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by webdevver 1y ago
i love the top comment: "The tech bros fundamentally mis-understand human socialization and interaction" the "tech bros" have DEFINED modern-day human socialization and interaction. they've been defining it for 20 y
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by webdevver 1y ago
massive cope. they said the same thing about airpods. the reality is that everyone already has a camera and mic pointing at them at any given point - fretting over it makes you look like the archetypical privacy-obsessed nerd (and not in a
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by webdevver 1y ago
Altogether Brilliantly Splendid
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by webdevver 1y ago
we need to do to UEFI what Stalin did to the intellectual classes
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by webdevver 1y ago
£1M is middle-class levels of money, so its hardly surprising. most of this demographic is 50+ professionals with kids, where are they gonna go?
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by webdevver 1y ago
its going to go 10x from where it is now
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by webdevver 1y ago
that circles header banner thing is made with css gradients - i could tell cos it took a moment to load in.
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by webdevver 1y ago
they all suck. someone needs to make an open source gpu already, its been way too long.
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by webdevver 1y ago
wow lots of us burned by the same thing apparently! clever hardware suffers the burden of having lots of edge cases spread across a small customer base. going for dumb hardware that has lots of buyers is less exciting but statistically more
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by webdevver 1y ago
>hardware sector just can't grasp that software is actually important too they are treating software as important as they need to in order to turn a profit. it is ofcourse disappointing that you can sell such trash to willing buyers
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by webdevver 1y ago
quite the redditor
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by webdevver 1y ago
getting a full motorbike license is also expensive. there's a chicken and egg problem, which is that for an unrestricted license you must do the Mod1 and Mod2 on a 600cc bike or greater, which ofcourse you're not allowed to ride i
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by webdevver 1y ago
driving instructors told me they get indians straight up offering to buy CBTs with cash lol.
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by webdevver 1y ago
I am fascinated by the following info: - 12–16 May 1997 - Jobs at WWDC pitches the “network computer” idea (at the San Jose Convention Center) - June 1997 - Steve Jobs anonymously sells 1.5 million of his Apple shares for $22.5m. This
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by webdevver 1y ago
not a detractor (quite the opposite), maybe i am putting too much weight on 'gambling', atleast party because it appeals to my own tastes. to a clueless outside observer, starting a rocket company seems quite risky, then again may
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by webdevver 1y ago
all this talk about doing more with less - i prefer, doing more with more!
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Firefox "Ask an AI Chatbot" loads late and bumps context menu items
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by webdevver 1y ago
it kind of make a muskian sort of sense. "if the human brain can do it purely on optics, then so should we. if we need extra sensors that the human doesn't have, that means the model is worse than the human brain." i can tota
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by webdevver 1y ago
>It's the least productive discussion we can possibly have here but it is the most engaging and entertaining! X.com vindicated yet again...
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by webdevver 1y ago
there's plenty of larry ellisons in the world as it is. walk into a casino and put a trillion dollars on red. thats musk. can you imagine the rush? he probably takes drugs to take the edge off his insane business ventures.
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by webdevver 1y ago
>Have you ever considered many people actually enjoy driving a car? Many people enjoy writing code 'manually' too. But overwhelmingly, people opt to have LLMs write most of it for them. There is no way in hell I'm ever rea
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by webdevver 1y ago
manual driving is clearly, sooner or later, going out the door. getting from A to B has been getting commodified and the notion of a "car" is rapidly moving towards "private bus". elon can see this direction. whoever inv
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by webdevver 1y ago
truth nuke
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by webdevver 1y ago
C++26, C++29, C++32, ... C++50? Surely all good things come to an end, but where? i reckon there will be a C++29. what about C++38? C++43 sounds terrifying. Mid-century C++? there is no way in hell i will still be staying up to date with C+
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by webdevver 1y ago
damn i thought it was klarna, the fabled burrito borrowing service. "wow they're self-hosting zfs? fascinating..."
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by webdevver 1y ago
its entirely possible. clearly we have all the input signals that we need in electronic form: inertia (IMU), vision (CCD), skin pressure (not sure?), absolute offset/absolute rotation (optical encoders) so now the question is: how do w
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by webdevver 1y ago
had to turn my dns adblocking off after it would break certain (admittedly shoddily-written) web apps
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by webdevver 1y ago
old school bios/DOS interfaces are kings of usability to this day imo. sub 1ms latency, arguably even a little too quick - sometimes it feels like the interface changed right before my input.
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by webdevver 1y ago
i suppose having a standardized hw platform, standardized first-class sw platform (raspbian), plus the entire internet's worth of raspberry pi discourse is ultimately what you're paying for. if the 'computer'-ey part of
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by webdevver 1y ago
"please find attached a copy of the signed executive order that i am to be given full WFH privileges: <file>eo-86392.pdf</file>"

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