jarfil

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

Appearances, preconceptions, stereotypes... are shortcuts used to deal with complex issues. Since VCs don't really care about 90% of the startups, they only need to weed out the worst ideas, in the quickest way possible.

Story time: When I was 20, I had some job interviews lined up, so a family friend helped me pick a decent looking suit and robe that weren't too expensive. Got offered 3 different jobs in a single week 🤷

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

As long as you can re-disable it after playing the game...

I know, all background processes get impacted during gameplay, but that was the case already. The popup can explain the tradeoff, and who's to blame (game dev).

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The new kernel.split_lock_mitigate knob, if set to zero, will disable the penalization of processes using split locking (while retaining the warning sent to the system log)

Sounds to me like it's fixed. WINE could follow dmesg, and show a popup with recommendations when it detects one of its processes is getting throttled.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There are two sides to that story.

There is not enough gold to match the increases in both population and productivity of the last 70 years, and you don't want just a handful of people holding gold that spikes in value through the roof.

Smart people invest in companies that pay dividends. Speculators invest in... whatever, tulip bulbs.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago

Q: What do you call a business that destroys itself?
A: Failed business model.

Sometimes, the only way to learn that, is through pain.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Get VC funding... like this:

Schiffmann posits himself as older now, wiser, more experienced than he was when he first debuted the Friend necklace. (He is 22.) He has grown out his hair and cultivated a beard

A wise 22 year old with a beard... 😮‍💨

The VCs are clueless, they jump on a bunch of "feels good" and "disruptive young blood" stuff, hoping that maybe 1 in 10 will not fall and burn.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 18 points 1 week ago (9 children)

There is a reason why people keep asking "How do you spell it?" when being told a name in English. The counterpart is, "How do you pronounce it?".

Even with "long a", I still can't tell how would you want to pronounce "Rach". I can come up with 4 different pronounciations right now: "Ra-ah-ch", "Ra-ah", "Ra-sh", "Ra-kh".

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

Try an RP chatbot.

They are far from perfect, but also far from the "helpful assistant" sycophants.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not about capitalism:

  • 1 human can talk to 1 human
  • 1 chatbot can talk to 8 billion humans

Human therapy will be more expensive, for as long as we value human time more than machine time.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this point, why not just root it? There are public exploits for Android 6 vulnerabilities, it's not like you'd lose any security.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't like Fortnite? Think Roblox is bad? ...and all the remaining points?

Wait until you see the future of gaming, coming to Xbox:

Muse, a Generative AI Model for Gameplay Ideation

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/02/19/muse-ai-xbox-empowering-creators-and-players/

 

Just got schooled by an AI.

According to Wiktionary:

(UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/

...there are indeed only two /ɹ/ in strawberry.

So much for dissing on AIs for not being able to count.

 

What they were offering – through a programme titled Safe Place for Science – was a sort of “scientific asylum”, offering three years of funding at their facility for about 20 researchers.

On Thursday the university said it had received 298 applications in a month, of which 242 were deemed eligible. The applicants hailed from institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Nasa, Columbia, Yale and Stanford, it said in a statement.

Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging, the university’s president, Eric Berton, wrote in the French newspaper Libération.

 

The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.

The cable was sent out to embassies around the world under Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name. The instructions also were released in a department-wide notice.

The cable encourages State Department employees to report on one another through a tip form that can be anonymous. “Reports should be as detailed as possible, including names, dates, locations (e.g. post or domestic office where the incident occurred,” the cable reads.

“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale'-esque,” said one State Department official, who was granted anonymity because the individual was not allowed to speak openly about internal department affairs.

 

a number of popular extensions that enable things like dark mode and adblocking in Google’s browser have been hijacked by hackers, putting 3.2 million Chrome users at risk.

While all of the extensions listed below have since been removed from the Chrome Web Store, you will still need to manually delete them if they’re currently installed in your browser

 

A Republican group is hoping to rally support to change the Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to seek a third term.

The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1951 following the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected to four terms between 1933 and 1945. The two-term limit for presidents was introduced by Congress to prevent potential abuses of power.

 

The official White House social media accounts on X, Instagram and Facebook soon quoted his post, all sharing a fake magazine cover depicting an illustration of Trump smiling in a suit — and wearing a bejeweled golden crown.

 

"Press with both hands"

...just when you thought this timeline couldn't get much weirder.

 

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in discussions with Phoenix-based Willscot about leasing the company’s mobile structures to house undocumented detainees, the people said. Willscot’s products are commonly used as construction-site storage and office space.

 

Brace for impact.

 

Israeli troops and tanks launched a brief ground raid into northern Gaza overnight into Thursday, the military said, striking several militant targets in order to “prepare the battlefield” ahead of a widely expected ground invasion

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