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by neilv 1y ago
I recently bought a Kindle/Fire device pre-owned, to save money. But seeing full-screen shitty consumer products ads on the 'covers of my books', sitting around my home was so depressing, I paid the extra $10-$15, to retr
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by neilv 1y ago
This is one time it's important to get names right. The article says simply "Ublock", but the screens show "uBlock Origin". "uBlock" and "uBlock Origin" are two different projects. "uBlock O
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by neilv 1y ago
He gave an innocuous response. Which prompted the question of whether there would be strong disincentive for any Stanford business school professor to give a non-innocuous response that would be a wet blanket on the AI ambitions surrounding
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by neilv 1y ago
No disfavor (on campus, nor with investors and other connections) for peeing on everyone's party?
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by neilv 1y ago
> However, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which has minted its fair share of tech entrepreneurs, Prof [...] says [..something innocuous about whether there's an AI bubble...] If there were a bubble right now, would i
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by neilv 1y ago
Even when companies know they need something more than a normal senior developer, they don't necessarily know how to interview for that. This afternoon, I'm leaning towards bowing out of a supposed more-than-normal engineering rol
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by neilv 1y ago
I don't know about this particular case, but, generally... bad actor subreddit moderators have been an occasional thing for well over a decade. And it's also been widely known for that long that Reddit is an influential venue in w
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by neilv 1y ago
This is not OK, and the reporting is not OK. Opening with: > Discord has identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had their government ID photos exposed as part of a customer service data breach announced last week, spokesper
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by neilv 1y ago
Interesting. I self-host Forgejo or GitLab, with SSH or HTTPS access from workstations' local repos, to the "origin" Git server. The advantage you find to NFS for this is that you share workspaces between the client machines
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by neilv 1y ago
> The Vectrex Mini captures the full spirit of the original Vectrex [...] AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600 I played many hours on a Vectrex, and I'd say that the true vector graphics was the spirit. If this project is
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by neilv 1y ago
Thank you. That's interesting about US media influence. Here's hoping that we all do well, and the current craziness calms down.
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by neilv 1y ago
True, but it's an honest question. I'd actually like to know the answer.
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State of the software engineering jobs market, 2025: what hiring managers see(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
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by neilv 1y ago
I know, that's a terrible image, and I should be the last person suggesting such an image. I was mentioning one use case that's a showstopper that much of HN would appreciate, and which forces a lot of the people who attract othe
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by neilv 1y ago
Can someone please characterize the likely political and cultural atmosphere of Canada for the next decade? If the US continues its current trajectory for a couple more years, will Canada be a welcoming beacon of goodness? (Obligatory great
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by neilv 1y ago
One thing about the Fediverse (Mastodon) is that most people aren't on it. As I found with one marketing experiment, this makes it terrible if your goal is to reach as many consumers as possible in a niche. But HN members who aren&#x2
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by neilv 1y ago
> While the ATProto system has been criticized as overly complicated compared to the ActivityPub system that powers the Fediverse, it has one key feature that ActivityPub lacks: the ability to transfer servers while keeping all of your
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by neilv 1y ago
Yes, but taking your self-reflection euphemism literally, and why it wouldn't be enough, here's a rough sketch of several categories of us workers, in an industry that became the new "greed is good" mecca, maybe 25 years
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by neilv 1y ago
Airgapped thus far. If that's not possible for 2025 tax year, I'll have to look at other options. (Maybe some saintly patriots will get the canceled IRS project into viable self-hosted PDF-generating form in time.)
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by neilv 1y ago
Web-based isn't airgapped? Working in tech, I know what absolute slimeballs pretty much any tech company is about privacy and user data today.
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by neilv 1y ago
I only need Microsoft to run airgapped TurboTax, which for 2025 will require Windows 11. Maybe it's time to switch tax return software.
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by neilv 1y ago
Also interesting about this story is that maybe this is how Susan Kare started working on the Mac? > I also asked my high school friend Susan Kare, who hadn't started with Apple yet, to try to draw some Mr. Macintosh animations. (
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by neilv 1y ago
Other things that changed were the Web, and the popularity of Git. For example, one of the big uses of NFS we had was for engineering documents, all of which could be accessed from FrameMaker or Interleaf running on your workstation. Nowaw
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by neilv 1y ago
> Often people have the illusion that getting paid $80k a year when you used to make $300k will mean that your employer will recognize that you are a tremendous value. They won't. Sounds like the folk wisdom that, by default, empl
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by neilv 1y ago
I remember that era of NFS. NFS volumes (for home dirs, SCM repos, tools, and data) were a godsend for workstations with not enough disk, and when not everyone had a dedicated workstation (e.g., university), and for diskless workstations (w
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by neilv 1y ago
When you see a chronology like that, you don't keep trying to speak truth to power. You delete your data, trash your gear, and hop on a bus, to start over in some other city, in a different line of work.
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by neilv 1y ago
BusyBox got its name from a collection of toys in one assembly/container: https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=fisher+price+busy+box
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by neilv 1y ago
Great, funny image for the piece.
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by neilv 1y ago
Everyone has heard the phrase. It doesn't necessarily mean what the person saying it thinks it means. For example, you can't legally photograph people in certain ways in public in some US jurisdictions. (Because "no expecta
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by neilv 1y ago
2010 Motorola Defy (107mm x 59mm, 118g, IP67). I loved the hardware, but it had some awful "value-added" Motoblur software atop Android that seemed to put Motorola in the loop on Internet communications, where it didn't belon

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