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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
Thank you for sharing the video way back when. I remember thinking it was very touching.
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
HN readers are, as an average, high on technical know-how and bad at social skills and reading the room. What you're seeing is the natural outcome of that.
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
Why would anyone use such an arbitrary method when you could have a 9800x3D for $40 more?
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
"Copilot, how do I remove Copilot?"
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
Windows 10 EOL is probably helping to churn a lot of aging Intel chips out here. I can't imagine anyone in the know is building a new desktop with an Intel anything in it these days, either.
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
Oh goody! I hope some of it can be used for DRM encrypted TV broadcasts too.
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
The games would just leave Steam. The big publishers want their own platforms and launchers anyway.
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
That's why they're not leaving office. Check out Venezuela for a preview of what's in store for the US.
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
Even if this is possible, it is seldom worth it. If you look around and find deep disagreements with your coworkers, the right answer is typically to find another cohort of people to work with, not to fight an uphill battle every day. You w
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by brian-armstrong 11mo ago
Very cool project! Anything surprise you about working on this? Any tips you found about implementing for FPGA?
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
This is S-tier rage bait, I commend you.
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
> People jumped to Windows 7 out of spite; with Linux Desktop marketshare still slowly, steadily rising over the last 10 months. Windows 7 is EOL and no longer receives security patches, so security wise people are a lot worse off than w
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
This is obviously untrue, isn't it? A great many person has died maidenless, as it were.
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
Are we partying? I remember that during the inflation times during covid, but this feels like a long, drawn-out hangover.
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
Sorry for the convenience
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
Many of us on this website live in the bay area. The earthquake woke us up with a stern jolt and now you're witnessing a shared moment in the community as we try to drift back to sleep.
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M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA(earthquake.usgs.gov)
143 points by brian-armstrong 1y ago|94 comments
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
Excellent sleuthing. I feel like this has some great quick debugging ideas for system wonkiness that I never knew existed. It feels a bit of a shame to wrap it all up in an AI-written summary, but I guess if that was the only way to get the
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
It's time to log off lil bro
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
But these bakers don't want "cake mix", they want the specific Betty Crocker cake mix
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
This sounds like the argument people make against Hawaiian food. Why use Spam! You can eat real food you know! Thing is, once something has been done a certain way, it becomes a tradition in its own right. It doesn't really matter how
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
How many cars are you buying?
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
> Universities were going on and on, how drunk people can not consent, and even saying hi to someone in a bar is unethical! Actually they've been saying that drunk people can't consent to sex, not to saying "hi." Bit
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
https://templeos.org/
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
100% yes, at least down to a rounding error. If people stop pushing billions into training new versions, then the novelty will wear off very quickly. There are still many constraints on what it can do and people will generally lose motivati
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
> By March 1989, however, Hugh Barnes—now Compaq’s vice president of engineering—started to notice that Intel’s best chip people were being reassigned to other teams. Some quiet investigation revealed the cause. Sun Microsystems, one of
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
Does hibernate play nice with FDE? I know in Linux there are varying caveats around committing memory to disk wrt disk encryption
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
Dammed if you do, damned if you don't
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by brian-armstrong 1y ago
National Institute of Health

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