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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
And the baker then tells people to buy his bread, because it's so good, the butcher buys it every day!
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Sure - NOW. Growing up in the 80s? How did you FIND things? For example, a shop willing to install random non-OEM car part for me? I had to hunt through the yellow pages, cold-call a bunch of places, etc. My parents are STILL in that mind-s
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
This. Even watching cable TV in a hotel room feels like a different life. OTOH, my (teen) kids get a kick out of watching commercials sometimes, because it's something novel to them and they say it actually helps bring their attention
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
I have a few social accounts, but no apps installed on my primary, 2.5+ year old S21. I prefer to visit via browser (firefox, mostly).
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
And then wonder if they'll try to take your citizenship away anyway - the exact boat I'm in. Naturalized after almost 20 years of holding a GC, because I expected trouble with this administration - and now wondering they'll t
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Definitely got shingrix once I hit 50. The first one hit me pretty hard.. Did a blood antibody test, for some reason, no rubella anti-bodies. Will get that + dTap (9 years old, need tetanus booster soon anyway) before they outlaw them..
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Consider yourself lucky. My mom had measles as a kid (1940s) and for several years had a high rate of ear infections, etc.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Wasn't / isn't Grok already there? It already supported the "white genocide in SA" conspiracy theory at one point, AFAIK.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
CNN, ABC et al are on the left IN FOX NEWS WORLD only. Objectively, they're center-right, just like most of the democrat party.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
This. LLM is NOT the tool for a pharma lab - properly trained ML is the right tool. Heck, English is probably not even the right LANGUAGE to use for discussing chemical interactions.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
So are you still allowed real wine at communion then? A bottle of beer after working on your car all day? I know some christians who preach "100% dry", others are more relaxed. Some are fine with contraceptives (including many Pen
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
So that's not unlimited.. I could imagine a CEO could burn through 5GB pretty quick.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Do they come with free mid-tier phones? What if you need 4-5 lines? What if, as a CEO, he needs a better plan than "basic prepaid, lowest-priority-subject-to-throttling"?
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
I think he's quoting that from the other article, not necessarily computing it himself. I think that article was about the cost of broadband + smartphones. We pay ~$100/month for 1G broadband (I realize this could be lowered somew
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Had the same thing with an HP DV7 (IIRC) and nvidia 7600go. Baked it in the oven, and it booted up a handful more times, but ultimately died long before it should have. And I LOVED the more squarish form factor it had.. I got some $$ back f
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Agreed.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Another few orders of magnitude? Like 100-1000x more than we're already doing? Got a few extra suns we can tap for energy? And a nanobot army to build various power plants? There's no way to do 1000x of what we're already doi
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
You think that you will be ALLOWED to continue to use AI for free once it can create a LOT of wealth? Or will you have to pay royalties? The rich CEOs don't want MORE competition - they want LESS competition for being rich. I'm su
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Our minivan (Town and Country) can hold 20+ 4x8s and still close the back gate. I've done it with drywall. The guy with the fake pickup truck who helped me loaded them was amazed.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Sure, a phone could work - but only if you don't already have another server anyway. The downsides of a phone are probably too much of a pain over a cheap $50 used server.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Agreed on the last paragraph. When I grew up (long time ago), almost everyone saw the most recent <kids show> because there were only 3 or 4 on after school, and generally only one targeted towards each major peer group. Sure, you can
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
The billionaire overlords have already proven they have no ethics - they got to be billionaire overlords, didn't they? Maybe there's still enough ethics left in the general SWE population to make a difference.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
The main question is WHY? I already have a 3570K box running our NAS, plex, Wifi repeater admin, etc, etc, and it would be trivial to put up a web server via python or something.. If I had any need for it.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Depends on your phone. Just has to replace the battery on a generally always-plugged in Moto (at least after a certain age). Battery had pillowed out. It's acting as our "landline" with a link2cell on some old DECT handsets.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
If you're already paying someone monthly to "forward" ports, why not just pay for a blog somewhere? Way more secure.
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
There's a reason for most regulations - most of them are written in blood. Now sure, you may be the one "good corporation" out there, who will do things the right way and (edit: not) sell a cheap product or mislead anyone. Bu
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Ah yes, that's it. I had to hack on Bugzilla to customize it for our start-up.. Back in the day BEFORE they added a lot of end-user customization... UGH..
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
Yeah, as someone who occasionally had to hack on perl scripts - and I mean, maybe add/modify a hundred lines to add a new feature, then nothing for a few months, I found this too. Stop doing it for a while, and I had to relearn it all
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
So then we'd have 100x as much "vibe coding" as now? <shudders> Even if I disagree with our AI code assistant's usefulness - it often just suggests code based on "someone else in a different file used this sta
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
I interviewed for Yahoo Mail in '05 - multiple rounds and they ghosted me. IIRC, it was all going to be perl stuff.. I'd done some out of necessity a few years earlier, and hated it. In hindsight, glad they didn't respond - g

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