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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
I’ve seen plenty of videos covering it from expats stating they still do in fact pay taxes back to the US. Maybe the info is outdated or things have changed recently, but a cursory google makes it seems like that “No, you don’t,” isn’t true
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
This looks cool. I honestly haven’t ever thought about using vertical tabs in a terminal window but that seems nice. One question though, have you thought about trying to upstream any of this into Ghostty instead of making an entirely diffe
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
Honestly this is one of the biggest reasons I stick with Elixir. Between Elixir’s standard library, the BEAM/OTP, and Phoenix (with Ecto)—- I honestly have very few dependencies for web projects. I rarely, at this point, find the need
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
Oh yeah, and just wait until you see you have to pay the US taxes on your income too. Tax system for US citizens living abroad is insanely bad.
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
I got a big laugh at the “only” part of that. I do have a sincere question about that number though, isn’t time relative? How would we know that number to be true or consistent? My incredibly naive assumption would be that with less matter
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
I don’t see how AI won’t end up running on personal devices. It’s like how mainframes were the original computing platform and then we had the PC revolution. If anything, I think Apple is uniquely positioned to pull the rug on a lot of thes
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
Can you elaborate on your claim it’s not enough? PasS (platform as a service) has been transformative for modern infrastructure. Containers for better, or worse, have made deployments substantially “easier,” giving every org the ability to
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
I sort of have a different view of that time matrix. If AI is only able to help me do tasks that are of low value, where I previously wouldn’t have bothered—- is it really saving me anything? Before where I’d simply ignore auxiliary tasks,
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
I thought that too, having seen the requirements, but it turns out it does not really do anything (at least as far as I can tell): https://reason.com/2025/12/31/dhs-says-real-id-which-dhs-cer...
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
Because X and xAI are both losing money. X needed cash to operate, so Elon rolled it into xAI to use xAI’s cash to help fund it. xAI is likely burning egregious amounts money, but will have trouble raising more capital. By rolling it into S
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
There’s quite a bit of evidence to say there are still millions without one, especially depending on the state, this article is from 9 months ago: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/real-id-deadline-weeks-away-mos... I perso
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Ask HN: Any Successful Co-Ops of Software Engineers
14 points by rubyn00bie 8mo ago|13 comments
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by rubyn00bie 8mo ago
I think for a new Ferrari there’s a fair chance it’s salaried individuals. There are quite a few folks who probably make enough to purchase a $400k-$800k car from their salaries. For ultra rare or special variants I think it’s unlikely as t
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Developing a 3200MP linear scan medium format camera [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rubyn00bie 8mo ago|0 comments
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by rubyn00bie 9mo ago
The brownshirts were actually the SA, a police force Hitler originally used for years to brutalize people before the formation of the SS. The SA are very similar to modern day ICE being made up of militant supporters (like proud boys, J6’er
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by rubyn00bie 9mo ago
I’d also recommend people try Arch. The install process has been made waaaay easier in the latest versions. Mostly select what you want et voila you’re good to go. I installed it on a mini pc I took with me over the holidays to game on and
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by rubyn00bie 9mo ago
I’ve been using PopOS for the last five years and while I generally agree… the latest release using Cosmic by default has a lot to be desired. Cosmic will eventually be good but right now it’s far from it and I had to install Gnome as a sto
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by rubyn00bie 9mo ago
Yeah, big plus one from me. I recently tried to investigate some sort of alternative encoding to/from “the prompt,” and was swiftly told that was both not possible and would work against me. As you pointed out, the LLMs are trained on
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by rubyn00bie 9mo ago
I think there’s a certain amount of novelty to this, and the aesthetic of the language I find pleasing, but I’m a little confused… Admittedly, I didn’t read the entire doc and only quickly glanced at the source… But is it just transpiling G
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by rubyn00bie 9mo ago
Yeah, I was noticing that too. There is a company out there, Amprius, which has validated their silicon anode lithium ion batteries that can discharge at 10C (or 20C pulses), have varying densities from ~345wh/kg to 450wh/kg, an
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by rubyn00bie 9mo ago
I've been using Linux as my desktop since 2020, I switched because I wanted to play games and maintain a development environment I'm familiar with (having run Linux servers for ~15 years at that point) that would be stable . I ha
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by rubyn00bie 10mo ago
Yeah, I remember hearing NVidia did the same thing via Moore’s Law is Dead podcast. At this point it seems incredibly unlikely Intel will unseat TSMC anytime soon. TSMC has proven time and time again it is the only fab capable of producing
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by rubyn00bie 11mo ago
This is wild. I figured it was going to be something about reusing password but no it’s just a treasure trove of secrets from folks formatting JSON and saving it to a public link. I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would do th
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by rubyn00bie 11mo ago
This is true, it’s not an individual datapoint. When smartphones, like the iPhone, originally debuted carriers had a conniption fit because they couldn’t preload a ton of garbage apps to help subsidize the cost. Apple has been able to avoid
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by rubyn00bie 11mo ago
That sort of crash is what central banks exist to protect against. That could be something like the Fed stepping in as a buyer of last resort and picking up several trillion dollars of equity, and/or pushing rates to zero again to ince
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by rubyn00bie 11mo ago
Stocks are going to be better at hedging against inflation than any one specific currency, because they’re able to raise prices. This is something Buffet has talked about which is mildly detailed here: https://www.investopedia.co
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by rubyn00bie 11mo ago
Yeah, big same here. It’s pretty frustrating, because I pay for YouTube premium, but cannot use my preferred browser. I have to use Chromium in order to have it work reliably. Doubly so considering it worked fine in Firefox for YEARS… until
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by rubyn00bie 11mo ago
I’ve known many talented engineers who know nothing about business, what’s legal or not, and I politely think this is likely one of those cases. The person put in a ridiculous amount of work, and is trying to think of anything that could wo
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by rubyn00bie 11mo ago
I see a lot of negativity in this thread and I’m not sure why… There are a LOT of folks who prowl HN and some of them obviously have incredible access to resources and connections to figure out a way to accomplish if they were so inclined.
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by rubyn00bie 11mo ago
I dunno about the electricity claims for practical purposes— where I live, that’d be roughly 128 hours of 600W. I suppose the real question is, would it take 128 hours ($11) of power to generate 720 hours of TTS content assuming a good enou

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