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by pmdr 10mo ago
This summer I bought and returned a FW 13, the newer AMD variety. Specs and performance were top notch, albeit a bit pricey I'd say (I brought my own 96GB of RAM and 2TB NVMe and the laptop was still 2200 EUR). Tinkered with it for a f
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by pmdr 10mo ago
The main reason I look forward to opening HN on Christmas!
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by pmdr 10mo ago
Those companies like free software, indeed. Freedom? Not so much or not at all. Definitely less since the "AI era."
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by pmdr 10mo ago
3.x has been awesome, let's hope 4 will be even better!
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by pmdr 10mo ago
And being long-form written text, likely invisible to minors as well.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
The bulk of today's customers has no idea how to pirate music, so they're not really a threat anymore. Music streaming has been rather convenient, you pretty much get the same content across all services. Video streaming platforms
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by pmdr 10mo ago
So IRC, but with easier to set up severs?
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by pmdr 10mo ago
This is a dystopia no one really thought about. A handful of people anointed to spend borrowed money on a (so far unprofitable) quest to destabilize the world's economy, alienate the working class and make everything we've enjoyed
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by pmdr 10mo ago
Ah yes, the abundance ushered in by the "AI era" is overwhelming us all. Is anyone's salary here projected to go up 53% in 2026?
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by pmdr 10mo ago
We've now seemed to have invented glass, but in some kind of a parodic form.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
> It's always annoyed me that zooming in on a building will not reliably show the business that operates there. 8-10 years ago it was way more reliable. The decline started with them adding the option to promote a business. Frustrat
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by pmdr 10mo ago
> Because I don't know C well enough. Same here. I can read and understand most of it, but not enough to debug it. And outsourcing that task to Claude is like taking a long winding path through thick, dark woods.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
Objective C is by far the weirdest on that list.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
In my experience it's been in recent years, not months.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
It's starting to no longer be just that.
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by pmdr 10mo ago
Time to launch a RAM-renting startup, kind of like Netflix in its DVD era.
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by pmdr 11mo ago
I liked Clippit and all the other assistants. I found them really useful when I was 11-12 years old and learning Office 97.
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by pmdr 11mo ago
Hang in there, abundance is on its way! /s
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by pmdr 11mo ago
So, like, we were already pretty much priced out of higher-end graphic cards, and now it's happening to RAM. All this while jobs are disappearing, layoffs are ongoing and CEOs are touting AI's 'capabilities' left and rig
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by pmdr 11mo ago
Same, bought in August for $250 (EU), now it's ~$840. I ended up returning the laptop I'd bought it for and thought 'why hold on to the RAM, it'll only depreciate in value,' so I returned that too. Better hold on to
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by pmdr 11mo ago
Google is just one of the companies killing the open web. None of them will say it outright, but they'll just scrounge up enough "security" reasons for their decisions to seem palatable, even to the HN crowd. They're jus
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by pmdr 1y ago
Google is evil. Every single one on here arguing "but muh security improves" is against freedom of computing, plain and simple. There's no middle ground. Google & others have slowly turned down the freedom dial over the y
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by pmdr 1y ago
">85% of answers are helpful & accurate" People can usually tell if an answer isn't helpful, but not always that it isn't accurate. Depending on the context, 85% accurate might not be good enough.
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by pmdr 1y ago
So... we're building the most secure devices ever, so secure that only two megacorps have final say on what we can and can't install on said devices (if we want a usable device). Browsers are heading the same way, we sure enjoy ou
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by pmdr 1y ago
Yeah, no investor has ever been conned before /s I do hope Ed's wrong, I actually stand to financially benefit from it.
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by pmdr 1y ago
> But I would bet all my money that Zitron has no idea what he's talking about here. So who does? Genuinely curious. I, for one, don't really trust CEOs raising mountains of debt.
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by pmdr 1y ago
Well have they actually come up with data supporting this?
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by pmdr 1y ago
Ed's newsletter, on HN, unflagged?! Maybe the bubble really is about to pop. I've read pretty much all his posts on AI. The economics of it are worrying, to say the least. What's even more worrying is how much the media isn&#
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by pmdr 1y ago
> make it secure It's convenient, I'll give them that. Secure? https://projectdiscovery.io/blog/nextjs-middleware-authoriza...
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by pmdr 1y ago
> The Internet was turned into a slop warehouse well before LLMs became a thing I suppose that's thanks to Google and their search algos favoring ad-ridden SEO spam. LLMs are indeed more appealing and convenient. But I fear that leg

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