TheRealPomax

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by TheRealPomax 6d ago
Or they need the pay. It's all well and good to go "they could just leave" but then what? Spend 6 months looking for a new job only for everyone to go "sorry, the hundreds of thousands of layoffs from every other highly
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by TheRealPomax 6d ago
First off, RAM is not app size, and second, the point of having RAM is literally so it's there to be used. Sure, Chrome is absolute nonsense, but Electron is not Chrome, and an Electron app using 300 MB in memory where data needs to
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by TheRealPomax 7d ago
It's funny how folks can't even get that number right. Depending on how much you care to optimize, Electron adds 50 to 80 MB to your application. Those multi hundreds of megabyte apps? Yeah that's not because of electron, tha
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by TheRealPomax 8d ago
Those include the name of the company and actively marketed product. If Google rebranded to Winklemoops, and Android get renamed to Callithing, then the "Google" and "Android" trademarks would eventually expire due to tr
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by TheRealPomax 8d ago
Surely by literally saying "formerly Twitter", this is an admission of non-use, thus invalidating the trademark on the term as it is not just "not used for anything" but is explicitly being distanced from by X in writing
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by TheRealPomax 8d ago
I understand your frustration, it can be hard to hear that other people's experience of a technology is so different from your own that you cannot relate. I have misbehaved in this fashion for many people across the full spectrum from
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by TheRealPomax 9d ago
Except the law clearly says "deprive" not "provide". You'll have to show how folks are being deprived of water if you want to argue this line of reasoning, "providing contaminated water" is not covered by
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by TheRealPomax 11d ago
What do you mean "in trouble"? We're literally seeing that stonks go up when crime.
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by TheRealPomax 13d ago
you're confusing "value as a material" with "value as a currency". Currency is made up. Material properties are not. "If gold was cheaper" is literally "yes, everyone could wake up tomorrow and just d
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by TheRealPomax 15d ago
That's the fun thing about gold. It's literal gold, not numbers on a spreadsheet. Moving it really means moving it: bars are stamped and owned, and if the owner wants to move them, those bars need to get transported to wherever th
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by TheRealPomax 16d ago
not really, no. It'll happily show you IR (just point it at your remote control with the camera active, and press some buttons. Enjoy the light show on your screen that your eyes don't see).
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by TheRealPomax 20d ago
A laptop is whatever uses a rigid clamshell form factor with a screen that folds down over the keyboard. A screen with a flippy floppy detachable keyboard is not that, so: - A chrome book is a laptop, it uses the laptop form factor. - A Ste
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by TheRealPomax 22d ago
There is nothing special about making a computer that's unaffordable, irrespective of whether it's 2026 or 1989. If anything, it just shows how little they're trying.
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by TheRealPomax 25d ago
Sounds like you should read the article if you have questions about what the article is about?
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by TheRealPomax 25d ago
1. I've said this in real life 2. I've said this multiple times in real life because fuck FAANG 3. that's a new one for me 4. Every colleague I've worked with has used this in real life, for decades 5. Also a new one So.
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by TheRealPomax 29d ago
I think a system that looks like how many hours someone puts in and then sends an email to both them and their boss going "you're abusing overtime, you will work the hours that are in your contract" would work a hell of a lot
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by TheRealPomax 29d ago
This is so factually incorrect I don't even know where to begin. Have you even read about modern LLM usage?
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by TheRealPomax 29d ago
So what you're saying is there are two problems. Why frame that to imply it's not worth making sure people stay accountable, so that people CAN be held accountable again once you help fix the country?
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
A computer cannot be held accountable, and so a computer should never be allowed to replace decision making.
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
Sorry, is there supposed to be an actual article somewhere hiding behind this giant collection of embedded whatever-the-hell-X-calls-posts quotes? Because there does not appear to be one. "Someone said X and then someone else said Y an
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
Don't dare them to replace cops with AI. That's what they want you to demand, so they can replace cops with AI.
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
No, Snowflake allowing autofixes compromised their Jira. If you tell someone to shoot you in the foot, and they shoot you in the foot, you shot yourself in the foot, just with more steps. If someone else finds the memo that says you've
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
The 2000's called. We've known this for decades because we did a LOT of studies back in the day when you could still get government funding.
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
When the laptop is literally the thickness of a headphone jack? Because a USB-C port is less than 2mm, but a 3.5mm headphone jack port is more like 6mm. That becomes a problem when the actual shell it need to go in is 7.5mm. Did it need to
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
No one was hurt, you were at most inconvenienced. And that's perfectly fine. Also, using jargon that doesn't apply: a knee-jerk reaction is one that does way too much to address a small problem. Objectively, this is the literal op
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
But then the obvious next question is: is it still a browser, then? In the same vein as asking whether a tool that can extract data from PDF files is a "PDF Reader" (probably not) or a tool that runs a game demo for benchmarking p
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
That's the problem: what you see and what is actually in the PDF are not the same thing : the actual text in the PDF has a minus sign on both. The entry that you see as "$110.00-" is withdrawal, and its minus sign is very
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
Some trailing minus signs are true negatives, but it depends on the color which ones are and which ones aren't (and someone got paid for that. Amazing).
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by TheRealPomax 1mo ago
Now we just need everyone else who works for X to do the same.
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by TheRealPomax 2mo ago
This is an odd comment: the project is right there for you to use, so just try it and see if it holds up to the claims? Then you can comment about the fact that it either doesn't hold up, with numbers to back that up, or on how awesome

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