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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • I would not agree. Every metric is subject to Goodhart’s law, approval ratings is no exception. Putin has (allegedly) maintained an approval rating well over 50% for his entire career.

    I’m not saying he wants to do right by his constituents, I’m saying he wants to be told he’s a winner. Trump is a narcissist. He’s all the other terrible things because at the end of the day he needs to feel liked. He will only do things that he thinks will fill that void.


  • He had to defend TikTok to win over youth votes for the election.

    Now that he’s pres again, he knows that in one year it will become very apparent that he can’t lower grocery/gas prices, and isn’t willing to take action on home prices, the deficit, AI, or wage inequality.

    So instead he has a list of things that will prop up his approval rating, because that is the only metric that actually matters to him. Right now that seems to mean keeping TikTok, and annexing new territory (even if that just means renaming the Gulf of Mexico).


  • Is it possible English isn’t your first language, and you interpreted “whatever the fuck” as offensive or snarky? I can assure you that wasn’t the intended tone.

    Millenials and GenX started using the internet when we were basically the only ones online. Everyone was a handle, there was no gender, race, or age, just another person. Introducing a generational divide between users is a new concept introduced by deanonymization through social media. But it’s not necessary here. I honestly never know if I’m talking to a 50yo boomer or a kid with an iPad, and I don’t care. Just contribute to the discussion.


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    I find it kinda concerning how the number of instances is shrinking and number of users per instance is going up. IMO it should be part of the fediverse design to incentivize decentralization to avoid a gmail situation.

    Also worrying is that the number of Active Users is trending constant or slightly down, but the number of posts over time is climbing dramatically. To me, this could be a sign of inauthentic behaviour on the rise.















  • That’s not due to new hardware, battery life is a conscious decision from design/marketing teams. Newer hardware, if it’s worth anything at all, can accomplish more operations at the same TDP as the previous generation. Or more accurately, new hw should always have better performance per watt than older hw (*generally. Of course there are always hardware architecture differences that can dramatically affect performance of very specific scenarios for better and worse, but I’m talking about on-average).

    But that doesn’t stop hw manufacturers from bumping up the TDP recommendations to sell their latest chips (why new nvidia GPUs always suck another 100W of power each gen), and it doesn’t stop OEMs from using a higher TDP limit to sell the performance of their handheld (why newer handhelds seem to have worse battery life).

    The team that designs a new handheld could use the newer compute hw with the same battery capacity and:

    • the same TDP limit, resulting in a marginal increase to performance at the same battery life
    • a lower TDP limit, resulting in the same performance in higher battery life

    but they often determine neither of those will sell units as well as using a slightly higher TDP limit for higher performance review numbers at the cost of battery life.

    This is why I like that SteamOS has a deliberately configurable TDP limit in the flyout menu, per-title! This gives the player manual control over what they consider important rather than leaving it up to a marketing team or some buggy power limit heuristics. Just one more reason why I’m excited to see wider adoption of SteamOS.