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bobsmooth··on A nicer voltmeter clock
I love these analogue devices are being driven by a digital output. Using PWM is clever.
bobsmooth··on SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites
Is there one organization you trust to run the space internet for everyone on earth?
bobsmooth··on Getting arrested in Japan
Torturing prisoners not even convicted of a crime is something we don't do in America.
bobsmooth··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
The Onion covered this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY

bobsmooth··on Fidelity Won't Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center
I guess Fidelity doesn't want to help fund hate groups. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-so...
bobsmooth··on The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it
>Do you think you can even get that just taxing these companies?

If we go back to a 60% corporate tax rate, for sure.

bobsmooth··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
>Says who?

The EU, just now.

bobsmooth··on I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
Yeah no that's definitely copyright infringement.
bobsmooth··on I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
You were using SVG versions of the logos you were printing right? Just when you say designing it makes me think you were recreating the logos in CAD.
bobsmooth··on Every GPU That Mattered
I was so sad when I retired my 1060 6GB. That thing served me well for almost a decade.
bobsmooth··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
One of the largest populations, and by extension, GDPs.
bobsmooth··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
"Gmail blocks over 10 crore phishing attempts every day."
bobsmooth··on Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most
>What does having a family have to do with anything?

Presumably that at least one of their family members would be pity watching.

bobsmooth··on GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information
My Samsung can disable amber alerts.
bobsmooth··on Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists
How long have you been on Phentermine? For me it stopped working after only a couple weeks.
bobsmooth··on Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149
Where's the money for this VPN going to come from? The ads they insert into my home page or the CEO's inflated compensation?
bobsmooth··on How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly
So how close are we to Cyberpunk-style braindances?
bobsmooth··on The 49MB web page
Because software engineers aren't real engineers. A real engineer has liability insurance.
bobsmooth··on Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold
After a decade in prison without being charged.
bobsmooth··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
Are we still going to pretend that the man who has revolutionized at least 2 different industries doesn't know what he's talking about?
bobsmooth··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
The amount of times chatgpt has told me "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." makes me want to bash my head against the wall.
bobsmooth··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
>Falcon nine is the world's workhorse rocket, but it's just not that remarkable

Falcon delivered the vast majority of mass into orbit last year, and the year before that

>starship is utterly unproven to launch to orbit

It's already deployed test satellites into orbit. You're so intellectually dishonest you refuse to acknowledge things that have already happened.

bobsmooth··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
That's only because autism is common amongst those groups and you can't build anything worthwhile these days without a lot of autism.
bobsmooth··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
That your comment is grey but has no replies speaks volumes.
bobsmooth··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
Thankfully UPSes are still cheap. Get one before Sam buys the entire yearly production of cyberpower.
bobsmooth··on Digg is gone again
Unless you're allowed to say slurs without being banned, your forum will be overrun with bots. The sanitation of the internet is the perfect breeding ground for brand-safe AI promotion bots.
bobsmooth··on Why software stocks are getting pummelled
>they're getting an LLM to construct the specific tool they need in a couple of hours and then running that

This is something I really hope takes off for the common person. ChatGPT is perfect for bespoke little programs that do one thing and can be discarded after use.

bobsmooth··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Recall actually sounds like it could be useful but there's a snowball's chance in hell that I would trust Microsoft to not spy on me.
bobsmooth··on Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026
I'm not friends with any zoomers but I generally use sticking tongue out when I'm being cheeky.
bobsmooth··on Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026
I mean this genuinely, are you on the spectrum? My friends and I use emojis all the time and I've never been confused by what they mean.
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