charliebwrites

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Tell HN: iOS 27's Connectivity Assist subverts DNS level adblocking
2 points by charliebwrites 15d ago|2 comments
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by charliebwrites 1mo ago
I’m just waiting for one of these private rocket companies to buy a private nuclear enriching company We could reach Lex Luther level villainy in no time at all
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by charliebwrites 2mo ago
OP must be a Muse fan: https://open.spotify.com/album/6TObgE5QDLYzA3Exu5vGhS
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Ask HN: Tips for Managing Visual Snow?
3 points by charliebwrites 2mo ago|1 comments
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Donate to GrapheneOS(grapheneos.org)
252 points by charliebwrites 2mo ago|93 comments
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Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?
12 points by charliebwrites 2mo ago|22 comments
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by charliebwrites 3mo ago
I am a people & open source obsessed Product Manager with over 10 years of experience working on databases and developer platforms. I was an iOS developer for 5 years prior. I have lead product teams at: - Grafana Labs (Loki, k6) - Sauc
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Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers(wsj.com)
178 points by charliebwrites 4mo ago|228 comments
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by charliebwrites 5mo ago
That’s literally how Facebook started I remember begging my older step brother for an invite since he had the college email to get in
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by charliebwrites 5mo ago
If you’ve ever wondered why the symbol of health is a snake spiraling a staff (the Greek god Asclepius’s staff to be specific), it’s because in Ancient Greece they used small amounts of snake venom to treat serious illnesses We’ve come full
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by charliebwrites 5mo ago
Anecdata, sample size of one: When I was looking for my next role after being laid off, I didn’t get much of a response with my human handmade resume despite my experience Just for kicks, I asked ChatGPT to “Analyze my resume and give it a
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by charliebwrites 5mo ago
We can’t know, they didn’t disclose ;-)
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by charliebwrites 5mo ago
Just checked. I continue to have Claude Code with my Pro plan This is concerning though. If I lose my current usage allotment at this price point I will likely switch to codex
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by charliebwrites 6mo ago
This is why the First Amendment is so important
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by charliebwrites 8mo ago
Apple is usually pretty good at keeping older phones performant enough but, This is the first upgrade cycle that I upgraded in anger over an unusably slow and energy inefficient OS on an “older” model I was traveling in south / south e
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by charliebwrites 8mo ago
> If Gmail goes down in 20 years, it will be a major occurrence. If mailgoforward.fart goes down, you’re screwed. The technical equivalent of “if you default on a $100,000 loan you have a problem. If you default on a billion dollar loan
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by charliebwrites 8mo ago
The steps to trouble: - identify who owns the number - compel that person to give unlocked phone - government can read messages of _all_ people in group chat not just that person Corollary: Disappearing messages severely limits what can be
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by charliebwrites 8mo ago
Every time I see this, I upvote it I’m sure it’s different than it was when I was a teenager but building Linux from scratch was the thing that got me into computers as a kid It shows that computers can be accessible _and modifiable_ at the
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by charliebwrites 8mo ago
I’d love to see how this impacts their bottom line Sure short term it’s more “focused” and “greedy” But the damage to the community and acquisition through a free tier must drop those numbers in an impactful way
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by charliebwrites 9mo ago
Why so? Apple explicitly acknowledged that they were using OpenAI’s GPT models before this, and now they’re quite easily switching to Google’s Gemini
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by charliebwrites 9mo ago
Someone tried to get into my account 2 days ago by attempting to reset it with “forgot password” That’s never happened to me before, wonder if it’s related
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by charliebwrites 9mo ago
My hot take: We’re already in a recession. We just use AI to justify doing all the same recession behaviors while making it sound like innovation - not hiring this year > AI is making us productive! - no wage growth > AI means we don’
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Ask HN: What's your dock setup for your work laptop?
1 points by charliebwrites 9mo ago|1 comments
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by charliebwrites 9mo ago
> sudo killall coreaudiod seems to fix it for a while For me this fixes it for about 30 minutes then I have to do it again… and again… and again… I wonder why some folks need to do it more than others
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Capital One Is Losing Its Travel Dominance: A Review of the Discover Debit Cards(testinginprod.blog)
5 points by charliebwrites 9mo ago|0 comments
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by charliebwrites 11mo ago
> It is a vs code fork Google may have won the browser wars with Chrome, but Microsoft seems to be winning the IDE wars with VSCode
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by charliebwrites 11mo ago
What are the specific regulations that make building new power plants hard?
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by charliebwrites 11mo ago
I wish they would’ve actually discussed _how_ the hack was accomplished
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by charliebwrites 11mo ago
What are those species?
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by charliebwrites 1y ago
So when a storage device or a GPU burns out, how do you replace it? Fly an astronaut to space..?

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