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Discordian93

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Discordian93··on Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
I hope at least the homework is good prep for the exams, otherwise if its grade value is marginal there's little point from the PoV of a student that just needs to pass the class to take it seriously
Discordian93··on Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models
Yet empirically it does
Discordian93··on Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
You aren't getting to the exam stage without that degree though
Discordian93··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
Outlook is now basically an Electron app, they've deprecated the old desktop Outlook in favor of a port of the web app to desktop, so it's basically just Excel remaining.
Discordian93··on Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail
It was all legal before China went and did retroactive legal changes
Discordian93··on Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
Wish I knew. I was at the same place at you at that age and it's basically destroyed me, 32 now and no better off
Discordian93··on In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)
Like the other reply says, Linux already won on the server level where all the hype was 25 years ago. Now it's different but there's a lot of excitement still thaks to Valve's efforts to make gaming viable on Linux and to make ARM/x86 porting easier. Plus there's been a new wave of new users lately thanks to influencers recommending Linux in the wake of Windows 11's horribleness.
Discordian93··on The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020)
These skills are also useful for reproducible computational research
Discordian93··on Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)
I disagree, AAA games started nosediving with the seventh generation 20 years ago and only recently have they started to tentatively show signs of recovery.
Discordian93··on ‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI
Same here. I'd love to get a full time coding job even if it meant a pay cut on hourly terms, but everything in my area pays much, much less and also I have a hard time even getting interviews. Guess I'll try to apply to this kind of role but full time, I think Amazon, Mistral and xAI are hiring.
Discordian93··on South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home
"Deported" now seems to be an euphemism for being sent to a concentration camp in a random third world country, so I guess they have to use different language for actual deportations.
Discordian93··on Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds
I generallu find it easier to get engagement in bluesky and fedi than x/twitter. I guess in X if you're not paying for the bluecheck you're soft shadow banned.
Discordian93··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
I wish Firefox OS had succeeded, my first ever app was for it, it was all so much simpler and so much more free than the locked down systems of both major mobile OSes.
Discordian93··on Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026
I agree, It think Spain adopted the Euro too soon and we'd have weathered the GFC better if we still had control of our monetary policy at the time. And we didn't grow as much as we could have in the preceding boom phase.
Discordian93··on Stop Killing Games
It still does require a purchase, though now all expansions except the latest one are included in the base game and you can purchase the expansion with the base game at little markup over the expansion itself so the base game might as well be free.
Discordian93··on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store?
I believe it's game "whales" who spend thousands on in game purchases.
Discordian93··on Why old games never die, but new ones do
You can't play Phantasy Star Online for the GameCube anymore.
Discordian93··on Don't guess my language
I think there's some too down agenda to force people into bilingualism, big tech doesn't like how the internet of the 00s and 10s made many people polyglots that look behind their borders' information and media markets.
Discordian93··on How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment
Tulsi is a competent mole, she knows better than to be this obvious.
Discordian93··on How the Internet Left 4chan Behind
I remember all type on /vp/ for HGSS, board was basically created to contain it because it was taking over other video game boards. Fun times, sad to see the fate of the site.
Discordian93··on How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
He's a total legend, yet apparently he's never met Bill Gates in person from what he said in an interview in the Dave's Garage YouTube channel a few years ago. You'd think that someone who's been that prominent for so long in the company would have been invited to a company dinner where he was present or something.
Discordian93··on Cloudflare builds AI to lead AI scraper bots into horrible maze of junk content
The Blackwall lol
Discordian93··on Long division verified via Hoare logic
I realized this in school but it was beaten out of me because making a wrong guess in the process was unacceptable.
Discordian93··on MathB.in Is Shutting Down
Safety concerns are, as predicted by cypherpunks,being used to censor the internet and crack down on all independent platforms that dare operate outside big tech.
Discordian93··on Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
I do data annotation to train LLMs on coding tasks.
Discordian93··on WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
They used to work better in the 00s/early 10s before API changes to Linux desktop environments. It's why most Linux theming sites seem to be stuck in that era.
Discordian93··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
It's funny the bubble seems popping because the tech can be made better or cheaper instead due to loss of enthusiasm for the tech itself. AI is here to stay I suppose then.
Discordian93··on UK's hardware talent is being wasted
It's not that easy to get a work permit in the US unless you're truly exceptional or marry an American.
Discordian93··on UK's hardware talent is being wasted
Not that I disagree that Brexit was an awful idea, but this was a problem even before Brexit. The reach of European companies just isn't what it used to be in the face of American and Chinese giants, and the EU is failing to be a truly single market where companies can grow to that scale.
Discordian93··on Remembering Cyberia, the first ever cyber cafe
I was just a kid for most of the 2000s, but I was a user of the internet since way earlier than I should probably have been. Around that time is when I remember it kinda declining too, the forums that I frequented started getting closed down and my classmates uploaded photos with me in them to this newfangled "Facebook" thing, which horrified my "never say your real name on the internet" sensibilities.
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