kingkandu

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by kingkandu 2mo ago
Twitter is a weird one because I absolutely hate using it and as someone who's built many feeds I can see how they're trying to farm engagement at the cost of their user's health. But it is simultaneously the best place to ge
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
Whatever you do just stop doing OS updates after 2 years of owning any device these guys make if you don't want to be forced into an upgrade cycle Don't fall for the security patch fearmongering
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
I have ~4-5 completely non technical friends who've used LLMs to generate their personal websites, complete with appointment scheduling and payment links. We can't be more than a year out for full store generation with 1 click upl
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
Never thought I'd say this but welcome to 3 years ago Apple hardware
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
I mean not having voice transcription in a document editor is kind of dumb But not having some shitty clippy-like help system is very nice
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
closedAI should give this guy a million bucks and fire everyone internally who was involved with trying to recreate his work and threatening him. but they probably won't and if it's happened on some obscure math research it's
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
Tesla is not and was never about the products and actual business. It's a shit business. Its about hype farming so idiots take leveraged positions in the stock and get wiped out. If you see Elon saying something particularly distastefu
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
I would've paid 5x for a unshittified windows build. WSL is a truly impressive VM for dev work. But I had to go to Linux and I suspect MicroSuck is in very deep financial shit with LibreOffice and Linux offering far better user experie
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
ungoogled-chromium is where it's at
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by kingkandu 2mo ago
The 2 groups getting fucked with the stay private longer trend are the LPs and the startup employees. We should insist on public policy forcing public money into only public assets. It's the obvious sensible rule. And company safes nee
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by kingkandu 3mo ago
In Silicon Valley, every acquihire that zeros out common stock while giving lumpsums + golden handcuffs to the founders is fraud where the victims are employees without legal protections. Happens everyday. YC was doing some lip service abou
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by kingkandu 3mo ago
I grew up a total Microsoft fanboy but Windows today is sadly nothing but a bloated piece of spyware. It's like they rebuilt Clippy, called it Copilot, and somehow managed to make it shittier. I run a machine that costs ~$40k so I don&
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by kingkandu 8mo ago
Sorry doesn't help at all but you can still be useful - can you please tell us how many private repos do "users of Free, Pro and Pro+ Copilot" who have used Copilot in the last 90 days exist in the github database? Because mi
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by kingkandu 10mo ago
It is almost impossible to get international people to come to the US anymore, the few people who are willing to visit can't get visa appointments at the consulate. Wouldn't be surprised if the World Cup sees half empty stadiums t
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by kingkandu 10mo ago
Loved Orion but had to switch to Zen because they had an awful Picture-in-picture implementation and no mouse gesture support, both features I use heavily Regardless, anything that works toward dethroning the 2 worst spyware distros in the