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How are loot boxes different from slot machines? The underlying psychological mechanics are very similar if not the same.

Have been using one of their keyboards for two years switching between windows and macos and that key was not the one that wore out first. Plus on most keyboards you could configur…

IMDb shows this. But also, since the author of the blog post is seemingly German, there's http://werstreamt.es (who streams it) that does exactly that. Showing you what streams wer…

It's old servers they have already written off and would otherwise decommission. You're basically only paying for power and network traffic.

> There is an incentive to make games addictive. It's not just games though, it's pretty much every digital service now. Virtually every website has infinite scrolling and algorith…

> but neural-networks can separate them in practice That's a massive stretch. They are able separate them sort of, but they are nowhere close the original quality of the individual…

IMO LLM writing hasn't significantly improved since maybe GPT4. It still does the exact same "It's not x, it's actually y" tropes and many of the other common LLM smells. Most LLM …

Yes, they only do SVGs. I'm actually glad they're focusing on code, and code adjacent tooling only.

That would be bandcamp, where the free/preview player doesn't have a volume control but the library player does.

It's the NotebookLM podcast generator voices, it just does it for you once you add all the data to NLM.

My first thought as well, there is (or was) also Cisco Jabber which I wouldn't touch with a ten feet pole. It's generally a good idea to Google the name of the software you're abou…

It's pretty much all laid out on Wikipedia. He initially supported the Democratic Party but because of crypto and AI he donated millions to super PACs for Trump, supported DOGE and…

A lot if not most of the talks will be recorded, yes.

> A true cloud disaster would be something like a major S3 data loss event So like the OVH data center fire back in 2021?

Yes! I loved the thread on twitter back in the day where Jasper explained how he implemented the Half-Life 2 water shader using the two camera method. I can wholeheartedly recommen…

>[...] it doesn't make sense to include it as part of the "average compensation". Unless you want to artificially boost your numbers to sound better in the press release.

Yes. Although it seems they didn't rehire, but just reassigned people from other parts of the org. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/klarna-ceo-says-ai-helped-co... https://www.busin…

I think they build body worn and other antenna systems.

Here in Germany meat alternatives/substitutes have definitely reached a level of popularity that goes beyond a fad. The leading commercial producer of deli-meats has started produc…

Probably didn't want to risk the same embarrassment that was the Meta live demo.

> Another time I bought a Samsung Fold and it cracked down the middle. I told Amazon and they said they'll refund it under warranty. I sent it back and got a warning that if I retu…

I understood it less as an attempt of improvement and more as an alternate version of the same shot. Where you see more of Aldrin and other smaller bits that were less visible in t…

I also use a MacBook as my daily driver, but have used different ThinkPads for years and there is no way that that workload should bring any medium specced TP to its knees like you…

Or Microsoft. For all I know it primarily kills competition...

After having used the IntelliJ/PyCharm spellchecker for German quite extensively I can only attest to this. It's so much more than just checking is a word is spelled correctly. On …