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is there a xitter free version of the video?

No, it's been consistently like that. I sampled their episodes over a number of years and the theme was the same. It was sad to see Dvorak gradually adopt the same views after a wh…

I'm going to post something that contradicts this outpouring of fondness for the late Dvorak. While I did enjoy his friendly curmudgeon act in the days of TWiT, I was very dismayed…

Because doing chores is not a complete waste of time. It's a mild physical activity and at the very least some rest for the brain and they eyes from the glowing screen. As for who …

Some things are necessary for survival and flourishing while others merely remove inconvenience from our lives. Agricultural technology feeds the people we have around the globe (a…

Wow, some people really dislike any inconvenience in your lives, don't you? What will you do pray tell with that extra time? I doubt it will be spent on loftier pursuits. In fact I…

it was a seamless sandwich of glass on both sides - no camera tumour. The metal band around it felt solid (likely stainless steel) and had nicely masked antenna cuts. The phone fel…

I still remember the wait lists for OP1, 2 and 3. OnePlusX was the sexiest looking phone anyone ever released, before and since.

loving the comintern neckerchief on it!

so the post-AI landscape is software as a shanty town? That's not a bad analogy. We won't like the looks of it and it will barely function but like real life shanty towns it will f…

Something seems afoot at Google. The real tell will be if Demis makes a move. Jeff Dean seems more like a lifer to me.

Moreover, he conveniently forgets the millions of aspiring founders who did not even get into his puppy mill to get a chance to play the 5% odds. In many cases their only obstacle …

A manual toothbrush. For some reason I enjoy it better than an electric. Same for shaving. I use a safety razor shaver and a shaving brush. I like my morning ritual to be more of a…

Some oligarchs are making out like bandits. This is russia level kleptocracy.

I think a lot of users likely use these models on small hobby projects and not some convoluted enterprise code base. When you're making yet another Space Invaders clone it really w…

Just because Anthropic chose to implement it like this. But the directive specifically targets non-US nationals.

It's not about cutting edge or not. Fable was able to tear through stuff and always diligent about its own work. In terms of output quality and completeness it was in a league of i…

Ah, so US citizens are so pure of heart that they can have access it's just the smelly ferigners that must be locked out?

Working on my codebase (~100KLoC across multiple Python modules) I felt that Fable was head and shoulders above 4.x series. It was just relentless and always hell bent on testing a…

Pure vendetta by the capricious king wannabe. The US is so fucked.

I think this says more about "modern" UI than it does about AI slop. The awfulness of all this comes mostly from the fact that widgets no longer have consistent shape, theme or int…

We have the "social media" companies to thank for this innovation. They introduced these stupid patterns primarily to keep users locked into their walled gardens and the rest of th…

No it won't. Everyone knows their favourite film director. Virtually nobody has their favourite app developer.

Right and ready for the new season of "Black Mirror"

I'm sorry but sometimes performance is not everything. Apple silicon - great except you are now in the Apple walled garden with all the consequences of it. Not to mention perpetual…