ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 7mo ago
> What is the probability of those things failing during the time you have the MacBook? and > ... you can pay them $50-150/year (depending on model) to take that risk. These things are related, Apple knows what the failure rate
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by ChuckMcM 7mo ago
> Framework Laptop is more expensive than a Macbook Air with all around worse hardware. Is it though? I'd agree the hardware is less capable but if your Macbook anything is really just one 'top case' repair away from being
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by ChuckMcM 7mo ago
I think the article downplays the element that the attack probably achieved its goal which was not to actually hit something at Diego Garcia, but to show that thing 2500 miles from Iran are potentially targetable by Iran. That starts conver
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by ChuckMcM 7mo ago
I've been hearing similar things from a lot of different directions. The underlying issue about "you cannot replace time" is one that is good to internalize early. A number of people I know who "missed" their kids g
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by ChuckMcM 8mo ago
I think Steve was correct in that Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000 was functional but it wasn't particularly elegant. But the part I think Steve missed was that elegance may get the "ohhs and ahhs" but functio
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by ChuckMcM 8mo ago
Because you want to know what time it is when the power is out?
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by ChuckMcM 8mo ago
Like LED headlights :-). It would kind of be a concern except that geometry in in your favor. The angle down they would have to shine + the size related to speed would result in the lasers pretty much always hitting the street except perhap
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by ChuckMcM 8mo ago
Cool. But I'm thinking this box floats in front of your car on the road in real time. See you're driving and ahead of you on the road is this box. At night it might interfere with your night vision, might have to workshop that a b
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by ChuckMcM 8mo ago
See for a truck it could say "DEATH ZONE KEEP CLEAR" which would be accurate. Given that it's projected it could rotate through various languages too.
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by ChuckMcM 8mo ago
Pretty awesome. The only thing I would change is to put a USB battery between the usb wall power and the D1 mini. That way for power outages of < a couple of days or so you're clock will be fine.
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by ChuckMcM 8mo ago
Okay I'm thinking of a very Shenzen kind of gizmo for your car that projects a bright red laser "keep out" box on the road in front of your car which is adjusted in size for your current speed.
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by ChuckMcM 8mo ago
I really reasonate with this post, I too appreciate "Good Code"(tm). In a discussion on another forum I had a person tell me that "Reading the code that coding agents produce is like reading the intermediate code that compile
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
I love this thread so much.
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
Stocks are fine for diversification, just stocks that have a different risk factors. So back in the 90's I had been working at Sun then did a couple of startups, and all of my 'investment' savings (which I started with stoc
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
What tomuchtodo said. When I left Sun in 1995 I had 8,000 shares, which in 1998 would have paid off my house, and when I sold them when Oracle bought Sun after a reverse 3:1 split, the total would not even buy a new car. Can be a painful le
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
Yup, I've been here before. Back in 1995 we called it "The Internet." :-) Not to be snarky here, as we know the Internet has, in fact, revolutionized a lot of things and generated a lot of wealth. But in 1995, it was "a
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
I expect this is the crux of the problem. There aren't any "AI" products that have enough value. Compare to their Office suite, which had 100 - 150 engineers working on it, every business paid big $$ for every employee usin
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
I'm guessing you're asking this because you have a picture of a 'server' as a thing in a large rack? Nearly every tech business has a bunch of machines, everything from an old desk top to last year's laptop, which h
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
Agreed its a stretch, my experience comes from Google when I worked there and they set up a Chinese office and they were very carefully trying to avoid anything on premises that could searched/exploited. It was a huge effort, one that
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
Sadly the media calls the lawful use of a warrant a 'raid' but that's another issue. The warrant will have detailed what it is they are looking for, French warrants (and legal system!) are quite a bit different than the US bu
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
I'm curious about why they delisted it. When running operations for Blekko (another search engine that would back fill with Yahoo/Bing results when we didn't get a lot of hits in our own index). Of course people like DDG co
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
Wecome to HN
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by ChuckMcM 9mo ago
Yeah, the user 'o4c' appears to be a bot that reposts things that have been previously popular.
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by ChuckMcM 10mo ago
That's a solid set of lessons. My favorite is that Software doesn't advocate for you, people do.
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by ChuckMcM 10mo ago
Discussion systems all the way down :-). This is a fair assessment of the github issues system. I suspect that because git(1) can be a change control system for anything there is never any hope of making an effective issue tracker for a
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by ChuckMcM 10mo ago
Yup. Pretty much everything seems better when you're being nostalgic. And that is singularly due to the human tendency to forget the bad parts and remember only the good ones (it's a solid self care strategy). I had fond memorie
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by ChuckMcM 10mo ago
Without search ad revenue Google is dead.
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by ChuckMcM 10mo ago
When Blekko was acquired by IBM in 2015 we had an "Integration Executive" assigned to us who was responsible for all the 'detail work' of the integration (if you can imagine a project manager for an integration that woul
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by ChuckMcM 10mo ago
I live in California, and they can. The key there is that is isn't "Unrelated to your work" it is "Unrelated to the work of the company." Also phrased as "The company's business." Google literally
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by ChuckMcM 10mo ago
This is definitely a sound strategy, you have to be careful about little tech too. Personally I managed to work at several "big tech" companies that were okay with me doing side work for profit (both consulting and design/dev

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