xthexder

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 0 points 10 hours ago

Ah interesting, so the European banks have agreements on how to settle wire transfers quickly, but going outside those SEPA agreements gets you about the same experience as US wire transfers.

That SEPA system seems kind of nice, since in the US it's been up to a bunch of private companies (like PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard) to pick up the slack and enable instant transfers. We've only recently got the Zelle system, which is free and instant, but even that's just run by some corporation that went around making agreements with banks on their own.

Unfortunately, for this sort of international transaction, the only real options are: Credit card companies (via credit or debit), SWIFT wire transfers (slow and expensive), or Crypto (volatile and maybe slow depending on which one).

I've had annoying times trying to purchase parts from a small UK company, since my only option was wire transfer with a $65 fee, or calling them long distance and giving a credit card over the phone at 1am my time)

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I was confused about what it meant by "Lossless" since it's frame gen... there's no compression, or anything to lose, it's starting from nothing.

As far as I can tell it means nothing, it's just the branding for the "Lossless Scaling" tool on Steam. There's no new lossless algorithm involved here.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

ACH is Automated Clearing House, which is US-specific and what's used for faster bank-to-bank transfers than wire. They still take up to a day or two to clear. I suspect what you are calling a wire transfer is not actually the same thing as a SWIFT network wire transfer, which is what's used for international transactions. German banks charge the same fees for those: https://wiretransfer.io/deutsche-bank-germany-wire-transfer/

German banks might have arrangements for doing domestic transfers more quickly, and obviously it's instant if the recipient is at the same bank, but I don't know that that's considered a wire transfer anymore. It would be a direct deposit/debit through some other bank-bank system. (In Canada this would be like Interac transfers, or Zelle in the US)

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 15 hours ago

The whole baby sleeping in a box thing seems a little weird to me, but giving all new parents a starter pack of supplies sounds great. We could just distribute the supplies in a different shaped box if that was a concern we need to prevent.
But let's be real... US hospitals would try selling these care packages for a profit, when they should be free.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Maybe it's different in Germany, but at least in the US, wire transfers have a fee. My bank even charges me $5 just to receive a wire transfer, and if I wanted to send money internationally it's a $65 fee. It's a terrible system to buy things too because it takes days for the transfer to clear.

Another comment mentioned ACH, but that is not the same as a wire transfer.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 14 points 1 day ago

You've heard of monorepos, but have you tried monofile development?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What if this is a plot to literally steal your code? You give it to the AI, page refreshes and clears your clipboard. Your entire "source code file" is now theirs, and probably part of the training set for Grok 5.

The first part is a joke, but the second part...

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This was a new word for me, so I had to look it up: It's an... interesting choice of words to describe the success of a robot.
Of course a robot would perform the job unflappably, it is emotionless by design. I'm pretty sure it would go right ahead and murder the patient unflappably as well. The robot "keeping its cool" is not even a question.

That said, this does sound very impressive, even if I think there's some pretty crazy risks involved. Hopefully they have more respect for the problem then self-driving car companies.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm going to go with no, since that step is not transferring data to a human, it's transferring it internally within the computer.
UI can refer to either the medium, such as a visual display, speaker system, or keyboard, and it can also refer to a specific layout of information (like the Qwerty layout, or a webpage layout). I wouldn't consider the USB protocol UI just because it can transmit HID Events, only the keyboard or mouse as a whole is UI.
You could almost call HID events UI, but I'd still argue they're more of a computer-device interface than a human-device interface

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 5 days ago

To be fair, the meme generator can't do lowercase letters

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 9 points 1 week ago

the industry ensures that players are given fair notice of the prospective changes

They absolutely aren't. Fair notice would be telling them how long it will last before you take their money.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 1 week ago

to visit family

People will go through a lot to be with family, it doesn't really matter how dangerous crossing the border is if that's the only way you'll see them again.

 

I was on a road trip through the prairies and had to stop on the side of the road to watch the northern lights. The entire sky in all directions was lit up. I was able to take this shot with the big dipper visible.

4-second exposure, Sony A9 II, f2.8 24mm Sigma Lens, taken Sept 18, 2023

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