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bigyabai
3mo ago
Meta had more than 10x the install base of Apple's headset. And they shipped real VR that was compatible day-1 with standards like OpenXR; Apple didn't. If we're being actually honest with ourselves, Apple did not even try
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3mo ago
Minecraft has an authoritative nameserver. Even regulation wouldn't decouple it from the owner.
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3mo ago
SSDs are a more common point-of-failure. You want it socketed unless you're shipping redundant flash modules.
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3mo ago
Notch has said a lot of things that are rather evidently untrue in reality.
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3mo ago
When you "buy" anything digital, you're not ever owning it. It's unfortunate, and Microsoft is no saint, but Mojang's depreciation was inevitable.
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3mo ago
If you can disprove me by citing a history book, then do it.
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3mo ago
Unless you're talking about potato chips, there was no chip industry in the 1950s.
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3mo ago
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon I'm not much into sports, but the age does pique my curiosity.
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3mo ago
> i believe curiosity leads all SF dwellers to great success and wealth over time. There are tens of thousands of SF dwellers that believe the same thing, and end up flipping burgers to afford rent in a shoebox. If this is the same philo
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3mo ago
We're not that deep yet. OpenAI has federal stakeholders, they're already playing dirty. Why you would give Scam Altman the benefit of the doubt is beyond my understanding.
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3mo ago
Huggingface is a for-profit private company. They are very easily bribed, or baited into publicity stunts.
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> Of course aging is something we will solve - probably within the next 1000 years. I'm imagining you as the son of an Egyptian Pharaoh telling this to his dad. "Really, skip the embalming! If we get you on ice, then they'
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3mo ago
Relevant news story: https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-duress-pin-us-pr... According to The Guardian, the US Department of Justice is prosecuting Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick after he allegedly gave a Graphe
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3mo ago
> Except we can't have women voting on male laws, and men can't vote on women laws. Kindly, what the fuck are you talking about?
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3mo ago
> the other side, on the other hand, was subject to "private platforms can do whatever the fuck they want" kind of moderation taps the sign No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the pu
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3mo ago
The OSS models are good, but weren't very competitive at release with alternatives like Qwen3 Coder A3B. If you were a startup, why would you build on OpenAI's first (and last, for quite some time) model versus Qwen3, which was up
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3mo ago
> Except at the ultra low end. You just conceded the point. Only some businesses buy them, because they want to lure and retain expensive, white-collar talent. No enterprise servers deploy to macOS. Nobody's edge compute or infere
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3mo ago
> only 48 GB of memory. You can layer the LLMs across multiple GPUs, you can absolutely have 192gb of Nvidia dGPU memory with the right MOBO and CPU combo.
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3mo ago
Because enterprise positions are white-collar luxury jobs.
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3mo ago
Apple is a trillion-dollar business, you can't blame their participation on Motorola. They can perfectly well hold down a consortium alone, we've seen it happen before. Features like Corning Gorilla Glass, tandem OLED and "ve
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3mo ago
Dorsey's legacy is promoting cryptocurrency. Censorship is part-and-parcel with owning any social media. I wouldn't worry about people going sweet on him anytime soon.
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3mo ago
Legislating advertisement as an opt-in experience would probably satisfy both of us.
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3mo ago
Flip side of it is - I love not seeing advertisements, of any type. Sponsorblock and uBlock Origin makes YouTube a whole different experience. Locally backed-up or on-demand TV shows are so much more bingeable than the ones on DVR. I love
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3mo ago
Apple is allergic to industry-spanning consortiums.
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3mo ago
Because their long-term goal is to make AI a walled garden subscription.
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3mo ago
I mean, these issues are exclusive to Apple's App Store. The Mac doesn't have this problem at all.
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3mo ago
Most people I know that make music on an iPad only use it for specific plugins or MIDI apps. They bounce the stems out to WAV and then mix/master it in a full desktop DAW. You'd go through a lot of unnecessary suffering trying to
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3mo ago
The F-16 actually has the opposite, with Auto GCAS: https://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article8.html It's an interesting system, and does beg the question of how much autonomy should be forfeit if a human pilot is unre
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3mo ago
The implications of the article are terrible. You're on a website where 99% of entrepreneurs owe their livelihoods to Open Source; put 2 and 2 together. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dre
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3mo ago
Yes, because starry-eyed entrepreneurs, C-suites and engineers famously lack the calculated sociopathy that enables VCs and CEOs to be so successful. The average Palantir employee is not reading Alex Karp's press junkets and going &quo
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