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by macintux 2mo ago
Do not “both sides” this level of corruption and incompetence.
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by macintux 2mo ago
I used ChatGPT as a tour guide when I was traveling last year. It was helpful to identify places I should stop to take a look, explaining local flora, fauna and geology. I'd rather have had a real tour guide, but for the price it was q
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by macintux 2mo ago
And yet it’s (mostly) voluntary. You can leave your smartphone at home, and it’s generally not spying on people around you. Smart glasses obviously change that equation quite a bit. But they can’t come close to the panopticon of video camer
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by macintux 2mo ago
Were all the smartphones in the country constantly recording video to a central location for surveillance purposes, you’d have a point.
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by macintux 2mo ago
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257160
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by macintux 2mo ago
> then put them on UBI You may be too optimistic.
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by macintux 2mo ago
The categorization could use some work. "Comanche" shows up under mythology, for example.
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by macintux 2mo ago
If you really want to attract the hard-core nerds, name it "IEEE 754" instead.
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by macintux 2mo ago
My mother was a teacher, and she once had to go to school and tell her students our dog ate their homework.
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by macintux 2mo ago
My concern has been that companies with a huge install base (hi, Meta) would take advantage of this: "in order to provide you with the best experience, you have to turn off the restricted flag to install the next release of our app&quo
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by macintux 2mo ago
Growing up, almost every woman I was related to was in education. Principal, office staff, teachers. Now, almost every woman I'm related to is in health care. I've been joking for years that eventually everyone will either be in t
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by macintux 2mo ago
Seems like it’s been solid lately, or at least not quite so obviously broken. I was thinking last week that I hadn’t seen a GitHub outage on HN in quite a while.
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by macintux 2mo ago
I’m intensely grateful that despite rumblings, the company I contract to hasn’t switched from self-hosted Jenkins to GHA. Hopefully the steady drumbeat of failure will keep it that way.
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by macintux 2mo ago
Hotmail redux.
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by macintux 2mo ago
Remarkable level of detail. Favorited so I can read sometime when I'm not at work, while I also ruminate on how many other submissions I've favorited for the same reason and never returned to.
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by macintux 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755
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by macintux 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755
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by macintux 2mo ago
Regrettable English nit: "complement", not "compliment".
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by macintux 2mo ago
There are many challenging questions that should have been asked, and weren't.
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by macintux 2mo ago
There was an article shared today about skilled laborers are in very short supply wherever data centers are being constructed, so that may not be a universal truth.
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by macintux 2mo ago
I've run for office (as a placeholder) as a Libertarian. I've voted Republican at times, although I definitely lean liberal. I'll never vote Republican again, at least not until the party faces down its demons and returns to
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by macintux 2mo ago
I’ll never stop using a case. Too clumsy, too careless. 2-3 days without my phone would be manageable but why?
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by macintux 2mo ago
For me, the primary value of my phone is the camera, and the telephoto on the iPhone Pro Max models has gotten significantly better in the 2.5 years since mine was released. Were it not for the camera, I could have stopped upgrading 10 year
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by macintux 2mo ago
That’s a scary read.
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by macintux 2mo ago
The current administration is not remotely shy about proclaiming its interest in a Christian theocracy.
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by macintux 2mo ago
> Question: if the news reports something you don't like, is it fake? One of Trump’s many talents is corrupting language. The phrase “fake news” was originally used to criticize his many outright lies about what was going on in the
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by macintux 2mo ago
They’re typically on the hook for making sure those tasks are accomplished, however. I’ve spent 30 years in this industry doing my best to avoid that role, because that’s a terrible place to be.
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by macintux 2mo ago
em dashes are also sometimes used to express interruption in dialog. "I was thinking—" "Well, there's your first mistake"
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by macintux 3mo ago
That bothered me decades ago, when I heard people suggesting we no longer needed animal trials, we could just simulate human biology for testing. Don't get me wrong, the way we collectively treat animals is evil, but the idea that some
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by macintux 3mo ago
I have a suspicion that Google and Android aren't going to just vanish.

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