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Lung

@ lung @lemmy.world

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Expert developer, Buddhist

  • Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

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  • 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

  • Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

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  • 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

  • Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer (Currently on Kickstarter)

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  • So friggin cool, I'm immediately in

  • healthcare costs are a potent force for radicalization

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  • 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

  • my 100% legit distro tier list

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

  • Integrating WebView with Nature Programming Language

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  • Weird language, it seems to be almost exactly Go, GC, even has the "go" keyword for async, and tries for the same usecases of server backends

  • healthcare costs are a potent force for radicalization

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  • Arguably the prices of healthcare are what they are because of the legal institution of insurance and the system of middlemen involved, so it's not really an example of free markets, but I'll show myself and my logic outta here ok peace

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    ReactOS For "Open-Source Windows" Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost

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  • I still think these guys are lunatics, who loves windows coding so much as to do this? Hahaha very impressive

  • LLMS Are Not Fun

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  • I think this is true to some degree, but not exclusively true; new grads still get jobs. However, I think it'll take some time for universities to catch up with the changes they need to make to refocus on architecture, systems design & skilled use of LLMs

    My opinion is that the demand for software is still dramatically higher than what can be achieved by hiring every single senior dev + LLM. I.e. there will need to be more people doing it in the future regardless of efficiency gains

  • LLMS Are Not Fun

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  • Argument doesn't check out. You can still manage people, and they can use whatever tools make them productive. Good understanding of the code & ability to pass PR reviews isn't going anywhere, nor is programmer skill

  • CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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  • I wouldn't go that far

  • CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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  • Hard to say. I mean, the easy answer is only 10x a soldier in America. But they also get free housing, food, varied benefits & bonuses -- and retired generals often make millions via their influence and power. But yeah they have salary caps and somehow the whole system still works pretty well

  • CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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  • Yeah like I said, there are insane outliers. But you gotta give it to him, he did crazy and creative things nobody else did successfully, over and over, and there is a clear intentionality to his conduct. He does indeed network very efficiently. I can't imagine him being easily replaced either

  • I need to vent about plastic milk jugs

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  • You put em bags into a hard pitcher thing you have at home, and cut the corner. So I guess it's a bit less waste

  • CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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  • Paywalled but overall I've come to the conclusion that executive pay isn't as insane as it seems. Like yeah okay there are outliers that are insane, but it's actually a super difficult role to hire for, and certainly not a role AI can replace soon. It involves:

    • high levels of creativity
    • good taste and sound judgement
    • a ton of politics and emotional intelligence
    • mental stability and reliability
    • a lot of intangible skills that are hard to survey
    • connections & networking
    • often unique and original views of the world
    • organizational skills and high level problem solving

    These aren't skills to be taken lightly and they take years to develop, to be a good manager & bear responsibility for the lives of many employees. If AI made proposals, someone still has to actually judge which ideas to pursue, so you can't really get rid of the job. Maybe you could reduce the amount of executives. But when a company has leadership that's actually coherent and works, employees like them, it's a goldmine that needs to be protected by the owners

  • Bazzite has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳

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  • Huh I guess it's "normal" but I hadn't heard of Linux OSes tracking active user telemetry. Turns out this is a fedora / rpm mechanism that tracks the ip addresses of people updating their system. Something to think about. Archlinux for example does not do any form of this tracking as far as I can tell

  • Retro Messenger (Is there anything else a messenger could need?)

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  • I don't really see a market need for this, just use signal. C++ is also a weird language to use in the modern era, pretty much totally eclipsed by Go or Rust, not that you need performance anyway. Or just use webrtc for p2p connections with a standard TURN/STUN relay for network layouts that prevent direct p2p, this can be done pure web or via apps. Already has audio/video and encryption. XMPP and Matrix are also fine. But as a learning exercise, great project

  • The White House ballroom will never be built

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  • Uhh idk about this article, it meanders randomly around various failings of the president (sure) but building a big room in 3 years with a ton of money available seems totally doable

  • Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog

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  • It's interesting that signal was partially funded by the American govt international propaganda wing (radio free Asia parent) early on. So I mean, not totally wrong. Though of course I'm a big fan of signal and it's developers

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Linux: the only OS that uses less disk space after an update?

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

    streamable.com /vwxo2i
  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    compiler.nvim: language aware compile menu

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    hypersonic.nvim: overlay window helps you write regexes

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Applying to be a mod

    reddit.com /u/hugelung