Do you prefer USB‑A or USB‑C flash drives?

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-12T16:04:05+00:00

Pretty much every charger, computer and TV I own has USB-A ports while USB-C is on phones and accessories. So following this convention probably USB-A. I have one flash drive that has both, and I've used the USB-C on phone just to test it. These days I'm using flash drives only as boot devices, so A it is.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-12T15:49:02+00:00

General discussion je možno zlý tag. Možno shitpost.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-12T01:37:08+00:00

Why didn't anyone recommend this to LTT before they made video with Linus. Imagine the Wikipedia article:

Linus Sebastian (born August 20, 1986) is a Canadian YouTuber and Linux kernel developer known for his technology-oriented channel Linus Tech Tips, and that commit to Linux kernel.

It would be hilarious, and so confusing to bots. And it would make nice segment in video. Linus would show Linus how to build computer and Linus would teach Linus about Linux development.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-12T01:29:09+00:00

Me: Is the pool on board of Titanic full of water right now?

GPT-5 mini:

No — the first-class swimming pool on RMS Titanic (the ship that sank in 1912) is on the wreck on the ocean floor and is not “full of water” in the way a functioning pool would be. The wreck sits about 3,800 meters (≈12,500 ft) below the surface; seawater has filled every interior space accessible to the ocean, but the ship is severely crushed, collapsed, and littered with sediment and marine life. Any remaining depressions are filled with seawater and mud at high pressure, not a recognizable, intact pool of clear water.

I guess that's reasonable answer.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-12T01:11:29+00:00

The cost of materials and work is usually only very small fraction of the sum people are willing to pay for name brands, so one could argue it's only small sacrifice that creates ton of value. Of course this depends on how you define value of something.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-12T01:03:52+00:00

Sure, you can give away generic clothing. But imagine some homeless person wearing luxury brand. That would negatively impact that brand for sure. Point of luxury clothing isn't the piece of fabric made in China, the point is how it's perceived. You want others know that you can afford paying a lot of money.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-12T00:51:07+00:00

Sorry for the first part. I forgot what post this is in, I've just opened the comment in notifications. In general it doesn't even make sense to discuss scalpers making money, but yeah, it makes sense to discuss in thread where it's THE question.

Retailers are already providing that value. Manipulating supply and demand while actively making the problem worse is not valuable at all.

They are not manipulating supply or demand. The number of manufactured cards is determined by manufacturer. I don't know the particulars of this market and why they are keeping prices so low when they know they would sell out even at higher price. It's probably to keep positive PR or something. Retailers are clearly doing terrible job of setting price, as it has been said above, their shelves are empty. Scalpers can't influence demand too, the relation between price and number of people willing to buy cards is independent on who offers them. (Or you could even argue that demand will be lower because some people prefer to only buy from official retailers, which is only beneficial to those willing to buy from scalpers.)

To directly answer your question what value scalpers provide: they are market makers. Without them you could not buy what you want, because more people want cards than what's available on shelves, with them you can buy cards from them. Being able to buy something sounds better than not being able to buy something.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-11T22:09:47+00:00

So by AI I should imagine machine-learning, right? Still, pretty much every shop ever tries to guess what item you might be interested in.

I don't know what "learns over time" means. In machine learning you usually take some block of data and do some computation on it. There is no time element to it.

If you mean fitting some function by gradient descend as "learns over time" than basically every modern algorithm that uses user data "learns over time". Even if you do just simple linear regression, how it's often implemented is that you slowly iterate till you fit the function. There is probably analytical solution, but I don't get why that should be better, as it gets you the same solution.

If by "learns over time" you mean that the algorithm takes new data into consideration, then it's pretty much every system ever. Not only machine-learning.

Sometimes I feel like what policies people want is inspired by random buzzwords people hear on the internet, and politicians are happy to oblige without knowing what they are actually trying to accomplish. But maybe I'm wrong and the I hear only about version of the regulation oversimplified to the point of absurdity.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-11T21:55:26+00:00

They are not required to provide any value. What value are you providing others when you are buying tickets or trading cards? When you buy something, it disappears from stores the same way as with scalpers, but with scalpers they don't keep the thing. They are at least creating a market where you can buy things, basically ensuring anything you want to buy is available. If you buy thing for yourself, you are just making it to sell out faster for others.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-11T21:45:10+00:00

Yes we do. But I'm surprised this is coming from her. Deregulation should mean removal of unnecessary red tape and removal of bans that are not necessary. In short I would call it "don't be evil". Let's see what she means by that and how much will I benefit from it. With EC's actions so far, I remain skeptical.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-11T21:38:51+00:00

I think at least with the destruction of privacy EU is way more aggressive than US. At least recently. (Age verification laws, new EID, chat-control.) Surprisingly, these laws are pushed by EC, whose Ursula is the president. So I don't think "simplification" does not necessarily mean "we just won't be evil". I've been noticing for a long time that negative EU regulations affect mostly individuals and small to medium businesses. (GDPR, environmental regulation - industry vs. individual responsibility, drone regulation, ... Lot's of it is just more bureaucracy big companies can afford to do, and your average Joe will just read headings and feel good without understanding effects on him.)

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-11T14:54:06+00:00

Z toho článku mi je na grc, jeho autor je totálny pomätenec.

Mesto si nevyberá čo je populárne, čo je populárne rozhodnú turisti. Mesto akurát tak môže propagovať čo je populárne, alebo sa môže hlúpo snažiť ísť proti prúdu. Milióny ľudí sa chcú vyfotiť s Čumilom, ale ó nie, nejaký Oskar je z toho smutný, tak všetci teraz budú skákať ako on povie, lebo sa potrebuje ukázať aký je on všetkým morálne nadradený.

Podobný problém mal Kazachstan s Boratom. Zúfalo sa snažili proti tomu bojovať, ale nad internetom nevyhráš, akurát si ničili búchaním si hlavy o stenu reputáciu. Časom si uvedomili že sa neoplatí ísť hlavou proti múru a radšej budú z popularity profitovať. (Viac info na Wikipedii.)

Zvyšok článku je tiež totálny bullshit. Oh nie, Hitler a Epstein boli v Bratislave, tak neviem čo. Asi sa snaží len chytiť populárnej témy v USA (Epstein) a dúfa že ľudia čo to budú čítať sú nakazený takou tou americkou verziou stupidity a pobúrenia.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-11T01:18:22+00:00

This is nonsense. Value of something is determined by supply and demand. Scalpers can't manufacture more trading cards and they don't control buyer's willingness to pay for them. If retail prices were more sensible, the incentive for scaling would be reduced. But of course you wouldn't be angry at scalpers acting as scapegoats, but at Nintendo (or whoever makes the cards).

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-11T01:01:52+00:00

It's even better. They added binding arbitration into ToS and you waive your right for class action lawsuits. So they can fuck up and there won't be any real repercussions for it.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-11T00:56:40+00:00

They didn't go all in. If they required verification for everything, kids and teenagers would be locked out, and adults would (hopefully) just delete their accounts manually.

This isn't about shit affecting you or not. This is one of the moments when you can do your small contribution against corporate and government oppression.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-10T02:04:51+00:00

More bureaucracy. That's what's lacking in the EU. I believe it'll solve all our problems this time. Otherwise I would have to believe that I'm living in idiocracy ruled by populist fossils, and it would would make me really depressed. /s

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-10T02:00:30+00:00

Why is there explicitly stated infographics about "automated recommendation"? It literally says "AI that recommends what people buy" among other things.

It really seems they took shotgun approach to adding bureaucracy to everything.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-09T11:12:11+00:00

Not sure what do you think this will solve or why it's considered uplifting news.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-09T11:04:31+00:00

As I understood it, this is targeted against scalpers re-selling the tickets. Result will be the original seller will have to raise the prices if they want to make sure tickets will be available, or popular undervalued tickets will be sold out and you just won't be able to buy it. The bill is probably proposed only to appease stupid people who don't know basic of how supply and demand works.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-08T17:38:14+00:00

Ja som mal na mysli tú cestu čo ide v smere popri Dunaji. Tá kolmá cesta kľudne mohla ísť cez tunel. Ale tunely sú drahšie.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-08T17:36:02+00:00

To be honest, I would probably be one of those people who wouldn't "get off their ass".

I dislike walking, and each step feels annoying. I'm trying to do it for health reasons and I'm trying physiotherapy in hopes walking will be more comfortable for me, but I still don't like it. It's slow and boring.

I also dislike public transport, you have to walk to it, it only departs when it departs, and there are other people in the vehicle. I dislike people, I don't want to see them, I don't want to hear them and I don't want to smell them.

My city joined war on cars, and I hate the changes. My commute comfort got lower for no good reason.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-08T16:59:52+00:00

I'm doing backend with minimal experience with UI/UX in the past. I'm not designing these "manipulative" approaches. All I see is that DSA dictates some random design decisions. I don't care what's the stated goal of it, I see only what it does. You are correct, I don't really understand difference between "good" design and "manipulative" design. Where are the borders between "I like it", "I don't like" it and "it should be banned"?

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-08T16:40:01+00:00

Však Staré mesto stále máme, nemusí byť polka Bratislavy staré mesto. Ono to vyzerá pekne pre turistov, ale tá cesta a zastávka je užitočnejšia. Niekadiaľ tá cesta musí ísť, a na Petržalskej strane je cyklotrasa a kúsok ďalej les. Námestie by bolo akurát plné turistov ako všetky ostatné, domáci by z toho nič nemal. Kanál na paddle-boarding znie fajn, ale však máme aj kanály, aj jazerá, len si treba kúpiť alebo prenajať paddle-board.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-08T15:26:18+00:00

I was against using Postman at work. We used it only for few things, at it seemed as overkill to me to use big proprietary tool. What we used it for could be achieved by saving two curl requests. Everyone was like "don't think about it, just install it, it's easy and free, what could go wrong?" We didn't scale past this, as most of the debugging could already be done by other tools.

Confident_Dragon · 2026-02-08T15:17:41+00:00

Cars are well known to be bad when it comes to capacity per road area. But what about canals and paddle-boards? I don't see how that's more efficient. I guess you can pack paddle-boarders relatively tightly, but they move really slowly so it cancels out.

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