In hindsight the period 2015-2022 was a kind of a golden age for Microsoft.
They actually made (well, acquired) some good software, and even not-so-good stuff like Azure had a point of existing.
Of course it all went downhill very quickly.
Inertia. And GitHub was actually good, despite MS ownership. Until recently.
Basketball
It kind of already exists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzkashi
Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom
Proposal for the next study:
Compare the drop in fertility rate between users of iPhone and Android
It’s such a low-stakes conspiracy theory. What would even be the benefit of going through all the trouble?
Questions like “who is this random foreigner”?
Alex Karp is not exactly a household name. And never underestimate xenophobia of rural Alpine regions.
“declare” is doing the heavy lifting here
Not sure from jeweler perspective, they might be hard to put into jewelry.
But synthetic sapphire is relatively easy to produce, enough that it’s used for watch faces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire#/media/File:Sapphire_boule,_Kyropoulos_method.jpg
Sapphires are awesome and easy to produce
Ironically if you really want employees to be motivated by more than money, you need to pay even more.
Only people who don’t worry about money can afford to be motivated by other things.
It’s kinda hard to reuse datacenter hardware for home use. Many connectors are different, form factors too. Not to mention the noise, in servers noise is about the last priority.
Selfhosting enthusiasts will get great deals, but I doubt it will become mainstream.
Some will continue working just drop the compute price by a lot. Others will be mothballed for a while until someone can figure out how to run them profitably.
Expect a lot of new (or even resurrected old) use cases to pop up. For example I expect cloud gaming to make a huge comeback driven by cheaper prices. Us mortals won’t be able to afford our own GPUs for a while, but there will suddenly be a surplus of data center units for rent.
Depends on communities you join. Some do, especially on the .ml instance.
It takes a while of browsing around, joining and unjoning different coms before you find a good balance. Lemmy is a very disjointed place without a good search engine and multiple instances of the same thing. It’s what makes it good, but also frustrating sometimes.
so Switzerland has seamen but no navy
We need to separate the feeling of driving from practicality. EVs are pleasant to drive for sure. Having to plan your trips around charging is annoying, there isn’t really much progress there.
The only reason I want a car is to do spontaneous trips to less populated areas. I already have range anxiety, I top up as soon as I’m below 1/3 of the tank. Batteries make it worse.
Write-only documentation.
At least you don’t have to print it, bind it and send it to archive any more.
“Several miles” is incorrect. Measuring on Google Earth says 500m, or 0.3 miles.
Still a fuckup but much less impressive
The job I do exists more than ever, no recruiter believes me because the only thing they look for is if you had “AI” in the title of your previous job
My favorite part of this post is people from different flavors of Christianity arguing completely different things using the same source.