Gracia
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the internet is no longer a place to explore. it is literally just five giant apps consisting entirely of screenshots of text from the other four apps.
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when you click download on a movie and a 1.2MB .exe file appears in the bottom left cornerš„²
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when you click download on a movie and a 1.2MB .exe file appears in the bottom left cornerš„²
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Open any app: > Screenshot of a tweet > Screenshot of that screenshot on Insta > TikTok reacting to the screenshot > YouTube Short explaining why the screenshot problematic > Google search just sends you back to one of the above Infinite recursion. zero new ideas.
the internet is no longer a place to explore. it is literally just five giant apps consisting entirely of screenshots of text from the other four apps.
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the very first digit is the major Industry Identifier (MII). It tells you the broad category of the issuer: 1 & 2: Airlines 3: Travel and Entertainment (Amex, Diners Club) 4 & 5: Banking and Financial (Visa, Mastercard) 6: Merchandising and Banking (Discover)
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your browser isn't calling the bank, itās just running a checksum. If the numbers donāt pass this Mod 10 math, the card literally cannot exist.
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As a developer, have you ever wondered: You type a 16ādigit card number and the form instantly says āInvalid card numberā. There are billions of possible numbers. How the hell is that check that fast?
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Indie dev Cakez77 started crying on stream. His game just made $250,000. 4 years working on it. Most people wouldāve quit after year one. Sometimes the overnight success is just someone who refused to stop. https://t.co/Mj5LZC21PW
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Indie devs are carrying the gaming industry right now. In a new game called Fresco, you don't just explore Ancient Egyptian ruins, you become the wall art. > Play as a 3D explorer OR the 2D living hieroglyphs > Switch between a 3D archaeologist and living 2D art > Puzzles
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Interviewer: 10 million players are in a live gaming tournament. Their scores are changing constantly, multiple times a second. How do you display a 100% accurate, real-time global leaderboard without destroying your database with constant sorting?
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web devs are fighting over which AI wrapper to build next while the guys writing C++ and managing memory allocation for the GPUs are quietly buying islands.
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PokƩmon GO players unknowingly helped build a $30 billion AI map of the world.
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In C and C++, the order you write your variables can silently bloat your software's size. A struct with a char, then an int, then another char takes up more physical RAM than an int followed by two chars. The compiler secretly injects invisible, wasted padding bytes just to keep
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The scariest part about AI isnāt that it might replace humans. Itās that humans might start competing with AI on speed.
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$1 trillion by 2027 lol Jensen Huang looked at the hype chart and said: āIāll take the whole thing.ā Meanwhile, half the GPUs are sold out to startups whose entire business model is: We added AI to the pitch deck. At this point, Nvidia isnāt selling chips; theyāre selling
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just announced that he sees at least $1 trillion in revenue by 2027. "I'm certain the computing domain will be much higher than ever"
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OpenAI writes no original words Midjourney paints no original art Sora shoots no physical video GitHub Copilot invents no new code Nvidia builds no consumer apps And you have no competitive moat > Welcome to the automation economy
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life of the average local AI enthusiast: > buy a $3,000 GPU so you can run open-source models privately > the fan noise sounds like a Boeing 747 taking off in your bedroom > your apartment's winter heating bill drops to zero > you exclusively use it to make low-resolution
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