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by burnte 3mo ago
> Why are you assuming this? Because Bloomberg didn’t report the execs’ performance reviews? Maybe they did face consequences and we just don’t know. Because we've been alive in America long enough to see this cycle thousands of tim
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by burnte 3mo ago
I had one of their salesmen harassing me back in 2018 or 2019 when one of their many breeches hit. I said "this is why."
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by burnte 3mo ago
> > That's why some regulation is not the enemy of the people that some want to make it out to be. > The question is always: What specific regulation? > Regulation is not the magic silver bullet that some want to make it ou
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by burnte 4mo ago
> Then Germany also kneecapped themselves in terms of energy policy, shutting down cheap nuclear power supplies and becoming dependent on Russian energy exports. The only thin about this I wonder is when they'll turn around on that
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by burnte 4mo ago
Ugh, more health pontificating from nonexperts. The blog is full of lame "hot takes." Blogspam, IMO.
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by burnte 4mo ago
I like it. I also like it when companies ask for 10 years of [5 year old technology] experience, or say "there's more to working here than the salary!", or other red flags that make it easy to move to the next listing. If you
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by burnte 4mo ago
> So he was in favour of the gold standard because it prevented massive unconstrained expansion of credit and that seems sensible. That's because it permanently cripples economies by creating an artificial constraint and pretending
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by burnte 4mo ago
Just last night was was thinking about KeePass. Sure, it wounds like Key Pass, or Keep Pass, but it also sounds like Keep Ass, which while cheeky, is less than perfectly commercially enticing. It feels like ExpertsExchange...
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by burnte 4mo ago
Yes, but then not doing it for a decade does NOT make sense.
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by burnte 4mo ago
No, I'm not saying the politics is a no brainer. I'm saying there is a logical barrier to the project succeeding, and it is the name. Other people refuse to work with it using the current name, people who would make it a much more
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by burnte 4mo ago
Yes, I know, but that all just underscores what I said about it being emotional. Logically it's not only Wacom but for any tablet. It would do better with a new name as other competitors would help. But the emotional resistance to chan
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by burnte 4mo ago
I would categorize all those as emotional reasons not to change, not logical reasons. "It's hard!" So? "It's complicated" So? "Some of it other people control." This will always be the case, you can&#
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by burnte 4mo ago
And it's been a decade long argument? Sounds like someone is just emotionally attached to something not changing. Those are the hardest problems to solve.
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by burnte 4mo ago
Ok, so you raise the price so the manufacturers will make it. This creates a bigger problem: users won't buy it now. No one designs a product to get manufacturers, all they need is to make a profit.
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by burnte 4mo ago
No.
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by burnte 4mo ago
> But it still took duplicate set of HW and I couldn’t imagine doing it without a lot of IaC and automation in place Like I said, I specialize in that. My career has been doing hard infra stuff other people won't or can't.
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by burnte 4mo ago
Hire me, I'll be more than happy to show you! :D I'm an expert at it!
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by burnte 4mo ago
No, a 1 in 500 rate is not often at all.
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by burnte 4mo ago
But they COULD be entirely different algorithms. And frankly, even if they're only 20% different, that's still different. An algorithm is a sequence of steps and logic. You can create many different sequences to still get the same
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by burnte 4mo ago
When your employer has a vested interest in you using a specific tool above all others, even if it's worse, then success is no longer measured with a rational, objective metric. Once you do not have objective metrics to gauge success,
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by burnte 4mo ago
> it's pretty transparent that he's just trying to ball-of-mud together everything he can to hit that target and grab the bag. I agree, and most people do too, yet he'll get away with it. We're in the kleptocracy pha
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by burnte 4mo ago
There's no way in hell Cursor has $60bn of value This is insane.
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by burnte 4mo ago
I haven't been phished like this but I've certainly had fraudsters try to con me into meetings or schemes, etc.
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by burnte 4mo ago
Alternative view: People ARE understanding him, and disagreeing. Even Paul can have a minority view, and even Paul can be mistaken. Even people whoare always worth reading are sometimes wrong, and sometimes seeing how really smart people ge
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by burnte 4mo ago
> Similar story where as soon as someone made a 100k+ offer to me I dropped out of school and never looked back (was making $12/hr at the time). In the very early 90s, at 15 my part time computer repair job was paying a large share
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by burnte 4mo ago
I'd buy an N810 formfactor right now with modern guts.
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by burnte 4mo ago
I had an N900 when it came out, after falling in love with the N810, one of my favorite devices to this day, I'd buy a new one with modern guts in a heartbeat. The N900 was junk. The build quality was terrible and the software was half
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by burnte 4mo ago
It's easier to get datacenters approved than homeless housing projects.
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by burnte 4mo ago
> The idea that there is such a thing as "law-breaking products" when consumers ACTIVELY CHOOSE TO SPEND THEIR MONEY ON THEM is insane to me. This is authoritarian nonsense. Remember Silk Road? You could order cocaine, heroin,
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by burnte 4mo ago
WSL is a VM too, but that's still what this is. WSL for MacOS. It's great!

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