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26 @06:44PM
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Attached to: Microsoft To Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust By 2030
Apple rewrote its OS as a layer on top of Linux maybe 25 years ago.
To clarify, OS X was descended from NeXTSTEP, which was built on Mach and BSD.
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byshadowrat
2025 @05:01PM
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Attached to: Larry Fink Says Bitcoin Could Replace the Dollar as the World's Reserve Currency Because of National Debt
can you imagine how many dollars a bitcoin would be worth in that case?
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byshadowrat
2024 @11:02AM
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Attached to: Revolutionary Dual Action Antibiotic Makes Bacterial Resistance Nearly Impossible
Life, uh,
... but resistance is futile.
lets face it. as a nerd, it's really hard to take a stand on this.
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byshadowrat
4 @12:58PM
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Attached to: Pet Parrots Prefer Live Video-Calls Over Watching Pre-Recorded Videos
I was always told that my parakeet thought it's reflection was another bird and just accepted that. I even see wild birds strutting around and seemingly, interacting with their reflections in car mirrors or shiny glass. Now, i think this isn't them mistaking the reflrection for a bird, but understanding it's their reflection. I think they are just checking out what they look like while strutting around the same way i have a hard time not checking myself out in a mirror.
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byshadowrat
024 @11:58PM
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Attached to: Stanford Releases AI Index Report 2024
at the task of feeling unfulfilled in life, wanting to give everything up and become a comedian, and wasting a lot of compute cycles wishing it would have behaved differently in high school?
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byshadowrat
2023 @12:26PM
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Attached to: Dropbox Lays Off 500 Employees, CEO Says Due To Slowing Growth and 'the Era of AI'
i'm now using AI to store and share my files. sorry dropbox.
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byshadowrat
2023 @04:39PM
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Attached to: Slashdot Asks: How Are You Using ChatGPT?
now get it to make the argument that the moon is cheese!
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byshadowrat
6, 2023 @01:35PM
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Attached to: Large Study Finds Link Between Viral Infections and Future Brain Illness
it's like i always say, "What doesn't kill you..... might still be working on it."
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byshadowrat
19, 2022 @11:43AM
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Attached to: Redditors Have Created Millions of Crypto Wallets To Buy NFT Avatars
I created a wallet to hold my avatar. I never bought anything though. reddit one day just asked me if i wanted this free avatar. I accepted. I guess that counts as a huge success for reddit??
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byshadowrat
6, 2022 @05:44PM
(#62945043)
Attached to: The Pixel Watch Is Official: $349, Good Looks, and a Four-Year-Old SoC
I like to bike to surfing or the skatepark. I had been leaving my phone behind as it just seems like the kind of thing that would get lost or broken. My wife said, "you should get that watch that would let me text you in case of an emergency."
What could i say? She wanted me to buy a tech toy. I'm not foolish enough to ruin that opportunity. I got the watch.
Turns out that it's nice. I can leave my wallet, phone, and keys (because i made an app that opens my garage door through a raspberry pi) behind. I can send a text to my wife that i'm coming home, or i'm staying out longer and she's happy. I can buy a burrito. Where a phone became an extra thing that i started carrying, the watch let me stop carrying a bunch of things.
best of all, unlike my phone, it's never really tempting me. i look at it when i need something from it, but never get sucked into checking just one other thing. It feels like a tool that i use rather than a battle of wills.
sure, tim cook knows when i'm pooping, but he also isn't able to tempt me to buy a new one every year. this few years old model continues to do everything i need it to do. The crummy thing is that, at least on the apple side, you still need a phone for it. you can't just go stand alone watch yet.
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byshadowrat
2022 @02:05PM
(#62719762)
Attached to: VW Brings Back 'Scout' Brand Truck As Electric Vehicle Made In America
Good to see that car manufacturers can also get away with INABIAF every once in a while.
It's true. every thing about the wrangler is technically bad. It's slow. It handles terribly. The ride is rough and bumpy. It all contributes to something that is super fun to drive.
efficiency is terrible and honestly i can't pretend to wave that away. The mpg is terrible and i feel bad for liking the car so much. The only way i can resolve my cognitive dissonance there is to support policies that seem to move us away from reliance on the tech.
efficiency is still an issue for electric drive, but i think it's a bit different. at highway speeds, they will never go as far as a sleek tesla on a single charge, but at low speeds, i don't think you'd see as much difference as the tech matures.
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byshadowrat
2022 @01:51PM
(#62719710)
Attached to: VW Brings Back 'Scout' Brand Truck As Electric Vehicle Made In America
The new bronco is a fine looking platform
If you don't mind 17-21 mpg fuel economy.
Yeah. efficiency is always an issue with a cube shape, especially at highway speeds. I'm looking forward to a time when the criticism of cars like a wrangler or bronco is that it only goes 200 miles on a charge instead of 400.
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byshadowrat
022 @04:42PM
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Attached to: VW Brings Back 'Scout' Brand Truck As Electric Vehicle Made In America
I'm super interested in this. Jeep's 4xe is almost good enough, but not quite. The new bronco is a fine looking platform and i expect ford will be bringing some of the tech from the f150 lightning over to it soon. the return of scout as an all electric is exactly the kind of competition i'd like to see in this market.
the cybertruck, i'm pretty sure at this point, is just imaginary. even if it does get released, it just doesn't excite me. my off road suv shouldn't be a hermetically sealed space capsule. i'm not driving it on mars. i want a slightly clunky feeling open air platform that lets the dirt and bugs in there with me.
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byshadowrat
2022 @12:10PM
(#62702744)
Attached to: Twitter Outage Hits Thousands, Downdetector Reports
this must have happened in the months that i haven't been using twitter.
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byshadowrat
2022 @12:21PM
(#62523416)
Attached to: Coinbase Warns Bankruptcy Could Wipe Out User Funds
I get that there is one coinbase wallet that holds all the funds. I don't get how its that much different from something like an etrade, or any custodial account. are all these things subject to the same whims?
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