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lebean··on "Look at all your repos just chilling in a cave in the Arctic"
The goal was to put data in the cold for fun! It's already done!
lebean··on Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
1,900 artists were replaced. Your worst fears are true, all of the recent layoffs were robots taking our jobs. /s
lebean··on Why DEI Leaders Are Burning Out – and How Organizations Can Help
Turnover of 3 years!? That's pretty good.
lebean··on Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think
I used to be a person with unmet residential needs myself, and I would've been more offended by this newfangled term.
lebean··on Chinese researchers planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer
They can use these for their high speed trains!
lebean··on Riot Games laying off 11%
Unbelievable! They're profitable!? That's rare these days.
lebean··on The growing inequality of who gets to work from home
In other news, someone having something nice is unequal to someone who doesn't.
lebean··on Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
And if we run out, we can finally make Teslas useful by recycling them!
lebean··on Relearning math as an adult
Adding this to my arsenal of memorization tricks.
lebean··on Serious incident to the 777-300ER on 5 April 2022 at CDG [pdf]
They really are building the airplane while it's flying.
lebean··on Ex-Hertz Tesla Model 3s Cost as Little as $14,000. Would You Buy One?
Why would anyone want to pay that much for such a liability?
lebean··on Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs
An asinine addition to an already asinine acronym.
lebean··on OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare"
Finding applications for defense = warmongering?
lebean··on 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in Modern Language [video]
There's one thing I can't call cap on: that I think.

- Descartes

lebean··on 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in Modern Language [video]
Because he's a challenging person.
lebean··on Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant
Don't stop there! What if the whole thing was made up? Who's to say otherwise?! /s
lebean··on 95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa
That's been happening, but is that a surprise?
lebean··on Brain "wakes up" more than 100 times each night – that's normal
The human brain also didn't evolve in an environment with computers to have really cool ideas around, which you must try to implement the moment the idea occurs to you... at 2AM.
lebean··on Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'
Agreed, but I'm an American so the misuse of the word "liberal" drives me even more bonkers, because I encounter it all the time.
lebean··on Hacker News Screenshot
Without all the bullshit, huh?
lebean··on NERV Disaster Prevention
Language evolves = you are wrong to use the original meaning of words? Hm
lebean··on Amazon allegedly resells damaged books
Wow, 8A to blow a 2A fuse? That's 4x the value!
lebean··on Social media companies made $11B in US ad revenue from minors, study finds
Sure, if you equate an ad for a new Mario game for Nintendo Switch with deceptive mobile game ads featuring pregnant Spiderman and Elsa in sexually charged poses, I can see that.
lebean··on Particle Life
Turns out that the great filter was something as mundane as interstellar travel being impractical.
lebean··on EU Commission on Santa's GDPR Compliance
How kind of them to give an unequivocal pass/fail to Santa, while everyone else has to play a guessing game of whether they're actually compliant whenever there's an ambiguity in the law without any official comment to help resolve them.
lebean··on Elon Musk promised an anti-'woke' chatbot. It's not going as planned
lmao merry Christmas
lebean··on Should we tell people it's too late to save civilization?
I think some, maybe even many or even most doomers just want to believe we're all doomed because it gives them an out for never trying to fully self-actualize or try to become the most successful version of themselves, whatever it may be. I never met a doomer with high self-esteem.
lebean··on Whatever happened to the zero waste movement?
Was a waste of time
lebean··on Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights
I agree with this guy. Tesla FSD isn't smoke and mirrors! It's made of sensors and computers n stuff! Making this out of mirrors would be impractical, let alone smoke.
lebean··on From Nand to Tetris (2017)
That's it. We're nearing the end of time. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is it. I had a good time, thanks everyone! Good bye.
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