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by nikanj 3y ago
Plenty, but fortunately the fix is just an unplug+replug. In the past, the secondary display kept working but a sneaky kernel task took over 200% CPU, and you had to 1) realize the computer is feeling even more sluggish than normal 2) know
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by nikanj 3y ago
Nobody? Tons of people are using Bing, because their IT-skilled family members only reset it to Google on Christmas and Thanksgiving, but Microsoft resets it to Bing every other Edge update
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by nikanj 3y ago
Because despite what HN says, the vast majority of actual paid work is still done on Windows PCs using a locally-running application. If you want to sell a Windows Desktop application to your customers, you probably want to write it on Wind
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by nikanj 3y ago
I visualized the AoC graph with graphviz and identified the minimum cut using good ol' mark 1 eyeball. Humans have an incredibly efficient algorithm for identifying "this blob is only connected to that blob with these two lines&qu
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by nikanj 3y ago
We to took away all hope of ever getting ahead in life, and constantly bombard them with extremely successful people parroting "It's literally that easy". The deadly combination of not being able to afford food/rent and
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by nikanj 3y ago
My theory is Beeper being a sacrificial lamb so Google/Samsung can cry to EU about iMessage. ”See they’re restricting this poor little startup from competing! Pay no attention to the funding coming from Samsung, this is definitely a po
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by nikanj 3y ago
I much prefer this to the typical path of the celebrated founder: 1) Be young 2) Go to Stanford / MIT / Harvard 3) Drop out after freshman autumn 4) Get ludicrous funding via family connections 5) Crash & burn because you&#x27
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by nikanj 3y ago
For some perspective, Haswell came out in 2013. Those steep processor requirements aren't that steep in 2024
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by nikanj 3y ago
They can just nationalize it in the next election cycle.
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by nikanj 3y ago
Because at Google, you're expected to spend your entire budget
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by nikanj 3y ago
The tidal forces from Jupiter dump a boatload of energy into the system, not sure how usable those are for life
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by nikanj 3y ago
The legal precedent seems to be "If you steal GPL code, 14 years later you have to pay $650k - assuming the developer didn't give up before that"
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by nikanj 3y ago
Have you seen Robocop 2? They're trying to fix Gemini the same way OCP fixed Robocop's prime directives
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by nikanj 3y ago
The team that won Disobey’s CTF this year was very young. I don’t have a perfect eye for age, but I’d say the average age for the large group was around 20-25
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by nikanj 3y ago
Nobody gets a good performance review for keeping a time-tested design. Rewriting everything is the key to career progress
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by nikanj 3y ago
That is such a niche case, I’m not surprised they’re working on the honor system. Running windows on bare metal still requires you to pay for it
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by nikanj 3y ago
This should be the top comment here, people are getting their hopes up for nothing
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by nikanj 3y ago
That one was made to 1) Keep happy the voters who don't have housing, by making it look like they're doing something 2) Keep happy the voters who do have housing, by keep the housing costs sky-high
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by nikanj 3y ago
Hell no -lobbyists
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by nikanj 3y ago
The standard instruction channels are so reliably shit, nobody bats an eye if they get an email saying ”Teams is on the fritz again, please join us on Zoom instead”
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by nikanj 3y ago
It's an interesting failure mode of our current economic system that the fix for this issue will inevitably come from a lone frustrated outsider. The employees of the company are much better equipped with all the insider knowledge, blu
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by nikanj 3y ago
Deflation throws on the breaks in the economy, because X is cheaper if you postpone it. With X representing essentially all economic activities like buying a new phone / hiring a programmer / going on vacation / etc This woul
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by nikanj 3y ago
Option 1: Take to the streets, topple the oppressive government Option 2: Take to the internet, kvetch about the oppressive goverment with no real action
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by nikanj 3y ago
Nobody, that’s why they’re using this opportunity to force people to it
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by nikanj 3y ago
Because they picked a CEO with a background in the very products the company is making. Often companies this size pick a professional bean-counter to man the helm, with predictable results
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by nikanj 3y ago
Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by nikanj 3y ago
They want two things: 1) Firefox needs to exists as a hypothetical option 2) People shouldn't really use Firefox. Intermittent oopsies breaking key services are doing wonders towards goal #2
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by nikanj 3y ago
* A lazy/time-pressured worker skips applying threadlocker before assembly
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by nikanj 3y ago
This was decades ago, the ticket machines were not real-time connected to anything. It's entirely possible the numbers accounting used for ticket sales was the amount of cash retrieved from the machines, and there was no separate syste
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by nikanj 3y ago
It's many different things. Smaller families, units combined into larger units, units serving as pied-à-terre / airbnb instead of having permanent residents, etc

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