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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Every piece of Apple hardware I own has outlasted its software support by at least 2X. Or, as I'd rather put it: The software support has been prematurely cut off at best at 50% of devices' lifetimes.
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Yea, this project doesn't just benefit someone who goes out and buys a new Apple laptop. It's going to be most beneficial years from now, after Apple deliberately obsoletes today's hardware, stops updating them with software,
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
I think a lot of this kind of talk treats the C-Suite as special, mystical "visionary" people who Know Things We Can't Know, and by virtue of this otherworldly magical power, are uniquely qualified to do their jobs. Like the
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Yup. It's always "hey, rules are rules" until it personally affects them, and then suddenly it's not fair.
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Or they do have a clue, actually want the cruelty, and assume that somehow, some nebulous "good ones" will be exempt from the cruelty. I was at a gathering and someone's garbage uncle was on one of those MAGA-rants about immi
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Absolutely. I'm not sure where this idea comes from, that engineers should be compliant, neutral "implementers" who should just turn off their conscience and implement whatever pops up on their JIRA list without any kind of a
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
You're being very kind and generous with the benefit of the doubt, like he even needs his own mental steelman. For most of these ultrawealthy execs, I don't think it's even that moderately complex, and I don't think they
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Interesting--I'm still using old.reddit.com with no problem, without an account. Maybe the change is not broadly rolled out?
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Maybe he's saying everyone who works at Google works on breaking yt-dlp...?
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Exactly. I actually laughed out loud at OP's comment. Elon Musk has never done anything to benefit the broader "us." The idea that "we" need people like Musk to "dig us out of this situation" --a situation
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Talking about "science stuff" without even mentioning the political and human implications is pointlessly incomplete. It's like trying to talk about a programming language without mentioning variables. Everything is human and
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
I really don't think this is going to have the effect that X thinks it will have. I've always said that if XCancel and Nitter get taken down, I'm not going to suddenly decide to make an X account--I'm just going to stop
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
I've definitely seen 9/10. It gets ridiculous!
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
HN is in an extreme hype bubble around LLMs, because of AI coding. Normal people outside of the tech bubble range from 1. not caring at all about AI to 2. disliking or opposing it. Meanwhile, here on HN, you have people who earnestly say th
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
I've got a bathroom in my out-building office, too, and a small kitchen with a sink, coffee maker, toaster, fridge, and so on. The limit is money to spend and land area to build on :)
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Yea, I include "rules lawyering" to be a mild form of cheating. The fact that it's socially acceptable is not much of a flex, to be honest.
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Yea, taken to the extreme, I don't think anyone would think it's fair: Restaurant A's pasta is $14.95, printed clearly on the menu. Restaurant B's pasta is $13, with a 15% service fee written in tiny letters on the menu
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Yea, we never, ever use debit cards. Credit cards only, for the heightened consumer protections. It sucks that most banks and credit unions give you one by default that doubles as an ATM card. I always push back and ask if they offer an ATM
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
I love the American measurement units. How many bald eagles of explosives are needed to destroy three football fields worth of reef?
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
If you're relatively handy, a lot of what OP paid for can be DIY'ed. I would have never paid a contractor to do all of that. Probably just the electrical. Especially the Tuff Shed structure. Those things are dead simple, marketed
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
For work-from-home, I can't emphasize enough how much of a game changer it is to have a physically separate building for your work, especially if you have a family with kids and noise and pets and things. Working from a spare bedroom,
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
My understanding is most of these local government "public comment" sessions are only done because they have to, and they'd much rather not, and stay as insulated from the commoners as they can. They certainly don't list
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
It's both. "Bugs are inevitable and unavoidable" is a defeatist attitude in software, albeit one that is accepted strongly and broadly.
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
I'm hearing echoes of half the engineers and product people I've worked with in my career in tech: "Oh, that's an edge case. 0.1% of users will encounter it. P2 bug, not a ship blocker."
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Also, who decides which entities are adversaries? I don't personally consider "China" my adversary. As an American who has to deal with US companies, many of them are far more antagonistic to me than a foreign country 10K km
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Y Combinator's application still asks: "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." They don't actually use the word "cheat" but that's what th
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
> Then what? They drive their sports car, do bungee jumping, sip cocktails and watch ai made movies. It's helpful to think of the world as if it were a gigantic vacation resort for about 1000 people, and the remaining 8billion of us
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
These guys have already all but built Elysium--just not in space. They live their lives completely insulated and apart from the masses. They go to different events, they have other people shop for them and transport them around. They don&#x
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
Yea, at some point, these guys won't really need the vast majority of us to buy from them. They'll be buying from and selling to other wealthy people.
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by ryandrake 2mo ago
> AI is the subtrate the future runs on. We don't know this. So many people are simply claiming this confidently, and a lot of them are betting their careers on it, but nobody has a crystal ball. Whenever someone tells you confident

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