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Apple rolls out encrypted RCS messaging in beta

sixcolors.com
2 points·by Doches·2 months ago·0 comments

Europe Worries About Another Trump Blowup, This One on Tech

nytimes.com
5 points·by Doches·5 months ago·1 comments

UK to Create New Fast-Track Residency Path for High-Earners

parliamentnews.co.uk
3 points·by Doches·8 months ago·1 comments

Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)

patrickcelentano.com
128 points·by Doches·8 months ago·19 comments

What Palantir Sees

nytimes.com
4 points·by Doches·8 months ago·1 comments

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Doches
·15 days ago·discuss
That's up to GoG; I've submitted every game I've released to them and it's like talking into the void, never a response. They're a delight as a customer, but kind of half-assed as a platform (at least if you're a self-published indie).
Doches
·16 days ago·discuss
Ooh! I’d love to see that, or to have a chat and swap ideas. My email is in my profile if you’d be up for it.
Doches
·16 days ago·discuss
You’ve got me; I was very much a Battle Chess addict once upon a time…
Doches
·16 days ago·discuss
There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856240/Pieces_of_the_Kin...
Doches
·19 days ago·discuss
I know this is nitpicking, but as a Texan I have to correct you on a point of grammar. The “west” in “West Texas” (and similarly for the other regions) isn’t an adjective; it’s part of the proper noun and should be capitalized. So it’s “West Texas,” not “west Texas.”

Yes, this is weird and no, I have no idea why we do it, but it’s really weird to read “export it to east Texas” — to the extent that I had to re-parse the sentence to figure out what you meant.
Doches
·2 months ago·discuss
EVs aren’t exactly new; there’s a deep, accessble secondhand market by now. I’ve been using a 2019 Nissan Leaf as a primary family car for two years now, that I picked up off Gumtree for around £3k. It’s been one of the best (little) cars I’ve ever owned.

Not saying new EVs aren’t pricey, but if you want into electric on a budget (i.e. because you don’t feel like you can afford to fill up on diesel) it can absolutely be done.
Doches
·4 months ago·discuss
Oh, man; I got my hands on a (dead) one of these when I was a freshman in college (2004) and instead of trying to restore it my friends and I gutted it and used it as an original Xbox case mod. It was pretty satisfying to show up at LAN parties with what looked like a Solaris box and watch people boggle when we played Halo on it...
Doches
·4 months ago·discuss
Garbage in, garbage out.

(If OP was trying to make the bull case then the same snark would still apply.)
Doches
·4 months ago·discuss
I've spent the last couple days building out an automated classifier on top of the batch API, and just this morning (about a minute before the outage began!) started running my first live tests. I thought I was going mad!
Doches
·5 months ago·discuss
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/jDjGZ
Doches
·6 months ago·discuss
I’ve noticed this tendency in my own UI work as well: dark designs tend to get darker, and light designs lighter, when updated or refreshed in isolation. Is there a term for this kind of ratcheting effect?
Doches
·7 months ago·discuss
It's not clear from the linked page, which seems to have been last updated in 2022, aside from user comments asking for support. Thank you for the clarification!
Doches
·7 months ago·discuss
> When someone already has a broken system...

To be fair, this tool doesn't claim to fix a broken system; as near as I can tell it doesn't actually remove the underlying Windows installation, so the core problem will remain.
Doches
·7 months ago·discuss
This should have a (2022) in the title, which begs the question: is this still a relevant tool for de-shittifying Windows 11, or is it limited to 10?

(Asking as I don't have a Windows box of any kind around to test, as I'm not a masochist and therefore all of my machines run Linux or macOS)
Doches
·7 months ago·discuss
> We're not bragging (okay, we're bragging a little) but it turns out that not burning through VC cash on ping-pong tables and "growth at all costs" actually works.

Have an internet fist-bump from a fellow successful bootstrapper; this is the way, and you're calling it out!
Doches
·7 months ago·discuss
I wonder if this includes Skywise, the Palantir-built data lake and design stack that they use for many many internal operations (design, airline support, manufacturing). Not sure what difference it really makes where the data is hosted if the folks doing the hosting call home to Colorado…
Doches
·7 months ago·discuss
Me, too! I worked at Sun from 2002-2004, and some of us got them as pointlessly fancy door badges for datacenter access. In hindsight it was such a novelty, almost a gag, but they were kind of awesome for what they were. And you felt like an absolute badass when using one to badge in!
Doches
·8 months ago·discuss
Presumably most of Farage's personal income at this point is ultimately denominated in USD, so he's probably benefiting just fine from sterling's fall...
Doches
·8 months ago·discuss
Reform UK is still technically defending Brexit; they've just switched to the no-true-Scotsman argument that real Brexit was never delivered and that they're the ones that can make good on the promises from the referendum.

Which is horseshit, obviously.
Doches
·8 months ago·discuss
"Us"? Who exactly is the broad category of "us" that's getting rich off of AI, other than shareholders of NVDA? And even then, unless you're actively managing your investments and have an uncanny knack for timing the top of the bubble all those recent gains are going to evaporate when it pops...