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Astrophysics can’t take credit for satellites and GPS those were built with the primary incentive of guided munitions and have little to do w outer space. The field has become something like a crossover between a religion and a cheap tabloid

Where can I find a book on learning Arc?

Maybe stop manufacturing drugged candy? Edibles can be in a form unappealing to children. We don’t really need a little treat

What about your fellow citizens who can’t afford to eat?

I think you made my point actually

This is a direct attack on the dollar. Now in California your money is worth less if you have more of it. Let this precedent slip and and the wealthy will simply leave the state. Well more than they already are

Any court eventually will decide if he’s Satoshi based on if he has access to Satoshi’s private key. CW can’t do that because he’s not Satoshi. But he knows the real Satoshi is aware that coming out now is a death sentence, if he hasn’t already died or been killed

Wait, this kid didn’t do anything illegal. They can’t detain him at airport security on behalf of the airline to resolve a civil matter and they definitely can’t legally force him to buy a direct ticket. He’s free to leave at any point in the trip and is certainty not obligated contractually to complete it. I’m pretty sure he can and should sue for being wrongfully detained and intimidated into paying twice for the same trip in order to set a precedent. Maybe we should even start a gofundme to help him do that

It’s never that clear cut. If Theranos had a little more time they could’ve finished the product and significantly reduced the costs for medical providers, which would almost certainly have meant many lives saved and a boost to the economy.

Was that intern sincerely trying to help the world? I doubt it. Self interested and opportunistic. Having lived in Berkeley for a few years I know how twisted their crazy political world view is. Those people are radicals and totally untrustworthy.

So, if you look at most successful companies they did the fake it till you make it to a degree. It’s a necessary strategy sometimes. Had Theranos succeeded it would’ve disrupted a major industry and that made Elizabeth Holmes a lot of enemies. These SJWs are useful idiots. They’ll do your dirty work for a little virtue signaling opportunity

I feel for her. Should have thought twice before giving an internship to one of those Berkeley SJWs. Lost a 9 billion dollar company and all those talented people fired.

I doubt fairphone or framework will survive long enough to fulfill these promises. It’s a good bet for them to make. If they go under just write up a “sorry guys the world is mean and we meant well” apology page. If they succeed they’ll pass the job to some cs intern.

I did as well contacted Oracle for access to the latest UltraSPARC parts and documentation but they never got back to me.

I also became obsessed w SoC design when OpenSPARC was released. For some reason the T1000 was a really big deal for me

I think the South Bay is divine. Better weather, safe, quiet, smart people, amazing campus, great food, many whole foods and fantastic restaurants. Although it’s for the wealthy true story. But rent is very similar to SF and quality of life is very different. I’ve lived all over New York and Brooklyn, San Francisco unfortunately, Berkeley, Mountain View, Menlo Park and now Palo Alto. Mountain View and Palo Alto have a quality of life on par with uptown Manhattan.

It is super dangerous. The homeless and cracked up mentally ill patients who buy from the open air drug markets are highly aggressive and totally unpredictable. I was on a crowded bus at 2pm by Powell and a homeless man broke a 40oz bottle of beer over the back of my head by surprise. Nobody not even the bus driver did anything. Claimed I was following him. 6ft guy

My laptop was stolen at a coffee shop while I was typing on it, guy went running. Apple MB and cloud locked but they stole it all the same.

They stole my bike even though it was cheap. My friend was robbed at gunpoint for his laptop. I personally saw a stabbing in the Tenderloin. A man was shot pont blank sitting in a car behind our house. It’s dangerous AF

Noisebridge was fun until it shut down. Half of the stores downtown are boarded up now. Walgreens left because of theft they couldn’t do anything about bc of liberal policies. The whole mall is boarded up. It’s a long long list of exited stores and companies. Much of the real estate both commercial and residential sits empty because the landlords refuse to reduce the rent since they won’t be able to raise it later bc of liberal policies.

The meetups were good before covid that was the one perk. But moving to SF was one of the worst mistakes of my life. Again, run away screaming

Ok maybe Oracle has a point here looking past their reputation.

Did you know Sun had a Mac mini like product back in the day based on dual UltraSPARC T2+ Coolthreads SoCs? I almost bought it off eBay

https://twitter.com/R_I_C_M/status/1646236005471485968

https://twitter.com/alanc/status/1585752213565018114

Wouldn’t it be nice if Oracle brought that back and made the ultimate open source dev box? Their latest SPARC processors are wild

Linus released the last kernel from an ARM MBA

I mean you’ve got to appreciate the scale of the problem here and be pragmatic. The danger of recycling is it gives the illusion of progress, but I’m not against it otherwise. Philosophically you might be correct but voting blue in a non swing red state is completely meaningless

That issue can’t be solved by reusing laptops or sorting cans from cardboard. The argument that every little helps is totally flawed. Fantasy, make believe. The other 8 billion people simply don’t care and why would they? 50 years from now they’ll all be dead. Since when did people care about future generations and the good of humanity? It’s a very recent western fashion. The only thing that truly motivated the vast majority of people is sex and money or objectives closely descended from that tree. To modify mass human behavior you have to incentivize based on that leverage. But - even modification of the behavior of the crowd won’t be sufficient. The only way to fix this is w new technology

Well in 5 years I expect most dev work will be done in VR collaboratively with remote teams, w multiple virtual screens and AI assistance. Another world. Laptops and cell phones will be gathering dust with the desktops. Things change fast. Remember the world without the iPhone? That was 16 years ago. So when you talk about using a 5 year old laptop to save a few dollars it just doesn’t make sense. You can listen to music on a CD player, sounds great, doesn’t make sense. Using a heavy hot i7 MBP w 6 hours battery life from 2017 also doesn’t make sense, to save what $1200 rather than buying a 15 inch MBA. Not today - this machine is your everything. Spend some money already

Using the modular GPU

“Laptops don’t change”

Really? because a few years ago battery life was maybe 7 hours and now it’s 18. And with faster processors, thunderbolt 4 and USB C charging, wifi 6, better screens and lighter.

I keep hearing this argument for not buying a new laptop every year and it just doesn’t hold water. I say buy the latest MacBook, expense it, factor it in as a monthly cost. These are expendable and essential tools. They pay for themselves

And these framework laptops are pretty awful. They run hot and are poorly designed. The modular usb addons are a joke and exchangeable GPUs? heavy, power hungry, not for laptops. 3 hour battery life. The main product feature AFAICS is virtue signaling. These products are not open hardware either. Then, there’s this modularity argument. Like this is the last laptop you’ll ever own and forever will be replacing it piece by piece. Disassembling over and over. But that’s not realistic. You’ll have to upgrade to faster processors and the form factor of the mb will change regardless of what they say, and you’re counting on the company being around in a few years which is a poor bet. They can’t compete with Apple or even Lenovo

Well if you’re sold on paying 2000 euro for the display it’s a drop in the bucket. Who reads newspapers in 2023 anyway? Why not just get a subscription to a newspaper for like $50/yr? Then you can sit and read it instead of standing facing a wall. I don’t get this product. A solution in need of a problem

Because I want to see how you rationalize throwing the money you need to survive away on a fantasy

I would expect Covid is one of several lab made viruses released by accident. It’s not malicious just a statistical inevitability as the means become more accessible.

Personally I’m very concerned about the grey goo scenario. The three disasters I’m mentally prepared for today are a heart attack, hydrogen bomb flash and having everyone and everything around me rapidly dissolve into a giant block of carbon.

You make an excellent point. Why are you playing video games at all?

But you don’t even consume this. You can’t even give the experience to someone else to enjoy. They made up a fake person and gave a pretend product to them, and billed your bank account in real dollars. This doesn’t make a bit of sense to me

You’re still missing the point entirely. The purpose of a car is to take you from a to b. If you don’t need that service, you don’t need a car at all, and if you don’t need a car it’s doubly true you don’t need a virtual car even if it is cheaper. It’s not real they’re selling a fantasy. You’re trading a real burger for a photo of a burger. You can’t eat that.

“gets happy over their character”?

You mean their virtual character becomes happy because of the virtual sports car they now drive?

Tricking people to confuse their selves, possessions and lives with a simulation is some genius marketing. How did they pull this off?

I don’t agree this is incredibly strange. These people are upset that they are unable to drive virtual sports cars in an online world. Why? It doesn’t transport them anywhere so they’re paying money for no real world utility. What difference does it make what pretend car they’re driving in a video game? Why would they even want a choice of hundreds of different pretend cars? Why would anyone take their hard earned money and purchase the sprite of a car and drive it around a video game?