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That's a fair point. I hadn't considered it from the perspective of having space for children, though I don't personally think the density of Tokyo is prohibitive.

I'm curious about another thing: You mention 1000sqft+ homes being the norm where you're located, is that considered a larger than average home in Japan? I can't find a recent figure for average dimensions of a Japanese home. The average in the United States, by comparison, is apparently 2273sqft (reported in 2021).

Of course they’re more healthy, they eat less & walk more.

I just returned from Japan, and the difference in quality of life due to urban density, reliable public transit, and walkability of every city I visited is staggering. There really is no comparison to the United States. Everything you could ever need to live is within walking distance - seriously. This is the way people are meant to live.

I don’t consider this “condescending”, necessarily. The problem of smartphone addiction really is as bad as alcoholism. Students are absolutely doomed without extreme action to prevent or punish their use within schools.

Though I’d also say they’re doomed without better teacher compensation. Probably both.

Farewell Raspberry Pi.

What are some alternative boards with comparable specs?

I don't have well-defined reasoning for this, so maybe somebody else can expand on it: But it feels fundamentally wrong that detached, single-family (zoning restricted) homes are allowed to be purchased by investment firms & exclusively used as rentals.

Unfortunately, Tesla has already set a precedent with regards to reselling a car & the new owners needing to pay for upgraded features again.

How did you resolve this? I just realized today that I forgot to file two years ago & want to take care of it asap

Playstation doesn't appear to be doing poorly, but it's hard to ignore that margins are likely worse than previous generations as AAA game budgets have skyrocketed. In fact, the lifetime sales of PS5 aren't that far behind PS4 (at the equivalent point in the PS4 lifetime).

IIRC the insomniac leak contained some internal slides that claimed at least ~6 million full-price sales of Spiderman 2 would be needed to break even on development costs.

I'm firmly of the belief that all users should wipe their post/comment history & delete their accounts before this happens. User-content is what provides reddit their value, but once they go public it's (almost) guaranteed to become steadily worse & less useful as shareholders squeeze the life out of it.

I’ve been playing MHWorld on my steam deck OLED (low settings) at a consistently smooth 60fps. The only hiccup is the new map introduced in the Iceborne DLC (hoarfrost reach, the area covered in snow) hovers around 55-57.

Side note, I’m afraid they’re going to bork MHWorld in an update too. Which would be hugely disappointing as I’ve easily put 100 hours into the game on deck alone.

Completely agree. I would happily disable my Adblock (on YouTube only, general internet is still unusable without it) if I could pay a lower price just for this feature. I strongly suspect this is also the case for the overwhelming majority of current/potential premium customers.

Why wouldn’t it be serious? C has been used to write safe, stable, & portable software for decades. Compiler warnings & static analysis tools have come a long way to preventing the vast majority of safety issues in (new) C projects.

Does Medium automatically insert these AI generated images into every article now, or is that just the popular thing to do?

This is so hilariously out of touch that I would have believed it was satire without context. This is viral copy-paste quality material.

When this first came out a year(ish?) ago, I remember seeing somewhere that they had received permission from Hexrays/Ilfak Guilfanov.

I did not realize it was a $6 billion/6000 person public company. Their product is single sign-on services & they’ve got this bad of a track record? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised anymore

I have only had positive experiences while using Keras in the past, but have not used it in a few years.

Possibly a hot take, but youtube premium is too expensive. I don't care about youtube music, I don't care about offline use, I don't care about background play/queue on my phone. I just want to watch ad-free video, which I don't believe is worth $14/month.

Ideally the offline/background play/queuing should be included because they're unrelated to the cost of serving video, but any other features like music/4K/etc should be an extra purchase. However, I strongly doubt enough people would even bother with those to justify having as separate features.

Like many others, I had (appropriately) written off gamemaker entirely as soon as they changed to a subscription model. It was always a solid choice for making games, so I'm glad to see that it might be worth using again.

Not sure why you’ve been downvoted when your statement is largely true. This isn’t even controversial. As with most public companies, the products WILL gradually get worse over time as the shareholders attempt to extort more profit from each customer while adding as little value as possible to their product.

I’ve had a bad habit of doing this for years. I’ve recently tried to fix it but am struggling to let myself sleep & ‘waste’ the rest of the night. It’s exactly as the article suggests, I do it because I feel like my life has no personal time/privacy otherwise.

I was recently in Europe & came back to the United States with a renewed sense of hatred for cars, single-family zoning, & our awful public transport. Cars especially continue to steal our space, time, health, sense of community, & money.

In Bern (Switzerland), for example, there's trams/streetcars for short trips in the most populated parts of the city; there's (ice? electric?) motorbuses for trips around the rest of the city; and trains/rolling stock for trips to other cities/countries in Europe. All of these methods are timely, clean, & affordable. The sense of freedom this provides is so incredibly liberating. The sense of community from all these shared spaces wonderful, and also entirely absent from the average North American lifestyle. The quality of life is genuinely incomparable.

Why not? There's already a hardware survey & they could easily have an opt-in system that reports the user's average framerate while playing games. If the average hardware specs can't run that game >=60fps >=90% of the time on any graphical setting then it's beyond fair to give it a "Hardware reports indicate that this game performs poorly" label.

Much like Cyberpunk on it's release, this will hopefully be de-listed from the various digital storefronts & all customers issued a refund in full.

I’ll be honest I thought you were serious too until I read this reply.

That being said, I know I’ve personally (as a US citizen) been conditioned from a young age to believe unions are a mixed-bag at best & outright criminal at worst. I also know as a matter of fact that this conditioning is incorrect, so there’s an odd feeling of momentary ambivalence whenever it pops back into my head.

I think the blame can be squarely placed on the cost of housing.

I really like asciidoc as an alternative to markdown, but it seems like the only preprocessors are written in JavaScript & Ruby, which limits where/how I can use it

The context is that their teammates' working conditions are so good (as a result of union participation in collective bargaining) that they've become spoiled & forgotten how it got that way to begin with.

I believe the point of the original comment is that if you’d really like your business logic to be written in rust, you can already do so by building a backend service with a mature rust library & access it via web.

I like the idea, as long as I can use it 100% independently of Facebook/Meta services (which I don’t use).