bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

That's Symbian, though. Nokia managed to launch a grand total of two or three Maemo/MeeGo phones (N900, N9, maybe another one I forget) before Elop killed it in the crib. It would have been one thing if the Burning Platform meno had been about S60, but it wasn't.

Being basically just a Qt-based DE on a pretty standard RPM-based Linux distro (much much more so than Android, even at the time) Meego had a low barrier to entry into application development and a rather stable and mature API to work with.

Then again, if you "don’t think the company had the mentality to offer that" I guess you're right in the sense that the alleged trojan horse CEO killed the platform before it had the chance to gain any traction.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I read the source. It was pretty funny, but I'm not installing a massive statistical word regurgitator program just to run this. I don't want to be too mean about an anticapitalist piece of art but I don't think posting an LLM-based game here is going to net you a hugely positive reception.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 4 weeks ago

And even if Joseph Weizenbaum did actually say, verbatim: “if the problem hasn’t been solved in twenty years, it is time to give up”, that's not the same as asking for the precise time when “machines will reach human-level intelligence”.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago

So far away we wait for the AGI
For the billions all wasted and gone
We feel the pain of compute time lost in few thousand days
Through the sneering and the flames we carry on

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Imagining a guy who asks me a dumb question so I can let everyone know how I'd mock them with a joke answer.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

The Burning Platform debacle was huge where I live and I remember it quite well.

It seems that Microsoft was planning on coasting on brand recognition, while the public correctly noticed the lack of any real synergy between Windows Phone and Microsoft's desktop computer software. Nokia's hardware was indeed top notch, but WP lacked a killer app, or indeed most apps at all. It missed the train and developers ignored it in favor of iOS and Android.

I doubt MeeGo would have managed to recapture the dominance Nokia had on the pre-iPhone market, but at least nerds like me would have vastly preferred it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago

That sentence is somewhere between exactly 420.69 and 1,337.00 millialtmans of cringe.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It also doesn't bode well for the hope of it dying down anytime soon.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Oo that might be even better from artistic standpoint!

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm not even surprised. It's the kids who are wrong etc.

If it's not too rude to ask, @dgerard, can you edit the verb "photoshop" to start with a lowercase p to make it just a tiny bit more genericized?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

I watched most of the first season of Silicon Valley with a friend who recommended it to me. I liked it. Every single character with a speaking role so far (with the possible exception of an exotic dancer and a graffiti artist) deserves death by nuclear weaponry. SFBA delenda est.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You think that's impressive? It guessed my dad's name on almost first try.

Signed, Rumpelstiltskin Jr.

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