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I switched my gaming laptop over to CachyOS (which is more or less "Arch with some good defaults for gaming and a curated runtime environment") because I literally couldn't play St…

Pretty good chance they meant Simone Giertz, who is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ

If you want to experience the thrill of being in the antimemetics division I highly recommend* unmedicated ADHD. I pre-ordered the hardcover when it came out. I've read it online d…

None of the people making these decisions care about the long-term best interest of the company. Sundar doesn't give a shit about Google's future, he is laser focused on what reall…

We already have a term for prompting a computer in a way that causes it to predictably output useful software; we called that programming, and people on this website used to think …

Google simply does not have a culture of giving a shit about people's experiences with their product. If you are having a problem you better either have that problem so frequently …

Google also routinely removes AI suggestions for searches that produce embarrassing results (you don't get them for searches about keeping cheese on your pizza anymore, for example…

My friend described the original symptom cluster as "Havana few too many syndrome" (as in a few too many drinks), which I think is probably about right. From there it's just people…

#2 was definitely a problem for them; Teslas are out of action longer because of the wait times, AND they are more expensive to repair (which means they're more expensive to insure…

I love that too. You definitely don't see as many of them these days. By 2006 they were kind of a punchline (cf the TV series "30 Rock" and their portrayal as a goofy dead-end tech…

Fixing the company sounds good, but you have to remember that the people who would be fixing it are the people who got it to this point in the first place. I think it's very likely…

That's correct. LLMs are plausible sentence generators, they don't "understand"* their runtime environment (or any of their other input) and they're not qualified to answer your qu…

Just wanted to say that I think your rendition of Zellige is really nice, thank you for sharing! This is a very cool drawing language, and I think your art here is a really solid e…

The other answer to this is correct, but a little more detail in case you're interested: ^W is a control code. This specific one represents the keys ctrl+w, a keyboard command in V…

This story resonates with me a lot. I hope you don't mind if I share my own story (not as a counter-argument or anything, but out of solidarity from an addict in recovery). I don't…

Mogstation is truly incredible, it's like the digial equivalent of those "this is not a place of honor" signs, it feels designed to actively repel use. That said, FF14 is a ton of …

> The player politicized their neutral platform. The NBA fined players that wouldn't stand for the anthem for the same reason. Standing for the national anthem is not a politically…

I have a genuine question: what are some of the "cheap to mid range devices" you're thinking of here? Honest question, not trying to be a jerk, I genuinely want to know.

The "1000 dollar apple phone" thing is such a weird myth. My wife has been using the iphone 5s for years now, because the later models are too big for her to hold comfortably. It o…

This is, as I understand it, the goal. I mentioned this in a different comment, but getting companies to think of unsecured consumer data as a liability is absolutely key to gettin…

If personal data doesn't have value to the company and it's not an asset, then the company shouldn't be collecting and storing it . Making storing personal data a liability is good…

I noticed that too (mtg meme group just showed up as a wall of "image may contain:text" placeholders), but I didn't realize it was an outage and I thought that I'd accidentally tur…

Also I'd like to point out that the headline is, at best, highly misleading -- the doctor didn't see the patient, no, but that's the problem not an exculpatory factor. This isn't a…

Yeah I came here to write more or less this exact comment -- the doctor absolutely did make a medical judgement on the patient, and frankly it was an astonishingly bad one. To decl…

Unless she's in the process of joining Uber and working on the feedback component, she's not "trying to make the system useful", she's just refusing to engage with material reality…