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by danans 9mo ago
Overlapping windows seem like a dated skeumorphic paradigm at this point. I almost never want to see just part of a window. For a long time, I've found that either full screen or tiling (driven by keyboard shortcuts) is a far less f
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by danans 9mo ago
> Apple would be picked by modern slaves and sold in a capsule at 100,000% markup and it only fits their machines. Windows comes with pesticides for the "benefit of the user". The exploitation of labor in developing countries i
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by danans 9mo ago
> I don't understand people who use anything else, to be honest. Most people don't make their coffee in an Aeropress either. I've also used Linux exclusively (in my case 25 years), but I also realize that with a few niche
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by danans 9mo ago
> Nevertheless, the average private school applicant had only a 18.3% chance of admission, well below the 25.8% average for public school applicants. As a parent of a student in a private school, this is how it should be. For the amoun
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by danans 9mo ago
> What really makes me mad is how bumpers were made to protect the car and now they are these expressions of design that you have to protect Bumpers today are made to protect the car's occupants, not the car. They are the start of t
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by danans 9mo ago
Yeah. I have the Orin devkit
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by danans 9mo ago
IMO in the long term this is the pattern that will emerge. Switching costs are almost non-existent.
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by danans 9mo ago
I was pleased to discover recently that Ubuntu is supporting my NVidia Jetson going forward after NVidias official support period ends: https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-now-officially-supports-nv... So there is at lea
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by danans 9mo ago
> It seems like Apple's hardware design is universally loved with much acclaim, why is their software getting progressively worse? It's not so different from the rationale for many consumer electronics products: novelty for mar
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by danans 10mo ago
> Indeed, they were not only bound by a thicket of obligations and customs, but authority itself is only legitimate when it is just, a view that is traditional; Ultimately they were bound not by tradition, but by the reality that they ma
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by danans 10mo ago
> Crime rates also statistically correlate with demographics, but if I assume a specific person is a criminal based on that stat, I would (rightly) be called racist. Who said anything about a specific person? They are talking about a ne
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by danans 10mo ago
> How can such an overcapacity be possible ? Is that a massive failure of market analysis ? Partially. Turns out that the cost, size, impracticality, and look turn off most people who would buy an EV. But then there is also the active b
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by danans 10mo ago
I tend to agree, but that's a collective decision and action problem, which we have difficulty with as a society today.
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by danans 10mo ago
Without the private sector utility company, there wouldn't be a mechanism to raise funds from and pay profits to shareholders.
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by danans 10mo ago
AMD drivers alone do not make a computer that "just works".
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by danans 10mo ago
Junior vs senior is the wrong framing. It's "can use LLMs effectively" vs "can't use LLMs effectively". It's like expecting someone to know how to use source control (which at some point wasn't tabl
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by danans 10mo ago
> Are these highly qualified people or do you just need to install some parts? They're not software engineers or data scientists if that's what you mean by "highly qualified". Datacenters techs do the physical parts o
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by danans 10mo ago
Most people who need a job won't have that job at that data center.
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by danans 10mo ago
> Look Michigan needs the jobs, just a little common sense would go a long ways. There will be few jobs created after construction is complete, and the ones created won't pay anything like typical tech comp.
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by danans 10mo ago
> Great if everything that one wants from their GNU/Linux experience is a command line and TUI. Regular GUI apps work fine on ChromeOS. There's a flag to enable the GPU in the VM and with it, 3D accelerated GUI apps also mostly
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by danans 10mo ago
> ChromeOS commonality is the Linux kernel, not userspace. ChromeOS has a Linux userspace fully integrated via it's Crostini VM.
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by danans 10mo ago
I still think that if they'd released an electric Ford Maverick sized pickup instead of the monstrosity that is the Lightning, they would have done much better, but everyone had to run after the story Elon was spinning with the Cybertr
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by danans 10mo ago
> Take any other praxis that's reached the 'appliance' stage that you use in your daily life from washing machines, ovens, coffee makers, cars ... I wish the same could be said of car UX these days but clearly that has reg
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by danans 10mo ago
Probably a jellyfish. You're seeing the tentacles
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by danans 10mo ago
Sounds like a solution in search of a problem.
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by danans 10mo ago
I'm mostly struck by how incremental and unimaginative those articles are.
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by danans 10mo ago
Dell has been a publicly traded company again since 2018.
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by danans 10mo ago
In the 18th and 19th centuries , slavery and sharecropping were primary forms of agricultural labor. Those are far closer to medieval feudal peasantry than 20th century industrial labor, regardless of the lack of an official hereditary
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by danans 11mo ago
> It is really still quite a mess at the moment. Integration, testing, and support are all expensive. Right or wrong, that's a reason why if a laptop "just works" (like a Mac, Windows Thinkpad, or a Chromebook), it probab
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by danans 11mo ago
> Farmers got rich because all of sudden their manual labour capacity was multiplied by machines. This sounds like a semantic disagreement. I think you are using the word "farmer" to mean "large agricultural landlord"

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