Firmwarrior

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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Yeah, I'm done with Firefox. The company is completely rotten and dysfunctional, and getting personally attacked by fanboys when I'm unhappy with something they do isn't going to change my mind. If Chrome actually tries to f
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Is there some way to load an entire large project into gpt4? Or do you mean to have it translate one file at a time without context?
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Firefox randomly broke all my extensions and workflows one day in the pursuit of some obscure technical goal, via forced update that I couldn’t roll back. I asked about it, and they banned me from their subreddit, so I deleted that stupid b
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Man, that would be nice World of Warcraft has an in game ui addon modding system built in that ends up suffering from these same problems. It’s so damn frustrating to see addon developers sell out their fans to a super shady spyware compan
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Wow, that's annoying.. I'm surprised a random bank app gets permission to view a list of all the installed apps on the device though
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
The top comment on every thread about every new thing on HackerNews is a half-assed debunking of it
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
FYI: I'm not a doctor and this isn't medical advice, but you can buy an APAP machine over the counter with money in your HSA, then hack around in it to figure out if you have sleep apnea and how bad it is if so
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
yeah, I was just thinking about this today. Doctors seem less like engineers and more like QA testers or PMs trying to fix bugs since there's nobody better suited to the job available. Hopefully medical science will keep advancing rap
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
How about some secondhand hearsay? I've heard this same thing from Lyft drivers. Their customers are all pissed, the drivers ask why, it's because a $30 ride is costing them $100. Meanwhile, the driver still just gets the usual
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Thanks! That doesn't sound too bad at all
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Same thing I do with a body: Code, surf the web, and play video games all day
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Ask HN: Key Man Insurance for Startups?
14 points by Firmwarrior 3y ago|4 comments
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Just learned about that the hard way myself, haha. Some guy got a little traction on Twitter briefly for his room temperature superconductor patent a couple days ago, but when you click his name he's just some crypto nutjob with no sci
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Every article older than a couple weeks talking about superconductors goes on and on about how useful they are, except for the logistics of keeping them cold Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magn
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
It's just bizarre to me that car accidents and heart attacks aren't on anyone's radar at all You turn on the news, and it'll go on and on and on and on and on about which bathroom people can or can't use, but there&
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Man, fucking scientists dude, they need to get their heads on straight If you're one of the 7 people who invented room temperature superconductivity, it's not going to matter who has the Nobel Prize. You can take a part time 7 fi
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Amen We spend so much time and energy worrying about terrorists, fascists, guns, etc when it's heart disease, fentanyl, car crashes, and cancer doing all the killing
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Yeah, this discussion is really weird. An actual air gap would be great for security and a huge pita to work on. This half-assed fake airgap seems like a bunch of security theater that's going to make people's day to day jobs a
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
I thought you could get your tax transcripts from the IRS any time off the website, unless you make over a certain amount of money (to be fair, I think most HackerNews readers do exceed that limit..)
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
I wish I could take this approach.. wife's from a foreign country and wants to watch programming from home and local stuff with subtitles, which is basically completely unsupported on all these fucking DRM services I end up having to p
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
That's a good point. I got some in-game spam mail in World of Warcraft the other day with a few gold coins attached. Even though it was an amount you'd earn in about 2 seconds of playing the game (real world value: 4/100ths
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Seems like at this point you'd come out ahead if you just mailed people 2 dollar bills with the promise of another 2 dollar bill if they install your app
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Man, that sounds friggin awesome I'll go ahead and cyberstalk you, haha.
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
What if you live in a $9000/month 900 square foot condo in the bay area?
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
You can tell that guy's not a parent, haha. It's a shitload of money, but at least in this case I know that I'm getting value out of it. It's very easy to piss away a fortune on badly-made Chinese plastic trash in the
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
Hey, my wife has diabetes, and she's had really awful luck with automated blood sugar monitors. Somehow their readings are always off by insane amounts vs a finger poke Have you done much research into that area? Do you know if there
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
I'm not a tweetin' man myself, but if I were doing business with a company and one of their employees was publicly trash-talking me, I'd probably get pissed and complain to my contacts at that company I wouldn't explicit
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
You can get a translucent replacement chassis for pretty much any game peripheral and put it on yourself, just hit up AliExpress with $3 and a lot of patience
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
you can right click a shorts video, copy the URL, and paste that to get the normal non-crippled YouTube player https://youtu.be/W12w7NkqGCM
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by Firmwarrior 3y ago
EDIT: This is what I'm talking about. Not a productive conversation. You've convinced yourself that every failed game dev deserved failure, and all you have to do to prove it to yourself is make a half-assed complaint about ever

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