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by pwb25 3y ago
"The thing is, when you bring your own machine, you tend to have to spend time setting it up, installing games, updating drivers, etc. There's always that one person who has to reinstall Windows from scratch. I remember many LAN p
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by pwb25 3y ago
Honestly sounds quite lame. The whole thing with a LAN party is carrying your own computer and giant CRT screen and setting up cables all over
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by pwb25 3y ago
Who would ever code like this? Those kind of quizzes can be made for any language So tired of those smug "hurr durr language X hehe" posters
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Ask HN: Does ChatGTP store or analyze user queries to NSA or similar agencies?
1 points by pwb25 3y ago|1 comments
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by pwb25 3y ago
nothing, why? It's a weekend I drink beer, hang out with my wife or do sports
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by pwb25 3y ago
yes, but the problem is there is for example some native apps like google drive that randomly sends you something, even if it never did for 2 years then you also have the thing of not using big screens every day
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by pwb25 3y ago
insecure how? How is this ever a problem? >The real problem is your self-control. Maybe, so ? and no, i in fact did a search before this thread https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
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Ask HN: Anyone started using a dumbphone recently?
4 points by pwb25 3y ago|9 comments
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by pwb25 3y ago
except you need a new set of cable adapters for each new phone they just remove more and more stuff
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by pwb25 3y ago
but they aren't the best, thats why it's weird.
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by pwb25 3y ago
No, what for? Better to relax a bit
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by pwb25 3y ago
Sure, that's totally fine and I guess you are the type of person I mean i miss :) You have a strong opinion about something and is open for debate. But the "new" programmers just take the easy path and accept what some random
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by pwb25 3y ago
if you went to any software forum some years ago, most people hosted their own servers or did their own projects just for the sake of it. Now it's a lot of making some project to get into company A or solving some leetcode problems. Or
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by pwb25 3y ago
What I mean is mostly - before everyone almost had their own platform and style. Now everything is so streamlined
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by pwb25 3y ago
I am not really burnt out either, I just feel I want to focus on the real software part of things. Some big VC funded company creating a half-secret AI solution that also has some content filter policies feels so anti open software and prog
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by pwb25 3y ago
I remember my last job I had in 2018, when a girl from marketing went past my desk and commented how weird it was I used winamp and streaming from my own shoutcast server from my mp3 library :P 5-10 years ago before that, that was like the
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by pwb25 3y ago
Well let me clarify, I didn't want to make the post too long :) I work at a great company working with different server cloud and monitoring solutions, and I rarely have a dull day. I meet customers and plan projects, now with almost 1
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Ask HN: Any tech enthusiast feel like apps or software is not for you anymore?
8 points by pwb25 3y ago|18 comments
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by pwb25 3y ago
or how bad the inline editor is with html options
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by pwb25 3y ago
The main problem is a lot of those sites started as web 2.0 platforms which should never be about deciding the content. only user generated content, but provide the platform then the last 3-5 years, they are slowly creeping towards a curat
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by pwb25 3y ago
yes, but they were already there right? Not targeted out of country and also just to be clear, I think this is equally bad when everyone does it
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by pwb25 3y ago
Not really. When did the Chinese CFTC do something like this to any american? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash#Evidence_of_m...
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by pwb25 3y ago
Can't wait for the chinese or indian SEC to start suing US nationals for different exotic financial wrongdoings on some half hidden rule
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by pwb25 3y ago
and american government agencies try to rule over all countries or citizens all the time too. Or try to make them follow their anti piracy laws
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by pwb25 3y ago
>It makes Renaissance Technologies' 30 percent ( net) returns more believable, the fact such a simple trade can work so well for so long. Imagine scaling this up with more assets, more computing power to find more patterns . I agree
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by pwb25 3y ago
that's nothing like that on biz or g, stop FUDing
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by pwb25 3y ago
So like a normal website as they always were before all those web 2.0 platforms? That then did a 180 from being platforms and started with "content creators"?
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by pwb25 3y ago
Better for who? For sure not workers
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by pwb25 3y ago
>, lots of US tech companies wouldn’t have grown 30% without thinking twice So what? Apparently that didn't work in any way, since their stocks are crashing and they need to mass fire. So what's the benefit of what you are sayi
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by pwb25 3y ago
at the same time many of those big tech companies never interview for domain or stack knowledge. both can not be true

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