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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
> It's not just Google, the Internet stops existing. Uh? No? The internet existed before being overrun by corporate presence. It still does. Advertising pays a lot, but take the ad money away and let it scale accordingly.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
We should rephrase things in % terms. IE this payout is X% of their net profit from last year.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
> Well they have had a lot of time to get their shit together, and its not even happened a little tiny bit. Yeah, they struggle... Though... the Unity-engine based Shadowrun(s)/Battletech were decent. Mechwarrior 5:Mercs (not Clans)
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
I love Battletech. If the IP holders ever get their shit together and have a properly walking Vulture/Mad-Dog, I'm sold. Bonus points for laser tag capability like those tabletop tanks.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
I was thinking more of a make your own copy of their printer and run free software on it rather than theirs. It just seems like they don't have that much of a moat which is why they are guarding the software bit as much as they can.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
The article mentions reverse engineering the code. But is there anything to stop reverse engineering the physical printer itself, improving on it by 10mm build volume in each direction, and releasing that? It won't be a copy of the Bam
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
When I ever have time... 1. Gain/find-someone-with crypto library use knowledge. 2. Jabber client with Iroh networking and E2EE. 3. Completely remove XMPP server dependence. 4. Allow users to exchange Iroh-Node-ID outside of jabber (QR
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
The actual LLM benchmark - make a site as wonderful both in visual presentation and in code, while being as factually accurate as ciechanow.ski. If the LLM can create something that could be mistaken for that work, that's awesome.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
> So the solution from the authorities is to install syringe disposal containers. Given the cost vs the benefits, why not? A box mounted to a wall is a pittance. Feel free to elaborate your plan for the junkies that would be cost effecti
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
The internet world really does run on trust-chaining reputation. A person who takes random things from a near stranger on the internet and runs it on their computer with no real safeguards is not a person I should hire. Which also means tha
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
I don't think the issue is the time in prison. I think it is the criminal record. Other places in the world, once you've served your time you can often go right back to living. Not that it is easy but it doesn't hang over you
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
> You need context to really understand a book or a work of art. You want to know what kind of environment produced it, what it's talking to. Play "Fuck Tha Police" for someone. Usually, they are shocked that someone would
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
A patent was meant to give a solo genius a way to treat their idea as something tangible, at a time when logistics was much slower and the world revolved around the physical. Maybe they try to develop it themselves, maybe they sell the idea
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
Watching my kid grow up I realise that despite the modern world having/wanting so many kids we really don't build affordances for them. Most kids 5-8 at the family dinner table are trying to eat from a plate at shoulder height. No
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
With the billions he has, not a problem if he actually tried. When he dies, I while track the titles of news articles about the inheritance fight with mild amusement. I won't read the articles however...
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
I knew one lovely guy who was a young dad. He started in the server team and was team leader in 6 months. Not because he knew about the tech, though he was learning fast, but because he knew how to wrangle and intermediate the man-children.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
I don't think he is guaranteeing success, but stating his aim. Gotta have a goal to work towards if you claim to be ambitious.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
Honestly, even schoolkids know to have another phone/camera(usually a friends) take a picture of their phone screen. In a world where people have multiple old phones lying around it isn't that hard to come up with this workaround.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
> apparently as society we decided company can put cost of existing into costs and deduct it from taxes, but a person can't. I agree with you that this an issue. Experience wise, I have seen a few people run "one person busines
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
I get why having an offsite backup is handy. But for less than $10k you can easily get a 4 bay NAS with 96TB storage for a local backup. This smacks of saving pennies on IT to spend dollars on lawyers.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
This captures one repeating idea I've had throughout my life. Where are the benefits of "specialisation" going? Every corporation I'm employed at, now has me doing all the little jobs they used to employ someone specific
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
Even if you have a larger player base. A person lower down the skill ranking has to put up with the flowing of higher skill people beating them as the higher skill person travels up the ladder to their skill point. These aren't static
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
> How far does the rabbit hole go for verifying what is going on? That is up to the person claiming the output. The point is not what the person knows about the output. It is the fact that laying claim to that output, means they are resp
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
A side effect of the idea that this information can be "permanent" means you should really think before putting it up there. But today is not that, it is the opposite of that with stuff being put online that really doesn't ne
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
> There's no way Claude/AI recreated another persons app exactly, with the same name and branding, without being told to do so in some way. If you give a description of the app you want, and it matches another persons Open Sou
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
I've given up on PvP. What I never understood was; if I "git gud" then all that really does is shift the "I can't win" problem to someone else. It doesn't resolve it. Now if you have fun playing the game w
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
> As for detecting rain, that'd be a whole other algorithm. I'd be happy with a "phone is locked, maps is on display still, register no screen input" so nothing changes until I unlock it.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
I vote for a "lock it in" feature for motorbike riding. I set up the route, clip the phone onto the quadlock mount, ride down the street and it auto changes the route because of something motorbikes don't care about. Or it ra
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
Organised crime involves the corruption of institutions too - specifically to allow getting away with it. But I like your take on it as institutionalised crime because it is now publicly overt. The corruption is complete.
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by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
...doing more research... That's almost as long as Australia has been colonised and certainly older than Australian federation and yet, A1 steak sauce is not a big thing in our supermarkets apparently.

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