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by lysace 8mo ago
Classic, have the new guy deal with the fan mail.
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by lysace 8mo ago
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Fitzgerald He had just joined WED the same year he sent that reply (1979). Worked there until 2020 in various leadership roles. Seems to have been particularly involved in the making
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by lysace 8mo ago
Every detail about that letter is immaculate. Damn.
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by lysace 8mo ago
In the 80s it was a thing to fly from Europe to the US to buy PC hardware and software. The price differences paid for the (expensive) flight costs and then some.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Yet noone complains about anything like that.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Some of us do. I specifically picked a device that (supposedly) lacked cameras and microphones. LIDAR seemed okay.
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by lysace 8mo ago
To clarify: None of the comments in that thread talk about experiencing that. They have been locked out of the Gemini service, not their Google account with mail etc. Source: I actually read them. Yes, personally. I didn't even have an
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by lysace 8mo ago
Altman is not a speciesist, I guess. Context: Elon Musk is perhaps the world’s most famous doom-monger and has repeatedly sounded the alarm about the possibility of super-smart machines wiping out humanity. But Google founder Larry Page
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by lysace 8mo ago
It's really convenient when you have a TV in front of your bed. :) I use https://apps.apple.com/us/app/readder-for-reddit/id104357580... surprisingly often. It's got this simplistic web browser (use
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by lysace 8mo ago
IMO, these two things are both true: a) Wales' co-founder Larry Sanger is largely correct about the bias of Wikipedia b) Grokipedia is a joke
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by lysace 8mo ago
> the site's owner who lost his job at a major defense contractor then ran away to some place in scandanavia from which they are unable to extradite him. Eh, all the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) definitely hav
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by lysace 8mo ago
You can coast for quite some time (5-10 years?) if you really lean into it (95% of the knowledge of maintaining and scaling the stack is there in the minds of hundreds of developers). Seems like Matthew Prince didn't choose that route.
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by lysace 8mo ago
In that case it was all just a bluff. There never was an OpenAI voice that sounded like ScarJo.
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by lysace 8mo ago
To clarify: yes, I claim that YC is willfully enabling whatever Hitler-esque shit this part of history ends up being.
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by lysace 8mo ago
It has been roughly speaking five and a half years since the IPO. The original CTO (John Graham-Cumming) left about a year ago.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Yes, hence "okay". Excerpts from the 2022 PISA math scores: #1: Singapore: 575 #10: Netherlands: 493 #20: Finland: 484 #22: Sweden: 482 OECD average: 472 #30: Italy: 471 #32: Norway: 468 #34: US: 465 ... #81: Cambodia: 336 ( https
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by lysace 8mo ago
Neat.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Seems like the US is doing okay on the OECD PISA benchmark though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...
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by lysace 8mo ago
All of those statements require trust and/or the credible threat of a big stick. Trust needs to earned. It hasn't been. The big stick doesn't really exist.
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by lysace 8mo ago
This man is not well.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Please make a tvOS client! =) Seriously though.
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by lysace 8mo ago
An example from a year later; 1990: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows30
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by lysace 8mo ago
It's a javascript-based imitation, much like all of those js-based imitations of various Windows versions. The original source code isn't really involved, which is a shame, since it is actually available. IMHO this should have bee
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by lysace 8mo ago
https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-tariff-ruling-updates Furious about the defeat, Trump said he will impose a global 10% tariff as an alternative while pressing his trade policies by other means. The new tariffs w
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by lysace 8mo ago
One of my favorite uses for Claude Code is to point it at a section of seriously badly written code with undecipherable symbol names, over the top cyclomatic complexity etc and just ask it to make the code readable.
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by lysace 8mo ago
Development happens on Github, (perhaps) ironically. https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet
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by lysace 8mo ago
Last summer I powered up my first 2007 Macbook Pro that hadn't been powered for like 15 years. I was stunned to see it restore everything - the web pages I had opened at the time etc. And damn, Mac OS has changed so much graphically.
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by lysace 8mo ago
By now it should be obvious that YC does not want anything critical of Drumpf on any of their front pages.
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by lysace 8mo ago
I think that varies a lot by country/national post service?
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by lysace 8mo ago
Evolution never really bothered with the wellbeing of 40+ year olds.

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