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by peatmoss 3y ago
Health insurance coupled to employment is one hell of systematic advantage for large companies when competing for labor. Bigger company = bigger risk pool.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Same--I went down this rabbit hole a few years back when I realized I was singing along, and had no idea what "pataphysical sciences" were.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I know, and agree with, many of the assessments about how BeOS had major technological deficiencies as compared to other systems. In every thread talking about the Apple that could have been, you'll find these. But what BeOS had going
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I wonder if LLMs will provide a robust path from the solid symbolic computation of Mathematica to production or productionizable code. I've seen stories show up on HN about using LLMs to e.g. transform Cobol -> Java, and have my sus
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I'd guess leaders are thinking more in terms of national capacity to create more advanced technologies than geopolitical adversaries. If US policy shakes out in a way that protects copyright holders at the expense of AI innovation, I t
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Lightweight in terms of system resources, yes. Lightweight in terms of "I have a whole new lifestyle and religion"... no. Org-mode can be used simply, but the kind of person drawn to org-mode (e.g. me) has a hard time not yak shav
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Article mentions a £110,000 speaker line. For that money, I think you'd be better off paying a sound engineer and a woodworker to build a custom speaker set for your space. I struggle to imagine that B&O can do anything at a factor
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Huh, no I didn't see that—I think when I read this on my phone that the content cut off at the "More Context" section. I remember thinking that your article had a rather strange ending point, and was a little less deep than I
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by peatmoss 3y ago
OpenBSD has maintained a fork of X.org called Xenocara for quite some time. I wonder if those developers will be the last with a deep understanding of the guts.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Mineral oil may be a bit more sanitary / pleasant for people. I clean and very lightly lube my earplugs in this manner on the regular.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
At least it isn't just me then. Feels like a miss on the announcement to not give an indication of the "when."
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Does anyone know how access rolls out? I'm a ChatGPT+ customer, and it seems like it took weeks to get access to their image prompt feature after they announced it.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I've felt that techno-doomerism has been the hegemonic narrative for a while now. We see it our science fiction. Optimistic sci-fi like Star Trek TNG tends to be campy, and the quickest way to make something un-campy is to make it grit
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I agree—if I could use Racket (first choice) or Common Lisp (second choice) and make use of the breadth of libraries available to Python, I'd be a very happy camper. Being niche, and what being niche implies about shared lift, is what
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Is there some specific controversy with Anduril that the community is reacting to, or is NixCon simply avoiding sponsorship from defense firms?
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I prefer the Veritas a little myself, but the few times I’ve had hands on LN… well, they’ll get no disrespect from me. Both fantastic premium options IMO.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Lie-Nielsen and Veritas are the two brands of hand tools that will ruin you for others. Lie-Nielsen being the absolute best in recreation / refinement in traditional design, and Veritas answering the question of “what if we rethought t
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by peatmoss 3y ago
If you’re a handtool woodworker you can add to that the thousands of dollars in specialty tools you’ll inevitably acquire. Woodworking is insidious :-)
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I did this for my elderly dad, and told him to contact me if anything was amiss. He had some hardware issue with a cheap USB mouse and told my mom about it. My mom promptly took the whole thing to some box office store tech support place. T
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I guess I still see announcements of updates around bugs and edge cases. I'd rather be patient and wait for some thousands of other people to stumble across bugs for a while to minimize my chances of frustration. For video games, I&#x2
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by peatmoss 3y ago
However as someone who purchased BoTW and played it years ago on Switch, and again recentishly on CEMU, the experience on CEMU in 4k @60hz, it was a whole different game. I’d pay Nintendo 3x the cost of ToTK to play a version that ran on my
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by peatmoss 3y ago
I think it upset the Perl hegemony in part because of the enterprise infatuation with object orientation. Perl got a lot of flak from the Java/XML crowd (“Perl’s not a real language—it’s not object oriented!”). You could kind of write
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Can’t imagine how this would match the capacity of a good sized unit. I have been renting a garage that had some leaks, and the amount of water my dehumidifier extracted when it was damp was enough to have a solid trickle of water out of th
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by peatmoss 3y ago
Nope, cubes were reviled back in the 90s because they were a pale shadow of what knowledge workers had lost in terms of offices. Management heard our lamentations about cubicles and sent us to a deeper, colder level of hell—the open plan.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
In my case, the cubes were in large-ish rooms with doors. This was kind of great in that if things got loud you were either shutting the door or asking two or three office mates to pipe down. There was no cut-through traffic or hallway conv
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by peatmoss 3y ago
In my first job after college, I worked at a federal agency where people had cubicles carved out of traditional large offices. It was actually kind of nice, because you worked with people in your office, but had some separation from them as
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by peatmoss 3y ago
To me it beggars belief that companies spend so much on humans only to put them in an environment where it’s impossible to concentrate. I reckon at some point someone will figure out that the physical environment can be modified to make kno
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by peatmoss 3y ago
This is my favorite take—constraints can breed innovation, but usually only when the constrained system doesn’t already have a complete substitute that isn’t constrained. I’d love to see a system that went hard on elegance. If we’re tilting
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by peatmoss 3y ago
And yet the developers do not have to pay the tax to use Valve’s roads. But if those developers choose to do so, they may get my business, which they otherwise were not likely to.
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by peatmoss 3y ago
My unicomp died far too young. Seems here others have had similar experiences. If you have money, these people have been on HN a few times: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

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