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by breput 1y ago
We shake our heads at round vs. square filter in the distant 1970 past, but flash forward 55 years and we have that a very similar situation in the active American space capsules - none of the spacesuits are compatible with any of the other
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by breput 2y ago
I didn't mean to nullify your experience. You've undeniably right about how there have been spheres of influence where people and capital come together. Every area of the United States has some kind of forced name of "Silico
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by breput 2y ago
> Look for work in major U.S. tech hubs like the Bay Area. Pay is better and network effects are strong, so your next job will be easier to get. Jobs and the network effects happen all across the country. As you get older and maybe don&#
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by breput 2y ago
Setting aside politics for the moment, Tesla really has lost its way. It has made many extremely customer-unfriendly UX and technology changes over the past few years, including: * As mentioned in the article, removing the turn signal stal
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by breput 2y ago
Ooh, there's no bread, let them eat cake.
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by breput 2y ago
It literally was scripted already in the Project 2025[0]: They said exactly what was going to happen, all pre-planned, and anyone is surprised that it is happening? To be clear - FUCK Project 2025 and especially FUCK anyone messing with NOA
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by breput 2y ago
I am not an oracle, but I know people who work at similar companies, with similar decrees, and the Important People just ignore this and I assume the SVP's administrative assistant (who holds the REAL day-to-day power at most companies
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by breput 2y ago
I wouldn't give all 2 hours to work, but you're not wrong.
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by breput 2y ago
The truly essential people who want to WFH will just ignore the directive and their managers will cover for them. I assume they don't show up in this 50%. The rest are literally calling Dell's bluff that any potential promotion wo
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by breput 2y ago
I credit the BASIC and machine language byte code type-in programs for reinforcing my attention to detail and being able to track down software problems. Kids these days[0] will never know the "pleasure" of spending hours typing i
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by breput 2y ago
The location of the source of the mud is a closely held family secret, but I bet the OSI geolocating people could find it quickly based on this video[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYXWL1lt_7Y
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by breput 2y ago
That is good confirmation. I bought a MH-Z19 as a pandemic project so I might be approaching that timeframe.
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by breput 2y ago
Let's be honest - the AirGradiant people/person are submitting these. Which is fine - they seem like a good company with a strong open source commitment, but they do go a little overboard on HN submissions.
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by breput 2y ago
I've used both the SenseAir S8 and Sensirion SCD41 sensors, and the SenseAir is clearly my favorite. The SCD41 seems to require a lot more manual calibration while the S8 is very stable - maybe once every 3 months or so, I'll see
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by breput 2y ago
A couple of quick suggestions: * Provide some example feeds in the left side bar when the list is empty, so people new to RSS aren't just looking at an empty, black page. Maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/rss ? * Pro
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by breput 2y ago
Redistribute the (potential) DOJ judgement to Firefox with no preconditions.
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by breput 2y ago
I was working at a game development company in the mid 90s that used Visual Source Safe and to avoid file corruption due to concurrent commits, we had a shiny silver baseball cap which you had to find and physically possess to commit. After
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by breput 2y ago
He's not wrong. Despite Edsger Dijkstra's infamous quote[0], it is a fact that most late Boomer/Gen X's first programming experience was probably with BASIC. For some people, it ended at GOTO 10, but for others it was a
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by breput 2y ago
I wonder if this is only enabled for certain content? I also have a TCL TV and would definitely notice this effect, and I typically use Movie picture mode so you'd expect it would be triggered, but doesn't seem to be present on Y
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by breput 2y ago
It's also worth noting how the o-ring story was made public. There is the famous testimony by Richard Feynman[0], but the secret was that astronaut/commissioner Sally Ride leaked the story to another commissioner, who then sugges
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by breput 2y ago
He actually came around later in life on being the harshest critic and also addressed the "producer role" in this[0] article: "As he kept working, making hundreds of records across many more sessions, Albini became more comfo
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by breput 2y ago
"I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it's worth. The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half. If we assume three million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars
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by breput 3y ago
No, but it is creative! A few problems I see: * Demand - how many/much breadsticks do people really want? Olive Garden is (in)famous for unlimited breadsticks but it is really just a gimmick to get people in the door to spend money on
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by breput 3y ago
I got this non-dismissable dialog today on a TV which has the Roku software installed, but isn't a Roku product. So not only was the Roku functionality blocked until I agreed, but also the ability to use the TV as a monitor was disable
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by breput 3y ago
I can't make this up: "Members of the public in Woodland, North Carolina, expressed their fear and mistrust at the proposal to allow Strata Solar Company to build a solar farm off Highway 258. During the Woodland Town Council meet
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by breput 3y ago
This whole thing is fishy (phishy?). The cryptocurrency ETF announcement was accurate, merely announced a day early. The "staffer" (a.k.a. intern) was apparently compromised via the SIM swap, but multi-factor authentication was no
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by breput 3y ago
Contact has been re-established[0] although the state of Ingenuity isn't known yet. Still, very encouraging news. [0] https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1748883252604236281
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by breput 3y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/ is probably the most feature-rich RSS extension for Firefox (desktop)
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by breput 3y ago
Yeah, no hack required. The CueCat just outputted keyboard data via the PS/2 interface, which was the most common keyboard connection at the time, and with the correct 3rd party software it could be used to decode any UPC barcode witho
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by breput 3y ago
A maybe forgotten fact about the whole CueCat saga was that the hardware was given away for free, mainly at Radio Shack in the USA, with the expectation that the company would be able to recoup the costs by...um...I guess collecting user da

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