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    Comment #41336540

    > I’m saying there will be a market. Perhaps, but how is the price or popularity of MacBook pros particularly related to that?

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    Comment #41336526

    And? How would that help if they have no clue about how that specific system was supposed to work?

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    Comment #41332636

    It’s kind of weird that you’re so concerned about the happiness of Windows users… To be honest I’m surprisingly happy* about Windows 11, after minimal amount of tweaking (less than…

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    Comment #41331874

    > If LinkedIn made AR glasses that told me who the person is I’m looking I could only hope that the EU would ban it ASAP if such a product existed making it unviable anywhere else.…

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    Comment #41328809

    > You don’t need an explicit conspiracy for pig butchering Yeah but IMO the scam part is mostly tangential. It hardly matters what did the CEO do with the stolen money, he could ha…

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    Comment #41328744

    Most shareholders hardly have a say on how major public companies are run. Thr Only signal they have is by buying/selling stock or not even that if you only own your shares indirec…

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    Comment #41328726

    If they fulfilled the requirements provided to them I don’t see how that could be the case. Even if they didn’t it was Boeing’s job to verify that. It’s a bit like blaming low leve…

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    Comment #41328656

    > Say some country in eastern Europe, where average salary is $500 / month. Then you only hire from the top CS programs in the country and pay them, say, 3 times the national avera…

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    Comment #41321649

    > These kinds of things are deals negotiated at the highest level of the companies involved To me it just seems a more or less natural outcome of the major structural flaws in the …

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    Comment #41321535

    Many of those that do also use a bunch of various custom native plugins, middleware etc. And if we look the most popular/largest games the proportion that use Unreal/Unity gets muc…

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    Comment #41319405

    > "Hi, do you have a moment? (ok if not)" I was always very puzzled by people who do that instead of just saying “Hi, [short description of the project/question]”. Especially by ju…

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    Comment #41319278

    To me it seems more about scheduling a meeting when a simple email or message might do. Which is kind of the opposite of scheduling meetings with agendas etc. If it’s really a “qui…

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    Comment #41318431

    > native elf/linux support because of proton. Longterm for Linux isn’t it better for games to be built against stable and backwards compatible APIs? > It would have been 1 billion …

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    Comment #41318407

    > tell themselves to explain to themselves why they continue to tolerate Microsoft's abusive business practices. The arrogance and smugness of some Linux users is probably the main…

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    Comment #41318376

    maximizing the amount of complexity just because your current users are capable of dealing it and often no other benefits whatsoever (of course not always) just doesn’t seem like a…

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    Comment #41317874

    Is drinking fluoride somehow more effective than just using toothpaste with fluoride ?

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    Comment #41300422

    Webkit (and subsequently Blink/Chromium) and LLVM especially did have a significant impact though. > didn't build their platform "almost from scratch". Well, no, it’s of course rel…

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    Comment #41300263

    > I’ll also reiterate that the majority of devs pay 15% now on the App Store. Not 30%. Probably not relative to total revenue. But it doesn’t really change much. To be fair I don’t…

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    Comment #41300049

    > Without access to a companies books, you don’t know how they fund things I’m highly certain about that. Regardless also I don’t think most companies work like that. More or less …

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    Comment #41299981

    > there are still plenty of legitimate reasons to do hardware video encoding But from what I understand Pi 5 still doesn’t have any HW encoder? So if your task relies on that you i…

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    Comment #41299051

    I meant risk for consumers due to those sites not complying with GDPR. Of course the site owners think there it introduces unnecessary risks for them, that was more or less what my…

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    Comment #41299009

    I was mainly thinking about Plex/etc. servers where you might want to do high-res (or even just HD) encoding or multiple streams at the same time. Pi was always pretty horrible cho…

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    Comment #41297795

    But there wasn’t any clear boundary between the civil and military power. If we must discuss it in these terms “the military” had seized the power from the very beginning of the em…

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    Comment #41297779

    > Events like the French Revolution proved them wrong: To be fair nobody took it that seriously before either. Cities, regions, nobles etc. were constantly trying to challenge the …

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    Comment #41297546

    If you need video encoding why would you ever get a pi instead of the N100 though?