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by sotix 1y ago
Event organization and birthday reminders are basically all that’s needed. I hear so many people bemoan the loss of Facebook of old for those two features. Beyond that, I’m not even sure if being able to post things is worth it. Status upda
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by sotix 1y ago
In the US, this happens hundreds or thousands of times per year. The last major CEO was probably more recent, but you have high profile CEOs in Sam Bankman-Freid, Elizabeth Holmes, and Ken Lay. In fact, after Enron, CEOs and CFOs took on si
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by sotix 1y ago
The mistake with high school literature in my opinion is that it tries to cover too many works. My freshman year, we read Shakespeare, the Odyssey, Catcher in the Rye, and more. We should have started with Greek mythology and learned who th
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by sotix 1y ago
Wow you got a lot of responses! I was given a take-home assignment from Kagi to build a RSS scraper where Vlad responded to only one of my four questions. I asked how long I should spend on it, and he responded with a single sentence saying
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by sotix 1y ago
Interesting insight. Do you have a source I could read more about the statistics here?
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by sotix 1y ago
A UI change in my Tesla pushed me over the edge and made me commit to selling it back in December 2020.
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by sotix 1y ago
This seems to be a rehash of Stephen Fry’s observation on the difference between the styles of humor.
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by sotix 1y ago
> I believe companies should use every inch of leeway in existing laws to do business. It isn't evil, it is rational. This is the exact argument Jeffrey Skilling presented to me to explain his actions at Enron. He further expanded s
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by sotix 1y ago
I’ve tried using jellyfin for music, but I’m so much happier than jellyfin or Spotify when I’m using my old iPod. There’s something special about curating a collection. New music is deliberate and exciting. And I already had a decently size
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by sotix 2y ago
There’s a reason why Isaac Bashevis Singer and Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz have made the comparison of factory farming to the holocaust. Factory farming is arguably the single most horrific thing humanity has done period. Its scale is terrifying
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by sotix 2y ago
I have a pretty similar automation, but I also make my screen turn to grayscale from sunset to sunrise.
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by sotix 2y ago
I implemented offline mornings and have learned Greek, how to play chess half decently, and how to play the piano! It’s crazy how much time there is in the morning that I was wasting.
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by sotix 2y ago
How did you uninstall safari? Have you run into any issues without having it available on your phone?
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by sotix 2y ago
Valve has put out some artistic and engineering masterpieces consistently over the years. They currently print money with steam. However, they aren’t putting out a Half-Life 3 to rake in more money. They don’t believe they have anything wor
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by sotix 2y ago
It seems you’re conflating financial success with all types of success. There can be engineering successes and artistic successes in this context.
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by sotix 2y ago
> Machine code, with its absence of almost any form of redundancy, was soon identified as a needlessly risky interface between man and machine. Partly in response to this recognition so-called "high-level programming languages"
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by sotix 2y ago
I’ve been researching Greek mythology for the past few years as an amateur. It’s been a lot of fun and rewarding for me. There are a few things, which make the research in my leisure time tough though. 1. Society is set up so that I have to
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by sotix 2y ago
That’s funny because after using Cursor with Claude for a month at work at the request of the CTO, I have found myself reverting to neovim and am more productive. I see the sliver of value but not for complex coding requirements.
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by sotix 2y ago
How do I explain the impacts of this change to my grandmother who has become reliant on it to remind her to take her medication?
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by sotix 2y ago
I get what you’re saying, but I definitely think we just view things from different perspectives. To me targeted ads signal consumerism when I think at a certain point you’ve gotta be happy with what you have. Perhaps a targeted ad can know
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by sotix 2y ago
Show HN is a great example to bring up! I often find the hacky projects a lot more valuable and worth my time than the ones that are clear adverts. HN can obviously be gamed, but I think when people ask or share tools they use to solve cert
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by sotix 2y ago
I’m not sure it’s worth answering the question because to me it almost feels like a straw man in the sense that it’s disconnected from the current reality. I think running a movie trailer before another movies plays and putting up movie pos
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by sotix 2y ago
Fair enough! I stand on the side that the current ad landscape in the US gravitates towards convincing us to buy things we don’t need and consume more. And normally using manipulative tactics. For example, ads in the car industry that sell
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by sotix 2y ago
> And most people are happier with iOS. Source? > And use Macs over Linux, FWIW. This could be explained by marketing. > I personally think adblockers are unethical Do you think ads are ethical? For a relevant example, how about an
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by sotix 2y ago
This is the death of the hacker. We have allowed new heights of power and unchecked control decide they know better than us. We are no longer allowed or trusted to make choices in our best interests. Many practice apologetics for why this i
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by sotix 2y ago
Got it. That is very nice.
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by sotix 2y ago
Ahh thanks for the example. That really clarifies it. I’m used to my NAS always being in one place, so I hadn’t encountered that scenario.
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by sotix 2y ago
> (2) Linux would be great, but getting basic laptop essentials like reliable sleep/wake and power management to work even remotely well in Linux continues to be a painful losing battle. This comment shows up in every single thread
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by sotix 2y ago
I don’t understand why one would use Tailscale over WireGuard. Is it because it’s easier to setup sort of like how Dropbox was? I’m primarily wary of the rug being pulled out and Tailscale suddenly costing me a lot of money whereas my WireG
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by sotix 2y ago
My Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Nano gen 1 running KDE Plasma Arch Linux with an intel i5 meets your criteria.

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