Firmwarrior

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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
It was the wildest thing. This bold new vaccine tech was 100% safe and 100% effective, and ready to go at the perfect time when we needed an excuse to reopen the economy
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Haha, well, my imagination and my lack of prompting/fine-tuning skill I've been having a blast with it though
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Man, I'm really sad at the hundreds of depressed, idiotic, whiny rants dominating this comment section. I knew things were bad, but I didn't know they were THIS bad. People are this upset about anyone being optimistic about anyth
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
I'm so sick of this nanny bullshit. It makes sense to hedge and remind people you're an incompetent bot when they're asking for medical advice, but the cat's been out of the bag on deepfakes" tech for a decade now.
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
You should go get that money, dude. Life's too short to waste it all working Pick a FAANG you don't feel too bad about, hit the LeetCode hard for a few months, then go work there for 5 years. You can save up $750k+, which is eno
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Man, this thread is a mess There are a lot of people on this very site making 500k+ pre-tax. You're going to be taking home 300ish after taxes in that case, and it's not entirely unreasonable to "only" have 150ish for s
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
The answer is to sort all those problems out and let the space evolve, rather than turn whatever crop of assholes who coincidentally happened to buy houses there 30 years ago into a permanent landed gentry
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Yeah, man, it repeats itself every few weeks for me "OK, here's a half-assed SaaS that will do most of what I want for $10/month, or I can cobble together my own half-assed solution that will do everything I want for 'fr
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Can't someone just locally fork one of these apps and use it forever without updating it? What's actually different about manually poking APIs from one week to the next?
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Firefox for Android guzzles power like crazy, even slightly more than Chrome You probably come out ahead if you load it up with a real adblocker though Being able to browse with uBlock and Privacy Badger is a game changer for me. I basical
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
That's a good point. There must be some Google Deepmind-level geniuses out there with a patriotic and/or sociopathic streak happy to work for Uncle Sam
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
I've done it before, it's not as hard as you'd think even living in the USA. Just go cold turkey on sugar and especially soda for a couple of weeks It was easy to uncondition myself again accidentally though, haha
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
I've been wearing nothing but Zenni glasses for a decade, and they've been excellent the whole time You can choose the material you put into them. Ray-Ban Scamglasses from the Scam Shop are definitely NOT better. Even Costco gla
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
It's so nuts that Facebook was able to put a computer and cameras into sunglasses without increasing the price Prescription glasses are basically just chunks of not-too-special plastic that you can buy online for $20 or less, but peopl
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Yeah, I'm so sick of lugging a Switch and a ridiculously huge Steam Deck around when my iPhone 14 is way more powerful than either one, but all that power is wasted since there just aren't enough decent games to play
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
yeah.. I feel like there's a nice middle ground between that and "Do whatever you want so long as it's profitable" where we have zero punishment to anyone when there's a horrific environmental disaster that's c
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Apple pulls in hundreds of millions per day, I'd think that a lot of them should be going to AI if they want to remain relevant.. it's not hard to imagine Google, Facebook, or maybe even a seriously retooled Microsoft coming out w
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Man, this type of stuff is so infuriating and so ubiquitous I wish every single person in the management chain over Don Sanders was in prison right now
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
What is that obvious difference? It isn't obvious to me. They're both companies spying on people to improve their own products, ostensibly to the customers' benefit.
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Everything I said is 100% true. There are a lot of people on this very site working in adtech who don't feel like they're doing anything wrong at all and use the exact same logic that people use to justify "telemetry".
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Haha, man, I wish more people than literally just you and I still thought this way Every fucking piece of software out there is packed with shady spyware and BS, and everyone thinks he's entitled to treat users as cattle and do whateve
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
It's hidden. It's spying. It's software. It's spyware.
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Firefox doesn't get to wear the white hat if they're doing a bunch of shady stuff and saying it's for my own good. By your logic, realistically, Google invading my privacy isn't a particularly big deal since they know t
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
You basically implied that the whole thing is a scam and doesn't work at all, now you're walking back your initial egregious slander to a more defensible position
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
It pisses me off man. If someone sends you a link on iOS, you can't copy it without doing a long press that loads all the spyware on the website in a preview window
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
It's BS. I have friends on that team, and the tech works (it's very expensive and doesn't scale too well, but it works a hell of a lot better than having some Indian dude squinting at security camera footage)
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Yeah dude, if you can figure out a good eye tracking UX you could be a billionaire
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Read A Fire Upon the Deep
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Having a 4 year degree in Japanese from some random US flyover state isn’t going to make you fluent enough to translate business contracts anyway. I studied 4 years at a higher-rated university and could barely get by in the language until
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
A world without art? There’d still be plenty of art even if we didn’t saddle gullible teenagers with lifelong unserviceable debt to fund the study of art

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