I don't even think they've built a single prototype. I'd be happy to be corrected but last time I checked, none of the "prototype" shells they showed off had a powertrain.
This is the same way that hn proclaims every single arxiv paper as revolutionary. I really wonder sometimes who is this gullible on the internet (kids? bots? I
influencers?)
I switched from the Roku ecosystem to Nvidia Shield about a year ago because of Roku’s increasingly user hostile ad and tracking decisions and have been pretty happy with it. Android TV gives me enough control with a custom launcher that I can prevent ads.
I have my Roku-based TCL setup to immediately switch to my streaming device on boot. It’s a little slow to load, but I’m hoping this will bypass whatever Roku ads might have shown.
I would guess that the number of people listening to this media on anything higher quality than the built-in speakers on a 65-inch TV is minuscule. They’re optimizing for sound on an iPad, not a full surround sound setup.
The thing is, if you watch using AirPods on your iPad with spatial audio, it's actually far better than the vast majority of people's actual surround sound setups.
I never cared much about surround sound until the AirPods got spatial audio. Now it's like I can't live without it.
Yup. That’s my guess as well, but on the other hand there is a pretty large industry serving the many people who do have a decent home theater system (and even some where it’s more “theater” than “home”).
As somebody who has a very nice (and expensive) 5.1 set up, I’m legitimately a bit worried about this trend.
That’s extra frustrating because Siri absolutely had that functionality at some point in the past, and may even still have it if you say the right incantation. Those incantations change in unpredictable and unknowable ways though.
I'm one of that tiny percentage, but all of my development is done by remoting into a cloud Windows VM.
I tried directly coding on the Mac when I first got it, but quickly gave up on that. (I hate Rider, which seems to put me in minority as far as most .Net devs go.)
Backend with a lot of existing code that's still in .Net Framework using tech like WCF and Windows Services.
I could get away with doing dev directly on the Mac if I was _only_ working in .Net Core on our newer applications and if I was willing to use Rider. Neither of which are true.
I've had the same experience. Played multiple times, once for almost a year. The only thing that kept me playing that long was the good group of people on voice comms. I quit for the last time when I realized that life is too short to waste on a game I wasn't even enjoying (and that, frankly, stressed me out.)
Pure speculation: With so many subs now private, they're hitting a performance wall searching for enough content to fill the front page. If I'm logged in and go to the site root, it throws an error. If logged out, it works. If I go to a specific (not privatized) sub, it works.
Rule number one for high traffic sites with a lot of pageloads coming from search engines: Aggressively cache content shown to unauthenticated users. Since they don't really interact with the site, they probably won't even notice if it's a bit stale.
That's if the bot is coded well. I've cut off bots from sites and services before, only to have them start to DOS because their response to an error was to just try again, immediately and forever
> On March 14th, Apollo made nearly 1 billion requests against our API in a single day, triggered in part by our system outage. After the outage, Apollo started making 53% fewer calls per day. If the app can operate with half the daily request volume, can it operate with fewer?
That's a backend server making a request that doesn't count against its rate limit as soon as it can again.
The push notification backend is described as making a request every 6 seconds for each user. If it isn't backing off correctly and delaying a requeueing of the next job, that can drastically increase the request rate.
If a multitude of bots are written immediately retry upon receiving an error without backing off, and are now stuck in loops of flooding the servers with requests, could the number of requests become a greater factor than the simplicity of the responses?
I would think so. Bots are already rate-limited when accessing the API so it's hard to see how this has increased server load, unless there's something funky in the backend involving private/dark subreddits.
I would expect most of the 'top' categories are cached with a long-ish TTL. If Reddit's DB is down that would explain why those types of sorts are functioning.
> It's just surprising that audiobook listeners haven't developed a distinct taste apart from book readers.
Sample size of 1, but: my taste in audiobooks does not perfectly overlap with my taste in dead-trees books. My audiobook library skews much more to the fiction end of things, while my dead-trees library contains more nonfiction. I also use audiobooks to re-read books I've already read.
I enjoy the performance aspect of the audiobooks in its own right. The narrator makes or breaks my experience of the book, to such an extent that I have returned Audible books that _I have already read in dead-trees form and knew I liked_ because the narration was bad. I also suspect some of my favorite audiobooks would have ended up in the "donate/throw out" pile if I'd read them first on paper.
Me too, more or less. Your sample size if one is probably right.
Yet... audiobooks' are still pretty much just books. There is no theatre-2-film difference between the mediums. It's more like hardbacks and soft covers.
It's not exactly main stream but there are groups like Graphic Audio doing great work that will probably lead down this road.
They do a full cast audiobook with sound effects, music, etc. and they tend to be altered slightly to work in the medeium - would not be surprised if the differences continue to grow.
I've been thinking of doing this exact thing, although with a smaller 10x12 single-level shed, just because I want to learn timber framing. Would you do it again? Any specific book recommendations?
