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shams93

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About shams93

Webrtc ninja

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    Comment #48887182

    The power of web components is having the ability to develop complex front end without the need for a build tool in 2026. In 2008 when I got started with heavy javascript jquery wa…

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    Comment #47211206

    It has a number of security issues which have not been fixed which could be used for really interesting exploitation.

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    Comment #47200371

    Seems like the heavy focus by institutions is a mistake because you have huge mining issues where ai is eating the miners, while etherium with proof of stake rather than proof of w…

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    Comment #46803413

    This is a nice resource. Personally I use linux vst plugin on bespoke synth. But bitwig, renoise and reaper all support linux for those who want or need commercial audio applicatio…

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    Comment #46799165

    For me I made the switch in 1998 when Windows Me was so terrible it was unusble. I went to CompUSA and found this cool box of cd roms with a lizard logo - suse linux and I was done…

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    Comment #46774714

    It didn't need Ai to create something as horrific as windows vista.

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    Comment #46758696

    The lock in with Safari is horrifc though, the browser on a $20 prepaid android phone is better than the browser on your most expensive ios device. Apple says well you need to writ…

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    Comment #46735085

    Actually you can change the keys up so much you can do microtonal scales on it, but at the end of the day its a metallaphone so not likely to ever be the only piece of gear you'd w…

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    Comment #46723663

    Even if it couldn't do win11 it would be amazing, but also transforming into a work pc setup is ingenious. Then there are the environmental benefits of reducing the footprint of ev…

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    Comment #46561385

    X used yew and rust to rebuild their client and had success in that they are dealing with lots of heavy lifting where these tools start to show their value for large scale products…

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    Comment #46448790

    I have had things melt down before where Gemini got stuck and then would say it did something and didnt, etc... Howver asking the same question on a new fresh context fixed it, kin…

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    Comment #46327852

    I agree, I was always annoyed in projects where these kids thought they were still in school and spinning up incredible levels of over abstraction that led to some really horrible …

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    Comment #46291937

    I've been unemployed for 3 years now have been continuously applying for 3 years and being 53, being non-stop rejected despite all my skills and 25+ years of experience. Its utterl…

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    Comment #45278254

    An even bigger problem is that Trump is developing a system of brutal punishment for the poor while AI is taking away a huge chunk of work out there while the rich people who own A…

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    Comment #45255462

    How smooth an experience you have with react really depends upon which framework you use, how old the code is. I have seen many react apps using outdated versions of react that bre…

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    Comment #45060091

    Yeah this is what we are seeing today, also its not just junior jobs going, according to Amazon they are using it to get rid of expensive senior employees while they are actually h…

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    Comment #44400157

    There is also the damage done by the Supreme Court ending the Voting Rights Act, had the act been in place in 2024, Kamalah would have won by a landslide. Millions of minority vote…

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    Comment #44373036

    There's no point because there's few things as human as writing a novel. Also I think these models work great for technical generation of things like code, but it doesn't take imag…

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    Comment #44263242

    With Ai killing so much employment I could see them weaponizing famine to try to unalive roughly 70-80% of the entire us population.

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    Comment #44217983

    Who's the criminal the one paid to violate rights or those who rise up non-violently to protect their community?

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    Comment #44212653

    The agent layer is a kind of client and since typescript thanks to node and the browser has become a universal language for client sides, whether the client is used by a human or u…

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    Comment #44194473

    During the boomer's art hayday of the late 1970s, conceptual art became king. Look at Jeff Koonz who came up with art ideas and then had minimum wage workers build the actual piece…

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    Comment #43697262

    Those "other substances" are very powerful, illegal drugs, as well as powerful prescription drugs taken without a doctor's supervision. Blaming weed seems to be a way of once again…

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    Comment #43310584

    Once people realized its actually more secure and performant than java you saw big companies using it such as Disney Parks. This was new they had been using java for at least a dec…

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    Comment #43285787

    Actually they are, we had massive protests in Los Angeles over the ice raids.