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by bityard 2y ago
This is called "content marketing" and there are usually at least a handful of them on the HN front page at any given time. Although I will say that the BackBlaze drive stats articles are a much higher effort and standard of quali
872.
by bityard 2y ago
I just read that article and it doesn't appear to agree with your conclusion. That was just a single quote from a a pest control guy who works for Orkin. The article does say that car owners and mechanics have noted a large increase in
873.
by bityard 2y ago
USB the protocol perhaps, but USB-C (and all of the connector/cable/PD complexity) is very far away from boring.
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by bityard 2y ago
I would call those anything but boring and mature. They have had a lot of big changes over the last decade and there's no sign of that slowing down. They've been around for a long time, yes, but today they bear only a superficial
875.
by bityard 2y ago
I usually agree with the things that Chris writes but this isn't one of them. For starters, ~/.cache was invented because everyone was doing their own thing and the previous situation was FAR worse. I don't agree with elimina
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by bityard 2y ago
If the creator shows up (or if anyone else knows), can you shed some light on how exactly the Print and Play editions work? The product pages do not have enough information, unfortunately. After you pay, do you just get a static PDF with X
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by bityard 2y ago
I guess I don't see why local farmers _wouldn't_ raise their prices to maintain their premium above store-bought eggs. They certainly have around here.
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by bityard 2y ago
My experience has been the opposite. Most mediocre to bad developers are so happy that their code works AT ALL that they pay little to no attention to things like sensible variable names and whitespace conventions. We sometimes call these t
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by bityard 2y ago
For me, it's good. Apt is famous for installing the software you want quickly, easily, and with no fuss.
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by bityard 2y ago
> We lived in an old neighborhood between the downtown area and south Lansing Too late for me to edit but in case someone comes back and reads this later, I want to be clear that south Lansing was the place I'd avoid at night, not t
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by bityard 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. Whether you know it or not, your story is an inspiration.
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by bityard 2y ago
Then you are only hearing whatever you want to hear, because I am not saying anything even remotely like that. You may believe that society is broken in whatever way you chose but saying, "society is bad, and cults are bad, therefore s
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by bityard 2y ago
But my point was that not all SD cards are made the same and lots of the tech-literate here on HN don't seem to know that. "SD cards are not reliable" as a blanket statement is false. You have to research to find out which on
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by bityard 2y ago
Sure, they likely could. But then the complaint would be, "Arrg, I can't believe Freedesktop.org and Alpine are now effectively owned by Red Hat/IBM now, arrg!" Also, Red Hat typically only "sponsors" open sour
885.
by bityard 2y ago
There is a difference between investment and speculation and lots of people learn it the hard way, eventually.
886.
by bityard 2y ago
I'm confused by this. I live in Michigan and have been paying state income tax ever since my first job.
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by bityard 2y ago
I live in this area, and feel qualified to comment. > climate change refuge Not totally sure what that means, but we get anywhere between 2-4 weeks of (usually non-consecutive) high heat (90F plus) per summer and 7 months of cold, as jud
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by bityard 2y ago
I lived in Lansing 10 years ago. Honestly, it was pretty depressing. We lived in an old neighborhood between the downtown area and south Lansing which while not conventionally dangerous, was an area I always avoided driving or walking aroun
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by bityard 2y ago
I love this. Hoping to retire early from my tech career someday and I have dreams of finding my own weird semi-profitable niche that I can run by just myself and my family for a few hours a day. I currently have an incredibly small ebay bus
890.
by bityard 2y ago
A "cult" is a rather specific kind of organization. The typical hallmarks are non-mainstream spiritual beliefs, highly controlling and exploitative leadership, and rules against interacting with outsiders. Non-conformity generally
891.
by bityard 2y ago
Every time Raspberry Pi comes up as a topic on HN, there are scores of comments decrying the futility and frustration of unreliable SD cards. The thing with SD cards is that there are wide variances in quality, even among the top name-brand
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by bityard 2y ago
Depends on where you are. Where I live, it's cold seven months out of the year so keeping the resultant heat inside the house lowers the heating bill somewhat. I've always wished for a fridge that was mounted to an exterior wall.
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by bityard 2y ago
I run OPNSense inside Proxmox on a cheap fanless Intel N100 box. VM-level snapshots and backups are heavenly. Can't believe I avoided it for so long.
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by bityard 2y ago
Having worked in the hosting business, this is a very normal interaction when the provider believes the account was used for fraud or something illegal or strongly against the ToS. Support personnel are literally not allowed to say why the
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by bityard 2y ago
There are a bunch of these little Linux game emulation consoles and they are pretty neat. Each of my kids has a Miyoo Mini. Lots of fun and a bunch of community add-ons and support. Almost got one for myself but the D-Pad and buttons are a
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by bityard 2y ago
Probably the clickbaitiest title I'll see all day on HN... ...but everything here is the truth. The books in particular aren't vapid self-help tomes, they're literally how to live in a society that's actively trying to m
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by bityard 2y ago
I'm trying to work out how the author came to the presumption that contact names would ever be private. As in, what other software are they using where that would be a standard feature? The closest I can come to is _maybe_ SMS where na
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by bityard 2y ago
> The shortage — caused by years of employee turnover and tight budgets, among other factors — has forced many controllers to work up to six days a week and 10 hours a day. It always amazes me that when you take a cross-section of worker
899.
by bityard 2y ago
Monochrome laser printers don't have tracking dots. (* That I have seen evidence of.)
900.
by bityard 2y ago
Neat. I was pretty late to the party and have a userid halfway into the 6 digits, but somehow I got extremely lucky and landed a two-character username (my initials).

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