? On the app store Apple makes 15%, on the web they make zero and Google likely gets whatever ad revenue. I'm not defending Apple, Safari causes has caused me professional pain in the past, but it seems predictable.

This is odd to read because his chat moves pretty quick from what I have seen, in line with streams of similar size. Lots of memes and emote spam.

But in general I agree with you, the embeds can be easily abused and distort the popularity of streamers on twitch, giving some an unfair advantage. In an industry where success depends heavily on the number of eyeballs on your content and where twitch itself prioritizes larger streams it is unacceptable in my opinion. Long term it directly undermines the natural growth of developing streams, the process that has given us a rich and dynamic twitch community in the first place. The topic deserves an article if it hasn't been written about already.

"Invested" in "inner work". Indie, maker, optimizer. Maybe it is just a different kinds of people thing but I think we shouldn't use business jargon language, with all the implicit values and associations that come along with it, to define, of all things, our fundamental mindset and relationship to ourselves. Don't frame yourself that way. Don't become another tool or asset to be burned up like so much VC cash in the making of something ultimately trivial. That language has a purpose but is not good for the soul. Sorry for the rant.

My thoughts as a regular American: Among other factors, floating around in a murky spot in US culture are disdainful notions that money for public services will go to "them" or the undeserving or the degenerate or that it will enable lazy people or devalue hard workers. This intersects with a lot of other longstanding American culture problems, including bigotry over race/ethnicity/religion, distrust of government, culture divides like rural/urban, American (mis)conceptions of meritocracy, etc. These beliefs are often espoused even by people who would benefit greatly (and deservingly) from those programs, but instead they see them as the source of their problems. I can't speak to the details of the hows and whys but those are the connections I see (at least from one angle).

EDIT: I want to add that the above is constantly aggravated by opportunistic politicians and toxic media (both traditional and social media)

I think the benefits of access to a nation-wide or world-wide market have been enormous and will become even more so in the future. Unfortunately we are realizing that the costs of this transition, if we maintain our current path, are grave. A decentralized approach like OpenBazaar mitigates or eliminates many of the negative side-effects brought on by our current, mega-corporation-dominated access model. With regard to small businesses, an OpenBazaar type system would enable small businesses to trade with the rest of the world (and their local community) on their own terms, without any anti-competitive BS, and without sacrificing profit to platform fees.

The question is: can a distributed system match the value Amazon's service provides to the consumer?