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mitxela··on Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
Oracle's business model is to get government contracts. It's a whole special business model unrelated to software.
mitxela··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
no sorry, it's not really googleable and it's not what the other person linked to
mitxela··on Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'
AI in 2026 is whatever AI there is in 2026. You can't say it's only a half.
mitxela··on Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'
I didn't. People who think they're learning from YouTube are mostly not learning, just thinking they did. I watched someone design a common-base amplifier. Can I design a common-base amplifier now? No, I can't. I now have a slight awareness of what one does, but I couldn't design it.
mitxela··on Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'
They're now over fitted on strawberry has 3 R's. So ask them how many R's are in srrarbrarry. There are, obviously, 3 R's in srrarbrarry too.
mitxela··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
If you have a vacuum-filled gun barrel extending out of the atmosphere.
mitxela··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
And then their land goes back to the government free pool? Is that still ownership or is it just renting for life?
mitxela··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
They already have card readers you use to scan your id on bank websites if that's what you mean
mitxela··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
The main issue is battery life.
mitxela··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
But you don't have to use that? They still issue ID cards
mitxela··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
no it was the part (not in this talk) where he said immigrants are invaders coming to steal everything and do crime and need to be culled like a wolf population
mitxela··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
yes
mitxela··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
If the apps were actually good, you'd install them. A lot of the apps on F-Droid are pretty lightweight, and a phone's security model makes it much safer than installing apps on Windows.

The web makes apps worse by forcing a fairly strict sandbox, even as Google keeps trying to loosen it. Think of a messaging app that hides in your notification tray, that's a trivial UX thing that's impossible on the web.

mitxela··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
It's his conference he made because he was banned from the big one, for good reasons.
mitxela··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
It is that bad.
mitxela··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
You don't need to make everything about the Jews.
mitxela··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
The term NPC referred to people without critical thought, as if they were running down a pre-programmed dialog tree.
mitxela··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
Files and folders aren't fundamental to computing though.
mitxela··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
Error: unpopular opinion detected
mitxela··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
It's too late. The industrial revolution destroyed this.
mitxela··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
there's an artistic effect I keep seeing that only works with generative AI. It seems to be alternating traditional transforms (translate, rotate, scale, perspective, color shift, take your pick of anything you want) with diffusion steps to bring the resulting image back to the same semantic prompt every frame. Looks trippy, like the image is moving, yet also staying the same (like a Shepard tone), and also constantly drifting in details because AI's not that good.
mitxela··on GitLab Outage
Isn't it just git but harder to use?
mitxela··on GitLab Outage
Just means it hasn't crashed yet.
mitxela··on GitLab Outage
You don't really need one of these systems. You can just host git.
mitxela··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
If you can own land, what happens when all the land is owned but newly born people need some?
mitxela··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Have they tried logarithms?
mitxela··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
You still need hundreds of tonnes of rocket fuel no matter what, though.
mitxela··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
Just backspace the ?si=... from the link
mitxela··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
We can do adversarial interoperability if we want, but we don't want.
mitxela··on Transit rewards
If your HTTP referer is hacker news he shows you a funny picture of a testicle in an egg cup. Some people can't handle the humor.
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