ChrisLTD

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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
The filibuster guarantees minority rule, in the Senate.
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What’s it like to use a $300 Windows laptop for a day?(theverge.com)
5 points by ChrisLTD 4y ago|2 comments
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
I have it set to immediate, and I'm using it on a M1 Pro machine :-D
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Yep, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Shortcat is my favorite of these sorts of apps. I just wish there was a way to make all of them faster. The delay between requesting the link hints and then actually displaying on screen is painful enough that I haven’t been able to incorpo
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Parker | https://www.getparker.com | YC W19 | Frontend & Backend Engineers | New York City | Onsite Parker's mission is to increase the number of financially independent people by building powerful tools to help indepen
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Do you think this is because OpenAI doesn't have enough funding?
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
ChatGPT isn't going to run out of money if Microsoft is backing it
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Is there a URL we can visit to use Bard?
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
What if self-reflection, agency, or abstract thought aren’t required for intelligence?
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Well said. It almost makes me want to leave social media.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
It'd be great if Apple would throw their weight behind this effort.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that software today isn't 1,000s of times better than software in the 1990s, but it certainly uses 1,000s of times the resources.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Multiple cursors wont do what the parent comment is talking about without a lot more work.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Absolutely bizarre. USB 2 is from 2000, while USB 3 is from 2008.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
What goes up... > It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong. As it turns out, Canalys reports that PC shipments grew 15% year over year in 2021 and w
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When Facebook Broke My Brain(nytimes.com)
1 points by ChrisLTD 4y ago|0 comments
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
> The web was designed to publish documents, it was never intended to build applications. But the web has been evolving in that direction with the help of standards bodies and browser vendors since at least the late 1990s.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Good point. Windows, Linux, and the web don’t suffer the kind of software churn we see on Apple platforms.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
The thing that separates good UI designers from the bad are superior hunches and personal preferences.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Why should the Supreme Court decide if a government agency has assumed power not granted to it by Congress? Congress still exists, and Congress can always pass a law kneecapping the agency in question.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Git is already decentralized, and you can push your code to any of the dozens of competitors easily. I often keep important projects on both Bitbucket and GitHub.
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
I’ve seen opinion pieces blame the surge in road deaths on an increase in anti-social behavior because of the pandemic. People were laid off, avoiding family & friends, and stuck inside a lot. All things that aren’t good for mental heal
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by ChrisLTD 4y ago
Boom & bust cycles seem to be a built in “feature” of market economies. The architects are not trying to create booms and busts per se, but they are trying to manage them so they aren’t as devastating as 1929.
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by ChrisLTD 5y ago
We get these posts every 60 days like clockwork.
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by ChrisLTD 5y ago
It is not typical. The average commute is closer to half an hour.
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by ChrisLTD 5y ago
You can find dignity in all kinds of work. You may not want to be a doorman, but someone else might love it.
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by ChrisLTD 5y ago
But why can’t they profit on building housing in an area with low supply and high housing prices? NIMBY laws?
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by ChrisLTD 5y ago
As long as you’re not using your QA team as an excuse to avoid writing automated tests, I don’t see why having a QA team would be an anti-pattern.
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by ChrisLTD 5y ago
Nice of you to practice what you preach in this comment.

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