pelotron

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by pelotron 9d ago
Probably the concentration of a too-big-to-fail percentage of capital into a single digit number of tech companies, many of whom are engaging in circular financing deals between one another while also ransacking the entire consumer electron
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by pelotron 9d ago
I appreciate your optimistic view of it. What I got out of it was that Covid was a sort of dress rehearsal for a far worse outbreak that could eventually happen, and we (Americans) failed miserably.
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by pelotron 16d ago
Sounds like a mighty fine watch. Simple, cheap, fulfills requirements with no scope creep.
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by pelotron 24d ago
I've always enjoyed the question, "how many layers of profit are between you and your doctor?"
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by pelotron 29d ago
This past weekend I was flying on Delta and my first flight was delayed such that I was going to miss my connecting flight, so I rebooked onto a later one. During my layover I visited the gate agent to get a boarding pass with a seat assig
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by pelotron 1mo ago
They could prompt the AI to scroll up and copy their previous prompts for them.
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by pelotron 2mo ago
What if we build our whole economy on that belief?
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by pelotron 2mo ago
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by pelotron 2mo ago
I have plenty of things to hide from Google which is the primary reason I use it.
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by pelotron 2mo ago
Back in the day the city installed a new streetlight that blinded anyone sitting on the front porch of my grandparents' house, which they liked to do in the evening. So Granddad got out a painter's pole and rolled some white pain
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by pelotron 3mo ago
No one's made a MechaHitler joke yet?
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by pelotron 3mo ago
I can't believe a developer would make a mistake like this. That's just unreal.
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by pelotron 3mo ago
"AI promises to change the world for the better" - so far it's clear the world will be better for a few people. A promise that it will be better for everyone reads like "trust me, bro." "Blockers need to be
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by pelotron 3mo ago
A question for the ages. indie games community has joined the chat
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by pelotron 3mo ago
Just give her a little of the ole "works on my machine."
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by pelotron 4mo ago
Why not ask an LLM to summarize it for you if you don't have the patience to sit with some prose for a bit.
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by pelotron 4mo ago
I love how "post scarcity world" is tossed around as if the earth has infinite natural resources.
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by pelotron 4mo ago
My question exactly. So far it seems like they are either incompetent or nihilistic, both of which exclude them from my trust.
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by pelotron 4mo ago
Now we're talking.
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by pelotron 4mo ago
No, yes, and yes.
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by pelotron 4mo ago
Or this is finally their chance to be the smart guy who was in on the ground floor.
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by pelotron 4mo ago
At the end of the day it comes down to how much money your principles are worth. People are commenting about dentists and doctors being bought out. Those strike me as the kind of people that can afford retirement without also contributing
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by pelotron 4mo ago
I think the skepticism was the sincerity they were looking for.
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by pelotron 4mo ago
"Long-time pillar of the community pediatrician unveils true self by selling practice to Devil"
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by pelotron 4mo ago
I think it's totally appropriate to hold it against them if they knowingly sell out to scumbags. Society used to look down on selling out. We wrote songs about it. But in 2026 it is glorified.
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by pelotron 5mo ago
I think there are details being left out. But several people in the comments indicate that there is a Toyota app that provides various features. I bet the app implements some proprietary bluetooth service that the head unit connects to an
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by pelotron 5mo ago
Then all you have to do is magically convince the owners of the magic robot to give all their products away for free.
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by pelotron 5mo ago
We shouldn't be surprised people have a negative view of AI when Altman et al. have stated on stage that the goal is to replace everyone.
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by pelotron 5mo ago
My embedded systems company has a very strict code quality standard that requires every single patch to be reviewed. This can be very time consuming especially when reviewing the deeper tech modules that have few experts. Imagining what i
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by pelotron 5mo ago
Then they build new stadiums that are physically larger but have fewer seats.

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