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by sokoloff 1y ago
If you have coax, look into MoCA. I have one attic device on a MoCA connection and it runs very well.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m pretty tech-addicted, but I’ve never felt the need for a hard-wired drop in the bathroom.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> My point is primarily that Google has too much power over the internet. That is probably true, but in this case I think most people would think that they used that power for good. It was inconvenient for you and the legitimate parts
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Many commercial leases run in 5-year increments with 2 5 year auto-renewals and a 90-180 day window in which to exercise the opt-out of auto-renewal. That window is often not set to end coincident with the end of the lease term for obvious
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Does the size of America somehow make someone more prone to drive 2500 miles? That seems exceptional here and in Germany.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Does Congo lack electricity, modern medicine, and air conditioning? If the industrial revolution has made their lives worse, it's a double-whammy because they are forced to suffer almost twice as long, as their life expectancy at birt
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I don't. If you do, maybe you could hypothesize a practically possible path from now to then and enlighten us Luddites? The overwhelmingly most likely "end of money for humans" comes from the extinction of humans.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Theoretically possible? Maybe (but still an extremely slim chance). Practically possible? No. People (and countries) own land. Raw materials for robots comes from land. Energy for robots consumes land. Farming food requires massive inputs b
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by sokoloff 1y ago
What percent of the population in places which experienced the industrial revolution would be better off if they time-travelled back 200 years? 1%? 0.2%?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Energy, raw materials, and logistics still remain. I don't think we'll ever get to a place where there isn't some input to a production process that is not infinite and free.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Similar to the author’s cases: I’ve sat through several presentations of small teams who worked for 6-10 weeks to create a web app that does something (the details vary slightly from case to case) where at the end of the presentation, my
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Even more of a blast was this anecdote from the same effort: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33963859
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Thank you! Was quickly composed on mobile and I didn't notice it had the tracking salt on it (and it's too late for me to edit the original).
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I once retrofitted a computer racing game/sim from single-player to multi-player. I thought it was a masterpiece of abusing the C pre-processor to ensure that all variables used for player physics, game state, inputs, and position outp
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by sokoloff 1y ago
One of the most painful interviews I recall was Limor Fried (Ladyada) interviewing Tai about RadioShack. https://youtu.be/u8wwBIA8wMw?si=cKWzNq4Qu_nCQcMA I tried to pick out the most painful segments, but it was hard to cho
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Can a human reliably carefully study for hours on end imaging from screening tests (think of a future world where whole-body MRI scanning for asymptomatic people becomes affordable and routine thanks to AI processing) and not miss subtle an
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It sounds fairly reasonable to me to have to pay to get a second opinion for a negative finding on a screening. (That's off-axis from whether an AI should be able to provide the initial negative finding.) If we don't allow this, I
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Particularly on the low end of offenses, selective enforcement and racial profiling run rampant I think most people will agree to this. When they do, some will be thinking of disparate enforcement of traffic regulations and others lax
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Many companies off-shore without outsourcing (and often with success). Outsourcing: another company. Hard and a bad idea for your core competency. Off-shoring: another country. Much easier if you keep it as part of the same company.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Because the framing of what is the standard or default matters in determining whether a problem needs solving at no cost or merely needs a solution to be available in the market. If the standard is everyone can choose whom they sit next to
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I don’t think it does. People with flexibility to be assigned to sit next to whomever and willingness to sit in middle seats ought to be able to pay less in exchange for providing that flexibility. Their flexibility is lubricating the entir
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Then the airlines should offer those more flexible people the option to buy a cheaper ticket that doesn’t include seat assignment. Just brainstorming here, they might call those tickets “Basic” or something. Then, people with that flexibili
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Every one of their pilots learned to fly in a GA or military aircraft, with the vast majority being GA.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If she only doubled her money in 30 years, that’s only 2.3% CAGR, probably less than general inflation over that time period. Most housing, especially in wealthy areas, has appreciated significantly more rapidly.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Living in a car or being homeless is also super-dangerous when contrasted to living in a more typical housing arrangement. It’s not at all clear to me that four families in a single family-intended house is worse than the alternatives. (Bui
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I have two teenagers. They sometimes have a completely warped view of how hard things are or that other people have probably thought the same things that they’re just now able to think. (This is completely understandable and “normal” IMO.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’ve definitely seen absolutely bizarre creations from junior devs decades ago (so, well before modern AI). I can also think back to some cringey code I wrote by hand when I was a junior as well. I mentor high-school students and watch th
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by sokoloff 1y ago
They may not care about Suresh specifically, but they're probably happier than if no one in their country had a well-paying tech job. Suresh and his tech worker colleagues don't sit on Scrooge McDuck piles of gold coins; instead t
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Are you asking if I would prefer a tech market that didn't experience a crisis over one that did and from my answer of "of course I do", believe that proves some unrelated point?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Don't focus on the nepotism aspect specifically, but rather that job group in one distinct, identifiable population (my kid or H1Bs) grew at a far higher rate than for the general (not my kids or not H1Bs) employment market, despite

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