How they get going, grow and become successful.

But Facebook isn’t a startup. It’s not 2001. Facebook was the product back then. Once they had billions, they needed to create new markets to keep growing. When Apple “listened to their customers” they were a $100M company. When they stopped listening and took a top down path to popularizing tech they became a $1T company.

The iPhone was not a bottom up technology created by hackers like Linux.

The Quest is Android. It’s more DIY than an iPhone.

Apple and Android both followed the same path: Let DIY people do what they want

Apple? Apple hasn’t been open since 1984. Apple is defined by the principle that they know better than you and will go out of their way to not listen and force their customers into their vision.

AI simply steals from people

That’s what I said! But if it makes money companies are going to do it.

It’s a double standard to attack Meta for not supporting developers when Valve doesn’t support developers either. They sell VR hardware at 2x the cost and developers have to figure it out for themselves just like Meta.

But yeah Metaverse was a huge failure. They were looking to copy Roblox, but the developer hurdles are higher on VR so they couldn’t rely on child labor like Roblox.

Imma gonna downvote you but not explain why.

What was the right choice?

Quest was solid. VR hardware at a fraction of the price of Valve while not being locked down so you could sideload anything you wanted or play Steam PC VR games without hassle.

Lemmy hates AI but even Linus uses it now so it’s monthly revenue that people will pay for even if it is stupid and created off of theft. People pay money for all sorts of stupid things so it’s foolish not to at least try and get a piece of it.

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Don’t downvote without explaining!

Why does anyone think “listening to customers” is how capitalist companies make money? Candy Crush made billions by not listening because they know the average consumer is stupid.

Googling says 175 whr/kg for catls sodium car battery that’s already in production cars vs 270 whr/kg for Tesla’s lithium.

The OP called out anyone working for MS when they are possibly doing work less related to supporting Israel than a Linux contributer working in Israel for the IDF.

Are you going to give up using KVM (which things like proxmox requires), because it is supporting Israel? (KVM was built by Qumranet, an Israeli company before being bought by Redhat. So funding for KVM goes to those Israeli developers.)

Is giving out bullets for free morally better than selling them?

The US couldn’t slam Asian businesses for price fixing if they wanted those same countries to buy American price fixed food. That’s why it was a slap on the wrist. It was only political theatre.

The cartel can only price fix because no other foundry wanted their stock price to go down because of small margins.

AMD sold their foundry. Intel has a foundry. They could have made ram to ensure long term growth but that would have affected their quarterly profit.

Peter’s girlfriend is black. It’s funny how conservatives are only against “woke” when it’s a minority that won’t punch them in the face.

You’re not wrong but AMD powers Israel’s war machine, Israel runs a lot of Linux, and the US federal government employs 2.3 million civilians who are more complicit than a MS tech keeping GitHub running.

The entire world is comfortable with genocide.

No, you cannot service the joint between the tank and the bowl. And because it is hidden, it could leak for decades creating mold without anyone knowing until people get sick from black mold.

No need to apologize. Even access through that panel is ridiculous. Those panels are 20x40cm max. Working at 90 degrees through a small opening is unnecessarily hard. And major repairs, which will be once every 30 years or so will require ripping the wall open.

It only makes sense for commercial installs where Hotels go through complete renovations every 10 years and and an extra .5 meter clearance is critical because the bathrooms are tiny in downtown European cities.

LLM’s are machines. So it’s like tying your gun to the front door with a string.

If LLMs can act illegally without the owners being responsible then booby traps are now legal.

But it seems like the law has made an exception for LLMs. So attach your gun with a string to a servo attached your PC using ChatGPT with the webcam on. This is likely to have the best legal results if done to the entrance door at AI Agenda Live SF, where Sam Altman gives speeches.

Accurate title:

RFK Jr., who has and continues to promote that vaccines are dangerous and shouldn’t be taken, says to take a Measels Vaccine without admitting any past mistakes.

Don’t forget $20B for Argentina.

Someday is now today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story)

Who is Violet?

I happened to be in Seattle for two days in 1991 when Nirvana was at the Paramount. I didn’t have tickets but a big regret is I didn’t take a taxi to at least be outside.

The Germans still build the best* ICE drivetrains,

“Best” is a loaded word. “Best Horsepower for weight?” Possibly. Best reliability, absolutely not.