montyboy_us

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by montyboy_us 10mo ago
Listen, I just had to go through numerous prompt cycles to 'prove' to 5.1 that we had a new Pope. ChatGPT was dead set that I was reading 'unreliable sources'. The data is _old_.
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by montyboy_us 11mo ago
I love Cory’s writing, but this piece leans a bit too much on the metaphor lacking a bit in the mechanics. The walled gardens, DRM, and jailbreak bans long predate the last two administrations. They’re more business model problems and not n
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by montyboy_us 1y ago
In my adult life I’ve owned four cars, three of them Honda Accords. Each Accord had around 85-100k miles when I bought them, and I’ve driven each well past 200k miles with no major issues. These cars are built to last if you maintain them.
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by montyboy_us 2y ago
It's the psychology. Every sat phone and laptop is being opened up right now...
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by montyboy_us 3y ago
“If you must mark and sort young people, gross, but OK. But why do it at 18 rather than 22?" Because success, outside entertainment, is oft detectable through cultural mores; well ingrained and detectable by 18 years of age.
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by montyboy_us 4y ago
Shh. We don't talk about that "here".
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by montyboy_us 7y ago
The other elephant in the room is hardware acceleration in browsers. Fire up a Google Meet (or YouTube for that matter) on your distro of choice using Chrome/Chromium/Firefox and watch those cores shoot through the roof, the fans
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by montyboy_us 7y ago
Pg. 211 - Battelle Labs researching Credit Cards with built-in microchips. 1981. Guess sometimes adoption is ... slow
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by montyboy_us 7y ago
And has since the beginning of time. Adam Smith discussed such devaluations and the incentives in his seminal work back in the 1700’s.
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by montyboy_us 8y ago
"The worker will be free to move to the room or zone that fits the mood they’re looking for." No need for my company, or any company, to build this. As it turns out I already have an environment where I can move from "zone to
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Future of the Open Office Means Saying Goodbye to Your Desk(medium.com)
2 points by montyboy_us 8y ago|1 comments
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by montyboy_us 9y ago
SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity: ponzi schemes that have a little tech behind them and pull on our heartstrings.
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by montyboy_us 9y ago
Couldn't the government paint a pretty accurate picture using IRS data? Title and earnings via W-2 is at least a start.
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by montyboy_us 9y ago
Absolutely fabulous. Best part: "NSA hoard their knowledge of weaknesses in Microsoft Windows, a vitally important piece of their own nation's infrastructure, in case they'll come in handy againt some hypothetical future enem
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by montyboy_us 10y ago
Diplomacy alone doesn't afford us the lifestyle we so enjoy. I believe we are lucky to even have the option to ignore the where and how our privileged position in global society is sustained. No one is really hiding this from us, it is
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by montyboy_us 10y ago
Politics, period, has further turned the platform in to a cesspool. Removing a single account is not going to correct that course. I guess this is just what happens when a social or media outlet becomes mainstream. To illustrate, I'm s
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by montyboy_us 10y ago
+1 on the X1 Carbon. I made the switch this year, too, post MacBook Pro announcement. Have been running Fedora flawlessly. Cheers.
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by montyboy_us 10y ago
I just recently broke down and picked up an X1 Carbon 4th gen in lieu of a new MBP w/ TouchBar. The 14" display is a sweet spot for size and resolution. I run Fedora, and everything 'just worked' besides the fingerprint