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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> Elon is singular in his understanding of engineering and construction and large systems and marshaling resources Why would I believe a rich guy hyping his company's temporarily magical product when he hypes another guy who is a pr
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
I've valued Ben Thompson's opinions less over time. He was super into goggle-like devices and remote meetings. I own Apple Vision Pro. It's a technical achievement, but not compelling beyond immersive video (too bad). He harp
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
> solution to a problem nobody really had. It's honestly been great for my org. We used to have custom user-specific shared drives on the network. Laptop replacements were constantly hindered by people not understanding how to trans
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by alsetmusic 4mo ago
This might be the best thing I've read about in quite a while. I'm extremely impressed with the quality of the concept. Well done.
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
They appear to know more than you, too. They know not to change rules that have protected their investments for a chance to get into a risky bet on the ground floor.
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
When we interviewed a financial planner in 2024, I specifically asked for her take on AI companies. It was a trick question. If she was bullish, we'd have walked. She had a good answer about investing in companies that are established
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
I bought one for my partner after my favorite tech podcast reported positively on the build quality. It's excellent and also her first Mac. Feels just as good as my MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air. They preserved the Apple experience.
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
> probably don't give much of a shit about Dell and its products, other than the fact that they get a paycheck from the company every 2 weeks; many of them probably have MacBooks at home I worked at an Apple Store before I got the o
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
> The Galaxy S1 had an OLED display. A quick web search told me that this was introduced in 2010 (could be Google AI lying, I didn't look further). If that's accurate, there's really no comparison. A better screen on an OS
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
Agreed. I've setup many VPS servers. I've configured both Apache and NGINX by hand. It's the sort of thing that I only do sometimes, therefore I have to look up docs each time. This year, I wanted to run an experiment that wa
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
Which is not a bad thing. We have limited resources. It’s not a bad thing to slow down. Even if we’re having fewer babies, we’re far from endangered, despite some (dishonest, IMO) narratives.
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
I loved Mimestream when I worked at a place that was on Google. https://mimestream.com/
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
> It's always been hard to know the extent of how draconian tracking actually is (IT pros tend to not talk about it much). Having worked at a FAANG and then downsizing back to IT (it's pretty great if you don't need the pa
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
I don't know why anyone would accept a job there at this point. I mean, I never would have worked there because I didn't care about the mission (never been on any of the major platforms). But around a decade ago, when they were ac
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
Wow, this is exciting to me as a Mac user. 2000 nits to Apple's 1600. 262 pixels per inch to Apple's 254. Mini LED vs Apple's XDR (I genuinely don't know enough about display tech to intelligently asses here, but I expec
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
I genuinely could not believe it when they took away vertical spaces. Having to jump over extra screens made the feature useless to me. I stopped using it. It's impractical.
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
This feels like using a computer is inherently unsafe. On the plus side, once we outlaw them we'll shut down the ability for conspiratorial thinking to spread easily and the world will slowly heal from the last couple of decades (the p
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
It's pretty nice. I was impressed with the handling of tables. Good fit-and-finish kinda of project. Congrats on building a respectable, nice tool.
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
Holy crap. I would never expect HN to be the place where I learned about an awesome new musical release. Boards of Canada's "Music Had the Right to Children" was playing when a friend gave me a ride to the airport ~20 years a
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
In the last two to three years, I've hit a point where I need to take off my glasses (near-sighted, can't see things far away) to read my phone. I can still make out the text with them on, but it's physically uncomfortable an
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
Oh yay, the nazi content again. Don't let the Feb 2026 article date fool you, this has been talked about for years and they don't lift a finger. It's like how Meta isn't incentivized to block scams because they profit of
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal[0] 0. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/uss-big-bet-on-q...
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
The older I get, the more I realize what matters to me as well. I worked a FAANG with a long commute. I then worked a job with a short drive (10m morning, 15m afternoon, both via Uber when it was cheap). I now have a 12m walk to and from. T
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
This is the sort of comment that really enriches my life. Not only would I not have known about this author (I'm an english-only speaker), but I clicked onto another work ("Ghosts" in english, possibly more accurate as "
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
> Texas is larger (in both population and economy) than most countries in the world. Californian here, we're bigger than Texas, laughed at the plight of ordinary people who voted for the terrible outcome they got when there was a ma
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
OP said (in a sibling comment) that they aren't out to educate you by doing work for you. I'll give you quick examples: the judge in Texas who made the morning-after pill illegal. The supreme court (not worthy of proper noun anymo
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
People are disagreeing, but I think they're seeing the word "activist" and assuming a different meaning than what I think OP meant. I suggest reframing as "politically motivated" judges. I don't think it's
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
If you let them make you think twice before posting, you're letting them win. I'm not saying that I don't think twice about how to word things or that I'm some sort of free speech warrior. I'm saying that when I mak
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
> stern adherence to law and rules, an extreme low risk approach. Were any of the people who took risks also subject to deportation upon arrest? I expect they were all USA citizens with less to lose. Genuinely interested if this is not t
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by alsetmusic 5mo ago
> some of my students When I was young, I might have thought this way for sure. I didn't expect to have a future anyway and this would have potentially been a cool level-up that I'd seize. Responding to someone in another comme

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