Me: okay, crypto is really dead this time
Crypto: what is dead may never die
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If Millie Bobby Brown ever grows to 1000 times her size, she just becomes Bobby Brown.
@Seltsam@mastodon.la @conradhackett can't be just that. Look at the Nordic countries. Earnings compared to cost of living, maybe.
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I feel like this is true for lots of kinds of conversations and not just tech interviews.
People are correctly pointing out that, if you dig into the logic of basically anything, it falls apart, but that's also generally true of actual humans, even experts.
Sure, https://twitter.com/YossiKreinin/status/1599114477022064640 is ridiculous, but have you tried asking an expert coach on almost any topic why you should do X? I think the level of reasoning is fairly similar to what Yossi observes ChatGPT doing.
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US: 62% of adults accept at least one of the following New Age beliefs: reincarnation, astrology, psychics, and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects like mountains or trees
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/01/new-age-beliefs-common-among-both-religious-and-nonreligious-americans/ #PewResearch
@securmnt @evacide of course it takes less than half. Not all those people were there to keep the site running. Most devs are going to be on product teams, carefully rolling out new features.
With a skeleton crew of people, you can keep the lights on, but doing any sort of complex new features dev is going to be fraught and there's going to be a lot of firefighting.
@paulkva@mastodon.social If I were Nikon, say 10 years ago, my first priority would have been getting first class support for this at the mobile OS level. And if I were Android or iOS, I would have insisted on a vendor-independent standard. Why did this never happen? We still don't have this 😔
@coreyspowell in other words, Cthulu stirs
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Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jslbn9/us_elevation_tiles_oc/
Qoto new weekly signups appears to have peaked on Nov 11 at 4838 for that days trailing 7 days: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109325078038092501
Today, it was only 129: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109448233595238192
That's the lowest since Oct 29, when daily signups started increasing: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109448233595238192
Not sure how this compares to the trend in other instances. I blindly speculate that other servers haven't seen the same decline and the conflict between instance operators is impacting Qoto. Which is unfortunate, because from my tiny vantage point, Qoto seems well run, and I don't see its policy of very limited blocking of other instances having negative consequences.
Nonetheless, I want to have one Fediverse presence and want to be able to interact with people on Qoto and on other instances that suspend Qoto, so I may have to migrate.
@paulkva@mastodon.social Trying and failing miserably to compete with phones is the problem. Just keep focusing on optics and the handful of things a dedicated camera is superior for, and for pete's sake, figure out how to *harness* the UX of the phone.
The latter part to me 100% is "figure out how to push the pictures to the phone with zero friction".
Implicitly, this means I don't want your Canon/Nikon/Sony/Fuji app. No camera manufacturer apps!
@davidaugust @katestarbird Given lack of a central verification mechanism, to me, it seems like businesses should run their own instances so that their people have that stamp of authenticity their domain provides. There's probably a lot of money to be made consulting on this.
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There is an effort underway to reframe work that attempts to address harmful disinformation — even work specifically aimed at mitigating malign foreign disinformation — as "censorship". If we accept that frame, we will enable the dismantling of the very nascent defenses that we've built over the past ~6 years, as our society has begun to realize the vulnerabilities that emerge from the intersection of technology, human behavior, and influence operations.
@mmasnick I should and probably will eventually finish reading the thread, but it's just so disingenuous.
I don't care to be dragged down a rabbit hole of who's biased. The simple fact is *it's not any media platform's obligation to abet your attempted October Surprise*. It's just not.
IMO, they made the right decision. Whether or not Hunter Biden did anything wrong, it's a story of miniscule importance if you have any objective sense of perspective whatsoever.
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With #Twitter going to hell, I've seen many posts suggesting it's immoral to continue to visit. That doesn't sit right with me.
A lot of the very people who are made most vulnerable by the changes are the ones who needed that community the most, and may not have built the same supports elsewhere in such a short period of time.
I'm all for fighting back strong against the negative forces in the world, but we should hold on to the compassion and understanding that makes us better than that.
"Smartphones wipe out 97% of market"
It blows my mind that camera makers failed to capitalize on the smartphone. If I take a picture on my nice camera, it should automatically appear in my phone's gallery--zero gap in UX from the phone's camera. They should have stopped at nothing to achieve this.
After all these years, it's still so difficult to figure out "what specific thing is making my computer run slow right now".
DotCom boom -> network infra investment -> bust -> dark fiber : Google :: crypto boom -> miner hardware investment -> bust -> dark GPUs : ???
Skynet?
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