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BeardedGingerWonder

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  • Linus Comparison

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  • What are you saying was made up?

    Billet gave them the prototype because they thought they were going to make use of it. They installed it wrong/on the wrong card and then shat all over the product. Billet asked for it back if they weren't planning on using it further as it was an expensive prototype and they agreed.

  • Linus Comparison

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  • "brought in under suspect circumstances"

    Genuinely curious at what you're hinting at here. I thought I was fairly familiar with the story, but I thought that employee was mostly brought in because she was popular with viewers, is there something more sinister there too?

  • FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

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  • If Google said, look we know we send a lot of bug reports, here's 50MM a year, go hire a team of dedicated developers to deal with our nonsense, we don't have the expertise in house to train them on this codebase. I doubt anyone would be complaining.

    Nothing wrong with fixing bugs even if they are obscure if you have the time and resources.

  • Google Posts Device Trees For Booting Pixel 10 Hardware With The Mainline Linux Kernel

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  • Google's pull for most is the camera. Graphene is a vanishingly small % of pixel users (estimated 200k total graphene users vs estimated 15M+ pixels in the US alone).

  • Isekai hours

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  • It was ungodly expensive to produce before the Hall Heroult process though, which needs electricity.

  • Millionaire CEO warns US economic situation could lead to revolution

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  • In what way am I giving anyone an out? Are we both talking about the Indian Creek/Surfside thing? If we are the whole shit storm is over the fact the billionaires don't want to pay have a link..

  • Millionaire CEO warns US economic situation could lead to revolution

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  • I like shitting on billionaires as much as the next person, but presumably they didn't design any of this themselves. Most likely story is they just don't want to pay their fair share as usual.

  • Horse chips

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  • It's more a false advertising thing than a moral thing.

  • Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up'

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  • Universe 3.14.1 Patch notes:

    • Unstable volume parameter fix

  • If you pay close attention there's also a bit about a squid that's really confusing

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  • You, me and Dupree

  • STAR TREK 4 Has Finally Been Scrapped As Paramount "Moves On" From Chris Pine-Led Franchise

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  • Finally maybe we'll get the spore drive movie everyone's really been waiting for.

  • 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower

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  • The vroom vroom noises are good too.

    Interestingly I've a relative who used to be a car salesman and still gets invited to dealer events occasionally - he was telling me about an electric he got to test a year or so back, it had a simulated gear shift/gear knob setup. He said people were loving it.

  • ‘Huge sticker shock’: Floridians get first look at Obamacare price hikes

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  • Never have I witnessed power over big pharma like when they start to run ads claiming the NHS in the UK are not paying enough so people are dying (I'm paraphrasing here, but honestly it's not a million miles off).

    It sounded pretty childish/desperate and the ads dried up quick.

  • Poll: Views of capitalism slip, but socialism is still unpopular as Zohran Mamdani gains prominence

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  • I agree it wasn't singlehanded, but he does seem to have opened the floodgates somewhat. I'm not super pro capitalist either fwiw. I'm down with a system that is functionally successful. With appropriate controls capitalism does seem to be a functional and successful system. However the controls are not being used, they're not being updated to reflect modernity and benefitting workers is not incentivised.

    Tearing everything down isn't necessarily the solution to that. First off we need a system that works and then we need a pathway to that system. We also need it to be implemented and in a way that doesn't result in millions worse off or suffering worse than they are.

    I'm all up for AI replacing makework jobs (or just getting rid of them). What do we do with the people who are out of work? UBI is probably a start, but who or what in any major country is pushing for this and is in a position to implement it?

    As an example raising the employers national insurance contribution in the UK brings out cries of "oh this is unfair on companies" for companies that are making billions in profit, giving money away will have some people in fits (people this would directly benefit).

    Quality of life focused improvements would be nice. I don't think I've any solutions, maybe salary sacrifice socialism - government competition for some things where they can offer efficiencies or benefits. Government offer me a package, I can pay xyz extra out of my wages and there's a government run hello fresh or mobile network or broadband supplier or mortgage scheme or house repair scheme. I'm free to source my own or to use the government one. It sets a baseline and ot can run on very fine margins. It's probably full of flaws but it's the best I've got.

  • Poll: Views of capitalism slip, but socialism is still unpopular as Zohran Mamdani gains prominence

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  • In terms of successful economic systems I feel they've gotten there by evolution rather than revolution - but I'll also happily admit I'm no economist.

    On the other points I think we're there or thereabouts on the same page. There's a great behind the bastards series on Jack Welch Part 1 and part 2

    It was pretty revelatory for me as to why everything feels like it's going down the pan. I'm not a "the past was better" type in general - but in this specific instance I definitely am. Feels like the social contract isn't being held up by both sides. The reason the US got so good at stuff was investment in people, now it's mostly a quick grift and memories are short. People are genuinely convinced this is the way it's always been - I was the same until I listened to those episodes.

    Hard to see a way back, CEOs are judged on stock price and will get turfed if they try and do the things they need to be doing to make this better (not defending CEOs here - pointing out there's no incentive for change).

    I could rant and it's getting late, but what's the real tangible feasible pathway we start working towards?

  • Most Americans say country is on the wrong track, blame Trump for inflation, disapprove of the president and say he is going too far to expand power of presidency

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  • Well, see, I thought I'd read the article and I got as far as the graph expecting to see a drop-off - what it actually shows is fewer people think things are on the wrong track than in January. As a whole they think it's getting better.

  • The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP

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  • Centuries?

  • Poll: Views of capitalism slip, but socialism is still unpopular as Zohran Mamdani gains prominence

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  • The thing is revolution hardly ever works. Step one, make capitalism better. It used to be better, it has gotten worse. You can thank Jack Welsh for that.

    Once we're no longer playing find the glitch to improve the stock price and we start building value things will improve. Then we can keep on fucking improving until shit is good.

  • M&S launches ‘secret support’ pants that offer men a ‘subtle lift’

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  • I don't see what this has to do with anything. It's a super specific scenario, should I wear a helmet around all day because I wear one to protect my head on a bike?