MBCook

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by MBCook 9mo ago
I’ve played tons of 3D games, ever since they started coming out. I could never get very far in GTA 3 or Vice City because of the controls. I tried when they came out and I think I tried again later. It wasn’t looking around, that was never
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by MBCook 9mo ago
I never knew that. PS: loved Chinatown Wars. Unfortunate it’s not better known.
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The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait(blog.popey.com)
3 points by MBCook 9mo ago|0 comments
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by MBCook 9mo ago
All the STB guy had to say was that there was no way to get it smooth enough on real hardware. Instead he made himself look like an idiot. Great article.
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Which is certainly better than just having a human remote drive. But it’s still not the impression they’ve been giving. It’s been an impression of full automation (ignoring getting stuck) and if it’s not navigating on its own that’s disinge
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Then they’re not really self driving are they?
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by MBCook 9mo ago
What? I’ve never seen a single commercial on an Apple TV+ show.
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Right. I was thinking what I expect most people to do. Walk into Walmart or Best Buy and just grab whatever looks nice to them at the price point they’re willing to pay. Chromebooks I forgot about. But every time I’ve seen them at a store t
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by MBCook 9mo ago
The fact that Google grabbed a monopoly and now is making bank does not mean the product is good. It was amazing. Today it’s pretty terrible for me. I’ve switched to Kagi. But Google has a MASSIVE advantage. They have the most used browse
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by MBCook 9mo ago
If you want games, you want Windows. Though Valve is finally chipping away at that. But mostly it’s cost. It’s simply far cheaper to buy a Windows computer than a Mac if you just want a computer. There are no sub-$300 Macs brand new. In so
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by MBCook 9mo ago
How much of this is because putting data centers in space is WAY harder for any terrestrial government to get their hands on and seize or block? They make no sense otherwise. The only other thing I can think of is the whole thing is just a
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The Em Dash(99percentinvisible.org)
2 points by MBCook 9mo ago|0 comments
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Same. I’d never have guessed I was so high. I know I can be wordy, but I just assumed there were tons of people who commented more and had been here way longer. Not as many as I thought, it seems.
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Ooh I cracked the top 500. I’m at about 475k words. Took me a few tries to find my user since I wasn’t expecting the case sensitivity. Thanks for this. Another book you could add for comparison purposes would be James Joyce’s Ulysses. Or I
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Astrological CPU Scheduler(github.com)
3 points by MBCook 9mo ago|1 comments
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by MBCook 9mo ago
They don’t cost that much. And there are cheaper options. Most computers Apple sells are laptops. By a huge margin. So what am I supposed to do? Put my laptop in the same spot every night, plug it in, plug in the drive, and then the next mo
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by MBCook 9mo ago
There are people who actively like it. I don’t. But they 100% exist.
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by MBCook 9mo ago
I remain skeptical. I can understand how one would might see it that way, but I think it’s stretching the word proxy too far. Devices on Apple’s Find My aren’t broadcasting anything like packets that get forwarded to a destination of their
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UK's first rapid-charging battery train ready for boarding this weekend(theguardian.com)
2 points by MBCook 9mo ago|0 comments
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by MBCook 9mo ago
That’s all simple one way consumption though. I suspect the effect on people is very different when it’s interactive in the way an LLM can be that we’ve never had to recon with before. That’s where the danger may lie.
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Well it’s certainly an untapped market. If it even has 1 person in it.
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Oh come on. Lots of successful companies are based on something they figured out how to do that others hadn’t. I really was not trying to slam his other companies. I think you’re reading too much into this. Making humanoid robots is not a
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Are they? Or are they just not willing to put in the resources to fight to get a bigger share? It’s been more than long enough that I suspect no one could launch a third phone. If it doesn’t have iOS or Android it probably just won’t fly. S
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by MBCook 9mo ago
There is a possible winning strategy in trying to cover bases Apple isn’t interested in. Apple has shown that they’ll make phones that seem to be successful to some degree (the mini) but just aren’t successful enough by whatever internal
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Where did I say that? I was using the classic idea of the flying car as an example of a thing that has been out of reach as an as a product for normal people and may not actually be successful if it were to really be sold. Replace flying ca
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by MBCook 9mo ago
That’s a good point. Can Tesla fail? Seems like he’s constantly using one company to fund others, shuffling the cups and balls around claiming everything is still fine. I could see him doing serious damage or even trashing an otherwise heal
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by MBCook 9mo ago
So? They could make the first working flying cars. They could work fantastically. And maybe one they release them we find out… no one wants flying cars. They sell 500 a year despite only costing as much as a normal car. Just because you can
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County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security(arstechnica.com)
442 points by MBCook 9mo ago|203 comments
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Oh is that why they gave up small cars? I didn’t realize that.
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by MBCook 9mo ago
Ford didn’t say it was so they could make a robot butler instead.

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