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by sph 4mo ago
I know, I wasn’t disagreeing
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by sph 4mo ago
I’ve been hearing ‘oh this will set a precedent there is no turning back from’ weekly since Jan 2025. It’s like the frog commenting that the 80C water is about to get hotter.
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by sph 4mo ago
Until a few minutes ago, Iran did technically win the war.
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by sph 4mo ago
> For decades people have proclaimed that we can fix things in the next election The secret of modern democracy is figuring out 2/4 years is how long it takes for people to forget the electoral promises that weren’t delivered upon.
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by sph 4mo ago
Are vibecoders working less? I don't think so. I've seen people with a dozen Claude windows open, and I'd rather go dig mud than working like that. There is no universe where you can call that programming despite the end prod
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by sph 4mo ago
Hype manifest
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by sph 4mo ago
Still waiting for these ‘replacements’ to arrive. What’s likely is that people will fork, decide to go all in on maintaining with LLMs, and die pretty early because of rapidly increasing tech debt, while the original project keeps chugging
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by sph 4mo ago
Use the x11 build. It’s night and day
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by sph 4mo ago
It is still amazing to me that so many people don't get this fact. It doesn't matter where your company is incorporated, you'll be liable to pay the taxes where you live . And if you think the revenue service of your country
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by sph 4mo ago
https://github.com/tanrax/emacs-gpu/blob/main/.github/assets... This massive speed-up on 4K screens makes me want to try it. The wayland pgtk version has such terrible latency I have to use the X1
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by sph 4mo ago
> Inflation is an average of many things What other things have been getting cheaper in the last ~2 years? And as it's an average of many things, it's quite easy to change which 'things' it is calculated upon to show
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by sph 4mo ago
It's not parents demanding 'age verification' laws.
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by sph 4mo ago
Anything to stop looking at what's going on in their banana republic. With their exceptionalism being as strong as ever, now that they're frustrated they jump at the chance to gloat at the 'europoors'.
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by sph 4mo ago
They honestly think they're doing the world a favour, and their AI slop is helpful. It is clear by now that there are a lot of people with not a great deal of self-awareness.
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by sph 4mo ago
Yeah, ease of doing business is always proportional to the amount of money you spend to grease the wheels of bureaucracy, so to speak.
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by sph 4mo ago
Is it as tortuous to open a self-trader account with VAT ID, or is it just to found a company (the German equivalent of an ltd)?
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by sph 4mo ago
Here's a follow-up business idea: make your game fun in one prompt. I don't know why game devs spend millions of man-hours tuning multiplayer, one of the hardest problems in computing, or prototyping fun games, arguably even harde
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by sph 4mo ago
With everybody investing on index funds, directly or indirectly through their 401k, does economics ever have a time to catch up? Being out of the market during the crazy hype means losing out on "easy" gains, so basically it keeps
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by sph 4mo ago
Sure, but my point is that there are a number of Israeli tech businesses that are morally loathsome, it's not just the people in power.
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by sph 4mo ago
In other words: - enter a market - become a monopoly - use those monopoly profits to maintain your monopoly A playbook that's very much alive in all big tech companies, from Apple to Oracle.
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by sph 4mo ago
> I realize you're aiming at Americans in general, but I'm Canadian. Same difference.
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by sph 4mo ago
Some people rent. Some people can't afford one. Some people, like me, are in a short-term let in a country where it doesn't make sense to buy appliances if you're to leave after a few weeks. Now that I had to explain my perso
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by sph 4mo ago
Different meanings in closely related contexts is exactly the point of OP and GP. If you search for 'rust crypto', you get results for Rust cryptographic packages as well as Rust in the cryptocurrency space (as it's become ve
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by sph 4mo ago
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by sph 4mo ago
I don’t know what are people commenting on. I see a README with little to no information about what this is, what problems it solves, just links to its Flatbuffer description and a directory full of source code. What context am I missing?
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by sph 4mo ago
I did. Israel is with North Korea at the bottom of the list of countries I'd do business with. In fact, it's worse: my problem with NK is with its leadership, as I don't have anything against its citizens. I can't say th
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by sph 4mo ago
McDonalds serves a need: human tend to get hungry. What need does filling the Internet with AI-generated slop serve? No one is ever going to read those. As I've shown, sometimes they're not even selling anything. The multi-trillio
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by sph 4mo ago
> There is no insight to be gleamed. AI-generated articles are the intellectual equivalent of empty calories. I have just spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure out why someone decided to buy imgui.org, name-squatting an actual proje
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by sph 4mo ago
Thank you, I found your comment wondering yet again if I should make a Mastodon or BlueSky account. I guess the choice really is if you want to put up with furries, or you want to put up with American politics and culture war (for completen
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by sph 4mo ago
Best for consuming ragebait? Reddit Best for producing ragebait? X

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