> Have you looked at how expensive international shipping is?

It really shocks me how bad shipping has gotten. It's nearly unaffordable to buy things on eBay from the US as a Canadian due to shipping costs, so I can only imagine just how bad it is for people from other countries.

It's probably unaffordable for anyone to buy things from the US due to shipping costs, because the Trump administration has completely screwed up everything there with tariffs and mismanagement of the USPS and more. But the US is not the world. A better comparison is how much it cost to ship things from China a year ago compared to today.

32GB of vram for a decent price? I wonder if these will work well for VR, because vram is my current main issue.

(VR enthusiast here, mostly under windows)

intel support has been mild to non existent in the VR space unfortunately. Given the very finicky latency + engine support i wouldn’t bet on a great experience, but hope for the best for more competition in this market. (even amd has a lot of caveats comparing to nvidia)

Footnotes:

* critical "as low as it can be" low latency support on intel XE is still not as mature as nvidia, amd was lagging behind until recently.

* Not sure about "multiprojection" rendering support on intel, lack of support can kill vr performance or make it incompatible. (the optimized vr games often rely on it)

It looked like when Intel jumped into this space, they tried to do everything at once. It didnt work well, they were playing catch up to some very mature systems. They are now being much more selective and restrained. The down side is that things like VR support are put on the back burner for years.

Good for most people but if you need that fuctiobality and they dont have it, go somewhere else.

Attraction matters and it matters a lot. This isn't news, a lot of people just don't like to acknowledge it.

I think there is an expectation that it should not matter, and there is a reality that it does matter, and there is lots of discussion because the expectations and the reality do not match.

Why is there an expectation that it should not matter? Is it just childrens shows? In many countries you have to put a headshot on your resume, that seems very overt that attractiveness / looks does matter. In the west there is a large idealism over practicality sometimes.

Because we figured out that grading and selecting based on merit is better for society than grading based on subjective biases. I don't know what you mean by "practicality" here.

Where do you _have_ to put a headshot in a resume?

> Start over and pick something else.

Something else that they want to kill as well, don't forget that bit.

For all intents and purposes I am my job and I'm tired of people trying to pretend like this isn't true. As a human I am worth exactly what I'm able to earn, not a cent more and I am judged by others first and foremost based on my job title. I am not inherently valuable.

I wish it wasn't like this, but this is the world we've built and all I can do is cope with it as those in power work on replacing me.

I think you as a person have intrinsic value, and I hope your opinion changes in the future.

That depends a lot on your social circles, no? I’ve met plenty of people who never cared about or knew my job title or salary, and whose job titles and salaries I never cared about or knew.

I've been in circles where I thought it didn't matter and I've had people in my life who I thought didn't care...and then they find out (because good luck hiding the thing you do for 40+ hours a week) and the relationships permanently change.

If life is a game, are you playing it right?

This is a good UX change, one of many UX improvements needed on CLIs.

Not showing feedback on user input is objectively confusing for inexperienced users.

> and they have also driven people to suicide

As has Reddit, Facebook, etc.

Bad things occasionally happening on a platform doesn't make the platform/site inherently bad.

weird combination of "what about" and misinterpreting my comment.

Not really when you were holding up causing suicide as why it's bad when every high traffic social network has done that.

yes, you are repeating the "what about" part. my comment has literally nothing to do with other social networks.

if it helps, feel free to apply the original quote to facebook or whatever when they do something good. but this article and comment chain is about 4chan. so i am talking about 4chan.

"Whataboutism" is just the cry of people upset others disagreed with their stance in a way they disliked.

lol, what are you talking about? i said i was reminded of a quote, that is it. no one disagreed, they just said “other people do it too” and put words in my mouth so they could argue about something.

like, what “stance” do you think i am even trying to take?

> organizations like the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA)

The Reddit post mentions that DCA does not exist in any official record. It seems to be a ghost organization for the purpose of controlling perceptions.

I think it exists, as an umbrella group. It might only be 3 weeks old. But it seems preoccupied with minors accessing online pharmacies. Very preoccupied with that.