I usually just have an earbud in and face the screen of my phone/tablet down on the nightstand.
I usually just have an earbud in and face the screen of my phone/tablet down on the nightstand.
To what, sleep?
What the hell are you talking about? I’m pretty sure the millions of people the Romans enslaved did not volunteer for a better life but were in fact brutalized through violence and abducted from their homes.
He bought himself luxury sports cars using company money under the guise of “company car”.
Hiding your assets behind a corporate veil is a relatively common form of fraud and tax evasion for rich people.
Moore’s Law is about transistors, not resistors. Tell me you know nothing about hardware without saying you know nothing about hardware.
His mom’s basement.
Sure. I could accept hearing “Windows is more polished than most Linux distro’s”. But to say blankly that Windows is polished is crazy talk. It’s jank as balls. Its got like 3 totally discrete and independent UI frameworks for the menus operating in parallel, and somehow none of them provide all the functionality you would need, have to mix and match them.
That’s just a single example. I could rant for hours.
I agree with your point, but I never would have thought of describing Windows as “polished”.
I can’t be bothered to learn git.
How to become unemployable as an engineer 101.
Dumb take. I don’t need to sit down and have a beer with my anti-vax MAGA neighbors to understand them. I understand them just fine, they’re brain damaged morons.
Well that other guy said it’s only 66megs so, you’re wrong.
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Great rebuttal. Really got him with this one.
That ship has long sailed unfortunately. The industry gave up on optimization in favour of praying that hardware advancements can keep up with the bloat.
Sam Altman was actually president of Y combinator from 2014 - 2019. An interesting connection when you realise HN has been actively removing news critical of the Gen AI bubble hype.
How else was he supposed to keep the user base up!???
My point was to illustrate a comparable big corpo’s flippant response to negative PR.
We’ve entered a stage in the software industries development where these mega corps are making so much money off of your data that they simply don’t care about PR, very often responding to negative PR in a consumer hostile manner.
Besides, Microsoft has been scraping personal data through Windows for over a decade. Why would they stop now? Business/enterprise licenses will likely have the ability to disable the recall feature. Regular consumers can go fuck themselves, as usual.
Would Microsoft even care? Do normies think about this kind of thing?
Google’s gemini has been delivering some pants-on-head stupid results in the search and Google’s comment on the situation was basically “ya, it do be that way”.
No, it wouldn’t be. The base circumstance is the same, the software misidentifying a subject. The severity and context will vary from incident to incident, but the root cause is the same - false positives.
There’s no process in place to prevent something like this going very very bad. It’s random chance that this time was just a false positive for theft. Until there’s some legislative obligation (such as legal liability) in place to force the company to create procedures and processes for identifying and reviewing false positives, then it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.
You don’t wait for someone to die before you start implementing safety nets. Or rather, you shouldn’t.
You lack imagination. What happens when the system mistakenly identifies someone as a violent offender and they get tackled by a bunch of cops, likely resulting in bodily injury.
Zelda OOT or Majora’s Mask speed runs.