Better for you(the seller) vs better for me (the buyer)
Two agents with two different utility functions fighting each other, it's an adversarial relationship/game.
The fight is for your limited attention span.
Clickbaity titles or least informative ones, 20min of rambling for what could've been a 2min video or article, spreading the meat of the info in the later half of the video for better retention instead of the beginning, highly misleading previews at the beggining, etc ... are good for the content producer but not so much for the content viewer that has to sift through it only to reliaze that didn't care about that particular thing.
Not limited to videos, but also things to buy the meat of the technical/practical description of the product get worse and worse each year and the other proxy signals for them too.
Seems like marketing is a lot like military conflict drown the enemy in lot of noise to drop the SNR.
what's that you want to buy a 4k video projector and set a filter for it? here it is for cheaper. Oh, you wanted the actual dots on the wall resolution to be 4k instead of max supported input signal, oops.
You're used to higher price meaning better quality? guess we'll flood that price point with shitier quality progressively until we find your limit
It does matter, that's why those people quit because it's such a shitshow, progress happens at a glacial pace, more and more defects and slowdowns keep being created even if they have a big QA department/teams and the users are probably trapped because the software is the only thing in town, the bosses are the ones that makes the purchase decisions, or the it comes attached to big and/or expensive machines and they can't just buy another one for another X years.
yes, of course. I meant "it doesn't really matter" in the sense that businesses have been dealing with this since the beginning of software. Strong ownership and passion was one of the selling points of OSS, but that style of ownership was always very very rare in corporate. It just doesn't really fit with how businesses operate. The "passion" is ARR, not engineering principals. Most software is built, sold, and bought by people who don't use it directly.
> The code base itself has never and will never matter in the big picture
Clearing my throat: I am the first person to tell everyone on the team (repeatedly, until they are sick of hearing it) that the users, use cases, and organizational objectives are always more important than the technology.
But, in "the big picture" - the Linux codebase doesn't matter? The codebase that powers AWS doesn't matter? Hell, the Microsoft Office codebase doesn't matter? Look at what's happening to Windows when they treat it like the codebase doesn't matter.
For a tech org, the codebase is the reification of all of your objectives, all of your knowledge about your users and use cases and processes. Long term, a mature codebase plus people who understand it is one of the most valuable things you have. When orgs don't realize this, when they treat their workers and their work product as disposable commodities, we call this "enshittification."
This likely won't need billions of Euros to implement and will be an earmark in the budget. My point being it's not such a grandious project, from a continental perspective.
I don't know what "workarounds" you're talking about, or what unwanted behavior that I presume you're talking about. Would you be more specific?
I ask because just a few minutes ago, I ran VRRTest [0] on my dual-monitor machine and saw no screen tearing on either monitor. Because VRR is disabled in multi-monitor setups, I saw juddering on both monitors when I commanded VRRTest render rates that weren't a multiple of the monitor's refresh rate, but no tearing at all.
My setup:
* Both monitors hooked up via DisplayPort
* Radeon 9070 (non-XT)
* Gentoo Linux, running almost all ~amd64 packages.
* x11-base/xorg-server-21.1.20
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu-25.0.0-r1
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-22.0.0
* sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.18.5
* KDE and Plasma packages are either version 6.22.0 or 6.5.5. I CBA to get a complete list, as there are so many relevant packages.
(I'm posting in a reply in part because the edit window is long since past.)
Yeah. I'm actually quite interested in hearing what "workarounds" and/or misbehavior you're talking about. 'amdgpu(4)' says this about the TearFree property:
Option "TearFree" "boolean"
Set the default value of the per-output ’TearFree’ property,
which controls tearing prevention using the hardware page flip‐
ping mechanism. TearFree is on for any CRTC associated with one
or more outputs with TearFree on. Two separate scanout buffers
need to be allocated for each CRTC with TearFree on. If this op‐
tion is set, the default value of the property is ’on’ or ’off’
accordingly. If this option isn’t set, the default value of the
property is auto, which means that TearFree is on for rotated
outputs, outputs with RandR transforms applied, for RandR 1.4
secondary outputs, and if ’VariableRefresh’ is enabled, otherwise
it’s off.
The explicit mention that the "auto" enables TearFree only for secondary outputs and rotated and/or transformed outputs if 'VariableRefresh' is disabled seems to directly contradict what I think you're saying. And if "auto" enables TearFree on secondary displays, my recommendation of "on" certainly also does. But, yeah. I await clarification.
That’s not true, at least in France. Perhaps it’s true in some other dialect, e.g. Quebec French; I don’t know.
From Wiktionary, the pronunciation of English bit is /bɪt/, and French bite is /bit/. The sounds represented in IPA by ɪ and i are not the same, which is precisely why “bit” and “beet” sound different to Americans.
It's pronounced the same only by people speaking English with a French accent. An American, Brit, Indian, or any other native speaker of English absolutely does not pronounce "bit" the same way a French person pronounces "une bite."
Rather than measuring whose French pedigree is longer, I will put down a wager on this. ₹3? :D
I don’t doubt that you speak French. French people tend to have difficulty distinguishing those sounds because they are not distinguished in French. In English, they are: English has a much larger inventory of distinct vowel sounds than French (or indeed most European languages). In typical French-accented English, “bit” is indeed pronounced like the French word “bite”, but in native speaker English, it is not.
I am a native speaker of American English and also speak French quite well. If you neither accept personal experience, nor what is written on Wiktionary, what evidence would you accept?
so they'll pay for VPNs/Proxies with residential IPs in their desired location.
heck twitter will probably later offer you an option to buy it themselves or an option to set your desired location if you just pay for X++ premium bot services.
I assume most accounts getting exposed now basically started with the assumption that this info would not be exposed publicly, but they will adapt.
So this is like a one time shot of transparency, that will quickly be useless (although I’ve been hearing it has been rolled back already - some speculation is because it exposed that the majority of MAGA boosters were not US based)
Yeah, and they will delete their accounts and start over, only logging in when they're on a US terminated VPN.
Whoever was following these people aren't taking a hard look at themselves in the mirror now. They're just searching out the same content that is "really" American.
Weird. The sites that block standard vpns don’t block the residential IPs I used to buy. Nor did they seem to know I was on using them. I don’t get how they would be able to know.
yup, my pet peeve is there is no way to disable line wrap. the setting that exist doesn't work and there's no way to actually disable it instead of just increasing the max characters (with set hard limit in the source code).
have a big docs or log,data file where you don't care for the rest of the line ? well too bad better have a spare editor.
this feel to me like it should should be a number #1 priority. "an editor need to nail the editing part".
Huh? That doesn’t track with my experience. I spent a long time trying to find out how to enable line wrap, and Zed’s settings are more extensive than most editors.
Two agents with two different utility functions fighting each other, it's an adversarial relationship/game.
The fight is for your limited attention span.
Clickbaity titles or least informative ones, 20min of rambling for what could've been a 2min video or article, spreading the meat of the info in the later half of the video for better retention instead of the beginning, highly misleading previews at the beggining, etc ... are good for the content producer but not so much for the content viewer that has to sift through it only to reliaze that didn't care about that particular thing.
Not limited to videos, but also things to buy the meat of the technical/practical description of the product get worse and worse each year and the other proxy signals for them too.
Seems like marketing is a lot like military conflict drown the enemy in lot of noise to drop the SNR.
what's that you want to buy a 4k video projector and set a filter for it? here it is for cheaper. Oh, you wanted the actual dots on the wall resolution to be 4k instead of max supported input signal, oops.
You're used to higher price meaning better quality? guess we'll flood that price point with shitier quality progressively until we find your limit
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