ninjagoo

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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> There's no luck involved in the fact that you were born to your parents, as they were to theirs. Are you claiming to have controlled where and to whom you were born? You did not choose your parents, country, ancestry, clas
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> He's boldly marching into the void into the void, or off the edge? "off the edge" is a clear interpretation of the statue. "into the void" is a bit more of a stretch. IMHO. But that's art for you. Everyone
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
It's an interesting piece. Makes one think about all those folks that have a lot of pride and vanity for a place that they had no control over being born in. The luck of the draw. And very likely had very little to do with the current
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> It took me a minute to figure out why I think it's lame. > Maybe a more powerful piece of art would have that self reflection effect across the board. As is it feels about as nuanced as "fuck trump" and similar. If yo
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> That stuff is good for drone warfare > each of them serving as a mesh-network node might have worked for a bit in the past, but is easily disrupted by jammers, and forced a switch to fiber-optic in-theater. People have learned from
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> To this day any improvement W11 offers over W10 is still an enigma. Win 11 may not offer improvements for you, but it may be designed to offer big benefits for MS: ads, data monetization, ai, data for training ai.
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> What sort of metric would I have registered as? Monthly average user. Uptime for Win 11. Uptime not counting screensaver. Uptime for non-enterprise consumer. If you were a Win 11 enterprise user, then Uptime for enterprise users. Uniqu
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Those production numbers for the Neo are global and from unnamed supply chain sources. Good point. Fixed. > Linux is hardly a blip and even the Steam survey #s back that up The IDC link doesn't provide Linux numbers. These link
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Your first point seems flawed: Apple production numbers are to supply markets worldwide. That's a good point. Still, assuming 50% US sales since US purchasing power is still relatively higher and Apple penetration in RoW is lower,
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Linux would need to be willing to safe the work millions of people put into memorizing excel, word and windows workflows. It's a fair point. Organizational and personal inertia is a real thing. Maybe think of it as going through a
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Unless you are trying to screw your loyal users in 3 or more dimensions which seems to be the case here That made me chuckle ... good one
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> My Ubuntu servers have been in an undefined state since canonical botched a regular upgrade to 26.04 LTS due to the ongoing DDOS. Their status page says everything works. A simple ping tells me nothing works. So is it the DDOS that&#x2
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> it feels like Microslop is now full of programmers that make something and just ship it I just don't see that happening in an Agile (the tech software dev term) workplace - it's got to be clueless Product Managers driving thi
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> They went all in on pretending to care about quality since the MacBook Neo. The numbers they're seeing must be terrifying. Yeah. Worldwide Neo sales at 5 million units + production raise to 10 million? [1] Even if only 50% of thos
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
Executive management at MS must be seeing interesting (migration) numbers on their dashboards, so they've gotten involved in white-washing their reputation without changing business strategy, hence the executive-level manifestos and pl
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> They talk about improving memory footprint and performance, but simply removing (or making optional) the massive amount of cruft and telemetry in a default Windows 11 install would go miles. Executive management at MS must be seeing in
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> I don't know wtf their design team is doing. They're doing what management/business-strategy is asking them to do.
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> The Settings app for this key only allow you to specify whether it activates search or copilot, it doesn't let you turn it off. That's because it's not your computer, it is Microsoft's ;-) Seriously, though, there w
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> This is extremely nice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bird_in_a_Gilded_Cage
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> in many countries outside of EU/US it's just not possible to buy laptop without preinstalled Windows 11 Wipe and install something else. Previously you would just have been eating the OS license cost paid, and the benefit was
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Parallel lines never touch, maybe that’s a better geometric analogy. I do believe the OP meant to say that the incentives are orthogonal (i.e., misaligned, or 90deg to each other), and perpendicularly misaligned is a close fit. Not sur
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> All it takes is a pretty mild preference for free software in this case. Presumably, you mean free-as-in-freedom, not free-as-in-beer. Still, there is that VSCode MIT source license to distract the naive. And that tells us something ab
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> Probably they thought the new generations forgot about how awful they were in the not so distant past. More likely, never learned about it in the first place, save a few whispers. Who's got time to go digging in deep, when there&#
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
True that. No question VSCode has some real structural advantages: free (as opposed to pricey VS Enterprise licenses - this matters in non-tech enterprises), somehow easily installable even in enterprise locked-down environments, first-clas
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
The very young do not always do as they are told. If one hasn't been personally betrayed yet, it is easy to minimize or ignore the warnings of others who have been through the predatory/anticompetitive, EEE, stack ranking, etc. er
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> before they could get to the generative model though? Is that the right kind of model for this particular application?
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> The majority of people have absolutely no foundational belief for their actions The majority of people have absolutely no choice for their actions FTFY Especially given that for an increasing number of folks the alternative to doing
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
yes, good point. fixed.
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> we have implemented a tip clearance of only 0.5mm (120mm models) or 0.7mm (140mm models) in order to minimise leak flows through the gap between impeller and frame. > Achieving such small tip clearances is essentially at the absolut
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by ninjagoo 6mo ago
> What's your favorite free programming environment for commonly used smartphones? Termux pkg install python python print('hello') ctrl+D Haven't tried these, but have seen them recommended: Acode Termux

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