rfarley04

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by rfarley04 5d ago
Should probably put somewhere in the title that this is an individual's prediction
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by rfarley04 8d ago
Thank you for saving me five minutes. Seriously.
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Ex-MS engineer reveals the story behind the infamous 'FCKGW' Windows XP key(pcgamer.com)
6 points by rfarley04 9d ago|1 comments
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by rfarley04 11d ago
I have lived in Thailand for 13 years and taxes have been a huge pain. When I worked for a local company, I had to pay taxes in both places, for example. I have since started a US-based S Corp for my contract/freelance work and have pa
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by rfarley04 14d ago
Oh my god this is a lifesaver. Just last week I was using Google Groups to search for old Usenet posts about the Commodore 64 and the Mimic Spartan, and I was getting "too many requests" errors 4 out of 5 times clicking a result.
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A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads(buttondown.com)
108 points by rfarley04 21d ago|14 comments
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No GrapheneOS for Pixel 11 phones because Google cut a key security feature(androidauthority.com)
4 points by rfarley04 25d ago|0 comments
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by rfarley04 29d ago
The video is just people typing into a chatbot window and then Claude building them something. Salesforce is totally irrelevant to that workflow except as the place where you store your data. Another video claiming that AI can do anything a
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by rfarley04 1mo ago
We'll never forget you, Anatoly Cherdenko. "Commander! You've rained on my glorious parade! For this, I'm sending everything I got at you, but I won't let you have the satisfaction of catching me. I'm escaping
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by rfarley04 1mo ago
I absolutely love audiobookshelf for audiobooks. And I currently use it for my epubs, but it does not handle that particularly well. It doesn't save progress consistently and the UI for page flipping leaves a lot to be desired. Definit
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by rfarley04 1mo ago
Yesssss a wordcount tracker for daily stats that ignores pasted text, only counting things you typed yourself. I built a very hacky and unreliable word count tracker of my own. This looks way better
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Database-less link shortener and compressor(github.com)
3 points by rfarley04 1mo ago|0 comments
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by rfarley04 2mo ago
Then why can't I see the ketchup bottle sitting front and center in the fridge
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by rfarley04 2mo ago
Author here, from another issue I sent about my definition of bad ads for this newsletter: "tl;dr While I do exaggerate the “badness” of 80s tech ads to make things more fun, a nostalgic ad is not the same thing as an effective ad. Wha
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by rfarley04 2mo ago
You're right! That was a not entirely clear enough reference to Gateway 2000's first ad, in 1987, which famously used the headline "Computers from Iowa?" https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive
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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)(buttondown.com)
122 points by rfarley04 2mo ago|100 comments
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by rfarley04 2mo ago
Haha damn, you beat me to posting it. Such an accurate description of my writing process, which, despite being super slow, pays the bills!
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by rfarley04 2mo ago
Not disagreeing on that front. But the article I saw on /new and the spacedaily one, regardless of their accuracy, certainly looked like wholly AI generated writing to me
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by rfarley04 2mo ago
Seemingly unrelated, I just saw some post on /new that was saying Dunning-Kruger had been debunked by some recent study. It looked pretty sus so I kagi'ed it and lo and behold guess what came up: https://spacedaily.com&
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by rfarley04 2mo ago
Yes we are. I wrote about it last July: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44463249 And there have been some other attempts to quantify it: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393 - https:&#x2F
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by rfarley04 2mo ago
Saw this immediately after listening to a chapter of Player of Games. The Culture series is full of voice interfaces (Minds and drones) that are always on task
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GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN(korben.info)
131 points by rfarley04 2mo ago|101 comments
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by rfarley04 3mo ago
I'm writing this on a Pixel 8 and it's the worst phone I have ever used. The wireless chip is basically dead. And the battery can't make it to 3pm. Annoys the hell out of me that so many reviewers I thought I could trust spea
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by rfarley04 3mo ago
That's my library system too! I go to tualatin and it has a dedicated room for their makerlab and have classes every day for all kinds of stuff. Whenever I go in its pretty well attended.
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A doomed marriage and a bad ad for Corvus Systems' drives(buttondown.com)
2 points by rfarley04 3mo ago|0 comments
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by rfarley04 4mo ago
Tower of Babel by Ted Chiang is another comparison worth mentioning
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by rfarley04 4mo ago
The human.json protocol is worth checking out as a proxy for the whole "more human internet" conversation. Not perfect but interesting! https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
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Gateway 2000's infuriating descent from awesome to bad ads in the 90s (Part I)(buttondown.com)
1 points by rfarley04 4mo ago|0 comments
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by rfarley04 5mo ago
Ha, I was just researching early email newsletter history and came across High Weirdness By Mail - A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries. It's literally just subscription addresses and parag
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Web Stalker – an artist-made browser that ignored images and formatting (1998)(anthology.rhizome.org)
4 points by rfarley04 5mo ago|0 comments

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