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tmccrary55··on Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
I've been switching to Lemmy.

It's like Reddit but not owned by a public corp.

Reddit still has more users but Lemmy is more like old school distributed web, not just an ad product pushed by coked out MBA accountants.

tmccrary55··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
The three big app stores are based on the west coast US.
tmccrary55··on OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare"
GattAIca here we come, baby!
tmccrary55··on CEO video: back to the office now, or else
Was there something in this submission that caused it to get shadowbanned?
tmccrary55··on Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled
Makes me think of scifi.

What if there's some kind of plastic cliff that most species in the universe don't survive?

We worry about virus epidemics, global warming, asteroids, etc.

tmccrary55··on US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over
The Incredible Fusion Machine
tmccrary55··on Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it
Until it isn't?
tmccrary55··on Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
You can also just do both.

I'd rather that it use the LAN, if I'm there at the time.

Data collection and remote access can just be their own functionality.

tmccrary55··on Life After “Calvin and Hobbes”
The bravest little tiger of them all!
tmccrary55··on Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
Perpetual learning machines
tmccrary55··on John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
You can't have someone with passion in charge, they'd create great products that change the industry.

You need MBAs who eek out profit margins at the expense of the overall product and business.

tmccrary55··on Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
Nick Offerman as Richard Stallman.
tmccrary55··on JEP 457: Class-File API for Parsing, generating, transforming Java classfiles
It's easier (read more reliable) to manipulate bytecode or other internal representation than the source.
tmccrary55··on Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
You're probably still contagious for a while after the symptoms weaken.

But thinking about it, you're also probably in a good mood at the same time. So yeah, of course you're going to be more sociable.

tmccrary55··on Google will retire Gmail’s Basic HTML view in January 2024
Yeah 400k was so 2019, closer to a million now.
tmccrary55··on Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs
My experience with them is Arc is cheap and low end (but better than Intels previous stuff).

Kind of like the new S3 Virge.

tmccrary55··on Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig
This.

Many people are still learning Rust and an emulator is probably a good way to get your hands dirty.

I'm doing something similar with a compiler project and my code is gradually getting better and more idiomatic.

But I'm still doing a lot of stupid things and getting the hang of it.

tmccrary55··on Xfce Wayland Development Roadmap
Gnome has always been very wannabe Apple philosophy.
tmccrary55··on Peredvizhnikov Engine: Lock-free game engine written in C++20
Most of the SteamDeck games are just running windows games through photon, wine and other compatibility layers.

While that works amazingly well, I tend to prefer games with native Linux and SteamOS builds, even though they're rare.

tmccrary55··on ‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay review
What about neighbors having backyard campfires or BBQers?
tmccrary55··on 5 years ago Valve released Proton
Microsoft definitely wouldn't let that happen.
tmccrary55··on We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels
Beta problems
tmccrary55··on We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels
I wonder how long a human brain could survive, if all of its support systems could be maintained indefinitely?

Wayland-Yutani vibes

tmccrary55··on Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco
Yep and the two big limitations are:

1) What content would be interesting to the mark

2) Generating the actual content for the mark to view

And AI can easily do both.

tmccrary55··on Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco
Big Techbacco

I don't think it's wrong. "Stupid" random information is addictive and has neurological effects and we're bombarded with it.

tmccrary55··on Chiplet ASIC supercomputers for LLMs like GPT-4
Using ChatGPT
tmccrary55··on Meta releases Intermediate Graphics Library
Holy fuck that triangle renderer hello world example lol
tmccrary55··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
No, not really.

In the Midwest, supply shortages of staples and most consumer goods were not so bad that the "shelves were empty."

You might have had to buy a different brand of a given good.

The only real annoying thing has been products that use semiconductors.

tmccrary55··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
Russia has pretty conclusively shown that they aren't even close to the same league as the US in terms of warfare.

Like comparing an amateur pickup basketball team to the Chicago Bulls.

tmccrary55··on How Wine works 101
historically

You're not wrong but we're in a whole new game these days.

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