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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I very deliberately did not say that local news is now better, just back in the day when it was supported by an ad monopoly, it still had big problems. There was a lot of access journalism dependent on staying on the good side of the police
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
> Ea appears to primarily be a post hoc rationalization for someone's unhinged drive for money and power. I know. I just have to figure out how to pass off my snark as "effective ambiguity."
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
It's almost as if you can make $1 billion without intrusive, exploitative, sneaky data gathering and products that are a witches brew of dark patterns.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Indeed, conflating local news with local newspapers is a mistake. They were able to support news gathering by monopolizing print advertising. They were also overly dependent on the municipal government and police for access, and were theref
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Meh. Haven't the "effective altruism" people proved that conventional philanthropy is less effective?
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
This is at best the concept of a vibe shift. Even if they started sprinting now, it would be 20 years before anyone would see the results of a nuclear power plant. Nuclear is so much more expensive than solar and wind that building one is c
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Starlink and Falcon 9 are the most impressive technological achievements in their domains. But people are getting way ahead of themselves claiming that these are business successes. EBITDA is a metric you can defend when applied to software
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
You do need to put in the effort to turn the pool of potential fools into cult followers. Elon had a head start on creating a cult. He turned the Tesla social media campaign into a cult following. Credit where credit is due.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Correctly punctuated it's "combat" "sports" being neither combat nor a sport.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Part of the reason coding agents are widely accepted and used is that human coders are chaos, and human coders have spent a lot of time building tooling to ameliorate chaos. Everything from git to language design, to lint, to profilers, etc
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
It's the people not technology. Way back before AI was the hot issue, Eric Schmidt set a new bar for being tone deaf by going straight for saying privacy is dead get over it. Not "here are some tools to retain some privacy,"
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Also, libel is a tort.
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Boring company was an anti-mass transit grift. Dogecoin. Humanoid robots as the future of Tesla. Colonizing Mars is a grift on unmatured boys who grew up on scifi. Etc. Which is to say: you really couldn't remember any grifts?
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Contrast matters. Being awake to bigotry and pseudoscience also predates the tech industry, TBF, but eugenics, "scientific" racism, etc. used to be a lot more common. Don't look down on people for expecting better now, even f
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Everything running on Fuchsia; NotebookLM; various dashboards and admin apps like Google Classroom, Google Analytics; Google Earth; Google Pay, etc.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I can't say what the app does specifically, but I can talk about the technical content and tool chain. It incorporates machine vision to detect human movement. It can connect via video call to other instances of the app. It's impl
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Google uses Flutter/Dart for their own apps fairly frequently. Obviously not the right choice for the most complex apps. Android system programming and cross platform apps are use cases that are divergent enough that trying to smash th
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I have successfully added AppFunctions on Android to a Flutter app. I figure that's about as hairy a platform-specific feature as it gets. So far nothing has interfered with other platform build targets. I look forward to adding Apple&
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I'm working on an app that's cross-platform on mobile devices. I do builds for macOS as a convenience for my colleagues demoing the app. Pretty much zero effort to add that as a target. I get some benefits out of it too in the for
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
People choosing Flutter would say the uniformity of a canvas across all browsers is more valuable than gaining the inconsistently implemented web feature set.
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
In capitalism, huge advances are reflected in revenue, profit, and growth. None of which support the SpaceX valuation. The evaluation looks like Marco Rubio's shoes. SpaceX ain't never growing into its price. Just for artistic sym
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
I've really got to push back on the claim that cop culture is just part of mainstream culture. For starters, it is a self isolating subculture. It is filled with paranoia. Some cops would claim that's for good reasons and I don&#x
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
There's been a big and long running case of Massachusetts state police and the town of Canton police trying to frame a woman for the death of a policeman. Michael Proctor is a former state police detective who "investigated"
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Plausible sounding theory, but in reality what kills cops is traffic accidents. Even there it's not people running them over. Cops are seldom charged with DUI where other dangerous behavior on the roads.
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When a Karen calls the cops you have to hope a Proctor doesn't show up.
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I'm not a Elon hater because of his politics. There are plenty of rich fucks out there with much more malevolent political views, though the Germans know that salute meant. I started making TikTok's about Elon because he tried bui
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
Viability is debatable. There are tens of millions of smartphone users in the US who are vastly more exposed to US law-enforcement abuses and intrusiveness than anything China would care to try. Chinese emigres excepted. In other words Chin
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by Zigurd 4mo ago
If you're gonna float a $2 trillion bubble, why not make it 3.
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Remember space manufacturing? When the first modules of ISS were launched 27 years ago, that was supposed to be the next big thing. Space manufacturing, asteroid mining, and space data centers are pipedreams. The capital equipment is too he
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He must have that cave submarine lying around somewhere.

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