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by gary_0 3y ago
I dunno, incompetence explains quite a lot. The petulant tone Huffman has taken towards 3rd party developers right from the start makes it pretty clear that he's just immature and unprofessional. This kind of chaos is par for the cours
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by gary_0 3y ago
C++ move semantics was added to the existing standard library and class syntax in a way that avoided breaking old code. The language added "move constructor" conventions and the like, rather than making more drastic internal chang
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by gary_0 3y ago
"Louis Rossman is an American independent repair technician, YouTuber, and right to repair activist." - Wikipedia
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by gary_0 3y ago
I stopped updating Firefox on version 89.0 because I got tired of having to unfuck it after every update.
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by gary_0 3y ago
My understanding of the term "anarchism" changed drastically once I started reading sci-fi novels by the likes of Le Guin and Ken Macleod.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Arguably any future problems with ML/AI/AGI won't be substantially different from social and technological problems we already have (and aren't addressing seriously enough). The "Skynet problem" is just a diver
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by gary_0 3y ago
When that starts to happen the Bank of Canada will just lower interest rates to 1% again. The Canadian economy relies heavily on the real estate shell game; they're not going to risk blowing it up. (Maybe they should , and weather the
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by gary_0 3y ago
Note that it's built on top of wxPython. I think a "middle ground" user interface between the commandline and a full-blown graphical environment is a great idea.
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by gary_0 3y ago
That's why you get an algae eater fish. When I was a kid we had a fish tank with an algae eater. He was fun to watch.
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by gary_0 3y ago
In the era before JSON and pervasive Javascript, HTML was the API . The Web is an API . The people saying "API" are really just saying "the same data that's in the HTML, but stripped of extra junk". HTML was never
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by gary_0 3y ago
Only cream and bastards rise, and I'm not sure about the cream.
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by gary_0 3y ago
This sounds relevant to what the Oxide Computer guys are doing (the Cantrill Crew, the Keepers of the Solaris Flame, etc). They're building AMD EPYC servers open-source style, and it sounded like they were making some headway in gettin
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by gary_0 3y ago
The problem is that the moderators and content contributors aren't mainstream users... hence the blackout.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Yeah, that's what they were doing, and it was working well enough. Dark patterns are evil but quite effective. My guess is that investors are banging on the door wanting their payout, and the people on the other side of that door are p
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by gary_0 3y ago
Reddit was clearly selling itself to VCs as the next Facebook while not bothering to understand the culture of the content, moderators, and audience on their site. From what headlines I've seen about Reddit's acquisitions and mark
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by gary_0 3y ago
Tumblr went from selling for $1B in 2013 to $3M in 2019. The brand persists but as a business it's a dismal failure. If Reddit follows that arc it will be a dismal failure as well.
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by gary_0 3y ago
If they bored people with "we listened" PR waffling while just being more sneaky about user-hostile changes, they could have gotten away with anything. I mean, that's the playbook, isn't it? But blatantly giving your unh
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by gary_0 3y ago
But it cost $500 ($700 in today's dollars) and the day-to-day utility of cellphones/blackberries had already been established for a decade. Your example doesn't seem that comparable.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> It’s a professional tool That you use to look at family photos, use iPhone apps in a giant window, watch movies, and play with VR Mickey Mouse? The presentation seemed to lean more towards the consumer than industry applications.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Whether or not it's the right device, it's definitely being introduced to the wrong economy.
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by gary_0 3y ago
That was my first thought when I saw the price. "Holy crap, that's a $14,000 Christmas morning." Also, this explains why companies are doing so many layoffs. They need the money to buy Apple headsets for all their remaining e
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by gary_0 3y ago
I used to develop for CNC systems, and those responded to sensor trips within microseconds. The computers involved were realtime systems. If everything wasn't that fast, the machines would have demolished themselves. A human pulling a
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by gary_0 3y ago
If you're measuring a human in front a screen with their finger on a button, and the human is young, healthy, and fully alert, then you get 0.2s. Some electronic safety systems[0] can indeed physically respond in µs. Some robotics migh
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by gary_0 3y ago
Self-driving just suffers from good old software project time underestimation and overpromising executives. It's quite possible to outdo a human at keeping rolling boxes from hitting each other and the unpredictable human particles buz
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by gary_0 3y ago
A company that goes open source might get the icing for free, but they still have to bake the cake themselves.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Indeed. I would have had a much different opinion in 2013 (and to be fair, old.reddit plus uBlock gives you mostly the same experience), but Reddit as it exists now is definitely social media. (Note that most subreddit mods report that thei
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by gary_0 3y ago
Reddit has roughly the same business model as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. Each of those sites are structured differently and come with different bells and whistles, but essentially they all just ingest user content, inject ads and tracki
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by gary_0 3y ago
People are assuming this drop was caused by the API footshot, but I think it's the other way around.
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by gary_0 3y ago
The social media race to the bottom is in full swing, and nobody is going to finish it feeling happy. In the end it's going to be a sad story for users and shareholders alike. The fruit is rotting on the vine.
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by gary_0 3y ago
The issue isn't that a generator lets you evade copyright somehow; it doesn't. The output is not the issue. If I sit in paint and my assprint happens to perfectly duplicate a Picasso, that's unlikely to fly in court if I tr

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