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by the_black_hand 3y ago
Unfortunately, cruise set self-driving back by a few years.
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
Why on earth would a Rolex AD want to sell watches online? The regular pieces e.g Submariners are out of stock 99% of the time, and once stock comes in there's waitlist with 500 people. For the more expensive ones that are in stock, I
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
I think that's the whole point of luxury watches. No rolex owner is under the illusion that they are somehow intrinsically worth so much.
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
The vast majority of people do not have to deal with these concerns. The odds of you losing your device are way higher than Apple getting hacked by orders of magnitude. If you are someone who falls into these professions then you probably s
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
ewaste is problem but bricking them is the only strong security deterent. Many criminals would be happy to steal a brand new iphone and resell it after 3 years.
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
Agree. OP messed up. How would anyone not bother to set a password or "find my" on a $1200 Macbook? That's just negligence and complaining to Apple about it is a bit silly. I haven't set up a Macbook in a while, but I be
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
why would anyone in their right mind not set up "find my" ?
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Ask HN: Is Gmail's Fraud detection that bad?
4 points by the_black_hand 3y ago|0 comments
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
> You’d think this MIT graduate would wise up, but he never did I don't think it's lack of wisdom but rather pathological hubris and a God-Complex. I've met kids like SBF at MIT. Very smart but at some point they think the
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
> Sentry's open source codebase before it went proprietary What do you mean? Sentry is still open source and you can self host it.
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
Time will tell, but I think Tim Cook is the greatest CEO of our generation. Yes, Steve, Musk, Zuck, Gates etc are genius inventors, entrepreneurs and designers; but in terms of executions and day-to-day CEO stuff, I can't think of anyo
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by the_black_hand 3y ago
TIL 1 is not an integer
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
sentry.io is pretty good at catching N+1 queries.
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
I think it a problem of size. Having worked in a big tech company before, I saw first hand how sometimes inefficacy can creep in. It's very hard to execute quickly in new areas once a company gets too big. Size, bureaucracy and politic
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
very cool post. thanks
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
In other news, water is wet. My guess is manufacturers are so drawn towards touchscreens cause they can change things with software updates. From a user POV it's pretty obvious that physical buttons are better.
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
Thanks. I sent you an email.
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
I'll look into crypto. It's frustrating that there is no painless way to do this. My app is in a weird place where it doesn't generate much income/traffic for me to invest significant amounts of my time coding up payment
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
yeah. im looking into crypto now. I just cant find an easy way to accept all the coins in one go.
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Ask HN: Stripe/Google/Apple squeezing the little guy?
2 points by the_black_hand 4y ago|6 comments
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
RIP google. There's a joke that the best place to hide a murder is on page 2 of google search. The fact is GPT has at bare minimum parsed the top page of google and reasoned about the top results to give the best answer with as much co
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
> Sometimes the best solution is not a technical solution (“halt the markets for 15 minutes before/after”) I'm little confused. How does this solve the problem? If you don't code for the second, you'll still be off if
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
This is exactly what happened to ancient civilizations. They digitized everything in the cloud and when it crashed all that was left was the pyramids.
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
No doubt that Paul has an amazing memory, above ordinary but I would put it at freakish level. There's quite a few people who remember events, people and music really well. Anybody whose a frequent writer would def report similar recal
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
The guy who thought that it was a good idea to put volume controls on touchscreen needs a spanking. It baffles me that some companies still think this is a good idea.
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
Vim mode on VScode is pretty easy. Msft nailed VScode by making it an easy electron app that gets up and running . An improved sublime.
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
I agree with the article about Uber's accounting games, but many of the arguments about why Uber can't be successful are unconvincing. > In Q2 alone, Uber transferred $2.8b from its drivers to its shareholders. From a business
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
The biggest issue with Windows isn't poor code or shitty engineering, it's the support for legacy software. MS engineers are some of the smartest in the world. The devs can fix the code and make a much better OS but that would bre
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by the_black_hand 4y ago
Some of these questions are unfair. What case law, if any, did you rely on in Microsoft & GitHub's public claim, stated by GitHub's (then) CEO? Doesn't Google crawl the entire web? How is crawling code different? Copilot
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by the_black_hand 5y ago
"No time soon". I'd be careful. I remember when Bill Gates said we would never need more than 128Kb memory. Crypto is giving huge incentive to speed up the development of quantum. We could get to 1 million qbits faster than

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