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by na85 5y ago
Everybody knows the news can be charitably described as inaccurate. Sure, Microsoft Marketing Department says it was trained on public code. The PM probably told them it was. Was it actually trained on public code only?
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by na85 5y ago
The new model pioneered by AirBNB and Uber is to break laws under the guise of "growth hacking" and then change the laws later once you're entrenched. You won't be compensated. Corporations write the laws.
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by na85 5y ago
>It's no secret that Macbooks are terrible Linux laptops. If you want to use Linux, buy a different brand, that's kind of the gist of it. Everything in that list was from my ThinkPads, of which I own several.
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by na85 5y ago
Linux irritations that don't happen on mac: - laptop wakes up randomly when lid is closed, fans spin up, drain battery - wifi is flaky - trackpad drivers/trackpad behavior in general are inferior - battery life isn't as good
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by na85 5y ago
Nowadays I don't use Linux on laptops because the UX is so bad. But when I last did, I just installed tlp which now mostly incorporates every suggestion from powertop anyway.
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by na85 5y ago
It's an operating system. https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows
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by na85 5y ago
I went down this rabbit hole a few years ago. I bought an X220 (tablet edition) when it first came out. I still have it; with an i7 and 8 GB of RAM it quite frankly can still pull its weight despite being released in 2011 or so. Anyways,
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by na85 5y ago
>we aren't there yet. Those are your words, not mine. I think "almost certainly not" is by far the best appraisal of the situation. Unless you have domain expertise, then your confident statement of "we aren't
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by na85 5y ago
The fact that artificial wombs do not currently exist should be evidence enough that they are non-trivial to invent and perfect. One cannot substitute confidence for domain expertise.
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by na85 5y ago
They tried to "respawn" wooly mammoths in an elephant womb but it didn't work.
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by na85 5y ago
Cloud based solutions are demonstrably not secure. The brains who built the software clearly can't keep it secure either.
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by na85 5y ago
>So it's not "almost certainly not" it's "we have a long way to go". Says you. Are you a subject matter expert?
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by na85 5y ago
>artificial womb? Because such a thing is non-trivial to invent and does not yet exist.
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by na85 5y ago
I think in this new era of endless security breaches at cloud firms and M1-style processing innovation we'll see a slow but steady migration away from the cloud.
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by na85 5y ago
>It is certainly fascinating to see people start running away from "information wants to be free" and other Free Software principles full tilt when, all of a sudden, it's their livelihoods that are suddenly on the line. In
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by na85 5y ago
Feels like everyone is missing the point: Copilot will ultimately serve to weaken the arguments in support of software patents and copyright. That can only be a good thing for society (though perhaps not for rent seekers).
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by na85 5y ago
What's an Irish company, in this context?
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by na85 5y ago
I went down this rabbit hole and found everything to be overcomplicated for my use case. I'm so sick of static site generators that have seven layers of templating engines and complicated build systems. Most of the static site builders
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by na85 5y ago
I lived in a place in Ontario where the grading wasn't correct and my sump pumps were failing every 18-24 months. It would run for days after a heavy rain.
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by na85 5y ago
Well, my point is that your ass belongs to the government where you live. You can pretend to be a citizen of the internet but the police will still come after you in meat space.
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by na85 5y ago
You'll get thrown in jail for fraud. There are a different set of laws for the wealthy, including wealthy corporations.
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by na85 5y ago
>Advertising is essential, you need people to know about your product somehow. TFA explicitly contradicts your opinion.
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by na85 5y ago
I think it's "Bad or insufficiently-differentiated products need ad spend". Make better products.
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by na85 5y ago
Proof that, despite what certain well-known HN users will so vociferously swear, advertising is not essential to the modern economy.
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by na85 5y ago
I remember those days. There was a lot of optimism and a feeling of being powerful , especially things like watching the early days of Anonymous vs Scientology. The internet was supposed to be the great enabler of the masses, and instead
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by na85 5y ago
https://nathan.pro/raspi.html There's a link to my source code too. It's, uhh, pragmatic rather than elegant. Edit: I realize that this is a bit outdated because it references irssi-notifier, rather than Pushbulle
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by na85 5y ago
Raspberry Pis are great for this kind of DIY IOT hacking. I have a few that monitor my plants for soil moisture and alert me via IRC and Pushbullet when they get too dry.
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by na85 5y ago
The actual connectors for USB A are bullshit. It only goes in two ways, but you still have to get it wrong twice before you can connect it. Even with micro and mini USB it's not easy to slot them into the receptacle without squinting a
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by na85 5y ago
The insidious thing about cryptocurrency fetishism is that it induces people to believe that crypto will be useful in a societal collapse scenario. As if society and the economy will collapse, cash will be useless, but we'll all still
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by na85 5y ago
>The most major difference being that I have come to associate apps installed via F-droid with quality, while I associate anything produced by the "Big players" with bloatware and trash. Oh c'mon, there are plenty of garba

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