echo64 @ echo64 @lemmy.world

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This is a good example of why super broad statistics over short time frames are a really bad idea.

I can think of a million reasons as to why there might be more or less sales, to explain anything. As a result you can't really derive anything from this.

If your business plan involves firing out infinite rockets full of cell towers forever. You should probably just spend the money on copper instead.

Shrug, the thing sold out at that price point. It can be "too expensive" and also the right price for the market.

And honestly, a display, an arm chipset, good wifi, Bluetooth, all the dualsense modules. The cost of production adds up.

There have been a lot of armchair experts around this thing whinging about it, but people who bought them are super happy. Why rain on that parade? Just be cool about it.

I'm just gonna drop this comment to say this community seems super disappointing. Just a circle jerk. It's not a competition between your favorite thing and another thing. It's okay for some people to spend less for something else.

I really hate communities that act this way. it's so weird. And for what.

before you could tell an encoder to run multiple threads, but everything outside of the encoder would run effectively single threaded.

now you (should) be able to have all the ffmpeg components, decoder, encoder, filters, audio, video, everything all run parallel

I don't understand, this is bullshit because Apple won their case? Do you mean the Apple case was bullshit?

I want to say this is good news but

The union said that the deal "commits ZeniMax to uses of AI that augment human ingenuity and capacities, to ensure that these tools enhance worker productivity, growth and satisfaction without causing workers harm."

Under the terms of the deal, wherever ZeniMax rolls out AI in a way that impacts the work of union members, the company will provide advance notice to the union and negotiate its plans upon request.

Additionally, it lays out six "guiding principles" for AI's use in the workplace, insisting the tech must be fair; reliable and safe; private and secure; inclusive; transparent; and accountable.

This all sounds like the job losses from AI replacing workers will go as planned, just slower.

Unions, in general, seem to be doing a rather naive job of protecting workers from ai across the board.

I know you are hung up on this, but people aren't thinking of pc when they say that. It's okay, the original poster just meant "locked to Microsoft systems", so windows pc and Xbox. It's okay.

I don't know why you have this weird obsession with reasonableness. It has no relation. You act like I have said anything else about him.

I'm talking about this one point, you want to make it more than that for some reason. You can have that argument with someone else.

Avoiding the reddit like pessimism and cynicism of the other comment...

This is an fpga recreation of the turbo duo. It's capable of playing original pc engine, turbografix16 games, as well as cd games and the six (Six!) Super graphics games.

Why does fpga matter? It means the games run as close to as they were at launch, including the as close to zero lag as possible for a modern display (and actually zero ms lag when it has dac support).

If you don't have any original tg/pce games, then this likely isn't something you will care about. If you do, this is likely going to be the best way to play your game collection for the foreseeable.

Which is actually extremely competitive for what it is, it'll probably go up in price in a year

Nah, just promote what you have. You don't have to 'over deliver', for some reason hiding away the great stuff you made. Just don't over hype.

it is very simple. If you have a platform, then people will look at what you choose to put on that platform. He chooses ads and things that make the large companies happy, over bringing attention to things that matter to people actually working in the industry.

I don't care if he does things behind the scenes, if he does, good for him. I and others are commenting about what he chooses to do with his biggest platform.

this grandstanding about how he might theoretically be doing other stuff somewhere but you might not know, isn't helpful.

App server > apple push server > app > lock screen.

For battery efficiency reasons it's better to use the apple push server that's hooked into ios rather than your own push server

You don't have to, you don't have to work up to the revelation that a society might be unjust. We all know and live that, we recognise what someone being disenfranchised in a world that apparently had fixes for the problem means.

Our tools today are absolutely up to the task. Of those deaths, how many of them do you think are in rich countries vs. the rest of the world.

Seventeen of the twenty-two countries that account for 80 percent of the world’s TB burden are classified as low income (GNP per capita of less than US$760, World Bank 2000). Within countries the prevalence of TB is higher among the poor, and other vulnerable groups such as the homeless. Studies in both high income and low-income countries (USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Vietnam, Mexico and Philippines) reveal significantly higher rates of TB in poor populations (Davies et al. 1999; Grange 1999; Barnes 1998; Tupasi et al. 2000).

The costs for people in low income countries are so high that often they are unattainable

TB patients and households in sub-Saharan Africa often incurred high costs when utilizing TB treatment and care, both within and outside of Directly Observed Therapy Short-course (DOTS) programs. For many households, TB treatment and care-related costs were considered to be catastrophic because the patient costs incurred commonly amounted to 10% or more of per capita incomes in the countries where the primary studies included in this review were conducted.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570447/

This helps the disease spread and fester in these countries. Whereas so called developed nations reap the benefit of something that does not need to be a problem for anyone.

Modern medical aid negates many diseases and disabilities including some blindnesses. But we still have people with these problems.

This is an opportunity for worldbuilding and comments about society. You'd be a fool to look at any fantasy setting and think it's an equal society.

We have the ability to make Tuberculosis not exist and have for half a century. At least 1.6 million unnecessary deaths occurred because of it in 2022. Anyone who can't think further than the first point has the thought capabilities of a gnat.

So, morally, we explore them to. But it's not their job. A companies job is to drive the maximum amount of value to shareholders possible. That's the horrific hellscape we have.

This combined with consumer choice being at an all time low thanks to no one having any money for choice, means that unless there are actual legally bound requirements for recycling, no one is going to do it. Especially if it cuts profits.

This is about producing convincing nude reproductions of other people, however. It has a very different psychological impact.

This technology allows someone to make pornography of anyone else and spread that pornography on the internet. It can cause massive distress, trauma, and relationship issues and impact peoples careers.

Your freedom to make nude ai images of other people is not worth that. I don't understand why anyone would think it was okay.