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by stronglikedan 16d ago
> how much it costs to be a first owner vs. wait for a second-hand purchase Nitpick, but in your example, they would cost exactly the same eventually (other than the effort it takes to sell it secondhand), so no reason to wait.
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by stronglikedan 16d ago
> the precedence will screw over Sony As is usual in the modern world (and probably since the beginning of time since there's nothing new under the sun for the last ~2,000-3,000 years), not enough people will care for it to have any
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by stronglikedan 16d ago
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. Buy and enjoy their cameras while avoiding their software as much as humanly possible.
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by stronglikedan 16d ago
It literally says so in their profile.
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by stronglikedan 17d ago
I don't think it's an accident. Flock != Flock Safety
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by stronglikedan 17d ago
A bigger screen is nice and all, but it doesn't solve the input problem. Touch inputs are just terrible compared to a keyboard with a pointing device that isn't a finger or stylus. I always thought I had a problem with the size of
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by stronglikedan 17d ago
legal is a standard, but not the standard. letter is the standard
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by stronglikedan 17d ago
oh boy, that's quite the stretch...
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by stronglikedan 17d ago
Seeing as how LLMs objectively increase performance when used correctly, I'd support the company's decision to let you go for specifically performance reasons. I'm not saying you should be all in on LLMs end to end, but there
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by stronglikedan 17d ago
And a lot of other things too. It's kinda the whole point of their existence.
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by stronglikedan 18d ago
> Is there tho? Yes. > I'm curious to know what percentage A fraction of one. Same with most topics that HN considers sensitive, such as privacy concerns. >99% of people just don't give a shit.
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by stronglikedan 18d ago
I finally feel justified! Not only do I get my hands dirty, but I also don't use soap unless water alone can't get them clean. Most of the time, our great universal solvent does a fine job without stripping my good bacteria.
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by stronglikedan 18d ago
> instead of talking to each other, they’re all watching TikToks or reels. There's only so much to talk about, and if they're doing that, they've probably already said all there is to say. I'm glad we have something t
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by stronglikedan 18d ago
It's always MBAs.
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by stronglikedan 18d ago
If it's one thing I learned from my old web hosting business, it's that any website can be in immediate need of a CDN or DDOS protection at any given time. It's the only business where my customers were randomly attacked for
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by stronglikedan 18d ago
they already have audio video surveillance signs posted everywhere from the moment you walk in so that would go over like a lead balloon
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by stronglikedan 20d ago
I don't think anyone needs to disclose the tools they used to write something. Nobody ever disclosed Word's grammar suggestions or spelling corrections, or the fact that they used some autocomplete tool to produce code, so we shou
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by stronglikedan 23d ago
You can just watch or read the mainstream news for a few days and see for yourself, really. They may not outright lie that much, but they constantly lie by omission - all of them. And when they are called out, it's like screaming into
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by stronglikedan 23d ago
> IMO the better thing is to force these companies to dump this mindset IMO this is a strictly idealistic view in a world where only a very small vocal minority actually seems to care. The vast majority of people will continue to reward
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by stronglikedan 23d ago
> with your entire online identity Seems like one account for idendity (gmail and personal gemini assistant) and another for everything else would be a best practice.
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by stronglikedan 23d ago
geez, dude, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning...
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by stronglikedan 24d ago
The word "requirements" is doing a lot of work there. I've never met a QR code where scanning it was required of me.
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by stronglikedan 24d ago
Unless you're Knight Capital, of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuqSy1jPSUw
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by stronglikedan 24d ago
> the internet is unusable without an ad blocker As someone who successfully uses the internet day in and day out with zero ad blockers, this stance always amuses me. It's not hard to just ignore ads.
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by stronglikedan 24d ago
It's okay to remain on the brink of starvation as long as you're doing what you love! Is that gonna be a new Etsy category?
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by stronglikedan 25d ago
> A toilet that has a door with a countdown seems like the most stress-inducing thing ever. It would be more stressful to the people who are standing there watching me finish my shit than it would be to me, I guarantee.
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by stronglikedan 25d ago
Unfortunately this won't fix the atrocious recommendation system. I really wish these music services could just license Pandora's system. Since Pandora won't add high quality streams, they may as well offer a license to make
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by stronglikedan 26d ago
For now, but there's really no point in detecting them anyway, since there are plenty of truly concealed options for those that really want to be pervs.
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by stronglikedan 26d ago
If it hasn't accidentally sent one of your drafts yet, then I can see how you're comfortable with that.
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by stronglikedan 26d ago
Oh, so it works fine for masochists? That's good to know.

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