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Ain't gonna happen. Valve is all in on their new hero shooter

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Federated Stack Exchange isn't harder for AI to eat. If anything it's easier.

It's open source and can be restricted to private followers. If you self host it'd be as private as possible for an Instagram clone

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I think this will finally be the phone I swap off of the pixel ...

The size of the sensor limits the size of the lens as well as the way the optics are formed for the stack.

You will never get starry bokeh from a stack of lenses that are so tight.

There's a reason that you'll have filmmakers shooting in larger and larger formats - it changes image quality and the type of lenses you can use.

The problem is fundamentally a physics issue.

You're going to struggle to get depth of field on any pancake stack, much less one that is as miniaturized as a mobile phone.

Also your sensor isn't actually nearly as good as a DSLR. A DSLR has a sensor about 5x the size of a phone and that makes a huge difference in the photos.

Here's a handy graphic:

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The February 10th fire was reportedly caused by lit fireworks

That doesn't sound that malicious tbh.

that were tossed inside the vehicle as it was surrounded by a crowd in Chinatown. Involved suspects were seen smashing windows and other parts with skateboards before leaving a fiery carcass for firefighters to put out.

Ah a bit more vandalism than just a stray firework. Sounds like he had an ideological issue with driverless cars.

Totally get it - we don't need them. I hope he doesn't get his life ruined by our absurd penal system.

Arson is always a dangerous form of vandalism but nobody got hurt.

Why would you guess that? It's so out of character for them

The average American stay in a home is has been ~8 years.

That number is going to double with rates like this.

Given that the American system is supposed to be a market that's a bad sign: frozen markets are not efficient markets.

This doesn't mean people can stay in their homes in a crisis: it means people can't move. A job the next city over would have to pay thousands more to make selling your home a rational decision. The article says it's on average $511/mo different.

A crisis still lands you homeless in America.

It's not misleading when Miami Dade was looking at the most stringent heat protection laws in the country.

There was going to be heat protection. Instead the state government override the will of local government to ban it.

Definitely - that's why I'm saying this has always been a constant background level of fuckups.

Airplanes are so scrutinized and safe that this level of casual negligence rarely causes issues.

The argument as far as I can tell is "FOSS means I don't have to pay anything because it doesn't cost anything! If they ask for donations they don't mean me"

Not a single one of them have a monthly contribution to their instance though. Guaran-fucking-tee it.

optimizing backend services is expensive because good engineers are expensive

um acktually you can't build services faster by hiring tons of people 🤓🤓

Reading comprehension: you lack it.

That's not what I said or even remotely implied.

If you want a good back end that isn't bloated you can't use cheap contractors or junior engineers - you need someone who knows what they're doing.

It's a fight I'm constantly fighting at work. They finally dropped all the super cheap contractors that were trying to hard code a list of 20 identical entries that differed only by a single field. The contractors who thought the peak of architectural design was decomposition of any method more than 5 lines long into confusingly named functions that had an additional 10 layers of decomposition to them. The cheap contractors who thought that documentation was a waste of time and that the code was "self documenting".

These contractors weren't paid to care - I don't blame them for phoning it in. But if you want a system to work well and be cheap to run you pay your engineers well or inspire such devotion that FOSS is possible.

But the fact is the overwhelming majority of large, optimized and successful FOSS is funded by megacorps