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by fragmede 1mo ago
Yes there are. My brother in law sold his startup and is sufficiently retired while raising my nephews. Not a common case, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not zero.
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by fragmede 1mo ago
Yes but they need people who can hang on to an HN account for longer than a day.
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by fragmede 1mo ago
Given... things, it's more like 1.9 breasts and testicles. I was talking with someone who just couldn't get why though.
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by fragmede 1mo ago
Given that it's basically an iPad at that size, and those have been around for 16 years, I wouldn't be so sure about that.
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by fragmede 1mo ago
We could still have soft evidence though. Make a Todo app on Monday, and make a Todo app on Tuesday, and see what it makes in comparison.
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by fragmede 1mo ago
Another phone model is massively more expensive compared to changing RAM or storage in, say, the macbook lineup.
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by fragmede 1mo ago
Rare? A simple shipping cardboard box is sized to fit either A4 or letter sized piles of paper. Simple enough to change, but fairly common.
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by fragmede 1mo ago
The US would need a president who is bullheaded enough to executive order a thing, like drop the penny or paper straws, but that also likes Europeans, so we might be waiting a while for a push from the US government. Printed media nerds, ho
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by fragmede 1mo ago
It's high, but Apple's financing arm has it at $84/month, which is a bit more stomachable if you really want it.
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by fragmede 1mo ago
They are so unwieldy that the US has a passport card because the passport is too big for frequent travellers. I also will complain about how my passport's ID page is the second, not the first page, so you open the passport, and then al
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by fragmede 1mo ago
Apple's submarine introduction of A* papersizes to the US.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
"Certifiably insane" to enable JavaScript, which was invented in 1995, or install an app, which first happened on the Palm series of smartphones in 1996. Either of those are "certifiably insane"? For reference, the term
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by fragmede 2mo ago
A "good" "engineer" got that way by not giving up when their code didn't compile and took 4 hours looking for the missing semicolon. We can no true Scotsman anything we want, depending on if we like something or not
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by fragmede 2mo ago
It's a metaphor.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
I dunno, have you tried the voice chat in paid ChatGPT?
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by fragmede 2mo ago
At the other end, 62 + 50 is 112, so there's a range/depends on who you ask. 50 + 50 + 50 = 100 tho
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by fragmede 2mo ago
I had someone tell me that Harris was going to make it illegal to be a Christian, so that's why she voted for Trump.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
ChatGPT does not have stockfish as a tool it can call.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
The problem is there is a noticable difference in behavior because the ISP cache is overloaded so queries take longer. Sure, that's not everyone's experience, but there's a reason people chose to use alternate servers.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Brian Cox's other talent, in addition to being a Rock Legend, is being an accomplished physicist.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
The question is, do we think Google would have the same problems running the service? (I'm biased from having worked there tho.)
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Money does go to the creators though, so Hank Green is getting money from my YouTube premium subscription and with your way he's not.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
If they eat something too big they literally break their brain and become stupid.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Smells are a strong indicator of this, with smells able to invoke memories in a way that nothing else can.
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Has it worked?
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Which axis of vendor lock in are you seeing possibly being disrupted by this? x86 is rather dominant, though ARM is making a play. RISC V just means AWS offers a different ISA on compute, you'd still be vendor lock-in'd to AWS&#x2
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Maslow's Hierarchy has been revised: https://www.adipsys.com/en/wi-fi-customer-experience/maslow-...
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by fragmede 2mo ago
By "ignored" do you mean everyone on the Internet yelling about it all over all the platforms?
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by fragmede 2mo ago
because human psychology is what it is, 1.5 degrees C is the wrong number to cite. 1.5 degrees C converts to 2 million TWh of energy. 2 million TERA watt hours! 120 million Hiroshima bombs worth of thermal energy. Spread over 100 years, t
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by fragmede 2mo ago
Or course, if Elon Musk decides to do something about it, even if everyone else agrees thinks it's going to cause more problems due to 2nd order effects, what's gonna happen? He gets called a Nazi a couple more times?

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