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Poor people are already being priced out of cheap phones due to rise in RAM-related unit costs. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/smartphone-sales-to-plummet...

> This war was unavoidable btw, it was going to happen sometime this year or next. Iran was, as per the latest reports I've read, complying with terms and not enriching uranium to …

"What's the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you." They are all horrible. If there is ever a reckoning, I hope this entire class of spineless shits get destroye…

"evolution (fit to environment) than engineering (fit to purpose)." Oh, I absolutely love this lens.

It can be both, I think? Politicians/powerful people take advantage of divisions in society, but often those divisions do exist in a fully-fledged or nascent form for them to explo…

Killing USAID.

I do it more or less this way - except I keep the root intact until the end. It keeps the onion structurally intact until I'm done with the dicing. At which point, the root takes a…

Google exposes their reasoning. You can use their new gemini python sdk to get thought traces.

> not that a single user uses a lot of energy for a simple chat. This seems like a classic tragedy of the commons, no? An individual has a minor impact, but the rationale switching…

That's ok. AI will kill those off soon enough, and like all winners, rewrite history enough so that that inconvenient theft never happened anyway. It's manifest destiny, or somethi…

I can't speak to Rust, Go or C, but for me LLMs have greatly accelerated the process of learning and building projects in Julia.

Not a clue. I'm a decent engineer working as a DS in a consulting firm. In my last two projects, I checked in (or corrected) so much more code than the other two junior DS's in my …

So, tech workers paid >200k couldn't anticipate that hot places are going to get a lot hotter due to global warming and all the trends we've been observing over the last decade or …

... like women are all special and interesting by virtue of being female? Most of humanity is bland and forgettable. Gender is hardly a factor there.

The purple prose is exhausting.

> And in all of this no-one gives a crap about the children, since they rarely spend even a word talking about tracking down the uploaders or creators of said porn (i.e. they say a…

Collective fucking madness. It's tiring to be subject to the constant narcissism. The human toll of the incompetence of this government is incalculable. They've set us back decades…

I swear. But it's not just an issue with the cheap, knockoff stuff: my Bose Soundsport Earbuds often fail, too, with the left one connecting maybe two thirds of the time. It's so i…

In so many of these papers it seems to be almost a given that the global south is fucked so, holding that constant, they do a cost-benefit analysis on various levels of warming for…

It's kind of astounding how rapidly the series has disappeared from the mainstream. Couldn't have bungled it up worse had they tried.

Slick pretentious nonsense unfortunately makes the world go round these days.

Death row inmates are more ethical than that man.

"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"

I'm Indian, and I think there's a strong case to be made that the Indian avg IQ is likely to be lower than 100. This is nurture though, not nature: a large % of Indians do not get …