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by mingus88 11mo ago
Wales certainly thought so. It’s a pretty pointless thing to stake your entire interview on, and all we get out of it is this low value clip. What a waste. From what I have read, the other guy was getting a salary from Wales early on, which
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by mingus88 11mo ago
Where I live, it doesn’t matter how far your lights throw down the roadway, you still have less than a couple seconds to notice the deer sprinting out of the woods directly in front of you
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by mingus88 11mo ago
LED upgrades were very popular in the early 2000s. IIRC that style of light was introduced by Lexus and Audi around 2003 The tuner community naturally started retrofitting those lights into their cheaper Hondas and Toyotas, as they were sig
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by mingus88 11mo ago
All cars in the U.S. used the same headlights up until the early 80s. You could literally walk into the auto parts store and buy a headlight to replace yours, regardless of make and model Somehow we all did ok back then with standard high&#
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by mingus88 11mo ago
I’m sorry, are you suggesting that Musk is an innovator?
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by mingus88 11mo ago
Eh, Wales is a grump but good on him for not entertaining this garbage style of gotcha interview. It’s clickbait in video form. I’ve never heard of this interviewer and by all accounts I would have preferred to keep it that way. But by bein
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by mingus88 11mo ago
This is a silly take. How many experts are available to provide “actual discourse” with everyone out there. That’s why experts write articles for encyclopedias. The issue that I have is that Wikipedia editors are terminally online political
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by mingus88 11mo ago
without any stability, you really can’t blame the player for playing this game. The days where you could devote your career to a firm and retire with a pension are long gone The author of this article wants a boring tech stack that just wor
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by mingus88 11mo ago
Good luck with that. This is the CEOs pet project, who spent 3mo openly and directly dismantling regulatory groups in the U.S. while at the same time threatening to pull out of key defense and aerospace initiatives if the poor guy didn’t ge
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by mingus88 11mo ago
Oh you hadn’t heard? Tesla, the manufacturer of mid sedans, an objectively bad truck, and zero FSD deliverables is going to populate Mars with robots https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-mars-opti... Whether o
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by mingus88 11mo ago
No the problem is zero accountability It used to be that we had systems such as Palantir who went out of their way to design these systems with ACLs and audit review. That was their trade off to get these powerful systems approved by respec
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by mingus88 11mo ago
Worth pointing out that a child of the 90s would have boomer parents. The very same generation that complains about the trophies invented the practice.
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by mingus88 11mo ago
I find it hard to believe that the UK corporate world is so different that they don’t have mandatory trainings with fancy certificates presented to you at the end.
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by mingus88 11mo ago
This is fine. Getting yourself into shape to even be able to finish a 5k or better is an accomplishment in itself. There is no comparison to the trophies that every little leaguer gets for having parents drop them off at practice. There are
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by mingus88 11mo ago
I’ve come to realize that HN doesn’t actually represent any facet of actual hacker culture It’s by and for established tech VCs and the types of startups that get funded In today’s political climate, HN is ultra-conservative in terms of wha
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by mingus88 1y ago
They are called potlucks or cookouts in the U.S. and they happen all the time. In fact, they are probably a lot more common than having a huge party (so large that you have to invite people in batches of half a dozen at a time) completely p
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by mingus88 1y ago
American cultural decline can be plotted directly against the rise of 24hr news, reality TV, social media. Is it any surprise that in 2025, our politics looks this way? This is what people want. It’s what they understand. It’s sad to think
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by mingus88 1y ago
There’s some nuance to it. Judging by the authors preference for Linux, I’m guessing this hobby has some professional applications as well. $3k is the price of a very nice guitar, but I am not about to casually shell out that money every fe
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by mingus88 1y ago
At that scale, it’s the worst of both worlds. You set the expectation that you can deliver at the pace of a lean startup, but every step of the way you are slowed down by a process or internal dependency that is operating like a fortune 100
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Or Vercel is just a commercial web host that the person who volunteered to maintain the docs likes to use? The headline seems to imply that it’s some kind of gotcha that the marketing for an OS is being served by a different OS. I don’t see
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by mingus88 1y ago
I use focus daily, but it’s not a daily driver. It doesn’t to tabs, and links that the site forces to open in a new tab often don’t work. It also doesn’t do JS well by design. I use Firefox focus for throw away links I come across, but for
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by mingus88 1y ago
There are a lot of average people out there. I don’t need to hear their ill informed takes, either. I would rather live in a world where we give out quarter of a billion dollar deals to people who do better, but that’s not the world we live
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by mingus88 1y ago
How dare you speak that way about Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
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Also, CC companies give cash back and other perks to encourage people to use credit everywhere If the CC firms take 3% in fees, and give 1-2% back to the customer, why would anyone pay in cash? It’s free money. it’s pretty easy to see this
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It doesn’t matter because the metric is loyalty now. If one thing was learned last term, it was that it’s impossible to staff your administration with competent people if you also expect them to blindly follow the whims and urges of a demen
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By apps and centralized platforms I am referring to how most internet use happens in 2025. I get sent links to Meta properties or X and they are useless to me because I don’t have those apps or even accounts on them. The majority of most pe
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The gov project was ARPANET. The public internet was not intended to be a classified wartime network. Then we had Internet2 which is backbone dedicated to research, again, not a tool for coordination or control. If you were online in the 90
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by mingus88 1y ago
THC can remain in your system and be detected for 30 days. You are effectively proposing that it should be illegal to drive if you have ever used a THC product in the past month
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by mingus88 1y ago
Think services You can own a computer and not run any services at all. Most people do. Deciding to run your own services, like email, means a lot of work that most people aren’t interested or capable of doing. It’s the difference between us
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by mingus88 1y ago
I believe the 2FA stuff became mandatory after all those celebrities with weak passwords had their nudes leaked https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_le... And Apple being Apple, they designed their

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