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ah, hacker news. Such a reliable source of the dumbest fucking takes on the entire Internet. But no, don't let me stop you from justifying your hatred of certain people through the…

it's a real shame no one warned us this would happen when a bunch of corporatists and opportunists wrested the term "open source" from the advocates of true freedom in the late '90…

The day I stopped giving half a fraction of a shit was the day Google served me malware in an ad. It was one of those fake "Download" buttons on a very popular open source tool. I …

It pretends to be. But in reality it's always been a VC honey pot. I've stopped commenting here. I've made it a personal rule to only speak out against this tyranny and never talk …

you have a lot of faith that Big Balls hasn't been compromised. Because surely none of them are using their personal smartphones or laptops and are following strict access protocol…

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The deal still has me scratching my head. They tossed out the brand name and logo. Elon already had the X name and domain. For much less than $44B I feel like you could clone Twitt…

I know it's fashionable to use flatpak, Docker, etc. but I'd still rather not have 30 instances of Gtk running for every GUI app I decide to run. Consider that we still run on Rasp…

There was also Kahn, which was a similar competitor. I remember playing Duke3d over the internet. I was completely giddy as me and my friends all flew around with jetpacks on tryin…

sounds like Slow Horses. Though I could easily see it being a 007 plot line

EVs are the worst proposition for a car rental. When you rent a car, you're planning on driving it. Much more than the car that sits on your driveway and only takes you to work and…

I can understand why people wanted that, and the benefit of doing that. With that said, I also see benefit in having limitations. There is a certain comfort in knowing what a tool …

you can have ten comments about the name of a variable, but no one bats an eye at a new npm package introduced. Also, devs that wrote code that Google depends on can't pass the lee…

You say all this after recent documents were revealed about Facebook intercepting and analyzing Snapchat encrypted traffic via a man-in-the-middle conspiracy.

someone added a script written in Rust to our project. They compiled it for ARM. So only people on Macbooks can run the damn thing. Nice one Rust bro.

yes, but the Senior Principle Staff Engineer that has two whole years of experience doesn't know the difference.

Here's a good video from Jason Cammisa about the new (at the time) mk8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGbPHp6QfkQ I had a mk7 and it is the best interior + UX I've seen in a car.…

There are lots of reasons why Half-life was a success. You shouldn't discount stupid luck, as well. Their first iteration was awful, as mentioned in the YouTube video. They essenti…

Amazon is already there. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-is-quietly-building-th... Interestingly, Amazon's move to ad placement seems to coincide with how terrible Amazon's s…

I'm sure internal politics plays a large role. Managers knee-capping each other and so forth. But there is another way to look at it. A company of Google's size will not be satisfi…

> Google lasted a good 10 years not sure what event you're thinking of, but Google was a public company before 10 years and they started their first ad program just barely more tha…

We already know some of the smartest people are willing to sell us out. Because they work for FAANG ad tech, spending their days figuring out how to maximize the eyeballs they reac…

I'm imagining more of an AI that takes a standard movie screenplay and a sidecar file, similar to a CSS file for the web and generates the movie. This sidecar file would contain th…

> rather have you listening uncritically to ChatGPT than to a lot of crap on the internet This, to me, seems to be an amusing reversal of trends. Before the internet there was the …

You're assuming bad code is code that throws errors. SQL injection is bad code that "works". Most security issues come from bad code that just "works". I can't believe I have to sa…