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zyx321 commented on Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0 jenniferdaniel.substack.c... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

> Is it so bad to just click to increment the emoji regardless of the color/tone choice made by the first reaction?

This is sort of what I feel like the parent was implying without outright saying it, too. But: that's not how Slack works. If the only reaction is an emoji of skin tone A (let's say its a dark skin toned thumbs up), and I click that dark skin toned thumbs up to also react, Slack adds a thumbs up with the skin tone configured in the user's settings (which I believe defaults to no skin tone), not the skin tone of the initial reaction.

Settings → Messages & media → Default Skin Tone

zyx321 · a day ago

There's a big difference between "I wish Slack didn't have optional skin colors" vs "I wish Slack didn't have mandatory segregation"

zyx321 commented on The Framework Desktop is a beast world.hey.com/dhh/the-fra... · Posted by u/lemonberry

yencabulator · a month ago

> The RAM is split between CPU and GPU at a user-configurable ratio.

I believe the fixed split thing is a historical remnant. These days, the OS can allocate memory for the GPU to use on the fly.

zyx321 · a month ago

It's not a fixed split. I don't know if it's possible live, or if it requires a reboot, but it's not hardwired.

I want to know if it's possible. 4GB for Linux, a bit of room for the calculations, and then you can load a 122GB model entirely into VRAM.

How would that perform in real life? Someone please benchmark it!

zyx321 commented on The Framework Desktop is a beast world.hey.com/dhh/the-fra... · Posted by u/lemonberry

zyx321 · a month ago

There's been some theories floating around that the 128gb version could be the best value for on-premise LLM inference. The RAM is split between CPU and GPU at a user-configurable ratio.

So this might be the holy grail of "good enough GPU" and "over 100GB of VRAM" if the rest of the system can keep up.

zyx321 commented on New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft sign-in even more mandatory arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

klabb3 · 5 months ago

The remaining foothold of windows for home use is games. It’s the only reason I still have a windows partition (well, app development to be fair but that’s not everyone). A lot of the previous moat like Word seems to have moved to the cloud.

So, what are the blockers for Linux for games? I know ”the linux desktop” is a meme, but IME Ubuntu (for me, but pick your choice) has been boringly reliable and easy to use for a decade now at least. (laptops are hit or miss but that’s a different story). With SteamOS, why are or aren’t we getting close to where games can run smooth and lots of home users can finally ditch Windows? DirectX? Game engine support?

zyx321 · 5 months ago

My understanding is that 'anti-cheat' solutions are the biggest remaining issue. Proprietary drivers that are by design resistant to analysis and reverse-engineering.

zyx321 commented on · Posted by u/pseudolus

mnky9800n · 6 months ago

That is an interesting analysis but remember when the wework guy destroyed everything, wework was a giant disaster, he never did anything productive, and then VCs gave him stacks of cash to start some new company anyways? [1] I doubt Elon will suffer, he will just find a new grift, or get bailed out by the government he just bought.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/business/dealbook/adam-ne...

zyx321 · 6 months ago

Elon is in charge of reducing 'wasteful' government spending.

Him gutting NASA and giving their entire budget to SpaceX is a question of 'when' rather than 'if'.

zyx321 commented on The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004) fourmilab.ch/documents/ne... · Posted by u/kimi

fzeroracer · 6 months ago

Technically he's not wrong about spam, it's just that the classical view of spam is no longer applicable. When you think of the rise of AI-generated content and SEO-focused design, it is almost impossible to use the internet without being inundated by a deluge of low quality spam. Everywhere we go we're served ads for scam products, have to figure out if someone is an actual person or a bot and so forth.

And the balkanization of the internet is, essentially, what we're seeing.

zyx321 · 6 months ago

Rather than "spam", the usual term I see for genAI content is "slop" (original meaning: a mixture of kitchen waste and leftovers that is barely good enough for the pigs)

zyx321 commented on Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck electrek.co/2025/03/13/te... · Posted by u/croes

mytailorisrich · 6 months ago

Absolutely, people in Europe want nothing to do with the Nazis. That's why they drive Volkswagen.

zyx321 · 6 months ago

As a German: I'll gladly consider a Tesla again after Elon gets the old Nuremberg neck tie like all the other fascists.

zyx321 commented on They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) press.uchicago.edu/Misc/C... · Posted by u/thunderbong

zyx321 · 7 months ago

>Why do so many people think it was a Nazi Salute

Because it was the Hitler Salute. The Salute thar Hitler did. That Salute.

>If it was, why didn't he say so?

He did.

>What would be the point of doing it?

To demonstrate to other Nazis that he is also a Nazi (Virtue Signaling)

zyx321 commented on They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955) press.uchicago.edu/Misc/C... · Posted by u/thunderbong

BytesAndGears · 7 months ago

Your comment comes off as alarmist, but then I realized the content of the article, and think that you may be right.

I still stand by my point that most of our politicians have done this to us, on all sides of the political spectrum. And that we would be better off empathizing with our neighbors rather than any politician.

But the scale of the jump from previous actions to this one is enormous and shouldn’t be dismissed at all.

zyx321 · 7 months ago

It seems alarmist until you consider that Musk is a Nazi. He did the Hitler salute, live on national television. His followers tried to downplay it, but his own answer to the question "Are you a Nazi?" was "I bet you did Nazi that coming!"

People joke that he went from being the Henry Ford of our generation to being the Henry Ford of our generation.

I don't know whether I would say that Trump is a Nazi*, but the fact that he put a Nazi in charge of firing govt employees that don't follow orders does not bode well.

EDIT: * If only because he has never publicly admitted to being a Nazi like Musk has.