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by mingus88 4mo ago
Everything in this article was actively being done 20 years ago. Nothing has changed on the tech side. A lot more activity, actually, because DVDs were state of the art then and today a 480p rip looks terrible on modern TVs even with upscal
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by mingus88 4mo ago
This is such an insane take. You are creating content to share with mobile users. The onus is on you to go where the market is to reach those people. Pixel phones are 4% of the market and bespoke Linux versions of that are a slim fraction o
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by mingus88 4mo ago
It’s nivdia attempting to compete with Apple’s M-series
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by mingus88 4mo ago
I mean, you have always wanted one. Can you say the same thing about any other PC? You understand the demand for them. It’s you.
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by mingus88 4mo ago
Outside of tech professionals, yes. It’s 2026 and what people don’t do in an app, they mostly do in a browser. An entire generation of “digital native” people are now adults who don’t even understand what a file system is, don’t understand
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by mingus88 4mo ago
The U.S. had an Iran deal that accomplished all of the goals that the current administration is now trying to negotiate again The position now is, as you point out, significantly weaker. The previous deal was made without a single shot bein
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by mingus88 4mo ago
I will believe it when the end user is paying the actual cost of inference
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by mingus88 4mo ago
Rapist investigates victim. Worth noting, any news outlet that refers to her as an accuser is misleading you. She won in court. He was found to have committed the act. He is a rapist (also a pedophile, unrelatedly)
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by mingus88 4mo ago
That weakness is a strength. Everyone you meet on a mesh is a real breathing nerd, who due to proximity has a lot in common with you. They are not trying to influence you or sell you anything How many places like that are left?
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by mingus88 5mo ago
It’s actually a good thing. Imagine if they were competent.
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by mingus88 5mo ago
reductio ad absurdum is what I think you are referring to. But again, that’s not what this is. Taking away all cell phones, which are a lot more useful than the camera function it shares with flock, is not an equivalent move. The issue is p
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by mingus88 5mo ago
My experience with Google Maps is very different. We got burned so many times going to a closed restaurant that was open according to Google that we just use the listing to find the phone number now, and we call ahead I know it’s probably n
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by mingus88 5mo ago
To be fair, the council member appears to be an idiot. If not, he is leaning all the way into a false equivalence comparing a cell phone one has personal control over to a nationwide network of spy cams that no regular citizen controls. So
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by mingus88 5mo ago
The tone is grating. That’s why we notice it. If the LLM output was indistinguishable from real human text nobody would say anything, because by definition we wouldn’t be able to tell.
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by mingus88 5mo ago
It’s odd to frame it like this. How about: A powerful enough LLM trained on great books can output something indistinguishable to most people as a great book. Would you read it? Appreciate it? Sure I’d read it. At least some of it. If I kne
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by mingus88 5mo ago
Chargeback. Literally the purpose of it is when you were charged for a service you never received Enough chargebacks will threaten their merchant account
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by mingus88 5mo ago
Yep All cars are “all wheel stop” All wheel drive doesn’t matter when you lose traction and need to stop. When you are sliding on ice all cars perform the same, and the quality of your tires is what matters. AWD just gives people false conf
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by mingus88 5mo ago
I don’t know how the slate is designed but I have a rivian The battery pack is by far heavier than the motors. In the r1 they are also positioned with the wheels (quad) or front/back (dual) so weight distribution is great. If the slate
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by mingus88 5mo ago
It is a vanity project helmed by a terminally online manchild who wanted cyberpunk blade runner vibes. Go look back at the original concept art. The actual delivered vehicle dimensions are totally different, so he didn’t even succeed at tha
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by mingus88 5mo ago
Same. The internet isn’t fun anymore, and hasn’t been in a long time. These local meshes remind me of BBS days. You have to know a few things to access it and the community is all the better for it.
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by mingus88 5mo ago
Meshtastic doesn’t seem to work well in dense environments. It is known. In the PNW there are two very successful meshcore meshes, cascadimesh and psmesh. The former stretches all the way from Oregon to BC and the latter focuses more on the
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by mingus88 5mo ago
Put it another way; the blast radius from any vulnerability is much smaller. But also, the cost is much, much higher to the institutions, which is the salient point. You're going to spend years developing a system, deploying it, traini
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by mingus88 5mo ago
My daughter is in 3rd grade and has to do assignments online. Last month it was a presentation. She had to make a poster that would be displayed on the big electronic "whiteboard" running Windows of some sort. The page layout soft
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by mingus88 5mo ago
I started my tech career in EDU. I’m not at all surprised. IT staff who are ambitious and talented don’t last long in education. The pay is very low compared to industry. Where I worked, you could retire with a comfortable pension after a n
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by mingus88 5mo ago
Star Wars is for kids. Everybody loves whichever version they grew up with. I never understood people who liked the prequel trilogy until I realized I was too old for them any more. Nobody can admit that they actually aren’t good movies. No
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by mingus88 5mo ago
> Good artists get paid plenty. Absolutely false. You don’t even have to try hard to find scores of examples of great artists who died penniless. Artists who lived in squalor for decades until they broke through, and even then made only
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by mingus88 5mo ago
I’m not OP but I just want to point out that navigation doesn’t need to mean I am always sharing telemetry with multiple third parties I have a garmin watch which is great for overland hiking, multiple day expeditions etc I download the map
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by mingus88 5mo ago
This is a safety issue. I don’t think there is a “fix” for offline lane assistance that they are sitting on do avoid people from disabling telemetry The gen 1 system uses cameras primarily. It’s not awesome lidar or AI. It needs up to date
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by mingus88 5mo ago
You should google their gshock ring. It’s a mini Casio watch. Same style. Hilarious
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by mingus88 5mo ago
It sounds like you are describing a Garmin watch. It uses an app to sync with Apple health but will happily run offline for a week until you can sync it. There are also heart rate bands you wear around their chests since you mention non-wat

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