chrisco255

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by chrisco255 12d ago
Is it really hard for you to imagine that enshrining a cartel and wedding the government to it, centralizing AI even more than it already is, is actually the path that leads to the doomsday scenario you imagine?
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by chrisco255 13d ago
You're asserting correctness with no facts to offer of your own, just speculation and your own biased assumptions. What if consolidating AI into a highly regulated cartel, with no chance of upstart competition ruining their position, i
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by chrisco255 15d ago
Big Brother but instead of a government that controls you it's an AI bot that nudges you to insanity.
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by chrisco255 16d ago
That's not really why foldables make sense. It's not for productivity, primarily, it's for entertainment. Videos and ebooks (and other long form text content) look better and feel better on a foldable (for the same reason we
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by chrisco255 16d ago
Passports aren't actually very comfortable in the pocket even then. They are clunky things.
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by chrisco255 16d ago
Agree with this sentiment, after using the Fold 8, I don't want to go back to a phone that doesn't fold.
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by chrisco255 16d ago
Some foldables do have poor ratios, admittedly, but none of the ratios are so bad that I've seen that you get a smaller picture in practice than a standard smart phone.
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by chrisco255 17d ago
It is true that mobile oriented design killed a lot of great web designs from the 00s. But its not just screen size, thumbs are less precise than mouse cursors, necessitating larger buttons and click areas.
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by chrisco255 17d ago
I actually read more ebooks with a foldable. It gives me more functional options for entertainment other than doomscrolling. Videos are also obviously better on the inner screen.
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by chrisco255 17d ago
Even if it were true you would also have to design the app for when the device is rotated.
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by chrisco255 17d ago
What app is going to design to flow nicely with a iPhone Duo but not a iPhone 18? Unless Apple has a 1.4:1 ratio across their entire product line, app designers have to deal with variation. Also, when you rotate the device, the ratio change
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by chrisco255 23d ago
$800M a year is less than 1% of their quoted revenues at $100B+ / year. Claiming credits as revenue would be tax fraud. Credits to clients for services are counted as debits against There are zero serious companies collecting $1000 on
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by chrisco255 24d ago
The vast majority of startups are not funded by OpenAI or Anthropic. They are not a significant source of venture capital. Meanwhile, OpenAI is pulling in $40B+ per year and Anthropic $65B+ per year. You are mixing up valuations with liquid
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by chrisco255 1mo ago
It's hard to grow large shade trees in the desert.
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by chrisco255 1mo ago
There was a stretch of U.S. highway in my hometown that was built with concrete slabs. It is actually very durable and lasts for decades without need of repair, but it is also done in segments and the segments shift and create unevenness ov
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by chrisco255 1mo ago
Do you know off hand what distance a run needs to approach before women and men are equally competitive?
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by chrisco255 1mo ago
And yet they remain so popular, curious how an egregious claim completely contrasts with reality.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
FPGAs are improving exponentially so it is only a matter of time.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
There are already perfect FPGA emulators of N64 out, why not GameCube.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
You'll be dead before disc rot takes effect on almost any disc kept out of direct sunlight and in a climate controlled environment.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Games don't need to be 1TB, it's just that companies no longer invest in trying to make games smaller.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Most towns in U.S. have historical downtowns with a main street, court house, library, police station, etc and a collection of retail stores, it just likely isn't on the main highway, you have to look it up but they're definitely
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Cidercade on Riverside in Austin is one of the spots I was thinking of. They have a pretty good selection of old arcades. There is also Pixel Palace in Round Rock that has no cover but most games are 25 cents. Austin Toy Museum has a bunch
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
USPS is run as a federally owned business. It was traditionally self sustained by postage fees not by taxes, but it is nice that it was from our country's earliest days, a key piece of infrastructure. Nowadays mailing any letter is pr
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
There are arcades in Austin that charge a cover and just allow free play (typically subsidized by beverage sales). But some have the Dave and Busters model. The games are definitely more expensive than they were. In 80s and early 90s a $2 o
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Probably set her back $75 for not returning it.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Occasionally it would happen. It definitely wouldn't happen every time you went in. But I do remember going in with my brother and sister and parents and haggling over what 2 movies we were going to rent for that weekend. That in and o
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
In my small town Blockbuster was amazing. We had one or two video stores with tiny libraries and were poorly run before that. When Blockbuster opened we were ecstatic and mindblown by the selection. Blockbuster would often carry 30 or 40 co
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
It wasn't a universal truth some employees in stores didn't really care and were just there for a paycheck but sometimes you found good ones that were passionate and friendly.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Nah, Americans were going to Vaudeville theater shows before movies ever came around. The classic theater experience was the norm. Drive ins became popular in the mid 20th century (they probably weren't even possible until transistor r

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