vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

For modest definitions of "beefy". There are budget friendly options that will work just fine with a B-series Arc card, like an i5-12400.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You checked on that recently? The B series is much, much better.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The canteen at the Costco near me just got rid of straws entirely and uses lids made to drink directly from. Seems like an obvious solution to something that's barely a problem.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Ads on a service I directly paid for was the line for me as well. I have no tolerance for that nonsense and it boggles my mind that anyone else does either.

If even a tenth of the subscriber base for any of these services cancelled because of ads they'd be gone so fast you'd get whiplash, and yet most people just put up with it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The Nvidia Shield TV, which is amply powerful for most media purposes, has only 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, though is expandable via microSD.

The "Pro" version bumps that to a whopping 3GB of RAM and 16GB of storage... with no microSD card slot.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

From the text it seems like a site only gets added to the navigation history if the user interacts with it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

Even fewer than that, since you're not accounting for the actual rules of the game. You counted every possible arrangement of X's and O's on the board, but many of those aren't valid game states, like all X's for example.

On top of that you can also eliminate rotationally equivalent states. Ditto for mirrored states. Starting with an X in the top-right isn't a meaningfully different state than starting in any other corner. There are effectively only three distinct starting states. Center, any corner, or any side.

On the other hand, there are semi-filled final states you're not considering. Not every square on the board needs to be filled for a player to win. You're also only counting distinct winning lines (many of which could be eliminated due to rotational equivalence), but not the turns to get there, which would provide several possible scenarios for a given final state.

All that said, I expect the actual number of unique possible games to be quite a bit lower than 500.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

At about a year and a half now with my Z Fold 5. Echoing many of the others here. Still works great, opens flat, and I never want go back to a non-foldable.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago

One-pedal driving is a feature in a number of modern cars.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

It's insane to me how stock prices are basically entirely disconnected from how a company is performing and are dictated by stock market buying and selling pressures.

You could pick literally any publicly traded company and make its stock price soar just by convincing enough people to buy it, with no relation whatsoever to how the company is performing or forecasted to perform. See: GameStop.

Nvidia tanked because a bunch of people sold Nvidia stock. Full stop. They may have been motivated by news of deepseek or whatever, but that's not what moved the stock price. Had no one sold it would've stayed exactly where it was.

Frankly baffling that anyone can look at it and think "yes, this is how it should work and I don't see any problems with it."

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

There's a Ray Bradbury short story called A Piece of Wood about a man who invents a device that rapidly decomposes any modern weapon in his vicinity. It doesn't end well for him.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I add carbon dioxide. Fizzy water best water.

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