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by secstate 1y ago
I have a relative who works in healthcare. The introduction of AI for medical notes has led her level+1 manager to ask folks to increase their patient numbers in response to the extra time saved not having to manually code charts. The initi
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by secstate 1y ago
I want to believe this. But it just seems like every generation of humans has their "would make very little difference" moment. When it comes to energy, it turns out there's just no such thing as a free lunch.
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by secstate 1y ago
Don't worry. There's so much heat, we little humans could never affect any significant change /s EDIT But seriously. I remember years ago going to a residential GT workshop encouraging private heat sink wells hosted by some b
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by secstate 1y ago
Having recently dug an old iPad out of the electronics bin at the transfer station this is acutely felt. I actually found an android tablet at the same time. I appreciate the desire to thwart theft, but lord! Wipe the android tablet, log in
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by secstate 1y ago
The tone here suggests deep misalignment of leadership and ICs. How can you end up enthusiastic about a direction at leadership level and have the ICs "not care," in a functional organization? That's a rhetorical question.
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by secstate 1y ago
I think you missed the point. This isn't about which games we culturally care to keep. It's that even beloved games from 10 years ago are effectively gone to use because there's no way to break the DRM or resurrect live servi
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by secstate 1y ago
No one is saying the niche doesn't exist. The embarrassing part is that ever since Jobs' triumphant return to Apple their magic was making what looked niche blow up into an everywhere device. Since Jobs passed, Apple has slowly be
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by secstate 1y ago
yes, because the alternative is to have kids who can't actually read being dragged along and dragging down kids who can read. What's wrong with a tiny elite remaining if it's based on actually being able to do the work? The b
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by secstate 1y ago
Language Transfer
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by secstate 1y ago
Ironically, perhaps, but in 2025 I'd argue the Asian counterpart would probably be of higher quality, at least in the initial transition back to US manufacturing. AND it would be cheaper.
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by secstate 2y ago
I can believe that its easy to bounce off software because of a million paper cuts. But the problem with them trying to address every one of those proactively is that GNOME is a huge undertaking and they do their best to move at a fairly sl
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by secstate 2y ago
Animojis really feel like peak corporate board asking, "What do the kids like these days?" and dumping that shit into the world. Honestly ... AVERAGE age of the Apple board is 68!! This is a company that's reached some sort o
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by secstate 2y ago
Default keybindings have Shift+Super+Tab doing reverse window cycling in GNOME. Just tried it. Also, which unified button masquerades as two icons? Keyboard layouts are a pain, but there are some solid extensions that clean the flow up and
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by secstate 2y ago
Honestly, after being a gentleman farmer for 15 years or so now, I've come to realize that farmers were the original hackers. In this sense, there's almost a coming-home aspect to software developers wanting to do farm work. I&#x2
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by secstate 2y ago
I think this is it. And I suspect most of these folks don't honestly believe they want to actually run acres and acres of farmland as a commercial enterprise. But speaking as someone who has a small herd of sheep, a few pigs every year
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by secstate 2y ago
That's a facinating obsevation! I hadn't consider the side effects of calling a common phone and interacting with other people rather than exclusively the one person you wanted to talk/text with. Probably distances you from (
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by secstate 2y ago
Yes, if you can pay off any witnesses.
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by secstate 2y ago
Don't attempt to anthropomorphize Donald Trump. He's more like a lawn mower with daddy issues.
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by secstate 2y ago
Because the Chinese Communist Part is not stupid enough to just exploit their leverage over sovereign nations for shits and giggles. You don't need a smoking gun to understand how corporations in China operate. They operate with the bl
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by secstate 2y ago
I don't know how old you are, or what your lived experience has been. But the US did not invent the idea of democracy, nor did anyone promise us that democracy could actually work. What the United States has accomplish over the last 20
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by secstate 2y ago
I'm sure there's case law all over the place, but effectively the Surpreme Court unanimously decided that the US definitely has a right to protect itself from foreign influence. This is diplomacy. And for anyone living in North Ko
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by secstate 2y ago
Not to derail, but when I was in Switzerland, I found the German Swiss to be far more elitarian about NOT learning French, than the other way around. And French Swiss being a minority, they kinda got treated as other or less-than in the bu
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by secstate 2y ago
An excellent point. Most modern germ theory says all bacteria is bad. This, despite the fact that our guts are full of bacteria and that you simply cannot avoid ingesting bacteria. Nevermind that plenty of wood cutting boards are full of be
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by secstate 2y ago
Which creates shallow artists who just want it to "look pretty now." Not saying there isn't a place in the world for that, but there are always trade offs with tools that manipulate your human vision of art, and to say "
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by secstate 2y ago
Yeah, funny how the divisions appear when it comes to folks who have dependents (not just kids, adult dependents count too), and those who are el solo lobo. I will add to your note a (hopefully) friendly reminder that parenting does not nee
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by secstate 2y ago
It's still chugging along. I suspect, but do not know, that it went the middle road of solid growth with reasonable return on investment as opposed to the pop-up monetization shit hole that is Medium.
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by secstate 2y ago
Haha, I thought this looked like an awesome idea, then I looked through the supported services and realized I already don't use any of them anymore!
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by secstate 2y ago
And meanwhile these posts keep getting flagged, as though HN is not the right place to talk about disruption of the thing that will likely lead to the downfall of American exceptionalism, if not America itself. We are taught that American d
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by secstate 2y ago
There's something endlessly humbling about looking beyond a human lifespan. It's at least one of the reasons I find the Long Now Foundation so intriguing.
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New York is in danger of becoming a total surveillance city (2021)(amnesty.org)
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