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Dropbox is still unmatched as a service not trying to push you into a trillion dollar monopoly (One Drive, iCloud, Google Drive). It's admittedly been a while but I tested a whole …

I'm not pretending to understand half the words uttered in this discussion but I'm constantly reminded of how much it helps me to articulate things (explain them to others, write t…

There was a whole "now we finally have the technology!" push for VR in the late 80s/90s. Google the Forte VFX1, for example. Jaron Lanier made one of the first ever TED Talks in 19…

>Its solar cells are working again after a shift in lighting conditions allowed it to catch sunlight, the agency said. >It could not generate power when it landed on 20 January as …

Hyper-naive take: Couldn't nearly all of these attacks be blocked by a white-list approach, essentially hiding every file or directory from the internet except a very controlled li…

I know Nintendo will never allow it to exist in the open but is this a way to archive the actual levels or just a list of names/codes? I'm genuinely sad thinking about the (very re…

>Users love PayPal. Genuinely surprised to hear all the love for PayPal, recently. I don't use it much these days (did, years ago but found the experience fairly neutral) but remem…

Is this one of these innocent little articles popping up that people refer to as "the SVB moment" in the future? Or was this bank just uniquely fucked?

None of this should matter as long as the algorithm determining randomness is deterministic. The bottleneck is player input which is the most overestimated bandwidth stat in gaming…

Ok, that's worse.

Naive question: Once they get out more than they spend, can they just loop the generated energy back in and keep increasing this exponentially?

As I understand it, if you're a huge company, you want ToS that ban an obvious, easily enforceable line before anything illegal is said because enforcing just the very edge of lega…

>Why they just don't release a law that forbids people from making bugs? The more I think about it, isn't that literally what the law is about, lol?

Just had the video play without sound and my girlfriend said she thought it was real before she noticed the overlay text being weird. We just went to Amsterdam, too I agree that we…

Photogrammetry (together with a physical based rendering pipeline to get the lighting just right) probably deserves all the credit in this. I remember first reading about it in 201…

Art direction trumps tech in games for a while, now. This is just well lit, well researched and compression artifacts smooth out the details. Character's eyes are still kinda dead,…

The way I see it is that by raising the bar like this, you're making more realistic speeds for average users a) more stable/common and b) less expensive.

>For people in the EU/UK, how has this currency slide impacted your day to day? Not at all? I mean, I guess you could argue which caused which but the real problem here in central …

Trying to understand bluetooth's awfulness is a dead-end. I tried. I thought, "yea, you're nerdy enough to read the tech specs, it will be boring but after an hour you'll understan…

Re-check your sources. A lot of pro-nuclear material out there is pure advertising from nuclear lobbies. Nuclear is a hugely expensive and high-maintenance way of generating energy…

>The military applications of this tech would be to stir up decent or manufacture outrage in a country for political gains. I didn't need that thought in my life, thank you. Seriou…

Honestly, this sounds like tumblr was crazy dependent on both apple and a porn-like business. That's a weird combo and not one that makes me feel particularly sorry for them. There…

What I'm noticing the past 5 to 10 years is the right outsmarting the left in activism and public imagery. Not with arguments, with wording. It's hard to watch. One way I'm trying …

Sounds like the limit is computation speed, not conceptual. That should solve itself over the years.