ThrowawayR2

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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Dump advertising into the ocean. The motivation for maximizing engagement on social media is to maximize ad impressions for revenue. Every algorithm, every dark pattern, every UX tweak, is aimed toward that sole end. The issue cannot be
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
" The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. " - George Bernard Shaw
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " what alternative ways would I market my business among HN users? " Please review the guidelines and FAQ linked at the bottom of the page. If you have any questions, the HN moderators can be contacted using the information
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the "leopards ate my face" meme? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leopards-eating-peoples-faces... The parallels between the early FOSS advocates energetically seeking corporat
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " To someone who believes that AI training data is built on the theft of people's labor... " i.e. people who are not hackers. Many (most?) hackers have been against the idea of copyright and intellectual property from t
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Machine generated postings are not permitted on HN and posting submission summaries are also discouraged by the HN moderators. Your bot postings (the account description outright says that it is a bot) will only decrease the reputation of y
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
It's not from Anthropic; it's from agentvillage.org, whatever that is.
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Open Source (as opposed to Free Software) was intended to be friendly to business and early FOSS fans pushed for corporate adoption for all they were worth. It's a classic "leopards ate my face" moment that somehow took a c
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " Base 360 (2⁵ × 3² × 5 × 7) is divisible by all integers from 1 to 12, so common fractions like 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10, 1/11, and 1/12 all terminate cleanly with
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " older fabs can be built in a garage by a smart person " Yeah, with 1970s-era feature size. That's fine if your idea of AAA gaming is Hunt The Wumpus or Pong.
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " A few decades ago, tech, science and liberalism were bedfellows in the Bay Area. " A few decades ago was before the meteoric internet and mobile web boom and the deluge of non-hackers with CS degrees and MBA types with doll
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
There is no " may be subject to local regulations and laws " (quoting from the project page); operating such a rig is flatly illegal in any civilized country. RF regulations are enforced by authorities at the national level and y
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
As far as I understand it, the recommended way to get an improperly flagged submission back onto the front page is to email the moderators and ask them to manually override the flagging, not trying to brute force it by re-submitting. The H
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
And you think that a downloaded codec on an FPGA would perform anywhere close to custom silicon? Because it won't; configurability comes at a steep cost.
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Pi-FM-RDS, from which this project is forked, warns under its Warning and Disclaimer section that " In most countries, transmitting radio waves without a state-issued licence specific to the transmission modalities (frequency, power, b
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " Is it wrong to have your career on autopilot if you are satisfied with your job? " Only if you don't mind the career equivalent of CFIT¹ when a mountain turns out not to be where your maps said it was. I'll wager
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
You are pulling equally fictitious numbers out of your hat to defend your comfortable worldview, without even the benefit of extensive exposure to children as a schoolmaster, so how is your argument on any better level than Golding's?
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Software developers understand consent well but they understand dollar signs even better.
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " My view is that poor and average people are alright... " My preferred counterexample is the actions of soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army invading various Asian countries in the years leading up to WW2 and during it, pe
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
If you're suggesting that humans can't be that terrible, I recommend that you do not open this link (It is a link to a BBC article but I feel compelled to give a trigger warning since it is genuinely that disturbing): https:&#x2F
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Dupe, previously submitted 3 times in the last day. - Tips for Buying Servers in 2026 (rackout.net) 4 points by matt-p 1 day ago | 4 comments - Example cheap NVMe and RAM options for servers (rackout.net) 1 point by jammo 1 day ago - Tips f
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
There were a series of whitepapers commissioned by the FSF a while ago on Copilot when it was first released, one of which was "Copyright Implications of the Use of Code Repositories to Train a Machine Learning Model" and its lead
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
To be fair, that does seem be a very common usage pattern for them, to the point where they're even becoming a nuisance to open source projects; e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330378
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
If anybody who disagrees with your assessment is " in denial (sic)", why should people bother responding to your question seriously?
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
CoD has less players than Team Fortress 2 currently, according to Valve's charts: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed . And TF2 has ancient graphics.
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " C makes you a bad programmer. Real men code in assembler. " So, who is it that supposedly said that? Not K&R (obviously). Not Niklaus Wirth. Not Stroustrup. Not even Dijkstra (Algol 60) and he loved writing acerbic
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
> " ...many people did... " I'm trying to think of any examples of someone who said that "a generation ago" at all? I assume that they were some sort of fringe crackpot.
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Previously submitted 6 times in the past 9 days, this time under a new account. - How do you share open source work without it feeling like self-promotion (github.com/chrilleweb) 2 points by chrilleweb 4 days ago | 4 comments - Show H
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
Speaking only for my particular circumstances, the company is the vehicle that I use to do it for myself since it provides specialized facilities and equipment I wouldn't have access to as an individual or a founder. That I get paid f
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by ThrowawayR2 10mo ago
If Valve sold the Steam Machine for any significant cost less than the Dell / HP / Lenovo equivalent, HNers would snap them up by the truckload to repurpose as home or work machines with guaranteed Linux compatibility.

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