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by ppseafield 3mo ago
> Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to “approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components.” That part is not equity - tha
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by ppseafield 4mo ago
This is not just free speech, it's commerce, and the government has the ability to regulate commerce. Warranties and lemon laws are not regulating speech - they're regulating sales and the legal requirements for those sales. Provi
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by ppseafield 5mo ago
I would guess that the big reason is Microsoft is the owner of Typescript. Apple, Google, and Mozilla probably don't want to be tied to the whims of someone else's language specification. It's the same reason Dart isn't
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by ppseafield 6mo ago
She had serious debilitating medical issues from pregnancy where she lost a ton of blood and was in a coma for several days and nearly died. Of course she's going to take her severance to help care for her family given the atrocious st
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by ppseafield 8mo ago
The argument Socrates is making is specifically that writing isn't a substitute for thinking, but it will be used as such. People will read things "without instruction" and claim to understand those things, even if they do no
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by ppseafield 9mo ago
I saw myself years ago that Verizon injected marketing tracking headers into http traffic. My ISP was the MITM. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
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by ppseafield 10mo ago
I don't think it was explicitly to compete with Microsoft. Gabe explicitly said when the Windows 8 App Store was announced that Valve was going to ensure Microsoft couldn't lock them out of the desktop market. He said Valve benefi
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by ppseafield 1y ago
Chrome's engine was WebKit originally, which they then forked. Not an acquisition, but benefitted greatly from prior work.
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by ppseafield 1y ago
Which SoC should they switch to? Google's Pixel phones for Android 16's release just updated[0] their kernels to 6.1, which means the bleeding edge kernel version for Android phones is a release from December 2022. What Qualcomm S
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by ppseafield 1y ago
Look up 996. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58381538 https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/15/1039650/china-te...
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by ppseafield 1y ago
I wanted to use KDE 4 when it released, but it kept crashing on my machine. I would update it every once in a while and try again but issue would always pop up. By the time "plasma 4.4 is stable" was declared, I had lost interest
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by ppseafield 1y ago
Portugal did it nationally. Oregon did it as one state that already had soft enforcement of drug use and a lot of social services, which had already drawn people from other states before the ballot measure. The weather here in the valley is
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by ppseafield 1y ago
Copyright makes the legality of arXiv and SciHub questionable at best. It locks publicly funded research behind paywalls. It makes being able to search the law (including case law) of the US incredibly expensive. It puts a burden on platfor
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by ppseafield 1y ago
There is a niche for small, mobile handhelds, with companies such as Retroid and Ambernic making devices with smaller screens. Interestingly even in this niche the proportion of truly mobile vs. portable is seeing the same continuing shift
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by ppseafield 2y ago
Having used the API with a polyfill, it is a bit verbose and may seem a little obtuse at times. However, it allows you to explicitly differentiate between Date, Time, (Plain)DateTime, and ZonedDateTime. I have had to fix plenty of bugs beca
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by ppseafield 2y ago
It need not be someone in the US, just a country which is not one of a few named adversaries. A Singaporean owning company would comply with the law just as well.
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by ppseafield 2y ago
Shopify actually might be appropriate for many of their use cases.
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by ppseafield 2y ago
I'll second the sibling poster here by saying anything useful you want to do with WordPress will probably have a non-negligible cost, and usually a subscription. WooCommerce for instance requires a subscription to add a minimum quantit
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by ppseafield 2y ago
A couple of factors keep most hurricanes away from the mountains. There's a strong gulf stream current that tends to lead hurricanes up along the east coast, sometimes as far north as NYC. And also the Gulf of Mexico can draw hurricane
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by ppseafield 2y ago
Likewise I've used Fantasque Sans Mono (related to Comic Sans) for a long time as a coding font.
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by ppseafield 2y ago
I'm running SUSE Tumbleweed. Fast package manager, up-to-date versions of just about every package you could want. Never had any driver issues or issues installing.
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by ppseafield 2y ago
The iPhone 15 pro has a Thread radio, so we may start to see it become more common.
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by ppseafield 2y ago
Ge'ez and its adaptations are abugidas, which means one symbol is a full syllable. For Amharic there are over 200 individual symbols. [0] That would be a big keyboard! It does seem that most in-use languages in Africa are alphabets or
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by ppseafield 2y ago
Programming books are definitely becoming more hit or miss, as the volume of books has increased dramatically in the last 10-15 years. There are still great books, but there are a lot more bad ones out there. There's a lot more softwar
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by ppseafield 2y ago
Supabase is built on top of PostgREST, which is written in Haskell.
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by ppseafield 2y ago
We don't like it because it can cause widespread damage to the ecosystem, not just to us. Life didn't evolve in a vacuum, and the balance of natural ecosystems can be fragile. > [Feral pigs] are invasive and cause millions of d
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by ppseafield 2y ago
With Tango/Hi-Fi Rush, MS decided to make it free with Game Pass at launch, which obviously hurt its sales. If you sell chips but charge people $1 for two weeks for unlimited chips, then just $10/mo for unlimited chips, you might
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by ppseafield 3y ago
I have one. The keyboard is quite comfortable, even with my large hands. The screen is both high resolution and almost square, making it quite comfortable to code on. The touchpad is a comfortable size and responsive. I think the size and p
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by ppseafield 3y ago
Indeed, although Sony hadn't created the DVD format (Phillips), having it did boost sales of the PS2. With the PS3 Sony was pushing its own format in direct competition to HD-DVD (also Phillips), and I'm sure losing Beta max marke
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by ppseafield 3y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I must have conflated "more general purpose" -> "more like PC".

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