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by tpmoney 2y ago
Agreed it is an OS. How many years will it be before audio on the Linux OS doesn’t suck? It’s way better than it used to be, but I still spent weeks this year trying to sort out what magic combination of alsa, and pipewire and pulse-audio a
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Open protocols are great but they are also absolutely a hindrance on change. If you’ve ever worked on a public API you know how painful making a breaking change to that API can be. Inevitably something you want to change becomes some one el
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I feel like it would be easier to believe that Apple locking down access to things is the problem if anything at all comparable to their experiences existed outside. Yet whenever this discussion comes up, the answer to “why not just use And
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Grab the software from the Macintosh Repository and while you're there, grab the "DecoderRing": https://www.macintoshrepository.org/63637-ambrosia-software-... . The latter will require a modern(ish) mac rathe
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by tpmoney 2y ago
You can't ask an AI to do that either. I mean, you physically can, but it would be the same thing as copying and pasting a wikipedia article verbatim into your essay.
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I had this realization a couple weeks ago that AI and LLMs are the 2025 equivalent of what Wikipedia was in 2002. Everyone is worried about how all the kids are going to just use the “easy button” and get nonsense that’s in-checked and prob
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by tpmoney 2y ago
An 80k house in the 80’s means inflation alone accounts for ~$300k of the current sale price of the house. If the general area has built up at all in the last 40 years, that could account for a bunch more of that cost. Absolutely some areas
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Honestly, so far if you can afford the up-front investment for the space you need, and the ongoing power costs, a NAS with a RAID array (or similar redundancy scheme) that can tolerate more than one drive failure at a time is probably the b
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The trick with burning optical media is the disks themselves can physically fail with time. I have a huge archive of various burned media from the early 00's and a number of them have developed literal holes in the material over the ye
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by tpmoney 2y ago
If I had millions to buy the Radio Shack IP, my hail mary play would have been to convert Radio Shacks to mini maker spaces. Stock "jellybean" components and entry level tools, and then put in work benches with various tools avail
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I’ve found one of the best things I can do to help my jr devs feel more confident (and be willing to ask for help) is highlight my screwups and “basic” things I’ve just learned. It make me seem more approachable and less like everything I s
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> No, just no. We need accountability and responsibility. Every single Republican that is actually responsible needs to be holding their fellow Republicans to account for the lies they spread. Let's say you're right. How do you
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by tpmoney 2y ago
As far as I know, not in a way that’s portable across file systems. My understanding is these files persist information about the view of the directory. Things like icon positions, whether it is viewed as a list or as icons etc. All options
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by tpmoney 2y ago
We’ve been hearing for decades now that congress is hamstrung because “one side” refuses to cooperate. And yet, apparently when it comes to things like banning tik-tok, or renewing the various PATRIOT ACT provisions, they can get it done wi
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by tpmoney 2y ago
As a general rule I agree, but in that case we’re limited to what the constitution says explicitly and what is says explicitly is that keeping and bearing arms is a right of “the People” which is a distinct group from “the States” and “the
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Where did I get the definition of the militia? The US Code: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246 As far as I know that’s been the definition at least since the 50s though I’m pretty sure at least th
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Typing "make the bar a bit more like a fizzbuzz" in some textbox is awful UX compared to, say, clicking on the "bar" and selecting "fizzbuzz" or drag-and-dropping "fizzbuzz" on the "bar&quot
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by tpmoney 2y ago
If we go down that route, the "militia" in the US is divided into the "organized" militia, which is effectively the National Guard forces, and the "unorganized" militia, which is everyone not in the "organ
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by tpmoney 2y ago
It has different wording but I feel like it’s only difficult because of the politics and emotions attached to it. If it said instead: “A thriving community of professional musicians, being essential to the existence of great art, the right
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I disagree. Chat is a fantastic UI for getting an AI to generate something vague. Specifically I’m thinking of AI image generation. A chat UI is a great interface for iterating on an image and dialing it in over a series of iterations. The
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by tpmoney 2y ago
It also says “the right of the people” a phrase understood in every other part of the constitution and its amendments to refer to the individual citizenry. Notably, you don’t need to be a member of the press to exercise a right to free spee
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Also the Clinton administration where we were told repeatedly that the private actions of the president, and accusations of sexual misconduct have no bearing on their ability to be president. I’d also say the reaction to the Bush v. Gore el
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by tpmoney 2y ago
>Hacker News might try to ignore politics, but politics isn't ignoring tech. Great! Maybe folks could discuss that in any of the hundreds of other social forums all over the internet? One of the absolute worst things to have happene
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by tpmoney 2y ago
A weird complaint given that Delicious Library had plenty of substance behind it, including barcode scanning with web cameras back when that was novel.
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by tpmoney 2y ago
One of my personal frustrations with SSL as implemented in most systems is the conflation between encrypted communication and verified communication. SSH sort of got this right with ToFU as a default behavior but I think a lot of the resist
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Every few years I get the urge to dive into smalltalk/squeak/cuis/<insert smalltalk variant here> and while it suffers from being pretty heavily stuck in an era and a small community it always feels like a window into w
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> In fairness, this situation emerges because Congress has proven broadly incapable of passing or updating laws, even when polling shows a strong majority consensus for a new direction. I disagree. I think the TikTok ban itself has prove
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> There's a deeply important question as to whether any US president ever has the authority to direct federal agencies to not enforce a law at all. In addition to your example regarding immigration, arguably the entire legal/me
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Tab is up next to the Q on the left side, same place in qwerty. I tried using backspace in the thumb cluster for a bit, and it was convenient, but I found because I don't have good "home row" discipline, I was accidentally de
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by tpmoney 2y ago
One would assume because it's part of the reason for buying the AirPods in the first place. "Off" mode literally turns off all the ANC/Passthrough and other functionality and turns your AirPods into a basic set of in ear

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