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721.
by tombert 7mo ago
I agree with most of what you said, but LinkedIn, at least at a superficial level, is the absolute worst to me. It's full of a bunch of inspiration-porn bullshit that I find unbelievably mind-numbing, but also people treat it like Fac
722.
by tombert 7mo ago
I was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent. According to Brave's dev tools, looks like just shy of about 90kb on this comment page as of the time of this writing. Obviously
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by tombert 7mo ago
I actually have just used tmate to log into stuff since most things can be driven by command line. We got her set up with Discord so she can screen share if she needs to.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, the entirety of the gambling industry is sketchy. I knew about the gross weird stuff they do at casinos (e.g. hide all the clocks and windows to make it easier to lose track of time), so it doesn't surprise me that another gambli
725.
by tombert 7mo ago
Interesting; I haven't had wi-fi issues in Linux for more than a decade, but admittedly I sort of selection-bias towards laptops that are known to work fine with Linux.
726.
by tombert 7mo ago
I bought my mother in law a Lenovo Thinkbook for Christmas; I didn't know that the Macbook Neo was coming else I might have waited for that. Anyway, I installed Linux Mint on there. She has been using it every day and at least accordi
727.
by tombert 7mo ago
My parents got a Packard Bell computer for a deep discount (maybe free?) for signing up for N years of Prodigy internet. It was one of my earliest computers. I didn't realize until right now that it had no relationship to Hewlett Pack
728.
by tombert 7mo ago
Not that I would ever pirate a movie because I'm a good boy, but I remember the Cinavia DRM that affected Blu-ray players thirteen years ago. I'm not 100% sure how it worked, but I guess it could do a similar kind of steganography
729.
by tombert 7mo ago
Well, I seem to recall hearing about this city called "Rapture" under the sea, and it didn't work out very well at all. Would you kindly read up on it?
730.
by tombert 7mo ago
Honestly what seems to matter more than anything, at least to me, is the size of the text, not so much the font face itself. I keep all my text on my computer cartoonishly large, just because I find it 10x easier to read if I do. Who am
731.
by tombert 7mo ago
I've been rewriting a lot of my stuff in Rust to save memory. Rust is high-level enough to still be fun for me (tokio gives me most of the concurrency goodies I like), but the memory usage is often like 1/10th or less compared to
732.
by tombert 7mo ago
Alex Karp is a deeply unlikable human who talks about how his software is used to kill people, and that he wants to drop a lot of fentanyl-laced urine across all the negative reporters.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I don't think people are accusing Palantir of criminally misusing the data. The government rewrites the laws around what these analytics firms are capable of, and as such Palantir operates in that space. Whether or not it's &q
734.
by tombert 7mo ago
It seems like letting a company like Palantir anywhere near private medical data is a pretty bad idea. I am happy NYC is doing this.
735.
by tombert 7mo ago
Ok well it was new to me ok!
736.
by tombert 7mo ago
That's fair. I guess "can it store DOOM?" is still an interesting question though.
737.
by tombert 7mo ago
Gotta admit that it didn't occur to me that "can it run DOOM?" would stretch all the way to DNS. At this point I am wondering if people will somehow port DOOM over to the MONIAC.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, I don't connect my TV to WiFi at all; as long as TVs have HDMI ports I'll just use an Nvidia Shield TV (or something similar). If I do that I have access to more apps, a snappier interface, and it's easier to upgrade i
739.
by tombert 7mo ago
We used to burn women to death because they were accused of being witches. I don't think this was because there was a lot of reason and evidence when they were doing this. I don't think it's unique to the people of today tha
740.
by tombert 7mo ago
Oh that's not new. I remember when I was a teenager there were lawsuits about trying to teach creationism in school. My entire life conservatives have been arguing against climate change.
741.
by tombert 7mo ago
I mean, most of the code that I have written to Github with normal human intelligence also goes to Github repos will less than two stars. They're usually repos that I create and no one else touches.
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by tombert 7mo ago
I've done a good chunk of microbenchmarking with JMH [1], and I have come to the conclusion that I really hate writing and evaluating microbenchmarks. I don't think I'd do it for "giggles". I hate having to figure
743.
by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, I guess I just like envisioning a universe where Gary Kildall was able to keep innovating and making cool stuff, instead of the tragic and depressing way that it actually ended. I played with DR-DOS and OpenDOS in an emulator as well,
744.
by tombert 7mo ago
Especially if they were making $4,000 from street racing.
745.
by tombert 7mo ago
They had to pay about $375 million. That's a lot of money, but I suspect that Facebook has made considerably more than that on targeting children. I'm hardly the first person to use this logic, but if they make more money breaking
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by tombert 7mo ago
I wasn't around in the 80's, since I hadn't even been conceived yet, so it's hard for me to really know what the landscape was like then. Just reading about all the cool stuff that was available in the 80's, a part
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by tombert 7mo ago
I sent you an email to the address in your profile. Would love to compare notes on this stuff.
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by tombert 7mo ago
No, the impact is lessened , but there can still be an impact from an individual company's stupidity.
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by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah I saw that when going down my rabbit hole. Definitely a cool and useful thing for what it is. I just think that Concurrent DOS is cool because it is proper multitasking; proper time slicing and everything! And you could have multiple
750.
by tombert 7mo ago
It’s not just rich people though. Most people (at least in the US) have their retirements and the like in things like 401ks, tied to some kind of index like the S&P 500. A company doing bullshit to manipulate the stock affects pretty

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