KillingTimeItself

ok fascinating question mr scientist, how do you sell products to people who don’t know you exist.

That’s literally the fundamental problem to solve here. If you want to argue for banning predatory advertising, sure, but you could also just install an ad blocker.

“if we increase minimum wages, X% of small businesses will fail.” I try to single out and avoid businesses that operate that way, because the workers are miserable from the low pay, me as the consumer is miserable from the poor customer service, and the owner is miserable because he isn’t taking home ‘enough’ money, even though the business is net positive cash flow.

in this case, the business fails, unless the business finds a way to pull in more total revenue, and pay their employees more, which gives them a better selection of employees, though it’s generally true that for a small business the largest capital cost is labor. So being able to pay yourself, and other employees where possible, less money saves you a lot of recurring cost. Especially if you don’t get consistent business.

Propping up the inefficient practices is holding everything back, if they’re pruned then new growth can take hold, and form new standards.

the problem here, is that you need a good model that indicates better complete performance of the new system, as opposed to the old system, nobody has an effective model economy for anything other than capitalism, because capitalism literally “just works” it has problems, sure, but you can fix them, or work on fixing them at least. A brand new economy may not be able to get off the ground in the first place, without failing completely.

also to be clear, in most cases “net positive cashflow” isn’t a great spot to be in, what you want is consistent revenue high enough that you can pay off all of your expenses, consistently, i.e. “adjusted net positive cash flow”

Sure you can get net positive cashflow from paying everybody less, but you would be better served by paying them more. That would incentivize them to do a better job, and prevent you from paying tax on that.

the server isn’t live compressing it, it’s pre compressed binaries being shipped hundreds of thousands of times over, in most cases. Compression is primarily to minimize bandwidth (and also speed up downloads, since the network speed is usually the bottleneck) you can either cache the compressed files, or do a gated download, based on decompression speed.

Usually, most disks are faster than any network connection available, so it’s pretty hard to hit that bottleneck these days. HDDs included, unless you’re using SMR drives in a specific use case, and definitely not an SSD ever.

Although on the FS side, you would optimize for minimum latency, latency really fucks up a file system, that and corrupt data, so if you can ensure a minimal latency impact, as well as a reliable compression/decompression algorithm, you can get a decent trade off of some size optimization, for a bit of latency, and CPU time.

Whether or not fs based compression is good, i’m not quite sure yet, i’m bigger on de-duplication personally.

steam provides a lot of utility sure, that’s why i even use it at all. But just because a shitty app provides a lot of utility doesn’t make it a good app, if anything, the steam client is MVP, nothing more. Just barely good enough to ship to market.

it’s my understanding that on disk compression is different from networked compression, usually networked compression uses Gzip iirc, where as on disk tends to use something like LZ, file downloads are generally less important than a file system, so you can trivially get away with costly and expensive compression.

yeah but like, by that argument, burning wood is a violation of the bodily autonomy of other people.

Farting in a public space would be an equally problematic activity.

The biggest argument here is that it’s “artificial” and “alters human comprehension” but i’m not really sure it would even matter, because ethically, you would have a hard time arguing against it.

Murder being illegal, is technically a violation of bodily autonomy, but we collectively agree as a society, that this should be the case, because the net effect of murder being illegal, is beneficial to society.

the worst possible case, is that it has a mortality rate, of like 0.001% or something, which would kill a lot of people, but would that even negatively impact the world? It’s hard to say.

on a per game basis? Last i checked you could only enable it for all games, or no games. I don’t want to manually skip compilations, i want to select a list of games that automatically compile shaders, i don’t want beamng to compile 70gb of shaders because it got an update this week, unless i’m going to play it, but something i play more frequently like factorio, i would like for that to be a regular function.

I’m fairly sure it’s driver related, but steam is built on electron, and chrome/firefox work perfectly fine, and so does discord electron, so my only guess is that nvidia driver gaming is happening. Or steam has the single most incompetent installation of electron across any software i use.

I have no idea why only steam would be affected. That just doesn’t make any sense.

Electron has gpu suppport by default so it shouldn’t be laggy.

doesn’t seem to matter whether it’s enabled or not, it performs like shit, idk why. Again, firefox and chrome are fine, discord is fine (it still runs like shit, but it’s discord, that’s normal)

if it has no downsides, is it even against bodily autonomy?

This is like arguing you shouldn’t sell farmed food in grocery stores, because it violates the bodily autonomy to starve and die in famine.

i think that institutions should be respected.

It’s the number one problem in american politics right now, everything we are currently experiencing, is from people treating politics like a toy. Rather than an institution.

It’s so incredibly hard to state how critically important it is for the functioning of society, that the structures running our society, are respected.

all business would fail.

that’s definitely not in the range of like, super old cpus, but it’s also not super fast either. Modern cpus should be like 20-30% faster i think, in single core, which is what compression uses.

Realistically compression should be as aggressive as possible, because it saves bandwidth, and it’s basically a free resource,

i haven’t because it’s been a completely unusable buggy mess ever since i’ve installed it, and it transitioned to electron, routinely uses 1gb of ram, 2gb on bad days. That’s 2 whole USD wasted, and that’s the price of CHEAP ram.

Graphics just don’t work, that might be an nvidia problem to be fair, menus are broken, buttons haven’t worked, refactoring the UI seems to make it slower. Scrolling a literal single web page is practically unusable due to lag and stuttering. If you use proton, and auto shader compilation, it’s useless because you can’t even configure how you want it to be run. Don’t want to compile 12gb of shaders for a game that’s 200GB? That you play 2 times a year? Get fucked.

how old/new is your cpu? CPUs recently, in the last 5-8 years have gotten really fast.

yeah, and the answer is electron, it’s electron causing the memory leak, the solution is to not use it.

it’s certainly one of the reasons to, i’m not sure why they dont support a basic native version as well as the flatpak, but that’s modern software for you i guess.

sure, the service is good. The utility is awful, and the utility is part of the overall service. And currently, the steam client is basically fucking bloatware.

no, because i use linux the way it was intended to be used lol.

flatpak is the official release of steam iirc, so that’s why.

it depends on your network speed also.

people who like having money???

That makes it hard to track down & reproduce.

no it doesnt?

It’s a web browser, it’s only going to come from one place lmao.