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- Comment on Plump prophet proved perfectly precise 7 hours ago:
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 2 days ago:
“Let’s see how close I can get the lasers to my eyes without going blind…”
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 6 days ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 6 days ago:
So even if it does not move, this pawn could get promoted by some future tile-slide… come to think of it, I guess two pawns could get promoted in the same turn via a tile-slide.
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 1 week ago:
So now that the black pawn has reached “the last rank”, does it get promoted?
- Comment on The time has come! 1 week ago:
*protocol
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
IIRC, I had a PC (since sold) that had secure boot permanently enabled from the factory. That is, in spirit, a PC with a “locked bootloader”, but you might not even notice because many Linux distros have that Microsoft-blessed Linux loading shim… but it is still Microsoft inserting themselves between you and your hardware; they could decide in the next few years they no longer “support” Linux, hypothetically.
- Comment on Environmental Damage 2 weeks ago:
It was not immediately obvious from the image (though you might see the starfish for scale), but these things are huge!
- Comment on Environmental Damage 2 weeks ago:
It makes you wonder if they have a whole bunch of training data in this style, or if it is the mathematical average of all cartoon styles mashed together.
- Comment on Environmental Damage 2 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting I should have asked it to reprocess the image, or ask it to try again?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 15 comments
- Comment on Apple Envy 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, unlockable bootloaders seem a bit exceptional on the Android side too…
- Comment on NOTICE: 2 weeks ago:
At first, I thought this was a “flash forward” reference.
- Comment on Apple Envy 2 weeks ago:
I would agree insomuch as Google’s privacy issues are better known.
Nonetheless, we are comparing two jail cells. One has a finger-puzzle that opens the cell-doors than the secure jail (and an obvious surveillance camera), and the other one is securely locked with a less-obvious/hidden camera (iphone backups)… and the issue at hand is they want to remove the finger-puzzle because the captives keep opening it to let baddies join them.
- Comment on Apple Envy 2 weeks ago:
Splitting detected.
Are we seriously going to pretend that a single person can be wholly evil? Much less a company of 200k people.
Even if Google takes this huge step of requiring their blessing for every Android developer (which Apple has ALWAYS had on their side), they will still be better (by my estimation) along the freedom dimension than Apple. Maybe too far removed for my involvement, but better nonetheless. For example, one interesting metric may be the number of useful open source projects they publish.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 42 comments
- Comment on What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long? 3 weeks ago:
Noticably? I imagine their skin imperfections would be twice as large… or maybe √2 as large?
- Comment on leading ai company 3 weeks ago:
Quick! Ship it now!
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 3 weeks ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on Milliamp-hours per hour 3 weeks ago:
Give 'em a break, I’m sure it’s just there first error with units. (Procedes to google “verizon dollars and cents”)
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 3 weeks ago:
That was fast…
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 3 weeks ago:
That’s Mr. Human-Cyborg Relations.
- Comment on I can't upload pictures. 3 weeks ago:
Ditto.
- Comment on Going critical! 4 weeks ago:
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 13 comments
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
Herman the worm
- Comment on GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team 5 weeks ago:
Yes and no.
Yes in that (to Microsoft) the copilot product is more important than the strategy that is open-source social coding.
No in the sense that they have already made it that… it’s not 100% cohesive, but “github” is the thing that manages engagment, organizes todos, generates the code, stores the code, performs code reviews, builds the code, deploys the code, answers tech questions, alerts you to security issues, etc. As a product it is an everything-blob… already… right now.
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 5 weeks ago:
You can label the top-right region as the “ice box”.
- Comment on New idea 5 weeks ago:
Why is the milk pipline so huge? Planning on using 10x milk compared to water? :)
- Comment on Roof top party at STLV 2025 5 weeks ago:
