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by zanny 7y ago
The valuation was largely over the general hype for self-driving vehicles. Those who thought they were imminent must have just been ignorant to how slow regulation moves and how risk averse corporations are to the potential fallout of being
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Regardless, AMD would have to two by an order of magnitude to be "on Intels level". They have a long way to go to stop being an underdog.
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I wish the industry would move to transistors per mm or something instead of bongus "nm" numbers that are meaningless - 91 to 171 MTr/mm^2 even sounds more impressive then whatever 7 to 5 nm means.
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They also have a great podcast!
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I never said not to. But complaining on the platform itself is not petitioning your representatives to regulate Twitter. Its wasting time and throwing words into a bottomless hole. And given the studies showing how little the will of the pe
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Trying to make a slippery slope argument about a private corporations private, for-profit website is hilarious. Twitter will do whatever the hell it wants on its own property and has no obligation to listen to anyone except the voice of 5
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Not since 1913 and the 17th amendment. The senate almost made sense when it was the states appointing their senators - now with direct election it is just a grossly biased legislative body where even in the smallest states each senator is m
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Your IP is assigned on rotation by your upstream ISP, your router doesn't get to pick when the address changes unless you contact them and ask to have it changed.
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It's a fearmongering technique to defend the status quo to say one must defend capitalism because the only other option is a totalitarian Stalinist cult of personality dystopia. It does, however, reflect on the structural complexity of
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This is also the corporatists argument for a high minimum wage - the higher the cost of labor the more aggregate pressure to automate it away. And the more abrupt the upset the more likely the necessary cultural shift occurs. The alternativ
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These companies will treat streaming like they treat all other markets dominated by networking effects and mindshare - dig into their vast scrooge mcduck money pits they have been accumulating (mostly internationally) for the last 10 years
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> run the rest off Yes, its sure to solve their homeless problem by putting them on a bus and dropping them in a desert. I mean, it will solve their homelessness problem. When they are dead. That is such a gross and inhumane way to appro
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And those policies, internationally, alienate the disenfranchized and lead them to a life of crime and likely an early grave. Asia has a bit of an escape hatch in how essential and inescapable family is - its rare you have someone so thorou
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Red Hat has already announced their intent to maintain Python 2 in RHEL for ~4 years.
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Its trivial to devise rules of a discourse that selectively lock out certain ideologies from participating. You can easily use such a system to suppress speech you disagree with as much as you would by just banning them. Its totally in Twit
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Meanwhile the NSA records and analyzes every communication (that they can see, at least) you make over the Internet, and has probably megabytes worth of per-person profile information on a large chunk of the world population.
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> without any protections there to make it worth your while You are still approaching it from the "make it for free, charge for the result" model incompatible with reality. If there is something worth doing that will radicall
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I think it has to do with the commoditization of image. In the early Internet we didn't have centralized social media so going to a new place and experimenting didn't have ramifications across your social circles via platforms att
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You can make a game today in Godot / Unity, export to HTML5, and drop it on itch.io to play in browser in minutes.
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What we had 20 years ago was an insecurable proprietary plugin for web browsers. It wasn't standard, nobody could audit it, it was just a corporate product. And where we are at now, where Macromedia got bought and Adobe slowly drained
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by zanny 7y ago
Unity also does animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8NeB10INDo But it gets really pedantic arguing the semantics of web flash - fundamentally it was only showing on a web page because you installed the browser plugi
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Flash was fundamentally just a file format. You made the format using the program in the same way you make a Photoshop file in Photoshop. It was a noun and a verb because you make thing and both the part that makes and the part made are cal
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> Where can I send a kid to learn to play with software and not have it all break six months later, rendering the learning useless? If you had a Pentium 1 PC, would you not still be able to run DOS and BASIC on it? Software "breakin
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The My Little Pony show just ended and it used Flash for 9 seasons. Most modern cartoons use ToonBoom though.
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Theres also OpenToonz and Synfig as other open source options
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This is a chicken and egg fallacy. You can't tell what would or would not be made in the absence of an incentive that has never not been provided. > Would you rather they didn't have the option which would result in the effort
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It more generally burns me out that we as a society still feel it is necessary to construct and reinforce so arbitrary an apparatus as copyright to substantially stymie the tremendous potential information exchange of computer networks. Of
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The large organizations you want to do business with want confidence provided by large organizations as to the authenticity of your transactions and the legitimacy of your payment method. Practically every store that took bitcoin used bitpa
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My argument is more that if you do "fight" the hierarchy, you are doing it as charity. People are paid exorbitant amounts to analyze and structure corporate cultures efficiently, way more than any of the grunt developers will be,
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People really hate to acknowledge that working for most corporations, especially big public tech giants, is not them being welcomed in to change the world and blaze trails but to write code for their boss.

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