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Expert developer, Buddhist

  • Because networking and public status is a big part of the job in high end silicon valley circles. You can get hired almost exclusively based on your follower count. You can land inter-business contracts and opportunities others can't. You can leverage your reach to launch new products successfully. The jobs of executives are largely this. It's not about having a moral stance on which social network to use, it's about having access to the most eyes. I don't blame them at all for doing what they do, it's totally sensible. The question here is kind of like asking "why does MrBeast not just spend his day building his next set??" - because public status is how it all works

  • You're telling me this is on purpose? Oh my God it's on purpose

  • My favorite part is that their site has a drawing of a cock as the background and reads "this sucks" but it's some kinda venture capitalist org. For some reason only when the site is reloaded

    It's ok I sent them an email about it

  • Pipewire is awesome, I can't believe they did it, they implemented all the old APIs for the other system and brought it into great harmony. But hey I'm a wayland user too

  • Tesla sunset two of their models, three still for sale and being built. Definitely not giving up on AI or FSD, they are doubling down on cybercab, and elons pay package is tied to FSD subscriptions. If anything, the messaging is they are ramping up AI investment. Humans crash and burn regularly too. Brilliant engineers have definitely not given up, I'm not sure why anyone would think that. AI has continued to improve pretty steadily in all areas (see benchmarks)

  • I unironically want this to make wizard scrolls

  • It's just unsettled law, and the link is basically an opinion piece. But guess who wins major legal battles like this - yep, the big corps. There's only one way this is going to go for AI generated code

  • I evaluated matrix a few years ago to try to add chat to my video game. I also evaluated everything else. Sendbird (proprietary, what reddit uses) is crazy expensive. Matrix is complicated and didn't have a good simple web frontend. XMPP is still pretty good. In the end, I ended up going with IRC v3 which fixes many of the legacy problems of IRC, and that was the best option. I am still scratching my head as to how that's the state of the art for sending little bits of text back and forth. Don't get me started on WebRTC, I spent a whole year trying to make a stable video chat app for another project

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  • That's great! Not that you asked for advice, but the other pieces of enlightenment are (1) work on really broad awareness at the edges of your senses - distant sounds, the weight of your clothes, edges of your vision (2) a joyful gratitude for everything you see / experience. Try doing all of that at once, while on a walk or whatever

  • Love that the entire justification is that Linus doesn't know how to count higher than 20. Lucky for us that he'll probably retire before we get to version 20.20 because otherwise he'd probably have to just shut the whole project down

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  • Is it all the way silent or are there a different layer of kinda quieter meta-thoughts about how you're not thinking thoughts rn?

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  • Pretty sure they are all your own thoughts, or none of them are. I'm unclear where thoughts come from. Either way, a big part of meditation is focus training, and while people differ in this ability, everyone can improve - like exercise

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  • I think this generally takes practice, i.e. meditation. The Buddhist lore from the ages is that people can only do this for a few seconds naturally, slowly extending the amount of time, unless they are in a flow state of an activity - like driving a racecar or dancing. But yes it is a superpower, being able to control your mind and emotions, and shut them off

  • Yeah the electrons are happy. It's grounded, by which I mean it's not allowed to go out with its friends

  • There won't be that many of them in a few years when consolidation happens. The theory is this is a turning point in all of society, so high investment is seen as warranted. Meanwhile, the price of inference and infrastructure is going to continue to reduce, while corporate adoption will rise

  • Weird take. Typical playbook in SV is to push a free product to gain market dominance for a few years. Also 2% is a common paying user percentage for almost every freemium biz model, and 3%+ is actually considered pretty good

  • So friggin cool, I'm immediately in

  • Yeah I agree & don't have a solution. I've also lived under fully socialized healthcare, and that's quite problematic as well for various reasons including wait times & quality of care / options

  • What?! You can run whole Linux apps on Windows

  • Linux @lemmy.world

    Linux: the only OS that uses less disk space after an update?

  • Neovim @programming.dev

    Showing off my new alien spaceship themed tabby.nvim setup :D (feat. neovide, fzf, airline, markview)

    streamable.com /vwxo2i
  • Neovim @programming.dev

    compiler.nvim: language aware compile menu

  • Neovim @programming.dev

    hypersonic.nvim: overlay window helps you write regexes

  • Neovim @programming.dev

    Applying to be a mod

    reddit.com /u/hugelung