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NASA didn't stagnate, NASA landed humans on the Moon with 1960s technology

private space companies, despite decades of hype and funding, have stagnated by comparison

the fact that SpaceX depends heavily on government contracts just to function is yet another proof: their "innovation" isn't self sustaining, it's underwritten by taxpayer money

are you denying that NASA landed on the Moon?

Elon psyop doesn't work on me, i know who is behind it all, they need a charismatic sales man for the masses, just like Ford, Disney, Reagan and all, masking structural power with a digestible story for the masses

> blanket-blaming capitalism without good reasoning is becoming the new red-flag of "can't think critically"

it's quite the opposite, people unable to take criticism of capitalism, talk about "critical thinking", how is China doing?

brand fanboyism, and vendor locking, the bane of our society

the common denominator is always capital gain

capitalism is the reason why we haven't been able to go back to the moon and build bases there

This will accelerate innovation, companies no longer will take your subscription for granted

Just use chromium

> $5,000/year arrangement, we happily paid

when you are that stupid to "happily" pay 5k a year for their chat tool, you deserve that raise to 195k

> GC and Exception handling

This was not necessary.. what a mistake, specially EH..

> Google have wanted to get people out of the web and into an app for a long time and have mostly failed

https://apps.apple.com/us/charts/iphone

> And NVIDIA will lose its dominance

They are vendor locking industries, i don't think they'll loose their dominance, however, vendor locked companies will loose their competitiveness

I used to use both PayPal and Stripe for my online business

Stripe would occasionally charge me an obscene amount of money to pay for the bank "charge back" fees

I never had this issue with PayPal; i usually get dispute cases, but they always get positively closed

My only issue with PayPal is their devise conversion fees, i'd argue their behavior there constitutes fraud.. and their UX, their web interface is painfully slow

abandoning Python for Rust in AI would cripple the field, not rescue it

the disease is the cargo cult addiction (which Rust is full of) to micro libraries, not the language that carries 90% of all peer reviewed papers, datasets, and models published in the last decade

every major breakthrough, from AlphaFold to Stable Diffusion, ships with a Python reference implementation because that is the language researchers can read, reproduce, and extend, remove Python and you erase the accumulated, executable knowledge of an entire discipline overnight, enforcing Rust would sabotage the field more than anything

on the topic of uv, it will do more harm than good by enabling and empowering cargo cults on a systemic level

the solution has always been education, teaching juniors to value simplicity, portability and maintainability

Compile it yourself https://github.com/chatboxai/chatbox

This network of far-right influencers was begging for it, it fuels their narrative even more

It’s interesting that these kinds of things happen in the US, the very country that keeps blaming and justifying interference & invasion in nations where similar events occur

So, which country should now deploy its military to the US in an attempt to restore law and order?

Their obsession with camera bumps has left them blind to good design, this thing is a grotesque, ugly monster

Since the iPhone 5, no phone sits steady on a flat surface anymore, wich is sad

Why are US startups seeking to expand overseas?

Whenever the US promises you that your data are "secure" with their tech, remind yourself of this story:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/after-nsa-backdoors-se...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

I once made the mistake to buy some sound effects from Fab, I had to download the entire Unreal Engine and start it to create a project to then import the assets..

It took the whole afternoon

It's no wonder UE5 games have the reputation of being poorly optimized, you need an insane machine only just to run the editor..

State of the art graphics pipeline, but webdev level of bloat when it comes to software.. I'd even argue electron is a smoother experience tan Unreal Engine Editor

Insanity

Any time you mention how the CIA uses social media to push their agenda (backed by evidence), your comments get flagged

haha

Chrome became successful for the same reason Firefox became successful

enshittification of IE -> Firefox's rise

enshittification of FF -> Chrome's rise

Any unbiased person can verify the timeline

https://www.wired.com/2005/02/firefox/

https://visionarymarketing.com/en/2008/09/03/chrome/

> CI & Website $14,986.73

What a waste of money, seriously

Here is what I use:

    body {
        background-color: #262626 !important;
    }

    body > center > table, input, textarea {
        background-color: #222 !important;
    }

    body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td {
        background-color: #ff6600 !important;
    }

    /* Bright text */
    td.title a:link, span.comment font, span.comment font a:link, u a:link, span.yclinks a:link, body:not([id]),
    td:nth-child(2):not(.subtext) > a:link, input, textarea, p > a, a > u, .c00, .c00 a:link,
    a[href="http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/"], a[href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/"] {
        color: #ccc !important;
    }

    .admin td {
        color: #aaa !important;
    }

    /* search box and comment box */
    input, textarea {
        border: 1px solid #828282 !important;
        font-family: "Jetbrains Mono"!important;
    }

> Plaintiff States asserted, placed Microsoft at a competitive disadvantage

poor microsoft, please, somebody, help them

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106295

And then we read stuff like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010183

Something is strange

They had an opportunity to finally get rid of requiring forward declaration, but they failed..

C++ has no future

no, however, bootloader muck be unlocked and software must be open sourced when device reaches EOL

I never did, I keep getting flagged whenever I talk about this

How is this a "launch" if you can't use it?

The cabal that oversees Musk’s personae knows no limit, that’s quite impressive how far they can penetrate deep inside the US industry, it perhaps is the DARPA, no Chinese tech allowed, and we mustn't allow people to request them, so we must rush something, at the cost of revealing who we are

Artificial greenery, devoid of any living creatures

What's next, fake trees?

Because Microsoft is not a reliable partner;

Just recently:

- they removed dotnet hotreload overnight for it to become gated behind a visual studio license

- they forced jetbrains to stop shipping the dotnet debugger in their IDE overnight, screwing their plan for their IDE Rider, they had to write a debugger from scratch

- their language server is still closed source and VS only

1. https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/microsoft_net_hot_rel...

2. https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nu...

Our only choice are 2 american companies, Google or Apple

Why did we let that happen?