JohnFen

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by JohnFen 15d ago
> after X billions of dollars of funding, there's a point where a startup's success is pretty much guaranteed I don't agree that this is how it works. Abundant funding is very far from a guarantee of success. There may be
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by JohnFen 15d ago
The only people who can answer your questions are the mods, so you should ask them. hn@ycombinator.com
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by JohnFen 15d ago
For actual notes, yes, but a paper notepad can't cover all my needs. It's pretty hard to copy/paste to a paper notepad.
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by JohnFen 16d ago
Damn, that site is very hard (and painful) to follow.
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by JohnFen 16d ago
Yes, it's absolutely a cult. I'd even go so far as to say it's a death cult. I don't fear genAI even a little. I am terrified and angered by genAI companies and their most hardcore supporters, though. I think they presen
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by JohnFen 16d ago
The Windows 11 notepad is so bad in so many ways that I reverted to using the older notepad instead.
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by JohnFen 16d ago
I don't. Once there are more than a certain number of comments, there's a diminishing value to additional ones because they start restating what's already been said in other comments.
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by JohnFen 16d ago
> according to researchers who emphasize that their study does not prove the pain medicine is to blame and does not indicate any effect on future fertility. Just wanted to surface this for people who may just read the headline and think
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by JohnFen 16d ago
That's one of the reasons that I won't do streaming. The streaming industry as a whole has brought back every single one of the bad things about cable that they promised to save us from (and introduced a few new bad things on top
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by JohnFen 16d ago
> Everything is probabilities and risk, but can we really accept any risk when it comes to something as important as the future of the human species? That's the part of the Dark Forest that gets me - the game theory of uncertainty.
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by JohnFen 16d ago
I write code every day.
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by JohnFen 16d ago
Yes, I miss them a lot. On-screen keyboards are awful.
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by JohnFen 17d ago
> You see, many for many people, a nice phone, usually an iPhone, is as a luxury good that is used to signal one's class and status. Ah, well, in that case I won't feel bad about thinking a bit less of those people, same as I d
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by JohnFen 17d ago
In my state, doing this is a class A misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of a year in jail and a fine of about $6,000. They probably wouldn't (but certainly could) charge you with it if you just do it once or without warning you, but s
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by JohnFen 17d ago
The first thing to consider when it comes to security is to minimize the attack surface. In light of that, I'd never have a computerized toothbrush to begin with. Adding a connected computer to anything automatically introduces securit
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by JohnFen 17d ago
It's certainly not evil or anything, but speaking personally, I really dislike it a lot and will avoid it.
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by JohnFen 17d ago
> You're not selling nothing, you're selling space, and taking 80% of the donation for it. Yes. This is just gross.
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by JohnFen 17d ago
Don't worry about it too much. That article doesn't link to a study, so we don't know what it actually says or how it was conducted. The article itself doesn't mention if the study tried to distinguish between correlatio
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by JohnFen 17d ago
> How would you specify this regulation? I'd regulate the database side of things. What makes mass surveillance systems such as Flock, Ring, etc., incredibly objectionable isn't really the cameras. It's the databases they
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by JohnFen 17d ago
> At some basic level treat it like HIPPA or medical data HIPPA is an extremely very poor model for this sort of thing. It's just this side of worthless in terms of maintaining medical privacy. It's actually very difficult to
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by JohnFen 17d ago
I had no idea 311 existed. If I'm honest, I had no idea there was any three digit shortcut aside from 911. Although now that I think of it, I may have seen signs near buried utilities saying to call 811 before digging. Interesting.
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by JohnFen 17d ago
But e-bikes have become such a real hazard on bike paths that I bike less and drive more because of them. Sharing paths with e-bike users is too unpleasant and dangerous for many routes I used to take.
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by JohnFen 18d ago
Honestly, that we can't trust tech companies has been very clear for years now.
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by JohnFen 18d ago
It depends on what the writing actually is, of course, but in general -- I have zero interest in hearing what genAI has to say about anything. I'm very interested in what people have to say about things. The "quality" of the
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by JohnFen 19d ago
Honestly, I've never had an interview that I would have called "fun". Every single one of them was a stressful event that I had to suffer my way through. Some more stressful than others, but none more fun than a root canal. E
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by JohnFen 20d ago
This. Just to expand on what you said a bit (since this is aimed at soldering newbies)... The fumes from leaded solder don't themselves contain lead. The iron isn't hot enough to vaporize the metal itself. The fumes are from the f
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by JohnFen 21d ago
Please don't editorialize the titles. Use the one used by the piece you're linking to unless it doesn't fit or is clickbait.
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by JohnFen 23d ago
Hmm. That's a very odd definition. I guess we shall see. > If a less intelligent species, like humans, is able to create a more intelligent species I think we have yet to even show that this might be true, so let's cross that b
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by JohnFen 23d ago
Define "god"
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by JohnFen 23d ago
The texting app I use (Textra) does this, and I use it frequently for exactly this purpose. It's a fantastic feature.

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