micromacrofoot

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by micromacrofoot 27d ago
It's funny how they keep trying to add more interfaces and everything keeps coming back to chat. And of course it would, natural language is the simplest interface there is. Anything they add beyond chat, that isn't placed within
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by micromacrofoot 27d ago
The job of the uptime numbers are to look good (and sometimes to meet contractual obligations), more context doesn't make them sound better. Not being understood in layman's terms is a feature. These companies are happy that you d
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by micromacrofoot 27d ago
liberation is often used to refer to something that, while technically legal, the people that are subject to it did not agree to
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by micromacrofoot 27d ago
I don't know many people, but I do know someone that relies on machine translation to browse the English web. Remember "most" is not "all." The web should be accessible to every single person.
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by micromacrofoot 27d ago
Many many companies are like this. Most people are happy doing their very narrow range of things and put blinders on to everything else. They either don't have the time, interest, or energy to do more, and they learned to not really ca
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by micromacrofoot 27d ago
Everyone that ingests code is seeing an order of magnitude more of it thanks to LLMs, even existing apps are producing more updates. It's the same sort of thing github keeps failing to keep up with.
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by micromacrofoot 28d ago
that capital might also be doing a lot more if not bottlenecked by the 0.000001% of the population controlling it but let's not pretend that "right" has anything to do with it... that's like the scale of a single bacteri
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by micromacrofoot 28d ago
The global billionaire class now numbers roughly 3,500 people and collectively controls around $15–20 trillion in wealth. That's about the annual GDP of China. That's about twice as much as the lower 50% of the population (2% of t
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by micromacrofoot 28d ago
that's what happens when you put your whole ass out to the world
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by micromacrofoot 28d ago
There's not really enough stuff up there to cause the kessler syndrome yet, maybe at some specific bands you could cause some annoyances... but ~75% of satellites are operating in bands that would decay into the atmosphere, fortunately
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by micromacrofoot 28d ago
But be careful friends, this snake oil is so potent you should only use a single drop! it is not for those of poor constitution!
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by micromacrofoot 28d ago
I thought it was just spelled differently because I don't work with particle physics much
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by micromacrofoot 28d ago
what are people using instead of digital ocean now?
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by micromacrofoot 29d ago
human code gets that way too, it just takes longer
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by micromacrofoot 29d ago
Wonder if they considered "peon" before "pion"
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by micromacrofoot 29d ago
it'll be around for decades, you don't power ~1/3 of the internet and just disappear overnight
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by micromacrofoot 29d ago
Of course it is, it's trained on millions of internet comments.
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by micromacrofoot 29d ago
but no, you can't work remotely
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by micromacrofoot 29d ago
all the oligarchs are doing it these days
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by micromacrofoot 29d ago
Seems pretty tame compared to the antics of the richest person on the planet, perhaps trolling is the new normal.
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by micromacrofoot 29d ago
what do you mean? they're using AI to kill people directly in Ukraine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/russia-drone...
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
yeah came here to say this, I have my mini splits set up on the S3 light with level shifters, not worth skipping because they'll end up failing on you - requires a little soldering but nothing complicated wiring: 1. Mini split black (G
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
right but without the part supply under control someone could just do it themselves so they need both, though it's true plenty damage is done software-only
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
bathing generally reduces mortality though, not sure chatbots do
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
they want to lock you in to oem parts because otherwise people might use their tractor for 30 years before buying a new one same reason car dealerships want you to only go to them for maintenance
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
yeah entire skyscrapers filled with people doing this sort of work... it's not even close to as bad as it could get yet
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
there are many many jobs that largely consist of sending emails and answering phones all day
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
they're harmful for everyone
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
Right, those are fairy tales of course https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots
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by micromacrofoot 1mo ago
Magical like finding a house made of candy in the woods, or maybe more like that guy with the flute who solved the rat problem. Or maybe that guy selling magical beans? Anyhow, you're right! kids love magic.

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