noisy_boy

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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
That is exactly what I was thinking. There is such a low barrier to entry with an outsized payoff.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
As someone who started their programming journey with SQL, it just feels so odd hearing about learning SQL being presented as an useful option. I get it, it just feels odd. SQL was considered table stakes in the financial IT world - if you
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Because this seems like an appropriate topic/place to ask, are there say 20 books on a variety of topics that one can say are very useful to build a foundation of our world, in the physical and metaphorical sense? Literature probably s
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
I have already migrated my government and banking stuff off Gmail. I'm fine losing my access to HN but Google can't be trusted with serious shit.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
Fastmail has been working well for me.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
People in security space use it all the time.
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by noisy_boy 3mo ago
I asked this question and was told that even if it is counter intuitive, medium will be more cost efficient due to caching. Changed to medium, blew my budget and went back to low.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
> When I was in college, people who got caught cheating found themselves in a world of trouble. Repeat offenders faced severe consequences like failing courses, which could delay their graduation date We had a very real threat of rustica
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
> while some workers will also help improve and train the AI systems Our AI sucked but that doesn't mean less AI. We need better AI, not humans.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
Seems that the fine was calculated and hung like Democles' sword over the whistleblower's head to keep her silent instead of actually attempting to collect it. Basically an arm-twisting tactic. What better can you expect from a sh
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
Sure, but not overnight like a bad gambling habit can.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
It is as if people can't imagine the concept of sanctions despite their liberal use over the years.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
That's a name I haven't heard in a while.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
> The burger ad is also getting people addicted and destroying lives. I think it will take quite a while to wipe out one's life savings eating burgers.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
Seconded. I keep hearing about ghostty but I have yet to see a strong enough justification about how it is _that_ better. I use konsole and has significantly more user friendly screen to manage settings. I heard about ghostty's perform
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
Why not float a company to buy the tool and then let that company charge money to lease the tool to the using companies for the specific non-overlapping period instead of borrowing? Leasing can't be prohibited too?
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
That is interesting. I'm using the PWA on Linux - I can't share a screenshot but basically pressing the delete key shows two buttons: Cancel and Decline Event? - I don't get the Delete option like you do.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
How is being in cloud relevant if you are rebooting weekly.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
1. You can run selective rules, but when you have a whole bunch, running all is more sensible. 2. When you select a slot in the calendar screen and press delete, the only options you get are cancel and decline. All this is applicable for th
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
That is terribly hobbled. Examples: 1. You can't run all the rules on your inbox to sweep the piled up email after a weekend reboot. No such option while it is still present in the legacy native Outlook. 2. You have no option of deleti
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
I bought the Lenovo's proprietary Ethernet adapter from Lenovo directly for my Thinkpad X1 Extreme because I wanted to keep a USB-C port free. It didn't work at all under Fedora. A third-party USB-C to Ethernet adapter I bought wo
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
> VW is just being lazy Maybe they rather be lazy and be able to shift blame, even without much legal recourse.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
It has decent presence in some parts of South East Asia as well via JVs e.g. Tesco Lotus in Thailand.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
What are you talking about? They will move to Spain and be financially well off means they will be ignorant of local issues and live in a bubble? How did you make that stretch? Sure they may not be very political but that doesn't equat
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
Deepseek is awesome for home projects, I have used it quite a bit and the 10 bucks I loaded is yet to run out. Quality is close enough to Sonnet that with a bit of extra focus, I am not complaining.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
I don't even know what are you arguing against. > I love mythology by the way, stories, etc. Fascinating stuff. Most people do. Given that it is quite prevalent across cultures and given that we are a product of our genetics and upb
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
Telling stories, looking for gods that don't have our limitations and telling stories about those gods is pretty much in our nature irrespective of the era.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
Won't that require laws that allow the said agency to compel LinkedIn or whatever tech company to actually pay attention and take action? Like laws compelling tech companies to unlock the bootloader once they stop supporting a device.
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
What about the rough weather and difficulty of maintenance, especially in rough weather?
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by noisy_boy 4mo ago
> but there were no privacy features before. so we’re actually still much better off than we were for hundreds of years before this. If you are choosing hundreds of years ago, when we had no computers and internet, I wonder how we had wo

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