ChiperSoft

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by ChiperSoft 3mo ago
The same way subcontractors make money, they take a cut of the building cost. VC invests a billion on a five year contract, you take a million as your salary for those five years and use the rest to pay for construction and initial operatin
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by ChiperSoft 3mo ago
The collection of the data is not whats of concern here. The issue is the use of the data in legal proceedings. Flock can gather all they want, but police accessing it and using it as evidence is where it rubs against the constitution.
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by ChiperSoft 3mo ago
Investors, thats what is driving it. AI is the only thing venture capital has cared about since 2022, so the people who earn fortunes from sucking on the VC teat are following the money. It doesn't matter if the data centers are worthl
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by ChiperSoft 3mo ago
I was laid off in Q3 24. I knew it was coming because I had already been forced to take two weeks off from burnout when my brain just lost the ability to reason about code any more, so realistically it was a blessing. I decided that I wasn&
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by ChiperSoft 3mo ago
I know the ACLU is involved, but for crying out loud, the very first thing they should have done after the first visit was call a lawyer, before he even got on a plane to come home.
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by ChiperSoft 3mo ago
It already is a plutocracy
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
> How long can you hemorrhage billions of dollars with no return. Five years, judging by how long it took them to give up on metaverse
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
My mind immediately went to that one shot near the beginning of Tron where the cubicles stretch off into the distance of the building. That was 1982
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Stop trying to use technology to solve social problems
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Exactly. Things were so good in the 90s that people were bored with it. We had an entire subgenre of film centered around the monotony of being middle class. Outside of computing, Y2K was extremely hyped. We were entering the future!
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
You mean the 80s?
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Every time I read about this I find myself asking what the little people are doing, and articles never answer it.
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Might as well ask "Does bacon make candy taste better?" It depends on what you're putting it in!
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Alternatively, you could try to keep HP from killing the TouchPad
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
They did before consumer safety regulations went into affect
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
> it's quite difficult to become a CEO It literally just requires filing an LLC or Corporation. There are several SaaS companies that will do it for you.
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Perhaps its because a good chunk of us looked at wtf is going on in tech right now and said "nah, I think I'll go be a farmer now."
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Did they think nobody would notice? At some point somebody was bound to rip on open, or at least stick it in a CT scanner
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Oh wow, it uses normal css, how delightful! https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI/blob/main/src/style...
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
COMET was so far ahead of its time. Sierra Online used it for their webchat in 1995 and it was absolutely the best webchat out there for years
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Nothing says "I care about the earth" like a giant sheet of plastic.
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
That does explain why Jehovah's Witnesses would be on here. They won multiple court cases to be excluded from military services.
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Thank you! I closed the page when it scrolljacked
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Is this satire? It feels like they just threw a bunch of buzzwords into a blender with no regard to what they mean
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
We had a company hackathon in the fall of 2023. One of the teams did a project where the pulled a bunch of expense data out of the DB, shoved it into a prompt, and asked ChatGPT to summarize the expenses and give recommendations. They then
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
You're right, apparently this was a much more recent thing and california only. I just knew neither of my kids were taught them, so I assumed it happened longer ago. https://www.thewellnews.com/opinions/california-
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
You expect teachers to work 12 hour days on top of being paid garbage?
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
> I don't think most kids are curious about the multiplication tables Which is exactly why they stopped teaching them in US curriculum under No Child Left Behind.
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Yeah, I actually had to learn it three times because it didn't stick until I was actually using it daily.
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by ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Can this be used in combination with MDX? It'd be swell if I could lint the js/jsx code in my mdx files as well.

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