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Announcing a solution to joycon drift would require acknowledging drift at all, which would open them to another class action. The camera is sold separately, so you can just not plug it in. The parental controls also lets you turn off chat.

You will never run out of games to play with a softmodded Wii plus a massive SD card. Make sure your Wii has the correct ports and get some Gamecube controllers too.

It's a shame that apps like these are "illegal". There's so much fun innovation to be had.

> Students never get a 20/20. A good grade is a 16/20!

This right here I think is a huge factor. Pretty much every top student in my college classes and highschool were essentially just testbots optimizing for maxing out quiz and exams grades. They barely even grasped the material, they just pestered the teachers into telling the class what types of questions would be on the exams, memorized the formulas, and bitched incessantly when it wasn't 1:1 with what they were given. Professors also have to be super careful about what is on the exam because top grade being a 16/20 means the entire class is failing. The whole education system needs to be reworked to punish this kind of optimization that doesn't even reward knowing the material.

That's cloud gaming, not games run locally

Turn off the animations. Everything becomes significantly faster.

It's not hard to see how "leaving the garden" can be interpreted as us leaving nature. We're the only animal that doesn't really jive with the rest of the ecosystem.

They give a couple hoots, otherwise Gamepass would be on Linux

I suppose you could take your phone to a cafe to do all your software stuff

I don't see that being a strong case against Eddy Cue. Apple's 30% cut makes them tons of revenue, and as a whole those services probably make bank. Apple TV+ especially funds good television. Even if it loses money, funding the arts carries intrinsic value.

I often wonder how this changes the way tension is built during spoken dialogue. Are there minor moments of suspense when someone lists a bunch of names and the listener waits to hear what verb is happening to them?

I'm sure the next one will make up for it by reinstalling and enabling it for everyone

At least Axolotls are practically guaranteed to survive in captivity as long as humans are prolific, thanks to their popularity as pets.

slang for charisma, no?

I would guess that music producers are demanding unreasonable amounts of money per view, so carving them out of the equation is a fine trade IMO

You get to pick the cherries that you eat.

Youtube has recently added a premium feature where if you skip ahead 5s, it will prompt you to skip an entire "commonly skipped" section. It seems like they've picked up on sponsorblock and are making it a feature for Premium users.

I see reports dating to back to around 4am. did the dst switch take it down?

discord needs to abandon the notion that every message in every channel deserves to be read by every user. it’s absurd in servers with >50 users

This is for people who watch Youtube on their TV and don’t want to see ads.

it's crazy that 3d printers are so hackable but 2d printers are malicious spyware machines with no alternatives

I'd posit that it's the inverse belief: anything that benefits other people indirectly hurts you. This zero-sum worldview is becoming popular in national politics as well.

I also believe that the two biggest domestic problems in the US are housing and transportation. I’m not sure if it’s a recoverable situation

One one hand, I envy the young generation because they have unlimited access to thousands of amazing games for very cheap. Pirating a collection containing every game released before the year 1996 is trivial, and grabbing individual titles isn't hard either. The official distribution systems for many games are also convenient. The kids these days are spoiled for choice while I was restricted to 1-2 new games on my birthday or christmas, and whatever my friends had. The indie scene has also popped off in an exciting way.

On the other hand, every year are fewer AAA game releases and larger spans of time between them. No e3 in the summer either. It sounds awfully dull compared to the crazy times that were 1990-2010. Kids are also constantly getting fleeced by f2p games like Fortnite, and even purchased games like Minecraft are littered with microtransactions.

Hopefully kids will still have the patience for older, harder games in the future. I think there's genuine value in the humility gained from being pubstomped that bot lobbies detract from.

Even in Huntsville, how many millions have been spent on the legal defense for that cop that blatantly murdered someone?

The real gem of this post is the aquarium temperature regulator solution. I'm tempted to implement it myself to deal with hot summers.

The real prescient threat in that movie was the predictive AI algorithm that tracked individual behaviors and identified potential threats to the regime. In the movie they had a big airship with guns that would kill them on sight, but a more realistic threat is the AI deciding to feed them individualized propaganda to curtail their behavior. This is the villain's plot in Metal Gear Solid 2, which is another great story.

This got me thinking about MGS2 again and rewatching the colonel's dialogue at the end of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKl6WjfDqYA

> Your persona, experiences, triumphs, and defeats are nothing but byproducts. The real objective was ensuring that we could generate and manipulate them.

It's really brilliant to use a video game to deliver the message of the effectiveness of propaganda. 'Game design' as a concept is just about manipulation and hijacking dopamine responses. I don't think another medium can as effectively demonstrate how systems can manipulate people's behavior.

He demos his code on both console and emulator, so there shouldn't be an issue in that regard.

> Steve Jobs was really good, and at the same time he was lucky that what he considered a good product at the time was actually perceived as a good product by the masses

Jobs did it multiple times, though. The iPhone no doubt overshadows everything else, but the Macintosh and iPod serve as evidence that he had a recipe for successful products.

You're right. I was too quick and jumped the gun by calling it "bad analysis". However, I do believe that the source of this offer is the larger factor than the dollar amount in OpenAI's valuation of the offer. If this was anyone else offering to buyout OpenAI then the argument makes sense, but Sam Altman and Elon Musk seem to hate each other's guts and are even resorting to name-calling online in the fallout of this offer.

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1889062013109703009

There's a good chance there's more to it than I realize, though.