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by aylmao 11mo ago
175 years isn't a lot of time when we speak in humanity's time scale. We've been around 200,000 - 300,000 years. That alignment will happen many more times in the history of humanity. That is to say, I don't know if a sp
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by aylmao 11mo ago
> We've gone from a sense of techno optimism to tech blaming. IMO this is simply because the tech industry isn't what it was 20+ years ago. We didn't have the monopolistic mammoths we have today, such ruthless focus on pro
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by aylmao 11mo ago
https://aykev.dev/webgpu-waveform/ https://github.com/mrkev/webgpu-waveform Made some updates to this open-source library I wrote to render audio waveforms using the GPU on the browser (WebGPU). E
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by aylmao 1y ago
IMO a big problem with Liquid Glass is that you're trying to recreate an effect that's highly reliant on the sense of depth we get from binocular vision in a 2D screen. When looking at glass in real life, your left eye and your ri
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by aylmao 1y ago
I unironically think staying in Cupertino is hurting them.
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by aylmao 1y ago
> due to repression and economic decline due to Maduro’s mismanagement Let's be real, sanctions play a big role in the economic decline of Venezuela. Saudi Arabia isn't a democracy. In fact, it's a very problematic totalit
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by aylmao 1y ago
They famously never gave it to Gandhi too, in spite of him being nominated 5 times [1]. It's crazy to me that Kissinger got it, but not Gandhi. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Maha...
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by aylmao 1y ago
He then went on to become the longest-serving war president [1]: > On May 6, with eight months left before he vacates the White House, Mr. Obama passed a somber, little-noticed milestone: He has now been at war longer than Mr. Bush, or a
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by aylmao 1y ago
She's a vocal Trump supporter [1]. Last time Trump was president his administration did attempt to coup Venezuela [2]: > Tapper returned to Bolton’s remark about having helped plan coups. > Bolton said: “I’m not going to get into
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by aylmao 1y ago
She's a vocal Trump supporter [1]. [1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
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by aylmao 1y ago
> Man must sucks to be her, limelight is still on Trump, truly a showman. She did dedicate this prize to Trump [1]: > I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our ca
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by aylmao 1y ago
I'm not sure who is down-voting this comment. Seems pretty accurate to me.
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by aylmao 1y ago
If the USA cared about the Venezuelan people they'd lift the sanctions. The USA cares about toppling a regime that knows its sitting on an oil gold-mine and wont let American companies freely run away with it.
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Xiaomi 17 series arrives with secondary screens and enormous batteries(theverge.com)
3 points by aylmao 1y ago|0 comments
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by aylmao 1y ago
IMO it’s just different. If you want to go into management or anything involving politics, I do think remote isn’t the move. As a fully remote engineering contractor I’ve been building my area of expertise, clients and connections, and so f
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by aylmao 1y ago
Surprised I'm getting downvoted by this.
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by aylmao 1y ago
Unrelated, but I don't get the "taco" thing. I'm Mexican— it's a head-scratcher that people use the name of our food as an insult to Trump. He doesn't look like a taco, and the acronym is a sentence, not an adj
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by aylmao 1y ago
The pendulum swung really hard back to in-person office work a couple years ago. I wonder if this will swing it back and make more positions remote-friendly.
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by aylmao 1y ago
https://archive.is/3ZWh2
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by aylmao 1y ago
I mean, depends on how you describe it. One could easily say: Phone method: * Find phone * Search for the right app, before finding the right recipe * Leave my phone on counter, constantly having to move it as I move plates, pans etc. * Was
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by aylmao 1y ago
> Why do we need type checking at all? The standard answer is scale. It's not scale, it's correctness. > Consider this: electronics engineers routinely design systems with millions of components, intricate timing relationshi
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Audio waveforms to HTML canvas in real-time using WebGPU(aykev.dev)
2 points by aylmao 1y ago|0 comments
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by aylmao 1y ago
> Happiness does not mean good and fulfilling. it does
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by aylmao 1y ago
> If I were to optimize for "happiness" I would just cash out, abandon my family, move to Vietnam, play video games and eat Hot Pockets all day. That sounds like hedonism, not happiness. > But the life I choose is hard becau
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China's Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley(wsj.com)
2 points by aylmao 1y ago|1 comments
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by aylmao 1y ago
I see the point being made here, and yeah 5%-20% extra for what amounts to insurance against geopolitics isn't too bad, but doesn't this all fall apart when China catches up? That 5%-20% is worth it now because no one else can fab
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by aylmao 1y ago
If I understand the comment above correctly, one can carry an I94 too and those you can just print on the website [1] I'm guessing there's no size requirements? If so it might be a good idea to just print four on an A4, and have o
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Scale AI to Cut 14% of Staff Following Meta Investment(bloomberg.com)
5 points by aylmao 1y ago|0 comments
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by aylmao 1y ago
That's assuming the only purpose of color vision is to see the colors of other living organisms. There's color in nature beyond life, such as in minerals and other chemicals. There's also color in life that isn't necessa
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by aylmao 1y ago
AWS is fine: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status My guess is whatever system downdetector uses to "detect downtime" relies on either GCP or Cloudflare (also having issues at the moment: https:/&

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