fl4regun

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by fl4regun 6d ago
Almost all of these big phone companies are also the ones selling tablets and some of them laptops, so if they did do that they would start eating into their other business units.
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by fl4regun 20d ago
Then they aren't doing a very good job of it. >Firefox makes up about 90 percent of Mozilla’s revenue, according to Muhlheim, the finance chief for the organization’s for-profit arm — which in turn helps fund the nonprofit Mozilla F
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by fl4regun 22d ago
GPUs and laptops and memory and storage are all crazy expensive
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by fl4regun 23d ago
I think it would be helpful if you could show a counter example of a scenario when someone is angry without a cause or target. On the face of it, that description seems accurate to my experience with anger.
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by fl4regun 26d ago
You become a person who knows more, by studying more about the things you need to know.
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by fl4regun 27d ago
I think there is something distinctly unique between dozing off from reality by letting your mind wander or twiddling your thumbs, and scrolling short form video.
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by fl4regun 27d ago
I don't think it's straightforward at all. What's considered "short form content". Just video? Does just audio count? Does a gif count? What if I make a website that uploads videos at 1/10th the speed, and the
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by fl4regun 28d ago
This is not a good comparison, because the brain doesn't only do "being smart" - it has to do things like innervate muscle and other tissue through the body, elephants will require more neurons given their larger size, just t
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
This is very fun to play with and design different drums. I was able to make one that had 4 connected but distinct regions giving different pitches, then within each of those regions (which look like 4 lobes of different sizes) where you ta
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
mass investment in renewable energy across the globe. You can't do much for the people of today, but you can do plenty of good for people 20+ years into the future. Something about planting and sitting in their shade.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
would you make the same argument against heating homes during winter?
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
Seems likely that within our lifetime multiple countries in europe may turn into deserts, and there is little we can do against it except for maybe attempt to terraform the climate by seeding clouds or changing ecosystem flora to something
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
perhaps if you read the comment chain you would realize I'm not the one who introduced this into the conversation. Sorry that you disagree with my position.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
IME many big companies are filled with mediocre morons, or at least people who just don't care enough to do better than mediocre. Still not the fault of brown people either way.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
Economics would have always created this downward pressure on demand for software engineers regardless, either companies would replace the number of engineers they need with AI, or with low paid offshored workers.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
Indy devs are professionals too. Just because they aren't gargantuan megacorps doesn't make them amateurs. See: Expedition 33, made by formerly Ubisoft developers. Same people, different company, the devs themselves will still be
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
are you referring to this section? > Verification is different from generation: Models scoring 98 can solve problems but can't always explain why their approach works at the level a human mathematician would. It doesn't say it
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
Not sure what point you are making, it is more prevalent now, but it would be wrong to say this is because mars bars are more expensive and smaller.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
why does it have to be just about the AAA industry? Indy games are amazing now, and usually not sold at full price compared to console games, probably most of my favourite games of the past decade are indy devs or studios.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
TV's for one, have become insanely cheap. You can get 4k TVs for like, nothing, especially after inflation adjustments from the 2010s. Bigger panels, brighter screens, too bad we started shoving stupid and annoying OSes and Ads in them
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
it is not "pure fructose" - they have different levels but usually it is 50% fructose syrups. Lots of fruits have similar ratios to that too, fructose isn't the problem so much as the quantity of it being ingested, but high q
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I really do not care about shrinkflation as it related to candy, chips, chocolates, and other junk food. Obesogenic foods should be more expensive not less, even if only because it's a pric
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
never seen a better description than your janitor metaphor
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
I've recently taken to learning about plant identification, it's interesting to make observations about all the flora you see walking about. Will need to note these books for later!
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
I'm mostly curious why anyone would bother with doing attacks like this to some random individuals personal blog, was it one person or multiple people? What was the motivation? Is it just bots crawling the internet to spread hate? A sa
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
>you are associating yourself with things like Windows, Mac or Linux But this is nothing like those things.
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by fl4regun 1mo ago
wiki is usually not great at teaching new concepts, better as a reference for someone who already learned something.
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
the commenter was talking about the internet in the 2000s, as am I. I was only born in the 90s.
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
i don't think it's fair to say it was just CS majors, I'm a 90s baby and i was on the web in the 2000s when i was in middle school, I still remember reading web comics and forums, messaging people on MSN and playing MMOs with
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by fl4regun 2mo ago
maybe it is because I am biased but I have almost no expectation for AI to act "ethically"

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