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by neilv 11mo ago
I like your optimistic theory. I'm the type to talk with HR about when the company could do something better, and some of them appreciate it. (Most recent was when a company was starting each Monday morning with a miserable cross-hemis
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by neilv 11mo ago
I could write all day about the times people helped me that I know about, and there's others I suspect, and surely others I never suspected. One that comes to mind was when I was on my own as a teen, and fortunately had a community col
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by neilv 11mo ago
> I have no idea the real ratios, but imagine 20% are genuinely good people, 60% are just going about their lives, and 20% are miserable for some reason and drive like miserable people. Lately, this is my experience in general, not onl
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by neilv 11mo ago
Was he a soulful bearded guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgRafRp-P-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac-00KY_XGM
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by neilv 11mo ago
Seconded. I've been doing a game console with monitor or dumb-TV for ages (PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim, PS4 Slim, PS4 Pro, PS5 Slim). I also use this for occasional gaming, or I would've stuck with the PS3 Slim or PS4 Slim. Both of which
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by neilv 11mo ago
That Smartmi model seems to have toxic IoT in it. I'm currently using the Vornado EV100 non-IoT evaporative humidifier, and my only complaints are relatively minor, as humidifiers go (consumable wick, fan noise, insanely bright blue LE
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by neilv 11mo ago
A non-obvious reason that I think the yellow background would've looked especially bad to people at the time, is that most people doing non-gaming on PCs at the time were using MS-DOS programs in text mode, with 4&3-bit color, wher
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Treat those rats well, now that you've trained them for combat.
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> Second, the issue couldn’t be the quality or the quantity of the content. I came across some other pretty barebones Bear blogs that don’t have much content, and looked them up on Google, and they showed up in the results just fine. A
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by neilv 11mo ago
> What if we intentionally made deprecated functions return the wrong result … sometimes? Every time it intentionally returns the wrong result, it logs the deprecation warning.1 What if we found that a highway overpass construction mat
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by neilv 11mo ago
This is far from specific to Apple. When I first saw your name, a few decades ago, it was because I was interested in HCI and human factors engineering. Today, my impression is that the field of HCI has mostly disappeared. Most people who
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by neilv 11mo ago
I upvoted for the perfect first line for this HN post. That you're related, makes sense.
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Thanks, I have a better idea where you're coming from. If I understand correctly, you have both practical (near-term or long-term) and also philosophical objections, to the power imbalance between citizen and state, when citizens can&#
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> I spent a few hours browsing around and found it to be very interesting. This seems to be the result of the exercise? No evaluation? My concern is that, even if the exercise is only an amusing curiosity, many people will take the re
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by neilv 11mo ago
I was asking because, in country A, if you don't have a lot of money for retirement, you might soon be out on the street, or otherwise soon dead; but in country B, things might be more affordable, and have more social safety net, suppo
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by neilv 11mo ago
(don't know why you were downvoted for an honest-sounding response) If I understand correctly, the reasoning is a kind of long-term best-practice thinking? And that best-practice is a high enough priority that it would prevent you from
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by neilv 11mo ago
If you moved to a place that was physically safe, would gun ownership still be a top priority?
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> This makes it a pretty bad place to live if you care about investing and saving for the future. What if you plan to stay permanently? Does that change your priority for accumulating more personal wealth?
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by neilv 11mo ago
Great Moments in UX Below the teaser blurb ending "The Netherlands offers one way out," and the byline, where you'd expect the article to start, is the text "Your window is closing." Fortunately, if you scroll furth
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by neilv 11mo ago
You could be an outlier. I, too, wanted to work at a particular Big Tech. But then I looked again at the prep materials they recommended for their frat hazing interview theatre, and it was so depressingly trashy, that it made me not want t
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by neilv 11mo ago
I recently had to look at a particular kind of marketing, as a techie. And suddenly I realized why Pinterest was so highly ranked on Google image searches. It's not so much about a useful tool for individual users; rather, it's a
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by neilv 11mo ago
The phrase "grinding LeetCode" refers to a kind of unmentionable self-stimulus indulged in by people who want tech jobs money, but are bad at software engineering, and who want to work with other people who are bad at software eng
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Any company still using LeetCode at all during interviews is signaling that either they are run like a frat house, or are so dim/indifferent that they're unwittingly cargo-culting one.
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by neilv 11mo ago
Copying GPL code, with global search&replace of the brand names, has always lowered the cost of software 'development' dramatically.
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I used to use this on a CD-ROM, for SSH-ing into my personal server to check email (from work or SO's place), when I didn't have a laptop or handheld with me. USB flash drives often didn't boot by default on PC hardware, but
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by neilv 11mo ago
"Suspected" doesn't necessarily mean only gut feel.
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That's great, and a mix of all kinds of signs is to great effect. (People from all sorts of demographics using whatever means they can to be heard.) Sometimes the sign-makers are artistically inclined, and may have access to better ma
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by neilv 11mo ago
The "dollar stores" vary. I've been able to find good deals on some things at Dollar Tree. Usually the good deals were a smaller quantity of a normal-quality brand-name item. I mostly avoid the substandard quality items. B
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by neilv 11mo ago
https://blog.iclr.cc/2025/11/19/iclr-2026-response-to-llm-ge... > Papers that make extensive usage of LLMs and do not disclose this usage will be desk rejected. This sounds like they're endorsing th
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by neilv 11mo ago
I agree that first mover advantage is an important concept. I don't know how much it applies to the JS launch situation, but there was definitely a rush.

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