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by xyst 2y ago
Probably a class action lawsuit in the future, if one does not already exist. Jail time? Probably not, we let health insurance companies get away with taking away critical needs from patients and delaying care in the name of delivering shar
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by xyst 2y ago
They don’t give a shit about privacy directly but GM was egregious in collecting this data - confusing consumers - sneakily signing up consumers to “smart driver” as part of onstar - data brokers subsequently building profiles on users and
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by xyst 2y ago
> Our apps are blazing fast (<500ms screen loads) I frequently encounter Shopify e-commerce in the wild, and it’s my most disliked experience. From browsing the stores to checkout, it always feels clunky. I always shrugged it off as i
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by xyst 2y ago
I experienced this earlier in the week. Didn’t realize it was an upstream issue. I ended up re-installing docker which somehow fixed the issue. Work machine is managed by orgs fleet management software (jamf?) and thought it was an issue on
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by xyst 2y ago
+1 for hosting my own e-mail server. Haven’t looked back.
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by xyst 2y ago
An ad masquerading as “insight” is nothing new in this space. Author is eating up the NVDA marketing and joining the cult.
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by xyst 2y ago
I’ll wait for the benchmarks. NVDA marketing is known to oversell.
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by xyst 2y ago
You either die as a white hat or live long enough to see yourself become a black hat.
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by xyst 2y ago
What a joke. Urban areas have been gutted so suburbanites can travel by car, park their metal death box, and travel back to their shitty home for decades. Urban areas have also been subsidizing roads mostly used by suburban assholes. Then w
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by xyst 2y ago
In addition to the obvious improvements to pedestrian safety with less vehicles on the road. Air quality in these areas is going to improve vastly. This needs to be implemented in every major metropolitan area.
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by xyst 2y ago
Yet another reason to self host your VCS. Only thing hosted to “the cloud” these days are my backups - split between S3 and GCS. ~$25/mo
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by xyst 2y ago
> How are you getting uranium at scale? Mining. > What do you need to mine at scale? O&G. So existing workforce in mines and O&G can transition to new green economy. Gotcha… > Nuclear also has extremely high upfront costs w
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by xyst 2y ago
> You ain't building a solar array or a mega windmill farm in Appalachia - it is a significant upfront cost and very challenging. Why is it only limited to solar or wind? Nuclear is a viable option and requires a shit ton of people
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by xyst 2y ago
The number of companies peddling “0 sugar” drinks but the list of ingredients shows a shit ton of sugar substitutes is wild to me. Have met people that think their “diet” drink is healthy because the stupid label says “zero sugar!!” Thus t
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by xyst 2y ago
Instead of “suing ExxonMobil” (what a joke, basically just blank checks to lawyers), why don’t these billionaire assholes invest in green energy to compete in areas where O&G / coal is dominant - Great Appalachia, Permian Basin, an
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by xyst 2y ago
So it’s the end of Wordpress, within a decade if it continues at its current trajectory. Drupal community to benefit here tremendously. As well as consultant work to migrate away from WP
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by xyst 2y ago
Dude has gone full Elon at this point. Why hasn’t WP 86’d this guy?
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by xyst 2y ago
This is an awful PR situation for UW. Whoever thought they could hold a students ability to graduate hostage in exchange for _free_/slave labor is fucking insane. The people behind that decision need to be publicly named and subsequent
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by xyst 2y ago
$2K, straight from nvidia and retailers. But after the scalpers, LLM companies and crypto miners, it will be $4K or more
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by xyst 2y ago
At these prices: > … Jan. 30 at $1,999 and $999, respectively. At least we are getting more VRAM and wider memory width at 32G and 512-bits, respectively [1] I’ll still wait for the reviews though. [1] https://www.nvidia.com&#
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by xyst 2y ago
As with “plastic bag bans”, and any other progressive program like “congestion pricing” aimed at reducing our collective dependency on O&G, plastic junk, and general waste. The incoming administration, auto industry, and O&G industr
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by xyst 2y ago
The 10th remake of Demolition Man in 2090 is going to wild
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by xyst 2y ago
Logistics of getting clean water, electricity, reliable internet, and food is going to be literal hell. Then there's managing fecal matter and other waste management.
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by xyst 2y ago
Sam Altman is just yet another pawn used by billionaires to make the billionaire class even richer, push de-regulation propaganda, and push awful neo-liberalism economics.
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by xyst 2y ago
The "reflections" read as if it was generated by chatgpt itself, smh.
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by xyst 2y ago
So Sam Altman is looking to keep the grift alive, gotcha
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by xyst 2y ago
> I’ll die on this hill. Same. I found a setting in legacy outlook to force all e-mails to be in plain text. So every corporate email I reply to, converts the product owners html formatted emails into junk. Gives me a little joy that the
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by xyst 2y ago
You can have all of this fancy security. But at the end of the day, the weakest and most vulnerable link in the chain is the human.
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by xyst 2y ago
Does this also mean exploiting their cheap/slave labor for manufacturing and importing materials is also off the table? Very naive to think the incoming US administration would do anything to help the middle class. He sold voters as “A
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by xyst 2y ago
> Young Canadians doubly so. Racism is becoming more acceptable by the day. Always has been. Well at least in my experience in online gaming with a small portion of French Canadians.

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