macintux

3 ms·

1.
by macintux 5d ago
Deploying first to DC? Yeah, that’ll end well.
2.
by macintux 6d ago
Apple has, for most of its existence, been a distant second choice, because IBM and Microsoft captured the enterprise, which trickled down into consumer buying habits. It survived, then thrived, by making its products so appealing that cust
3.
by macintux 8d ago
https://www.investopedia.com/warren-buffett-paid-billions-to...
4.
by macintux 10d ago
> since Bush nearly doubled the size of the Federal Government and blew up our finances with simultaneous tax cuts + massive spending expansion We were 10 years from paying off the national debt when Clinton left office. 10 years!
5.
by macintux 11d ago
Some of us resent the assumption that we're AI because we know how to use the language, and use them more often.
6.
by macintux 12d ago
Not for the employees, obvs. I'm not going to celebrate misery, especially if that misery makes an already-tough job market that much worse.
7.
by macintux 12d ago
I haven't updated this in quite a while, so probably more than a few broken links: my list of distributed systems reading lists. https://gist.github.com/macintux/6227368
8.
by macintux 12d ago
For years, I've felt my dream application for my iPad would be a wireframe view of my vehicle that allowed me to explore the mechanical functionality as it moved. See the clutch interact with the transmission, see the 4-wheel drive eng
9.
by macintux 17d ago
This is the part that I feel the “just turn it off” crowd don’t think enough about. The algorithms helped give us the single most dysfunctional and corrupt US administration since the 1800s.
10.
by macintux 17d ago
> I've now uploaded my drivers licence, a photo of my passport and still apparently that's not good enough for them. After the recent news about >150 million drivers' license photos being stolen from an ID verification
11.
by macintux 17d ago
I just changed the hours on a business nearby, took ~3 days. Your experience is not universal, but definitely frustrating.
12.
by macintux 17d ago
My lone claim to fame, now harder to track down because Twitter decided my lack of activity was somehow suspicious and killed my account, was a brief exchange with Phil Schiller about pluralization of Apple devices. > One need never plur
13.
by macintux 18d ago
Several discussions this week, some merged, these not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495734
14.
by macintux 22d ago
I suspect the people who agree to buy Jira & Confluence are not particularly heavy users of them. At least, that's the only explanation I can fathom for their continued sales.
15.
by macintux 22d ago
Trump has demonstrated repeatedly, emphatically, and publicly that he does not care about the troops, or at least certainly not injured/captured/killed ones. Or minorities. Or non-citizens fighting for the country. Or citizens wit
16.
by macintux 22d ago
This comment is worrisome: > My Chase bank account was hacked early this year despite having 2 factor authentication, and when I contacted them to ask how, they said because the person used my actual driver’s license to verify their iden
17.
by macintux 23d ago
Which Copilot? At this point there are so many.
18.
by macintux 26d ago
Reading through https://www.mass.gov/doc/toxicology-of-the-lithium-ion-batte... , especially seeing the skin impact of a battery combustion in someone's pocket, is enough to make me think I should keep an inventory
19.
by macintux 27d ago
Naming something “America” is only for geography. He thinks anything man made should be named after him. He’s humble like that.
20.
by macintux 28d ago
China accepts a dictator. Russia accepts a dictator. India accepts a nationalist demagogue.
21.
by macintux 28d ago
I suppose we should be grateful he didn’t force his own name at the last minute. I suppose he still has time.
22.
by macintux 1mo ago
I wish, I desperately wish, this "both sides" fallacy would die. There has not been this level of chaos in government decision-making in generations. I have no idea how far back you'd have to go to find a president changing t
23.
by macintux 1mo ago
Predictability flew out the window with the last election. I simply do not understand how any business leaders supported this, but I suppose the ability to bribe their way out of chaos was appealing.
24.
by macintux 1mo ago
This type of outbreak is challenging because the symptoms take weeks to appear. (I don't disagree that an administration focused on widespread carnage can be blamed for making things worse.)
25.
by macintux 1mo ago
> Stopping progress in AI would make people’s lives immeasurably worse I’d really like to hear your reasoning for this. Were it used to make it practical for people to reduce or stop working while maintaining a comparable standard of liv
26.
by macintux 1mo ago
That’s why I’ve lost much of my optimism regarding U.S. politics. It’s fine, and healthy, to disagree on how best to deal with the world as it exists, but if we can’t agree on reality itself, compromise and progress are so much more challen
27.
by macintux 1mo ago
I become (irrationally?) annoyed when I find "cannoli" listed on a menu, especially at an Italian restaurant where they should know better, and it's a single cannolo.
28.
by macintux 1mo ago
Impressive level of detail, impressive work for anyone, much less high school students.
29.
by macintux 1mo ago
Thanks for the reference. For anyone else interested like me, Wikipedia includes a link to an archived copy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation
30.
by macintux 1mo ago
Hey, only 8 hours from open to close. What's all the complaining about? (I know, I know, no sarcasm here, but sometimes it feels necessary.)

More ›