ColdStream

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by ColdStream 1mo ago
While there are still the small sites, they really are lost in the noise. The bigger players would probably prefer it that way, it prevent competition from getting a foot hold. It is like trying to take on Coke/Pepsi with a new cola dr
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I have said it for a while, Hacker news is the last place that still feels like the old internet, but even then I'm not a huge fan of it. Some days I open it up to see just 30 stories about LLM's, something I have little to no int
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
That is a fair take. Personally, I use my android basically an iPod. Only offline files via VLC. Never hopped on the streaming bandwagon for anything but the most throw away stuff. Yes, I kept all my DVD's from decades back.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I absolutely loved Windows Phone. It hit all the right notes on usability even if it didn't have the best app support. Still bitter about that over a decade later.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It does have that feeling still but one does get the sense that they are on the path toward aggressive monetization.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Brevity is an art form, one that most do not have. Just because something is short doesn't mean it is bad so long as it is sculpted just right. 99.9999% of stuff nowadays is not sculpted it is just simplified for quick reactions.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I will say this with ditching the smart phone. I have done it but also gone back to it. But it is merely used for specific tasks. SMS, a camera, weather report, the occasional podcast or audio book. And that's about it. Things that are
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Social media is a race to the bottom. Who can make the most addictive platform possible while also preventing others from getting too much of a foot hold. Also, the scale of the media they must process means 'the algorithm' is a f
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Cigarettes is a good analogy. It is both addictive but broadly doesn't really help out the individual consuming them.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I with them on that. The internet is basically just infrastructure for email and some media like a podcast, otherwise the only reason I am here is because... well, I'm forced to be on a computer most of the week and not all of it is &#
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
When Metal Gear Solid 4 released on Ps3, they used uncompressed audio. I think part of it was just to show off how much storage Blu Ray had. The game Titanfall on PC has the audio in it twice, compressed and decompressed. The decompressed w
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Bravo! here is to the next 25 years! Haiku is the underdog that just keeps on moving forwards. Every release it gets just a little more complete. There is a vital lesson in Haiku OS. If you benchmark anything on it, it isn't the fastes
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I had completely forgotten about the upload/download indicators in web browsers. Haven't seen them in decades. Very nice.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I love that for the next few years they were commonly called Winchester drives due to IBM's original naming in the early 70's.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I find it so funny that there are new games that are are smaller than Wing Commander 3 despite the 32 year gap. To be fair, they obviously pack their data very differently.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Run a family business, but probably best you don't. Every family business I have worked for was basically walking into an intellectual MMA match of endless bickering amongst them. Apart time can be a good thing in moderation.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Same, been about 10 years now and it is the definition of 'It just works'. I do like that they are up front with how the data is handled and what that can mean for privacy. They are just working within the system but being transpa
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Hmmm, that is an interesting pickle. Some are probably fairly easy to swap over but it is so dependent on each service. Alas, short term convenience can lead to long term troubles.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Alas, you are already on the alternative. Hacker news feels like one of the last hold outs of the old internet.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I mean there is still some decent stuff but it is so rare nowadays. The value has been dropping for years.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Australia here. I have been playing around with this on various machines. It seems to be using some cookie system that is bypassing this for the moment. Older machines I have still can use it without issue. But a fresh browser on the same c
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
As usual, very cool to see how they present the data. But personally, the future projections feel a little too optimistic. I don't blame them, they are just going with the trends as they seen them now, but a lot of population expectati
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
As soon as you said Goose, I knew exactly what this was going to be.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
When MMX first came out and there were games that supported it, many reviewers were convinced that it improved 3D performance. As far as I could tell, it wasn't really used for 3D and that the only enhancement was to the audio system.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Those companies will be quick to copy the tech, inference cost would plummet and there is a greater chance that these companies could make it to solvency. At least in the short term. Long term it might not be so great as consume hardware ca
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
While it is true they haven't lost anything, it does signal to shareholders, potential share holders and current VC's the direction of things.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Pretty much, I have said it for a while now, Softbank and Oracle are the ones I would be worried about. Both of them have put their companies wealth behind this, if it goes down so will they. Others have played it fairly smart in terms of i
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires" Epicurus
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It was the very first lesson we had in economics in high school. The difference between a need and a want. Nowadays most people have a lot of wants far beyond any needs.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Yeah BMI is sort of a 'good enough' technique but also has some very obvious areas that it can miss. If you fall outside the typical fat to muscle ratio is a good example.

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