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by bb88 2y ago
What's interesting from a legal perspective (to me anyway) is if his call list and contacts are protected by attorney client privilege. I think maybe the correct answer is to backup your phone in the cloud, and then factory reset it be
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by bb88 2y ago
I think maybe a better approach I saw was to sweep and vacuum up NY City sidewalks for gemstones that have fallen out of people's jewelry. It's similar to the idea of sweeping up the edges of high travelled roads looking for palla
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by bb88 2y ago
I don't necessarily agree with this take. Lots of development shops care about UX/DX. Many Indie games are crafted with love and often many are successful -- even releasing bug fixes and updates years after it entered the shop on
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by bb88 2y ago
Reminds me of "Detectorists." https://www.amazon.com/Detectorists-BBC-Series/dp/B06XC4TPTN Here in the US, if you search along the roads, mostly you're just going to find trash.
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by bb88 2y ago
Fixing other's shitty code doesn't push the needle -- particularly in an industry that strives to get customers to open their wallets and shell out hard currency. If a company's ultimate goal is to extract money from people,
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by bb88 2y ago
Is there a comma in there some place? Maybe between the first two words?
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by bb88 2y ago
CERN is a big proponent of KiCad, so it wouldn't surprise me. I didn't see an Open Source Hardware Logo on it, or any marking suggesting it's CERN Open Hardware License, but it might also be on the back. The big issue is that
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by bb88 2y ago
Sure, but the problem really was the lack of upstream bandwidth meant to handle the acknowledgements at the time. It's not so much "Should I buffer or should I not?" as it was more about "What is the proper amount to up
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by bb88 2y ago
TSLA stock price seems to be having a Wile E Coyote moment. Maybe because it can only be a meme stock now, I guess. Net income dropped 70% YoY. Deliveries have dropped YoY. And the stock price is still higher than it was at this time las
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by bb88 2y ago
I don't think people were trusted before the 1990s until they were mid to late thirties. Now it's like VC's throw capital at 20 somethings as if they're wunderkind, when they're not fully mature adults mentally yet
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by bb88 2y ago
Cable modems 15 years ago were really terrible. Instead of trusting TCP to do the right thing, the modems buffered the packets. This caused weird slowdowns if the uplink got congested a combination of large upstream packets and TCP acknow
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by bb88 2y ago
It's good, and funny, and does a great job of simplifying financial complexity down into small morsels of understandable content. Now that he has a podcast, I would like someone to generate an AI reader in the style of his voice so I c
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by bb88 2y ago
No, but I don't recall a 20 something committing a $175M fraud before this decade. Not on this scale anyway. Elizabeth Holmes was 31 when she was outed. But most of that scandal was created in her 20's. Sam Bankman-Fried was in
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by bb88 2y ago
I don't remember frankly, maybe something with the script, maybe something with KFMon. Lack of integration with the Kobo OS itself? Maybe it had to be rooted to install KFMon, but I was reading Koreader could just run inside nickel m
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by bb88 2y ago
Before recently movies were shared experiences. A good crowd made a great movie on a great screen even greater. Now movies are kind of singular experience. The only movies that still maybe fit this bill are the horror movies that draw in
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by bb88 2y ago
Or just wait until it comes out on a streamer, and you'll enjoy it just as much with delicious Costco popcorn that costs around 30 cents per microwave packet. You can see if the hubbub about the movie was really worth it. Oh, and if y
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by bb88 2y ago
I tried koreader on a kobo. I wouldn't call it trivially easy when I installed it last year, and I promptly uninstalled it and removed all the hacks so I could get back to a sane installation of the Kobo OS again. I think maybe for a
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by bb88 2y ago
I think this current crop of 20-somethings learned something terrible.
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by bb88 2y ago
None taken. I never said I wasn't.
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by bb88 2y ago
I like this site, but it can become inhuman sometimes. People get upvoted for pedantry rather than furthering a conversation, e.g.
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by bb88 2y ago
Yeah, GLP-1s have really opened up research quite a bit -- particularly with addiction. It could be that gambling addiction offsets hunger. Or it could be that the gut bacteria are asking for adrenaline or some other kind of hormone the bo
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by bb88 2y ago
Maybe a decade ago I saw a video of Rob Pike telling people they can abandon C++ because golang was good enough. He proclaimed that people can toss out their reams of C++ code and replace it with Go. That never really came to fruition --
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by bb88 2y ago
Go being simple and fast to compile, doesn't mean go is simple to use. My friend tells me the primary use case for go are microservices no more than one page worth of code deployed in kubernetes. I think that's correct. Anything
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by bb88 2y ago
Then tell them to write all their code in Brainfuck if it's that easy. In fact, tell them to write a brainfuck transpiler in brainfuck to transpile go lang to brainfuck to make it easier for you communicate with their native tongue dir
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by bb88 2y ago
First, congratulations on your success. GI trouble is a real issue most HN readers have not had to experience. I've never had it. I've only talked to people who have spent a week or two in the hospital with it. Second, I agree
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by bb88 2y ago
Right, and where does the money from the bureaucracy go? Administrative costs? Great, you can profit off that too! The more money one can bring in from premiums, and the less they pay out, the more profit. Once they have the money in pre
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by bb88 2y ago
I'm not arguing against that here. But returning profit to the shareholders is the primary goal of a corporation. Couple that with Upton Sinclair's quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his sala
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by bb88 2y ago
One problem with simplicity is that it often moves the complexity elsewhere, particularly if you're designing things that others use. Brainfuck the language is simple to use and implement. It has only 8 commands. Brainfuck programs
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by bb88 2y ago
No offense but do you believe it when microsoft announces they have solved quantum computing? And to prove it they only need your email address, birth date, credit card number, and rights to first born child?
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by bb88 2y ago
I'm not doubting it's an improvement, because it looks like it is. I guess here's an example of a prompt I would like to see: A flying spaghetti monster with a metal colander on its head flying above New York City saving the

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