Certainly not limited to IT. One of my professors from many years was an aerospace engineer¹. He recounts to us the time that he busted his ass on some design for a long time and managed to make some huge cost savings. And then after it was done he realized that all he really did with his extra hard work was help some executives and stockholders get a bit richer. Not long after that he switched to education.

¹Not in the defense industry

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Great read. Even in STEM research as a grad student I’m very tired of every saying “let’s try machine learning on this problem” to get something that works marginally better than some conventional models but requiring huge amounts of computation and data.

Nonetheless it’s gotten quite expensive. It made a nice post-bar snack, however there are now many better options at the price point.

I love this album.

Sadly I’ve been at this thread and done this already, did not work :(

People think it’s just due to the trackpads being crap (and somehow Windows gets around it). I’ll probably never need to buy another laptop, but if I do I will probably not buy a Dell again regardless of how much I love every other aspect of this laptop.

Still sad because my Precision 5560 (same as XPS 9510) has this floaty trackpad bug on Ubuntu and Pop OS for whatever reason! (I haven’t tried any other distro). Much easier for me to swap to Linux on my laptop than my desktop because my laptop is just for Python, LaTeX, and MATLAB.

Dell even sells a 5560 with Ubuntu preinstalled, but they don’t make it available for users. But I have not for the life of me been able to get the track-pad bug to go away.

There are users that complain about it from over a year ago. Maybe it’s a slow rollout, or some game of cat-and-mouse where my ublock isn’t updating for some reason.

But I can still search from the browser search bar and I get results. It’s when trying to edit my search that I get problems.

I’ve used it a long time now. I find it to have much more relevant results than DDG did last time I tried.

Qwant is a privacy-focused search engine that puts your needs first while protecting your personal data. By blocking trackers and advertisements, Qwant helps your search results remain unbiased and comprehensive. Just like Firefox, they are committed to protecting your privacy and preserving the decentralized nature of the web, where people have control over their online experiences.

Except starting this week, Qwant has started blocking me for using an adblocker. I’ve had to block Javascript to get around it.

Kodi + RealDebrid

Well it’ll still take then time to lock down the loopholes so Apple will get to milk the cow a bit longer.

Maybe but depends the resolution desired. I think it’ll depend on the bandwidth and how many antennas.

I’m not the only one late to the party then. I’m finally getting a WiFi 6 router from my ISP in a couple of weeks.

The fact that we can pull off 4096 QAM is amazing to me. I wonder just how much error correction is going on to get that reliable over the air.

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Cool that average FPS is better but:

The impressive FPS deltas aside, it should be mentioned that, with the exception of Arch Linux, average frame times (measured as 1% lows, in this case) on Linux were generally behind what Windows managed by up to 20%

I feel like worse 1% lows makes this title misleading. Hopefully with time this gap will close.

Yeah RDR2 was released on PC later even though PS4 and XBO were thr same architecture so I am not hopeful.

Notably, however, the EU Commission is on Mastodon. Would be great if a lot of the companies suspending their ads would also move over to Mastodon even if not fully.

https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission

Yeah it’s a bit awkward, but infuriating? Even mildly infuriating is a stretch.