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by pyman 1y ago
Mark Zuckerberg hiring top AI researchers worries me more than Iran hiring nuclear scientists.
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Do people pay for knowledge or attention? Because let's be honest, most of the podcasts and books out there already contain more knowledge and wisdom than anyone needs to be successful in any profession.
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I played video games for two hours a day since I was 8, watched TV for about an hour a day, did well at school, had lots of friends, played all kinds of sports, went out a lot, and never had any mental health issues. Same with my brothers a
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by pyman 1y ago
Hype marketing can look spontaneous, but it's almost always planned. And once the momentum starts, others jump in. Influencers and opportunists ride the wave to promote themselves
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by pyman 1y ago
Who said: Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people?
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Pickleball was invented in Washington too. Probably another side effect of lead exposure and breathing in leaded gasoline fumes. Or at least, that's what tennis players like to believe :)
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I think we're seeing a wave of hype marketing on YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn, where people with big followings create posts or videos full with buzzwords (MCP, vibe coding, AI, models, agentic) with the sole purpose of promoting a pr
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by pyman 1y ago
I see. Thanks for the info.
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Right, and that's kind of the point. A small group still finds immense value in it, but for the majority, the appeal has faded or been replaced by other forms of music. It doesn't mean the compositions aren't brilliant, it ju
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Paywall
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Facebook is way worse than Instagram. I've never, ever seen an algorithm as evil and anti-social as the one Facebook's programmers created. At one point, it was showing my family and friends a comment my cousin had made about a po
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Is he remembered for his personality or his music? I'm asking because I find it fascinating how some music from 100 years ago still holds value today.
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The joy of deleting Facebook in 2021 is something I'll never be able to put into words. A company that's right up there with gambling and tobacco: designed to keep you hooked, no matter the cost.
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How did we end up in this mess? Back in the early 2000s, innovation in software development was booming. IDEs actually helped you build stuff. You had Visual Component Libraries, drag and drop interfaces, proper GUIs. Visual Basic, Delphi,
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Well written article. Quick question: do big tech companies actually pay taxes in the US? In Europe, according to a documentary I watched on YouTube, they don't. Most of the profits get routed through Luxembourg. The problem seems to b
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I still remember the day I uninstalled Facebook and Instagram: 19 March 2021. Best day of my life.
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This is a great idea. At work we're only allowed to use .NET because Microsoft donated the licences. But I run some unofficial workshops on weekends where we use Python, TypeScript and Ruby. Any chance there's something similar fo
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How did Apple get away with all this? They went from having a visionary to a mercenary as CEO.
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This reminds me of the day I found an old storage disk, an ancient "floppy disk", in my dad's attic. It had a label that said: "Tommy’s bookmarks". My mum doesn't remember any of his friends or colleagues named
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LinkedIn Is a Fucked Up Circus – Flee(medium.com)
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We need to be honest about this. JavaScript created loads of jobs, helped people buy houses and raise families. That's real impact, and I respect that. But I can't help wondering: did we choose it because it was the best tool, or
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I agree. Breaking up Big Tech might seem like going after windmills but maybe it's time to protect our local industries before we're all stuck buying abroad from monopolies that dictate what we see, buy and even think. A bit of pr
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I think big tech companies take risks, calculated ones, and they're masters of prioritisation. Pushing AI to devices was a smart move by Apple. They're great at giving developers cutting-edge tools to keep an edge in app quality.
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It just makes you wonder why Apple is so behind with its apps. I remember when Android was the one struggling to catch up, but now the tables have turned. A friend of mine was able to remove people from a photo ages ago, something that only
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Same here. I managed to see a video on the App Store. It creates a video with a waveform and the audio you recorded. I like it! It would be great if I could also add some pictures and have it create transitions while the audio plays. If I o
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"We're not building Iron Man robots. We're building Iron Man suits"
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Black mirror season 8? xD
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I asked my students to write a joke about AI. Sometimes humor is the best way to get people to talk about their fears without filters. One of them wrote: "I went to work early that day and noticed my monitor was on, and code was being
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Government officials were asking Microsoft Clippy (the only virtual assistant with clearance) to create a national defense roadmap for the next five years, but kept getting the same response: "Hi there. It looks like you're trying
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Good points. I agree that for most companies using centralised systems offers more advantages because of efficiency, control and user experience, but I wasn't arguing that decentralisation is better technically, just wondering if it mi

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