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by habosa 2y ago
Almost nobody think Ryobi is the best, and almost everybody agrees they’re plenty good for a non-professional toolkit.
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by habosa 2y ago
> Google's API docs never load I used to work on the team that served those docs. Due to some unfortunate technical decisions made in the name of making docs dynamic/interactive they are almost entirely uncached. Basically ever
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by habosa 2y ago
Ok but … that means Sam was still greedy and overconfident enough to try and run both OpenAI and YC until Paul/Jessica told him he had to choose.
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by habosa 2y ago
Some of these are very nice and not simple for most people to implement (animated button border, for example). But some others are so trivial I wonder why they bothered. For example Linear Gradient: https://magicui.design/do
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by habosa 2y ago
I assumed IP address tracking was easy? I seem to often get ads relevant to people who share my home WiFi network.
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by habosa 2y ago
This is remarkable. 1800W is like a fancy blender, amazing to be able to do a useful MRI at that power. For anyone who is unaware, a standard MRI machine is about 1.5T (so 30x the magnetic strength) and uses 25kW+. For special purposes you
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by habosa 2y ago
It might not change anything, but I think the criminal penalties for scams need to be significantly raised. The idea of reaching out to someone you don't know at all and attempting to steal their money by lying and betraying their conf
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by habosa 2y ago
Google routinely uses agencies for this kind of work (I have been on both sides). A marketing website like this would be a ~$100,000 spend (depends how many pages and how many creative assets).
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by habosa 2y ago
Haven’t installed it yet but this looks fantastic. The combination of tools, env, and tasks is a perfect magic trio of things almost every dev machine needs. The author has done a great job of addressing a need while keeping things simple,
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by habosa 2y ago
Do people really consider reading fiction a waste of time? I’d love to meet someone who says reading Mark Twain or Toni Morrison or Vladimir Nabokov is a waste of time. Actually … I don’t think I’d like to meet that person. There are defini
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by habosa 3y ago
OpenRouter is a great step in that direction: https://openrouter.ai/
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by habosa 3y ago
Had wacky ideas for sure but calling him a quack after the Manhattan Project isn’t fair. Besides his foresight on the hydrogen bomb, he also was one of the first major names in science to raise the alarm about climate change: https:/&
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by habosa 3y ago
This is super impressive! I am really looking forward to the day when dictation like this can be done locally on our phones. I'd really like to do a lot of my basic messaging with my voice but the need to do corrections with that tiny
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by habosa 3y ago
This sucks but was inevitable. Libraries are such a weird and wonderful thing. Even though books are widely sold, there’s a place where you can go and read them for free instead. And it’s not some weird loophole, it’s a basic unit of our so
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by habosa 3y ago
Dealing with the IRS is never fun because it normally means you owe money but I have to say they’re quite competent (once you get a hold of them) and their digital services seem to be improving constantly. Nice to see a branch of government
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by habosa 3y ago
Regardless of who is right here, I think the enormous egos at play make OpenAI the last company I’d want to develop AGI. First Sam vs. the board, now Elon vs. everyone … it’s pretty clear this company is not in any way being run for the gre
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by habosa 3y ago
An underrated thing about Waymo: If you open Uber and the app says a car is 9 minutes away that’s really anywhere from 5 to 15. With Waymo if they say it’s 9 minutes to get a ride they mean 9 minutes. They’re not waiting for a human to acce
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by habosa 3y ago
See comment by the CEO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476663 Retool is very widely adopted by major companies.
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by habosa 3y ago
FedEx may have the worst and least secure digital platform for a major company. Some examples I’ve noticed: 1. I moved into a 10-unit apartment building and wanted to set up FedEx Delivery Manager. I just put in my new address, no verificat
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by habosa 3y ago
On top of being a successful founder and a great writer, Michael is also a uniquely nice and generous person. He was the second customer of my startup and, before paying, advised me to raise the price.
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by habosa 3y ago
Does anyone know of a good open source syntax highlighting library for Vue SFC? That’s my biggest issue with the file format (I maintain a code review tool)
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by habosa 3y ago
One of the best pieces of software you’ll ever use. And if you do find a bug, the maintainer will fix it within hours of your Github report.
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by habosa 3y ago
I joined a startup founded by a friend (not a very close friend, but still) and worked there for 2 years. Overall it was a very positive experience and I think it strengthened the friendship. I felt like I was able to be way more honest thr
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by habosa 3y ago
Running an app store for consumers just seems wayyyy off course from their stated goal of building AGI. Running any kind of two-sided marketplace with paying customers is quite a big undertaking, I just can't see how this is the best u
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by habosa 3y ago
Sad that in 2024 people continue to set their Firebase security rules to be wide open. Back in maybe 2015-2019 that was excusable because that was the default but now it’s just lazy. Don’t expose your database / api / blob storage
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by habosa 3y ago
Just curious, what’s flakey about it? I’m not at Google anymore but I was a core contributor to the Firebase emulators project when I was. I can think of many flaws with the emulators but flakey is a new one to me
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by habosa 3y ago
People who think the examples the lawsuit are “fair use” need to consider what that would mean. We’re basically going to let a few companies consolidate all the value on the Internet into their black boxes with basically no rules … that see
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by habosa 3y ago
2019: The rent is too high, SF is a bubble. 2023: The rent isn’t going up, SF is dying. What if, maybe, SF actually has found a period of relative price stability as a very expensive place but no longer the most expensive place. Seems like
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by habosa 3y ago
This system is so good I have no idea why it’s not everywhere. It’s magic.
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by habosa 3y ago
I think you’re making two assumptions that I doubt. 1) That people with mental illness cannot keep themselves housed assuming housing is available and affordable. 2) That the seemingly high prevalence of mental illness is a cause of homeles

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