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- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 8 months ago:
Languages don’t care about complexity. Look at Polish. It’s like it makes things complex on purpose. Language evolution is not only about simplifying thing. It’s also about conveying meaning and will adapt to the culture that uses it.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 8 months ago:
Backmarket FTW
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Wow, I have no idea what copilot is and why would you want to hide the desktop. It used to be you had ‘show desktop’ button on the task bar. I guess I’ve been happily using Linux for too long.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 8 months ago:
Yes, I’m happy you’re starting to understand. It’s the same as with solar. It just shines on cars and they drive. You don’t need to build anything like panels or hydrogen storage or pipes to move it. It’s simply free energy. Like coal.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 8 months ago:
Yeah, coal is also free. I just lays there in the ground. It doesn’t cost any money to make it. Obviously you need infrastructure to mine it and burn it but other than that it’s free. Right?
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 9 months ago:
Flying cars will be the future but I wouldn’t buy a flying car today.
Brain-computer interfaces will be the future but I wouldn’t implant a chip in my brain today.
Personal AI assistants will be the future but I wouldn’t pay $350 for ChatGPT today.
Lot’s of things will be great in the future. Bringing it up in the context of existing, silly products is a bit pointless.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
Except it’s you that keeps writing stupid shit like “solar is free”.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
I used to tip most of the times when I got to Spain but I was told so many time it’s simply not something people do here that I mostly stopped. There no way tip when you’re paying with a card and I carry less and less cash so without any pressure to tip I simply lost the habit.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
Yep, that’s what you’ve been saying. Solar generates hydrogen for free. Just like that. You just park you car in the sun and it moves. Unlike a supercharger which has to be build hydrogen is just there. No buildings needed. Exactly what you said. Word for word.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
Yes, because the hydrogen just appears there. No machinery needed. It just forms pushes cars. For free. Amazing!
- Comment on Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU 9 months ago:
The way the EU approaches this walled garden problem, is to try and offer ways for other competitors to tap into the user base of the bigger players instead of trying to allow all EU citizens to chat with any other EU citizen who uses META Products regardless of their host platform.
Probably because of spam? I don’t think you can open up all the communicators to every self hosted server there is. It would be a disaster.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
You don’t seem to understand that the only thing solar energy does for free is to heat the ground which is kind of useless for moving cars,
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
Reminds of a joke: A guy walks down the street and mumbles to himself angrily: You cook every fucking day but no one ever calls you a cook. You fix your car all the time but people never call you a mechanic. You have a small garden and grow your own food but when people see you they don’t say “Hey, farmer!”. But you rape someone once single time…
But seriously, for the same reason you don’t ban drunk drivers from driving for life or shoplifter from shopping. People have to function in society somehow, even if they did terrible things in the past.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem 9 months ago:
But isn’t Rust supposed to be great and memory safe?
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
WTF are you talking about? So solar if free because ‘solar hydrogen’? You’re not making any sense.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
Jesus, of course it’s not free. Solar panels are not free, the land you put ten on is not free, construction is not free and the infrastructure needed to supply energy during the nigh (storage or another source of energy) is not free. How is this not obvious?
- Comment on Sunday 9 months ago:
Or a Spaniard.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
running off solar
Because solar is free?
Guys, we can stop trying to solve climate change, we already have free energy!
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 9 months ago:
Also, hydrogen grows on trees apparently.
- Comment on Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch 9 months ago:
It’s probably more like when Amazon gets into yet another business and kills the competition. Whatever those 3rd party devs are doing the social networks can do themselves and make more money.
- Comment on Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else 9 months ago:
I would love a foldable phone if the other half you have a good hardware keyboard on it.
- Comment on DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs 9 months ago:
Non-business culture as well.
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
But the server stands a little bit to the side, not in the centre.
- Comment on Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” 9 months ago:
Depends where, obviously.
- Comment on “My next child could be retarded. So could yours.” Barbra Streisand for The National Association for Retarded Children (NARC) - Imgur 9 months ago:
Give up, he’s just not getting any of it.
- Comment on Polluter of the year 9 months ago:
Because they don’t like Independent Women.
- Comment on Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” 9 months ago:
$659? Is it a week long concert with hotel and food included?
- Comment on Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling. 9 months ago:
I didn’t say it’s not useful, I said people are not buying products because of them. People are not running to the stores to get the new 5G phone. I remember 4G roll-out and it was a big thing. You suddenly could use the internet the same way you did at home. With 5G there are no new usecases. You’re not going to watch 4K movie on your phone. LLMs also don’t sell devices. Siri and Alexa were kind of interesting when they came out and sold many smart speakers but LLMs are a tool, not a gadget.
I also didn’t read the article but there is something to it. Are you exited about Threads the same way everyone was exited about gmail? Are you exited about Vision Pro the same way everyone went crazy for the iPhone? More and more often I’m searching for a product now and simply end up disappointed. There are no smart watches I would like to buy (the new features they have are all useless), new phones have less features (where’s my headphones jack? where’s my hardware keyboard?), the best new thing about laptops is flat RAM… Consumer products have stalled. It’s all gimmicks now instead of actually interesting features. I think it’s all good enough and we simply don’t have the tech to offer actual breakthrough in usability.
- Comment on Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling. 9 months ago:
Of course new tech is used in industry but consumer products are a different story. And it’s complex. People like spending money on stuff, it makes them feel better, so when the world gets depressing they buy things. Also, a side effect of not being able to afford a home is that people have more disposable income to spend on toys. Why save money if you will never save enough? So yes, people buy new products but do they really buy them because they are exited about new tech? I doubt it. You can easily run a 10 year old laptop and (if you’re lucky and it’s not broken) 5 year old phone today and you wouldn’t be missing anything. No one really asked for AI, 5G and AR.
- Comment on special characters are dope 9 months ago:
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