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mpg33··on Devin: AI Software Engineer
https://twitter.com/cognition_labs/status/176754876733767289...
mpg33··on Devin: AI Software Engineer
I could take a guess...
mpg33··on Gemini AI
Right but Bard is literally available in 230 countries and territories...but not Canada.

https://support.google.com/bard/answer/13575153?hl=en#:~:tex....

We are being singled out because of the Government's Online News Act for tech companies to pay for news links

mpg33··on SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocket last night
China is going to be the exception to this me thinks..
mpg33··on A new brain implant automatically detects and kills pain in real time
What about panic? Could you disable the amygdala real time?
mpg33··on Bitcoin extends losses after U.S. seizes most of Colonial ransom
Slightly suspicious. Them wanting to get a message out there that criminals won't get away with far exceeds probability of them retrieving crypto imo.
mpg33··on California’s affordable housing problem is really a national one
Cost of building a tower is much more than something like rowhouses, multiplexes. Cities like Toronto and Vancouver bypass the "missing middle". So it's mostly single family homes with various "tower node districts".
mpg33··on California’s affordable housing problem is really a national one
Texas is also a good example of that density only matters if there is a land scarcity problem.

There are areas in Canada where building massive towers has been premature and also led to increase in costs.

mpg33··on Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs seeks share of property taxes for Toronto smart city
I'm not sure Google knows either. "Smarty city" just smacks of vague buzzwordy-ness idealism. What is it exactly? Are you just going build some condos and stick some wifi around? How is that really different than any other modern city?
mpg33··on Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb
You'd think large forest fires would have an impact though in terms of the regrowth.
mpg33··on Rising CO2 won't make trees grow more, study suggests
What is the right amount of CO2 to have in the atmosphere scientifically speaking?
mpg33··on Switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls
90% of the issues when it comes to tech and my parents is dealing with accounts(aka setting up accounts and keeping track of usernames and passwords).
mpg33··on SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
Had no idea they had 6000 employees..
mpg33··on Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
I deactivated my account over 3 years ago. Would I be able to use messenger?
mpg33··on AMD Responds to Intel's 9th Gen Benchmarks
Most modern games are developed/optimized for Xbox One and PS4 which have low-ipc 8-core cpu's...

AMD benefits from having their chips in the consoles...which now have an install base of around 120M+ units...

mpg33··on Tesla to achieve leading $100/kWh battery cell cost this year, says investor
That's still what $7500-$10K per Telsa though isn't it?
mpg33··on Apple Special Event [video]
I think the iPhone XS is only marginally larger than the 7/8 and has a much larger display.
mpg33··on LinkedIn sucks
In what way? I find Indeed pretty good and simple to use for doing job searches..
mpg33··on Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini
It hasn't been updated in 4 years. Any update will be spec'd enough.
mpg33··on Apple Is Planning a New Low-Cost MacBook, Pro-Focused Mac Mini
I just wanted an updated mac mini...not a "pro" model. Whenever Apple attaches the word 'pro' on a product it usually means "a fuck ton more expensive".
mpg33··on Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster
>I suppose one could reserve them for races and train with cheaper shoes.

That's what I would do. You'd have a slight boost on top of the usual race day boost and $250 to get ~4 marathons/8 half marathons isn't bad. I mean that would probably be 4+ years for a lot of non-serious runners.

mpg33··on How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live streams
Same with radio in cars. It just works.
mpg33··on The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
Open office is "anti-focus" imo. It's crazy how it even became a thing.

Cubicles use up the same amount of space and at least you have some privacy.

mpg33··on How Netflix became a billion-dollar titan
I'm pretty sure I heard Reed Hastings say it was one of his advisers that had to convince him that producing original content was the way to go.
mpg33··on Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B
Hell of an acquisition by Zuckerberg
mpg33··on The Legend of Nintendo
Sony is the most guilty of this imo. Even Microsoft's 1st party games are more "gamey" than Sony.
mpg33··on Facebook critic: Company ‘will not survive long term’
I mean you can say this with any company really..
mpg33··on 11,000 years ago, our ancestors survived abrupt climate change
Is it? We already have people living in very cold conditions and very hot conditions today...we have insulated housing/air conditioning/clothing...what's going to big the difference 30 years from now?

A lot of alarmism if you ask me.

mpg33··on Bitcoin will become the world’s single currency, Jack Dorsey says
Bitcoin is a store of value. Someone has yet to create to create an effective medium of exchange out of a crypto-currency.
mpg33··on Google relaunches Glass for businesses
after using youtube many times to help with car problems I could see this being helpful....or any instructional video in when you are working on something away from a computer..
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