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they bought palm. people were pretty happy with webos/hp touchpad. so there was at least some desire to within hp to go into that market.

instead they cut bait quickly. sold off WebOS to LG and that was it.


It probably depends on your circle. I find those beliefs strange, seems like moral relativism.

Thanks, that's really useful, I had no idea this table existed.

Sounds are core to shooters and very much within the expected abilities of the players to hear them. If anything, I'd incorporate this kind of indicator in the game itself, allowing for deaf people to "hear" footsteps as well

"kein Backup, kein Mitleid"

(no backup, no pity)

…especially if you let an AI run without supervision. Might as well give a 5 year old your car keys, scissors, some fireworks, and a lighter.


There was no SQL injection. The attack was basically the same as if someone stole the password to a friend's Facebook account, and proceeded to scrape the posts everyone else had made visible to that friend.

Some would say SNP data is more valuable than your posting history. I'm not so sure, since after all 23andMe went bankrupt trying to monetize their data and reddit didn't. It seems possible to me that a post where you say you do X is more useful to advertisers and political propagandists/spies, than a SNP which suggests you're 20% more likely to do X.


Homoconsomator brain be like ^

How do you run this kind of a model at home? On a CPU on a machine that has about 1TB of RAM?

> Arguing against progress as it is happening is as old as the tech industry. It never works.

I still wondering why I'm not doing my banking in Bitcoins. My blockchain database was replaced by postgres.

So some tech can just be hypeware. The OP has a legitimate standpoint given some technologies track record.

And the doctors are still out on the affects of social media on children or why are some countries banning social media for children?

Not everything that comes out of Silicon Valley is automatically good.


Thank you. I would imagine the entire Fortune 500 list passes the line of "evil", drawing that line at AI is weird. I assume it's a mask for fear people have of their industry becoming redundant, rather than a real morality argument.

It might be shocking to you but some people believe there is more to life than producing and consuming "content" faster and faster.

Most of it is used to fool people for engagement, scam, politics or propaganda, it definitely is a huge waste of resource, time, brain and compute power. You have to be completely brainwashed by consumerism and techsolutionism to not see it


Play vibe games, win vibe prizes.

Please don’t use generative AI for content. It will repulse people

Also Redit started as "some BSD boxes" The problem is, when a project scales up, at some moment you will need "commodity" sys admins, so it is easier to just go for linux.

Also as the project gets bigger, at some point somebody will come with the idea to move to linux.


How did you get this to work? (See the config and did this before but never got ly to work on nixos, i migth have just been to early i guess)

Ive been using LY on arch for a while, and it is great looking, when it works, but it has lots of issues. Mostly related to multi monitor, kernel warnings filling up the screen, and for all being just sligthly broken. But then again probably user error.


Advent of Code 2025 in Lean...

On Xbox at least Keyboard / Mouse support is decent. I played Fortnite and Minecraft this way for a while.

Personal preference, but I'd far rather have a separate device dedicated to gaming than my kernel hacked by anti cheat.

https://www.purexbox.com/guides/all-xbox-games-with-mouse-an...


i highly doubt that. i have never seen a counterfeit lego set with an actual lego logo. even in china that would not be legal. someone would have to specifically target bricklink shops to sell such bricks.

if you get fake bricks you might not open a support case to get the bricks replaced, but you would complain and report that shop. with enough reports coming in someone would look into that. so i feel that this is unlikely to happen. at the worst case it's someone clueless, mixing in alternative brands by accident. but i expect someone doing that intentionally would be shut down quickly by reputation only. i mean, shops get closed simply because they get to many complaints about taking to long to ship.


“Oh, look, he’s dead. Let’s sell his neurons.” The neuron harvester says as he wipes the blood from his knife.

> 20 years as a dev and tech lead and full stack, including stints as a EM and CTO

> Since then I pivoted to AI and Gen AI startups- money is tight and I dont have health insurance but at least I have a job…

I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but why? My understanding is American tech pays very well, especially on the executive level. I understand for some odd reason your country is against public healthcare, but surely a year of big tech money is enough to pay for decades of private health insurance?


I got tired of trying to explain my views in Twitter threads, so I built ViewTree – it's like Linktree, but instead of links to your stuff, it's a clean page of what you actually believe, support, or oppose. No more explaining nuanced topics over and over.

Check it out: https://viewtree-test.vercel.app/

How it works:

Sign up, pick your username (viewtr.ee/@yourname)

Add "view cards" – I believe X, I support Y, I'm uncertain about Z

Drag to reorder them however you want

Customize your theme, add your bio and socials

Drop the link in your bio, or share with friends and fans

Main features:

Copy views from others – see a view you agree with on someone else's page? Click to add it to yours

Drag-and-drop ordering – arrange your views however you want

Live preview – see exactly how your public page looks as you edit

Custom themes – make it match your vibe (background, colors, font)

Different view types – "I believe," "I support," "I oppose," "I'm uncertain about," or write your own

Why I built this: People kept asking "what do you think about X?" and I had nowhere to point them. No good way to say "here's what I stand for" without writing an essay every time or maintaining a pinned thread.

Current state:

Fully functional MVP

Free to use

Launch coming in a few days, on Vercel for now

Takes ~2 minutes to set up

The official link layout will be viewtr.ee/example

Try it:

Browse examples:

https://viewtree-test.vercel.app/techdad42

Make your own: https://viewtree-test.vercel.app/

Would love feedback.


There's special place in hell for the inventor of drive names. IIRC, it's something that was nicked from CP/M.

I also strongly dislike requiring remote attestation for any kind of software I want to run. But what I also dislike is cheaters in my online games and I genuinely do not have a better suggestion on what to do.

Personally, I run Windows purely for gaming and don't let it near any important data. For the latter, I boot into Linux with separately encrypted disks.



Being overqualified is indeed a real phenomenom. Employers can think your too expensive, or that your desperatem and that you might not stick around long. All valid concerns.

To cut mbfg a bit of slack here, your approach doesn't work in all situations. I admire your functioning community and supportive family and the fact that you've got time and space for things like gardening.

If people can't live like you do, it's probably because they've been placed on some kind of economic hamster wheel, and rather than figure out how to get a quarter of a lamb their better bet is to emigrate or to disrupt the system that's making McDonalds feel like a relevant factor in a survival equation and build the community that you're describing, which might be hard if you've never really seen something like that.


After you click, the character will begin to turn, which can take several hundred ms. A delta of couple ms compared to the time it takes to turn is completely negligible and even an inch better positioning of a character, or having a character with items or stats that makes them turn faster (because picks are asymmetric) will make several magnitudes more of an impact.

If your game allows your sights to just teleport on people's heads and take that as the winning condition then that just sounds like bad design, there's no reason to allow infinitely fast movement and omitting strategy even from a shooter


The worst thing about League was that Riot added it retroactively after years of effort to patch Wine to work with League's weird quirky code. It was the only game that I always remember having a custom Wine build in Lutris even as far back as the early 2010s.

It also would be completely unnecessary if they fixed their servers.


Do you know why it's a fork? Als, from this https://github.com/ROCm/llvm-project/commits/amd-staging/ it looks like it might be more appropriately called a staging branch than a fork.

Notably, if we look at this abstractly/mechanically, psychopaths (and to some extent sociopaths) do study and mimic ‘normal’ human behavior (and even the appearance of specific emotions) to both fit in, and to get what they want.

So while internally (LLM model weight stuff vs human thinking), the mechanical output can actually appear/be similar in some ways.

Which is a bit scary, now that I think about it.


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