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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Did you miss the World War that's currently on...? Yes. What World War? I don’t think the number of shooting conflicts going on right now significantly exceeds the number of shooting conflicts that have been going on since 1950. H
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I’ve used ST2 on and off for many years, and it blows the socks off folks at every place I introduce it. Unfortunately, some places have a strong resume-driven-development policy, so if it isn’t on the hip new cargo cult list of the day, no
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I loved Mazda for a long time, but the past few years they appear to believe they are a luxury brand, and are pricing accordingly. They are not a luxury brand, I’m on my third car purchase since owning a Mazda, and every single time I consi
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Some of those additives are _wild_
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> Come on now, people have done it for hundreds of thousands of years. Come now, people also used to die from toothaches, and during those hundreds of thousands of years infant and child mortality was incredibly high, and education pract
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Welcome to the Kibbutz
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That wasn’t as exciting as you appear to think it was. I have family from Ukraine (now living with us) and worked with a lot of Ukrainians (and Russians) when the shooting war started. Most of my current contractors are displaced Ukrainians
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> I find it odd that there is this widespread meme—on HN, not in the industry—that microservices are never justified. Many HN patrons are actually working where the rubber meets the road. DNS is a poor comparison. Pretty much everything,
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> I know 0 people who use more than two monitors on any OS. Three in this thread alone, and shifting the goalposts from “studies show it is bad” to “I don’t know anyone with multiple monitors” or “It is tiring to move your head around al
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Come on, those are not “studies” - they are just the opinions of some random people, and they carry no more or less weight than, for example, my opinion, which is “you can pry my 4 x 27” screens out of my cold, dead, hands.” The NYTimes art
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As if NVIDIA is going to let the non-wealthy plebs anywhere near DYI AI
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That’s literally what it means, and it’s a minor nitpick I have - it’s an English paper, just use English. Using the German word here just increases noise.
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> "Don't mess with paste" You are my hero
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Project Primrose: Adobe's mind-blowing digital dress which can change patterns(euronews.com)
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We used to have something like that and didn’t like it https://networkencyclopedia.com/netbios/
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So, banning lobbying is bad because it stops lobbying?
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You could have a look at some of the Scandinavian countries. It’s not “full UBI” but it isn’t far off either. I think you will find that much of what you are expressing concerns about isn’t really happening at any kind of meaningful scale.
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You make a lot of random assertions here and speak with confidence about what is and isn’t feasible, yet your only point of reference appears to be a sci-fi novel. Perhaps you can bring some facts to the discussion?
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“Stop buying their stuff” is a perfectly valid action to take, especially when many alternatives abound. As computer manufacturers, they are not even in the top 3, with less than 10% market share in terms of units shipped. https:/&#x2
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> Since Apple isn’t able to handle legitimate requests to disable the Activation Lock like mine, you should turn on Find My on your own MacBook, or risk it becoming a brick like mine. Or don’t buy overpriced gear from a company that is a
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Kagi has a “Small Web” lens to help surface relevant search results
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Fun fact: The wheel impact guns are all custom-made for each team, there is a single company that makes them, Dino Paoli https://www.dinopaoli.com/en/motorsport/ Also see https://www.finepowertools.com&
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I would assume they have processes in place that incentivize quality. > you think that OpenAI would not have given this a bit of consideration? Those are just assumptions though. The issue is not “this was labelled as a shoe, but it
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Are they getting paid on quantity or quality?
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> "Increasing efficiency" is mostly a theater meant to demonstrate effort during low/no growth periods and without viable products in development to validate such dynamic. That really depends on the business. I worked with
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What you are describing is also known as “The Peter Principle” which holds that everyone will eventually be promoted to their level of incompetence. Smart companies know this and make sure it doesn’t cripple their business.
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> Macs are some of the easiest things to administer because of the rock solid MDM, nuke and block, lost item mitigation (as soon as declared lost, can wipe remotely, and even sometimes track via geolocation for filing police reports and
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> Apple has been pretty clear they really don't want you poking around on their systems. Sorry, _Who’s_ system? Apple can do with their systems whatever they want, but mine is mine, not Apple’s
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> things get more stable financially and the company can adjust the budget accordingly. Ah yes, Microsoft. The company known for being so cash poor and not making money from their OS.
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I spend a disproportionate amount of time on PRs at $client and recently got dinged for not performing “enough” so I stopped reviewing PRs. PRs have dwell times of weeks. It’s all broken, but somehow we are all convinced that this is better

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