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Levitating

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About Levitating

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    Comment #49162119

    Depending on your country you might be able to buy a ZX spectrum for a reasonable price. Their through-hole circuit boards are very repairable and there's a some videos on YouTube …

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    Comment #49128557

    GTK4 memory usage is ludicrous

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    Comment #49123828

    I did some digging into Artichokes sourcecode to get inspiration for making a Ruby like language in Rust. But I found the codebase a bit complicated and ended up taking more inspir…

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    Comment #49118185

    In this case it has nothing to do with AI > these are largely crypto mining rigs making this noise

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    Comment #49118172

    This reminds of a video[1] from More Perfect Union about another (the same?) crypto mining facility in Texas. [1]: https://youtu.be/m7_WDzPyoqU

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    Comment #49096736

    In Europe you can take the train. Although for whatever reason it's priced similarly to airplane tickets but obviously has far longer travel times. A lot if not most airplane traff…

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    Comment #49096733

    In Europe you can take the train. Although A lot of

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    Comment #49061163

    That's exactly what the California's Digital Age Assurance Act does but that wasn't well-received either.

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    Comment #49000426

    I love space trading games like EV and Elite. Can I follow your progress somewhere?

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    Comment #48977004

    > Did I miss anything? Steam has had good built-in streaming for a long time.

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    Comment #48976986

    Because you see a robot do one thing, doesn't mean it can do other things. We've had good robot demos for decades. For all we know they could've spent 5 years and 10 million dollar…

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    Comment #48976955

    I think anything more advanced than a Roomba won't be cheaper than a maid for actually cleaning your house.

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    Comment #48970571

    Thanks for keeping the list going. I link to it on here now and again.

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    Comment #48956812

    Lobste.rs seems cool. Would someone invite me?

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    Comment #48956753

    In my opinion this will just worsen the ecosystem. Many Rust crates are already bloated with dependencies.

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    Comment #48922245

    It's not about boycotting or regulations. Just don't buy products you don't get to own, it's not that hard. I've never owned a Sony (other than a headset) or Apple product either. …

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    Comment #48922127

    FairPhone, Nothing Phone, Jolla, Motorola, Google Pixel. If you're broke you shouldn't touch Samsung anyway. Better off buying a Xiaomi and unlocking it.

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    Comment #48906543

    I think Rust deals with lowest-common-denominator APIs quite well, by introducing OS specific extensions (like std::os::unix). There's no reason Python and Ruby can't provide the s…

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    Comment #48906401

    How about people just stop buying this crap instead? I've never owned a Samsung and I never will. People need to step out of this abusive relationship instead of trying to improve …

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    Comment #48816549

    It also has a billion active users

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    Comment #48816462

    The overdose one strikes me the most. Why was ChatGPT encouraging drug use?

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    Comment #48780434

    why did that url point me to a scrotum in an egg cup

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    Comment #48647442

    It's also convenient since they're now facing multiple anti-trust lawsuits.[1] [1]: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/dutch-non-profit-set...

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    Comment #48646868

    > For the inevitable minisforum machines comparisons It appears the Steam Machine is much more powerful than what a typical mini desktop pc would offer, while staying cool and quie…