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New comment by mustaflex in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

mustaflex — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:30:15 +0000

Not long ago Sam Altman was talking about how they were loosing money even on the paid version of chatgpt. Those incoming prices hikes going to be difficult to sell now.

New comment by mustaflex in "Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards"

mustaflex — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:35:40 +0000

I had the same problem when studying English. I just capped my review/new cards study time to 30 mins per day. Basically if you have too much cards to review your vocabulary hits a "plateau" until your workload becomes manageable again.

New comment by mustaflex in "AirJet makes a MacBook Air perform like a MacBook Pro"

mustaflex — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:25:58 +0000

I don't know how it will pan out in commercial products, but it has been a long time that I've been this excited about hardware, it does feel like real innovation for cooling and especially for mobile devices.

New comment by mustaflex in "Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-In"

mustaflex — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:41:32 +0000

Web components are a bit verbose by themselves but used with a library like lit.js you can build a framework agnostic component library. Angular and Vue support WC out of the box and they have a wrapper for React. I think the only thing missing(or not mature enough right) now is SSR. There are probably libraries other than lit.js that take the pain out of writing WC.

I was skeptical at first but I've seen in production a lit.js/WC component library used with React and Angular successfully in the banking sector and it works surprisingly well.

New comment by mustaflex in "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA"

mustaflex — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:36:34 +0000

I'm fairly uneducated in this area, can you explains in what ways our own DNAs will be used to our detriment by theses drug companies? (if will leave 23andMe and the likes out of the question)

New comment by mustaflex in "Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open"

mustaflex — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:07:11 +0000

still can't order from Belgium, a bummer.

New comment by mustaflex in "Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard"

mustaflex — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:52:07 +0000

I know it is just wishful thinking but I hope Microsoft restore legacy warcraft 3 so I can play the original campaigns and not the hot mess they made with reforged.

New comment by mustaflex in "Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true"

mustaflex — Tue, 16 May 2023 22:24:04 +0000

It would be nice if Framework can share a roadmap for availability outside U.S (I'm from Belgium) for all their products.

New comment by mustaflex in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

mustaflex — Tue, 17 May 2022 17:18:37 +0000

I have the same issue, I have big hands and going from a pixel 2 to a pixel 6 has been a nightmare. I can't use the pixel 6 with a single handle.

New comment by mustaflex in "Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS"

mustaflex — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:59:08 +0000

I went to visit an apartment to rent with a friend. While waiting for the owner my friend was reading the names on the mailbox, and read the "x" out loud said "this person is probably Romanian". I when I was home I had notification if I knew this "x" person. All this time my phone was in my pocket. It is just creepy and I'm going to change my pixel 2 as soon as I can for an Iphone.

New comment by mustaflex in "Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'"

mustaflex — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:33:06 +0000

I think it reached a certain point where even a pen-name is not enough. The author might write something completely safe(under his own name) and some people will still be able to nitpick and led a crusade against him/her.

You can control what you write but not the mob trying to lynch you.

New comment by mustaflex in "How Discord Won"

mustaflex — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:15:53 +0000

This. it feels like entering a room, speaking with like-minded people, getting the information you want and walking out. No one asking anything and trying to reel you back in after.

New comment by mustaflex in "WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10"

mustaflex — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 04:34:17 +0000

i feel the same, It just build up resentment for these forced ads and preinstalled software. I can't even stand to see Skype and oneDrive icons anymore, I stop what I'm doing at the moment and go to uninstall them.

New comment by mustaflex in "Toyota will transform 175-acre Japan site into a ‘prototype city of the future’"

mustaflex — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:36:39 +0000

Not everywhere I assume, my grandfather worked 20 years as a miner in Belgium and his employer left the housing to the city only if they will let the miners stay there for a symbolic some (+-50€). Once the owner died the city immediately tried to change the rent to 500€, but the local miners union fought it and kept the old rent until the union chief died also of old age. There were no one capable of Fighting the legal battle. Basically the city ignored the owner's will to profit from coal miners.

New comment by mustaflex in "Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event"

mustaflex — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:37:53 +0000

Video games are made by creators and there is an artistic side to it. People get emotionally attached to them and it's hard to remove this positive emotion associated with it, but when developers and editors treat it only as a money machine and disregard everything else it is like breaking up with your s.o. and the love is replaced with an irreversible hatred.

I think Blizzard has definitely lost their special place in most of their hardcore fans. The market has become global but so have the conflicts and whether they like it or not, sometimes they will be forced to pick a side.

New comment by mustaflex in "Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox"

mustaflex — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 16:29:59 +0000

I also made the switch but firefox is definitely slower than chrome and sometimes it borders on being unusable on some website where chrome's performance was spotless.

New comment by mustaflex in "Blizzard Says It Wasn't Expecting Fans to Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal"

mustaflex — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:49:47 +0000

Blizzard kept re-uploading the Diablo Immortal trailer multiple time to prevent massive dislikes on youtube. The video from the battle.net app is at its third version now. They should know better, you can't get away with these kind of shady practices, especially with a fan group that pay attention at what you do.

New comment by mustaflex in "Why I’m done with Chrome"

mustaflex — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:34:21 +0000

After they dropped inbox, I'm actively trying to leave google products but it is definitely hard. The band-aid is fused with the skin. It also made me realize that tying oneself to a single product/company is definitely to avoid.

New comment by mustaflex in "Who Were the Mamluks?"

mustaflex — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:56:04 +0000

if I remember correctly one of the first of the Mamluk kings was named "bay pars" meaning rich leopard in turkish.

New comment by mustaflex in "Who Were the Mamluks?"

mustaflex — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:52:03 +0000

Fun fact: the mamluks where prohibited by their masters to marry arabs to not "lessen" their warrior genes