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by adetrest 8y ago
I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be better for the test of the world if humans became extinct. Our impact is limited mostly to earth now, but if we make it into space we'll just go and ruin other planets. It's already very v
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by adetrest 8y ago
Interesting experiment, however I wonder how strictly the author was able to stick to not using anything that stores a program. Strictly speaking, this disqualifies mundane things such as riding an elevator or driving a car that was made in
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by adetrest 8y ago
Speak for yourself. My ThinkPad has 2x DVI, 1x Ethernet, 1x charger, 5x USB, 1x audio connected to the dock. It's a pain and quite a bit more than a few seconds to connect disconnect every time vs pressing the eject button.
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by adetrest 8y ago
"We may know", submission title doesn't match article title, which is a much weaker statement than implied.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Not sure that is a reliable indicator. How many times have you seen job openings that list under required experience years of Java, c++, JavaScript, angular, Java script, HTML, react, nosql, mongodb, and postgres all on the same line? The m
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by adetrest 8y ago
This is nuts! Why would you even vent flammable gases indoors on a construction site?!
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by adetrest 8y ago
> Invoke change - speak up, not just about the problems, but with solutions to improve the organization. This doesn't work in my experience. You're the new guy and no-one wants to give up whatever political power they've
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by adetrest 8y ago
Isn't it how pretty much any acquisition goes? That's my experience from the inside anyway. All hell breaks loose once the golden handcuffs have expired (3 years mark usually?) and people including management can quit with a full
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by adetrest 8y ago
The conflict of interest is pretty obvious when you think about it. Google is in the business of getting as much data as it can on people so it can show them "relevant" ads. Would you trust organizing the elections and counting th
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by adetrest 8y ago
What a track record for this project... Two people resigning from it because of privacy issues... I am not looking forward for private companies to take over municipal government responsibilities.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Probably not having your data on us soil, privacy, ethics (not giving Google more money/data than you have to)
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by adetrest 8y ago
Maybe things are different in the US, and your examples make sense. I don't live in the US thankfully and so I don't have to worry about these issues too much. Overall, where I live, governmental services are considerably less hel
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by adetrest 8y ago
It's true that most Lenovo laptops come with horrendous, low resolution, TN panels. Some models come with IPS variants (like the i7 x230) I guess it's fine for me because I spent most of my time in the terminal so no GUI with tons
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by adetrest 8y ago
I never realized there were ads on this website. Always though it was someone doing it for the love of it.
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Ask HN: how to mod my x230 Lenovo bios myself to remove the WiFi card whitelist?
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by adetrest 8y ago
It'd not as bad as it sounds in practice. The screen is also 12.5 inches so pixel density is ok, and if you break lines at the 80 columns mark in your code (as you should ;)), you can sit two vim windows side by side in a terminal. Jus
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by adetrest 8y ago
I use an i7 IPS x230 (ie top of the line at the time) with Linux for dev work. It's great. I have the 9 cell battery (but it's getting old, I only get 60% of the full capacity when full nowadays), and I can still achieve 6-7h on W
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by adetrest 8y ago
Cheap founders. They'd expect everyone to work 10h a day including weekends but wouldn't even fix or replace broken equipment, wouldn't pay market salaries, or buy the services needed to achieve their "vision" (serv
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by adetrest 8y ago
I wonder how much of a race to the bottom will come out of this for employees. Neither Amazon nor Walmart are known for being good places to work at or for not trying to crush out their employees any chance they get (liberal contractor hire
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by adetrest 8y ago
How?
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by adetrest 8y ago
School made me hate any kind of sports. The teachers were awful, bullies loved it because it allowed some of their behavior to pass as "camaraderie", and I'm not even going to ask what are they thinking when deciding to put
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by adetrest 8y ago
The DMV doesn't (usually) lie to you or use things like "we're a family here at the DMV" to lean on you emotionally and get you to do things they'd like that don't benefit you at best or are detrimental to your
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by adetrest 8y ago
We have different definitions of 100%. Staying late, working (unpaid) overtime, doing your bosses jobs... This is well above and beyond your responsibilities. When you hire a plumber to unclog your drain, do you also expect them to give the
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by adetrest 8y ago
How ironic is it that unihertz's website looks so bad on a smartphone (one with a larger display at that). Their design isn't optimized for mobile at all.
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by adetrest 8y ago
> With 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, this would make a great pfSense/OpenBSD router. Please note that opnsense also exists. It does most (all?) of what pfsense can do but has a much saner organisation and team behind it that doesn'
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by adetrest 8y ago
I feel that you don't want to change your mind anyway, and are happy to show us how smart you are by purposefully doing the opposite of what people hope to get you do after reading the article. To me, your comment reads as someone sayi
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by adetrest 8y ago
There are more straightforward and less costly to the public insurer ways to die than earning the right to ride a motorcycle without a helmet. If you're blind, you aren't allowed to drive a car. If you can't wear a helmet the
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by adetrest 8y ago
Is "rebuilding rails" still relevant? The website has a 2010-ish design vibe and it seems to talk about rails 3 being cutting age while we're now at rails 5. One image has (c) 2012. Didnt know about the book, so I'm inte
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by adetrest 8y ago
Did they make the script's source public? I'd love to run this for myself on some of the numbers pretending there is a warrant our for my arrest because I owe some ridiculous amount of back taxes.