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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you sue for too little, the case will get summary judgement, but that doesn’t really seem like a risk in this case unless there is a specific law that makes this clause unenforceable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On Linux, you run windows programs through wine, which is an additional layer that can theoretically slow down the program.

  Also, windows supports certain constructs like io completion ports or WaitForMultipleObjects that historically haven’t been emulated efficiently on Linux since it lacked comparable primitives, although those specific ones have been greatly improved in recent years with io_uring and FUTEX_WAIT_MULTIPLE.

  There have been similar issues with direct3D since wine used to have to emulate it in OpenGL, but with vkd3d, wine has more opportunities to efficiently implement the d3d apis.

  Basically wine being slower was the norm until quite recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny you mention that since YouTube led the web in dropping support for IE 6: blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

  That kind of thing isn’t quite in their DNA anymore, but you never know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also most workers at tech companies are not computer programmers. Marketing, sales, support, success, operations, managment, recruiting, HR, accounting, project managment, and product managment usually make up most of the employees. You are probably better at these jobs if you have prior experience in the same industry, but what job isn’t like that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  These are all so old that I think it supports the point. A lot of today’s useful materials, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals were invented by corporations around that time, but in recent history, corporate labs have been gutted and cherry pick out of universities.

  E.g. in recent history, AlexNet came out of utoronto, Google bought Alex’s startup shortly after, and then Google started developing deep learning models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Details of the 10b aren’t public, but we know it’s a multi year deal, so it’s possible that OpenAI doesn’t actually have the full amount in cash now, and they could go bankrupt before they unlock the full amount. In the event of a bankruptcy, Microsoft could be in a position to acquire their assets for themselves on the cheap.