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by webdevver 1y ago
bad news for the recroooter industrial complex (maybe?)
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by webdevver 1y ago
do they even need top talent? arguably they are in a commodity business. doesn't take a genius to build a DC and sell compute slices.
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by webdevver 1y ago
hotz truthers are an oppressed minority
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by webdevver 1y ago
haven't watched it yet - how does this stack up against the react documentary?
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by webdevver 1y ago
i do miss being able to read and memorize hex addresses. 64 bits is a little too long to easily 'see' at a glance. or see at all for that matter.
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by webdevver 1y ago
europe is cooked
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by webdevver 1y ago
my favourite theory of sales is that of the school of cialdini, which is basically treating the customer as something which can lead to money coming out of it if you supply the right verbal and visual stimulus.
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by webdevver 1y ago
and so continues the noble *nix tradition of supporting new hardware... well, some of it anyway
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by webdevver 1y ago
App icons are per-user NFTs, and when the phone is dropped the accelerometer reports it to the ETH blockchain, and marks the app icon as "cracked", forever that user's app glass icon is cracked unless you pay $50 to AppleCare
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by webdevver 1y ago
found it https://docs.tpde.org/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22610
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by webdevver 1y ago
whats "the TDPE paper"?
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by webdevver 1y ago
oh, i didnt mean to invoke rust in any technical sense - i brought up rust to introduce an example of the attitude that rust people are known for, namely "why not rewrite everything?", which a lot of people have a kneejerk rejec
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by webdevver 1y ago
tbh linux has quite a bit of cruft in it these days at the syscall and interface layer. if youre apple, it does make sense to do stuff from scratch. i think in a way, software guys wind up building their own prisons. an api is created to so
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by webdevver 1y ago
Losers aren't talked about, they just lose. The pitchfork crowd is going to be out to get the AI innovators, one way or another. There's no amount of 'safety training' that will exonerate them. Gemini got burned, now its
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by webdevver 1y ago
so this is like MCP but for neurons? can they wire up the neurons that control ear twitch muscles to something useful e.g. "Open terminal" shortcut?
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by webdevver 1y ago
I wouldn't read too much into it. I think this is just the Trump administration buying the dip. they're gonna invest heavily into Intel to reduce TSMCs political leverage, the stock will go up 1000%, and Trumps friends & co. (
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by webdevver 1y ago
for all this talk about intel struggling, they seem to be quite capable to continue producing very competitive CPUs and other IP. my understanding is that they are still doing well in the datacentre world, unless that has changed? its worth
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by webdevver 1y ago
this is 1:1 what i hear people say about solana memecoins
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by webdevver 1y ago
the entire games industry is reminiscent of cryptocurrency. hundreds of thousands of completely worthless "titles". sole purpose in life is to grab unwitting customers money and run. in this case, unity grabbing a percentage seems
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by webdevver 1y ago
nothing ever happens
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by webdevver 1y ago
we are incredibly overdue for the 3D-printer-ification of silicon chips
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by webdevver 1y ago
there appears to be two emerging major use cases/markets for LLMs: - synthetic friend - a tool that happens to be much faster than google/ctrl-f/man-pages/poking around github perhaps offer GPT-5-worker and GPT-5-friend?
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by webdevver 1y ago
the pragmatic thing to do is just let the Free Market decide. as far as i understand, windows just lets apps grab whatever window they want, whatever input they want, right? and everything Just Works(tm). app writers are discouraged to make
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by webdevver 1y ago
really a billion bucks is far too much, that is beyond the curve. $50M, now thats just perfect. you're retired, nor burdened with a huge responsibility
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by webdevver 1y ago
damnit why didn't they make it a trillion!? that would really send a message.
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by webdevver 1y ago
oh dear... "databricks" is what comes out the rear end of a poorly-configured llm. that's a shame.
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by webdevver 1y ago
https://youtu.be/_LsvdlaF5_k&t=1992
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by webdevver 1y ago
so true. certain 'social media figures' have been advocating for a so-called 'unplugging' of onself from a certain 'matrix', which always seemed absurd to me. surely the more sensible route, is to plug yourself
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by webdevver 1y ago
posix to linux is what web standards are to chrome
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by webdevver 1y ago
star wars except its comcast 'accidentally' destroying starlink sattelite links with 'debris'

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