mortoc

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by mortoc 14d ago
I don't think it's a stretch to see a systemic pattern of big tech avoiding consequences that leave the rest of us in the power of monopolies. Regardless of the content of this ruling, it's another brick in the wall.
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by mortoc 24d ago
Are the people against bioengineered produce also be against us working towards super efficient coconuts or some other plant we designed to fill the same role?
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by mortoc 2mo ago
There's a good chance that Blizzard was spared a lot of this round of layoffs because they're in labor contract negotiations right now.
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by mortoc 2mo ago
I bought one of this system back when you could get one for $1800 (the GMKTek Ryzen AI Halo 128gb machine). It's a very good dev machine, the 16 core CPU is quite good for development work. I find this is a useful configuration for loc
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by mortoc 3mo ago
Nuclear lifecycle calculations include mining. The human cost is terrible, but a separate problem (we could theoretically have ethical mining practices that don't produce more CO2). Here's some numbers I was able to find on total
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by mortoc 5mo ago
"AI has evolved more rapidly in the past two years than anyone predicted." We clearly do not live in the same universe.
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by mortoc 6mo ago
Literally anyone with the access to these people would be someone making bank. Do you think Cheryl Sandberg would bother to talk to a poor person? That's kinda the nature of whistle-blowing. You're complicit, you have inside knowl
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by mortoc 7mo ago
Why is this being presented to the HN community?
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by mortoc 10mo ago
I really hope not, but I wouldn’t bet against it. The nature of products that take high capex to build and then have nearly zero marginal cost to reproduce is monopolies.
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by mortoc 10mo ago
As a game developer, I'm really rooting for open source game engines. Unity and Unreal are dinosaurs that target the shrinking console market. Godot is being built in their image. My hope is that something more versatile like Bevy beco
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by mortoc 11mo ago
Worse than that, the main vehicle it compares everything to is the Model Y. There may have been one or two things related to Tesla this year, and not other EVs, that might have hurt resale values for some reason...
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by mortoc 1y ago
"That product saw little adoption due to privacy concerns about privacy, and pretty much languished." - A professional writer
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by mortoc 1y ago
The only use-case I've heard for cryptocurrencies that doesn't just sound like a get-rich-quick-speculative-betting-scam is providing financial services to the un-banked.
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by mortoc 1y ago
That's the wrong lens to use. Determine monopolies based on the view of a potential competitor. Say I'm a new search engine startup that has some better tech than Google has, we invented a better wheel. How hard would it be to com
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by mortoc 1y ago
I'd guess VLC will get support for it soon now that ffmpeg supports it.
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by mortoc 1y ago
"Turn Trends Into Content Instantly with AI" This feels like infrastructure to help deliver AI slop. What is the sales pitch for a company like this, "spammers will always exist, so fund us and we can take a cut of peoples&#x
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by mortoc 1y ago
If you have continuous sunlight, can't you get away with no battery? Not arguing with your overall point - this company looks ridiculous.
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by mortoc 2y ago
I get the sense that these sorts of tools are more for power users than for software engineers with production AI experience.
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by mortoc 11y ago
Typetunes
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by mortoc 12y ago
Q: "What does it do?" A: "This is what it looks like!" -_-
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by mortoc 12y ago
Yes, you could walk around in it if you wanted to wait for 4gb of textures to download. I'm happy they thought to make a youtube link.
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by mortoc 12y ago
"Maharaj" is a protester, the billionaire is "Khosla". I think you got them mixed up here. Khosla is still a dick though, so the rest of your point is valid.
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by mortoc 12y ago
The animations don't feel as bad on a touchscreen. I think the biggest problem with material design in this sort of context is that Google made something that feels nice enough on mobile but feels trashy on PC.
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by mortoc 12y ago
http://i.imgur.com/pnWrc.jpg I use a walking desk for about 8 hours a day. I found that about 1.2mph is my sweet spot where it doesn't affect my productivity at all. Took me a few weeks to get used to walking all day,
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by mortoc 13y ago
I just interviewed at Google Boston (in Cambridge) and it looks like there's lots of automatic standing/sitting desks there, but they're definitely the expensive versions ($1,200+ on amazon).