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wigster··on Reality Labs has lost $11.4B during 2023 (there's still one quarter left)
i think the killer app would be porn. having to link to facebook might not help this.
wigster··on Charted: 50 Years of Music Industry Revenues, by Format
it is vertically symmetrical. it just doesn't look like it is because the horizontal year axis is in the wrong place.

i am happy to say i never spent a penny on a ring tone.

wigster··on Meta Quest 3
> So what’s the killer app? the porn app automatically locks the doors of your house to stop people "disturbing you"
wigster··on macOS Sonoma is available today
probably just me, but Sonoma sounds like a terrible name. I'm not familiar with the region in California (unlike its predecessors) and it just links to Carcinoma in my mind.
wigster··on A simple web server written in Awk
crazy. lol
wigster··on Radio frequency hearing in humans and its effects (2003)
is this "the hum" some people complain about in cities?
wigster··on Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
appropriate the new name is the universal symbol for close application
wigster··on Voice Actor Turns Instagram's Terms of Service into 51-Minute Sleep Aid
the Drummonds
wigster··on Workers with less experience gain the most from generative AI
i tried it with an old, less popular language, Progress 4GL, and it just invented pure bullshit answers.

when i asked are you sure about that it owned up and and said sorry. wtf?

wigster··on Cormac McCarthy has died
i started it just as my first child was born. i quickly stopped and never wanted to go back.
wigster··on Reasons not to become famous (2020)
well i'm not sure if this would make him feel better or worse, but I have no idea who he is
wigster··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
these pics look great. like some big model trail set catalog.
wigster··on Ask HN: Tools to learn music theory?
wow - i am terrible at that. i play guitar, keyboards and sing (ok) but i cannot do that.

nice util tho. must practice more...

wigster··on The DeLorean Alpha
why would you take the brand delorian and the NOT USE the only thing that is iconic which is the DMC logo?

crazy

wigster··on Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files
they're here...

nice end of transmission simulator to boot!

wigster··on 80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City (2021)
do tell. i've been searching for flesh! ;-)
wigster··on It's time to stop texting
in the UK, mobile companies have to allow you to port it.
wigster··on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model
OMG. two of my favourite movies and I never spotted her as the same woman. I guess I'm not alone, looking at her IMDB bio...

Jenette Goldstein is a true chameleon. She is so effective as an actress, it is nearly impossible to recognize her from role to role.

wigster··on Bright flash is a black hole jet pointing at Earth, astronomers say
it's the focused beam of tortured souls escaping the event horizon that worries me.
wigster··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
love the developer adoption graph - so steep i thought they were the y-axis! ;-)
wigster··on The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened?
is this nominative determinism kicking in?
wigster··on Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer
very cool. just coloured some old family tree pics and they look great. thanks.
wigster··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
it has the unique ability to snap off at the tip and block the port. ;-)

most annoying.

wigster··on An odd discovery on Spotify
This almost sounds like the start of a Call of Cthulhu TTRPG scenario where a something really grim is being fed into public media pool for some nefarious purpose. Hmm. Nice.
wigster··on Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
this needs some sort of stealth plug-in called Creepee
wigster··on BBC Basic Editor
it's lovely. the sound of the keys...
wigster··on Programming Fonts
whats going on with the words null/true/false? in the editor with the default font (cartograph?) it uses "curly" fonts just for these. is this some standard feature of certain editors?
wigster··on Ask HN: Is attitude more important than knowledge?
i think recent politics shows you can go far with a lot of attitude and not very much knowledge
wigster··on The Wood Database
three 'different' alders seem to have the same image
wigster··on Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
wasn't the whole thing that the rise of Isengard and the uruk orcs represented the coming of the industrial revolution (which tolkien hated)?
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