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eddhead··on I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech
I think you shouldn't have ever been in tech. You don't seem to like freedom very much. Good riddance.
eddhead··on What liberal arts education is for (2024)
Communist brainwashing for Trust Fund kids?

Seriously speaking what in Liberal Arts can you learn that's not already on Youtube now?

eddhead··on It sounds like science fiction but it’s not: AI can destroy your business
Yes it can. Especially tabloids like The Guardian. Fairly easy to come up with the soft of stuff they wrote. Including this hyperbole.
eddhead··on Twitter blocked 122 accounts in India at the government’s request
Didn't Twitter block the sitting president of America at the FBIs request? Why is this so alarming?
eddhead··on Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
If the cars can drive themselves around, does anyone really need to own them?
eddhead··on ChatGPT Is a Bullshit Generator Waging Class War
His describes his publication perfectly
eddhead··on Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
Everyone should be using a package manager / store to get software, or from the official site.

If they're not available, then get the vendor to publish them there. Winget / Choco / Scoop or even Windows Store. Same with whatever people use on Linux distros.

eddhead··on WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes
If Pygame can do wasm outputs to WebGL/WebGPU it'll move things along quite a bit for game development
eddhead··on Britain the only G7 economy forecast to shrink in 2023
IMF has been right about this exactly 0 times in the last 12 years.
eddhead··on EV batteries alone could satisfy short-term grid storage demand as early as 2030
How did BritishVolt go bankrupt then?
eddhead··on Mastodon has gone from 2.5M active users in early December to 1.8M last week
No centralised moderation means the platform is a hotbed for nefarious activities, which reinforces certain accusations about the left's priorities (and Twitter's past inaction on the matter)

https://www.secjuice.com/mastodon-child-porn-pedophiles/

eddhead··on Modeling my Grandpa with 3D Photogrammetry (2021)
Take a look at this tech mentioned here https://80.lv/articles/lumirithmic-creating-a-cost-effective...
eddhead··on Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever to Lose $200B
Do you really think he has that much liquid cash, and he physically lost $200 billion?
eddhead··on Exxon sues EU in move to block new windfall tax on oil companies
This is the approach the UK is taking.
eddhead··on How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
Jim Baker is a double agent for the FBI. Everyone is Quite obvious of why he was there.
eddhead··on EU approves law to break 'glass ceiling' for women on company boards
Asking seriously for the EU, and any future western nations to define what a woman is to begin with.
eddhead··on UK Commons passes bill to electronically tag protesters without a conviction
I'm hugely Pro-speech and pro-expression but the climate protesters have been hugely disruptive to our daily lives and they need to be stopped. Sick and tired and almost lost an expensive long-haul flight thanks to these muppeta.

They're only driving away more people from climate change consciousness

eddhead··on 7GUIs: A GUI Programming Benchmark
Is missing Windows XAML via UWP and Xamarin / MAUI
eddhead··on Learning dynamic 3D geometry and texture for video face swapping
Here's a London based startup working on similar tech

www.lumirithmic.com

eddhead··on Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
And that is because you hate to think for yourself, or do you lack the attention span for long form interviews.

He got popular on YouTube BTW.

eddhead··on [dead]
Here we go again
eddhead··on Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
Blazor with .NET6 is looking pretty fantastic
eddhead··on .NET 6 Released
They promised Blazor AoT and its here, with. NET6. Maui is just a refresh of Xamarin Forms so that can wait.
eddhead··on Red Objects Were Found in the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn’t Be There
NYT IS a tabloid. Has been for years. Sorry to burst your bubble.
eddhead··on .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI
It's 100% UI code reuse between both platforms and MAUI takes it up to Mac and Windows. I've delivered several apps with more then hundred thousand users and the turnaround time for XF apps is generally 3-4x faster than native.

You don't know what you're talking about clearly.

eddhead··on Project Pockit, a modular ARM computer runnig Linux
Already a British bank with this name.
eddhead··on The blockchain is one of the dumbest innovations of the tech industry
Blockchain is merely going through the GamerGate moment now, that's why you're seeing so many articles all at once trying to bash it. From all angles
eddhead··on Windows 7 restarts on Swiss national TV evening news [video]
Why is anyone still using an unsupported OS
eddhead··on Apple now rejecting apps for “irrationally high pricing”
Maybe they should enforce this on their own product pricing strategy
eddhead··on Bill Gates Says the Next Horrible Virus Could Be Engineered by Terrorists
I can't understand why people still can't separate Bill Gates from Microsoft, or vaccines
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