favoredponcho
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- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 6 days ago:
How are R/W speeds?
- Comment on US | Mint Mobile launches 5G home internet service — 415 Mbps MINTernet plans start as low as $30 per month for unlimited data 1 week ago:
If you’re not a gamer, it’s tempting
- Comment on Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that’s why they have it. It’s to courtesy so you don’t hear bathroom noises.
- Comment on Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed 2 weeks ago:
Yea, visiting Japan does feel like they are stuck in a retro vision of the future where everything by was going to be driven by buttons. There are buttons everywhere, including at your table in a restaurant and on every toilet too. The toilets even have heated seats, bidets, and play music, all driven by buttons. They also have vending machines everywhere, which are covered in buttons. Ordering ramen at a restaurant? Make sure you tap all the buttons at the machine in the front to make your order.
They still haven’t quite adopted the touch screen fully.
- Comment on Deus Ex Remastered, a "modernized" version of Ion Storm's classic cyberpunk RPG, releases early next year 4 weeks ago:
Glad to see Deus Ex still getting some attention, hopefully this means we’ll see a new one in the future
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 5 weeks ago:
Part of this is related to how the 2017 tax law changed how companies can write off the costs of software development. Those rules didn’t kick in until 2022, which is when things started to get messy for the tech industry.
cooley.com/…/2023-09-25-irs-publishes-guidance-on…
As I understand it, the rule reverted in the most recent tax bill this year. Of course, that will take some time to kick in. We are also in a recession, which no one is acknowledging yet. So, may take some time to recover.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 5 weeks ago:
America is putting data centers in the desert of Arizona because it’s fucking stupid.
- Comment on California could mandate tobacco-style health labels on social media 5 weeks ago:
Useless lmao.
- Comment on Indiana Jones devs MachineGames tease another Wolfenstein game - "we have a story to tell" 1 month ago:
America, look at me. You are the Nazis now.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 1 month ago:
Keep propping up Musk with more Federal tax dollars
- Comment on US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 1 month ago:
Where did I say that Wikipedia was unbiased?
- Comment on US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 1 month ago:
Wikipedia has no legal obligation to be unbiased.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
From Wikipedia:
In 2019, Powell suggested that parenting was a distraction to being productive and critiqued the economic viability of parental leaves; he went on to question whether choosing to not abide by relevant governmental regulations was a risk worth taking.[40] In June 2022, Powell urged employees in a work meeting to reject the usage of preferred gender pronouns; he then opened a Slack channel to debate whether people should be allowed to choose their gender but not their race or ethnicity.[7] The next day, Kraken released a “culture document” which outlined the libertarian values that it asserted were to be obeyed at work.[7] Among other things, employees were prohibited from labelling others’ comments as “toxic, hateful, racist”, etc., and particular emphasis was assigned on how “offensiveness” was not forbidden.[7] Powell and his fellow executives encouraged employees who disagreed with the policy to quit, and offered four months’ severance for those who opted to do so.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
The guy is such an asshole. I’d never apply to work there. He had a policy where he personally needs to approve of every single person hired there. He’s a micromanager, Elon wannabe douche. I have some crypto with Coinbase, but I will never add more to it. Eventually, some day I’ll pull it out. The problem is other companies in crypto are also run by raging assholes — Kraken for instance was founded by a total dickhead.
- Comment on Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android 2 months ago:
Why would anyone let Microsoft read their PDFs? You know they’re scraping all that data and using it to target ads at you