You're trying to say they are good quality!?

I recently had to gift someone some books, so I decided to try B&N online shipping since Amazon sometimes damages books. I ordered 3 books: all 3 came loose in a big box, all 3 were damaged: they looked like used books, unacceptable as a gift. I returned them, they didn't have ship-to-store option (which was what Gemini was telling me to push for), and they sent me new ones: all 3 arrived damaged, again. It turns out, B&N is worse than Amazon: 100% book damage rate on 6 books, worse customer support, worse return policy, worse everything. Enshitification 100%.

I have found basically no way to buy books online where they don't arrive damaged at this point. I've gone through multiple return/rebuy cycles with Amazon trying to get an undamaged copy and have just given up. I don't know if it's my local distribution center, but it's something like 90% damaged on arrival at this point.

Amazon has had massive quality reduction over the years in their service, but this one and the poor-quality knock-off books are the ones that bother me most.

Publishers sell directly -- haven't tried it myself. Anyone?

https://www.simonandschuster.com/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

I wish there was a version of this website that was simpler, more educated and that I could show to the "normies" who own business and insist on asking me to download their app (I'm looking at you, TKD school!). This one is too aimed at the cooks.

Then I can't copy+paste, so I might make a typo when sending you a message.

My plan is to learn how to use AI and be proficient with it, so they will be more likely to keep me, as opposed to those who refuse to use it. Some people on my team still refuse to use AI, thinking you can't trust anything since it's all hallucinations.

As usual, try mplayer. It can play anything.

I also learned Prolog in the university.

In the Classsic AI course we had to implement gaming AI algorithms (A*, alpha-beta pruning, etc) and in Prolog for one specific assignment. After trying for a while, I got frustrated and asked the teacher if I could do it in Ruby instead. He agreed: he was the kind of person who just couldn't say no, he was too nice for his own good. I still feel bad about it.

Rest In Peace, Alexandre.

How is this fair to others?!

University is not a competition, others have nothing to do with this? The unfairness here is between me and myself, as I was supposed force myself into doing it in Prolog.

Those who like this game may also want to try open-source The Battle for Wesnoth, which is a turn-based hexgrid war game.

They have done it. The current modern abstraction is called Vulkan, and the binary spec code for this machine is called SPIR-V.

The market is not just 3 players. These days we have these things called smartphones, and they all include a variety of different graphics cards on them. And even more devices than just those include decently powerful GPUs as well. If you look at the Contributors section of the extension in the post, and look at all the companies involved, you'll have a better idea.

There are still three players in smartphones realistically.

ARM makes their Mali line, which vendors like Mediatek license and puts straight on their chips.

Qualcomm makes their custom Adreno gpus. (Derived from Radeon Mobile). They won't sell it outside snapdragon.

Samsung again licensed Mali from ARM, but in their flagship exynos's they use AMD's gpus. They won't sell it outside exynos.

PowerVR makes gpus that are so outdated with features that Pixel 10 phones can't even run some benchmarks.

And then there's apple.

I have the opposite problem: I have to force myself to not take so many breaks!

Haha, sometimes I'm like that too, but sometimes it's the opposite

For me programming is the break.