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I'm excited for new displays where instead of RGB primaries that can only show a triangular subset of possible colours, we have dynamic primaries that can combine to show almost any colour.

If you add together the sizes of the EU + Chinese markets in nominal dollars it's less than the American one. I used nominal dollars over PPP because that is what determines where multinationals …

Have any of them developed cancer from the space asbestos yet?

Does the BBC even have a paywall that needs to be bypassed so people can pirate news?

If the suicide prevention hotline cost $15/hr in the USA people would freak out! But since it's Japan it's whatever.

Wow, an example of AI engaging in powerseeking behaviour in the wild. This is an AI system given power to improve itself with zero oversight. One of the many Gas Town instances took an ethically quest…

We adopted this in Canada and Facebook/Instagram have banned news since 2023. The idea is that social media companies offer summaries of news that replace reading the article for most people. Tha…

A local newspaper traditionally paid wire services[1] like the Associated Press or Reuters for the majority of their articles. They would only assign journalists for important or local content. The da…

It costs money to pay journalists. You get that money through advertising or subscription revenue. Advertising revenue is gone because everyone has adblock. You couldn't adblock TV or a physical …

It proves you could sit through 4 years of university and not fail out. Since basically anyone can graduate high school nowadays, this proves you put at least some effort into your education without b…

It's truer than ever because of applicant tracking systems that allow HR to automatically filter out people without degrees before they are even seen by the hiring manager. In combination with ov…

Most white collar jobs require a university degree. They don't care what it's in or your GPA or if you understood history/philosophy/English. Just that you have literally any degre…

The best free restaurant bread I've had was at a Brazilian steakhouse, which for those unaware is all-you-can-eat steak. I believe this was due to their financial incentive of having me load up o…

I know. There's a sense of schadenfreude that the Russian hackers are suffering through a big re-org right now.

> In August 2025, three of the most notorious financially-motivated crews on the planet, ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider, and LAPSUS$, formally combined into a coordinated alliance widely tracked as…

The definition is the first sentence of the post: > The chart below compares the forward P/E ratios for the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Information Technology sector. > Tech valuations …

Only about 1-in-10 people have even heard of my company (AMD). Most that have are businesspeople/investors/tech workers. That is slowly changing but it is difficult to explain what segment o…

You can never get into any kind of detail with people from a different career path. Like, "I'm a software engineer" is the most people understand. If I say "I write tests for the G…

I don't understand the American "what do you do?" as first introduction. It's more fun to ask "how do you know 'x'" where 'x' is the host of the party…

It's also an option on NixOS but I haven't managed to get it working unlike Gentoo.

If you're a man that didn't sign up between 18 and 25, you permanently lose student aid in most states along with federal employment eligibility. Some even ban getting a driver's licens…

I think most of the legacy companies that can benefit from Kubernetes don't use it, while most of the companies that are using it are startups doing it for the résumé.

Claude has partnerships with specific universities but not the one I attended. I don't believe there's a general student discount for Claude.

The advice I have as someone who also pushed boundaries is to be more creative next time. The school will hate you no matter what. But this project doesn't appeal to VCs because social networking…

I don't understand why you're downvoted. Many of my 2025 graduate friends are seeing this problem. Unlimited token-based usage of Claude Code is not in the budget for many students and emplo…