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To ascribe good faith here to Zuckerberg is quite the leap considering his history. Why are his main products basically walled gardens then? It is a business decision to open sourc…

Ah yes, a reply in true hacker fashion, if people only were that binary. Just don't use, then addiction wouldn't be a thing! Problem solved. We can see it all around, the now 55 ye…

Yes.

> Automated snack vending machine is a solved problem since nearly a century. Yes, but as stated by the Anthropic guy, a LLM/AI running a business is not. Or would you just let it …

It is an interesting article but I find the slides inserted without much context to be confusing.. or is that part of the game?

I'll go against the grain here. If I invite someone a couple of times, and constantly get declined no way I'll invite that person anymore, because I make an effort to invite you. D…

For fun, I asked it how much better it is than GPT-4. It started a rap battle against itself :P https://chatgpt.com/share/6895d5da-8884-8003-bf9d-1e191b11d3...

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualiti…

Nice vibe writing.

Who claimed that?

And you don't think he would adjust like Linus for example?

Instead of an anthropocentric vision, you present here a "compucentric" vision, reminiscent of the works of Douglas Hofstadter, where the universe renders code, awareness reprogram…

Only a small percentage of people are willing to pay for internet services. It is psychology and competition between the sites who offer services for free vs requiring payment. Pay…

It is, because you are wasting time reinventing the wheel. Also if something is already well researched, you might miss intricacies, traps, optimizations etc. previous researchers …

"K is a general-purpose programming language that excels as a tool for data wrangling, analytics and transformation." How does it compare to R/tidyverse?

You can't do (or it is much more involved) to do cuts with rotary knobs. So they serve only the DJ who does slow mixes, while with faders you can do both.

(Too much) empathy can definitely be a weakness. It is situational however, in a safe and peaceful environment it is beneficial and helpful, in less fortunate environments it can m…

Not all, kernel level anticheat with the big multiplayer games is a problem these days (areweanticheatyet.com), but other than that, most titles work.

It is a very big difference to publicly blame your now ex-CEO for basically lying ("not consistently candid") versus just a polite parting message based on personal differences or …

Brorbror.. your brother's brother?

Not so sure that VR will take off that much, or that soon. The Apple Vision Pro is still pretty heavy, working for hours with that thing, well I hope you have strong neck muscles.

They realized: - More chance of getting away with it vs (attempted) assassination, since you usually don't cause bodily injury or death (so police divert less resources to the crim…

It is actually pretty decent. Since GNOME ~40 the desktop is pretty much out of your way and a joy to use imho.

Blur My Shell, Espresso, Just Perfection, Pomodoro, Reorder Workspaces, Top Bar Organizer.

Almost any request can be framed as abuse in this manner. "Some stranger asked me to stand still on the street the whole day, he abused my agreeableness". Imo it is not abuse if th…