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by neilv 6mo ago
Early in Google's history, I took that sentiment as saying that they were one of us (Internet people), and weren't going to act like Microsoft (at the time, regarded by Internet people as an underhanded and ignorant company). Eve
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by neilv 6mo ago
They had to at least nominally have it, early on, to be able to hire the best Internet-savvy people. Tech industry culture today is pretty much finance bro culture, plus a couple decades of domain-specific conditioning for abuse. But at the
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by neilv 6mo ago
> However, the existence of pirates is a stitch in my craw, particularly when any schoolmarm typing the name of my software into Google is prompted to try stealing it instead: I wonder whether Google, in its Don't Be Evil era, eve
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by neilv 6mo ago
I self-host Forgejo for personal and indie-startup purposes, and like it well enough. The downside with that is it misses one of the key purposes of GitHub: posturing for job-hunting/hopping. It's another performative checkbox, l
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by neilv 6mo ago
I'm sure you realize that confident assurances of a random new pseudonymous account on a Web site isn't sufficient for anything of importance. Is there an authoritative source of information about how a takeover like that isn&#x27
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by neilv 6mo ago
Evidence? (I know one historical connection that looks suspicious, but it could be explained by the fact that prestigious social network graphs in the US tend to be incestuous, and a closely-connected world.)
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by neilv 6mo ago
My gut feel is that Micay is genuine, and obviously also very defensive. At least some of the defensiveness is warranted. Maybe most of it. Regardless, it comes across in most GrapheneOS communications, and it's sometimes counterprod
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by neilv 6mo ago
The network service side of the product should continue to work because the company sold that. Unless you can find where the original advertisements (not microscopic fine print) said that the company would disable the network service side a
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by neilv 6mo ago
> The company is offering a 20% discount that you can apply toward one of its new Kindle models, Federal is complicated right now, but can state AGs step in, and make Amazon either continue to support the old devices, or provide compar
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by neilv 6mo ago
Even though I'm a hardcore programmer and software engineer, I still need to at least keep aware of the latest vibe coding stuff, so I know what's good and bad about it.
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by neilv 6mo ago
> According to The Information, Chief Technology Officer Praveen Neppalli Naga said Uber is now "back to the drawing board" after a surge in the use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic's Claude Code, has blown past
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by neilv 6mo ago
How are you getting low dependencies for Web backend with Rust? (All my manually-written Rust programs that use crates at all end up pulling in a large pile of transitive dependencies.)
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by neilv 6mo ago
The other day, I was forcing myself to use Claude Code for a new CRUD React app[1], and by default it excreted a pile of Node JS and NPM dependencies. So I told something like, "don't use anything node at all", and it immedia
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by neilv 6mo ago
Too bad the article isn't paywalled, or it could be a moment to have a talk about HN's own standard-operating-procedure piracy. When it comes to piracy and anti-piracy, there is greed and stupidity on all sides.
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by neilv 6mo ago
Legal questions... In browser plugins and mobile apps (and maybe WordPress plugins?), it's pretty well known that malware attackers buying those is a frequent thing, and a serious threat. So: 1. So is there an argument to be made that
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by neilv 6mo ago
Before browsers were up to this, I implemented something related, using Google Earth Plugin. You could load up the flight data recorder data (which contains more parameters than ADS-B), and watch 3rd-person view animation of a 3D model of t
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by neilv 6mo ago
This post looks artificially buried on page 3 now, and the topic is one of the most important things that tech company workers should be thinking about right now. 75. Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geom
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by neilv 6mo ago
I was characterizing the objections I think some people would've had, from their perspective. Not trying to make a persuasive argument to people not already onboard with those perspectives. But to one of your points: in some cases, it
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by neilv 6mo ago
Besides external PR, does anyone know how this affects internal morale? Some of the earlier Red Hat people I knew would not be OK with working on weapons systems even under the most legitimate circumstances. And they'd be much more op
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by neilv 6mo ago
ITA Software integrated with the mainframe network, and was acquired by Google. An exec made a public quote that they couldn't have done it if they hadn't used Lisp. (Today, the programming language landscape is somewhat more powe
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by neilv 6mo ago
> Those flouting regulations and bringing extra pins from home could, notoriously, find one of them pricked into their backside by an irate supervisor. Sounds like there's probably a side story here, that even workers who made spa
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by neilv 6mo ago
> (The company learned that lesson in 1967, after a single pin was discovered between the layers of a suit prototype, leading to the installation of an X-ray machine on the shop floor that would regularly scan the suits for errant faste
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by neilv 6mo ago
Ethics classes (and certifications/trainings, like for doing human subjects research) are another thing that students are incentivized and conditioned to cheat on, rather than to reflect upon. I'm talking about a poll that raises
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by neilv 6mo ago
Idea of something that undergraduate colleges could do, to encourage reflection about ethics in careers: Annually poll all the students, to get rankings of how the ethics of well-known companies/brands are perceived by the students. Th
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by neilv 6mo ago
I agree that Amazon getting even more control over the ebook market would be bad for authors and publishers. But how would (hypothetical) more formidable DRM constitute even more control over the ebook market? (Do you mean more control by
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by neilv 6mo ago
I don't approve of a company shutting off network service for a device it sold, but... If this is a hint at much more formidable DRM coming out, could a silver lining for authors and publishers be more sales? Or is mass piracy going to
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by neilv 6mo ago
You know what has always needed a solid concrete foundation poured is the W700ds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6glQCMpqH7M&t=58s
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by neilv 7mo ago
Incidentally, Matthew Butterick gave the Racket documentation a nice makeover. Before: https://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/neil/roomba.pl... After: https://docs.racket-lang.org/roomba&#x2
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by neilv 7mo ago
Unless you're playing a numbers game by in investing in "naughty" people, and aligning them to mutually-beneficial exit. You still have to be careful not to invest in imbeciles, but unethical is OK.
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by neilv 7mo ago
I've used eBay to buy several used Pixels for GrapheneOS, without problem. The easy way is to search for ones for which the seller explicitly says "OEM" or "bootloader" unlockable/unlocked (or seller says it al

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