freetonik

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Ex staff software engineer IQM Quantum Computers (Finland/Germany).

Email: hello at rakhim.org

Building https://minifeed.net/ and https://exotext.com/

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Comment · 9 days ago
>In my native language, the word racism is used for discrimination or prejudice against anything foreign (nation, race, language, ...).

Curious which language is that, and if "racism" is an accurate translation to English. What you describe sounds more like xenophobia.

Comment · 10 days ago
A drunk violent guy with a shotgun is a joke but a threat nonetheless. Don't see a paradox here.
Comment · 29 days ago
YouTube sure is doing its part to make YouTube less and less appealing.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sure but the core point of commercial LLM’s pitch is tremendous speed up in development. It’s been speeding up for years now, yet like the commenter above I too cannot notice any improvements as an end user.
Comment · 2 months ago
>The Unibook’s keyboard is pretty good, and its trackpad is pretty bad.

Just like 98% of non-Apple laptops. Amazing how after all these years nobody could replicate the feel of macbook's trackpads.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
>...until the engine is turned off again

Modern electric Volkswagens (and some other brands) have this amazingly awful feature where lifting your ass off the driver's seat turns off the "ignition". The car just shuts off immediately, AC turns off, CarPlay disconnects, those driver settings reset. Even if I sit back one second later.

Comment · 3 months ago
In older VW Polos (at least) it was easy to disable that feature with two clicks on a physical button located on the steering wheel. Not so on the ID.3, and other newer Volkswagens, unfortunately.
Comment · 3 months ago
Don’t forget the “New 3DS”.
Comment · 3 months ago
Why does it matter how humans _felt_?
Comment · 3 months ago
Well, they had a point, and we've got pretty close to that outcome. It didn't happen, thus today we're able to discuss the fact that it didn't happen.
Comment · 4 months ago
There are almost no new physical releases on PC, sadly. I’ve been collecting older games on CD and DVD.
Comment · 4 months ago
Anyone who lived in USSR, or otherwise familiar with the way soviet authorities operate, would know not to trust any official data from USSR. I personally treat any statistics and data from the soviet government to be unreliable to the degree of meaninglessness.

So, in my eyes, there is no info available about the true health consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe in Ukraine and Belarus.

Comment · 4 months ago
Stock Android on a Pixel 7 felt the same way to me.
Comment · 4 months ago
I could never get rid of the feeling that Material design looks like some stylesheets failed to load. It feels unfinished, raw, or temporary.

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