astrodust

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by astrodust 6d ago
The iPhone launch was met with a lot of derision and eye-rolling despite that being the result of a half decade "effort to make themselves distinct from the competition". Those events are rare, the opportunities to really shake th
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by astrodust 6d ago
"At the end of the day, a top tier chef just makes food like everyone else."
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by astrodust 2mo ago
"2.8TB model, fast shipping!"
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by astrodust 2mo ago
The irony here that HTTP headers are descended directly from RFC822 email headers.
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by astrodust 2mo ago
"Open Web" as in "Free Speech", where it doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean.
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by astrodust 3mo ago
NP factorial sounds like NP-ultra-hard.
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by astrodust 3mo ago
That Claude can't retain and reference these in the future, SQLite could do this trivially, is wild.
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by astrodust 3mo ago
Water cooling loop into a large public pool. If it works for the geothermal power station...
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by astrodust 3mo ago
Amazon is right there, reinvesting profits.
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by astrodust 1y ago
What in the actual hell is that site? Are we really moving into the stupidest timeline at mach 10? That page title is utterly absurd.
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by astrodust 2y ago
"Shareholders" meaning "executives".
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by astrodust 2y ago
The article states $5,550USD or so.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Firefox has made a mountain of money off of their tiny market share. Chrome as a company would instantly rake in billions.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Except one thing: Politics.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Ukraine has also been vigilant in making hyper-realistic wooden replicas of various types of equipment, some even including heating elements in them so they look correct on thermal cameras. If you've seen how glitchy/blurry the dr
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by astrodust 2y ago
Lawful evil versus chaotic evil.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Isn't this based on an expression from Abigail then at Perlmonks? https://www.masteringperl.org/2013/06/how-abigails-prime-num...
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by astrodust 2y ago
The Mini is such a potent little machine.
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by astrodust 2y ago
You're not buying a standard, you're buying a module with particular packaging and specifications, all of which have a huge impact on production cost.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Ukraine's doing their part to "green" Russia one drone strike at a time.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Like a parent with several misbehaving kids, we don't have the luxury of focusing on one problem at a time.
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by astrodust 2y ago
"I don't want to get wet, I'll fly over here to the water."
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by astrodust 2y ago
Try with...salmonella.ai
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by astrodust 2y ago
Could include some locally sourced "raw water" and offer options for unpasteurized, unrefrigerated milk.
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by astrodust 2y ago
We (Toronto) used to export our trash to Michigan when the incinerator was de-commissioned and the landfill was full.
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by astrodust 2y ago
It's paradoxical. Like the famous I Am Canadian ad campaign being the product of a famous Canadian brewer...that was subsequently acquired by an American conglomerate. Like how Tim Horton's, the quintessential Canadian instituti
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by astrodust 2y ago
It's probably because all kinds of movies set in American cities are filmed in Vancouver.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Pretty sure a raccoon wrote this.
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by astrodust 2y ago
It's an interesting point of flex here: Your compiler doesn't have to be feature complete, it just has to be able to build a more feature complete binary.
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by astrodust 2y ago
If you think building a Stripe or Visa replacement is easy, go ahead and try.

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