parasubvert

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by parasubvert 1mo ago
This is fiction. Apple co-developed USB-C, it's their tech, in particular the physical and electrical design in collaboration with Intel and HP (and Google and Microsoft on software drivers). Changing connectors - after the 30 pin to
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by parasubvert 1mo ago
Yeah this narrative is effectively fiction as most of what you say is entirely untrue. They are very user-friendly, and it's why they have so many customers. We can run old versions of macOS on ancient hardware just fine; Apple suppor
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by parasubvert 1mo ago
Tim Cook has famously told shareholders to sell the stock and buy another if they don't like that he doesn't maximize profits all the time.
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by parasubvert 1mo ago
Ironically, this essay is an example of at least somewhat "questionable taste". It has provoked dialogue and thus is valuable, but I think it makes a number of cognitive errors in its argument. "Taste" is just knowledg
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by parasubvert 1mo ago
That's interesting. I would (and I think most?) would say the opposite. Good taste is hard to define because it is very contextual. There's popular taste but also there's artisanal/specialized knowledge taste. One
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
I don't know how you're paying that much. Sandwich + Tenders + 2 Cole slaws + 2 bottled 500ml drink + one fries, as combos here in western Canada total up to $50 CAD for me on DoorDash...
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
Except this isn't like tulips or NFTs or Crypto; AI is actually useful (far beyond being a chatbot), and has real supply & demand, vs. a being pure speculative investment. Yes, there's too much hype, and forcing the use of it
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
It's because the hardware can't really handle the latest and greatest games unless you get the top end hardware. Their GPU innovation is on letting you run an AAA game from 5 years ago on a tablet.
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
I wouldn't say 'eliminated gaming', they just have they've put a lot of encouragement into Mac gaming in recent years to the point that they're maintaining Rosetta 2 for game ports (via Crossover/Wine/Pro
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
Yeah I don't doubt your lived experience with the product. And I too have run Linux for a long time (1995). A vSphere cluster (in comparison to say KVM) has been easier to run in my perspective, but I do think it helps a lot to be a p
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
It's a long story: OpenShift was a bad product all around until 2019 with v4, the 3rd rewrite, but that product was a home run. That in itself was an incredible turnaround, even before they moved away from Openstack and turned Openshi
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
> Revenue may be increasing, but their customer base is decreasing, and any customer who's paying attention is now looking for an exit strategy. VMware in 2024 had 96% of the virtualization market and 500k customers. The above is s
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
Eh, it's still the least hassle at scale for your own data centers and VCF 9 isn't exactly low tech - it does things no one else really can do to the same level of quality (DRS, HCX, NSX, VSAN all come to mind) , the question is,
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
Negotiating tactic. Never really makes it to court.
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by parasubvert 3mo ago
They do keep investing in their software "just enough" to keep customers from churning. These sorts of lawsuits never really make it to court, there's a negotiation tactic. Meanwhile Broadcom's software revenue led by VM
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
Before the IPO; AdSense came out in 2003. Before that they really make much money. Simple text ads to start. It was built on MySQL, Java and C++ and became how they made most of their money.
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
Indoctrination and cultural erasure isn't unique to the church. With Germanic tribes - the Saxons, Angles, Normans, etc., while women's rights ebbed and flowed over the centuries, they were rife with double standards and were s
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
"Church" ok "and any kind of believe system hurts our society and divides us." People shouldn't believe anything? Disagreement and conflict are natural. How we handle these disagreements while striving for widespre
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
You've got a lot of hot takes, but this is an astounding statement that underscores you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to economic development.
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
The term "Hacker" means many things.
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
What makes Elon complicated is that he is not just a scam artist. He has an eye for talented people that do good engineering while working for him, in spite of his personal flaws. For all the lies, bad behavior, and broken promises, SpaceX
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
I tend to agree with you there, but that's not mostly due to an individual's (or group's) like or dislike of cars as a product.
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
I look forward to them sternly changing Bambu Labs' practices!
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
I had a long response to him; I don't think it's reasonable to believe that AI inference demand is going to suddenly collapse, and it would be wise to understand why.
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
> Tulips were real shipping physical products. Railways were real. Housing was real. Whether or not the demand is speculative is largely disconnected from the actual subject of the bubble. I think this is definitionally wrong, but okay.
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
That's a highly creative interpretation of events. The software license agreement usually upfront covers what can or cannot not change. It is pretty rare in most countries to see successful legal action for changed features, but bes
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
In the Android IO event on Youtube today: "We're taking Android from an operating system to an intelligence system " I had a belly laugh. They're trying so hard to be like Apple with these, but without the clear expl
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
The hardware yes. Bambu's software, not quite. If you want to flash it with 3rd party firmware & use 3rd party slicers, have at it. If you want to use Bambu's software against their TOS, OK you wouldn't be alone in tha
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
The AI people do not need you.
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by parasubvert 4mo ago
Generally speaking, that's incorrect. That's like saying "I don't like cars, and don't see the value in cars, therefore the market for cars is fraudulent". In AI, buyers are getting what they want. The deman

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