santoshalper

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by santoshalper 10mo ago
Bullshitting, inspiring, and marketing are just three different words for the same thing.
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by santoshalper 10mo ago
It also didn't always work. At no point did the MacBook boot nearly as instantly as an iPad. That said, Jobs' obsession with UX was a powerful driving force and your point stands.
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by santoshalper 10mo ago
Enjoy your tacky, Vista-esque, liquid glass.
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by santoshalper 10mo ago
Using "easy listening" as a pejorative has always baffled me. Why does music need to be difficult?
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by santoshalper 11mo ago
The facts you quoted just made me even more convinced that space-based datacenters will not be cost effective any time soon. If an entire generation of satellites costing many billions of dollars can't power more GPUs than a single ter
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by santoshalper 11mo ago
It's developed by UNSW Sydney, whose mascot is a Lion. (Specifically, "Clancy the Lion"), so I am guessing it's probably that.
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by santoshalper 11mo ago
Yeah, this is clearly a person going through a mental health crisis. Sorry for them.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Dude is a staff engineer, not a CTO.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
No. Awful people are tearing American apart. Not the moral courage to condemn them.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
I think mass murder is one area where we can safely feel moral outrage. It might not work, but it probably has a better chance of influencing the outcome than shrugging and saying "well, that's just how it is".
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Yeah, probably, but you don't have to be a martyr for the cause if it means not being able to go home.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Since the election, we have social and institutional norms be torn down or routed around time and time again. While I agree that I have not seen this specific situation yet, I think you'd be a fool to blithely assume it will not happen
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Well, they do have $330M in revenue and the product is all over the place, so I'm not sure your hypothesis is correct. Many people simply don't share your view "if you're going to eat vegetarian, eat vegetarian". I
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by santoshalper 1y ago
I think the idea was that Beyond Meat would be a "transitional" product that would provide an ever growing vegetarian/vegan population an option that was familiar to them. For example, if you do not care about celebrating veg
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by santoshalper 1y ago
I'm really impressed by how Mauro handles himself in the face of a huge man-baby temper tantrum.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Really interesting, but the writing was so bad I had to bail out halfway through.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Yeah, I get that pop-sci writers don't want to scare off their audiences with hard science, but at least a callout with a couple of cited sources would help add a lot of credibility.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
I had slightly below average respiratory health due to childhood asthma, but after having COVID, it has been much worse. It sucks to think I missed the vaccine by only a few weeks - I might have still gotten COVID but the symptoms would hav
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Whenever people say things like this "the universe is too weird not to have been created", I always ask "Weird compared to what? To other realities you have witnessed?" The safest assumption to make, if you absolutely ha
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by santoshalper 1y ago
What's dangerous about him?
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by santoshalper 1y ago
I see this as much more of a hackers vs. corporations ideological split. Which imperfectly maps to leftism vs conservatism. The perception on the left is that once again, corporations are foisting products on us that nobody wants, with no c
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Or an ideological alignment of values. Generative AI is strongly associated with large corporations that are untrusted (to put it generously) by those on the left. An equivalent observation might be that the only people who seem really, rea
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Hacker News is primarily read by young, affluent, intelligent men. In the old days, people like us would often fall hard for Ayn Rand's bullshit (I know I did!), now they fall for this new bullshit. Really, it's the same thing tho
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by santoshalper 1y ago
You should disabuse yourself of the notion that concepts like personal discipline, contentiousness, and integrity are somehow "conservative" values. They are not in either sense of the word conservative. Certainly from a politic
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Nah, back then we paid for bandwidth by the kb.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
As a long time ACLU financial supporter, I could not disagree more. 4chan is not and never was a bastion of free speech. Comparing 4chan to the ACLU is like comparing a toddler smearing shit on a wall to art. To practice free speech require
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Imaging dedicating hundreds or thousands of unpaid hours of your life to protect and preserve what amounts to a truck stop toilet. What a total fucking waste. They should, in fact, give up and use the time for literally anything else.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
If gaming is important to you, build a good desktop gaming PC. If you enjoy games casually and don't want the money/hassle of a gaming desktop, get a Playstation, Switch, Steam Deck, or buy a lower-end gaming laptop. If you enjoy
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Per year.
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by santoshalper 1y ago
Gotta love the irrational exuberance of Mac users.

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