sangnoir

17 ms·

1.
by sangnoir 1y ago
> It's not that the terms are unpopular, it's that every system that doesn't have strong capitalist roots has lost out to more capitalist systems. The arch of history is long, and we are naturally biased to think of the pr
2.
by sangnoir 1y ago
The best time to have moved the Overton window was decades ago. The second best time is now. It's also relevant to this age, as the current strain of capitalism is showing its ass, and everyone can see it.
3.
by sangnoir 1y ago
I think we do.
4.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> For reference the B580 die is nearly the size of the 4070 but sells for a third the price. Doesn't this suggest the B580 has worse yields? Die surface area isn't directly proportional to selling price.
5.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> I would assume the same goes for some Democratic voters as well That's an interesting idea. Care to expound on who some Democratic voters were eager for Kamala to "hurt"?
6.
by sangnoir 2y ago
I'll give you one guess as to which branch of government most agencies belong to. Yes, agencies are being gutted.
7.
by sangnoir 2y ago
No, I mean they'd rather not verbalize why they want Trump in office. Like one of his voters mentioned during his first term when she felt he wasn't "hurting who he's supposed to". A surprising number of Trump voter
8.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> I know quite a few Trump voters that only care to vote for him and couldn't explain any coherent policy reason for preferring him Perhaps the reasons can't be mentioned in polite company.
9.
by sangnoir 2y ago
College campuses are already a 1A-free zone with the intention to deport "anti-Semitic" students
10.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> It’s not exaggeration to say that the web has set UIs back by decades. The trade-offs for the UI setback are unbeatable cross-platform compatibility, ease of distribution and a decent security model with sandboxing. MacOS only introduc
11.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> I also find the publisher's claims that he "[just can't] bring [him]self to sit down and read 77 pages of these messages right now" implausible. Read back a few sentences for the context - they aren't willing t
12.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> How has that "unlimited" money supply worked out ever since? It works very well when your currency is the world's reserve currency. You get way more latitude for printing money with much lower inflation vs some isolated
13.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> However polls show that Americans don’t like Putin. Out of that 81%, how many believe in appeasing Putin to "Avoid world war III" despite their animus? Too many, IMO, and Putin doesn't care for how the American populace
14.
by sangnoir 2y ago
IIRC, the Blender Foundation's Open Source movies have been rendered on render farms from the very first one, produced over 20 years ago. This predates Cycles/Eevee, but I don't think it's something they'd regress o
15.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> Biden was doing very poor and he was, numbers show it. The polls in the immediate aftermath of the debate showed Biden's approval/disapproval rate was unchanged. It did change after weeks of negative front-page stories and sp
16.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective Getting rid of First past the post voting systems will reduce incidents of extremism. Ranked choice voting, multiparty systems amd coal
17.
by sangnoir 2y ago
How would city-states work in the age of nukes? It will lead to nothing but predation (see Mortal Engines for a YA take, what I'd give to watch the City of New York pursuing Roanoke or Asheville across the plains from atop the Chrysler
18.
by sangnoir 2y ago
Please. None of the media is making hay of Trump's IV-bruise, and credulously accepted the White Houses's statement that he was sharking hands too hard the day before. Half his face is droopy, but that's not notable or worth
19.
by sangnoir 2y ago
The NYT had 3 straight weeks of breathless Biden is too old front-page headlines based on speculation and tenuous connections. Trumps equivalent actions/incoherence which could be interpreted in as an age-related decline were being c
20.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> I don't really count chromebooks because it's an OS that does a LOT to hide the details of how computers work from the end user. That's sort of where I see the computer illiteracy coming from. Android and iOS both do a l
21.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> I don't really count chromebooks because it's an OS that does a LOT to hide the details of how computers work from the end user. That's sort of where I see the computer illiteracy coming from. Android and iOS both do a l
22.
by sangnoir 2y ago
Modularity is not a binary choice - it's a spectrum with tradeoffs. One might maliciously (IMO) argue that the single motherboard in Framework products that you presumably find perfectly fine, could have been designed as several interc
23.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> In fact, that's often a very bad thing to do because you can burn out quickly Bingo! Sport's teams avoid burning out the talent, because they are hard to replace. Corporates are ambivalent at best, with most accepting some
24.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> So don't make it then? You presume to have internalized Framework's core-values more than the founder/CEO? The box is not my cup of tea,but they are free to experiment.
25.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> It's not hard to make, its a relatively simple CLI tool so there's no moat There are similar open source CLI tools that predate Claude Coder. Its reasonable to assume Anthropic chose not to contribute to those projects for re
26.
by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm not affiliated with Anthropic, but it seems like doing this will commoditize Claude (the AIaaS). Hosted AI providers are doing all they can to move away from being interchangeable commodities; it's not good for Anthropic'
27.
by sangnoir 2y ago
It cost Apple $0 to say they'll spend $500B.
28.
by sangnoir 2y ago
It's not intimidation, its merely correcting and an inappropriate usage of a word. What exactly do you think smuggling is?
29.
by sangnoir 2y ago
Gigs are part of the sinkhole; funneling money from those struggling to get by to the app-makers and their investors. At best, gigs are the pretty-but-slippery wallpaper lining the sinkhole many have fallen into, and can't climb out of
30.
by sangnoir 2y ago
> We are, in fact, in the middle of a Cold War again Which political order are we in an existential battle against; Russian-style oligarchy or or Chinese-style state-controlled capitalism? It appears we're losing on both those front

More ›