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by some-guy 2y ago
N100's QuickSync has been good enough for me for Plex transcoding FWIW, though maybe your demands are higher than mine in terms of resolution
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by some-guy 2y ago
This is happening at my company. Thankfully I'm senior enough to push back on most of the requests to add AI as I still haven't found a good use case for it in our product.
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by some-guy 2y ago
I was blinded by this growing up in the 90s in a college town in Northern California where it felt like the market share was 50% Apple.
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Biggest Nvidia Scam yet (2003)(storageforum.net)
1 points by some-guy 2y ago|0 comments
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by some-guy 2y ago
Moving out of SF may be the correct choice, but most engineers I know who have moved out of CA to cheaper cost of living areas have regretted their decision for one reason or another. Better taxes on paper may not translate to a better tale
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by some-guy 2y ago
Just another anecdote but I concur with you--10 years of commuting experience in the Bay Area tells me that the most likely bodily harm I will experience is behind the wheel on the freeway, not from homeless / mentally-ill people wande
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by some-guy 2y ago
My aspirations to become a rock musician peaked right after I graduated high school in the US (2006). It was sort of the beginning of music-streaming being cheap and possible for small artists. I decided to join a local singer-songwriter&#x
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by some-guy 2y ago
I did my CS degree at Santa Cruz with both UC Davis and UC Irvine as choices, and it was simply the redwoods that drew me in. I’m doing well in the field among people with much more “prestigious” college résumés. Obviously an undergraduate
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What Is "Indie Voice"?(acelinguist.com)
1 points by some-guy 2y ago|0 comments
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Windows XP Fixes Myth #1: Registry Cleaners(windowsbbs.com)
1 points by some-guy 2y ago|0 comments
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Dear Roku, you ruined my TV(theverge.com)
174 points by some-guy 2y ago|176 comments
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by some-guy 2y ago
I've done over a hundred interviews now. One of the most valuable engineers I hired had an interview that steered off course from the original algorithm question I had in mind. I opened with a "what's the most challenging par
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by some-guy 2y ago
Not the point here: Israel is our "greatest ally" and the target is our lawmakers.
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by some-guy 2y ago
Helping my parents in their mid-70s is a constant uphill battle with these things. I simply tell her to ignore *everything* and if she needs confirmation to get in contact with me.
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by some-guy 2y ago
My wife lived in Israel on and off for years, I got to visit her for awhile during her dissertation work in the West Bank. Only a few blocks of Tel Aviv deserve the "modern Middle Eastern country" label in my mind. And even then i
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by some-guy 2y ago
The reason jobs aren't coming back is because startups can't borrow free money. ChatGPT is nowhere near ready to be correct enough to replace humans for important tasks.
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by some-guy 2y ago
The only thing I use ChatGPT for is to generate simple bash scripts, and even that is mostly just a time-saver--I still need to sift through and make sure the code is actually correct which is only about 80% of the time.
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by some-guy 2y ago
I don't live in Silicon Valley anymore but I found it _extremely_ ironic that in my experience, it's the parents that work in tech that are more likely to limit technology usage for their children. (Full disclosure: I'm part
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by some-guy 2y ago
I have W11 due to building a gaming PC with a modern CPU with "efficiency cores", which W10 doesn't support proper task scheduling of. From a stability and performance standpoint the OS has been fine, but every update there&#
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Good Luck Trying to Resell This West Elm Coffee Table(curbed.com)
5 points by some-guy 2y ago|0 comments
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by some-guy 2y ago
1) Twitter wasn't a marvel of engineering pre-Elon 2) It's worse post-Elon (bot issues, paid blue checks at the top, increase in hateful posts, etc)
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by some-guy 3y ago
I don't live in the Bay Area anymore, but once great thing about living there was the amount of secondhand West Elm / Williams Sonoma furniture for reasonable prices that you could buy from rich people. Most of their quality is a
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by some-guy 3y ago
I've been mostly happy with Plexamp. Main issue with it is the inability to sync my entire music library offline onto my phone (FLAC->Opus) which according to their support pages is not a feature they plan on supporting.
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by some-guy 3y ago
I know many people who joined Figma specifically because of the promise and goal of a large buyout. Even if it isn't explicitly stated, in most circumstances people want to go public at the right price.
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Confessions from the SF resident who towed 99 cars in 7 months(sfgate.com)
2 points by some-guy 3y ago|0 comments
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by some-guy 3y ago
I've been at the same enterprise SaaS company for 10 years. Personally? Staying at the same company for a long time while performing well gave me some options I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Like OP, the culture has shifted dras
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MacWorld: Pick the Best Browser (1995) [pdf](vintageapple.org)
4 points by some-guy 3y ago|0 comments
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by some-guy 3y ago
It’s not just young teens generally: my wife is involved in left-wing Jewish organizations in the United States and young Jews are increasingly more skeptical of Israel’s importance to their Jewish identity. I wouldn’t say it’s quite a majo
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by some-guy 3y ago
Good engineered hardwood has enough of a top wear layer that allows the same number of refinishes as solid hardwood (due to hitting the tongue and groove), plus you get better humidity performance.
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Tell HN: TurboTax Desktop will require Intuit account for 2023 tax season
31 points by some-guy 3y ago|7 comments

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