Nextgrid

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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> compete for global technological leadership Yet every time the EU tries to enforce regulations so that technological competition becomes actually possible everyone is mad about it.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
A lot of said Big Tech is based on industrial-scale fraud and exploitation of the consumer so that a rich few can benefit. Not exactly something to be proud of. (though we too have that in Europe in the form of high taxes, so that a rich fe
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Tradesmen? While every job has good and bad parts, I'd expect tradesmen to pick a trade they at least have some alignment to.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
You're saying the quiet part out loud. It's fine to believe such things, but you have to pretend not to, while using growth for your own interests: demanding more money for some work, or completing the work faster and using the fr
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
The right-wing extremism we now have in the US is the expected knee-jerk reaction to the left-wing extremism that came before it. In both cases there's a few true believers and a lot of opportunists who use the cause as a way to furthe
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
There's no reason to throw money at those providers when there are many options a dozen times cheaper.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Even if they were, what's the issue? The bullshit "war on drugs" has caused orders of magnitude more death and misery than the drugs themselves.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
The flipside of hiring nowadays is that any job will get thousands of spam entries from third-world countries from people who can't engineer their way out of a wet paper bag even with LLM assistance . So yes in your case it's lik
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
You'd have better success getting people to fight for your cause when you provide them something of value they can't get elsewhere. When what people get (using their labor to subsidize politicians & boomers via taxes & re
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Is there any value in integrating this in kernel-space vs user-space? This increases the maintenance burden of the kernel for something only a tiny minority would ever use.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Glad to hear your entertainment journey will now be free of cheap Chinese earpods, VPNs, website builders and meal kit boxes.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
SponsorBlock works really well against this.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
The molded, sealed plug of a UK kettle would fare much better in a wet kitchen environment than an aftermarket plug you'd manually install (moisture can get inside and corrode the terminals and connections).
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
You mean the home of a boomer that you have to continuously pay an ever-increasing share of your wages for so he can just sit there and live off your labor? I don't think you'll find much sympathy for that class among the people t
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> just scams and speculation The "currency" part is actually the only one that is not a scam, as long as you understand what it is and the trade-offs it makes. If you do actually have a legitimate reason to use it (because conv
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Because in practice services like TransferWise solved this problem using fiat currencies with fees low enough not to make it worth bothering with crypto.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
This is my concern with all those "success" stories about Linux as an enterprise desktop OS. Run it for 10 years and show me the actual cost savings/improved productivity. Microsoft is trash and is getting worse day by day, b
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
It breaks down into its individual components which escape as gases. That alone shouldn't make the remaining water toxic, assuming a perfect reaction. But I guess the reaction isn't perfect due to things like impurities, the metal
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
I wonder if there's a worthwhile time-saving in aggregate? To me it seems like overall the bottleneck is always thinking what code to write/edit, not the actual edition. So I'm not convinced shaving a couple seconds here an
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> Tokenizing all assets (equities, commodities, real estate, etc.) How does that work? The blockchain can only enforce its desired state on the blockchain itself. It cannot affect the real world unless you delegate said effects to a trus
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Wouldn't that cause electrolysis and make the water unsafe to drink?
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
It would turn an inert device that costs a couple bucks to manufacture and has affectively no usage limit into a bomb that costs a couple hundred bucks (due to lack of economy of scale) and is limited by the battery's rated number of c
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Sorry I wasn't clear, my point is: that reason is completely separate from a laptop's form factor or method of construction. You can have a somewhat repairable laptop even if it's slim and tightly integrated, and you can also
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
I suspect the majority of "SD corruption" on RPis is due to bad power supplies or EMI causing the system to misbehave (and write erroneous data to the card) rather than actually exhausting the card's write capacity.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Restricting access to documentation, part serialization, or restricting OEMs from selling components directly has nothing to do with laptop form factor though. Whether repair of such devices is economically viable is one thing and that&#x27
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
There's no reason such a laptop can't be repairable. Sure, it may be harder to do, but that's the tradeoff you choose when buying such a device. The main obstacles to repairability in such devices are intentional : part seri
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
UK is really good at self-sabotaging and giving itself away to corporate interests (wealth is gonna trickle down any minute now, I'm sure of it!), Russians can happily just grab popcorn and enjoy the comedy show, no active participatio
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
Executable line noise.
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> box to push the button on your own garage door opener It's only a matter of time before the assholes make the opener remote be a fingerprint sensor that detects "liveness", to ensure it is a real human and not a robot bu
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by Nextgrid 10mo ago
I am not a lawyer, but cross-border legal action seems very expensive to me, so I doubt they will do it for 4k. Do you have legal counsel? What do they say? IMO assuming their cost of litigation would be much more than 4k, it's a bluff

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