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by nikanj 9mo ago
I remember how religiously people used to care about their Google ranking. It's almost shocking to realize how fast that has changed. People used to spend tons of effort gaming site load speed, optimizing sitemaps and writing blog cont
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by nikanj 9mo ago
The start menu sometimes glitches out for a few seconds, so it makes total sense to replace the whole OS from the kernel up. Signed, a npm jockey who lives in the world of churn
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Try reading Project Hail Mary
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Hugo’s have shifted towards the soft scifi / fantasy / new weird. It’s not an absolute shift, but hard sf space operas seldom win nowaday
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by nikanj 9mo ago
And then YC funds a startup who plans to leapfrog the competition by doing their own scrape instead using the standard data everyone else has
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Internal forecasts indicate Anthropic’s annualized revenue run-rate could be between about $20 billion and $26 billion in 2026. Let's shoot for the middle, $23 billion According to multiple articles, Anthropic expects to reduce its cas
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by nikanj 9mo ago
A big reason why Linux runs better than Windows is the absence of Crowdstrike and similar real-time-fuck-shit-up—alyctic engines
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Target audience is anyone who will click it. They don’t make money from you installing Linux, they make money from you wanting to read how the switching went
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by nikanj 9mo ago
And this is with the Chinese cars handicapped by a double-digit punitive tariff ( https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/news/eu-comm... )
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Windows definitely keeps your files right there in your Desktop / Documents folder when you update from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Like it or not, Aunt Clara is going to expect the same when she "upgrades" to Ubuntu.
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by nikanj 9mo ago
> This is a non-issue if your files are stored in a partition separate from your OS, and is infeasible otherwise. That is one of the biggest ifs of 2026. I don't think any major PC laptop vendor has ever sold consumer laptops with a
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Do any of the main-stream Linux installers make any attempt at bringing over your files? I have seen so many ”anyone can switch to Linux” articles, and none of them seem to mention ”all of your files are going to be utterly lost”
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Which is probably why Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Who in this current political climate hasn't been called a 'terrorist sympathizer'? Feels like 80% of the population qualify
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by nikanj 9mo ago
If you take access to knowledge to mean post-secondary tuition, it was also much better 30 years ago
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Just a couple of decades ago a common working stiff could buy their family a nice home in any US city.
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by nikanj 9mo ago
The window-dressing is great. You get the votes from the renters because you are doing ”something”, and you get the votes from the landlords because property values remain high
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Companies don’t really exist to make products for consumers, they live to create stock value for investors. And the stock market loves AI
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by nikanj 10mo ago
"My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. " Well, of course he doesn't need to customize it. It's already working the way he wants it,
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by nikanj 10mo ago
If you don’t sell me a copy of your family albums, I should be allowed to freely sneak into your house and make a copy? After all, you still have the originals and are not making money from them
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by nikanj 10mo ago
That's nothing compared to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Moderator team must be over the moon
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Maybe the graph doesn’t include questions that get closed by moderators?
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Helsinki CS masters had ipv6 20 years ago, but nobody listened at the lectures because all of our home LANs ran ipv4
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Just do the Apple / Google / MS model where anyone can freely open tickets, and then those bugs are never seen or addressed by any developers. Essentially use the bug tracker as a honeypot to keep the users happy
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by nikanj 10mo ago
This is easily solved by closing the tab and never returning
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by nikanj 10mo ago
It’s a particular subcategory of cork sniffing where you pick the hardest, dumbest way to do things because you’re a Real Developer
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by nikanj 10mo ago
One dives deep into to the philosophical here, but how different is that from ”I recompiled the code, which removed 500kloc of assembly and created 503kloc of assembly”
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Quantum computers can almost, but not quite, factor numbers bigger than 10. Time for git to break all workflows by showing huge alerts if a server is using crypto not proven quantum-proof!
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by nikanj 10mo ago
This being a research paper, the rate is 1.0. They built one, then tinkered until it worked, then published.

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