HeWhoLurksLate

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by HeWhoLurksLate 6mo ago
I respectfully disagree - I do agree that the natural financial death of a company probably shouldn't result in bailouts, but if I as a company get breached because my fully-updated, follows-best-practices Windows Domain got hacked
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by HeWhoLurksLate 6mo ago
It's all fun and games until it's your livelihood at stake, and then it makes a lot more sense to acquiesce, lick your wounds, and keep your business alive. Getting hacked is no fun, but companies don't deserve to die bec
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
I appreciate a good April Fools joke, I also appreciate CloudFlare's approach of "we're extra serious today, here's some useful stuff for ya"
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
"this here is a virtual network appliance, so called because it doesn't have any ports on it - wait, why are you taking off that blanking panel? That's illegal!"
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
I thought "hype" was a different thing from "organic growth" but similar
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
but what about second GPU?
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
This line of reasoning applies to nearly any way to spend time - "why are you playing videogames? Learn X instead!" or "why are you bothering with X when Y exists?" or "what, you don't know how to make sourdou
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
AI Agents can write and modify base Python / C++ / Rust / whatever pretty well, and thus users aren't limited by "sorry the building blocks only go together in this one particular manner". It's like the
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
I have watched artists thoughtfully integrate digital lighting and the like at a scale I'd never seen before the LLMs rolled up and made it possible to get programs to work without knowing how to program. The fundamental ceiling of w
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
VS Code is also open source and forkable, the Windows kernel or Azure tech stack not so much
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
It's also interesting to note that there's a distinct delineation in "before Bambu" and "post-Bambu" in communities with a DIY part to them - there's been a humongous explosion in creativity and function
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
how much of that decline is due to mergers vs failing vs new private companies being formed instead?
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by HeWhoLurksLate 7mo ago
Famously, there have been significant issues in the past (see Tammany Hall) but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as widespread as it used to be, and especially not at the national election level. I’m sure that there’s shady stuff happening
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8mo ago
the CNC machine I'm working retrofitting right now has XML definitions for basically the entire thing from GPIO setup to machine size parameters. Kinda crazy but at least it isn't a cursed hex file
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8mo ago
why can't we go "wow they're getting really good, maybe we should invest harder in education and research?" That makes wayyy more sense to me
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8mo ago
also there's a huge argument to be made that surveilling your kids is really really bad for their development
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8mo ago
That's really a district-by-district / school-by-school thing, some are significantly more locked down than others
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8mo ago
it also generally takes a heck of a noisy bang for internal developments to make it to the c-suite
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8mo ago
back in the old days we just used Tor and the dark web to kill people, none of this new-fangled AI drone assassinations-as-a-service nonsense!
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by HeWhoLurksLate 10mo ago
Upgrading to a new processor, or in the case of Framework, perhaps better hinges or keyboards or the like is IMO much more important to the long term desirability of a laptop than a 5% better keyboard or trackpad or RGB LEDs on the chassis.
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by HeWhoLurksLate 10mo ago
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf I mean it has happened in other Google products...
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by HeWhoLurksLate 11mo ago
pretty sure they don't have a totally flat org structure anymore but I might be wrong
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by HeWhoLurksLate 11mo ago
I have six of the previous generation controller and I love them, only minor annoyance is pairing them occasionally. I don't really use the haptics part all that much though
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by HeWhoLurksLate 1y ago
on the other hand, it's how their business model is able to work? People get wayyyy more views on YouTube than they do on Patreon or federated platforms or Nebula or Floatplane or or or or or or or
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by HeWhoLurksLate 1y ago
in engineering there's also the "first unclassified attempt" stuff too
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by HeWhoLurksLate 1y ago
Could also do a 9AM mass at one church, a (9AM + mass duration + travel time + 30 minutes) mass at another, and so on
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by HeWhoLurksLate 1y ago
was going to say, heaven forbid we use a little skeumorphism
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by HeWhoLurksLate 1y ago
if the purpose is to bootstrap, you could also use something like a leather belt drive off a central shaft, which would require different power sources but ones that a higher percentage of could be made with a lathe
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by HeWhoLurksLate 1y ago
there's a huge difference between "feature that mostly works and is kinda neat" and "5000 pound robot relies on this to work all the time or people will probably get hurt at minimum" in how much you should trust a f
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by HeWhoLurksLate 1y ago
I think this means that personal branding is going to get even more important than it already is (for example, people watching movies specifically because of Ryan Reynolds, or avoiding them because of Jared Leto)

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