The best refactors always remove more lines than they add. This is a horrifying ratio if no new features were included.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy gamesEnglish
5·13 days agoMy point is, it’s hard to read the credit card numbers when they’re not visible inside a wallet or pocket. It’s the difference between having to ask to use the credit card and just using it without the parent noticing (until it shows up on the bill). Point-of-sale equipment to charge credit cards by tap aren’t exactly something people leave their kids unattended with.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy gamesEnglish
41·13 days agoYou better hope all the kids’ parents keep their credit cards locked up in a faraday cage. All it takes is waving the controller past, and the charge is made. It’s a lot different than having to take the card out and type in the numbers.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you don't have to press anything"English
42·19 days agoAll we had to do was follow the damn Train, CJ!
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Technology@lemmy.world•Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket AnywayEnglish
61·27 days agoWhat’s crazy to me is how this insurance database lookup even makes sense… Most insurance companies give you a grace period to add new vehicles if you have an existing policy. For mine in Washington, I have 14 days to tell my insurance if I’ve bought a new car, and it’s covered under my existing policy until then. Flock would have no way of looking up this information and has no justification to flag a vehicle like this…
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•reason enough to fail the interview
21·1 month agoTrigonometry functions are still just a hardware lookup table in most scenarios I believe. One example I’ve noticed is that you’ll get slightly different sin/cos results on AMD vs Nvidia GPUs due to either different lookup table values, or different interpolation functions being applied on top (I’m not sure it’s possible to know for sure exactly which without internal knowledge)
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•reason enough to fail the interview
14·1 month agoIf it’s running on the client, just use whatever.
Because who cares if it’s the user that has to buy more RAM or gets terrible battery life, that’s not our problem. /s
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright noticeEnglish
10·1 month agoI remember this from back when it was still called Minetest. I’m actually surprised the name change doesn’t seem to be because of Microsoft lawyers, but just that they wanted to get away from being considered a “Minecraft Clone”.
I’ll have to check out what’s been happening with it the last few years, it sounds like there’s a lot more to it now.
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Technology@lemmy.world•World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at seaEnglish
31·1 month agoThe device also has to account for the location of your mom.
/s
(sorry, I couldn’t resist)
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Technology@lemmy.world•World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at seaEnglish
7·1 month agoWe really should still be calling this machine learning… Calling stuff AI has so many connotations that aren’t really applicable to this type of software. We’ve had image recognition and other matching algorithms for years before LLMs came along.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital GamesEnglish
2·1 month agoA permissive license is a specific category of open source license. As I said, all official repository software is free and open source. If the terms of the license did not allow it to be freely distributed or was a revocable license, it would not be allowed in the arch repository.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital GamesEnglish
2·1 month agoAll packages published to the arch linux repository are free software that can be built from source and have permissive licenses. Non-free software such as nvidia drivers and other things are distributed separately through the AUR, and aren’t managed by the Arch Linux team.
I would consider the collection of software provided to be no different than any other OS with optional packages. There are several forks of Arch Linux like EndeavourOS that have more complete defaults.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital GamesEnglish
3·1 month agoArch Linux has no EULA because it is not sold software like Ubuntu Pro.
They have a Terms of Service for the online services, which you can be banned from for misuse, but this does not prevent you from using the software. You can legally obtain it through any of the hundreds of mirrors, or even compile it from scratch.
How to remove all entropy from a sentence…
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Technology@lemmy.world•One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their LivesEnglish
10·2 months agoI had to look these up, and it looks like it’s Adaptive Cruise Control (regular distance based), and Intelligent Cruise Control (ACC + lane keeping). Most likely it switches between if it can’t find the road lines.
I only have ACC in mine, and there’s still situations where I turn it off like in heavier traffic. It reacts too slowly so it ends up braking harder than it needs to, and then waits to accelerate and leaves a huge gap. It effectively makes traffic worse than if I drive manually.
I’ve also turned the lane departure system to warning-only because I’ve had it try to push me off the road before while I was towing a trailer. On narrow windy roads, it’s basically required to hug the lines so I don’t end up clipping trees with the trailer.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale?English
3·2 months agoNeat, I might have to set this up for myself. It sounds like it could get around some of the VPN blocking I’ve seen while traveling through airports.
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LinkedinLunatics@sh.itjust.works•How many followers do you plebs have, huh?
1·2 months ago“building AI products that matter”
lol
If I could not post on LinkedIn more strongly I would. Maybe I should start hacking into accounts to delete their posts
That happened for me too. The whole page froze every minute or so and I had to refresh. I’m not sure if that was part of the game or not…