olafurp

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all companies need to grow. Some do perfectly fine by just maintaining their current output like a owner operated single person plumbing company.

  Another example can be Walmart, they don’t need to grow but investors prefer growth so it becomes a focus.

  There are some companies that need absolutely to grow to survive. This is seen a lot in tech where in order for the business model to make sense they would need some big quantity of users.

  Let’s say you got seeded 10M and managed to get to a minimal product with 10k users that get you $2 in revenue monthly but your cost are around 50k monthly. It means you’re making a loss but with 100k users you’d make a profit. To get to 100k you need more investment but to justify that investment being sound you need show growth.

  So in general if being bigger gets you economies of scale then making a loss early can get you the investor money you need to survive. So to survive as a business you need to grow.

  Those are two ends of a spectrum and everything in between exists as well. So quick answer would be “Companies don’t always need to grow but some really do because their business model only works at a different scale”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would personally use Linux mint but yeah, good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That Uni is just one exploited vulnerability away from a botnet. Getting hands on a PC physically could get you could use Spectre/Meltdown, get the admin pass and mine bitcoin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember: You are loved.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like thinking about spinosaurus as a chonker Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then it all made sense in the end of course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More commonly known as Pussius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon becomes Snake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you including when you rephrase the question but the content is essentially the same?

  ^ This is how I do it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My Spanish speaking friends have always said that my Spanish gets much better when I’m a bit more than tipsy. Finally somebody confirms this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s argue “what in heavy” before we go there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on whether or not you count in air resistance. I was just making a shitpost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who could have predicted this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory “windows updates can break Linux on dual boot” comment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next phone I get I’ll get fairphone and check the market for an alternative OS at that time. This might be the push that the Linux phone community needs to make it proper and good.

  We currently need a KDE phone that they sell where I can buy a KDE phone and support them that way.

  The pieces are coming together for Linux notably:

  • SPA support instead of apps.
  • Waydroid
  • Core components such as calling, sim card actions, recording, speakers can be provided by fairphone via drivers.

  I’m getting pretty sick of Google and other corpos locking down Android so fuck them, third best phone OS will have to do and I’ll do banking in the mobile browser page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess the cup is around 12 nuts high and 5 nuts in diameter at the center.

  Let’s assume it’s a cylinder to get the volume (2/5)^2 * pi * 12 as the volume or around 236 nuts.

  The packing density of a sphere is 74% but the edges do play a factor so nudge it down by a bit to get 70%

  So I’m going to guess 165 nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Out of 10. Be specific!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will-stab-my-eye-out-to-never-see-it-again/10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s even the appeal of Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tmux can make you feel all the feelings simultaneously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Couple of nuances with this that are not fully accounted for.

  1. Farting in a vacuum will make the scale go down because the fart has a non-zero mass.
  2. Direction of fart and speed of exiting will also affect the scale when farting against a base not connected to the scale such as a platform.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like somebody is tooting their own horn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's on your blood!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Known also as PFAS or forever chemicals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arch btw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent distro, would be careful about going to distros without systemd for desktop setup. Alpine is absolute banging for server containers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s tricky to use in programming though for non neural network math, I can see it used in video compression and decompression or some very specialised video game math.

  Video game AI could be a big one though where difficulty would be AI based instead of just stat modifiers.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These types of efforts might save money on health care costs long term

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, feels like they asked like 30 people total

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say it gurl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two in the pinky one in the stinky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you are a snack :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a land mammal reading this you’re a land based fish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People don't know what they are voting for⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like an article that starts with a heading “What is flossing?”

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