phendrenad2

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by phendrenad2 3d ago
Isn't Palantir a webapp? Full of maps and lists of stuff? Seems like a recipe for "chrome has stopped responding..."
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by phendrenad2 3d ago
Right, I'm confused about why at the first clash with the board the CEO didn't reform the company as a boardless LLC.
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by phendrenad2 3d ago
Actually, I'd expect someone like Carmack to be the least productive with AI. Carmack focused his career on high-performance 3d graphics tricks. Those are free now. What isn't free is knowing how to use them. In other words, the
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by phendrenad2 3d ago
I don't get why a big company like Zoom, with presumably lots of users who are on Linux, only gives us a .rpm/.deb instead of a Snap/Flatpak. Seems like doing the minimum.
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by phendrenad2 3d ago
Prediction: Much like Y2K people will think we were all incredibly backwards and uneducated because we thought a bunch of potato computers were going to break the world.
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by phendrenad2 3d ago
"The futurists promised us catgirls. We got 140 characters" - Tim Burners-Lee, or someone
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by phendrenad2 4d ago
Right, real democracy has never been tried! I should have known.
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by phendrenad2 4d ago
Has that paper been replicated?
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by phendrenad2 4d ago
So. HN is pretty much in agreement that this is regulatory capture. And I'll add that this has the potential to create massive wealth inequalities, as those who work at major corporations or have connections are allowed to use the good
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by phendrenad2 5d ago
It's really strange that a company with such a volatile owner would even have a board. But I guess minority shareholders demand it.
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by phendrenad2 6d ago
This resonates with me. And I think I know why software is like this. It isn't software that drives people insane, it's money that drives people insane. Specifically the promise of money breaks people's brains. They see the u
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by phendrenad2 8d ago
Paul Graham wins again. His plans are measured in centuries.
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by phendrenad2 8d ago
Big universities like Standford should be building their own AI datacenters. It's the only way to keep your research private.
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by phendrenad2 9d ago
I agree, 1% is reasonable. That's still a huge number of people. And, not all users are created equal. If that 1% of everyone is skewed towards the more educated, IE if 5% of millionaires switch, that's 5% fewer eyeballs looking a
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by phendrenad2 9d ago
Feels like the old "browser wars" days again. Between AI productivity, and Google losing the grace to bloat the web specs, I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to take market share away from other browsers as soon as it'
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by phendrenad2 9d ago
Why would I donate money to keep your servers running, when I get my IP blocked for days when I try to view more than 20 archived pages? What utility are you actually providing me? From my perspective, Internet Archive is already defunct. I
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by phendrenad2 10d ago
Give me one good reason why I should believe these numbers at all. Are they corroborated by independent third-parties who don't have a vested interest in making things look better than they are?
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by phendrenad2 14d ago
I see this debate as not really being about immigration, but as a facet of the eternal war between plutocrats and socialists. Plutocrats prey on socialist countries, exploiting their high standard of living and high social trust. Socialism
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by phendrenad2 15d ago
Monica is apparently an open source personal CRM.
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by phendrenad2 15d ago
I guess that depends on where you draw the line at "kernel" and what you consider "unusual". I study kernels for fun, so I've had a lot of opinions like that over the years, but none survived gaining more experience
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by phendrenad2 16d ago
This is such a colossal fuckup, they need to do a full postmortem and heads need to roll. This is a "you had one job" situation. This is all hands on deck. This is potentially company-ending. If this happened at Github it would be
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by phendrenad2 16d ago
For most people, mv3 is "good enough". But that's mostly just random chance. If sites really start taking advantage of the deficiencies in mv3 to push ads, I think Chrome will lose a lot of users. And I think at that point Go
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by phendrenad2 16d ago
Most kernels are kind of the same really. Some have slightly fancier inter-process communication. Leading to my all-time favorite YouTube video, an explainer on Android IPC cut like a spy thriller. I'm not even joking: https:/&#x
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by phendrenad2 17d ago
So if I pour water onto a huge dome of metal, it might build up enough of a negative static charge to jump a spark gap? New science exhibit idea!
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by phendrenad2 17d ago
Hey so uh... Did anyone notice the word "accessible" here? > Provide an ACCESSIBLE interface, at account setup,.. I wonder if the biggest effect of this bill will be that proprietary operating systems will have to have accessib
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by phendrenad2 17d ago
I'm starting to warm up to this law. So many loopholes. Nothing to worry about. I think California's incompetence has finally progressed from "proposes bad laws" to "proposes and botches the implementation of bad la
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by phendrenad2 19d ago
The "great man" theory has been (rightfully) banished from most public discourse, the only remaining holdout is startups. The whole point of VC firms is that startups have no chance of success without backing. Often times the foun
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by phendrenad2 19d ago
So would you be okay with this is Flock demanded a warrant before showing police the information?
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by phendrenad2 20d ago
> the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses It seems reasonable that these three things are part of ONE "backlash", but I don't believe they are. I think these are three separate issues with three different, mostl
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by phendrenad2 20d ago
As I always say, CEOs are corporate status symbols. "Look how successful we are, our CEO is super-handsome, went to William and Mary, and we pay him $15 million a year"

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