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by jasode 2mo ago
The article has a link to a previous Gruber article that mentions things falling to the ground because of "gravity" as an analogy for asking about seemingly basic questions about "why things happen". It's an article
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by jasode 2mo ago
>Enshittification as it was described by Cory Doctorow, who invented the term, Cory Docotor didn't invent the term. He just made it more popular. Others used it at least 9 years before he did to describe "web design"
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by jasode 2mo ago
In my case, the new HVAC owner is just another local resident that had an existing local area HVAC shop. Nothing to do with any private equity rollup.
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by jasode 2mo ago
>This goes for almost all software. 'entshittification' in software It's really every category of commercial activity. Restaurants food quality, cable tv channels, movie sequels, home appliances, airline travel, theme
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by jasode 2mo ago
>Well, yes, but avoiding taxes is not the point of "Hollywood Accounting", rather avoiding paying actors. I wasn't saying avoiding taxes was the purpose. Instead, I'm saying whatever "bogus" or "infl
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by jasode 2mo ago
>This works because a movie is not a separate accounting entity. Each movie is set up as a separate legal business entity (LLC). That's the SPV (special purpose vehicle). https://www.google.com/search?q=each+hol
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by jasode 2mo ago
>Home server is a perfectly fine term for that. I agree! Maybe my comment is misunderstood. I'm not saying "NAS" is the better term. Instead, I'm saying "NAS" is a common word that people have settled o
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by jasode 2mo ago
>That isn't a NAS, then. It's a home server. It's just 2 different usages of "NAS" for different contexts. In a business/enterprise environment, "NAS" is a more constrained definition of a single
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by jasode 2mo ago
>using an old PC I had and it works great. Don't know why people are so crazy about buying prebuilt NASes. The problem is the "old pc" is typically a desktop-class cpu which is very power hungry. (~100 watts). And to m
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by jasode 2mo ago
>What is your use case, if you don't mind sharing? I have custom utilities that detects moved/renamed files by analyzing heuristics of filesize, modification times, and creation times. It can work with files' timestam
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by jasode 2mo ago
>It seems pretty unambiguous to me. It's ambiguous and a contradiction because I think it's just an example of Steve Jobs saying one thing but his actual actions say something else. In his "full persuasion mode" (
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by jasode 2mo ago
>A month later, Steve Jobs did a special worldwide simulcast keynote speech about iTunes. People had been criticizing iTunes for having less music than the competition. They had 400,000 songs while Rhapsody and Napster had over 2 millio
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by jasode 2mo ago
>This is much, much simpler than you think it is. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager. The issue isn't what passkeys _are_ (e.g. explaining they are like public/private "ssh keys" and hoping
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by jasode 3mo ago
>Literally who cares what language a JS toolset is written in? Maybe you're being coy by asking a rhetorical question you already know the answer to but I'll answer as if you asked sincerely... There are 2 different groups in
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by jasode 3mo ago
>assembly driver >Way too easy to strip out the threads. An "assembly driver" or "installation driver" is meant to describe low-torque powered screwdrivers. They don't strip threads especially when use
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by jasode 3mo ago
>Does Apple actually have a winnable case Based on the previous thread, Apple seems to have damning evidence of wrongdoing by the (ex)employees before-and-after they left their positions at Apple: https://news.ycombinator.
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by jasode 3mo ago
Of the 1980s 8-bit computing era, the Commodore 64 was the "best value" for getting a lot of functionality for the price. It had 64k of RAM when some others only had 16k. It had a really good built-in sound chip with polyphonic
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by jasode 3mo ago
>More pertinently "the term is purely descriptive and therefore lacks the distinctiveness required for trademark protection." As I wrote in my other comment, "open systems" also can be purely descriptive and yet
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by jasode 3mo ago
>Open AI has an independent descriptive meaning as composite term. See my edit. "Open Systems" also had an independent descriptive meaning. The phrase "open systems" was a very common generic phrase in 1990s when
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by jasode 3mo ago
Maybe I'm using that website wrong but I clicked on "Word" as a filter and got these that are not figurative : https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/results?page=1&pageSize...
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by jasode 3mo ago
The story about the ruling really doesn't explain why another company called OpenText that's been around since 1991 and has a valid trademark registration in EU but OpenAI would be invalid. OpenText also has its Europe headquar
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by jasode 4mo ago
The online version is only for filing one return. Desktop installed version can file multiple returns so the overall cost is lower. https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/...
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by jasode 4mo ago
The gp you replied to mentioned "realtors" because this thread's article domain is: realtor.com
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by jasode 4mo ago
>I don't understand why HN seems so concerned about nailing down its "value proposition". You're getting sidetracked because of the particular phrase "value proposition" but a lot of people just use it a
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by jasode 4mo ago
>Running Windows 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC [...] have yet to encounter any issues. It depends on the type of software a user runs. I installed Windows 10 LTSC on a friend's computer last year thinking she could run it for at least 5
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by jasode 4mo ago
>pg is or was the owner of a very influential venture capital fund, that created projects such as Uber Uber was not a YCombinator company. For some unexplained reason, many mistakenly think it was a YC startup but it's not corre
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by jasode 4mo ago
The gp isn't talking about spam using "secure message" as bait to open unwanted email. Instead, legitimate companies like banks, healthcare, etc tell users to click on a url link to their "Secure Message Center" t
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by jasode 4mo ago
>With all the hate Ticketmaster has gotten [...], I'm surprised Ticketmaster still has a hold of pretty much the entire market. How are they doing this? This question is a common mystery because you're using the perspective
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by jasode 4mo ago
>We need to establish measures of accountability for data holders. Not securing customer data appropriately needs to be persecutable, and the affected parties need to be given a right for compensation. The ultimate entity that could ho
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by jasode 4mo ago
>, SQL teaches you [...] Without any wrapper masking low-level logic. I understand the point you're trying to make, and yes, it does seem like SQL is "low-level" from the perspective a wrapper like ORMs or a GUI db brows

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