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by iteratethis 2y ago
Mastodon's lack of growth or even perpetually declining MAU is not a coincidence. The community is obsessively anti-growth. It's politically intolerant in the sense that the vibe is left to hard-left, and even within that sphere t
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by iteratethis 2y ago
Commenting from the Netherlands. My take is this: If you want the masses of households to convert to electricity, then electricity should be dirt cheap (and stay cheap) and any solution should be idiot-proof. Electricity being cheap gives p
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I think the times have changed. The Great Powers of the world are becoming more hostile to each other yet we continue to operate the naive way. We play by the rules but our rivals have no rules. This makes us weak, exploitable and ineffecti
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It's in the story. She married a wealthy real estate developer. Dumped her husband, took his money, and sent it to "Brad Pitt". Now claiming to have done this to save his life but surely she wouldn't sent this money to r
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Many children have always hated homework and sought ways to avoid it or cut corners. This tool is disturbing in that you actually do finish the homework, yet in a way where you learn nothing at all. I personally believe children should have
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"If the person who runs your server turns out to be imperfect in a way that you can’t endure, you can find another server, spend five minutes moving your account over, and you’re back up and running on the new server" He's co
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This doesn't solve the problem. One "wrong" word and instance mods cut your ties.
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In the Netherlands we call it a "stamkroeg", your home bar. I've had the routine to attend one on most Saturdays and Sundays with a group of mates for 15 years straight. It's fun, relaxing and in a way also efficient if
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A case like this demonstrates that principles are as soft as butter when they are tested. Mozilla is all preachy about privacy but is in bed with the greatest private data hoarder in the world. They take the blood money and continue to enab
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If ChatGPT increasingly gets better at coding, why don't they deliver official plugins for the main IDEs in the way Github Copilot does? Is this because Github mostly uses OpenAI models under the hood anyway?
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What people whom carefully tweak their feed don't understand is that they are the exception. Most normies embrace the out of the box algorithms because it is the least amount of effort. Lazy always wins.
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A lot of people in this thread are expressing that their main use case for using any social network is to follow experts in their field. Allow me to improve your life by freeing up massive amounts of time. For any given field, say AI or pro
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To add: Google uses Chrome's established user base to bundle other products in the same way Microsoft uses Office subscriptions to push Teams. The most recent example being Gemini now deeply integrated into Chrome. Had Gemini been a st
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I remember my first usage of S3 close to its initial launch. It was the first time I came across the very concept of pay-as-you-go. I remember being anxious about unexpected charges and the forum was full of people begging for a cost cap fe
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by iteratethis 2y ago
I'm skeptical about the prosperity claim. If the entire planet has access to affordable/cheap and very capable AI, this still leaves two problems. Since the access itself is not differentiating, it's going to be the most educ
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Indeed. A typical major iOS version has hundreds of new features. New iOS features are typically announced at the WWDC event. Which is a developer event that surely no normie watches. But even if they did, it's still a summary featurin
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"I consider OLED to be relatively meh for HDR. Not really bright enough for me" Hence my remark on OLED with increased brightness. In the TV world, they're called OLED.EXT panels. The new iPad Pro uses a different technique (
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"I believe even if Apple had chosen Bing instead most people would have changed the search engine back to Google." If that is true then I guess Google really has too much money.
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Alternative social media is discovering what hard problems centralized media has cracked. Problems we don't even see or know about, things we take for granted. Things not appreciated because we almost exclusively pay negative attention
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Mastodon is 8 years old and as a whole has 800K MAU. Note that MAU is an optimistic metric still, it says very little about meaningful activity.
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Not just post-Moores, it sometimes feels like a reversal. Look at high-end gaming PCs. Monster-sized GPUs and cases. CPUs with stupendous requirements for cooling. Insane power draws. The prediction for next gen (5000 series): significantly
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Yes, it's so much better that they pay Apple billions each year to make it the default search engine.
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TV shows and movies aren't mastered like that either. I have an incredible TV. OLED with increased brightness, the latter being new tech. The combination of OLED and HDR is jaw dropping to witness. To me and to everybody that I show it
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I don't care if you personally use Whatsapp or not, it's beyond the point. Whatsapp is by far the most used messenger app in the world. The US is unique in the developed world for using iMessages or SMS.
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I know somebody that works in a wooden floor business. They take perfect new wood and move it through a cylinder that drops pebbles on it. They sell it for 2-3 times the price of undamaged wood.
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As for the difference in tech, especially software, I think the US has a black hole effect going on. A massive concentration of risk capital in one place that has snowballed into an enormous powerhouse. A gravitational force in particular f
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I agree. I do think Apple is thrilled with the sudden AI hype as this gives them 1-2 generations of new "selling points" as they were truly running out. But still, it masks the problem of an underlying demand that will stagnate if
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Do I believe that? Absolutely. Never underestimate how lazy people are. I very commonly hear battery health as the reason for replacement. In fact, I'd say it's the most common reason heard. A 3 year old iPhone is still excellent,
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Fully agree. Same for putting a speaker on the Apple watch. "Great for when you don't have your airpods with you" Yes, and surely it will be normalized in the culture to just blast your watch in public.
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The lack of distinction between LCD and OLED can be explained. The specific condition in which OLED thrives rarely occurs. You'd need deep blacks in low ambient light viewing conditions for it to really stand out. iOS, most apps, most

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