Liquix

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by Liquix 2y ago
The FB userbase is thoroughly alienated. Same thing is happening to the site formerly known as twitter. Same thing will happen to IG in the next five years. You can't make red line go up every quarter without showing more ads, taking m
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an interesting aside: when asked about his inspirations Ecco's developer Ed Annunziata said, "No, I never took LSD, but I did read a lot from John C. Lilly". Lilly is known for his pioneering work in the fields of animal inte
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the baked-in animated captions are so jarring and make things impossible to watch. i think your observations are astute though -- the constant bright shapes popping up every .5s is required to hold the tiktok generation's attention lon
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In the US, it seems the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests were the last time it was really the people vs. the incumbents. Ever since then all there's been are carefully manufactured conflicts with two sides to choose from, which divide
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https://xkcd.com/927/
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Edison's usage makes sense regardless of what the machine is made of. Bugs (insects) are a great representation of the types of defects he's describing – small, hard to notice, unwelcome, and some have the potential to cause serio
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the FAANG giants have been government assets for ~15+ years [0]. they don't have to turn a profit every quarter, innovate, or make their search any better because they no longer play by the rules a normal business does. they are a crit
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scalping at scale is objectively evil. the scalper's bread and butter is exploiting the buyer's noble desire to support their favorite artist, make memories with friends, meet strangers, or have a transformative experience -- all
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Jan [0] is MacOS native, open source, similar feel to the ChatGPT frontend, very polished, and offers Anthropic integration (all Claude models). It also features one-click installation, OpenAI integration, a hub for downloading and running
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iFixit is a strange entity. Their website, repair kits, and tutorials are all excellent. The amount of success they've had in championing right to repair initiatives in legal arenas is commendable. But it's not so great that the t
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Is pragmatism really a "fantastic virtue" when people are forced away from alternatives by an overbearing government?
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> it's not a DMCA, it's not an issue with GitHub. glaring omission of the statement "it's not an issue with Nintendo". they have a reputation for relentlessly pursuing the creators of homebrew/emu projects l
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Precisely - the medium is the message. Books are slow, deliberate, require imagination and attention. Seven second tiktok videos are the opposite. The method by which we consume the information impacts us just as much if not more than its c
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that's the thing though: security teams composed of grizzled talent absolutely benefit from going to conferences. they bring back what they've learned and leverage their new connections to bring more value to the company. so now y
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in 2024 there are so many one-click-install adblockers for your browser, phone's DNS, router... anyone still seeing a sizable amount of ads these days has to be the most complacent, easily manipulated, lucrative demographic imaginable
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How wood you know?
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so if the company has established they're willing to go that far to lock customers into their ecosystem and milk for $$$... it's not inconceivable that they also engineered (or chose not to fix) the cheap flash + chatty logging ha
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enterprise-scale remote device management. e.g. a platform used to roll out firmware updates to millions of routers
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1. Spend time with people/problems in $space 2. Recognize a $space shortcoming that users would pay to resolve 3. Start building Bonus points if it's an area you're passionate about! But don't expect everything you&#x27
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tools like aider [0] maintain a large context with minimal token usage by reading a repo's .git folder. impressive results [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
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the goal here is probably "get X pairs of eyeballs on <product> for $Y" more than it is "create and administer a fair competition".
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To be fair most countries rolling out ccTLDs these days aren't doing it so patriotic citizens can represent their home country - it's an international cash grab. They're fine with randoms from all over the world giving them m
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ifixit has exclusive deals with some manufacturers where you can get an OEM replacement battery + tools for ~$30-50. can easily double the lifespan of a well-maintained device
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If you like Celeste, check out Studio Pixel [0]. His most recent game Kero Blaster (mobile) is excellent but Cave Story is the classic. Tight controls, retro aesthetic, imaginative levels, very well executed. [0] https://studiopi
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perhaps this 5% is employees who were documented underperforming, breaking rules, getting into conflicts, gaming at work, etc. ehe company has every right to let them go without severance. usually referred to as "regretted attrition&qu
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PrettyTable is another option, actively maintained and much lighter than Pandas
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It's always fascinating to see the vapor of trends which seem local and harmless - work sucks, i can't wait for lunch - condensed into real-world results. In the same vein is an infamous study correlating the beginning of daylig
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These companies full of brilliant engineers are throwing millions of dollars in training costs to produce SOTA models that are... "on par with GPT-4o and Claude Opus"? And then the next 2.23% bump will cost another XX million? It
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it's absolutely nuts live especially at bass-heavy shows. a lot of the smaller guys have really good stuff, but Excision's visuals are the andromeda/farbrausch tier of VJ production imo: https://inv.tux.pizza/
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That's the issue with dragnet data collection and Snowflake-esque databases - it's never safe to enter any personal information on the internet. Given enough time, any and all of it will be "shared" and used for a th

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