As long as blue ray discs are released, there’ll be webshops selling them

For digital media, pirating increases the number of sales

Why would you make it harder than it is?

libre office and you got an open source Office suite

I believe that’s very regional, if there’s a local hiking club you could try to reach out to them.

There’s often forums dedicated to hiking, which have all sorts of hikes mapped out.

But a map service like mapy.com (formerly .cz), has the official marked routes as part of their mapping data

And best of all, it’s based on an American average

Gravity walking is the missing link, lift your foot and let gravity pull it down. You’ll be going down almost running and it takes barely any energy.

It’s best in places without other humans, as you’re basically a locomotive and it takes time to slow down

Only ISBN’d books, so anything earlier than 1965 is currently not requested by them

Now we just need to proof they’ve copied the files onto a second hard drive, so they own two copies

If we’re gonna keep it as a copyright issue, I think people are mostly mad they’re not able to reprint the books themselves if they wanted to. We’re not speaking from a copyright position

The incentive is literally that it’s cheaper to scan, that’s all.

But given they’re only interested in books with ISBN’s, I recon they’re already scanned and available in digital forms. If they’re newer than the 80s, they’re most likely in a document file in a server related to the publisher.

Honestly surprised they’d rather source physical books, than just request various publishers for a price for their combined works - Only reason I can think of, is the physical scan makes other scans like a mobile photo easier to recognise and respond correctly to

If a big company needed a lot of something specific, they’d probably pay a pretty penny and let people going to small lot auctions accumulate a sizeable amount and then buy it from them.

It’s not impossible to buy stuff from small lots at scale, as long as you’re willing to pay a premium

They’re way more negative in regards to AI on Lemmy than they are on Reddit

I mostly see this chart focused on ultra processed foods, so the base ingredients are mostly safe?

Also as a filthy Scandinavian, Orkla Group does have quite a lot available in the ultra processed category

Some farms are conventional, some are organic, some let’s their cows move more freely than others, some use more antibiotics others less, etc

So no, milk is not just milk. Animal welfare as well as animal intake are big parts for why certain brands can take a steeper price than others

The only places I’ve ever witnessed unbranded milk, are in very rural locations at which you pick it up at the literal farm that produced the milk and that’s a brand in itself

and how many images are above 16k x 16k pixels?

If you have an optimisation for 99% of all online images, then that’s dope - You can use more niche or older compressions for your very high pixel files

A big part of games taking up more and more space is due to higher resolution assets. Creating installers only installing needed assets would drastically reduce the size for anyone not playing on extreme or whatever they call the maximum resolution.

But games do still tend to be among the archetypes of software, which hits bottlenecks that needs performance optimisations. You only have whatever hardware your end user has, you can’t just buy a bigger server… well Google Stadia tried

Rocket launch, Twitter and xAI is roughly a zero valuation.

Starlink the worlds fastest growing ISP, while having an enormous profit margin is the bread and butter. From a serious perspective, also what you should aim the valuation for.

Did their IPO launch at a fair valuation? Hell nah

They’re probably just annotating within a common topic and in a language which is easy to find cheap workers within.

If you’re easily replaceable, they’ll use people from the third world for the job