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randmeerkat
·6 mesi fa·discuss
> Thank you. I love it when someone poetically captures a feeling I’ve been having so succinctly.

It’s almost like they’re a professional writer…
randmeerkat
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so.

I’m tired of this sentiment. Imagine if people said, why develop your own cloud offering? Can you really do better than VMWare..?

Innovation in technology has only happened because people dared to do better, rather than giving up before they started…
randmeerkat
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> Mac hardware, on the other hand, has never been better than it is right now!

I thought the same until trying a framework laptop with Ubuntu. Mac is the “IBM” choice, no one gets fired for choosing it, but quite frankly there’s better options these days.
randmeerkat
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/
randmeerkat
·8 mesi fa·discuss
> What's Tesla's forward PE? Close to 200?

Nope, close to 300 actually…
randmeerkat
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Do you have a tutorial that you like?
randmeerkat
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Hacker News serves +4M requests per day using nothing but two FreeBSD servers…
randmeerkat
·9 mesi fa·discuss
> sometimes they manage to meld it into one goal, because money is power.

Money is a measure of power, but it is not in fact power.
randmeerkat
·9 mesi fa·discuss
GNU Emacs actually self funds from the essence of the universe. You can launch that feature with the command `C-x b r r r`
randmeerkat
·10 mesi fa·discuss
> No idea. But curious- why would something that was published a decad or longer ago not be of interest today?

Because if it isn’t in the “hype” it’s worthless, obsolete, trash…

Welcome to the new world of tech, that warms its hands by burning the old world.

Enjoy the vibes…
randmeerkat
·10 mesi fa·discuss
> It’s honestly kind of sad. Google could still print money without the endless spying…

They literally couldn’t.
randmeerkat
·10 mesi fa·discuss
Wow, a phone with a battery that's so bad, they're selling an extra one to strap to the back of it, on launch day... The most innovative thing that Apple has done recently is figuring out how to have their CEO deliver a gift wrapped gold bar to the president. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbEsY-YpF1E&t=133s
randmeerkat
·10 mesi fa·discuss
This is such a beautiful piece. How did you learn about it? How does one get further into this world?
randmeerkat
·10 mesi fa·discuss
> The public is not conscious of how big of a deal the war in Ukraine is.

My sincerest desire is that there’s a peaceful resolution to this conflict before they’re forced to realize it.
randmeerkat
·10 mesi fa·discuss
That’s because LLMs are just snake oil… Look at what a flop ChatGPT 5 was. If someone manages to actually make something useful, Amazon has a stake in Anthropic. Otherwise why should they waste their money while competitors bankrupt themselves at scale over a hype cycle.
randmeerkat
·3 anni fa·discuss
> What you describe about WireShark sounds zen.

It was actually ethereal.
randmeerkat
·6 anni fa·discuss
The GeForce Now client itself told me my connection was good enough for gaming... I’m not arguing that wired cables aren’t faster, but these streaming services aren’t advertising based off of that and their own clients aren’t requiring that level of performance either.
randmeerkat
·6 anni fa·discuss
Sure but it shouldn’t be noticeable. For example, I can play Counter-Strike on my computer itself just fine over wireless without the latency issues.
randmeerkat
·6 anni fa·discuss
It was wifi, my connection speed with speedtest over wifi was 100Mb down and 30Mb up.

I should probably note I was also sitting next to my wifi router, so I’m not sure that a wired connection would’ve made a noticeable difference.
randmeerkat
·6 anni fa·discuss
I tried GeForce Now with a high speed internet connection (Comcast) with Counter-Strike and I found the game to be unplayable from the lag. I double checked my speed test and router settings, it should’ve been fine.

Ultimately I believe these services represent the future of gaming, but without net neutrality or alternative ISPs it’s going to be awhile before that future is realized.