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  1. Comment on Control Ultimate Edition released for iOS and iPadOS in ~games

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    Modem phones are able to run steam games via FEX, it’s insane how the chips are powerfully enough to run PC games via a translation layer, not even just native ports

    Modem phones are able to run steam games via FEX, it’s insane how the chips are powerfully enough to run PC games via a translation layer, not even just native ports

    1 vote
  2. Comment on 'Avatar Aang' movie footage seems to have leaked months ahead of Paramount+ premiere in ~movies

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    Wow, that is a disappoint. The movie is too gorgeous to not be enjoyed on the big screen :(

    Wow, that is a disappoint. The movie is too gorgeous to not be enjoyed on the big screen :(

    2 votes
  3. Comment on 'Avatar Aang' movie footage seems to have leaked months ahead of Paramount+ premiere in ~movies

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    Just watched it. The art is gorgeous and the story is beautiful. Can’t wait for it to release in the theatres and watch it properly!

    Just watched it. The art is gorgeous and the story is beautiful. Can’t wait for it to release in the theatres and watch it properly!

    4 votes
  4. Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 video taken down due to copyright issue after news site uses the footage in ~tech

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    Yeah, not only is there no human vetting these requests, but to counter these you have to give up your name and address. So bad actors can easily use this to dox YouTubers.

    Yeah, not only is there no human vetting these requests, but to counter these you have to give up your name and address. So bad actors can easily use this to dox YouTubers.

    13 votes
  5. Comment on Software job openings surge this year, defying AI fears in ~tech

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    That’s not really the case, though. In India, these foreign tech companies offer very good salaries compared to the cost of living. I would earn maybe a third in Bangalore in the same company and...

    It's easy for me to believe that there are plenty of job openings for people who accept 1/4th the pay they deserve.

    That’s not really the case, though. In India, these foreign tech companies offer very good salaries compared to the cost of living.

    I would earn maybe a third in Bangalore in the same company and position compared to Vancouver, but the COL is much less than a third.

    6 votes
  6. Comment on Software job openings surge this year, defying AI fears in ~tech

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    It’s weird. Atlassian fired like 1500 people recently but they are also hiring 100+ new grads alone across US and Canada.

    It’s weird. Atlassian fired like 1500 people recently but they are also hiring 100+ new grads alone across US and Canada.

    7 votes
  7. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    Read the Ajin manga. Enjoyed it, but don’t know how to feel about it. SPOILER WARNING SPOILER WARNING SPOILER WARNING SPOILER WARNING Kei loses at every stage. All of the plans of Satou succeed....

    Read the Ajin manga. Enjoyed it, but don’t know how to feel about it.

    SPOILER WARNING

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    Kei loses at every stage. All of the plans of Satou succeed. While he is defeated in the end, he had already planned to leave by then. Ig one change that came off everything is that the public was made aware of the government’s atrocities, but even then no regulatory change came of it, the major characters just got their identities changed.

    1 vote
  8. Comment on new Date("wtf"); How well do you know JavaScript's Date class? in ~comp

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    Managed to get 13 right without knowing JS, but this is truly insane. What even are these type coercions. Truly glad to not be a webdev lol.

    Managed to get 13 right without knowing JS, but this is truly insane. What even are these type coercions. Truly glad to not be a webdev lol.

    8 votes
  9. Comment on Airbus issues major A320 recall after flight-control incident in ~transport

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    Issues caused by solar radiation seem so scary, such a random thing to go wrong. I think a Qantas A330 almost crashed due to this like a decade ago, but luckily the pilots were ex-air force and so...

    Issues caused by solar radiation seem so scary, such a random thing to go wrong.

    I think a Qantas A330 almost crashed due to this like a decade ago, but luckily the pilots were ex-air force and so were able to handle the situation.

    4 votes
  10. Comment on Russians confront wartime internet cuts with public shrug, private fury in ~tech

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    Tbf there were protests in the big cities early on when they weren’t even directly affected by the war. With Ukraine attacking Moscow now, wouldn’t the likelihood of protests get way higher?

    Tbf there were protests in the big cities early on when they weren’t even directly affected by the war. With Ukraine attacking Moscow now, wouldn’t the likelihood of protests get way higher?

    3 votes
  11. Comment on Microsoft is adding AI facial recognition to OneDrive and users can only turn it off three times a year in ~tech

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    Macs are quite popular among software developers, and that seems like something that’d kill all interest devs have in Macs.

    Macs are quite popular among software developers, and that seems like something that’d kill all interest devs have in Macs.

    12 votes
  12. Comment on Body time and daylight savings apologetics in ~life

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    All that’d do is create more confusion. There’s only a 2 hour difference between the westernmost and easternmost points of India. This means, all places are at most an hour away from the standard...

    All that’d do is create more confusion.

    There’s only a 2 hour difference between the westernmost and easternmost points of India. This means, all places are at most an hour away from the standard time. Even so, farmers in the easternmost regions set their clocks to the local time.

    Now imagine that at the global scale. You’d also lose all intuitive meaning of the time as soon as you travelled.

    2 votes
  13. Comment on Microsoft warns that Windows 10 reaches end of support today in ~tech

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    The biggest issue would be the lack of security updates to the networking stuff. I have seen videos of old installs of windows getting exploited and downloading malicious stuff as soon as they are...

    The biggest issue would be the lack of security updates to the networking stuff. I have seen videos of old installs of windows getting exploited and downloading malicious stuff as soon as they are connected to the internet, without even opening a browser.

    8 votes
  14. Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife's Windows 11 installation in ~tech

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    Doesn’t the utilman.exe process basically provide root access to anyone who has your computer? Why does it even exist?

    Doesn’t the utilman.exe process basically provide root access to anyone who has your computer? Why does it even exist?

    4 votes
  15. Comment on OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome in ~tech

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    Given how security sensitive browsers are, they are the last thing I would want vibe coded.

    Given how security sensitive browsers are, they are the last thing I would want vibe coded.

    13 votes
  16. Comment on Some ChatGPT users are developing delusional beliefs that are reinforced by the large language model in ~tech

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    I think usually people are suspicious of what they read on the internet, whereas a lot of people assume these LLMs spout the absolute truth.

    I think usually people are suspicious of what they read on the internet, whereas a lot of people assume these LLMs spout the absolute truth.

    9 votes
  17. Comment on Panic in Pakistan as India vows to cut off water supply over Kashmir in ~society

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    Yeah, with an issue like radicalisation, there’s no good solution. You can’t just let the terrorist attacks go and embolden them, but then any retaliation breeds hatred and radicalisation.

    Yeah, with an issue like radicalisation, there’s no good solution. You can’t just let the terrorist attacks go and embolden them, but then any retaliation breeds hatred and radicalisation.

    3 votes
  18. Comment on Panic in Pakistan as India vows to cut off water supply over Kashmir in ~society

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    Not a single attack, but the latest in a long list of attempted and successful terrorist attacks, for none of which there was retaliation. Even if we ignore Kashmir, there is the parliament...

    Revenge against a single terrorist attack?

    Not a single attack, but the latest in a long list of attempted and successful terrorist attacks, for none of which there was retaliation. Even if we ignore Kashmir, there is the parliament attack, the thwarted India Gate attack, and the 2008 Mumbai attack. Despite an entire dossier of evidence, not only was nothing done against Hafiz Saeed, his protection has been increased.

    Realistically, what option do we have left? International pressure hasn’t worked and surgical strikes haven’t worked.

    3 votes
  19. Comment on English is not normal. No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language. in ~humanities.languages

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    Actually, Bengali is another Indo-European language that has completely lost grammatical gender. Even the pronouns are not gendered (same pronoun for he/she/it). Unless you were specifically...

    Actually, Bengali is another Indo-European language that has completely lost grammatical gender. Even the pronouns are not gendered (same pronoun for he/she/it).

    Unless you were specifically referring to Indo-European languages spoken in Europe ig.

    3 votes
  20. Comment on How many languages do you speak? in ~humanities.languages

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    Tbf the writing system was invented because of illiteracy. Most people weren’t adapting to a switch because they weren’t switching from anything. It’s surprising though that the upper class would...

    Tbf the writing system was invented because of illiteracy. Most people weren’t adapting to a switch because they weren’t switching from anything.

    It’s surprising though that the upper class would be willing to switch.

    4 votes