christoph

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by christoph 1mo ago
Same. I feel I can give a very honest opinion on this as I insisted on a dual fuel hob when we refitted our kitchen 5 years or so ago. The induction rings aren’t a patch on the gas ring for “proper” cooking. There’s simply no competition be
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by christoph 1mo ago
Absolutely agree. Went cold turkey after being a news junkie for decades, a year or so back. One of the best decisions in life for me, right next to quitting alcohol.
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by christoph 2mo ago
Grandparent and parents always taught me books were sacred and shouldn’t be marked or damaged, not gonna side with either side as I do like finding small notes, etc. in 2nd books from time to time. I tackle it with a cheap little Canon Selp
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by christoph 2mo ago
Also think espionage/intelligence - those passports won't be forgeries (as they will gov issued), but there will be people travelling around the world with multiple "identities" shall we say, and this is going to make al
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by christoph 2mo ago
I can definitely see a world where you run stuff local first, for all the reasons we know. Sometimes, you are going to want more powerful models, faster, you’re travelling, etc. You might only use these 5 to 10% of the time, but I’m guessin
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by christoph 2mo ago
That was also my thought… but I grew up mashing rubber keys for hours copying “games” out of magazines and books! Then hours after fixing all the typos!
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by christoph 3mo ago
Our BMW i3 also has CarPlay and it’s all knobs and buttons for interaction!
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by christoph 3mo ago
“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” - Benito Mussolini
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by christoph 3mo ago
I agree with everything you have said. I feel so very, very blessed to have had the experience of this world developing that I have had - from my first 300bps BBS connection at probably around age 8 or 9, through 28.8, 56K, ISDN, DSL &
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by christoph 3mo ago
Indeed - Persona is backed by Founders Fund - also linked to lovely companies like Palantir, Flock & Anduril. Some people still (claim they) can’t see the massive dragnet swirling around all of society right now.
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by christoph 3mo ago
Wise, previously TransferWise.
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by christoph 3mo ago
It’s all over the place. A UK bank i’d been with 7+ years for a business savings account suddenly started demanding ID or they would “limit” access (lock my money up until I dance to their tune). They already have all this. My identity nor
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by christoph 3mo ago
The currency of the world is data. This the beginning of public restriction to data (currency). It always starts slowly. Start with kids, softly softly. Fast forward a couple of years and we absolutely know this will morph into total contro
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by christoph 3mo ago
Same as whenever they talk about banning anything in society… They can’t keep drugs, weapons, phones, etc. out of prisons, which are entirely under government purview. Elect clowns, expect a circus.
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by christoph 3mo ago
Built a custom tower defense type clone for a client maybe 10 years ago… Coding it up in Objective C & Cocos2d was fairly straightforward. Probably spent 50% of the dev time taking in feedback, balancing the values on everything, progre
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by christoph 3mo ago
I’ll dream of a world where even 1% of that marketing money goes to customer support.
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by christoph 3mo ago
My 8 year old LOVES Pokemon Go, and we regularly go to a local meet up which is a fascinating microcosm of people of all ages from all walks of life. We’ve met some great people and had some incredible conversations, but I really struggle t
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by christoph 3mo ago
Extrapolate this whole shit show out to society at large. That’s exactly where these AI companies are trying to force humanity. I don’t want to live in a world where all knowledge is “guard railed” off, so the elite at the top get all the k
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by christoph 3mo ago
Wow… just wow. The future looks incredibly bleak if people are throwing fisftuls of money at this company. Anthropic will quickly become the sole arbiter of everything in your life.
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by christoph 3mo ago
I went to a London one once and this was totally my impression of it. The free beer and food was a drop in the bucket for what the massive corporate got out of it at the end.
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by christoph 3mo ago
This doesn’t even include the whole taking money from people for FSD that was JUST 2 years away…
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by christoph 3mo ago
Well yes, the great cabal of people bringing in these immense rafts of surveillance are the very people who commit, or who certainly hang out with the people who commit the most heinous acts. See the Epstein files. Notice the same people wi
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by christoph 4mo ago
Totally agree. I hit another crazy iOS bug this morning I hadn't hit for a few months - search for an old email - specifically my old Ableton licence from 2022... Return to my inbox 20-30 mins later on that device and it's now ful
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by christoph 4mo ago
I bought a 5090 12 months ago, just checked - that’s basically up 50%! I used to joke i’d retire on all the old tech in my loft, everyday now it feels less like a joke!
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by christoph 4mo ago
There’s another nasty one I encountered where power loss on a mac mini with 4 external drives connected made one drive refuse to mount on that machine. All recommendations online were to nuke the OS and/or drive to get it to mount ther
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by christoph 4mo ago
Same! It’s one of those projects where as soon as I scroll the landing page, I can hear the fireworks of ideas going off in my head! It seems to work really well on mobile as well. I think it’s got real visual aesthetic appeal - it takes me
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by christoph 4mo ago
Yes, you are totally correct and I really appreciate this type of comment. I used luddite just because of ease/laziness, but it was not correct at all in hindsight. I totally agree with all your remarks btw. I think society having lots
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by christoph 4mo ago
I’ve been back through your post history (not entirely) - you mention multiple times you work at a FAANG - so you work at one of 5 very public companies. You have been asked multiple times by multiple commenters to provide a single example
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by christoph 4mo ago
Honestly, my opinion, our lives were fundamentally better before some tech came along - touchscren phones & “social” networks being the main two. We still haven’t caught up with the carnage this has caused. Kids social media bans are on
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by christoph 4mo ago
Of course, it's at the start of this 5hr video (it's only 20 min segment or so I think) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnwcU-XDyJ4 (I've not watched all of this). It took me a while to find again, probably

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