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by neilv 1y ago
That might be a different mechanism. Unlike Reddit, the ordering of HN posts isn't only a function of the numbers of votes, number of comments, and time. Some other moderation activity can cause a front page post to suddenly be buried
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by neilv 1y ago
Falsifying timestamps is a kludge that HN uses when moderators give a post a second chance to gain traction on the front page. (Personally, I have a strong aversion to falsifying public information like this, and I hope that they will prior
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by neilv 1y ago
If this data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, is full of obsolete hardware in a few years, do they just wait for the next hurricane, open all the doors and windows, and phone the insurance company with the bad news?
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by neilv 1y ago
If it doesn't pay off, and becomes just a warehouse space with outdated computers in a few years, who takes the financial hit? (Meta? Blue Owl Capital's institutional investors? Blue Owl Capital's private investors?)
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by neilv 1y ago
I have a theory that most companies run by people who had harder education programs than CS... will misunderstand software engineering, underappreciate the difficulty of doing it well, and undervalue the people who can do it well. Not only
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by neilv 1y ago
> 2) The tools can help build them. Building good docs was always hard. Especially if you take the time to include examples, urls, etc. that make the documentation truly useful. These tools reduce this cost. I would just be a little ca
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by neilv 1y ago
How do I turn this headline into a LinkedIn corporate thought leadership post?
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All the people mentioning Kobo favorably in these comments... is the main selling point that the DRM is easily breakable, or is it a superior reader or marketplace in other ways?
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by neilv 1y ago
> How useless are you for that cool startup? > [...] after noticing how hard it is to get honest feedback when applying to a YC startup or something else entirely. > It's a custom 5-minute challenge that roasts you after.
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by neilv 1y ago
The author spoke of migrating Windows users, so I suggested what would be familiar to them. The Cinnamon desktop will use a lot of that Gnome stuff, but things like a start menu and task bar will be more familiar than the corresponding elem
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by neilv 1y ago
In addition to the good distro options mentioned, there's also Debian Stable: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/d... There are several options for desktop environment, and y
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> On linux there is (at least) one non-bad PDF reader. Zathura is amazing with the MuPDF backend. Obviously, Linux has the showstopper of being a non-abusive, non-proprietary software platform. Who needs that nonsense, when the problem
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by neilv 1y ago
It's a very common term now, and no fault of anyone for using it. But it was introduced in its current sense (not in the protocol sense) by cynical and greedy exploiters, who spoiled much of the goodness of the Internet. So when a rand
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by neilv 1y ago
I just noticed the part about FSF Librephone being based on LineageOS (therefore, Android). Has anyone told the FSF that it isn't "GNU/Linux"? I suspect that Purism has the better idea for a sustainable starting point
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Th y w r ele ing ev ryt ng ve y sl wly.
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> I’d like to use this but I don’t know what to do with it since the advent of Discord. What do people do with IRC now and where do you find content? IRC is for people to whom the word "content" sounds right out of Idiocracy.
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by neilv 1y ago
> The FSF has been supporting earlier free software mobile phone projects such as Replicant, Hopefully this project will go better than Replicant. Here are my notes on running Replicant on the (then already very old) flagship Samsung
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by neilv 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251013151036/https://retrohax....
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by neilv 1y ago
My wild guess is that most people who are aware of this film recognize that it's a kind of propaganda. Of course you're going to get nationalism-tinged anti-fascist propaganda from the US Dept. of the Army in 1945. There are large
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by neilv 1y ago
I love that this was US propaganda at one point. The US always has failings, but this message is something we can be proud of.
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> Now we're doing everything we can to move computation to the edge. In an ideal world, the cloud wouldn't store or process anything - just receive already-analyzed, privacy-preserving results straight from the device. I appr
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by neilv 1y ago
1. An example result is " https://laboratory.love/product/117 ", which is a list of chemicals and measurements. Is there a visualization of how these levels relate to regulations and expert recommendations? W
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With branding like "free software", it could have have lost the battle for hearts and minds for that reason alone, if not for all the other reasons. Of course the public thinks "free software" is software for which you d
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by neilv 1y ago
In all fairness to the MBAs, the "Customer Obsession" commandment could be interpreted multiple ways. Such a metrics-driven company will surely know something about how incentives drive outcomes.
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by neilv 1y ago
I really liked my PocketBook InkPad Lite. After the one-time firmware update, I put it into airplane mode permanently, and always just updated DRM-free books on by plugging it in as USB Storage, and `rsync`-ing `~/doc/` to it. Th
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by neilv 1y ago
It was a fair deal to me. I respect that they offered the option at purchase time and then at any point after, and at a reasonable price. And isn't this an option that the everything-is-a-market HN libertarians would like to have: Peop
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by neilv 1y ago
Good question. This is a locked-down device that's controlled more by the company than by me. Which I bought for pragmatic business reasons. Don't worry, I have a home full of Debian, OpenWrt, Coreboot, a non-'smart' TV
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In this case, the original retail buyer was offered a choice between paying $X for ads-free or $X-minus-discount for with-ads. And it was disclosed upfront what they were buying into. Since my priorities were different than the original bu
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IIRC, when it was launched, with the camera, the Web page had a top image of the product sitting on a bedroom night stand, naturally pointed at the owner's bed. Either the marketing people weren't very aware of privacy (specifical

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