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It is not a lie though. WB content is not globally available, Netflix content is. I for one, welcome access to stuff that WB has been sitting on without letting me pay them for it.

I guess you are in the US. For you, WB content was already available. But you see, they never bothered to make that content available for most of the rest of the world. Netflix, on the other hand, is available most anywhere. This is exactly what it says on the can - more choice and greater value for me.

This is one of the good potential use cases for current gen AI; simulating a scenario again and again and seeing what effect various changes will have on the average outcome... Probably needs an API for having LLMs play with online table top simulating websites or so, I have no idea about any of the sites for online TTRPGs though and their terms of use...

Late is better than never, right? I'm someone who only uses only these google service: maps, the play store and sometimes, rarely, google books I don't use google search, mail, drive or any other services, I have every single kind of history off and I use Firefox exclusively, on desktop as on Android. I must say, I do encounter badly designed mobile sites with this setup, but it is trivial to toggle desktop mode and then the problem is gone. It helps that I have a folding device, so I can always use a larger screen when needed.

Somehow, considering the bad job humans do with maintaining a population of humans healthy and happy, I find the idea of entrusting control of animal populations to humans bewildering, but then, I was born in Istanbul, and I think our attitude towards street cats is probably well known by this point. After all, Turkish does not have a word to reflect the concept of a stray cat, they're street cats to us. Currently living in Germany, I miss seeing cats in the streets, though the occasional duck and goose sort of make up for it in a weird way, though the Geese can get far more aggressive than any street cat.

Careful; there's the MX Keys keyboard, which is not a mechanical keyboard, and the MX keys mechanical keyboard, which IS a mechanical keyboard... I have the latter, and as far as I know, it only works wirelessly via receiver or BT.

I have the mx 3s along with the mechanic keyboard, one set each for work and one for home... Extremely stable connection with the bolt receiver, also works with well if I take the laptop home or with my phone if I connect it to my monitor (Dex) I already have USB-C charging cables due to the phone on either desk, so I just connect it to whichever runs low every few weeks (or months) and keep on using them.

What an ingenious solution, meanwhile here we are, paying vendors to get to disable USB ports on company machines! /s

It is not necessarily age itself. My father is approaching 80, computer literate since '86, and keeps adapting to whatever new thing comes out, even adapting to fluke versions of windows like 8 or 11...

Small note to all frontend people: he'd be happier if you stopped using low-contrast anything and small fonts, thank you very much.

Ten years ago, the largest bookstores in Germany formed an alliance together with Deutsche Telekom and created exactly that. The name is Tolino, there are e-ink ebook readers, designed principally to be the anti-kindle, there is a web reader, there are iOS and Android apps and everything is synced by a cloud account you can upload your own books to or download any books you purchase from any of the bookstores. You can link your bookstore accounts to your tolino account and you get to read anything you buy from them however you want. Apart from the German ones, Belgian, Italian and Dutch bookstores joined in a few years later.

So what happened afterwards?

Deutsche Telekom sold the infrastructure to Rakuten, the Japanese owners of Kobo , in 2017. Interestingly, 6 years later, Tolino still exists with the same DRM-free architecture and new devices are actually developed by Rakuten.

That's a weird one for sure. I've seen config files which were valid TCL, I've seen JSON, I've seen bad old INI files... TOML is relatively new after all, but that too...

What I never understood are those who looked at all these options and said "No, I'll write my own parser!" instead...

500 is still generous... If I recall right, the company I work at uses 30 as a threshold.

Deutsche Bank - just about the only real use it has for me is to build a credit history here. If you consider using this bank in Germany and you're not a big business, avoid them like the plague.

My reason for getting a credit card as soon as possible when I moved to Germany, was being able to switch the country of residence of some of my services to Germany, because they only accepted a local credit card as proof of residence here. Google was the main culprit in this regard. Mind you, the credit card itself is a serious joke - it's designed to be useless as far as I'm concerned. You cannot change the billing date, the app doesn't even show you the cutoff date. You cannot change the pin at all - if you request a new pin, they send you a new card.

The only good way I've found to use the card is through Paypal, ironically. At least this way I can see, down to the minute, what I spent and where, which the bank is unable or unwilling to show me.

So, as someone with considerable Python knowledge but no gamedev knowledge, what would your suggestion be for me?

Specifically, I want to have some fun developing a few game ideas into at least prototypes. I never really had time to do a proper analysis of Pygame, Godot, Unity etc.

AS far as I'm concerned, the best thing since email was invented is Fastmail. The non-monetary costs of using gmail over a longer period are far higher than paying money for Fastmail. Most importantly, I know I can rely on my email.

My personal favorite: chopped leftover fries into roughly equal sized chunks, reheat in the pan until they're back in shape, then use them to make a lazy spanish omelette. Mind you, keep tossing and stirring them to avoid burning and add a small amount of oil if the fries are particularly dry.

The trick to getting better at putting things into words, is to read more. Particularly, read those whose writing style you would seek to emulate. For this particular case, both the structure of the story and the writing style have room for improvement. I would suggest taking a look at Isaac Asimov, specifically his short stories, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King and Oscar Wilde.

Tasks can also be synced over Fastmail servers, though they do not provide a UI for it.

In the US perhaps. Practically no information for most of Germany at all.

This is was weird to read... I was a Spotify user for a rather long time, but realized that instead of getting better, recommendations got worse, ultimately becoming quite repetitive. I've since ditched them, now using Deezer. The difference is like day and night - with Deezer, if I want it to generate a playlist based on a particular song, I actually get a playlist of songs which are similar to the one I chose and not just the popular songs of bands similar to the band of the song... As for Discover Weekly, it was the worst offender, rehashing stuff Spotify knew I had listened to.

I've been using DDG as my exclusive search engine for longer than I can remember now, possibly since they were first mentioned on HN, I can't remember though. Unfortunately, it was much better than it is today. Not only can I no longer refine results in a meaningful way by negative searches, but the results themselves are also worse even in cases where that does not come into play...

I'm not sure if it is a copyright filter at this point. After numerous simple tries to get it to recite the litany, I asked for the inscription on the one ring, just as straightforward. No hesitation, no wait, recited the whole thing, formatted in two lines and then went on to interpret what it meant. A copyright filter should have prevented that too, I think, if the length had been the issue, it would not always stop at "Fear" on the second line...

Darkreader seems to always induce a noticeable performance hit on each computer I've ran it on for some reason when I run it with the default settings. I may try your whitelist method instead and give it another chance...

If you don't follow a lot of subreddits, then they regularly pester you to follow some, or a stupid live stream of something or the other, or other similar stuff designed to increase "engagement".

I hate engagement.

I already know about the efforts about AI alignment - this is the reason I'm afraid about natural stupidity. I really do not want to see the alignment issue solved in my lifetime.

The listed features are interesting, probably useful for a fridge IF by back camera, a camera that can show me the inside of the fridge is meant - I'd love being able to access that during shopping trips.

The rest are all potentially useful as well, but more important than any of these are security and longevity - a flagship phone from Samsung gets something like 5 years of updates if I recall right, and those updates are prioritized according to how premium the phone is - how far down the list are fridges? I would definitely want my fridge to last longer than 5 years and NOT be a security risk in my network.

To be frank, I'm not afraid of AI, I'm afraid of the exact opposite - natural stupidity. This story clearly shows that too - "algorithm trained to prioritize scoring points tries to do so at any cost" It's not even emergent behavior, it's badly defined goals...

It is disheartening to see what is essentially a tool of censorship sponsored by supposedly free countries. The stated purpose is irrelevant, it is naive to assume any tool of surveillance, once created, will be used solely as intended.

Just guessing: no.