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by nikanj 4y ago
Material is cheap, I can get a new TV or a set of tools for a fraction of the price they cost in the past. But actual necessities (education, shelter, healthcare) are incredibly expensive. I’d be happy to trade my cheap plastic crap from Wa
902.
by nikanj 4y ago
It was no longer unstable beta
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by nikanj 4y ago
My feeling is that it's the amount of characters written. Used to be foo* x=new foo(). Now it's std::shared_ptr<foo> x=std::make_shared<foo>() It adds up, every line of code is three times longer than it used to be.
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by nikanj 4y ago
> What makes you think that companies would have been willing to make the effort to deploy "IPv4+" any more than IPv6? Way less resistance from tech teams. Ultimately companies are made of people, and ipv6 is partly a failure b
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by nikanj 4y ago
I can trivially remember a bunch of ipv4 addressed, and recognize them at a glance (”oh that’s just our office vpn endpoint, that traffic is benign”). No hope of that with ipv6.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Back when you could simply build homes in Vancouver, without a literal decade of red tape spent in appeals, reviews and permit queues
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by nikanj 4y ago
Naturally the coding wizard is named Raistlin.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Why don’t you get a fixed BTC amount? Why anchor it to USD if BTC is the more stable option?
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by nikanj 4y ago
They probably kill the tuskless elephants too, out of spite and to ”punish” the elephant for not having tusks
910.
by nikanj 4y ago
Isn’t Polestar a Volvo?
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by nikanj 4y ago
Especially now that they’ve abandoned the race to be ever thinner and eliminate keys for a touch bar
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by nikanj 4y ago
And the memes still claim that the UK is metric.
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by nikanj 4y ago
I've seen the cosmic horror that results from taking a Windows-oriented software and then writing enough headers and glue to make it work on Linux without changes to the main codebase.
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by nikanj 4y ago
The article says "The cuts will affect about 6% of the company’s workforce, a mix of US and non-US based staff, according to people familiar with the matter asking not to be identified as the matter was not yet public"
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by nikanj 4y ago
We keep on making fun of php, but it had this problem solved in the 90s. Hit F5 in the browser, get the latest version of your software. No waiting 30s for a rebuild, no stale versions in caches, no headaches.
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by nikanj 4y ago
But it’s not the only one, unlike the USD
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BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy(reuters.com)
4 points by nikanj 4y ago|0 comments
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by nikanj 4y ago
I feel like you missed the grand theme of the piece: "How to keep the lights on at your startup, by doing whatever it takes" There's a whole ethics discussion to be had here (is it better to fire 40% and save 60%, or end up c
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by nikanj 4y ago
Tell me how many BTC a new TV is going to be in two years, I'll tell you how many USD it'll be. As a stable, inflation-resistant currency, the BTC value should be easy to predict
920.
by nikanj 4y ago
Most people buy cryptos to become rich. The only way that happens is more fiat entering the crypto space, providing exit liquidity. Most tech stocks have a plausible explanation for future revenues, other than "the next investor will b
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by nikanj 4y ago
Dumping on PHP and Java is a good way to farm for cool kid points.
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by nikanj 4y ago
As long as our society is built on fossil energy bought from the slave owners
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by nikanj 4y ago
They have the resources, they don’t have the willingness. Google’s MO is never hiring a human to do a job well, when a computer can do the same job badly.
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by nikanj 4y ago
I would bet good money that people using an xtreme tuning OS like Atlas, are more likely to get their games from the pirate bay and their hacks from honest-bobs-totally-not-virii.com
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by nikanj 4y ago
The last time something similar reached the front page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32434934 ), one of the key ”features” was the total removal of Windows Update. I can’t wait for the next wormable Windows exploit
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Two Estonians arrested for running $575M crypto Ponzi scheme(bleepingcomputer.com)
4 points by nikanj 4y ago|2 comments
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by nikanj 4y ago
How? Because I spent 12 hours yesterday wrestling with ESM loader issues and trying to get some basic Typescript running. Programming sound romantic in theory, but in practice it's a messy, nasty business that breaks people. Kinda like
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by nikanj 4y ago
If my employee would rather not pay for a tool, why would I spend my own money to help them save money? The blog post was quite clear on the ”the tech doesn’t work” part, which seems like a more likely reason for their demise. Selling devel
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by nikanj 4y ago
On my state-of-the-art desktop PC, Visual Studio has very noticeable cursor&scrolling lag. My C64 had the latter as well, but I used to assume the cursor moved as fast as I could type / tap the arrow keys
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by nikanj 4y ago
At the same time, appearances are more important than ever, so it might make business sense to sell equipment to people who want to pose with them. Same with rec spaces too, people don't actually have to partake in the activities, they

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