snapetom

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by snapetom 5d ago
It absolutely is different. You just said the Mac Mini is upgradable but the Pi is still soldered on. Desoldering and soldering a new RAM unit carries huge risks no matter how skilled people claim they are at it.
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by snapetom 10d ago
When done right, product management is 90% idea generation and market/user research. So many companies do it poorly that PdMs are beaten to think their job is to wallow in bureaucracy and metrics. LLMs are great at helping with aspect
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by snapetom 16d ago
Good lord. Please use logic and Occam's Razor this. Muse is a platinum album winning band that's got 10 albums over 20 years. If this was stolen, they (and their label) would be raising hell.
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by snapetom 23d ago
Last year, I was recruiting a data scientist for a side project. I was referred to two DSes, albeit from academia, to help. Neither had their own personal laptop. One kept his laptop in the office all the time and just used an iPad at h
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by snapetom 25d ago
Good lord. Smart people doing the dumbest things with their work equipment. I have a former coworker who was the VP of Finance at my company. He suddenly got fired out of the blue. The company was in the midst of trying to find a buyer (
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by snapetom 26d ago
Lol. Maybe it was the environment I was in, then. I worked in a law office throughout high school. Half of the firm were Hastings who talked up the fortress that was Boalt Hall.
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by snapetom 26d ago
Coincidentally, I just checked law school rankings in CA. In my day (mid 90's), Boalt Hall was at the very top, and most kids were told don't even bother trying for it. Now it's not in the top 15 in the nation and latest US
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by snapetom 28d ago
Stop trying to turn this site into reddit.
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by snapetom 28d ago
Just a hunch, but I think Aaron Swartz would be disappointed. (Then you bring up Aaron Swartz and Obama's DOJ on reddit and it's massive downvotes calling you a MAGA nazi blah blah blah.)
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by snapetom 1mo ago
I encourage anyone browsing through this to read that link. It gives insight on what many Westerners have no visibility into - how many Chinese view the Qing dynasty, which was romanticized by Spielberg's Last Emperor. More important
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by snapetom 1mo ago
It’s commonly used in college sports where one school’s fan base argue for poaching a coach at another school. “Back up the Brinks truck” == throw money at him.
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by snapetom 1mo ago
Irrelevant and not my point at all. The point was that OP was making a rage-bait statement. HN is supposed to be better than that.
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by snapetom 1mo ago
> He was a republican. And Democrats were the party of slavery. Why do you bring this up? I'd think the Hackernews crowd would know history and wouldn't be surprised that on a long enough time line, philosophies change.
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by snapetom 1mo ago
Stop calling them "National Treasures." That's hero worshipping. That's just sad.
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by snapetom 1mo ago
No thanks. Social media needs less hero worship. Just RSS whoever you like.
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by snapetom 2mo ago
Ah, interesting. Makes sense. Seems like that would be publicly available FAA data.
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by snapetom 2mo ago
This was so much fun, thank you. Question for you, and I guess also if you know why Airplanes.live doesn't do this - why not show the destination? I get that airplanes.live is primarily tracking and the source system, (ADS-B/MLAT?
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by snapetom 2mo ago
The best class I ever took in any school setting was Public Speaking in my first year, first semester in college just to "get it out of the way." The teacher started off with "you're all going to look like idiots and emb
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by snapetom 2mo ago
This is great. Sorry, but the Western World has to stop normalizing extreme introvertism. Humans are social. We rely on communication and cooperation to survive. Allowing kids to shelter themselves from interaction and communication dur
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by snapetom 2mo ago
I've always hated how Postgres merged users, groups, and roles. Users and roles are different in Maria and last I checked, all three are different in Oracle. I can see how Postgre's evolved that way out of history, when MySQL was
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by snapetom 2mo ago
Hah. When I saw the headline, I said, "Finally! I've been asking for this for almost 30 years!"
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by snapetom 2mo ago
No, I mean you're trolling in that you basically read nothing about my original comment. 1) You give a response that doesn't meet half of my requirements. 2) You then give a suggestion that's is fundamentally what I said I di
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by snapetom 2mo ago
At this point, I can only assume you're trolling.
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by snapetom 2mo ago
I swear, this site jumps on the tactile control bandwagon when it comes to something like cars, but for this thread, it's all "meh, everything's touchscreen these days. Get used to it."
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by snapetom 2mo ago
I just stated it above. Because I don't want a touchscreen, I want to eventually replace the battery when it starts going bad, I want a good software experience along with it. Fiio can't even keep their site in order. They have
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by snapetom 2mo ago
You forgot to add /s. In no universe would this suggestion be at all practical, and meets practically none of the criteria I'm looking for.
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by snapetom 2mo ago
Apple got it right with the original iPod, and your ask, and others, is just to extend it to modern times. A lot of these comments simply aren't helpful, and people chiming in know it. For me, I was looking for 1) Music player that hol
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by snapetom 2mo ago
Cameras need to connect somewhere, somehow to offload their videos/photos. Whether that's network, USB, SD card, those are all attack vectors. Hell, even the files themselves can act as payloads.
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by snapetom 2mo ago
I did a code review for a really, let's just say "challenging", co-worker a few years ago. There was one block of code that was really obtuse and I couldn't figure out why it was there and what it did. So I asked him.
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by snapetom 2mo ago
I worked for the research branch of a children's hospital. At one point, I was brought into vendor evaluations a department wanted to buy. Their tool had something to do with visualizing protein interactions, which was highly network

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