palata

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by palata 7mo ago
> We need both. What for?
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by palata 7mo ago
> Android can't stop copying GOS. Well that's a good thing, isn't it?
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by palata 7mo ago
I disagree. Look at how many people work in robotics versus how many people are astronauts... Do you really think that the job is completely different for workers between building a rocket sending a robot and building a rocket sending human
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by palata 7mo ago
I am fine with your preference being "I don't give a shit, I find it cool to send humans there". But you seem to say "this is just the beginning of space exploration, and it will bring massive benefits to humanity",
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by palata 7mo ago
Agreed. I wouldn't have bought an annual subscription under the current conditions.
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by palata 7mo ago
> We may very well look back on the last couple years as the golden era of subsidized GenAI compute. Looks like enshittification on steroids, honestly.
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by palata 7mo ago
> In the future when we go further it will be useful in ways we can’t imagine today. There. Is. No. Further. That's my issue with all that. It's pretty basic: check how far the next solar system is (I know you don't: it&
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by palata 7mo ago
There may have been life on Mars. The day a human lands there, it will contaminate it. If we find traces of life after a human has landed there, we will never know if we brought it there or not. This is a massive loss for real science.
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by palata 7mo ago
Do actual science. Send robots there, like Curiosity and Perseverance. And over all: start recognising that there is no point in sending humans to Mars other than "uh uh it's cool we sent someone there and they came back alive&quo
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by palata 7mo ago
> but it happens to be NASA's opinion as well. Of course, not only they depend on it, but also they love doing that. And as an engineer of course I find it cool. That's not a reason to say it's useful though. > landing
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by palata 7mo ago
Curiosity, Perseverance, Rosetta. Those are science and discovery. Sending people in space? Mostly cool engineering.
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by palata 7mo ago
Do you think they would say "with the same budget we can obviously make better science with unmanned missions, but people find the manned ones cooler"?
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by palata 7mo ago
Agreed. I have been repeating how much I think this is all useless (sending humans in space, that is), but I will admit: watching the reentry was something. Because it's useless doesn't mean it is not cool. Sport and art are &quot
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by palata 7mo ago
> an emphasis on science and discovery Sorry, what science and discovery is that bringing? I mean it's technically really cool , but I fail to see the science and discovery there.
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by palata 7mo ago
> An incredible reminder of what humanity can do Yep, while we are measurably destroying the Earth's biodiversity orders of magnitudes faster than the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs. And this is without global warming,
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by palata 7mo ago
> but we really are gearing up for Mars. Which again is cool, but useless. And actually counter-productive, because we risk contaminating Mars with organic stuff coming from the Earth.
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by palata 7mo ago
I totally agree on the fact that it is very cool and very impressive . But it doesn't mean that it is useful . It's mostly cool.
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by palata 7mo ago
No, it's a quadcopter setup, but simulated in a 2D world (I guess for simplicity). A bi-copter would require tiltrotors, which is different.
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by palata 7mo ago
Right, that sucks. But the service could also only allow you to use the Google SSO, it's not really a problem coming from the passkeys...
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by palata 7mo ago
It was a lot more fun than I first thought!
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by palata 7mo ago
I didn't know Filestash, but it looks great!
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by palata 7mo ago
Or you spend 5 minutes reading about them and use a passkey you actually own? Many times, people choose TooBigTech. People are generally waaaay too lazy to even consider spending some brain cycles on that.
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by palata 7mo ago
I have never had a successful experience getting someone to try something better, but different . In my experience, people fight for the enshittification they know. Asking someone to install Signal is already the end of the world, trying
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by palata 7mo ago
> At this point people will move to I think most people just don't care about their computer. Most people just use whatever they are told to use at work.
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by palata 7mo ago
I think it's just like in software in general: most software is bad, but it doesn't mean that all software is bad and unnecessary. Most security is done badly, but it doesn't mean that security is unnecessary. But I agree:
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by palata 7mo ago
Can you call yourself "power user" when your point is that switching away from Windows is too hard for you?
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by palata 7mo ago
> It's fascinating that only the US can make good computers. Lenovo is Chinese, right? Xiaomi, Samsung... can you really not name one non-US company making computers?
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by palata 7mo ago
> It would be an even better move to allow those in Europe or indeed the rest of the world to also benefit. Those initiatives are usually open source. It's just that many times, each country wants to make their own. But it's st
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by palata 7mo ago
Yeah sorry, I was saying "frauds" for "bullshit", I guess? Lacking some vocabulary to express this in a nuanced way. To be fair, many times founders are extremely convinced about their idea, they don't necessarily c
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by palata 7mo ago
VCs have no clue. They have money and therefore they are in a dominant position. Everybody around them (professionally) is trying to flatter them and convince them that they should invest in their project. I had a few interactions with VCs

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