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by jyrkesh 7y ago
That's not even close to an exaggeration. I'm running only half those things (or their competitive equivalents) right now on a Windows box. I just checked and I've got 14.8 GBs in use. Fortunately, I have a Dell XPS 15 with
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
Except that when I use the old apps that used to use all my RAM, now they don't because I have more RAM. I don't blame the browser vendors (except maybe that V8 made JS juuuuuust good enough to make something like Node viable)
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That ignores the fact that those apps may have done even better had they invested in native alternatives. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that there's some non-zero set of folks out there that tried to switch from Ex
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
Developing on Windows or developing for Windows? My experience is that the former has significantly improved over the last couple years.
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Arbitrary code execution requires some kind of privilege escalation. If it's impossible, I don't have much interest in your OS.
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Eh, not in the US. I bought a 10 pack of 3M N95s last April in anticipation of forest fires that had screwed up air quality the last two years. They were $40 for the 10, so roughly the price of a latte per day. Fortunately, the fires didn&#
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
I agree with you generally, but the issue is really that we (in the US) replaced manufacturing with some combination of the perception and externalization of automation. We shipped it all overseas and said "we really don't car
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Oh, I didn't mean to imply that Zinus was lesser than Casper, or didn't come earlier. In fact, I'm fairly certain if we peel back the curtain, most of these American DTC mattress vendors are actually just Zinus under the hood
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> If you're building a substantial app then the fact that Electron apps require more memory is usually not a problem. Gonna need a citation on that. Every tab of Gmail I have open takes up more RAM than my fully-featured Outlook des
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The local police imprisoned a doctor for speaking out about a fast-growing pneumonia disease. They didn't just ignore it, they actively quashed discussion of it
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
I've been using https://meet.jit.si/ through OBS with family to share content/games and webcam chat. Works great on mobile with apps, desktop on web.
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
Actually, the crazy thing about placebos is that they work (albeit not as well), even if you know they're placebos. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
The problem with mattresses is that the DTCs like Casper got started just as the Chinese manufacturers were going "More Direct to Consumer". I can get a Casper-equivalent mattress from a no-name brand like Zinus for hundreds less
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
I'm having trouble seeing how those two positions/statements contradict each other. If markets need a correction, and then they get it, that is part of the business cycle. Also, "at this point" is at the point of one of
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The fact that there's a feasible market incentive for drug R&D suggests to me that that an actual competitive approach to health care would stimulate this sort of behavior on a more widespread basis.
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Oh my god, thank you for mentioning this project. I just deployed ZeroTier for some local infra, but in doing investigation, I was desparately trying to find the Nebula project name and GitHub. I was looking for "beacon", "li
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
Not sure if you need SSO (it doesn't do it), but if you can bootstrap with a cert or key of some kind, I've been loving Zerotier.
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Unless you're referring to something outside of GDPR, those laws explicitly exempt individuals not acting as processors.
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When you share something, whether it's publicly or within a closed loop of social media, it is inherently not within your control anymore. You can NEVER create any kind of guarantee that clicking "delete" erases every potenti
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Some of the best advice I've been given on this is to look at how the potential customer is already solving the problem today. If they're just ignoring the problem altogether, then they're not going to spend any money on you
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
Yeah, unfortunately, I do that externality a lot: scarfing food before bed to the point that I either stay up, or feel crappy in the morning I'm working on it
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I was shocked. Most of my tech savvy and industry friends were shocked. My parents were shocked. It was BLANKET metadata collection (and probably more). A Google engineer who eventually encrypted traffic between their internal data centers
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
It's a confirmation bias problem. Customers who fill out surveys and give direct feedback back to vendors are frequently lower-usage enthusiasts that aren't representative of your overall userbase. I work on a product, and we incl
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
You can't really insure against going to jail. As others have said, I think she was off the mark with regards to calling out "shareholders" vs. "managers" / "those actually responsible for making the crimi
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
Another N=1. My (horrendously self-destructive) MO is usually to: 1. Fast all day out of laziness: no food in the house, in the middle of something, one more thing, etc. etc. 2. Get incredibly hungry all of the sudden 3. Optionally push thr
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by jyrkesh 7y ago
Actually, they used to bundle O365 and Azure numbers together, but it's been broken out for at least a year or two: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2020-Q1...
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Wow, I did basically the same thing back in middle school! Noticed a checkbox on my computer teacher's monitor that said "Allow privileged applications to run unprivileged applications." Asked for AppleScript privileges so I
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"For security reasons" is laughable. They want your phone number because their "advisors" blow up your phone every month or two trying to get you to use their financial services (which I'll never do). They also like
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The receiver manufacturer has the license agreement. The point is that you can swap out said receiver for whatever supports whatever future protocol obsoletes Chromecast/AirPlay.
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In my experience, many of those requirements are waived or reduced in engineering and CS programs because of their significantly higher eng/CS course load. Not to mention those programs typically have a higher rate of students graduati

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