Stack Overflow messed up by not having a "close with explanation" option. They are too focused on experts and data quality.

If you understand How To Ask Questions, Stack Overflow is fantastic. I've had nothing but good experiences.

If you're a newbie, you will ask a question that you are so lost on that you'll get closed as a dupe of a question that seems unrelated to yours. The expert will have seen three layers deep into your issue and found the real problem, correctly closing it as a dupe.

On one hand, Stack Overflow gets to have clean data. On the other hand, that newbie doesn't understand why their question was closed, doesn't have their problem solved, and probably jumps on reddit saying how awful Stack Overflow is.

The person voting to close does not need to leave an explanation. A lot don't.

I equate art's future to the coffee mug of today. You can spend $40 on a nice hand-made mug and have an art piece that is meaningful to you --- or you can spend $15 and get a mass-produced set of 4 from Walmart.

There will always be room for human-made creations. It's just going to be much less common.

It's just a look into how businesses report things. This sort of unnuanced messaging might be comforting for shareholders because it seems like a simple problem to solve.

Productivity not at the pace you want? It's not the fault of our business model, project planning, etc. -- the worker bees are just lazy and we need to fix their entitled work ethic.

Recall is performed offline. They aren't sending anything into the cloud.

You're kinda describing a variation of the typical multi-level A* pathing system used for ages by games.

A* actually lends itself really well to adding extra weights (like traffic, hills, trucking limitations, etc.) and dimensions (coordinating a fleet), it's very flexible. I have no clue if A* is at all appropriate for mapping on a national level, but I can't think of why not.

TFA is somewhat vague but it appears that cinoared ti a square, the hexagons' more circular shape allow for a better 'fit' over natural geography while also allowing a larger and more diverse set of connections if you imagine them as a graph with each face connecting.

I'd expect an office to just chill at high intensity 6500k because that's "alert" lighting. As a business owner you wouldn't want sunset to roll around at 5pm and all your lights are sitting at 3000k and dim because that means people are winding down at work. I'm down for this kind of home lighting 100% though; have been doing it for years.

TFA mentions that Mitchell has had his title restored last year at Twin Galaxies and five years ago from Guinness World Records. I've been under the impression that the guy is a cheater, and now I'm wondering if this Youtuber put that image in my head.

seems like someone reinvented OpenAPI

15 years ago there was a decent movie Never Let Me Go all about this.

That said, a lot of this article summary is nonsensical hype. For example:

Eh, you're missing the point. The comparison you quote is only nonsensical if you recontextualize it with a strawman like you've done.

People are excited about the Mac solution because we're approaching usable non-cloud AI at home. Running a B200 is simply not even in the running -- price and power consumption make it a non-starter. The article is not suggesting that performance per watt is better, just that total power consumption is actually reasonable while having *enough* performance.

I've been using Jellyfin for a few months. I can't speak for other app platforms, but the Apple TV app needs serious work. It will sometimes just force subtitles on for you, even when you have them deselected. It also has trouble knowing when to get a refreshed media library from the server, and no way to manually trigger one.

DirectStorage promised direct NVME to GPU communication, bypassing the CPU, but to my knowledge the Windows version of it still lacks this feature -- it is mostly just direct-on-GPU texture decompression.

Vulkan also has the on-GPU decompression as an extension, but also no CPU bypass.

Frustrating as hell that this kind of regulation never happens in USA. Apple knows they have no "innovation" leg to stand on here.

Give me good black levels. High brightness just tells me that your black levels suck and you need a ridiculous brightness in order to deliver what looks like a good contrast ratio.

This please. Half the headlines are just marketing efforts and not anything actually meaningful.