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- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 5 days ago:
Couldn’t have a thought further from his mind
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 week ago:
Do you mean Buying = believing Or Buying = buying
Because I think the real problem here is that people actually are buying=buying and that’s why they keep doing it.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 1 week ago:
You might be right, probably worth looking into. I just have so little time to invest in new titles or any learning curve or really any game that takes a ton of grinding before it’s fun
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 1 week ago:
Let me share my Xbox experience? I’m mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.
I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.
Yet somehow there’s no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.
And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can’t play “online” and use my unlocked items even though I’m doing local play.
So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.
I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.
- Comment on Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 Released with Certbot Enhancements 1 week ago:
Makes sense, it seems like Caddy is like a Swiss army knife and nginx is now the whole Home Depot.
A decade ago or so nginx was the swiss army knife to Apache
- Comment on Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 Released with Certbot Enhancements 2 weeks ago:
I’m an old school nginx pro. So I keep using nginx for reverse proxies because it’s what I know. What does caddy have to offer (or traefik is anyone wants to jump in)? Are they just optimized for this function and more modern?
- Comment on Facts and minds 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it matters a lot how the conversation is set up.
Is it “you and I versus the facts”?
Or “you vs me”?
Competent people can disagree and also identify where the facts are missing and the assumptions begin that lead to this. It doesn’t have to be a fight if they look at the data as something to discover together.
- Comment on Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds 2 weeks ago:
Echo chambers and all, yeah it’s likely TikTok has this issue too. TikTok gives you content you want to see, because you’ll stay around and watch more ads. No surprise here.
conservative TikTok users tend to stick together. They rarely follow accounts with opposing views or mainstream media accounts. Liberal users, on the other hand, are more likely to follow a mix of accounts, including those they might disagree with.
That’s weird and somewhat descriptive of my anecdotal experience with many people I know. I wonder why this is.
- Comment on If every minority group came together under the same banner they would be the majority, and rights would be much easier to attain for everyone. 2 weeks ago:
All these minorities may share a common problem yet it’s unlikely they have the same vision for the solution.
- Comment on Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla. 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually pretty cool. That thing might be forgot about and then found again 10,000 years from now
- Comment on Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla. 2 weeks ago:
Is that car in some kind of orbit, or did we just send it?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
There are at least 2 of us! I think it was widely reported that the downfall of MySpace was at least partially linked to their use Coldfusion. When they needed to scale and adapt it just wasn’t ready.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
I remember that IBM was famously missing the trend in the late 80s/90s and couldn’t understand why regular consumers would ever want to buy a PC. It’s why they gave the PC clone market away, never seriously approached their OS/2 thing, and never really marketed directly to anybody except businesses.
Microsoft really pushed the idea that regular people needed a home PC which laid the foundation for so many people already having the hardware in place to jump on the internet as soon as it became accessible.
For a brief moment it looked like a toss up between Microsoft IIS webservers serving up .asp files (or coldfusion .cf - RIP) vs Apache pushing CGI but in the end the Linux solution was more baked and flexible when it was time to launch and scale an internet startup in that era.
Somebody else would have done what Microsoft did for sure, had they not been there, and I suppose we could be paying AT&T for Unix licenses these days too. But yeah, ultimately both Gates and Torvalds were right in terms of operating systems and well timed.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
Both Torvalds and Gates are nerds… Gates decided to monetize it and Torvalds decided to give it away.
But without Microsoft’s “PC on every desktop” vision for the ‘90s, we may not have seen such an increased demand for server infrastructure which is all running the Linux kernel now.
Arguably Torvalds’ strategy had a greater impact than Gates because now many of us carry his kernel in our pocket. But I think both needed each other to get where we are today.
- Comment on wtf 3 weeks ago:
So apex that most of us outsource our hunting and farming, which makes us fat and slow unless we purposefully burn energy for no other purpose than to burn it.
- Comment on Absolute unit 3 weeks ago:
Somebody must have had a rad cable label machine
- Comment on Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers 3 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers 3 weeks ago:
It’s an interesting observation. Chinese tend to run scrappy operations with something like a “do it no matter what, ethics be damned” strategy.
But it doesn’t bode too well for OpenAIs current level given how much funding and talent they presumably have.
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 3 weeks ago:
E:\mp3
- Comment on Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial 3 weeks ago:
Ok I’m a proponent of right to repair and despise manufacturing techniques that lock repair shops out, make spare parts from 3rd parties impossible to install, or create planned obsolescence, or any shenanigans like this. It’s basically anti-everybody else and suggests weakness and fear instead of quality and strength.
But help me understand how it’s possible that our “free market” is enabling this, unless it’s just a controlled market charading as free?
Is John Deere giving the hardware away for free to those who sign long term subscriptions or something?
If John Deere is the Apple-esque ecosystem of tractors where is the “PC” diy manufacture and why doesn’t the market support them.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 4 weeks ago:
A bit pissed at this possibility. Games that I bought many years ago require me to be signed in to use my unlocks, even during solo play.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 4 weeks ago:
My company gets a lot of incoming chats from customers (and potential customers)
The challenge of this side of the business is 98% of the questions asked over chat are already answered on the very website that person started the chat from. Like it’s all written right there!
So real human chat agents are reduced to copy paste monkeys in most interactions.
But here’s the rub. The people asking the questions fit into one of two groups: not smart or patient enough to read (unfortunate waste of our resources) or they are checking whether our business has real humans and is responsive before they buy.
It’s that latter group for whom we must keep red blooded, educated and service minded humans on the job to respond, and this is where small companies can really kick ass next to behemoths like google who bring in over $1m per employee but still can’t seem to afford a phone line to support your account with them.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.
For much of reddit’s best years, RiF was my top app.
- Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. 4 weeks ago:
Most social media is the wrong format for long-term discussion. Whatever you post, it will soon be replaced by something newer.
Consumers just want that quick dopamine hit every time they open the app.
There are still quite a few phpBB-style bulletin boards out there with threads that survive for years. I think that’s the social media you’re looking for.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 4 weeks ago:
Learning how to do small talk will improve your social, economic, and relationship opportunities in countless ways.
Asking people questions about themselves makes them think of you as likable.
Remember the acronym f o r d: Family Occupation Recreation Dreams
Small talk can be learned and getting in some more practice might make it bearable, perhaps even enjoyable.
When you are running out of topics keep the acronym above in mind and ask a question related to one of those topics. Something like this example:
Q: So, have you always lived in (wherever you are)?
However they reply, follow up with it positive and encouraging response such as: “ah you’re a long timer. I thought there weren’t too many of us left!” and then go right into a follow up Q also related to the acronym but now attached to the new information you have such as: is your family from this area too? What brought you here initially? What do you do for work? Hey since you’ve been here so long, what do you think about (insert local drama that’s been in the news).
The goal isn’t to interrogate, but to smoothly and rapidly sort through topics until you find commonalities. Then you can lift off and the conversation will feel very natural and easy.
I heard about this 20 some years ago and have used it at the start and end of business meetings, on first dates, with strangers, and heck sometimes even with my friends if we’re catching up and I want to cover things that are core to them.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 weeks ago:
I think I’m understanding the playbook here.
Eventually YouTube will cost 89.99 a month and also be full of ads.
Then they will be disrupted by some startup company that will have to fight uphill for search and bandwidth access through Google’s monopolistic front door.
Years later a court case will be decided and the new guy will be up and running a free service with a few ads or 1.99 a month for no ads!
And then we get to go through it all again.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 5 weeks ago:
Well they are sure gonna have fun with all this equipment
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 1 month ago:
WTF she said it does!
- Comment on Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude 1 month ago:
Doctors face a similar obstacle before they can practice: medical school and residency. They literally have to jump from zero to hero before the first real paycheck.
Things may evolve this way for senior software developers with a high rate of dropout.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 1 month ago:
True, I tried to qualify it with just about or on the way.
From the perspective of my desk, my core business apps have AI auto suggest in key fields (software IDEs, ad buying tools, marketing content preparation such as Canva). My Whatsapp and Facebook messenger apps now have an “Ask meta AI” feature front and center. Making a post on Instagram, it asks if I want AI assistance to write the caption.
I use an app to track my sleeping rhythm and it has an AI sleep analysis feature built in. The photo gallery on my phone includes AI photo editing like background removal, editing things out (or in).
That’s what I mean when I say it’s in just about everything, at least relative to where we were just a short bit of time ago.
You’re definitely right that it’s not literally in everything.