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  1. Comment on NVIDIA reportedly preparing to fire Jensen Huang in ~tech

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    I didn't mean to imply you would, I was mostly referencing some reddit threads on the topic. I get the absurdity of it can be funny.

    I didn't mean to imply you would, I was mostly referencing some reddit threads on the topic. I get the absurdity of it can be funny.

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  2. Comment on NVIDIA reportedly preparing to fire Jensen Huang in ~tech

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    Jensen is popular, but I think mainly as a meme character due to his leather jacket and as a mascot for LLMs. I'm sure the negative sentiment will drop the stock. But this hasn't materially...

    Jensen is popular, but I think mainly as a meme character due to his leather jacket and as a mascot for LLMs. I'm sure the negative sentiment will drop the stock. But this hasn't materially changed a lot for the business, his overall direction will be maintained at the company and nvidia is probably going to get a more boring and stable CEO. I imagine most of this is going to blow over a month after he's out.

    Also the fervor people seem to have for this to act as some kind of catalyst to pop the AI bubble is sort of concerning. I realize it might be cathartic but an actual recession level correction is going to make everything worse for everyone.

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  3. Comment on Digital Detox discussion: November 2026 in ~life

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    A concept I've heard related to screen time and kids is that we don't have to focus on removing technology but instead focus on strengthening other parts of our lives. What are some areas of your...

    A concept I've heard related to screen time and kids is that we don't have to focus on removing technology but instead focus on strengthening other parts of our lives. What are some areas of your life you might be neglecting while you're over-using technology? See if you can replace some of that time or making it more valuable. I.e. instead of scrolling at home go to a park and scroll or find a recipe you saved while scrolling and actually try and make it.

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  4. Comment on Digital Detox discussion: November 2026 in ~life

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    I tried to listen to this recently and found him incredibly insufferable. But beyond that the science he does cite isn't well explained, often poorly supported, and the back half of the book is...

    I tried to listen to this recently and found him incredibly insufferable. But beyond that the science he does cite isn't well explained, often poorly supported, and the back half of the book is pretty problematic in that he implies ADHD doesn't exist and it's just due to poor parenting.

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  5. Comment on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production in Texas next year in ~transport

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    I don't think they're particularly popular. But it is distinctive, so you recognize and remember when you have seen one compared to say, all the other cars that are boring as hell.

    I don't think they're particularly popular. But it is distinctive, so you recognize and remember when you have seen one compared to say, all the other cars that are boring as hell.

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  6. Comment on The New York Times reportedly in talks to buy Letterboxd for $330 million in ~tech

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    It's kind of weird we can't just have a simple CRUD website for tracking movies without it having paywalled features. It should cost basically nothing to run, so you'd think basic ad monetization...

    It's kind of weird we can't just have a simple CRUD website for tracking movies without it having paywalled features. It should cost basically nothing to run, so you'd think basic ad monetization would be enough.

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  7. Comment on Why parents love a school with bogus numbers in ~life

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    Surprised the article didn't really get into the problematic leadership, political involvement, invasive privacy, or replacement of qualified personnel with unqualified 'coaches'. I thought those...

    Surprised the article didn't really get into the problematic leadership, political involvement, invasive privacy, or replacement of qualified personnel with unqualified 'coaches'. I thought those topics were a lot more interesting than a poorly constructed 'teaching' strategy performing poorly.

    9 votes

  8. Comment on The American suburbs are better than you think in ~life

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    Interesting, I haven't heard of anybody looking at driving skill. One of the main issues I have with cars is that for them to work well it requires every driver to be adequately trained,...

    Interesting, I haven't heard of anybody looking at driving skill. One of the main issues I have with cars is that for them to work well it requires every driver to be adequately trained, attentive, and to act responsibly and that's simply an impossible task when everyone is a driver.

    I would be curious to see if anybody has tried to measure driving ability over time. I know for me there was basically zero training and the "test" was laughably inadequate.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on The American suburbs are better than you think in ~life

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    Saying people wouldn't pick cars was probably too far. But I do think there's significant momentum in culture and the way cities have evolved over time that gives cars a structural advantage. But...

    Saying people wouldn't pick cars was probably too far. But I do think there's significant momentum in culture and the way cities have evolved over time that gives cars a structural advantage. But there likely will always be people who prefer that for various reasons. I think it'd be interesting to see designed environments/cities instead of most that have infrastructure bolted on afterwards. A sort of terrible example of Neom's 'The Line' concept at least explore how an environment might exist without roads.

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  10. Comment on The American suburbs are better than you think in ~life

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    This articles points aren't wrong, but I think it doesn't question culture or think outside the box. It's purely a defense of suburbs. For example he claims people want and like cars and while...

    This articles points aren't wrong, but I think it doesn't question culture or think outside the box. It's purely a defense of suburbs. For example he claims people want and like cars and while that's true at a surface level it's purely cultural and many systems exist to support it and spread out the enormous costs of car ownership. Given a fair fight I don't believe people would pick cars at all.

    If we could strip out the need for cars in suburbia, remove zoning for increased density, and rework taxation so large houses pay their fair share I think we could see the development of of sort of neo-suburbia that has all the things people like while reducing the enormous amounts of pavement, and low density development.

    Also I HATE that he claims a 'sense of freedom' for people in suburbia. That's simply not the case and kids, elderly and disabled people certainly don't feel a sense of freedom.

    18 votes

  11. Comment on 4 × 6 in ~games

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    This is such an annoying discussion to have. It doesn't matter in the least. Dude is just putting a neat little game out there. Now liking humans means you have to do things some inefficient way...

    This is such an annoying discussion to have. It doesn't matter in the least. Dude is just putting a neat little game out there. Now liking humans means you have to do things some inefficient way just to pay someone? Should we scrap all construction vehicles and do stuff by hand? I get it, you dislike AI, but do we really need to point out every usage of it.

    5 votes

  12. Comment on The state of AI video in ~tech

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    I don't think we're going to be able to go back. The fundamental assumption that we can differentiate media into reality and synthetic is gone. We'll need to start relying on something else. I...

    I don't think we're going to be able to go back. The fundamental assumption that we can differentiate media into reality and synthetic is gone. We'll need to start relying on something else. I have high hopes for apples "reference image" tech that should allow us to have some confidence in the media we see. But for us older folks it might be hard to break the assumption that we can tell real vs fake instinctively.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on Apple announces iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone in ~tech

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    Thank you, that helps me understand, if you do end up picking it up I hope it works out great :)

    Thank you, that helps me understand, if you do end up picking it up I hope it works out great :)

  14. Comment on Apple announces iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone in ~tech

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    Can you expand on what you like about it? I don't really see it offering much more for that extra 1k.

    Can you expand on what you like about it? I don't really see it offering much more for that extra 1k.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on Technology is over in ~tech

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    Technology here was a very poor word choice when they really only have a point about information technology and even that the claim is mainly that there's abundance and yet people want less. Which...

    Technology here was a very poor word choice when they really only have a point about information technology and even that the claim is mainly that there's abundance and yet people want less. Which IMO means that people aren't satisfied and it isn't 'over'. People just want social media and information in a different better form.

    But the post really does talk about Technology as a whole. Which to say it is anywhere near 'over' is really too absurd to even spend time thinking about. You'd have to be pretty sheltered to only see the world through the lens of consumer tech to think anything like that. We're on the cusp of incredible medical breakthroughs, robotics is continuously marching forward, and of course AI is becoming increasingly better and cheaper.

    I really feel they must have some other point. That we've maximized 'convenience' maybe? Which I might be able to agree to. I think there's also a crucial crushing effect on American's who are experiencing the profit motive crush quality from everything as our capitalist system strains under incredible amounts of mismanagement and inequality.

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  16. Comment on Access to Fable and Mythos 5 cut off after US government order in ~tech

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    That's just the main reason I've seen it, maybe they saw early results and thought it'd be useful. Or had internal issues they thought it could fix. None of that is to say what they're acting...

    That's just the main reason I've seen it, maybe they saw early results and thought it'd be useful. Or had internal issues they thought it could fix. None of that is to say what they're acting rationally.

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  17. Comment on Access to Fable and Mythos 5 cut off after US government order in ~tech

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    It's just FOMO, businesses are afraid their competitors are going to embrace AI more, move faster, and completely shut them out.

    It's just FOMO, businesses are afraid their competitors are going to embrace AI more, move faster, and completely shut them out.

    10 votes

  18. Comment on Any fellow software engineers using paid GitHub copilot? in ~comp

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    Not exclusively copilot but Claude code. It was the opposite at the enterprise company I work at. They're still in the stage of 'don't worry about cost' and so every person is allocated around...

    Not exclusively copilot but Claude code. It was the opposite at the enterprise company I work at. They're still in the stage of 'don't worry about cost' and so every person is allocated around $300 in usage per month and any increases are automatically approved. They're chasing this dragon that developer velocity will proportionally lead to customer acquisition and retention which will lead to increased revenue. I'm not quite sure that's how it works.

    23 votes

  19. Comment on Announcing web serial support in Firefox 151 in ~comp

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    That is what we're doing, turns out the technologies are standard enough and flexible enough to work on almost every platform. There are obvious downsides to that right now, but I don't think any...

    That is what we're doing, turns out the technologies are standard enough and flexible enough to work on almost every platform. There are obvious downsides to that right now, but I don't think any of it is insurmountable.

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  20. Comment on Ferrari unveils its first all-electric car, the four-door Luce in ~transport

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    Jony Ive is such a hack at this point. I don't think he has any particularly valuable skills without a framework constraining him. Which at that point any good designer would probably do.

    Jony Ive is such a hack at this point. I don't think he has any particularly valuable skills without a framework constraining him. Which at that point any good designer would probably do.

    10 votes