JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 3y ago
Good news for you - it does (for some parts). Once you reach the Internet era, you can copy/paste the links within the embedded browser to access them directly. e.g.: https://internet-artifacts.neal.fun/sites/y2k&#
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I mean, it was a better gimmick than the Wii, but it turns out the Wii was good enough. People didn't want to pay a premium price for a motion gimmick. The Wii hit the sweet spot for casual gamers and they didn't care that the fid
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What would he have wanted it for then? Just a toy to mess around with and annoy people as it fails? Or he's burning it down as part of some as-yet-unrevealed long term strategy? I have to think Hanlon's razor applies.
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> A lot use it for boosted visibility forcing their comments to the top even if they're bad. Which is why it's important not to hide it for an end user - it helps you distinguish between organic posts (non-checked) and booste
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Much better link for English speakers, thanks!
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Yeah, it's in this weird space where the underlying technical direction feels correct but it's just too cumbersome in actual practice. The awful text manipulation in posix shells feels wrong on a lot of levels, but when you'r
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> If the device is nonfunctional, and has encryption enabled (e.g. Bitlocker or FileVault) you MUST give them your password if you want it repaired and cannot afford to lose data. In corporate settings key escrow may be used. Windows for
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> I think the daily show format succeeded because of the ironic humor excusing some of the exaggeration and bias. I was a huge fan and even drove to DC for the rally to restore sanity during his heights. I think they also just had an i
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> R&D and the map-making are substantial costs. But that's largely a sunk cost that (in SF anyway) has already been spent, right? It's not like that cost goes up on a per-ride basis. For places where that's already d
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Andreessen seems to embody the final evolution of tech libertarianism as depicted in Adam Curtis's documentary "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" [0]. If you haven't seen the work, I urge you to check it out.
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See also farside [0], which maintains a list of functional instances of alternate frontends, and can redirect links to a working instance automatically. [0] https://sr.ht/~benbusby/farside/
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> Why do you find it suspicious? Not only have the Americans not been able to do it, but neither have the Japanese, the Koreans, the Germans, the Italians, the French, the British, or the Chinese. Since whomever was able to do it would b
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> Plus, being closed off from the non-users might be a marketing thing. A lot of people were hyping it up with invites being seen as very desirable. If they can build a small but healthy community first before opening it up, then maybe
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> Biased messenger, but correct message. CAFE and crash standards are the example to teach "bad knock-on effect". Make strict efficiency requirements, but exempt huge trucks? Everyone makes huge trucks! I agree, Tesla is clea
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Tesla urges US to adopt much tougher fuel efficiency rules(reuters.com)
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This strikes me as a pretty reasonable way to conceive of these things. Google uses the same ML techniques in their products after all - they just haven't exposed the chatbot UI until recently.
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It's not even the case that all of us (programmers) are riding so high on the hog. I've been in tech for decades and make now what would be an entry level salary at a tech giant or VC funded startup. Why? Because I work in the edu
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by JeremyNT 3y ago
There's no reason you can't use puppet/chef/ansible/whatever on pets! The reason that (some) people don't do this is the cost/benefit analysis looks kind of weird. You'll spend a lot of time mucking
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Complaining about this stuff every time it comes up feels kind of tired, but at some point why do they even bother stating anything at all? I wonder if these execs could just use some internal biz-speak chatbot to generate this nonsense.
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The audience of the site is very entrepreneurial and as such is libertarian leaning by and large. Which is to say you shouldn't be terribly surprised that there is a general strain of "don't tread on me" in the discourse
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Right, people are talking as if this is somehow impossible, but the Amazon Fire tablets have been on the market for ages! They're based on AOSP without the google stuff, and even have their own app store. Maybe it's the exception
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Agreed, Stimulus is so simple that there's almost no prerequisite other beyond a basic understanding of HTML and javascript, both things that any "React developer" and even most "backend" web developers should a
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> Yeah, it seems like so many people in here are shilling for AI companies over actual creators, it is absolutely depressing. It's the general sentiment on HN. Remember this forum is based in SV, moving fast, breaking things, tech e
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This has leaked outside of tech too. My spouse works at a large public health nonprofit and has started receiving AI copypasta spam for open positions on LinkedIn. Despite the "cover letters considered harmful" sentiment here in t
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> Best case, if you can get it, would be the buyer and seller meet up without the agents and each has an attorney to help with legal. I did this years ago, and it all went well. There's a substantial opportunity for Redfin here if
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I mean, it tracks metadata and progress centrally. It has clients for various low power appliance type devices as well as web. If you have more than one TV it's nice to use a cheap android TV device set up to connect to jellyfin on eac
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> This is not only about before pandemic remote workers. Once people enjoyed the flexibility they aren't going back. I mean this is true in the scenario where demand for their skills outstrips the supply of available workers with sa
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> I hope Future Motion increases the reliability and safety of the board and keeps refining their product. Maybe the concept of this product could work, but would you really ever trust this company again? You may have been lucky but you
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I've got a Brompton folding bike and it's really a great way to move through a city. It's not as compact as your device, but it gets quite small when folded for storage, and there's a configuration where you fold it down
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> Or do something else! I don't really care. But the world definitely doesn't need another Mastodon instance with the Mozilla logo, any more than it needed a cheap phone with the Mozilla logo or an IoT platform with the Mozilla

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