leptons

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by leptons 4mo ago
Apple will never implement anything in a browser that could make a web app as capable as a native mobile app, they are simply too greedy. Firefox typically doesn't implement these things unless they have to because they don't have
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by leptons 4mo ago
One guy spent 37 days in jail for re-posting a thing trump said ("We have to get over it" in reference to a school shooting), after Charlie Kirk was killed. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7pyjxjxrvo
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by leptons 4mo ago
>and US citizens don't seem to care I think maybe you haven't been paying attention. Most of us do care. Trump's approval rating is pretty low at 36%, and his disapproval rating is high. Just because he's still caus
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by leptons 4mo ago
It's not good news if the AI companies have to raise their prices 10x to deliver the same service while paying down the crippling debt they've incurred getting everyone hooked on AI. If my mechanic started charging 10x more to fix
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by leptons 4mo ago
They're going to need quite a lot more ads to try to sell stuff to people who don't have jobs anymore because of all the datacenters built for AI.
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by leptons 4mo ago
The datacenter is still heating the atmosphere and consuming enormous amounts of electricity, which also heats the atmosphere. And it still won't solve our global climate disaster and is far more likely to contribute to a lot of bad th
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by leptons 4mo ago
Except very few people will actually be able to buy beetroot or anything else because there won't be any jobs. The wealth is all concentrating at the top into very few hands.
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by leptons 4mo ago
I'm paying about $0.19/hr and using half that power just for a large spinning RAID, running some VMs and security cameras. And I'm reconsidering my digital extravagance because of the electric bill. You probably make way more
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by leptons 4mo ago
Have you measured your electricity consumption for this rig? I have to wonder how much it would cost you per month.
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by leptons 4mo ago
Even if we didn't have capitalism, people would still need energy, for everything. It's unfortunate that fossil fuels were the easiest thing to use to generate energy over the last couple of centuries, and that it continues today.
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by leptons 4mo ago
Nobody writes any code any more at all. Nobody even writes Jira tickets anymore. They don't even review code, and I think we're lucky if they even test it. The AI does all of that. A small group of developers at my company have se
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by leptons 4mo ago
Where I work, the CTO drank a whole bunch of AI kool-aid recently, so now we're expected to "10x" our output with AI. I don't think he realizes this also means 10x more problems of all kinds. But I fully expect him to do
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by leptons 4mo ago
I have no doubt that as AI gets more expensive, my employer would lay off more developers to pay for more AI tokens, until there are very few developers left. And the hilariously sad part is, the current developers keep training the AI to d
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by leptons 4mo ago
Nice whataboutism. This pointless internet interaction is over.
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by leptons 4mo ago
Nice whataboutism. This pointless internet interaction is over.
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by leptons 4mo ago
>Apply the squint test to your work: >Blur your eyes or step back >Can you still perceive hierarchy? >Is anything jumping out at you? Telling an eyeless clanker to "blur your eyes" is just so ridiculous. "Is anyth
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by leptons 4mo ago
Nice whataboutism. This pointless internet interaction is over .
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by leptons 4mo ago
>Can evil also be interpreted as letting your government be impotent in protecting you? When they rename "Department of Defense" to "Department of War", there can be no mistake about the intention of the government. T
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by leptons 4mo ago
I don't know if it's "nicer". I've had some great conversations with Uber/Lyft drivers. Hilarious fun conversations. Not all of them, but enough to make me question if a riding in a clanker car is actually &quo
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by leptons 4mo ago
I can tell it's still early days - it's obvious. What they have today actually kind of sucks compared to what it could be. And I use it every day, and get frustrated every day because it could be so much better.
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by leptons 4mo ago
Are you paying attention? These companies are trying to get market share without being anywhere close to making a profit - they are heavily subsidized . Many hundreds of billions have already been spent and will continue to be spent until
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by leptons 4mo ago
This is the entire business model of all AI companies. It costs far more to run the datacenters and build more capacity than they could ever hope to make back at current pricing models. I'm looking forward to pricing to catch up with r
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by leptons 4mo ago
"Productive junior" is vastly different than a productive software developer with a couple decades of experience. What they produce will differ in quality significantly, AI or no AI.
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by leptons 4mo ago
You are talking about maybe 0.005% of the whole population of the earth when you say the phrase "self hosting". My wife is part of the other 99% and she's already talking to a chat prompt for 90% of her computing needs. The f
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by leptons 4mo ago
I can't wait for the moment Apple realizes that hardware makers will also get eaten by AI. Who needs a fancy and expensive macbook or iphone when all you'll really need is earbuds with an internet connection to talk to the AI that
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by leptons 4mo ago
The comment you replied to above references WLED running on an ESP32, which has nothing to do with power. A "power controller" is not a widely used term in the world of addressable LEDs. A "power supply" is a far more
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by leptons 4mo ago
WS2812 absolutely need a controller, without one they would simply not light up.
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by leptons 5mo ago
That's quite the moving goalpost.
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by leptons 5mo ago
You think having a million dollars means you don't have to work? I guess it depends on where you live.
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by leptons 5mo ago
The word "travel" comes from "travail", or "to toil, work strenuously, or suffer". But I'd still rather be travelling and seeing the world than being nervous about my job being cut due to AI.

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