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by fmajid 5mo ago
For an amusing take on the life of a systems programmer, James Mickens' "The Night Watch": https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
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by fmajid 5mo ago
I ordered a ThinkPad about a year ago, and removing Windows 11 Pro from the configurator saved me a cool £110 ($150). Despite this ridiculous overpricing, the surprising thing is, Windows isn't even in the top 5 businesses at Microsoft
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by fmajid 5mo ago
TBH, it was a train wreck apart from the actresses who played Moiraine and Lanfear.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
HP hasn’t manufactured its calculators in decades, thanks to Carly Fiorina.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
The originals (I still have my 1987 HP-15C) used silicon-on-sapphire technology, normally used for space, that ensured the amazing battery life. The keyboard domes had a complicated fabrication process to ensure optimum feel. The keycaps we
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by fmajid 5mo ago
It probably has the email on form autofill, as opposed to password manager login/email+password autofill, but I use a different email for each site and that doesn't help me. On which.co.uk or AliExpress I have to laboriously type
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Yes, ConnectX-7 itself is capable of 32x PCIe5 lanes, but the lane limitations of the GB10 SoC/chipset throttle it: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/networkin... .
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Your lap cooking. They generate enough to noticeably heat a room.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
My DGX Sparks are the first and only devices I have with 200W USB-C PD. Low power by AI workstation standards, but intolerable in a laptop.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
The ConnectX 7 2x200 Gbps networking card in the DGX Spark alone is worth $700
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by fmajid 5mo ago
There’s some research that suggests WFH is less efficient per hour worked, but people work more hours that they would have otherwise wasted commuting so it’s a wash. That said, the motivations of managers are seldom aligned with the interes
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Some requirements have force of law, e.g. complying with GPC in California or Colorado. So do accessibility features in many jurisdictions. Some are just basic decency, like providing alt txt for images. The approach of marking items as req
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Apparently it was LLM-generated, so the agent was pleading for itself :-) https://github.com/jdevalk/specification.website
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Never mind, it’s LLM-generated, not the product of considered thought. The W3C should really be doing this kind of curation. Or people like those who run caniuse.com.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Chiwetel Ejiofor is a phenomenal actor, that probably helped. This is more of an indictment of Hollywood’s creative bankruptcy than anything, strip-mining Star Wars or Marvel will only take you so far.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
I'd love best practices around, say, login forms, e.g.: - use standard input field names password managers recognize - disable autocompletion and autocapitalization on the login field - if it's an email, use the correct HTML5 inpu
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by fmajid 5mo ago
It's a compilation of best practices, and valuable as a one-stop-shop and checklist.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
There are adverse consequences to his stance, primarily in the form of foregone professional opportunities.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
They should have mentioned Tyrolian (Austrian) loden, a densely woven and felted wool that is reasonably water-resistant. Since that comes from the weaving, it does not require regular reproofing unlike a waxed cotton trench coat. I have a
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Really? All I get on my iPhone 16 Plus is mirroring of the screen. Unless it is a feature of iOS 26, that I refuse to install on my iDevices.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Android now has a desktop mode on phones like the Pixel that support HDMI out on the USB-C port
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Probably fear of it being rootkitted by the Chinese government
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by fmajid 5mo ago
A Gl.iNet GL-MT300N-V2 Mango costs $30 and does it far better. It’s also great for VPN-enabling a device with no VPN support like a smart TV or streaming box.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Vitsœ is now a British company, and their products are made in the UK as well.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Yes, the law of conservation of social capital applies in the UK. There is this inexplicable fascination with the despicable Mitford Sisters (one of which was Oswald's wife). The Germans don't pine for the glamor of Leni Riefensta
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by fmajid 5mo ago
And Peter Mandelson lobbying for them.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Palantir revolutionized the enterprise software playbook (more government than enterprise, but I digress) by investing heavily in Forward Deployed Engineers, Palantir engineers deployed at customer sites and working hand in hand with engine
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Well, UK Power Networks, the main electric grid for London and most of South-East England was owned by a Hong Kong company until recently (they sold it to the French). So basically Xi Jinping had the power to unplug the British Government a
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by fmajid 5mo ago
I never said that. I said Susa/Sush, the beginning of Iranian civilization, is nearly as old as Sumer, by about 500 years. Historians generally consider Sumer the oldest true civilization, even if there are older settlements that didn
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by fmajid 5mo ago
And that is why the EU is mandating user replaceable batteries in phones starting in Feb 2027. But I'm sure some HN readers will shout "My freedumb!".

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