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Kukumberon Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%

That's true, but that's easy to track, as everything in the blockchain is transparent, that's how people found out about the insider trading at Coinbase

Kukumberon How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster

> You probably didn't have speedier options in 2005 that wouldn't make the system much more expensive

PSP was released in 2005, it was sold for just $250, 9 months before the XBOX 360

iPod nano, sleek and fast UI, released in 2005 too

Why is that a thing to always find excuses for Microsoft? acknowledge the issues, and work on them, it's getting tiring

Kukumberon Coinbase cuts staff by a further 20%

Coinbase reputation got hit when people found out about their insider trading [1], on top of them hiring ex-wall street people

Coinbase also is 10x less volume than Binance [2]

You have all of this, then the press who keep advertise them despite the poor metrics, something doesn't sound right

I think it's fair to say people made their choice and the choice is Binance

The narative can't be forced like with other industries, unless you get help from the press and push some FUD, hmm

Or with the help of the CIA with FTX as a poison aimed at Binance, hmm

[1] - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-eve...

[2] - https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/

Kukumberon How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster

What i find fascinating is it got released as is: slow

Then you have Sony who managed to make a whole media center + web browser into a tiny portable resource constrained device, aka the PSP

Maybe that's why Microsoft could never make a PSP or a Nintendo handheld type console, lack of people who REALLY care about things

Kukumberon Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT

There is a difference between investing into a good idea to make it successful and investing into a good idea that is already successful

It is called "Opportunism"

"Look they are doing great things lately with AI", when they just pumped money into an already successful AI project

That's a short term vision, a sign of lack of capabilities in a specific domain, "let's buy our way in, nobody gonna notice"

Kukumberon Microsoft eyes $10B bet on ChatGPT

How are they back when the only thing they manage to do is "pump money into already successful things"

To me this is a sign they are no longer able to compete and are failing back, the only growth they expect is from acquisitions

This is not looking good

Kukumberon 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021

Your reply is the evidence, you didn't quote the Hyperloop vs Magnetic Train argument, you don't care about the problem, you care about an argumentation that is against personal gain ;)

Have we replaced the ISS? Why haven't we?

Why Europe was so dependent on Russian energy and was hesitant to give up and pursue nuclear for this long?

Why does the west still need to burn coal in 2023?

Why isn't there any Magnetic Train in the US?

Why nobody has access to universal free healthcare in the US?

I can continue for hours, but you shown your lack of interest

Kukumberon 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70.1B, up 89% on 2021

Hyperloop vs Magnetic Train is one example of VC funding being non-compatible with climate-change policies and humankind ascension

They seek personal gain (ROI), wich is not compatible with collective gain

I think we'll see the end of VCs this century, hopefully earlier otherwise China will already have its bases on both the Moon and Mars

Kukumberon Portugal’s digital nomad bubble

"digital nomad"

how is that a thing, as a society we keep reaching new lows year after year, this is very concerning

"repeating past mistakes is our motto"

Kukumberon Game prototype using AI assisted graphics

I'm not interested in games made using/helped an/by AI

Hopefully a tag will appear on steam to filter out that junk

It devaluates what art, creativity and passion are

It'll take down that civilization faster than a pandemic or a social media algorithm

Kukumberon Temperatures of 19℃ in Warsaw on 1 Jan 2023, 5.1℃ more than the previous record

Atlantis disappeared overnight

Forest and fossils under Antarctica

Forest under the Sahara

Poles can flip overnight

Civilizations disappeared overnight

We are just not prepared for the unknown

Kukumberon China Plans to Build Nuclear-Powered Moon Base by 2028

And yet they built and put to orbit their own Space Station

I don't know where these journalists get their info, either incorrect translation or some non-official quotes

The official line was always to send people to the moon by 2030

Kukumberon 10x C++ Editor

The editor that puts to shame visual studio, if you can afford to, consider supporting

Fast software deserve all of our support

Kukumberon Bflat – a single ahead-of-time crosscompiler and runtime for C#

Some people at Microsoft were ACTIVELY against CoreRT, even some very high profiles, and yet they still work for that company, i don't get it

Long live to the people who worked on CoreRT/NativeAOT and the people who pushed for it

Great tech that will empower great projects

An example: https://icculus.org/finger/flibitijibibo

Kukumberon How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?

> I don't understand how

why, not how

can't edit the comment..

Kukumberon How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?

If Microsoft employees can't fix it, something Apple fixed already for their OS years ago, then they should not be working on Windows

I don't understand how incompetence is being protected and empowered at Microsoft, it's suspiciously worrying, i hope the military isn't dependent on Microsoft software, i'd be worried if they use their tech in the battlefield, HoloLens is another evidence things are fishy within that company

Kukumberon What will happen in 2023

You sir deserve an Oscar too! https://streamable.com/hgmrfm

Kukumberon What will happen in 2023

Whether i am serious or not doesn't change the facts nor does it changes what the press says about it, i just share the press articles, all of them are from reputable sources and from the West

Let's debate about them, and keep it civil and polite, thanks

Kukumberon What will happen in 2023

I shared a link about Texas few months ago already [1]

It's known fact that the famous "Franco-German couple" is in big trouble

Another evidence was when Scholz didn't invite his "friend" France for his "business trip" in China ;) [2]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33127236

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-03/germany-s...

Kukumberon What will happen in 2023

The year of the predictions :smiley_face:

I think the one that's mostly going to be correct is Medvedev one [1], definitely the most interesting and credible one

[1] - https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/16074873384012062...

Kukumberon Aarond Berman: Former CIA agent leads the misinformation Policy team at Meta

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

Same for Microsoft, same for Apple, same for Cloudfront same for AWS and the list goes on, we could also now include Twitter, interesting enough, they are all industry leader

Then we question about the role of the CCP in the chinese companies

If you are american, no big deal to have your government/army take care of your important industries, you should be proud

But if you happen to be European, Asian, or African, then you start to be worried, and rightfully so!

What kind of algorithm are they pushing on us? what information are they censoring? are they responsible of the civil unrest of recent times that originated from online facebook groups? it's a powerful weapon

Kukumberon More use of Rust is inevitable in open source software

You question a claim about performance

But you don't question a claim about the amount of LOC

You chose what please you as truth, and what doesn't as troll?

Kukumberon More use of Rust is inevitable in open source software

That's not because your project is on github that you have delivered something, it's still at the WIP/experimental phase, and its been like that for years

I don't have a top language, and to be honest i am a bit sad about the state of programming languages these days, it's all over the place and nobody seems to hate bloatware, so we get slow stuff that compiles slow all over the place

And i don't believe in "one language to rule them all" moto

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-worked-with-vs...

Not a reference, but it gives an idea about the people interested in Rust, they are mostly the web people, which says a lot about the lack of dynamics

> Running containers on AWS?

1 or 2 projects out of 1000s in a big company doesn't sound interesting

Kukumberon More use of Rust is inevitable in open source software

They talk about using Rust for over 5 years, and yet they delivered nothing, and switched to using Unreal for their commercial games and upcoming games (2 new titles already announced with Unreal)

Lot of buzz for nothing, just like with Firefox

Rust doesn't seem capable enough for that kind of projects

Other comments mentions pieces of the Android Runtime being written in Rust, and that seems all Rust is able to provide, by-proxy uses

Still waiting for something like Kubernetes for Rust to really push the industry forward, so far, no bueno

Kukumberon More use of Rust is inevitable in open source software

exactly, and so far rust is being pushed by evangelists and pseudo-journalists

rust wants to penetrate the industry by-proxy rather than with interesting tech/projects

Mozilla gave up rewriting firefox in rust

Embark gave up writing their new game engine in rust

Kukumberon Shiba inu who became face of viral ‘doge’ meme and dogecoin is seriously ill

conspiracy?

meme?