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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
This resonates with me. And I think I know why software is like this. It isn't software that drives people insane, it's money that drives people insane. Specifically the promise of money breaks people's brains. They see the u
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
Paul Graham wins again. His plans are measured in centuries.
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
Big universities like Standford should be building their own AI datacenters. It's the only way to keep your research private.
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
I agree, 1% is reasonable. That's still a huge number of people. And, not all users are created equal. If that 1% of everyone is skewed towards the more educated, IE if 5% of millionaires switch, that's 5% fewer eyeballs looking a
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
Feels like the old "browser wars" days again. Between AI productivity, and Google losing the grace to bloat the web specs, I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to take market share away from other browsers as soon as it'
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
Why would I donate money to keep your servers running, when I get my IP blocked for days when I try to view more than 20 archived pages? What utility are you actually providing me? From my perspective, Internet Archive is already defunct. I
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
Give me one good reason why I should believe these numbers at all. Are they corroborated by independent third-parties who don't have a vested interest in making things look better than they are?
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
I see this debate as not really being about immigration, but as a facet of the eternal war between plutocrats and socialists. Plutocrats prey on socialist countries, exploiting their high standard of living and high social trust. Socialism
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
Monica is apparently an open source personal CRM.
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
I guess that depends on where you draw the line at "kernel" and what you consider "unusual". I study kernels for fun, so I've had a lot of opinions like that over the years, but none survived gaining more experience
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
This is such a colossal fuckup, they need to do a full postmortem and heads need to roll. This is a "you had one job" situation. This is all hands on deck. This is potentially company-ending. If this happened at Github it would be
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
For most people, mv3 is "good enough". But that's mostly just random chance. If sites really start taking advantage of the deficiencies in mv3 to push ads, I think Chrome will lose a lot of users. And I think at that point Go
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
Most kernels are kind of the same really. Some have slightly fancier inter-process communication. Leading to my all-time favorite YouTube video, an explainer on Android IPC cut like a spy thriller. I'm not even joking: https:/&#x
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
So if I pour water onto a huge dome of metal, it might build up enough of a negative static charge to jump a spark gap? New science exhibit idea!
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
Hey so uh... Did anyone notice the word "accessible" here? > Provide an ACCESSIBLE interface, at account setup,.. I wonder if the biggest effect of this bill will be that proprietary operating systems will have to have accessib
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by phendrenad2 1mo ago
I'm starting to warm up to this law. So many loopholes. Nothing to worry about. I think California's incompetence has finally progressed from "proposes bad laws" to "proposes and botches the implementation of bad la
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
The "great man" theory has been (rightfully) banished from most public discourse, the only remaining holdout is startups. The whole point of VC firms is that startups have no chance of success without backing. Often times the foun
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
So would you be okay with this is Flock demanded a warrant before showing police the information?
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
> the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses It seems reasonable that these three things are part of ONE "backlash", but I don't believe they are. I think these are three separate issues with three different, mostl
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
As I always say, CEOs are corporate status symbols. "Look how successful we are, our CEO is super-handsome, went to William and Mary, and we pay him $15 million a year"
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
I've never worked at a company that gave offshore teams the same responsibilities as onshore employees. When shit gets real, and someone's head needs to be on the chopping block, it's always a same-shore employee. But reduced
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
> The target was a QEMU/KVM VM on my Linux dev machine (Debian Linux 12, AMD Zen3). It escaped the VM three different times QEMU isn't secure, and is not intended to be.
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
Of course it differs by the individual. I think there are three camps: Those who have read DHH's blog posts, and agree with them. Those who have read DHH's blog posts, but think "he couldn't possibly mean that". Tho
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
> doesn't talk about security holes at all Literally the first sentence in the post has links to two security holes lol
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
Correct, as evidence, look how easy it was to make you overlook the current abuses of the homeless (at the hands of corrupt nonprofits) because it doesn't look sufficiently fascist to trigger you.
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
What's going on in Pennsylvania? Is it so highly educated a place that they don't understand that 50% of U.S. adults can't read at a 6th grade level , let alone understand "confidence intervals"?
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
There have been so many Desktop Environments over the years, but I still feel that Windows 95 perfected the desktop experience. Even today, if you look at MacOS, it's just the Windows 95 interface, with the taskbar moved to the top of
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
Not for long.
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
The replies here really exemplify the core reason we have this problem - about 50% of the population (on HN, probably more outside of HN) doesn't understand that everything has an economic cost, and cleaning hepititis-infected needle
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by phendrenad2 2mo ago
How many likely Heptitis-infected needles and excrement smears did you clean up? per week or per day? Try 10x that and see if 8.75/hour is still setting your 16 year old mind with visions of dancing Super Nintendos and Segas.

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