GOG's refund policy is good enough that preordered games can get refunded anyways if they are poor. The ability to preload was worth preordering considering the practically zero downside with GOG. I could have refunded after playing but my computer was powerful enough to push through and still have the performance not be too poor except in a select few areas.

But regardless of the preorder situation, suggesting that this is things done right and we complain too much because there were 4 years of updates improving the state still is a strange stance to take. A game shouldn't be released in a state that it needs 4 years of updates for most users.

Huh? For those of us that paid $90 for a broken game, I think we have a good reason to complain that four years later the game still needs repairing. Sure a company like EA or Ubisoft wouldn't have fixed it but nonetheless there is a fair reason to complain. CDPR wants to salvage their reputation which is why I bet they are doing it---EA and Ubisoft don't have a reputation to salvage at this point.

That allows for uninterrupted Netflix streams and even the ability to join video conference calls. Starlink says it can offer speeds of up to 220Mbps per plane

Still on the pretty slow side considering that large planes can have a few hundred passengers. Still technically interesting I'm sure that communicating with a high-speed plane with an even higher-speed satellite comes with it's challenges.

Yes I would like something a bit stronger. Nonetheless it's a decrease unless they up the number accordingly. Right now a tip starting at 20% is in fact starting at 23% since it's on tax as well.

A step in the right direction. I’ve always found it very upsetting that before tip machines, the standard 15% tip was on the subtotal and now it’s always calculated on the total. We are double screwed in that over 15% has been pushed lately and the ``15%" is not the 15% that we used to have.

Finally. Hopefully removed from Civ V as well.

You don't have to play the multiplayer? The games already made it's not like they would skimp the single-player to focus on the multi-player mode.

My experience is the opposite. The hours 3-6 feel more dangerous to me because many drivers are in a rush and very uncourteous. At night there are just way less cars on the road and in general they are much more courteous. However I generally don't ride light enough for them to suffer from very bad sleep deprivation.

I carry a bag of salt to pour around me at stop lights

Well my light is angled downwards hopefully it's not a problem. But I'm not sure if it's actually brighter than modern car lights.

Actually I got it on Aliexpress (link). There might be better priced options but I got this one because it comes with an adaptor for GoPro mounts so I could mount it under my bike computer. It's otherwise much too heavy and large to mount on handlebars.

Feels safer than day riding too with a 2000LM light.

Honestly just need to find one that fits YOU and is safe.

I got a Bontrager Spectre Wavecell because it felt the best on my head from all the helmets I tried and the tech is safe (MIPS is also very good).

I wear it from -15°C to +30°C and it's good for me. The helmet is not the problem outside this range, it's just generally too hot/cold, it isn't the top of my head that gets way too hot/cold. As long as you don't get an aero helmet I think you won't have any temperature problems.

However, this decline seems to be due to the previous fiscal period being exceptionally good for FromSoftware, as it started shortly after the release of the company’s global hit Elden Ring

Kind of a nothing-burger.

Everyone's hating but honestly fair enough move.

On the whole, nobody uses Bing or takes it seriously anyways and so I guess they have to find their niche. It's certainly not aimed at us (Lemmy/Fediverse users) who are generally more privacy conscious. If it can attract some mainstream users (e.g., Google users, people like your parents, etc) or stop some users from immediately switching their search engine to Google, then it might be a good decision for them.

Bing providing the exact same service as Google but worse clearly wasn't working for them.

Certainly not limited to IT. One of my professors from many years was an aerospace engineer^1^. 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.

^1^Not in the defense industry

Ok then. I'll echo what some others are saying about 16GB being sufficient. If you were in engineering every now and then it's not enough but I don't think its the case for comp sci. I'd leave the door open and get one in which you can upgrade the RAM though.

One thing to look out for is CPU performance. I find the laptop CPU market is a disaster right now in which you really don't know what you'll get. LTT has a recent video on the topic. For most courses it won't actually matter that much. Some examples of the ones where it could make a difference are numerical linear algebra courses, machine learning (classical, not neural networks), and computer vision (again, classical). In some of these extra RAM might also be helpful but I'd prioritize a better CPU over the RAM. You may look at CPU benchmarks to get an idea of their performance.

In terms of GPU... I don't think you'll get anything capable enough for training neural networks at this price point, which is the only thing you may need it for in comp sci. But it'll help with light gaming (but I imagine integrated graphics is good enough for minecraft these days—but dont quote me on that).

Also lastly, I would still recommend finding something with decent Linux support even if you dont want to use it (yet), you may choose to install it down the line. My Dell XPS/Precision has pretty poor linux support with buggy trackpad issues which has caused issues for me in the past. Many comp sci students end up switching to Linux/dual booting for a good reason.

I expect to be able to code in it

What kind of student? Computer science? Engineering?

I agree very disappointing. I find it increasingly difficult since Twitter closed its doors to those signed in as my account is long deleted.

Nice news. Money only starts flowing in 2 years though and then it takes many many years for stuff to get built on top of that. Wish we could pick the pace up on these issues.

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.

Paywalled and not on archive :/

Sorry for super oversharpened photo. It's like 30x zoom.

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

Some people think they are good for brain development. I've met some parents who gave their young kids a few pills every day hoping it'll help make them smarter.

Hope to see it on GOG. But maybe not since there is multiplayer.

But AMD would rather sell two cards at 1000 each than take the bet of trying to sell four at 750.

At the same time though this might not be unreasonable. I don't know what the profit margin on these cards is given the R&D, manufacturing costs, and other various overheads, but it might be WAY more worth it to sell two at 1000 then four at 750. Might even be worth it to sell one at 1000 vs four at 750 depending on how slim it is after all those costs.

Extra 4% off with Rakuten too.

It's expected but still frustrating. I've had both trains which serve me go under maintenance leaving me with significantly less options. Some people are left with no option except driving.

Direct new post from REM website:

https://rem.info/en/news/updated-schedule-next-stages

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.

According to Support Our Science FAQ:

I currently have a Tri-agency award, will it increase?

We've heard from Minister Champagne's office that current award holders will not be paid retroactively but will receive an increase in 2024-2025.

I think it's particularly the tricouncil funding that has been stagnant. FRQNT awards (Quebec) for example went up last year, and my stipend from the university also went up by 3k surprisingly. So the headline isn't that misleading as this is the biggest boost, but not the only boost as universities and provincial funding agencies have increased the stipends.

The more competitive national awards (CGS M, PGS D) were paying less than the less competitive FRQ awards. Now this is reversed and hopefully the national awards will be easier to receive since they are expecting to have more to give out in a few years on top of them paying better.

Honestly not a terrible casting...

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.