macNchz

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by macNchz 3y ago
I have a 50 foot fiber HDMI cable to get 4k/120hz signal from the PC in my home office to the TV in the living room. Works great!
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’m a Photoshop user who also runs Gimp (I typically use Linux but have a Windows partition and a Mac laptop). Gimp is totally fine for miscellaneous day-to-day basic stuff, but if I’m going to settle in and do any serious image work for
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by macNchz 3y ago
I do think the term “kill switch” sort of prompts you to envision some kind of operations center with people watching you drive and a big red button they can use to instantly disable your car, whereas the reality is likely going to be much
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by macNchz 3y ago
Rinse also bought NYC’s FlyCleaners. I remember seeing the FlyCleaners vans around the city, very shiny and new at first, slowly become rather strikingly decrepit with dents, broken trim and loose bumpers. There are lots of old school lau
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by macNchz 3y ago
> Its undeniable that we exist at or very near the point in time marking a phase change I'm the nature of complex thought in pur little corner of the universe. I’d question whether it is “undeniable”, but I do think this sounds like
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by macNchz 3y ago
> There is no product manager. There is a project manager. They steer on deadlines and functionality, nothing more. A glance at LinkedIn suggests you’re correct: the Sunbird app team seems to include a bunch of business people, a project
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by macNchz 3y ago
I do think the imperative to maintain their lead over the competition in product quality will be stronger than ever after this–the whole thing has been messy and dramatic in a way that no business really wants their major vendors to be.
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by macNchz 3y ago
Thanks, I managed to not be aware of this list until now, despite lots of professional experience building for the web, including two years working at a company that hosted 150k subdomains containing user-generated content.
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’ve been in Mugatu "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills" mode for a few years now, watching events unfold in the tech world, and, as you said, the rest of society.
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by macNchz 3y ago
Having grown up in a rural place, I’d say the way infrastructure is built in America arguably serves the rural poor the worst. Totally dependent on cars to go anywhere, with effectively no choice but to spend a large portion of your income
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by macNchz 3y ago
Regardless of how they work, LLMs are already quite enmeshed in the world of humans–“participating” to a degree in our interactions and discourse, used every day by millions of people who do not and will not have a mathematical mental model
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by macNchz 3y ago
It’s funny how often this works, there’s a ton of copypasta code in production out there. I do some bug bounty hunting for fun, and just yesterday I Googled a weird snippet of frontend code from a major corporation, found the matching backe
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by macNchz 3y ago
From page 2 of Schedule J (at the bottom) they break out the components of the compensation, showing that most of those numbers incorporate a base salary that looks fairly normal with 2-600k of bonus & incentive comp on top. In curious
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by macNchz 3y ago
Out of interest, their top vendor costs on their 2021 form 990: $7m Twilio $4m Microsoft $3m AWS $1.3m Google https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...
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by macNchz 3y ago
> For example in 2007, making good sounding music required at least a studio. If you wanted to record 4 microphones at the same time, you needed expensive hardware. Doing any kind of music editing required a huge machine and expensive so
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by macNchz 3y ago
Realistically I think the only way to create verifiably-human-made digital content is basically a end to end chain of trusted computing DRM from keyboard or camera lens to final product, which seems dystopian in its own way, impractical, a
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by macNchz 3y ago
> how will this basic functionality translate to the rest of the app? It won't. It certainly will lead to fun and productive conversations like “it’s already working right there! Why is it going to take so long to get it into the
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by macNchz 3y ago
As I understand it, washing reduces the presence of salmonella on the outside of the egg (which is less of a concern in Europe where vaccination against it is more common). It’s a tradeoff though, as it makes the egg more permeable and ther
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by macNchz 3y ago
> People in the US also think they need to refrigerate eggs. Eggs in the US are washed (by law) before sale, which removes their natural protective coating, therefore requiring they be refrigerated. In other places eggs are sold unwashed
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by macNchz 3y ago
I think the number of items that any given office worker in today's environment has to juggle far, far exceeds working memory, never mind that using working memory to maintain a running list of tasks precludes or at least contends with
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by macNchz 3y ago
My wife has a copy of the DSM 5 on our bookshelf, and flipping through it I noted that very many disorders have diagnostic criteria that, beyond just having some symptoms, they cause significant distress or impairment of functioning. I had
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by macNchz 3y ago
Arguably there’s plenty of benefit and enjoyment to be had in the outdoors regardless of whether wherever you are would make a “top-100 list”. I also think that too many Americans today err on the side of avoiding potentially rewarding acti
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by macNchz 3y ago
The vulnerabilities in some of the AI generated code I’ve seen really do look like something from 20 years ago. Interpolate those query params straight into the SQL string baby.
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by macNchz 3y ago
> people treat WAFs as a magic solution I think ultimately acknowledging that there are no magic solutions, only a variety of options that can each contribute to reducing the probability of something bad happening, is critical to approac
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by macNchz 3y ago
In the same vein, I also find it distracting to have people sitting or walking behind me–like my brain tries to maintain some awareness of them, which in turn makes me cognizant that people can see my screen, which itself is kind of distrac
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by macNchz 3y ago
I remember encountering CRTs burnt in so badly it was hard to read stuff in the worst areas (e.g. the taskbar clock or login prompt) but I haven’t encountered anything remotely close to that with current OLEDs. My iPhone and TV have no sign
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’m not following as to what the Apple store being able to repair phones has to do with them restricting others from making repairs? They were certainly able to repair phones just fine prior to implementing parts pairing.
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by macNchz 3y ago
What I was getting at was the idea of time spent on things that aren’t directly and immediately able to be, say, put into a sales demo, but instead impact the customer a but more tangentially, which is also when communicating clearly about
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by macNchz 3y ago
It was a contrived example given k8s is a ripe source of jargon and engineering rabbitholes/boondoggles, though I guess I could envision a real situation where some bad choices about which workloads run on which nodes wind up impacting
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by macNchz 3y ago
After years of driving largely nondescript cars, I bought a bright red BMW in 2016. What was remarkable was how noticeably different other drivers’ attitudes were towards me on the road, like they’re so conditioned by the typical drivers of

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