Or scalpers won’t be dissuaded and street price for a 5090 will be $3200 or more. $1500 was already an insane price tag for scalpers to pay but they did it anyways.

The scalpers are trying to arbitrage the difference in price between the prices bought directly from suppliers and those on the open secondary market. increasing the retail price doesn't increase the price on the secondary market, it just lowers the margin of scalpers.

Great, so nothing changes.

DLSS in cyberpunk has a lot of issues. Faces look weird, tons of ghosting, hair and particle effects looking very jagged.

They’re claiming DLSS4 (only available on their new cards) fixes a lot of these issues. But we’ll have to wait for the cards to get in the hands of reviewers before we’ll know for sure. I'm still pretty skeptical.

That said, if you read between the lines, it looks like the new 5090 is about ~40% faster than the 4090 at rasterisation. That’s a solid inter generational improvement.

Did you drop this “/s”?

that just spoils it

Oh thank god. I was like “not my zzzeek noooooo”

Same. Certain subscriptions I won't touch if I couldn't go through it with icloud. nytimes and nytimes cooking were up there as the worst offenders.

> In practice abolishing Chevron deference mostly means rules will follow the politics of judges rather than the current administration. TBH I think this rule is far enough from the culture war that it will probably stand anyway. Unless the NYT happens to buy the judges a lot of vacations...

I want to agree with you but the vote was split down party lines completely with 2 dissenters being republican.

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

Every system in place for measuring output and bringing transparency to work done by office workers/software developers finally make sense in the context of working from home.

Either your tickets get done or you have a really good explanation for why they haven't but because you dug into the problem are able to display deep knowledge of the problem.

Discipline has nothing to do with this. Your work will have expectations and deadlines and they will either be met or another human being will grade you with an F. Whatever human trait causes people to do work under those circumstances might be shame, fear, social pressure manifesting itself as work output, I can say for certain it isn't discipline.

I feel like it should be priced as a one time fee anyway. Most of us got caught up wanting to hoard emails, want to clean things up but might now be diligently unsubscribing and deleting things rather than save everything forever.

The problem with those tv and movie databases are that they’re owned by Roku and you can’t download any data dumps…you’re also relying on the good graces of a corporation that can cut you off whenever it feels like it. That was the case with IMDb and I’m still upset about that :/

Dare I invoke the CDDB transition to Gracenote and their kidnapping and subsequent licensing and gatekeeping of a swathe of publically provided data.

Could CDDB and similar have prevented such things with better licenses?

I think the only way to avoid a CDDB is to make the entire database downloadable so that someone, or a group of someones, is able to re-create it in case of disaster.

I think in the case of "great, open service" selling, the new buyer can just change the licensing, and you're out of luck. If there is a license that compels them to maintain some level of availability, you can trust them to cut it down to the absolute minimum, including rate limiting access down to a level of pointlessness.

Yes, if I remember correctly it was one of the reasons the CC licenses were created? But I could be remembering wrong.

Yes, that is why the MetaBrainz Foundation was created - good luck “purchasing” the MusicBrainz database :)

Exactly. It’s always been possible to commoditize software engineering _if_ you could find the right developers overseas but the fact is we are where we are because it’s hard and almost impossible to manage.

And either way, talented developers from developing countries are often brought on with visas and end up with salaries close to the industry norm. I’ve been involved with large mergers with overseas dev teams and that’s how it’s always been.

At best, AI is just good documentation. This whole craze is the equivalent of saying doctors won’t be necessary because you can just google how to do x procedure.

Not the only time it’s been brought up in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643198

I’m waiting for someone to chime in and explain why that would be a bad idea cause I can’t think of it from a security perspective.

Once at a certain level of complexity, e.g. having several hundred/thousand resources, then you start automating your hardcoded paths, and then you still can get bitten.

vs just putting things in a subfolder of your repo or whatever and having the default handling not accept `..` path components

But OP isn't reaching that certain level of complexity, doesn't have thousands of resources, he is hosting his own website.

From a security perspective a lot of changes to this world would be an upgrade. However implementing security features is always a trade off, and sometimes good security is just not worth the loss of other things.

My favourite phenomenon is when (computer) security gets in the way of (actual) security.

For example, you implement a super secure solution and no one hacks your website, but you end up being very unproductive and can't find a job. You lost food security.

In covid, bank systems in my country were so hard to use, there were like 6 passwords to login. Not only was usability compromised in the sense of security, but people, especially old people, started lining up in banks, compromising health security.

To say nothing of the scenarios were users just bypass obnoxious exaggerated security systems, like leaving a post-it note with a password on their screens.