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Axios may be grasping at straws, but it's good to hear about a possible tiny slowing in the wealth gap.
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The economy's K-shaped dynamic could be changing(axios.com)
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A team manager once called and asked me if anything changed in the hypervisor (I used to support and make local modifications to some virtualization software) because her team's daily data processing job failed, which previously had ru
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Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science(newyorker.com)
49 points by nabbed 3mo ago|22 comments
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In my own tiny way, I applied this logic when trying to be a contributor to an existing and popular open source project. I found that puzzling out poorly-written bug report tickets, ignored by the extremely busy experts on the project, I co
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This is from my memory of listening to the full interview a few days ago, not just this snippet: I am not sure he is advocating that people should avoid AI, as long as they recognize its limitations and dangers, and he admits it can boost p
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by nabbed 5mo ago
The discussion over work-from-home now seems like such a quaint topic from a different age (even though I was very much in favor of it when it was a hot topic).
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by nabbed 5mo ago
>The supreme court ruled last year that prosecutors’ decision to allow a key witness to give testimony they knew to be false violated Glossip’s constitutional right to a fair trial. Since stuff like this occasionally happens[1], and some
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by nabbed 5mo ago
I am probably hitting the same datacenter as you. I get: >Bing isn't available right now, but everything should be back to normal very soon.
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"AI means smaller, differently resourced teams in product and engineering can make a bigger impact than ever. Fewer layers means faster decisions. Flatter is better, and our new structure will optimize for this." Edit: Sounds like
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I wish I could go back in time and tell my 10 year old self to knock it off with the polish jokes (which were all the rage at that time, although I can remember only one now).
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I worried this blog post was going to pivot into a marketing pitch for some product, but no, it just describes the issue where the AI tool that generates your code probably won't document its reasons for the choices it makes. That docu
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Am I supposed to?
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I stopped going to McDonald's (which I previously visited about once per month) mainly because they got very expensive, and the price does not match the quality of the food (and they also are not that fast anymore). If I am going to sp
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My US-based car has an "O"-like character in my license plate number, and honestly I could not figure out whether it was the letter O or a zero (even after searching the state's DMV site for information on how to distinguish
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by nabbed 5mo ago
By different accounts too. I see a few repeated accounts, but there must be many 100s of accounts created/hijacked for this "prank".
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by nabbed 5mo ago
>Either way, GoDaddy is not the first choice for a new domain in 2026. Off the top of your head, what would be a decent one?
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As a closeted gay kid, I had zero interest in the nude ladies in Playboy. However, I remember being absorbed in the fantastic interview with John Lennon (in an issue that came out weeks before or weeks after his shooting death) and being bl
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>As long as they don’t require The Cloud Given that you hear frequently (even on the front page of HN today) - people getting locked out of their cloud accounts and then facing a Kafkaesque faceless bureaucracy - physical products turnin
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by nabbed 6mo ago
The essay Choose Boring Technology covers some of this ground. From that essay: "One of the most worthwhile exercises I recommend here is to consider how you would solve your immediate problem without adding anything new. First, posing
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I'm not worked up at all about the auto-pen. But presidents should not be pardoning friends and family (although friends seem to get pardoned quite frequently). If a president feels it's important to do so, that president should w
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I guess I wasn't paying enough attention, for what would she get charged? I know about the illegal appointments of US attorneys, the vindictive attempted prosecutions against Trump's perceived enemies, and some problems with the E
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It's odd. My email address is included un-obfuscated in ~90 commits to a popular open source repo on github. I also use this same email address for a mailing list associated with this OSS project. As far as I can tell, I've never
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>I've had to turn off a lot of features. On my pixel 4a, I had to turn off a "call 911" feature that I think was initiated by shaking the phone. I took a couple of walks with the phone in my front pocket, and the movement
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Based on this description, it sounds like someone walking past your unattended desk and bent on disrupting your day but not stealing your data, could enter in a garbage password into the lock screen a few times and lock you out of your own
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by nabbed 6mo ago
I came to post the same thing. I assume my cat liked the heat emanating from the CRT's vents on top.
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>It's not as hard as you think. You're probably right, still... I often wonder how I survived going for a random drive or even simply leaving the house from 1980 through to the advent of smart phones. Was I simply more brave an
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At one point, I worked in the labs division of a big internet company, where I was a regular software developer surrounded by people with the title "scientist" (basically, programmer/statisticians with PhDs who were running e
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>Increased speed only gets us where we want to be sooner if we are also heading in the right direction. I suppose there is an argument that if you are building the wrong thing, build it fast so that you can find out more quickly that y
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>Create a separate Mac / Windows non-admin account just for coding? Yes, I got as far as creating a separate account on my MBP a few years ago and I do programming and open source stuff with that account. And it has helped quite a b

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