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darthnebula··on Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units
Just the fact that this comment has been voted down just goes to show that Hacker News is no longer the place it once was. Pretty sad.
darthnebula··on OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift
What he does with his own money is none of anyone's business. I live in a state where it is pretty evenly divided between parties. I have friends who support Trump and friends who don't like him. All of them are nice people who have valid reasons for who they support. Demonizing people because they don't agree with you is detrimental to society and it is not sustainable.
darthnebula··on Gemini now recommending products unprompted
What they really need to work on is adding projects for chat organization.
darthnebula··on Stepping Down as Framework Linux Community Ambassadors
I really hope Framework ignores these people. They are not Linux Ambassadors, they are political activists. These people only care about their ideology and anyone who doesn't blindly follow it gets defamed.

I, and I would imagine many, are tired of this sort of binary thinking. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Society can't function like this.

darthnebula··on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
Yes, if I type Taylor Swift Showgirls I get some helpful information and a lot of links, but not her website. It isn't very different than what Google Gemini displays at the top of Google search results.

Is it a webpage? Well... it displays in a browser...

But if I type Taylor Swift, I get links to her website, instagram, facebook, etc.

Is it a webpage? Well... it displays in a browser...

This isn't Web 2.0, Anil. Things change.

darthnebula··on Elon Musk says he needs $1T to control Tesla's robot army
This article is pure clickbait and it lost me here:

"...a social media platform he’s hopelessly addicted to, and then turned into a white supremacist haven."

darthnebula··on Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday?
Boy, you just really wish you could blame this on Starlink.
darthnebula··on Americans have become more pessimistic about AI. Why?
It isn't just Fox News. CNN and all the others are equally as bad.
darthnebula··on Starlink Terminals Sold in Russia Despite Musk's Denial
Brainwashed?
darthnebula··on BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product
I've been using BBEdit since version 4. It is still the most useful app on my Mac after almost 30 years. If someone put a gun to my head and told me I could install only one app on my Mac, it would be BBEdit.
darthnebula··on Aspiring partners accuse Apple of copying their ideas
Apple bought Workflow, it wasn't Sherlocked.
darthnebula··on Microsoft Word showing random people in Track Changes
Happening on Windows and Mac versions of Word...
darthnebula··on Twitter employees are bringing their own toilet paper to work
I work at Twitter and this article is nonsense. Yes, he is cutting costs, but there is no problem with the bathrooms that I've ever seen. Can't believe no one here is questioning this. I thought people on HN were smarter than this. Disappointing.
darthnebula··on Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
Don't be too sure of that...
darthnebula··on “The Apple Studio Display Is a Bad Deal” [video]
Speaking from experience. The last Apple display I bought was a 2008 24" LED Cinema Display. I paid $900. 14 years later, I'm still using it. It works perfectly, albeit it is very dated. Last year I thought an Samsung 32" 4K to replace it and it died within 2 weeks of having it.

I bought an Apple Studio Display the day they went on sale. Why? Because I'm expecting it to last me a minimum of 8 years. And it probably will.

On another note, listening to YouTube "influencers" is no better than believing a company's marketing team. Think for yourself and go by your gut.

darthnebula··on Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US
>>Honestly, blaming it on the "Defund the police" movement is a lazy oversimplification

No, I think ignoring the facts is clinging to your ideology at all costs. Not many cities had official support? You can't be serious.

darthnebula··on Ask HN: Why is the touchpad on MacBooks still ahead of other manufacturers?
I have to strongly disagree here. I own a Surface Book 3 and an M1 MacBook Air. There is no comparison. The Surface track pad is better than most Windows laptops, but not on par with a MacBook.
darthnebula··on Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
Thanks for sharing. This is what I was hoping people here claiming he is wrong would provide.
darthnebula··on Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
My point is, have you read the book and can you specifically point to why his theory is wrong? I'm not saying he is right, but I think if you are going to cut him down, be specific about why he is wrong.
darthnebula··on Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
You're making a lot of assumptions here and basing it on the limited knowledge of a specifies that has failed to make any significant strides into exploring anything other than its own solar system.
darthnebula··on Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
Can it be proven that it is not an alien probe?