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dkiebd commented on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% neowin.net/news/chrome-in... · Posted by u/josephcsible

dkiebd · 4 months ago

> Things look similar on the mobile side of the market, with Google Chrome having 69.15% (+1.92 points) and Safari being second with 20.32% (-2.2 points).

Thanks, EU! Always on the right side of history.

dkiebd commented on Intel Patents 'Software Defined Supercore' tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/dmmalam

btrettel · 4 months ago

The headline is inaccurate. As far as I can tell, no patents have been granted yet. Intel filed patent applications. Failure to distinguish between applications and granted patents is far too common.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250217157A1/en

See the sidebar on the right? Look at "Application US18/401,460 events". Note that the status is "Pending" and not "Active" or "Expired". Google isn't always accurate here as their data could be out of date, but they're accurate enough for me to not look further. You can check the other countries as well to see all are pending.

dkiebd · 4 months ago

Okay? This is not relevant. What matters here is that they have developed this technology. “Patents” in the title of the article is a way of saying that they have developed the technology.

dkiebd commented on The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom blog.scaramuzza.me/articl... · Posted by u/electricant

ang_cire · 4 months ago

No one is "interested" in making public transit worse, the issue is that people in power are not users of it and so are not invested in it, and civic and national pride is generally dead in the West, being replaced with vapid nationalism, so there's no drive (no pun intended) to invest in public works projects.

dkiebd · 4 months ago

The way I understand your comment, it implies that a) users of public transportation should be invested in it, whilst it’s more likely that they use it because they have no alternative, and that b) civic and national pride results in higher demand for public transportation. I don’t think those are universal truths.

dkiebd commented on Are people's bosses making them use AI tools? piccalil.li/blog/are-peop... · Posted by u/soraminazuki

incompatible · 4 months ago

If a report can be generated by an LLM and nobody cares about inaccuracies, why was it ever produced in the first place?

dkiebd · 4 months ago

It will be funny when one of those reports says that certain steps will be taken in the future to make sure the same incident doesn't occur again, nobody reads the report so nobody notices, and then when the same incident occurs again one of the clients sues.

dkiebd commented on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely lafollette.wisc.edu/news/... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

eulenteufel · 4 months ago

In my perspective it's not that complicated. I'd like to have a good life and I would like for every other human on the planet to also have a good life sustainably. I think it's a rather optimistic vision.

dkiebd · 4 months ago

Also an unrealistic one. A lot of hard work is necessary for that. Most people don’t want or can’t do that work.

dkiebd commented on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely lafollette.wisc.edu/news/... · Posted by u/XzetaU8

simianparrot · 4 months ago

> the only vision of the future being offered is one of impending doom and urbanist intellectual memes

I agree with this. Far too many European countries have no optimistic or even productive outlooks on the future, instead seeming to trade in a form of pessimistic reductionism. Eat less, do less, be less.

However:

> it's no wonder that immigrants wouldn't want to buy into your culture

Then why do they stay as long as they can drain resources? I would never move to a country I don't respect, let alone stay to drain resources and give nothing back. That mentality is alien to me. That isn't to say every immigrant is a drain on resources, but the ones that do not buy into the culture, do not buy into the vision (or lack thereof), and do not contribute -- why are they here? Simply because despite all of that it's better than where they came from? If so, we're doing both ourselves and them a disservice by not denying them entry, because both parties end up miserable.

dkiebd · 4 months ago

>I would never move to a country I don't respect, let alone stay to drain resources and give nothing back.

Hey, good for you. But there are many societies where making a living without working is something to be proud of. I know because I live in one.

dkiebd commented on The World Runs 20B Instances of Curl. Where's the Support? thenewstack.io/the-world-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear

lenkite · 4 months ago

Apple Support directing folks to curl's support page is most definitely a shining symbol of today's dystopian tech.

dkiebd · 4 months ago

Or the guy working for that twitter profile had no idea what curl is and thought it was third-party software. Of course that wouldn't work that well for the author of curl who to put it mildly loves attention.

dkiebd commented on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/OlympicMarmoto

procaryote · 4 months ago

The problem when working for Meta is that if you do a good job, you've helped make the world worse... so the real heroes are the people wasting money and reducing efficiency

If you're at all competent, go work somewhere else

dkiebd · 4 months ago

Ah, the Europeans woke up.