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Maybe it depends on your location? I see celcius here.

Not necessarily.

Usually when micro-transactions are present everything is validated server side, Leading to always online games like diablo 3+.

From my understanding kernel level anticheat is to detect things like aimbot, wallhack etc.

When hear about hardware products turning into bricks after the manufacturer pulled the plug on cloud services, I wonder how long it will still be legal.

Legislation should be put in place so that features not requiring a connection shall work offline.

In north America, there is a lot of political pressure for some environmental issues but nothing about planned obsolescence.

The lines in front of my house were shorted by a tree, melted and fell, blocking my driveway. In about 20 hours the power was back, 2 trucks came and fixed the lines. I live in the countryside, so YMMV

I wonder what happened to K'nex. It was amazing as a kid, and wasn't really IP friendly, more focused on contraptions.

I'm incredibly lucky to live in Quebec, Canada: 100% green hydro power at low rates. Tarif D has the first 40kwh at 6.509 Canadian cent/kWh, then 10.041 [0]

It's also state owned.

From what I've seen it's the best combo of green and pricing in the world.

0: https://www.hydroquebec.com/residential/customer-space/rates...

Webcam/mic permissions were more painful iirc, but I mainly didn't want to have 2 full browsers open simultaneously.

For work, I use Ubuntu+i3wm.

Imo, when working with corporate environment with mostly windows, .deb distros are hard to beat for general availability of packages. It also just works (even if Firefox snap sucks)

Also Ubuntu is generally the most supported Linux distro from my experience.

I've used fedora for work, but it's often more friction to get something installed.

For example: teams dropped its .deb release officially not too long ago. A week later, some kind soul releases a snap with an electron wrapper of the webapp.

The issue for me is how marketing keeps selling the opposite. The way homogeneous things are constantly sold as a unique way to express your difference (go watch any car ad or any new condo poster) creates that dystopian feel.

Its real life satire at this point.

>“[Which] areas of the economy can deal with 99% correct solutions? My answer is: ones that don’t create/capture most of the value.”

The entertainment industry disagrees with this.

These systems are transformative for any creative works and in first world countries, this is no small part of the economy.

HN is de facto the fastest secondary source for any current event related to tech.

I've eaten deer, moose and even beaver from hunting and trapping. They will taste amazing if handled well and given early to a butcher.

Old bucks don't taste as good, but younger deer have amazingly tender meat.

Canadian hunter here.

From my understanding this is mostly to avoid poaching.

At least here in QC hunting laws are extremely strict to protect the populations. I believe other provinces have similar laws (it's a provincial jurisdiction)

It's too bad that the meat from these is inedible, but I wonder if it's related to their diet. Maybe some soy field diet would make them more palatable?

This makes me remember CrystalDiskInfo. You can download versions with cute anime girls, with little thumbnails looking concerned or panicked when the SMART looks too bad.

If you check the video on maps they made everything brighter and made aesthetic changes to improve acquisition, so it was covered.

Tobacco in Canada is a complex subject. While I agree the infamously high prices of cigarettes in Canada go into play, I would argue that tax exempt cigarettes quotas in reserves[0] and the overall lack of oversight in Reserves creates a perfect haven for contraband, distribution of tax-free cigarettes and "indian smokes".

its sad how the Indian Act is still in effect today and how politically impossible the situation is.

I think that countries without these huge loopholes might see less problems from bootlegging as we see here.

0:https://www.ontario.ca/document/tobacco-tax/first-nations-ci...

A friend of mine, PhD in early childhood education, told me the contrary: Toddlers instinctively know their limits and will not "bite more than they can chew", at least with gross motor skills.

My personal experience confirms this: for example, when teaching my young kid of 18mo to climb down stairs standing, I would stop holding his hands and observe his behavior. He would initially try to go down a step on his feet while holding the side rail, then hesitate and ask for my hand. If I told him to do it himself, he would instead sit down and slide down gently.

Storage per dollar increases are usually correlated with storage density increases. Seeing news like this makes me confident we aren't hitting the limit of Moore's law for storage for a while.

As a FDM printer owner, it does use quite a bit of energy. My ender 3 uses 0.125kWh[0] with 200C extrusion (PLA) and 60C bed, but making a durable children spork can take hours.

my personnal guess: by plastic mass, FDM is probably way less efficient energy wise than injection molding for the same mass of plastic, since meltic plastic a tiny volume at a time must have more losses than having a big amount heated at once.

0: https://3dsolved.com/ender-3-power-consumption/

This headset is going for the crowd already owning a kit, but wanting better visuals.

-Many Vive headsets are compatible with valve base stations, so there are many lighthouse kits around [0]

-This headsets supports both versions, 1.0 and 2.0

-Valve Knuckles are still considered the most advanced controllers on the market

0: https://www.vive.com/ca/support/vive-pro-hmd/category_howto/...

I have a lot of respect for products taking bold decisions to excel in 1 axis, in this case weight.

Going for fixed IPD and producing 15 different size displays this commitment.

Compare this 127g to Valve index's 809g, anybody owning an headset knows the impact on immersion, especially mass away from the center of gravity (like the display)

I struggle to interpret the charts included in the article.

It seems the author too, as they annotated them with the conclusions we are supposed to see.

The table of contents is a great addition! Whitespace/minimalist styling is of little importance as it will change with design fashions, while the table will stay a net positive.

2C here: my wife has a small business selling exotic plants and the reverse path was always seamless with UPS. She did use a middleman (e-shipper), but 24h pickups at our (remote) home were mostly seamless. Most of the issues were internal to e-shipper messing up pickups.

Same. When I help relatives with their tech woes, loading a website on a vanilla browser after all these years without ads is shocking.

All these flashing and moving gizmos and pop up videos. It's so jarring, like having a flashlight flickered in your face constantly.

I have honestly no idea how people manage to work the web without adblock nowadays.

Crazy to see websites load this fast without ad-block. This event must be eye-opening for non tech-people...

Heh. This makes me remember how the same technique was used in the "he will not divide us" trolling campaign to locate a video feed of a flag. Internet Historian has a video about IIRC.

If you enjoy the read but require more convincing, I recommend following his newsletter. For instance, his analysis on crude oil price caps posted today point towards the instability of international trade and de-globalization. Very interesting insights.

I strongly disagree. Normal users now do most of their computing on a web browser, making most Linux desktop issues less critical to adoption.

My personal experience in the last ~5 years or so is increasingly reduced friction in adopting a Linux desktop for non-technical users as companies go towards SaaS.

Firefox ends up being simply a differently shaped search bar.