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by tavavex 7mo ago
Microcontrollers are great. But a lot of people who use them were bridged over by an interest in PCs, hardware or building something that interacts with something they already use. If free computing goes away, how long until the interest in
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by tavavex 7mo ago
That I agree with. I'm just also making the point that the silver lining had always existed, since similar fully-integrated products go back decades. The end seems inevitable to me now, and there's no good to be found there. We al
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by tavavex 7mo ago
The ability to unlock the bootloader on most vendors has already degraded from "Do whatever you want!" to "Here, jump through these hoops here, give us all your data and wait a long time" to "What? No of course you
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by tavavex 7mo ago
The thesis wouldn't be "completely derailed", just slightly delayed. The reasons why the powers above are pushing for that dystopian model aren't contingent on AI. If it all went away, we'd have a surge of hardware
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by tavavex 7mo ago
What are the upsides? You only listed a few things that you like, but not why they should take over all parts of the PC market. The only factor I can think of is size, but those small all-in-one computers are already widely available now wi
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by tavavex 7mo ago
TCAS is much simpler than your proposal. Ensuring that traffic can't get too close to you in midair is a different problem from analyzing complex, non-linear movements at tightly-packed airports. How do you implement this system while
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by tavavex 7mo ago
This test is completely insane. What were the people making it thinking? It feels like half of the scored questions have point values assigned at random. Why does being unemployed for 1-2 months before enrolling in the program award you 10
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by tavavex 7mo ago
> I still don't understand the logic that any job is safe from ai (if it lives up to expectations). Sure, it might not be directly impacted by ai but why is there this expectation that the excess labour from those directly impacted
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by tavavex 7mo ago
Some of the trades are non-negotiables that have to be done regardless of the current economic situation. They'll be hurt too by the overall cheapening of labor, but those have the best odds of making it through.
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by tavavex 7mo ago
Why have fast food restaurants at all at that point? Just have everyone eat the same mass-produced, nutritionally-optimized substance, and use the AR vision to superimpose pretty pictures over that food. Varied meals are for the rich.
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by tavavex 7mo ago
You don't exist for something. You simply exist. What you choose to do with that existence is up to you. I've yet to see any evidence to the contrary.
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by tavavex 7mo ago
I didn't realize who he was until I looked up the name. I'm just too young to have heard it from real life, and also I'm not great at names. I assumed he was someone known in the industry, but not literally the founder of Y C
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by tavavex 7mo ago
> A flat tire is a flat tire, no matter whether a recession is going on or whether LLMs are causing chaos in white collar work. If I had no debt and a little bit saved up I might just content myself with a humble moat like that. Bad idea
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by tavavex 7mo ago
Do you think all software demands are completely elastic? I don't share your confidence, it feels like it's applying the desired conclusion to the premise. For sure, newer technology prompts new solutions and new tools to use with
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by tavavex 7mo ago
What if you weren't in the industry for several years or more? New grads are completely walled off from the industry because very few employers are willing to give them a shot anymore, even at minimum wage and no other demands from thi
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by tavavex 7mo ago
> On the other hand, what kind of wimpy ambition do you have if it won't survive having kids? Do you have so little to spare? I don't know, it seems like parenthood asks for a lot to be given up. Younger people like myself are
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by tavavex 7mo ago
That huge mental burden is entirely self-inflicted, though. It's not a fair comparison to the physical burden that is unavoidable. Growing up in a more conservative society, I've seen many people with that parenting style, who oft
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by tavavex 7mo ago
> Google is not going to let their main phone app product become associated with Grandma losing her savings! How did they manage to survive as the grandma-account-draining brand for over 15 years, though? They're still the market le
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by tavavex 7mo ago
> "That's just FURTHER PROOF that you're secretly trying to destroy my phone." What a ridiculous strawman. I outlined a specific issue with what they introduced. To make it even more clear - the new flow Google create
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by tavavex 7mo ago
That's not what I meant. I wasn't talking about replicating the popularity (that never materialized), but about getting on the hype train of selling people nothing for something.
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by tavavex 7mo ago
The part in the flow where you select between allowing app installs for 7 days or forever is a glimpse into the future. That toggle shows the thought process that's going on at Google. I can bet that a few versions down the line, the &
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by tavavex 7mo ago
I think the Oculus Quest 2 was the first one to release with a Facebook requirement, but it was still Oculus-branded. It was this headset that they swapped out the branding on when they renamed themselves to Meta. Earlier models still have
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by tavavex 7mo ago
While simultaneously renaming the VR headsets to also use Meta branding instead of Oculus, even though Oculus was a great brand and the most recognizable name in the VR industry. What made it worse is that by that point they'd produced
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by tavavex 7mo ago
I didn't know that many brands had their own bespoke fonts. Especially the less prominent players like Colgate or Korean Air. Was this caused by normal font licensing being so restrictive or expensive that they just decided to hire som
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by tavavex 7mo ago
I think the analogy is a bit inaccurate here when people are talking about automation. Microwaves do one thing, but they do it reliably. Microwaves didn't affect the culinary industry because cooking is far more than just heating food,
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by tavavex 8mo ago
> Anyone who knows anything about Carmack knows that he has trouble empathizing. Can you give some examples, outside of this post? I only know about Carmack by the things he'd worked on, but not anything personal like this. This wou
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by tavavex 8mo ago
You have a package delivery business. The business is stable and optimized, serving all houses in your city. Each courier has a route planned out that they follow each day. They take 8 hours to complete the route and deliver to each house a
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by tavavex 8mo ago
Most LLMs are trained on a lot of the source code for many open-source projects. This 'project' has the whole song-and-dance about never seeing the source code and separating the system to skirt around legal trouble. Why didn&#x27
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by tavavex 8mo ago
This is extremely good satire. Question is, why hasn't anyone done this for real? There's enough people with the right knowledge and who would love to destroy open source for personal gain. Is it that this kind of service would be
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by tavavex 8mo ago
What's this 'fun' you mention? As far as the incentives in our systems are concerned, anything that's not done in pursuit of monetary gain is certifiably insane. What really matters in life is using all the tricks, manip

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