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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
A really good pattern-matching engine is an "insane leap of science fiction"? It saves me a bit of typing here and there with some good pattern matching. Trying to get it to do anything more than a few lines gives me gibberish, or
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
HDD or SSD? SSD can effectively make up for SOME amount of less RAM due to faster swapping, in my experience.
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
People with those characteristics are often wealthy: can't have "real skin in the game" if you're just a pleb with a mortgage, 2 kids and 2 cars in a middle-class neighborhood, right? At which point, once again, those wi
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
This. 1000x this.
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
ublock origin on firefox (Android) works great for me. But, I haven't touched Apple in 30+ years, so I have no idea about that ecosystem.
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
I mean... Maybe the things I'd LIKE to work on are getting my car around the race track faster. Very few people will pay me for that - especially if I'm not a very good driver. But I enjoy it immensely. I'd MUCH rather do tha
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
I mean, if I could live at my current level (middle class) without working, I would gladly do so, and let others also live at the same level, anywhere in the world, freely (if it was in my power). I do give to charity, always have, but, the
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
And then you let them train themselves and no one notices when they "accidentally" remove the guardrail prompts from the next version. And another 10 years later, almost no one remembers how "The Guardian" learns new thi
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
It's probably an 80/20 or 90/10 problem. Tesla FSD also seems amazing to some percentage of the population, but the more widely it get used, the more cracks are appearing.
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
Right there with you. Sure, I have gained a lot as a software engineer in the valley (I guess I'm upper-middle class now), but I'd give it up and go right back to lower-middle class (1980s) status I was raised in if it meant my ki
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
1990? We were solid lower-middle class, and I got a computer for Christmas in 1983. I bought my own, from $$ saved by working in 1987.
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by hn_acc1 7mo ago
This 1000x. "Free" is only a viable business model if the govt funds it. Otherwise, the $$ has to come from somewhere else in the company - how long will it take for the company to lose interest in a loss-leader when they're
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
While I sadly have to have a phone for some things (Okta, for example, for work) and in general for phone calls / texting, I try to install as few apps as possible. If there's a web interface and I don't need the info with me
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Tell your parents that with this stuff enabled, it's giving another way for scammers to steal their data to use against them. I.e. We're from the internet company. Really, you are? Yes, didn't you watch XYZ on Netflix last ni
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
I mean, a "live" option booted off a USB drive is pretty common for linux? Pretty sure Slackware has one, and probably most other distributions? I think this actually installs ChromeOS Flex? I guess Google will do anything to incr
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Agreed. I remember (a long time ago) being on an internship (workterm) and after doing some amount of work for the day, I spent some time playing around with C pointers, seeing what failed, what didn't, what the compiler complained abo
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
I run as few apps as possible, use Firefox / Ublock on my phone. I do play the odd card game (ad-supported), but only 1 or 2 times a month. I may just buy the app outright at some point. Does sharing location with family (Android) leak
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
As an old-school programmer who thought computers would improve people's lives back in the 80s when I was a wide-eyed teenager.. I am constantly appalled by the current generation of SV people who are very right-leaning and are happy t
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
>Bollocks. I've been making grid connected hardware for decades, there is nothing magical about any of that. You just need to be careful, use proper fusing and you need to know how to read the electrical code. I would say that rules
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
There are a couple of apps I use that I kind of need: jb4 and Mando ECS (both for my car). Would be nice if they worked - anyone know? My S21 FE 5G is still fine (for now), going on 3 years. But I'm sure Samsung will cripple the batter
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
I'd rather buy from Doohickey.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
It was only ever a thing to promote civil war grievances.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Do you download `ls` from anything resembling an "app store"?
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
They would give OpenAI anything they want if they proclaim the current guy the bestest and biggliest president of all time, ever. (edit: I meant, if chatgpt were to consistently claim that the current guy is the greatest president ever)
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
So you now have 400Kloc of Rust code? Doing what? How much of that is "new"? I can't get Augment / Opus 4.5 to edit a few C++ files from within VSCode without going off on a wild goose chase or getting stuck in an infini
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Which probably means they scan it extra hard.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
I assumed it was related to employment as well.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
Reminds me a bit of how yahoo got started: categories, sub-categories, etc.. Of course, back then they had thousands of websites to categorize not billions.
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
That's where advertising comes in..
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by hn_acc1 8mo ago
I think CA has bigger issues to tackle than repealing Prop 65 (IIRC, that's the one about carcinogen warnings). The other, may be happening in some places, but having lived here 20+ years in the Bay, I haven't seen even one exampl

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