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Mistic

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  • My server won't turn on 🫤

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    When you realize it

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  • You could argue it's implied that a-z sequence contains x. But I agree that it's a bit ambiguous.

    Here's what a better notation would look like:

    (1-x)(2-x)(3-x)...(n-x) for x from N

    Or

    (b0 - x)(b1 -x)(b2-x)...(bn-x)

    This way, both Bn and X could be any number and not just natural ones.

  • Some YouTube Premium subscribers complain of seeing ads

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  • My tipping point was YouTube serving the same one ad months on end to me.

    I was fine with ads a decade ago. I tolerated them increasing the amount five-fold over the years. But that was borderline torture, and getting an adblock was the only working solution.

  • Reckless

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  • In echo of Soviet era, Russians are informing on each other over Ukraine

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  • Yup, facts don't exactly matter in Russian courts. If the judge is working with prosecution (which they always do), there's practically no chance of you being acquitted. Your best case scenario is getting a suspended sentence.

    That's why it's best to get a jury trial whenever possible. Your odds are way higher that way, but it's only possible to have it in some specific cases.

  • The Magic Keyboard, Trackpad and Mouse now use USB-C!

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  • I agree that the gestures feel great (pretty much the only good part about this mouse imo), but why not just use a track pad instead?

  • What are your AI use cases?

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  • Here's mine, that works outside of tech:

    It's a great source for second opinions.

    Say you want to make a CV, but you don't know where to even begin. You could give it a description of what you've been doing and ask it to help you figure out what jobs fit the skillset and how to present your skills better.

    It's a good tool for such rough estimations that give you ground to improve upon.

    This works well for planning or making up documentation. Saves a lot of time, with minimal impact to quality, because you're not mindlessly copying or believing the output.

    I'm also considering it for assisting me in learning Japanese. Just enough to be able to read in it. We'll see how it does.

  • Minecraft is losing VR support next year

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  • I think what you're forgetting is scale.

    Lemmy is niche. VR is niche. Gaming is mainstream.

    You can't call a niche dead just because there aren't that many people into it. It's a niche for a reason.

    Linux is booming, even though it's "dead." Lemmy has never been this active in its entire existence. Why do investments from large companies matter?

    What truly matters is growth. Negative growth is what kills a platform/industry/company/whatever else. VR is growing, Linux is growing, Lemmy is growing. It may not be fast, but they all have active userbases that support their development.

    You cannot call a child "failure" just because it never achieved anything in life, can you? They are growing. They can get sick, they can recover. They can also regress due to that illness and die. Only then they're truly dead.

  • Minecraft is losing VR support next year

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    • More than 57mil (est.) monthly VR users
    • PS5 has 116mil monthly users

    For how big PS5 is and how small VR is, VR sure has a lot of people playing.

    Lemmy has userbase (not even monthly activity) of 0.46mil (acc. to fedidb). Is lemmy dead?

    What constitutes for a dead platform to you?

  • Minecraft is losing VR support next year

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  • That's not even accurate.

    If VR gaming is dead, then what does it say about Linux with about 5 times less users? Like, a low poly game about monkeys has a daily playerbase of a million people there. Mind you, Mincraft has 1 to 1.5 million. Not bad for a "dead" platform. Also, Valve isn't even the last one to enter the market.

    I think what you're actually trying to say is that it's too niche, which it absolutely is.

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  • UPD: as of right now, the access isn't blocked in any way.

    It is still unclear whether or not the block was intentional, Nvidia gave no comments.

  • Russia bans fruit and veg from Kazakhstan after country refuses to join BRICS

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  • Minor correction: key rate is 19%, interest rates are higher than that as a result.

  • Russia: Under a proposed new legislation, comments defending the decision not to have children could be fined by up to €50,000

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  • Some important info that is missing:

    1. Proposed legislation is far from being an actual law. It has only once passed the committee (1st stage out of 5), after which got sent to be re-written. Now it's at pre-1st stage.
    2. So far, it has received 2 negative reviews from the administration. First one, from 2022, said it's redundant, and second one, from 2023 that it's... still just as redundant as it was.
    3. 2 out of 3 authors have removed their signatures since the first negative review.

    Basically, there's little to no chance this would ever pass. Our "crazy printer" may be insane, but it only does so if there is an ass to lick.

    I could even link everything if anybody wants me to. Doubt it won't get removed, but still.

  • 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs

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  • That's fair. I've put it there as more of a possible use case rather than something you should be consistently doing.

    Although iGPU can perform quite well when given a lot of RAM, afaik.

  • 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs

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  • If games, modding uses a lot. It can go to the point of needing more than 32gb, but rarely so.

    Usually, you'd want 64gb or more for things like video editing, 3d modeling, running simulations, LLMs, or virtual machines.

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    Typing these four characters could crash your iPhone | TechCrunch

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  • I work in IT as PM, you're pretty close.

    Modern technology is glued together NOT random shit that somehow works.

    Everything created has been built with a purpose, that's why it's not random. However, the longer you go on, the more rigid the architecture becomes, so you start creating workarounds, as doing otherwise takes too much time which you don't have, because you have a dozen of other more important tasks at hand.

    When you glue those solutions together, they work because they've been built to work in a specific use case. But it also becomes more convoluted every time, so you really need to dig to fix something you didn't account for.

    Then it becomes so rigid and so convoluted that to fix some issues properly, you'd have to rebuild everything, starting from architecture. And if you can't make more workarounds to satisfy the demand? You do start all over again.

  • Down with under-screen fingerprint sensors!

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  • Mind you, there are two types of under screen fingerprint sensors: optical and ultrasonic.

    Optical blasts the finger with light and forms a 2d scan. It's pretty slow and arguably worse than conventional (capacitive) scanner on the back of the phone.

    Ultrasonic, however, because it uses sound waves, maps a 3d scan. It is significantly faster than conventional scanner, and it also doesn't care about your fingers being wet.

    Ultrasonic sensor only requires a quick tap to unlock the phone. It's actually really convenient to use, I like those. I'd take the capacitive sensor over optical one, though.

  • Top general says Ukrainian forces have captured almost as much Russian territory in the last week as Russia has land in Ukraine this year

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  • Negotiations happen when one or, more likely, two sides don't see a way to improve their positions with military force.

    The rumors you're speaking of are a direct consequence of Russia being an autocracy. When you have a country whose ruler doesn't leave on their own (a dictator), people start speculating on when he's going to die. These rumors have been going around for about a decade, I believe, and are pretty much meaningless.

    Now, about "securing a legacy." I think it's much more trivial than that. Invading Ukraine was a good way to secure presidency for the next 1-2 terms and to eradicate opposition within the country. If that's the case, then, in a sense, he got what he wanted, although he likely also expected the war to be short and victorious (judging by the state media narrative at the time). That didn't happen. And now there are other issues at hand for him.

  • YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia.

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  • I look into those regularly. Those are credible sources that are often used by our scientists, but you have to be very careful with statistics during war periods.

    What do you think the majority of people hear when asked, "Do you support actions of Russian military in Ukraine?". They hear, "Are you a traitor?" and answer accordingly. The majority (4 out of 5, I believe, if not more) refuse to answer at all. So, it's not exactly representative.

    What we look at instead is questions that are not this direct. Such as "Do you think Russia should continue or start peace talks?". The majority (58%) is for peace talks. This number has increased since September 2022 by 10%, whilst the number of pro-war people decreased from 44% to 34%. Their quality also changed. For "absolutely should start peace talks" went from 21% (out of all votes) up to 26%, whilst for "absolutely should continue military actions" went from 29% down to 21%.

    The longer things continue, the less support Russia's government has. That's what can be said for certain. The other conclusion we can derive is that war isn't popular.

    Edit: Oh, and the youth, 67% of the youth (18-24) is for peace talks, 23% pro-war. 65% for ages 25-39, only 25% pro-war.

    The vast majority of pro-war people are elderly. Can you guess who also watches the TV the most? And who the TV is controlled by?

    For the full picture, I'll also add "they started it, so it's their responsibility, we had no choice in it" This phrase explains the whole mentality of Russians very well.