Mikelius

joined 2 years ago

Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ in c/technology

[–] Mikelius 32 points 1 month ago (7 children)

For sure, it seems like 90% of ai startups are nothing more than front end wrappers for a gpt instance.

Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave in c/technology

[–] Mikelius 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s the culmination of “next quarter is someone else’s problem”.

Trump is definitely not weird. Weird guys are weird. Tim Walz is weird because weird guys are weird. Weird is a thing weird people are and J.D. is not weird. Weird weird weird. in c/political_weirdos

[–] Mikelius 3 points 3 months ago

Backpfeifengesicht Is my favorite

A life fully lived in c/[email protected]

[–] Mikelius 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could be his cousin the king of england…

The Hyundai N Vision 74 Is Set For Production in c/cars

[–] Mikelius 1 points 3 months ago

The Ioniq 5 N is no joke.

california in c/lemmyshitpost

[–] Mikelius 24 points 4 months ago

Cyberpunk takes place in Night City in California and has a latino suburb/district called Samto Domingo

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis in c/news

[–] Mikelius 83 points 4 months ago (13 children)

We were due for our yearly billionaire offering to Poseidon.

Donald Trump has no idea what has hit him, and it’s a joy to watch in c/politics

[–] Mikelius 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or, you know, this? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna141905

More Americans approve of Walz as VP pick compared to Vance: POLL in c/politics

[–] Mikelius 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But they can’t flip that narrative, it’s anathema to them. Between the “silent majority” bullshit and their fake idealized past (women and minorities knew their place, queer folks would get the queer beaten out of them) they cling to the idea that their view is correct and how things should be.

Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K in c/technology

[–] Mikelius 17 points 4 months ago

Stackoverflow is IP blocked, get fucked

Putin appoints ex-bodyguard to oversee defend Kursk in c/world

[–] Mikelius 24 points 4 months ago

Jesus Christ, I knew the Russian army was in a bad state, but not THAT bad a state. That’s some Himmler Volksturm shit right there.

TIL the Allies fielded thousands of tanks by the end of World War I, a major technological breakthrough. The Germans deployed just 18. in c/til

[–] Mikelius 3 points 4 months ago

Yes, in 1916 which is fucking crazy to think about because the french army literally had napoleonic era style cuirassiers in 1914.