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by ckastner 4y ago
> However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter. So much for free speech.
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by ckastner 4y ago
The guy who said he'll be the champion of free speech is now banning even the mention of other social networks. Imagine setting yourself such virtuous goal, but not 6 weeks later ending up with your own Great Firewall of China. Journ
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by ckastner 4y ago
Even if true, then he became immensely successful and wealthy with something derivative. So what?
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by ckastner 4y ago
> Because being dumb isn't illegal Nit-pick: it very much can be. Being dumb can lead to gross negligence, which can be criminal.
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by ckastner 4y ago
I don't think that thread quality and the process of humans debating and learning from each other are opposing concepts. On the contrary. It's precisely when people aren't willing to learn, or to debate respectfully and wit
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by ckastner 4y ago
> To recap: a law was put in place 5 years ago that said if you get consent you can basically use data in any way, with some very vague and general language about how consent can be gathered and what it means. What? Article 7 par 4. GD
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by ckastner 4y ago
> Apple may be under the false impression that the competition is far behind and that its loyal user base has nowhere else to go. If they'd be willing to go somewhere else, then they wouldn't be loyal. And the "somewher
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by ckastner 4y ago
They did, Nvidia tried to purchase Arm for $40bn. Deal got cancelled in February 2022, due to "significant regulatory challenges".
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by ckastner 4y ago
It seems to have inspired an even better review, of the Golden Delicious: > [...] with our collective distaste for the Red Delicious fully realized, this ill-fated adopted brother may as well be called the “Golden Bin Laden.”
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by ckastner 4y ago
> Counterintuitively, extremely unlikely events like this happen very often. As the saying goes, "people win the lottery every day", and there are a lot of lotteries active on this planet.
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by ckastner 4y ago
Could be. Slackware is a popular name, but I would call it "niche" rather than a major distribution. Just my personal view, obviously.
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by ckastner 4y ago
Hadn't heard of it before, and it appears not to be. There indeed exist a few non-Vixie-cron-derivative implementations but as far as I'm aware, all major Linux and BSD distributions use a Vixie cron derivative. Edit: I see now wh
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by ckastner 4y ago
> One of those people liked to write 600 line cron jobs to do critical business functions. I was a long-time maintainer of Debian's cron, a fork of Vixie cron (all cron implementations I'm aware of are forks of Vixie cron, or
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by ckastner 4y ago
This is from Musk declaring he won't join the board, after reasonable feedback from Agrawal in support of Musk joining: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1575598387335901190
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by ckastner 4y ago
Annual revenue of $394 billion, more than a billion a day. Not the first company to do it, though. Exxon did it in the 2000s when oil was up to $140, and I think Walmart did it, too.
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results(apple.com)
270 points by ckastner 4y ago|520 comments
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Amazon Q3/2022 [pdf](ir.aboutamazon.com)
56 points by ckastner 4y ago|24 comments
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Intel Q3/2022 [pdf](d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net)
9 points by ckastner 4y ago|3 comments
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by ckastner 4y ago
> The description of crypto markets as "speedrunning the history of why we have the financial regulations we do" seems more and more accurate as time goes on. As someone who's been at the butt end of banking regulation f
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by ckastner 4y ago
What makes you think AMD's chips are that much less complex? They hold up well in benchmarks. And add price to the comparison (since we are commenting on price/performance), and AMD already comes out ahead of Nvidia. Here's a
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by ckastner 4y ago
> Investors don't like to see it because they somehow couldn't comprehend that the growth they saw was completely artificial (how is beyond me) This was absolutely fascinating to watch over the past 18 months. Anyone looking
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by ckastner 4y ago
Upon hearing this, I was enlightened.
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by ckastner 4y ago
I think where we differ is in our assumption about the strength of the fundamentals. You're assuming a good developer already has full breadth, whereas I'm assuming that you can be a good developer and still encounter challenging
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by ckastner 4y ago
This was always one of my least favorite koans. Yes, theoretically, there's an abstract idea of what to do, and a programming language is a "mere" concrete expression of that idea. In practice, however, there can be a world&#
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by ckastner 4y ago
> NASA is not incompetent or corrupt and neither are its contractors. But there are a damn lot of special interests influencing the process. > The reason why things are so expensive and take so long is because of how our society
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by ckastner 4y ago
> The logical problem with the argument Bernstein makes about NSA picking the least trustworthy scheme is that it applies to literally any scheme NIST picks. It's unfalsifiable. That may be true in the strict sense, but in practic
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by ckastner 4y ago
> I believe the implication that NIST or NSA somehow bribed one of the PQC researchers to weaken a submission is risible. Could you elaborate on this? I didn't get this from the article at all. There's no researcher(s) being
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AMD Q2/2022(ir.amd.com)
8 points by ckastner 4y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 4y ago
They've gotten away with it, you mean. There's ample precedent against this. Even Google added a "Reject all" button, eventually.
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by ckastner 4y ago
Tangentially: The GDPR has been around for 4+ years now. They should know that a cookie consent popup where you have opt-out for 15 processing purposes individually almost certainly won't fly, and having to opt-out of 100+ vendors i

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