My partner was subscribed to Crave for ages. A little while back she was in the middle of a rewatch of Sons of Anarchy when the app started to act up and wouldn’t work, so I grabbed a copy and put it on Jellyfin.

She was floored by how much immediately better the video quality was and cancelled Crave the next day. Shocked at how much worse the experience was with the paid service compared to free.

You can scoop however you want, but if you slurp I’m absolutely asking you to stop.

It doesn’t matter if you have 2 Gigabit internet if no one in the world is uploading even half that fast. A single download on Steam is like 450 Mbps

This sounds more like the infrastructure in your area just isn’t up to delivering those speeds, regardless what the last mile to the home is.

I promise you Steam’s CDN absolutely can deliver more than 450Mbps. It regularly maxes out my 1.5 Gbps at home, and I have no doubt that it could potentially go even faster than that if I had a better connection.

Like plugging a 10Gbps network switch into a 100Mbps gateway, it sounds like a fast final link to the home is being choked out by poor infrastructure in the region and can’t be fully utilized.

Except you missed a bug in the “check if it’s sorted” code and it ends up destroying every universe.

Completely anecdotal but I was able to add my brother-in-law to my Steam family without any problem and he lives about 125km from me.

The requirement is absolutely something more arcane than “same household” and Valve are keeping quiet on the actual specifics. It’s possible that the fact that I’ve been there multiple times and have logged into Steam on their wifi in the past was enough to confirm that this is a place with close relation to me. Who knows though.

Even more ridiculous since a 1.4x performance increase is already incredible news for anyone who makes regular of this.

If someone found a software optimization that improved, say, blender performance by 1.4x people would be shouting praises from the rooftops.

It definitely would not be, regardless of whatever “done correctly” means. Solar noon at exactly 12:00 is only going to happen on a single line of longitude. If you have a timezone centered on that line and exactly 15° (one hour) wide then solar noon will be up to 30 minutes away from 12:00 depending on your east/west position in that timezone.

It was exactly this realization that the numbers were arbitrary and 12:00 didn’t need to be solar noon that led to the creation of timezones in the first place, so that it’s not 4:14 in Norwich while it’s 3:52 in Birmingham and just travelling from city to city doesn’t mean you’re changing your watch constantly and it becomes actually possible to write a sensible rail schedule.

Timezones are already a step toward an arbitrary standard time for the purposes of making communication easier and not needing to change your watch just because you moved around. UTC everywhere would just be another larger step in that already established direction.

I don’t see how dealing with that is any worse than dealing with time zones.

Downside of UTC everywhere: you might have to set your alarm for a different time when you travel.

Upsides: Never need to account for timezones in communication. Never need to change a clock, ever.

They make sense because the numbers won’t be arbitrary.

But they are. There’s no changing that. They’re arbitrary now. They’d be arbitrary if we had UTC everywhere. We’re not out here using sundials to set our clocks, 12:00 is not solar noon more often than it is.

Or we’ll realize that the specific numbers are arbitrary and use UTC everywhere.

What is so bad about virtual environments?

They’re a solution to a self-inflicted problem. They’re only “really nice and useful” if you accept that having your projects stomp all over each others’ libraries and environments is normal.

If projects were self-contained from the outset then you wouldn’t need an additional tool to make them so.

Why do you think that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish_as_food

3.5mm audio jack for the crappy built-in speakers.

Guillermo and Mads: My Two Weird Dads

I know someone who has a company with the word “technology” in the name, like “Smith Technology”. They use .technology because it’s literally the name of the company, which I think is good for the brand identity, but have run into issues where people just don’t think it’s a correct url because “smith.technology” looks like it’s missing its TLD.

Regardless of whether the gaming market itself is growing or not you can still compare to Nvidia to see how AMD is doing within that environment. If no one was buying any GPUs Nvidia would also be showing a dip, but they’re not.

Anyone? There are lots of houses worth less than $1,000,000. Sure, by the time a mortgage is paid off and you fully own the house yourself a person should also have some savings, but I certainly wouldn’t expect that to be universal.

That Concord episode of Secret Level is going to be pretty awkward.

I had a boot floppy I needed to use when I wanted to play Sim City 2000 because my PCs usual configuration didn’t have enough free conventional memory.

I had another one for Zone66 because its memory management was incompatible with EMM386.

Yeah, there are some disappointing limitations for sure, but it definitely is interesting, and does at least feel more like a human player than the normal CPU opponents.

…if a somewhat schizophrenic one.

As in the opposite of a “disarming smile”, which is a common expression.