It already exists. There are businesses whose model is that they rent out vram that you can offload tasks to
And for a couple of years now tech companies have been talking shout how cool it would be for computers to be just portals with all the processing power being online somewhere (as a subscription model)
They say “average” volume. What do they mean by that? Or, more precisely, how are they measuring that? RMS? LUFS?
Probably LUFS, but even with LUFS there are ways to make perceived volume louder while remaining within a threshold
This seems like two unrelated stories. It wasn’t his decision to buy the car, nor did he design it. So it seems unlikely that he’s resigning because people don’t like the design or idea of it
I had to uninstall chrome and switch to edge on my work laptop just to make it usable. 8 is barely enough, if you’re very careful
Yes, Mark, chase the next thing. I’m sure that will be the one that works out for you
That logo hasn’t grown on me
My point is exactly what I said. I don’t know how much clearer I could have been, TBH, if my post is read in the context of the three proceeding it
“Thousands”…
Don’t do Musk’s propaganda job for him. The far-right are doing well enough in the UK without people like you amplifying their lies for them
There are definitely plenty of addictive substances which are banned in the UK
Oh yeah, the article is written by someone short on facts and large on mouth-foam
The biggest thing for me with this story (in general, not the article linked above) is that it shows how woefully out of touch the UK government is -issuing an ultimatum to phone manufacturers to implement measures which were implemented years ago
No wonder they’re gearing up to give s defence contract to Musk and our health data to Thiel
https://www.deseret.com/business/2026/06/10/apple-releases-new-parental-controls/
In addition to existing software that blurs nudity in messages and FaceTime calls, which is turned on by default for users younger than 18
Apple and some (most? All?) androids already do this…
Basically anything where the platform prioritises some things over others, rather than just giving you the posts/videos/whatever in order from the people you’ve subscribed to. Recommendation engines would be one example
They don’t sell as many ads, but they do sell ads. It was only a few months ago they announced that ads would be coming to their maps app. There’s ads in news, the App Store, music, and settings on iOS. Maybe more than aren’t coming to mind immediately
For now. Maintaining v2 takes resources, and google can make it more and more difficult with every update. Eventually the cost/benefit ratio is going to get too high
Excellent. Make platforms with algorithmic feeds count as publishers, too, and you can solve 90% of the world’s problems
Not quite. The point of the broken window fallacy is that had the money not been spent on the window, it would have been spent on something else. So breaking a window does generate revenue, but not necessarily more than not breaking a window
Whatever happens, the shopkeeper is in a worse position than he otherwise was
Here the point is that they’re passing the money back and forth. That’s like the AI companies right now - passing money round in a circle and that being presented as if it were the same thing as the industry as a whole making money
NVidia gives money to OpenAI, who give it to another company to build datacentres, who give it back to NVidia and NVidia’s Number Goes Up
Alan and Beth, two economists are walking through some woods. They come across s pile of shit and Alan says to Beth “if you eat that shot I’ll give you a tenner”
“Okay,” says Beth. She eats the shit and Alan hands her a £10 note
They walk on for a bit and find another pile of shit. Beth says to Alan “now I’ll give you a tenner of you eat that pile of shit”
“Okay,” says Alan. He eats the shit and Beth hands the £10 note back to him
They walk on a bit further and Beth says “you know, it seems to me like we both just ate a pile of shit and nobody gained anything”
“Ah, that’s where you’re wrong,” says Alan “we’ve increased the GDP by £20”
Noita is very cool, very deep, and has a tonne of content. It’s common for people’s first win to take about 100 hours, if they watch/read guides & the wiki
And I say first win, because the community calls getting your first win “the tutorial”. It’s 10% or less of the total content in-game
Two things that make it stand out: firstly, it’s hard. The community calls it “wizard death simulator”. That doesn’t mean that it’s not fun even at the start or that you can’t become ridiculously powerful, just that you will suck when you first start playing
Secondly, it’s not a metaprogression game which gives you the illusion of progressing by unlocking things or bumping up your stats. Killing bosses does unlock spells, but none of them are “if I find this at the start I’ll melt enemies”. They’re more “if I find this halfway through a run it might be fun to experiment and see what weird kind of a wand I can build”
Trailer: https://youtu.be/0cDkmQ0F0Jw
Tell me that doesn’t look sick
Lidar, rather than a camera. Allows it to create a 3d model of what’s in front of it without being able to take pictures itself