HoldOnAMinute

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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
Windows is being deliberately enshittified by rent-seekers. Rent-seeking and Promo-seeking is the only motivation for the people with the power. None of that class wants to make a better product, or make life better or easier for the people
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
Ok, I will call this out more explicitly. For years I had season passes to the park. I don't recall ever receiving an email, flyer, mailer, phone call, text, or fax soliciting one of these brick sales to me. And before someone asks,
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
Honestly, I think you missed the point. It's not about an Etsy brick. It's about it being in a place it could be seen. I am surprised I had to call this out explicitly, given that I even listed the ones at Disneyland as an examp
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
Anyone who visited a Wendy's in the 1980s or 1990s knows that newspaper ads can also make for interesting tabletop decorations
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
I didn't even see a picture of the propeller, if there was one. There was a giant, white, blank space.
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
I read the same books over and over again trying to recapture the feeling of reading them the first time.
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
That is a beautiful TUI!
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Tell HN: Name on a Brick
3 points by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago|8 comments
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
Is this still around? I think this site was from 20 years ago. Domain created 2001-07-18
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
Wasn't this already discovered by Bayes ? Also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
>> you'll always be competing against the best, most well funded, smartest people in the room What if your goal is for them to buy you out?
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
I read that entire page and I could not tell you what Apache Arrow is, or what it does.
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
I cannot figure out what you mean by "BA" in this context
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
It's this one with bees and a wasp https://sources.debian.org/src/xlockmore/4.12-4/modes/swarm....
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
For me it's both - I mourn the loss of my craft ( and my identity ) but I'm also enjoying the "magic". Last night I was thinking about this "xswarm" screen saver I had in 1992 on my DEC Ultrix workstation. I g
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
The trend of "non-functional software" is happening everywhere. See the recent articles about Copilot in Notepad, failing to start because you aren't signed in with your Microsoft Account. We are in a future that nobody want
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
Or it could suggest a less risky route and offer you a discount in exchange for taking that route instead.
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by HoldOnAMinute 8mo ago
Is there any vehicle that uses it's sensors to make a gentle suggestion about following distance? It's probably the best single thing anyone can do to improve safety. It also reduces wear-and-tear on your car, and increases your
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by HoldOnAMinute 9mo ago
Have you tried using GenAI to write documentation? You can literally point it to a folder and say, analyze everything in this folder and write a document about it. And it will do it. It's more thorough than anything a human could do
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by HoldOnAMinute 9mo ago
It's possible to use only a subset of the language. You could write a Java program without classes if you really wanted to. Just put the whole thing in main(). A lot of smart people pick and choose what they want from the language, j
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by HoldOnAMinute 9mo ago
That's true, but stop to consider all the things we ARE doing... * Space Station that lasts 25 years * 3,000 satellites providing Internet Service * Mars rovers that run for 10+ years * Flying helicopters on Mars