locusofself

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by locusofself 7mo ago
The AI stuff and Windows 11 have been big drivers of bashing
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by locusofself 7mo ago
It is, although considering my age (41), I would hope the college thing is not very important anymore. The only time in recent history that I've been ghosted after mentioning no degree (when asked) is ByteDance a few years back, and I
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by locusofself 7mo ago
It apparently used to be even much better to work here. I've been here 6 years now. There is naturally a lot of "talent" exchanged between here and Amazon, which has influenced the culture.
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by locusofself 7mo ago
It's true. As a matter of fact I credit a lot of my career to being made fun of on IRC in the 1990s for running mIRC client for Windows, because you were not "leet" if you didn't run Linux or FreeBSD, which took my down
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by locusofself 7mo ago
It kindof sucks waking up every day, checking HN or YouTube to see one or several new posts bashing on your employer. Not that many of them aren't warranted, and that a multi-trillion market cap company isn't fair game for critici
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by locusofself 7mo ago
It's when people (or bots) acting in bad faith make a lot of noise to make it seem like there is a strong support for some (usually bad) position. It' a play on the term "grassroots". Fake grassroots=astroturfing
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by locusofself 7mo ago
I had the good fortune of going to Croatia (as an American) for work about 10 years ago, and I milked that trip hard. What a beautiful country. Dubrovnik, Split, Hvar Island, it was pretty magical.
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by locusofself 7mo ago
Pete Hegseth (and Trump) are such cartoon-villain buffoons. Anthropic is a "Supply Chain Risk" much the same as Rene Good was a "Professional Agitator" or "Domestic Terrorist". I pray that Trump gets crushed in
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by locusofself 7mo ago
when you say "audio interface" I assume you mean like, "Hey Siri" and not an audio interface as in recording device, right? So we are talking about a HomePod with a screen, or like one of those Meta "Portal" th
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by locusofself 7mo ago
Jeez. I'm glad I "splurged" for the 24gb RAM in my macbook air. Should last me a few more years..
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by locusofself 7mo ago
such a good tune
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by locusofself 7mo ago
This is what I thought. The iMessage integration makes sense I guess though.
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by locusofself 7mo ago
To be clear I'm not saying being divorced is a failing. But he has now been married 3 times, and has admitted to having extramarital affairs with prostitutes, as well as "supporting" them financially.
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by locusofself 7mo ago
why were mac minis so popular for this compared to any other machine, cloud VPS or local VM?
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by locusofself 7mo ago
The market is spooked by capex projections generally. Interesting that Microsoft, despite some apparent hesitation in 2025, seems to be still going all in on AI spend over the next several years according to the most recent earnings call.
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by locusofself 7mo ago
I listed to this audiobook several years ago, and while it intrigued me to an extent, I had a hard time getting past the fact that the guy (who is an American white guy), calls himself "Culadasa". I also found it troubling to try
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by locusofself 7mo ago
C# is a great language, and .NET is a really good runtime that is cross-platform. I would personally chose it over Java, and I think it is more "batteries included" than Go. If you need to write a business/web application tha
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by locusofself 7mo ago
Sounds like Microsoft too.
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by locusofself 8mo ago
I realize this does nothing to solve your problem, but for the sake of discusion, internally at Microsoft, pretty much all the developers I know have switched to using "Devbox", which means we use a remote desktop client to access
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by locusofself 8mo ago
I wonder if Michael Bury's puts printed. The stock is down about 30% from when I think he announced them.
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by locusofself 8mo ago
Another commenter basically deduced this
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by locusofself 8mo ago
No mention of the Kinesis Advantage 360? I was lucky and scored two of them for free, one from the ergo center at my employer, and one from a generous coworker who didn't vibe with his. There are a lot of keyboards I'd like to try
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by locusofself 8mo ago
8 years ago or so I had a job that necessitated doing a bunch of LDAP integrations and I tried FreeIPA, openLDAP and others. It was such a pain. OpenLDAP (slapd) was actually configured using... LDAP. Yes, you configured an LDAP server usin
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by locusofself 8mo ago
My thoughts exactly. I'm not 100% ideologically against piracy or training LLMs on copyrighted datasets necessarily, but it is definitely not their data..
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by locusofself 8mo ago
we are also stressed, scared for our jobs and bombarded by constant distraction
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by locusofself 8mo ago
I have used Linux on and off since 1997. A few weeks ago I decided to try Linux on a laptop for the first time in a very long time, having only used Linux for cloud servers for many years. I may have picked a bad device for it, a Surface St
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by locusofself 8mo ago
We've had both GPT and Claude models available to us in Github Copilot for some time. At first, it was only GPT models.
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by locusofself 8mo ago
Working at Microsoft, I've just now hooked up to Claude Code (my department was not permitted to use it previously), through something called "Agent Maestro", a vscode extension which I guess pipes claude code API requets to
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by locusofself 8mo ago
Crowding around our first ever computer, a 120mhz pentium with 16mb of RAM and a 1.6gb hard disk, watching that Weezer video on the CRT monitor with my whole family is a cherished memory.
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by locusofself 8mo ago
ya, starting with M1, Apple really broke away hard. Windows laptops, especially of the thin-and-light variety, are so bad by comparison.

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