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by coldpie 1y ago
Oh that does look interesting! https://phonesized.com/compare/#2715,1863 May have to get my hands on one some time and see how it feels.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> 3. If you're into smaller phones, they're a good option Curious to hear more about this. I don't mind thickness so much. How small are they? If I can get a decent phone with a <= 5" screen, I'd be ecstati
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by coldpie 1y ago
> My naive expectation was: > - Rents would go down because deportation of illegals will reduce demand This was indeed extremely naive. There are not enough people in the US illegally to be a significant factor in housing demand. I&#x
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by coldpie 1y ago
A fellow Basement Brothers viewer??
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by coldpie 1y ago
> I wonder if there isn't a market for budget Androids in this range. I think there is: https://smallandroidphone.com/ This was started up by the people behind Pebble (including its re-launch this year). I actually
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by coldpie 1y ago
> This happens all the time cut a $1 here and it costs $4 over there The thing that makes these policies work, of course, is the $1 is cut from a billionaire's taxes, and the $4 is paid by the rest of us. Voters seem to like this po
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Tried to browse a while with NoScript addon. But barely any page loads, so you need to whitelist almost every page you visit, which defeats the purpose. Nah, this is just straight up false. Many pages work fine with NoScript blocking
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by coldpie 1y ago
FYI you can nuke all that crap with a simple browser bookmark: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2024/01/20/take-back-your-web...
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by coldpie 1y ago
Netflix is $18. Hulu is $19. Paramount Plus is $13. YouTube is in line with its competitors.
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by coldpie 1y ago
You can remove videos from your history and they won't impact your recommendations anymore.
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by coldpie 1y ago
Yeah, definitely agree there's a ton of room for disagreement on the topic. Where I'm coming from is, I think social media is one of, if not the top most, destructive forces in society today. It provides a huge megaphone for peopl
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by coldpie 1y ago
> Why should well behaving people be punished for the actions of those who aren't? I don't think it's a punishment so much as a public health measure. Like restricting who can buy tobacco and alcohol and where they can be
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by coldpie 1y ago
The comparison of social media to tobacco is almost too perfect. It feels good while you're doing it and can be an effective social tool, but leaves you feeling like shit when you stop and has disastrous long-term health consequences.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I don't know my history well enough to answer your question, but you can see one approach to the 1970s computing experience in this excellent video series about the Altair 8800 by deramp5113 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.c
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by coldpie 1y ago
Honestly might give that a go, yeah. Brand new, low stakes, throwaway projects are one of the few things these tools are actually genuinely pretty useful for.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I'm thinking something that would actually use HN's "Hide" feature, so other stories will populate the page after the AI ones are hidden. Is that something uBO could do?
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by coldpie 1y ago
I'm thiiiis close to writing a Firefox extension that auto-hides any HN headline with an LLM/AI-related keyword in the title, just so I can find something interesting on here again.
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by coldpie 1y ago
It blows me away that none of the web browsers are trying to fix this. We eliminated popups back in the 90s/2000s, but now they're back again and no one cares. Anyway, install the Kill Sticky bookmarklet, it gets rid of all the in
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by coldpie 1y ago
It's your life, but I promise you no amount of "highly interesting" is worth "constant anger." If you stop reading that garbage for a couple weeks, I promise you will wonder why on Earth you were ever wasting your
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by coldpie 1y ago
> constant anger due to the stupidity of other people (when reading comments on news articles as an example) Holy cow dude, cut this one right the fuck out. Absolutely eliminate that portion of your day. Cold turkey straight to zero. Rig
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by coldpie 1y ago
That's good info, thanks. I've been studying Chinese (Mandarin/Simplified) for about 2 years now, just as something to do on the bus for fun. It would be cool to go visit some day, maybe once my listening skills get up to a
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by coldpie 1y ago
My company did exactly this earlier in the year. It was a blatant lie and everyone who works here knew it. None of the people laid off were actually replaced with AI, the work they did was just eliminated.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> If you can’t run on $current_debian, that’s very much a you problem. This is a reasonable position for most software, but definitely not all, especially when you fix a bug or add a feature in your dependent library and your Debian user
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by coldpie 1y ago
I didn't vendor them, but I did do an eyeball scan of every package in the full tree for my project, primarily to gather their license requirements[1]. (This was surprisingly difficult for something that every project in theory must do
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by coldpie 1y ago
> People really need to start thinking twice when adding a new dependency. So many supply chain attacks this year. I was really nervous when "language package managers" started to catch on. I work in the systems programming wo
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by coldpie 1y ago
> that doesn't explain the deliberate kneecapping of R&D, health, and academia I think it does, those are all efforts to destroy trust in qualified experts. It's impossible for everyone to understand everything, so we have
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by coldpie 1y ago
The goal of Republican policy is to make the wealthy & powerful, more wealthy & powerful. As we see here, small companies can't deal with the tariff complexity, and so they turn away American customers. Large companies can h
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by coldpie 1y ago
Spotify is an unbelievably shitty company, literally any other music service is better for everyone involved.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I'd love a solution that would fix the problem for everyone, sure, but since the evidence is that is apparently impossible, I'll happily take one that only helps a subset.
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by coldpie 1y ago
This seems solvable. Put the person most closely traceable to the source of the spam in jail, like a form of KYC laws. If you can't identify the actual human who is causing you to put spam into the network, or that person is outside

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