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by tristor 9mo ago
It's also completely incorrect. The average age of startup founders is 45, many of the best engineers in the market right now are older Millennials and GenX because they grew up in a time when you could still gain legible access to ev
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by tristor 9mo ago
I really enjoy graffiti murals, and I go out of my way to photograph them in my own city and when I travel. I will see them when I driving or walking around and stop to look for a moment and try to understand the perspective and message of
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by tristor 9mo ago
> We don't say "Everyone needs to care about software architecture, even Product" We absolutely should say that. I was an engineer for 13 years and have now been in Product for 8 years. I work on a highly technical Produ
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by tristor 9mo ago
I'm not a hoarder like most people imagine, but I have hoarder tendencies as my two storage units can attest. My main challenge has always been that when I have invested the (significant) effort in organizing things in a reasonable wa
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by tristor 9mo ago
I'm not sure who the author is, but the fact they choose to be stymied by SSV (which can be disabled) to avoid investigation down that path, which is similar to the path enthusiasts do with Windows to build tools like Tiny11, NTLite, a
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by tristor 9mo ago
A public park and a trail have very different meanings in my mind. When I say that I have encountered this on a trail, I'm specifically referring to trails in places which are designated wilderness areas, which are not subject to any
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by tristor 9mo ago
> Not everyone owns headphones. Some people might have received the speaker as a gift or decided on the speaker instead of headphones. How people spend their time outdoors is not up to you or I to decide. If they want to listen to music
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by tristor 10mo ago
Prezto is faster than OMZ, and has been for over a decade. Starship is faster still. I switched from using Prezto standalone to using Prezto + Starship and relying primarily on Starship several years ago. I'd be surprised if many pe
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by tristor 10mo ago
> Yet Japan DOES have a strictly hierarchical work culture, where openly countering something your boss says isn't exactly welcome. So I wonder how this sort of "Trust your employees to have good ideas" thing came about. W
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by tristor 10mo ago
When you take macro photos with close focus, your depth of field is like a very thin slice of the scene, you can think of it of having a plane of just a millimeter or so deep that you are scanning through the subject, taking a frame each ti
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by tristor 10mo ago
I used to have a macro lens, and while I quite enjoyed it, I found that since I primarily do wildlife photography I could use a longer focal length telephoto lens at distance to get nearly as much detail by filling the frame with the subjec
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by tristor 10mo ago
The camera they want is also the camera I want. I say this as someone who still regularly shoots with an Olympus Pen-F and also has a Fuji X100VI, and primarily shoots a Nikon Z8 but wishes there was a more compact entry into FF. I actual
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by tristor 10mo ago
Yeah, I also considered a Mini then, and just took my wife shopping for her new vehicle. She also likes smaller cars so we considered getting her a 2026 Mini Cooper S but they've gone the other way and done almost everything on a sing
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by tristor 10mo ago
Yes. I was shopping all available compact sedans and hatchbacks with AWD and turbocharged motors. My budget was wide and I enjoy spirited driving, I would have loved for the RS3 to work out, but it didn't for several reasons but the
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by tristor 10mo ago
Great, I bought a 2024 Mazda 3 Premium Turbo over an Audi RS3 or VW Golf R in part because it had all physical controls and the touchscreen functionality is automatically disabled over 10mph. It's a great car, and between the simple b
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by tristor 10mo ago
> For motherboards sold at retail the manufacturer's site will normally have a list, and they may provide some BIOS updates over time that extend compatibility to newer chips. Ah, but if you want to buy a newly released CPU and the
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by tristor 10mo ago
I wasn't trying to write a fully formed political dissertation, so I'm not really sure what you were expecting in response to this comment? My point was that the GP was describing their behavior as "indistinguishable from mo
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by tristor 10mo ago
> it dawned on me that what I was doing was basically indistinguishable from money laundering. Of course it was NOT money laundering But it is money laundering, that's what manufacturing spend is. It's not money laundering to
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by tristor 10mo ago
> Baker, to her credit, probably faced brutal competition to get to the top job. It’s not out there to wonder why she was picked, and the answer cannot be because « she was there from the beginning ». You are completely discounting her f
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by tristor 10mo ago
> I can question the qualifications of a person as it relates to a specific position Sure, but do people generally question the qualifications of founders that successfully grew something from inception? Or is it only for people who are
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by tristor 10mo ago
I don't think it comes as a surprise that you can improve performance by re-implementing ciphers, but what is the security trade-off? Many times, well audited implementations of ciphers are intentionally less performant in order to op
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by tristor 10mo ago
I can only assume you're referring to Mitchell Baker? Mitchell Baker has gotten a /lot/ of negative comments on HN, and some for good reason, but the constant ask of "how she won the position" and the like just sho
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by tristor 11mo ago
> Vehicle size, specifically bumper height is out of control. Many manufacturers are now selling pre-lifted trucks. Here in Texas around a third of the vehicles on the road are pickup trucks, and about half of those have been lifted bey
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by tristor 11mo ago
> driving is getting more dangerous year by year My observation has been that the danger increase is a combination of three things: 1. Lack of situational awareness/awareness of surroundings. This manifests in various ways like imp
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by tristor 11mo ago
I've given many talks at conferences, meetups, and otherwise. My number one piece of advice is to /really/ know your subject. Sometimes I am asked to present something I don't already intimately know, and it can be tem
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by tristor 11mo ago
Very much not true. I'm a seasoned network engineer, and very comfortable deep in the Linux network stack. I still have no interest in doing that for 7-10 hours during work and then having to do it for another 1-3 hours after work to
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by tristor 11mo ago
I am pretty sure this already got installed, but I will double-check. I got a nice speedup for shader compilation afterwards. I am not overclocking my Framework 13.
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by tristor 11mo ago
This is great news, I migrated from vanilla Arch to CachyOS on my Framework 13 AMD a few months back since I primarily use it for Steam gaming, and it's worked great and netted me around 3fps on average across the games I play. I&#x27
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by tristor 11mo ago
I like this project, because it's fundamentally insane. I really enjoyed reading your CLAUDE.md and related documents, as someone with a religious philosophy background, it was a really wild ride and I am now very curious about how Cl
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by tristor 11mo ago
Schiit Audio makes great stuff, I've been using it for years and have other gear as well to compare to. I think it's good for what it is, although their pricing has gone a bit out of control lately. The problem here is not the m

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