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by the-grump 3y ago
They claim the chips are US-made (with a typo and using unclear language), but then the table of origin says something different. It doesn't inspire confidence. Agreed that there is no way the same facility is manufacturing the chips
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by the-grump 3y ago
https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/ Quote: "All the electronics of the Liberty Phone is made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled in the USA" Table of origin says: WiFi Card India B
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by the-grump 3y ago
FWIW the belittling part is assuming you're entitled to someone else's half an hour. Personally, I welcome feature requests and bug reports as long as effort is put into communicating them properly. I thank the reporter, give them
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by the-grump 3y ago
I understand it to mean armchair experts and people who complain are welcome to contribute or they can understand the subtle message that they're just annoying otherwise. Patches welcome = "It's free software; don't act
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by the-grump 3y ago
FOSS 101: you don't like it, send a patch.
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by the-grump 3y ago
Another twist: Billionaire Marc ‘It's Time to Build’ Andreesen Is a NIMBY Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bbd9/billionaire-marc-its-...
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by the-grump 3y ago
Poetic, succinct, and it's all you need to understand this situation. There's a reason Latin and its descendants are called the romantic languages. (I know that's backward and romance comes from Roman... there is a reason sti
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by the-grump 3y ago
If you don't understand the legal implications of the license and CLA, please don't start rumours like "Grafana discourages contributions from the community, even for its documentation". I could try explain to you what t
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by the-grump 3y ago
Breaking news: HN is a forum, not a person.
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by the-grump 3y ago
That's a run-of-the-mill CLA.
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by the-grump 4y ago
I don't think Disney had any metaverse building ambitions. This "metaverse" team was probably working on designing NFTs and digital "assets" for any metaverse that emerges. This is an uninformed take based on recoll
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by the-grump 4y ago
Livestream recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/ccpsyRipHlk
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by the-grump 4y ago
The big, big banks (Chase, BofA) are too big to fail and are also subject to more thorough stress tests. That's one option. You could also deposit in multiple banks to stay below 250k. There are institutions that automate that. Another
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by the-grump 4y ago
You took the risk buying those bonds. Depositing cash at a bank is a different matter. No bailout for SVB; no bailout for you.
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by the-grump 4y ago
That sounds like a conflict of interest. I haven't read his article but would expect this to be noted at the top.
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by the-grump 4y ago
An LLM can get a query right one time, wrong another. You might want to check your wife's teeth :)
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by the-grump 4y ago
+1 I have my own reservations about his opinion but would never state them in the combative and sneering tone often employed by his critics. Can't help but feel like they personally have a problem with him, and they're using this
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by the-grump 4y ago
Herd-brained, short-sighted, unaltruistic, and they never stop telling you how brilliant they are. Avoid VCs if you can help it.
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by the-grump 4y ago
Plus making money is the whole point of creating a company. There are many weirdos (I mean that as a positive thing) building things like popcorn time and its successors, creating models for vrChat, modding games, building rockets, automati
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by the-grump 4y ago
Thank you both for creating and maintaining the snazziest and most reliable window manager in this galaxy.
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by the-grump 4y ago
The beauty of free software is that nobody will coerce you to use it, and nobody cares if you use it. I'm incredibly thankful to the maintainers for doing the thankless job of keeping i3 stable and for doing it so well.