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by oldjokes 7y ago
This is a really well laid out comment, thanks for just spelling it out.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I hear this complaint a lot, but never really any details. What specifically are you mad about being out of reach and which metrics do you think you're worse off on compared to previous generations? Honest question. Is it just material
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Typing systems and language choices are really small potatoes in this field. There are much more scary problems to solve to make software work right. When you can side channel attack any CPU with a branch predictor and bits get flipped regu
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by oldjokes 7y ago
The internet, at least as we knew it, is dead. What we have now is a highly segemented, highly federated, highly monitored, centralized communication network. The walls and the controls around access are getting more intricate every day, we
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Intel has been proven unreliable and untrustorthy time and time again, people have been complaining about how awful and unscalable x86 is since the 90s. The future is more likely ARM- I know a few companies are experimenting with moving the
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I've only had three interactions with the police in my very old life and I have come very close to dying each time. Not sure if I just ran into three people on extremely bad days but I can't emphasize enough how lucky you are if y
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Yes, but investors don't care about profit or sustainability anymore, always just this perpetual, artificial growth. A million years ago when I was young the IPO market used to be the end of the bullshit, you actually had to make money
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Boeing appears to already be lawyering up their execs while throwing engineers under the bus. It’s going to be all about denying everything now.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I love how browsing the web now is like gearing up for war. Need our anti tank and our anti air of course.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
The problem is that gas station is owned by Google and in theory the faceless algorithm that runs everything says all cans are the same but in reality the RC Cola can criticized Sergey a few years ago and keeps making jokes that reveal some
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by oldjokes 7y ago
If the reality is as you describe it then John Deere is effectively a government entity now, there is no way the feds/state would actually allow them to collapse and all those fields to die off. If you work at or buy John Deere product
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Which technologies? Teflon? Tang? Now that we have more and more of our country living either in prisons or under bridges than at any point in time, which of these amazing space technologies will most benefit the prison population/ment
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I stepped over human feces yet again this morning, how about some infrastructure to deal with that? "Incredible civilization" you say? For who?
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I'd be ok with calling Zuckerberg a good person if anything he has ever done has indicated he's honest or open to serious change. But he's not. The pattern is pretty clear. Ever since the Beacon fiasco he's been saying t
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I remember people expressing concerns about this exact scenario back when Oracle bought Sun. Reminds me of a James Gosling quote: "during the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent sit
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by oldjokes 7y ago
This one really freaks me out. Especially since many of the TOS are downright abusive. Discord, for example, reserves the right to read through and listen to all your communications and monetize that in any way and you agree to let them sel
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by oldjokes 7y ago
This is not a sustainable mindset.
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U.S. raises tariffs on Chinese imports from 10% to 25% effective May 10(twitter.com)
3 points by oldjokes 7y ago|0 comments
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Yes this. I have gone through insane numbers of CFLs and LEDs over the past ~20 years of being a homeowner. They fail, they buzz, they flicker, they fail more. I would have saved money and the landfills would be better for it if I just stuc
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by oldjokes 7y ago
This is hilarious, if you actually do this you should make videos where you tell jokes or just film yourself silently drinking for an hour while waiting. Instant viral success.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Google and Amazon are ruthlessly strangling tech startups and smaller mom & pop shops that latch on to something and see a big spike in sales. They have all the data on these companies already, and people are just waiting to jump in and
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I have not thought about it like this before but I think you truly might be onto something.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I think that even the most naive facebook fan out there doesn’t believe Zuckerberg’s born again moment line about privacy when everything he has done his whole life is to destroy all privacy worldwide and monetize it as ruthlessly as possib
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The UK has gone six days without burning coal(bloomberg.com)
4 points by oldjokes 7y ago|2 comments
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I went in a few months to get a hardware thing fixed with an appointment set and nobody helped me. I waited for like 10 minutes past by appointment time and everyone was booked up. I tried pestering people but everyone was helping someone e
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by oldjokes 7y ago
It's almost surreal reading through the comments in this thread. I'm so used to the internet being a constant wave of negativity and hatred of everyone, especially in recent years. This thread is such a nice break from that, feels
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Microsoft is going to ship a full Linux kernel in Windows 10(theverge.com)
313 points by oldjokes 7y ago|134 comments
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Amazon fired these 7 pregnant workers. Then came the lawsuits(cnet.com)
4 points by oldjokes 7y ago|0 comments
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Right now it's not super scary, but in 10 or 20 years it's conceivable that Amazon becomes effectively a state-run entity like the telecoms are now, and then you could start imagining all sorts of awful cyberpunk storylines.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Yeah clearly they are throwing a lot of spaghetti at things, I don't know that that's necessarily bad. At least they are trying to do so openly and in a API-centric way instead of just building the garden walls higher like every o

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