Honestly

Part of me thinks this is a clever troll to leave it out

Oh hey it’s me

I collected the free games almost religiously for maybe a couple of years, mostly so I had something of a backup library in case something terrible happened to Steam

I stopped after realising I was literally only interacting with that store literally to collect the games, I don’t think I put a single minute into any of them

UK/EU has had contactless payments via our bank cards for about 2 decades now. America caught up eventually some years later

When phones got the ability to act as our bank cards, it made sense for them to use something compatible with the same technology that was already deployed

Funnily enough, America (and I guess also Korea, given the companies) dragging their heels on standard contactless is one of the main reasons why Samsung/LG briefly put out a couple of generations of phones that had a magnetic stripe mimicking payment feature in addition to standard NFC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_secure_transmission)

Get knocked out in Tesco again?

unless you just aren’t taking care of yourself.

I think frankly, the tiring parts of music festivals for many people would very squarely fall into this category

Am I getting my parts from Ea-Nasir

Jazz FM for the morning coffee, BBC 6 music when making dinner

Salt and pepper usually, the nutmeg not so much actually, but I pretty much only make it when I’m making a lasagne or as a step on the way to cheese sauce.

What’s your best dish where it’s the star?

I’ve gotta be honest I somehow missed the entire context added to the body, but OP gave a good answer anyway

Neither is a problem, leftover cheese will just get eaten as a snack if it’s not enough to keep until I go to the shop next (I usually go every other day for something since it’s a 2 min walk)

Leftover bread just becomes a piece of toast with some butter (I basically always have it in, and get the replacement before I totally run out). Tbh with a coffee that’s just my normal breakfast some days anyway

Probably as a learning exercise so they know what developing and shipping for that platform is like.

Given they’re currently building a similar product, makes sense to see what the competition is up to

Bechamel is kinda mid without something else going on

You had me wondering so I looked it up

I dropped a zero, it’s 500MB (and may be a bit bigger now perhaps)

https://venturebeat.com/media/how-googles-pixel-2-now-playing-song-identification-works

Google pixel phones have automatic offline music recognition where the database is something like 50MB IIRC and it’s pretty good unless I’m listening to something particularly niche

I assume you could build a similar database if you had the source material to do so.

You’re potentially gonna have an issue with games that have dynamic soundtracks that aren’t exactly the same every time (think in an action game how the music changes based on if fighting or something)

Only 2015?

I definitely remember ordering a pizza online back in like 2005

Data centres notoriously don’t have heads, but I love the enthusiasm

We kinda have two choices:

Some flavour of socialism where people get what they need for free

Or

Turbo-rio-de-janiro style inequality where we all live in slums

Now the 2nd one is what the ultra rich want and they have a lot of power, so it’s kinda on the rest of us to make the first happen instead

No idea on the loss side of things tbh, though given it’s AI based, I’m assuming it can’t be truly lossless

to use a toy example […] for simple maths

I know, I just picked easy numbers for the sake of discussion. The actual data rate is not important to this particular discussion.

Shoot trump into the sun and we’ll come to the negotiation table