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by easyThrowaway 6d ago
I'm still wondering who's the target audience for something like Gutenberg. - A bastardized version of React whose state is stored in...HTML comments and WordPress shortcodes. It's extremely brittle and even simply updating a
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by easyThrowaway 13d ago
From what I've seen around it will be a WordPress website still, running some at-best-once-updated version of Divi/Elementor/WpBakery, built using their equally terrible new AI tools.
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by easyThrowaway 15d ago
Complicated psyop? It's called "Personas" and a few of my coworkers wrote a few of them just this morning. You simply promote or finance marketing materials (blog posts, podcasts, youtube videos) with a clear idea of the kind
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by easyThrowaway 15d ago
The see it as a useful tool to better... manage the population. As many have observed already, this is just another page taken verbatim from project 2025 and applied by the current US government. "Culling the herd" phase. That do
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by easyThrowaway 20d ago
Paypal is somewhat common in Italy for lunch-money amounts, a few local alternatives are available (sumUp and Satispay mainly) but for anything more than 100€ everybody uses SEPA transfers.
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by easyThrowaway 21d ago
I wonder how did they even know about A/I. To give a bit of context, A/I has always been closer to a conceptual group than an active hacking organization. Think Luther Blisset[1], or for a more US-centric community, the Yes-Men gr
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by easyThrowaway 24d ago
Yep. The CRUD-ish part of CS is gonna end up like the typewriter pools from the '60s. Claude code is already way better than most subcontractors I've worked with, and without any weird interpersonal or contractual issues usually a
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by easyThrowaway 29d ago
I remember one of the original developers explaining in a blog post that MMX support came right before the original release and was added just for Dolby Surround, unfortunately can't find it anywhere. The remaining references available
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by easyThrowaway 1mo ago
Ironically P.o.d. didn't really use MMX at all except for Dolby Surround decoding[1]. [1] https://retromediahub.com/index.php/Pod:_Planet_of_Death
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by easyThrowaway 1mo ago
Between GIMP releases we saw entire graphics pipelines, conventions and workflows come and go. We had the Affinity suite, Canva, Paint.net, Clip Paint Studio, Sketch, various attempts from Adobe at expanding beyond the Photoshop ecosystem
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by easyThrowaway 1mo ago
The type of problem also makes a massive difference. - Writing my tiny hobby gameboy emulator? Heck, Why I'd let Claude take away the fun part of implementing new features and then see Super Mario Land start and run step by step? - Deb
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by easyThrowaway 2mo ago
The issue with current day "nerd culture" is that it's extremely self-referential. There's no space for anything outside of extremely codified artistic norms and genres. Techno-feudalistic art for a techno-feudalistic ag
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by easyThrowaway 2mo ago
The "whatever" part, in strict terms, would be information. Jury is still out whether that is a fundamental component of the universe or not: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/is-information-fund
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by easyThrowaway 2mo ago
And then what? You get a lame duck, then (if you're really lucky) a 4 year dems gov where they basically do basically nothing expect try to clean (or bury) the most outrageous cases of corruption and then once the MAGAs get elected aga
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by easyThrowaway 2mo ago
It won't happen for the intrisc nature of (current-gen, at least) AI of being forced within the limits of their training, which deprives the artist of intent - that is, specifically the ability of questioning in some way what came befo
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by easyThrowaway 2mo ago
If the experience of some relatives of mine who left during the '90s is still valid, much of the defence, tech and real estate economy in Israel is basically UK and US based, with much of the actual leadership holding dual passports. I
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
The most interesting part is that IIRC they shipped the entire Windows 3.11 memory allocator to make it work. I have very little understanding on how allocation works at OS level, but I'm surprised there are no wrappers like dgVoodoo o
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
The most controversial part is probably that something like jqwik could be a dependency you're not even aware of. You could be asking your agent to fully analyze a project to isolate a bug and in the right situation that would probably
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
Are they counting “frontalieri” towards that cap? No? Funny how that works, isn’t?
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
Mark my words: they will keep growing until they collapse, and once that happens, they will use their reach and contacts with the Italian government to ask to be bailed out out of debt. It’s not a matter of “if”, but “when”. It’s a well kno
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
My Nokia 5800 express could connect to a VPN and run a bridged internet connection over Bluetooth in 2008. I clearly remember using it in Switzerland around 2010 to pay for a tramway using a QR code. Sure, UI was way worse compared to UIKit
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
He's missing the last step: Somehow around the 2010s we all decided that everything in the web had to become "reactive" and "asynchronous" - which is a fancy way of saying things can theoretically happen at any time
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
Because once shit hits the fan, those responsible for destroying the ecosystem will take a one-way flight for a fully air-conditioned bunkerized apartment lot in Dubai with any Epstein island-level luxury you can think of and fuck the conse
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
They also offer substantial discounts if you attend their seminars. I was able to buy Live Standard for roughly 150€ a few years ago.
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by easyThrowaway 3mo ago
I hope before I die we finally prove that the human brain has no peculiar qualia but it is an entirely deterministic, albeit extremely sophisticated, machine. And by touching the right triggers, even the worst human being can become a saint
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
I was lucky enough to speak with one of the guys who ported Final Fantasy VIII to Windows (A crazy talented guy from Naples and one of the earliest members of the OG playstation emulation scene) and the porting team of several IREM arcade s
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
The whole "Taste makes all the difference" has been meme'd to death too: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYuj_4dxVg2/ . Also... I won't add any details to avoid doxing myself, but trust me on thi
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
What we too easily forget is that for millennia we had societies where an infinitesimally amount of people (a dozen of families, at best) held almost all the wealth, another thousands ensured that order was maintained throughout the kingdom
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
It has become a meme at this point but this sentence still stands: "The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth".
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the original source code is probably lost and forgotten in a ZIP drive stored in a basement somewhere in Tokyo. I've made a similar point in an earlier comment, but consider the following: Even if the or

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