remir

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by remir 10mo ago
Grok has been integrated into Tesla vehicles, and I've had several voice interactions with it recently. Initially, I thought it was just a gimmick, but the voice interactions are great and quite responsive. I've found myself using
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by remir 10mo ago
I wish there was a "power user" mode in Windows that you could activate and you'd get the ability to have classic themes (my MS themselves), classic Control Panel, no constant nudging, no weather/Xbox/Solitaire apps
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by remir 10mo ago
It's a console basically. It comes ready to play without much maintenance needed from the user.
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by remir 1y ago
That's pretty much the basis for the simulation theory. See also "My Big TOE" (Theory of Everything) from Tom Campbell.
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by remir 1y ago
It worked for China because they were in position of power. The US wasn't established in China and they needed Chinese users to grow their global user base and influence. Meanwhile, China had the wealth and power to say no and instead
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by remir 2y ago
The P2P aspect of Skype was really interesting. I remember there were even physical handsets you could buy that had Skype built-in, which I thought were cool. I remember seeing business cards with Skype username on them also. That's ho
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by remir 2y ago
I don't know anyone who prefer Teams over Slack.
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by remir 2y ago
To me, that kind of product is what sets Apple apart from other companies in the industry. There's an optimism and playfulnes to that design that is refreshing.
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by remir 2y ago
The reality is most people are well served by either Windows and/or macOS. Both platforms have received billions of dollars in developpment by MS and Apple over the years and both have an extremely rich and mature app ecosystems. For m
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by remir 2y ago
Woah! Dude, I'm blown away by the app! The UX is wonderful! Just what I was looking for!
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by remir 2y ago
Possibly to create hype.
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by remir 3y ago
Never tried LSD, but a couple of weeks ago I consummed canabis oil from a small spray bottle I bought from our province's official canabis store. Not knowing much about canabis and proper dosage, I decided to try it, but it's clea
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by remir 3y ago
Discovered VATSIM by chance watching a Youtube video about MS FlightSimulator and was impressed by the dedication of the various participants. This is the kind of stuff that make the internet awesome.
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by remir 3y ago
*Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA (End of General Availability). Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered.* You can
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by remir 3y ago
XCP-NG + Xen Orchestra is a solid combo. XCP-NG is based on Xen.
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by remir 3y ago
XCP-NG + Xen Orchestra is a winning combo. If I had a large VM infra, that's the stack I would select. All open source too!
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by remir 3y ago
When I got arrested and sent to prison last year for retweeting a government tweet Could you expand on that? What the complete story?
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by remir 3y ago
Beside Google, is there other companies contributing to and building products with Fuchsia?
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by remir 3y ago
It became successful because the Linux-y stuff are invisible to the average non tech users, just like on Android.
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by remir 3y ago
Design by committee is my guess.
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by remir 3y ago
That was because they got sued by some patent troll: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114
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by remir 3y ago
Space is going to be industrialized, sooner or later. Since it takes massive amount of capital to do so, you can pretty much limit this kind of thing to wealthy nations or multi-billionaires such as Musk, Bezos and Branson.
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by remir 4y ago
Because most ISPs are also offering TV services and Netflix is eating their lunch, so they figured that asking for a "Cord cutter" tax was bad PR, but asking for a "Bandwidth tax" was somehow fair.
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by remir 4y ago
I bet a lot of ISPs are also selling TV services and cord cutting is hurting their business. So they got creative and figured out they can ask for a Netflix tax to make it seems like it's fair compensation for the "huge" band
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by remir 4y ago
Google needs a CEO that is driven and with a product-centric approach and this is not what I currently see in Sundar. Google is extremely well positioned to respond to ChatGPT as they already have a very popular assistant in people's p
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by remir 4y ago
The technology itself was good, but I think Google underestimated the investment needed to go from zero to having an internal first party studio pumping out titles to attract casual gamers. They probably asked themselves "are we that s
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by remir 4y ago
I wish I could go back in time in the 90s and re-live those early internet moments from childhood.
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by remir 4y ago
I don't pirate things anymore. I subscribe to Spotify Premium for music. For movies/shows I subscribe to Netflix/Disney+ when there's something I want to watch and after a couple of weeks/months I unsubscribe when I
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by remir 4y ago
I want to transition into UX/UI design, aka Digital Product Design eventually. Not sure that going to happen in 2023, but I'm collecting books and courses right now.
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by remir 4y ago
Music is consumed differently than TV/movies. People these days usually don't listen to entire albums, but to individual songs as part of playlists. If all record labels created their own streaming services, it would break this ex

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