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by bluescrn 2y ago
> Otherwise find a bunch of Lego fan gamers and hire them to make experimental games for half a decade. Find some Lego-loving indie devs and let them go wild. Fund the development of some prototypes, and let them build something that act
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by bluescrn 2y ago
How long will Mozilla be around for, though?
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Language, and attempts to assert control over its use and definitions, is not at all inconsequential
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There's a heck of a lot of good people doing great work at SpaceX and Tesla, and all the lashing out at Elon's companies is mostly going to hurt them, not the man himself.
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But do they have the capabilities to put satellites into orbit cost-effectively without supporting 'evil Elon'?
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The power efficiency gap equates to a fan noise gap, and the fan noise/heat of powerful Windows laptops is much more annoying than merely having poor battery life.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
The niche for drone delivery is the one that Zipline found - delivering medical supplies in remote areas with poor road access. For the majority of cases, it's a stupid idea. If you really want to automate away delivery drivers, self-d
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by bluescrn 2y ago
> There’s also rates of sexual side effects in excess of 70% [1] and they cause weight gain which is separately associated with depression. As an obese depression-sufferer currently taking Mounjaro, these new weight loss drugs seem way m
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Calls worked great for me, but it’s not been able to reliably show a contacts online status for years
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There'll always be young people excited to work on the cutting edge of something they're passionate about, even if it means being horribly overworked and underpaid. See also the games industry, movie VFX, etc.
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> I am worried that the good people at SpaceX might decide to abandon ship because of the Musk association. The money might be good, the work fantastic and exciting, but at some point saying "I work at SpaceX/Tesla/whateve
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Sad that free speech has been unceremoniously tossed out of the Overton window, and aggressive censorship is so widely seen as the right way to deal with bad ideas.
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Yes, it happens. Somebody just shot up a Tesla dealership (that had recently also suffered an arson attempt), probably radicalised by online rhetoric. But on the other hand, regimes that crack down aggressively on speech don't tend to
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> I think people hate musk, if they do, for the things he does and has done. No, they hate Musk for the things he says and has said (And things he allows other people to say on his platform). Some people treat actions more seriously than
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It used to be. But people are now pushed towards the dating equivalent of 'fast fashion', hookups via apps, throwaway relationships, shopping around for something new and exciting.
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We don't ban cars or motorbikes because they're unsafe. We require a license and insurance then ban those who repeatedly break the rules of the road. We need to find a sensible way to regulate these bikes, which may involve some s
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Interesting that nobody every talked about tyre/brake dust until it became clear that cars aren't going away as we phase out fossil fuels, they're just going electric. Is this a serious environmental concern compared to the c
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by bluescrn 2y ago
If a rogue AI could take direct control of weapons systems, then so could a human hacker - and we've got bigger problems than just 'AI safety'.
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Given trends of everything going subscription-only, is it unreasonable to suspect that the future of Windows could be subscription-only and a lot harder to pirate than previously?
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With modern games no longer playable once the servers go offline, the only recorded history of the modern era of gaming will soon be on the hard drives of YouTube and Twitch servers. For as long as that survives.
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I suspect it'll only ever be a toy for billionaires. For the rest of us, isn't air travel supposed to be something we're giving up/ramping down due to climate change?
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by bluescrn 2y ago
If you're earning 6-figure salaries in tech, of course everything seems OK, even if food prices double and the cost of housing gets further out of control. A lot of people had a very different experience when the post-covid inflation h
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by bluescrn 2y ago
It's easy to make crime statistics go down. Much harder to make actual crime go down.
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And superplagiarism of human-created content
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They had a fairly unique and high-quality product in the early days. It just did’t evolve very far or very fast, or even adapt pricing to better fit a rapidly changing market. They switched away from a focus on multi-room hi-fi (or at least
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by bluescrn 2y ago
That's not expensive these days. Apple would charge about £200 for 8GB more...
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Some people will seemingly spend every waking hour moderating multiple large subreddits for free. They get something out of it, and it obviously isn't money.
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It seems inevitable the people attracted to 'fact checking' and content moderation roles (whether paid or free) are likely to be activists with agendas to push. It's a position that gives them power over their political oppon
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Then you've got 'YouTube-speak', where video creators swap in alternatives to words suspected of making the algorithm downrank/demonetize videos. 'Unalived' being a particularly common one, to avoid mentions of
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by bluescrn 2y ago
Liberal as in classical liberalism, or as in progressivism (which is becoming increasingly authoritarian)?

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