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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Encrypted information, on the other hand, can theoretically be “owned” if it’s implemented correctly. No police, no court or law, no government, nothing can take your encrypted digital property from you. Exactly! You can always access
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Frankly Elm has more of a problem with negative fanboying: people who have decided it’s not for them yet have to constantly show up to neener neener every time Elm appears on HN instead of just moving on. Don’t forget those of us who w
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Barracuda is providing replacement hardware at no cost. This critical piece of information is buried halfway down the article: > In a statement, Barracuda said it will be providing the replacement product to impacted customers at no cost
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> It's as if there are two worlds in the US. The US is very far from a monoculture. Culture and personal values vary greatly from one family to the next, even within the same region. I worked for a company with a lot of non-US offic
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> This is all a ridiculous self-delusion that Reddit management has engaged in that the platform is really the “value add”. It’s not. Reddit has become the shorthand for… I don’t understand how people can argue that Reddit is somehow not
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Some of the serious technical discussion subreddits I use for technical discussions won’t allow anyone with new accounts or a low amount of karma to participate. If you’re trying to have a technical discussion, you’d be locked out.
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Given that data collection companies would have long since archived your comments into their data stores, deleting all of your comments after a few years is likely only harming everyone else trying to read old threads through the website (r
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
You don’t think you benefit from medical research?
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> So basically the SEC failed to protect people from that ponzi scammer boy SBF was FTX was headquartered in the Bahamas for a reason. The SEC doesn't have jurisdiction over the Bahamas. It also takes time to build a case, which is
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
The maintainers list is huge and many of them contribute sporadically. It’s not a good match for full-time employment at all. Hiring people as employees also completely changes the dynamic to something much more complex. Would this change r
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
The compute capacity of these nVidia parts is significantly higher than that of an M2 Ultra. It’s not just about memory capacity. The memory bandwidth of the nVidia GPUs is also significantly higher than the M2 parts. The Apple silicone par
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Compared to the price of Two very good nvidia cards and the PC to host it I think the price is reasonable Apple’s marketing about how they compare to nVidia GPUs has been exaggerated, to put it lightly. A pair of high end nVidia GPUs w
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
This one is easily explained by the fact that Mastodon is young and people who migrated are the most active social media users.
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
I’ve had the opposite experience in recent years: Excess management and limited engineers leads to a desire to do deals, make contracts, and buy external solutions for everything. In many cases the integration costs are assumed to be $0 and
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> so I don't see how the time needed to navigate this issue from a management level is any different for a digital nomad vs anybody else? The point is that they’re not the same in practice. Hypothetically, a perfect digital nomad wo
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> my question would simply be: Are they getting the work you expect done finished in a timely manner (comparable to others on your team)? If so, regardless of any other point, what is the problem? No, they are not getting comparable work
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Learning the difficulties of self-hosting is a rite of passage for tech minded people. It seems nearly everyone goes through a “How hard can it be?” phase where self-hosting seems like it will be a trivial way to save a lot of money. Then y
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
I have a hard time believing that a handful of digital nomads are responsible for rent increases and the other changes mentioned in the article. In the US, you can find people from nearly every state who believe that Californians are respon
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
This is from a professional embedded systems engineer who is presumably only giving these to prospective clients because, obviously, they’re more expensive than regular business cards. If you can’t bring yourself to connect a USB device fro
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
One of my better typos, to be honest. Thanks for catching. I edited it out.
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34686029 This saga has been going on for a long, long time. At one point she was even caught going to a casino to gamble: https://arstechnica.com/sci
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Did you miss the part where having all of that land and money didn’t let him get his way? > In the video, Bakken and Miller tell Grende, who had called to report the four hunters were trespassing by “corner crossing,” they would not cite
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Be careful with anything related to “chronic Lyme”. While it is true that Lyme disease can trigger long-term symptoms, Lyme has also become a catch-all haven for pseudoscience practitioners and quackery. It has become so bad that most patie
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
The Hygiene Hypothesis actually suggests that limiting exposure to microorganisms in childhood might result in worse immune tolerance, leading to a higher rate of autoimmune issues: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygie
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> Back then intel were pressured into a recall, today we seem too willing to put up with being sold broken stuff. This bug only applies to servers that haven’t been rebooted for 3 years and have the CC6 sleep state enabled. It can be wor
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
This depends on the C6 sleep state being enabled and the server not having been restarted for 3 years. It’s extremely unlikely that your cloud provider servers are going to meet this criteria and ignore this errata for a part they’ve boug
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
The Rust community I’m familiar with is basically like any other group of programming enthusiasts who want to talk about and work with a language. Whatever is going on in Twitter land and with the drama around conferences and boards is a di
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> For example, a project offering a RPi integration will probably have to maintain it and further develop it, or face significant pressure to do so. And if they don’t see that it will be worth it, maybe it won’t. They know their customer
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
> My take is that the RPi foundation wants PlatformIO to do support work for RPi for free. How did you arrive at this take when the original code and the PR aren’t related to the Raspberry Pi foundation at all? This is a community contri
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by PragmaticPulp 3y ago
Comment from Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi foundation: > We received a proposal from PlatformIO Labs in October 2022. While we absolutely empathise with the challenges of funding open-source projects, we were unable to justify paying th

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