HumblyTossed

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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
k
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
I don't trust polling.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
GrapheneOS scares them.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
When society becomes a free-for-all of people with haves making it impossible for the people with have little to have anything at all, it begins to collapse. People have no incentive to treat anyone else with dignity and respect. They no lo
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
> It's the robbery of all of our culture to sell it back to us at a mark-up. Considering the audience here (aspiring tech billionaires), it'll be interesting the responses to this.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
I'm terribly sorry, but I had to post that to make sure it's not just ME!
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
In addition to this, there is a delay in the suggested word such that when you see the options above the keyboard, decide you see the word you want, stop typing and move to select it, it changes right as you land your finger.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
Yes, it was a solved problem. Then they had to figure out how to utilize the ML features of their chips... and fucked it all up.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
News at 11: Developers write decoupled code.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
There's a button on X that allows me to repost someone else's content.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
Aaron Swartz died so that "AI" billionaires can live.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
> ... and I believe some of the Apple Intelligence features will be backported anyways Will it? Because they kind of made it a point, like they typically do, to say features are only possible due to the new chip.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
So... robots build shit that the wealthy who own the robots can profit from it and I need to ... what? ... go grow my own potatoes if I want to live? Okay...
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
Look around? It's rape and pillage time for corporations.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
> I think waaay more people struggle with this than HN would have you believe. I'm sure we all know. I mean, just ask anyone to write a story and break it into small tasks that can each be accomplished completely in a day.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
> Now, software is cheaper and so people who couldn't afford to answer questions they've long wondered about can afford to answer them. Temporarily. Token price will rise sharply when the bills finally come due.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
> there will be infinite abundance Maybe. > nobody will need to work anymore If we define "nobody" as very wealthy people who partake in that abundance while everyone else ... goes away.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
> If we tax the proceeds of AI generated productivity sufficiently That's not going to happen.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
insightful
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
Got mine in 85. Still have it in it's (now tattered) box in the garage. It's non-functioning, but can't seem to let go.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
Apple, a 4T USD company, is not caught off guard. They know exactly how many of a certain thing they make will sell. This is just PR nonsense. They do it with iPhone also. They'll introduce a new model and make enough to sell out a
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
> Apple does not have a psyops division cooking up ever more elaborate ways to seed demand for low-end, low-margin Macs via bot armies. Of course not, they outsource that.
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by HumblyTossed 2mo ago
Yeah. I worked in the optical industry to pay for college. That was decades ago and one of the Drs I worked with and I had discussions on this. It was interesting at the time as I knew very little about optics when I started.
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by HumblyTossed 3mo ago
This is more a result of Clinton's failed CEO pay reform. It is what created this monster, not the tax bracket. Now, saying that, we DO need to tax these people higher. Eliminate all the ways they're able to squirm out from pay
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by HumblyTossed 3mo ago
Waze got hugely popular by gaming their maps; people would install it just to get a high score. I wish the FLOSS mapping ecosystem would do similar.
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by HumblyTossed 3mo ago
Everything they say is a lie.
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by HumblyTossed 3mo ago
Indeed it is. But that’s the point Miller, etc are trying to make. We’re so screwed. Good luck to us ever building up goodwill again.
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by HumblyTossed 3mo ago
Yes, but you've surely met people who giggled when they read that.
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by HumblyTossed 3mo ago
Only because it doesn't contain RAM.
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by HumblyTossed 3mo ago
Pretty much. Everyone seems to think prices will come back down, but I don't agree.

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