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by chihuahua 10mo ago
What I remember from that show is that they plug in the Rivian to charge, and 12 hours later the charge level has increased by some miniscule amount. At some point they have to bring in a gas-powered support truck with a gas-powered generat
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
There should be a sitcom where Assad, Yanukovich, Snowden, and the Venezuelan VP are sharing an apartment in Moscow. In the Christmas episode, Putin shows up and teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
Or maybe a guy with a large incredibly smelly cheese who is trailed by a huge cloud of flies.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
Legend has it that Meta was having difficulty making their metaverse Mii characters look human, so Zuck solved that problem by making himself look like a Mii.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
For some people, money is not for buying things, but just for keeping score. That can make it rewarding and addictive to accumulate money, even if you don't buy anything (like a giant house) with it. The score keeping aspect makes it i
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
How can MacOS possibly sleep/wake any faster than Windows? My Lenovo X1C wakes up so quickly that the limiting factor is how fast I can enter my PIN on the keyboard. Well below 1 second, maybe 0.5 seconds. Going to sleep is the same, I
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
I did stay at Microsoft for a total of 15 years, but in retrospect it's the least interesting place to work. 5% coding, 95% overhead. Of the places I've worked, none of them had anything where I can now say "I should have sta
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
Audiobooks are great, while driving or walking or riding a bike. But for complex topics, I miss the ability to read a sentence or a paragraph again.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
After I finished reviewing the CS textbook "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" in the mid 1990s during a vacation (looking for errors before publication), I found that my brain had been permanently reconfigured for sp
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
No worries, I didn't sense any criticism. I've just become more critical of my own decisions, now that I have some perspective and it seems to me that most of what I did was poorly considered. Getting through the interview process
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
I did 13 interviews in 2 days at Microsoft Research (in 1998). I did not get the job.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
I bounced from Amazon to Microsoft to Amazon to Microsoft to Facebook. Why? Because the grass is always greener on the other side. Amazon didn't pay enough, Microsoft was too boring, Amazon was too chaotic, and then Facebook paid much
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
They probably mean that with some projects, Microsoft builds something half-assed and then moves on to something else. Instead of sticking with the project, evaluating it critically, and committing to fixing whatever sucks about it until it
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
It's very interesting and helpful to get your insider's perspective on this. I believe that the issue cannot be understood by people sitting on the outside who have no idea about the nature and scale of the fraud attempts. Still,
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
From what I heard, Eric Lippert was one of the layoff victims. I find it unlikely that he was actually a poor performer, since he's an industry legend.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
This, like almost all writing about fonts, is bewildering to me. It just doesn't matter. For me, there are just 3 fonts in the world: serif, sans serif, and weird fonts (Papyrus, the 70s groovy font, the Tron font, etc.) I read HN arti
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
I apologize that my memory has faded over the intervening 25 years. What I do remember is that it's an odd language, but nothing about it suggested that it would even be 2x more productive than C or C++ or Java. I didn't get to us
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
I think there's a good answer to that: to a first approximation, no one bought NeXT machines; therefore, there was no demand for NeXT apps and therefore no one produced any. But it's unlikely that Steve Jobs of all people would wa
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
Doctorow has enshittified himself.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
While reading the article, I was pretty suspicious about Emerson and Westinghouse, because they sound just like Polaroid - once a solid American manufacturer, but run into the ground and then the name is licensed to bottom-of-the-barrel che
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
Your mention of Microservices opened up my mind to additional possibilities. How about we create a microservice for each integer, then deploy 4 billion of them. Send a request to all of them simultaneously. Only one of them will respond wit
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
Breatharians are several steps ahead of you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
If you're in America, it's Italian/Greek/Chinese/Vietnamese/Thai/Japanese/Ethiopian/Moroccan/Brazilian/Indian food. Etc.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
Yes, imagine you bought a Google self-driving car for $70,000, and one day their algorithm gets mad at you due to a glitch, and your Google account is locked, your car can no longer be unlocked, can't be sold, and your appeals are inst
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
I seem to remember "tar xvf filename.tar" from the 1990s, I'll try that out. If I'm wrong, I'll be dead before I even notice anything. That's better than dying of cancer or Alzheimer's.
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
Good Lord, Jeeves! Do you mean to tell me that a gaggle of elected coves can simply override the peers in the Upper House? It seems a distinct inversion of the natural order, what? Rather like the oyster overruling the walrus! It makes one
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by chihuahua 10mo ago
No, that has been illegal for a long time. It's being enforced more these days, perhaps because social media makes it more tempting and easier to insult politicians in a manner where it can be easily detected. In the old days, you&#x27
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by chihuahua 11mo ago
It would also be a lot more persuasive if the article provided even a single example of how Lisp enables superior solutions. Instead, it's just an ad-hominem attack based on the idea that non-Lisp programmers are too limited in their t
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by chihuahua 11mo ago
To properly appreciate a post like this one, it should ideally be paired with a Raymond Chen post that argues in Hercule Poirot style irrefutable logic how a combination of backwards-compatibility with CP/M and some 1990s programming d
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by chihuahua 11mo ago
Quite fitting, from the company that invented "heated seats as a subscription service"

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