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by nix0n 4y ago
Is there a show that lets the guests talk, except with guests who are worth listening to?
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by nix0n 4y ago
> The Zuckerberg interview he did was probably the most important interview of the last few years Why is this the first I'm hearing of it? It didn't seem to have any effect on how Facebook operates.
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by nix0n 4y ago
AutoZone has a database of that type of thing. Search for the product and filter by the vehicle, or you can just ask at the desk if that's where you're gonna buy the refrigerant anyhow.
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by nix0n 4y ago
As far as I understand, most US corporations legally reside in Delaware, and patent trolls like to file suit in East Texas, so the burden of this might be considerably less than for insurance sold to individuals.
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by nix0n 4y ago
That was just your PC playing "red light/green light"
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by nix0n 4y ago
Reminds me of Calvin's Dad's assertion that black-and-white photos are actually color photos of a black-and-white world: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2014/11/09/
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by nix0n 4y ago
> Spotify manipulates recommendations to what makes them the most money, not necessarily what is best for user satisfaction. I was once a heavy user of Pandora, I am now a heavy user of Spotify, and I'm considering switching back.
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by nix0n 4y ago
> Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. I think this is the part that needs to be rethought. What do we already take for granted now, that never shou
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by nix0n 4y ago
The line about "the process terminates with a message", suggests to me that source code for this algorithm does exist. I think the algorithm is probably NP but it still could be useful for solving NP-hard problems.
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by nix0n 4y ago
> why is this the worst device I own? Part of the problem is, most consumer-grade routers use CPUs that can kind of get by most of the time on passive cooling. Then when the weather is hot or your usage is above-average, it has proble
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by nix0n 4y ago
The ideal would be a return of intermissions. A calm reminder from the Roku to take a breath, get up, maybe grab some water. (Movie theaters would make more money this way, also.)
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by nix0n 4y ago
> Google or Meta only employ a tiny fraction of them Yes, but they are competing for the same tiny fraction.
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by nix0n 4y ago
There are "Notifications" settings buried in the app which might help.
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by nix0n 4y ago
According to Wikipedia, Ward Cunningham is from Indiana.
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by nix0n 4y ago
It sounds like this machine is in the past for you, but these cards are often user-replaceable. (I am not sure how to obtain the card though.)
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by nix0n 4y ago
Defaults to true for me, but sometimes I end up using about:unloads to manually force unloading anyway.
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by nix0n 4y ago
Samsung pushes more adware with every update, so I don't think they're actually better on this.
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by nix0n 4y ago
It could have been checked once, it just wasn't checked N times in a row.
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by nix0n 4y ago
Is there some trick I don't know about, to quickly go from a source line, to the PR discussion? If there is, the PR discussion might be the right place for explanation, but if not, the commit message is still valuable.
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by nix0n 4y ago
All of those little devices run some form of Linux.
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by nix0n 4y ago
It's not perfect, but it's a lot more clean than fossil fuels.
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by nix0n 4y ago
Most new ideas build off of existing ideas, so if you want to make new ideas, one way is to learn all of the existing ideas in a particular field (and a few ideas from other fields) so you can reuse those ideas in novel ways. If you have so
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by nix0n 4y ago
> But somebody has to maintain the property, somebody has to prioritize upgrades and improvements, somebody has to cut the grass In many buildings these things are simply not done.
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by nix0n 4y ago
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31680904
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by nix0n 4y ago
> standard compilers and CPUs I'm not sure what you mean by that, are you including modern Windows/Linux/Mac PCs? > silent incorrect code execution Do you know of any non-contrived pieces of code that silently do the wr
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by nix0n 4y ago
That's not an AI problem, it's a concentration of wealth problem. Giving that power to a person or group of people would be almost as bad.
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by nix0n 4y ago
How does one challenge a patent?
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by nix0n 4y ago
When websites start saying "switch to Chromium" I'll just change my User-agent string in Firefox. (Maybe by that time I'll have to spoof feature flags too, but honestly I doubt it)
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by nix0n 4y ago
This might not be adequate for keeping your TV off the Internet, they've been rumored to connect to unsecured WiFi.
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by nix0n 4y ago
This is kind of a neat hack, if you want to use the same build setup for all of these projects: just check out whichever project you're working on. Shared stuff can go into a separate repo. You could still have feature branches, it&#

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