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by mikestew 6mo ago
Okay, point taken.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
It's not a comparison, people either got "really rich" working for a big tech company, or they didn't.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
This behavior is probably overrepresented in the bougie places reporters live. I live in Redmond, WA. Bougie? My rube Midwestern ass thinks so. And there are feral kids all over my neighborhood. Plenty of kids walking to school in groups,
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I imagine those three companies have minted quite a few IC millionaires (let alone management). But maybe high single-digit millions isn't what you consider to be "really rich", dunno.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
There’s a reason that I specified sand in your bucket. :-)
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Amazon and your local auto parts store both sell them, they’re not expensive, so what’s holding you back? Just remember that they burn for 20 minutes or so, and you can’t extinguish them. (Well, a bucket of sand works.)
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by mikestew 6mo ago
You're using commonly-used chars to indicate quotes, but you're not quoting anything anyone has typed. What are you on about?
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by mikestew 6mo ago
“LH (Longhorn) is a pig.” Of historical note is that this was sent seven months before the Great Reset where a lot of the work on Longhorn got scrapped. The .NET and Windows teams never seemed to get along after that.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
“$9.99/year”. <closes tab> C’mon, man, there’s not even a backend to support. Want more revenue next year? Release a new version that’s a compelling upgrade.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
But I was wondering if there's truth to the billionaire class being hypocritical and thin-skinned. It seems obvious to me, given the public meltdowns we’ve seen over the smallest of slights. IMO, I shouldn’t even have to name names.
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by mikestew 6mo ago
https://archive.is/RYGYO
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Key point to explain why states aren't being allowed to regulate gambling (oh, pardon me, "financial markets"): "President Donald Trump’s eldest son is an adviser for both Kalshi and Polymarket and an investor in the la
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by mikestew 6mo ago
Current post is from the creator (not that I particularly care one way or the other): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694065
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Dunno about you, but I like the increased viscosity in my sauces when I use glue: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o
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by mikestew 7mo ago
The Fremont plant doesn’t make Ys, only Xs and Ss. And no one is buying the latter two.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Rip 'em to a NAS and put the DVD in the attic?
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. I made a good-faith effort at searching the site for anything requesting volunteer work, and came up empty. Got a pointer? What are t
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I’m not talking about your buddy’s Android phone, the context was embedded systems with firmware you’re not going to find on xda developers. A “friend” isn’t going to know jack shit about installing firmware on an industrial control.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
As an embedded programmer in my former life, the number of customers that had the capability of running their own firmware, let alone the number that actually would , rapidly approaches zero. Like it or not, what customers bought was an ap
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by mikestew 7mo ago
U. K. 240v vs. 120v in the U. S., twice the voltage == twice the amperage (EDIT: oops, wattage, for the same amps) == half the time to boiling. I will note that doubling the voltage will still not make it "instant". For that I thi
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by mikestew 7mo ago
That’s begging the question, you have to first establish the need for protein at every meal. And I’m not even going to begin to address that digression.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
On a similar note, I wondered if my week Mac still called the main volume “Macintosh HD”. Yup. When is the last time Apple marketed their computers as “Macintosh”? And when’s the last time they sold one with a “hard drive”?
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by mikestew 7mo ago
Short answer: probably not. Discussion from almost ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14472265 There is the Internet Archive, but the scans aren’t great: https://archive.org/details/omn
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by mikestew 7mo ago
It indeed has a fishy smell to it. But as I thought through it, if it were free then some bozo would spam an entire address database and then we can't have nice things anymore. The ten year expiration is sketchy, but I guess someone is
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by mikestew 7mo ago
USPS would still need to check each stop for outgoing mail. No they don’t, that’s what the red flag on the mailbox is for. Everywhere I’ve lived, if you don’t put the flag up and there’s no incoming mail for you, they don’t stop.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
$8, and that all stops for ten years: https://www.dmachoice.org/static/consumer_choice_tools.php I’ve done it (several times, ‘cuz ten years), you’ll notice an almost immediate reduction in junk mail.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
“March is often a big month for snowstorms,” Schumacher said. “Instead of getting snow we would normally expect we got this unprecedented, way-off-the-scale warmth.” ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr&
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by mikestew 7mo ago
I was expecting the Dell to be some 7 lb. all-battery monster, but no, it weighs in at a claimed 3.4 lbs. Variable refresh rate obviously plays a role, if you don’t mind reading web pages at 1Hz.
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by mikestew 7mo ago
And yet Sea-Tac on Tuesday morning didn’t look bad, and with TSA Precheck Touchless, it was a few minutes. Apparently Sea-Tac has a very low TSA absentee rate: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sea-tac-buc
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by mikestew 7mo ago
"U.S. intelligence agencies may now face legal hurdles in directly targeting and collecting personal data on Valencia González because of his place of birth. That risks hindering a significant tactical partnership that has developed be

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