lmfao what

This is the real explanation. Couple that with a push in the late 90s/early 2000s to roll out high-speed unmetered internet in the form of ADSL and later fiber.

Iceland runs plenty of these and has a nice culture of frequenting the public bathhouse. It’s one of the few things you can do that is actually affordable there.

They do have the advantage of having essentially infinite clean energy in the form of geothermal heat. As do Japan in many cases, for that matter. I’m sure that has something to do with these institutions having staying power there.

Anyway, I think this idea has merits, but not as an energy saving measure. The reason for this is that in order to maintain good water quality, you have to shower thoroughly before getting into the bath, negating the potential energy benefits of the initiative. We can bring it back for it being nice, though!

Healthcare is pretty rough, I’d be willing to bet that the grass actually is greener in this case.

A lot of Balatro, lol. I wish it was on mobile, though…

You’re in luck - it’s fully possible to get Balatro to run on mobile: https://github.com/blake502/balatro-mobile-maker

It runs quite well and is a very good fit for playing on mobile. The only downside I know is that it drains your battery like mad.

Consider the following:

One day we manage to reach the pinnacle of invention - we create the replicator from Star Trek. We can suddenly bring immense amounts of anything we want for everyone in the world, for very little energy (caveat: I don’t know enough about Star Trek lore to know this to be true).

Now, this machine would certainly make a whole lot of business models redundant - farming, factory work, you name it - they would all no longer be able to make a living doing what they did before this invention existed.

Now for the moral question - should the fact that this invention will harm certain groups’ way of life be considered enough of a motivation to prohibit the use of this invention? Despite the immense wealth we could bring upon the world?

Take a pause to form an opinion on the subject.

Now that you’ve formed an opinion on the replicator - consider that we already have replicators for all types of digital media. It can be infinitely replicated for trivial amounts of energy. Access to the library of all cataloged information in the world is merely a matter of bandwidth.

Now, should the fact that groups relying on copyright protection for their way of life be considered reason enough to prohibit the use of the information replicator?

To me, the answer is clear. The problem of artists, authors, actors, programmers and so on not being able to make money as easily without copyright protection does not warrant depriving the people of the world from access to the information replicator. What we should focus on is to find another model under which someone creating information can sustain themselves.

Yeah, they don’t care that senior talent left because that was the whole point.

It’s crazy good on mobile as well. Given that you have to create an unofficial port to play it on mobile it’s not strictly speaking well optimized - it drains your battery like mad - but it’s the best thing I’ve played on my phone since Slay the Spire.

• General purpose LLMs are starting to replace everyday queries I used to posit to Google. Perplexity can be quite good for this.
• Copilot as enhanced autocomplete when writing code. A particularly good use-case is writing tests: with a few test cases already written, a sufficiently good test name will most often generate a well-written test case.
• LLMs for lazy generation of SQL queries can sometimes be quite nice.
• Writing assistance for things I find myself struggling to get written by myself. A writing unblocking tool, if you will.

It’s reducing the effort and time I have to put into some things, and I appreciate that. It’s far from perfect, but it doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful.

No tip, huh? Guess I know whose favourite character is getting nerfed in the next patch.

A switch statement is probably a decent option here, yeah. You trade off a little bit of memory for what might be a few more instructions executing the switch statement, unless the compiler picks up on it and optimizes it. Maybe check godbolt for what gets generated in practice if you really care about it.

A few things come to mind:

1. The array is probably fine. It’s not going to be particularly large and lookups are O(1)
2. It’s a bit weird to me that you’re using the char pointers as indices. I would probably use actual indices and spend the miniscule amount of additional stack data to improve the clarity of the code
3. You could save on some indentation by returning early instead of nesting the for-loop inside the first if-statement
4. Is the call to the lookup-table really safe? Maybe checking that the token from RNA is within the bounds is the way to go?
5. The only thing I would even remotely care about with regards to performance is the malloc, and that’s not that big of a deal anyway unless the length of dna is really large. Streaming the result or overwriting the presumably already malloc’d input would be the only thing I would touch, and only if I could prove that it improves performance in practice.
6. (added in edit): if you can guarantee that the input is well formed, you can omit the bounds check and save some effort there.

You upload the binary to the App Store, and as a part of the release process they may inspect the binary to figure out what it’s doing.

They of course don’t do that for everything as it’s a bit complicated to do for everything, but it can be an effective means to for example figure out when an app is calling an API in a prohibited manner.

1.8B was the fine they got for anticompetitive behaviour with regards to Apple Music, which is not an insignificant amount for that business unit.

The fines for DMA-violations go up to 10% of global revenue for first-time violations and 20% of global revenue for repeat violations. I would love to see Apple continue fucking around and letting Apple find out in the form of a fine of that magnitude. It would be so damn sweet.

The former.

Probably basically all operational expenses, with a minority being cloud expenditure and a majority being salaries for employees, if I had to guess.

I’m assuming that spez gets most of his pay in the form of stock options which doesn’t really cost the company anything real.

Why would there be any fraud? His salary is approved by the board that represents the current shareholders.

It’s also not particularly surprising on account of there being plenty of VC-subsidised companies that never turned a profit, had high salaries for their executives and then IPO’d.

If your question is moreso on the absurdities of capitalism, then that’s another discussion entirely, but I feel it’s important to note that this is nothing out of the ordinary.

It’s a really bad idea to try to hire at this point to try to remedy a scaling issue. They are likely already low on resources dealing with the problems, having to try to onboard someone at this point will make the problem worse - see Brooks’ Law from The Mythical Man-Month.

I honestly think that the people at Google are a bit smarter than that, but we’ll see whether that holds or not.

So what you would do is to generate the manifest files (HLS/DASH/what have you) on the fly to include the segments with ads. Since adaptive streaming is based on manifests, that stitch together segments of video files that together make up the underlying content in different bitrates, you can essentially just push in a few segments of advertising in-between the segments representing the underlying content. This isn’t particularly hard to do, and you’d get the full benefit of the CDN for the segments, so there’s really no issue.