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by hylaride 1y ago
Yeah, nostalgia or historical learning is one thing, but these things can’t even browse the modern web (processors can’t handle modern TLS ciphers and our phones have higher resolutions that these can drive). You will be hard pressed to ev
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by hylaride 1y ago
Yeah, I remember about some people being immune or at least have something that keeps them alive. This is true for a lot of viruses. Some people were resistant to the black death and most of us are their descendants, for example. We can i
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by hylaride 1y ago
Good to know! My spouse used to work in HIV treatment, but at the time they were only considering it's use as such.
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by hylaride 1y ago
The ways the flu and HIV work are radically different. Most of the time your body can fight off the flu/colds, etc and once we do we're mostly immune. HIV specifically infects and then spreads by invading the body's white b
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by hylaride 1y ago
MacOS to me started to regress ~2012. I can’t remember what specific release it was, but one major MacOS release around then no longer remembered my MacBook’s external monitor layouts between work and home anymore and it was always “random
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by hylaride 1y ago
Also, Vanguard is run as a sort of cooperative where it is indirectly owned by the fundholders, which is why they were always incentivized to LOWER fees. The founder of Vanguard (Jack Bogle) probably left tens of billions of wealth on the
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by hylaride 1y ago
I'll half-disagree. There are situations where "workers" having a seat at the table can produce favourable outcomes. Some German companies have union representation on the board and it results in workers sometimes willing t
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by hylaride 1y ago
As a former UNIX administrator (now cloud/devops/SRE/whatever), I can attest that when seasoned professionals are tasked to maintain systems that often run critical code (for finance, government, healthcare, etc) where we are
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by hylaride 1y ago
> Some of us are a bit more comfortable with IVF-like processes because the intent is to foster human life rather than take it, just as it's acceptable to cause an abortion in the process of saving a mother. But that (fostering huma
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by hylaride 1y ago
My point is that some tech needs to be iterative. Apple Maps could have been a huge success at the same quality level if it was treated as a public beta . Map applications are never done, either. They require constant work anyways. It
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by hylaride 1y ago
The problem with Apple is that their corporate culture doesn't vibe well with a lot of new tech. Their culture of secrecy held them back with the original "smart assistants" as all the best talent were PhDs who wanted to pub
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by hylaride 1y ago
> Siri might just stop sucking completely at some point and then the comparison is between the Siri of the last several weeks and the old Siri. The same thing did happen to Apple Maps, but many people still default to google (though goog
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by hylaride 1y ago
> What am I missing? Right now, nothing major. At some point the big companies (Google, cloud flare, etc) may very well tire of having to pay more and more for ipv4 address that they may provide incentives for IPv6 (eg they could start
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by hylaride 1y ago
Same with Ive and Jobs. Ive was a great designer, but no usability expert. Jobs put practical limits on and as soon as Jobs was gone, Ive got total control. The result is some of the least-popular Mac laptops ever.
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by hylaride 1y ago
> I think Jobs makes the same mistake with U2 even if he is at the helm. But I think he would’ve been more effective at handling the fall out. Perhaps, but there probably would have been more thought over it than just shoving it onto eve
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by hylaride 1y ago
On top of that, Apple users tend to be in the upper half of the income distribution - like in the USA iPhones are 55-60% of the market, but that skyrockets to well over 80% in the upper income half. There's a reason advertisers salivat
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by hylaride 1y ago
> Immigration suppresses wages. Which suppresses native born childmaking, which fuels more government charity, erm, welfare, which dampens productivity, which erodes civil liberties. Japan and Korea have almost no immigration and abysmal
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by hylaride 1y ago
> The advantage X terminals had was that they were relatively inexpensive to buy and operate. This was not really true. Those terminals were often extremely expensive compared to "off the shelf" PCs of the time. They required
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by hylaride 1y ago
95%+ of North American intercity trains run on freight tracks, which are not designed to be as "smooth". On top of this, freight having priority means passenger schedules get messed up all the time. Freight trains carry heavy load
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by hylaride 1y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Ive probably had to compromise a lot with Steve at the helm. It is generally regarded that (laptops especially) Apple hardware went to form over function when Ive got total control and when
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by hylaride 1y ago
You can trace the BTC or Ethereal transaction of coins, but you cannot trace the criminals after it's converted to Monero or some other "privacy" chain on an exchange run on the dark web. After that you're just tracing
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by hylaride 1y ago
It obviously depends on how you use your data, but it really is surprising how far one can go with large tables when you implement sharding, caching, and read replicas. For tables with a lot of updates, Postgres used to fall over with data
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by hylaride 1y ago
Hilariously, I had the opposite experience; the Airbnb host was the one that partied when it wasn't booked. Either way our condo started enforcing a rule that was long on the books that owners couldn't rent out their unites for le
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by hylaride 1y ago
Not everybody is serving public http traffic, though.
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Over the years I’ve met several people that worked in the cartoon industry because where I live (Toronto) used to be an outsourcing market for many 1980s/1990s cartoons. The vast majority of the people that commissioned them, including
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by hylaride 1y ago
> Genuine question: how much credibility should then people give to Trump's "I inherited this mess from Biden..."? Pretty much none..except maybe the deficit, but republicans don't exactly deserve a pass on that, eith
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by hylaride 1y ago
Reagan benefited from the hard choices Carter made, including deregulation of the transport industries (especially trucking, but also airlines) that made it expensive and hard for companies to get their goods shipped to market. It was also
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by hylaride 1y ago
It seems most things in tech (OS's, databases, languages, etc) eventually become a race to zero unless you can provide some long-term service-level support for it the way most cloud computing vendors have. Sun should have probably bo
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by hylaride 1y ago
> It absolutely does NOT mean those things. I don't personally disagree with you, but today it pretty much does. Anyways, my point is that this is designed as a utilitarian, cheap truck that covers the use case that most pickup truc
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by hylaride 1y ago
> Yes, definitely. It being a 2 seater is kind of a deal breaker for families. What you need is not a pickup truck. Catering to families means expensive bells and whistles, like entertainment systems, etc. > Back in the day, we'd

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