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by tristor 6mo ago
This is kind of a weird take on Costco, but I also somewhat resonate with it. I've always seen Costco as somehow the perfect aspirational ideal of the American middle class. Personally, I love Costco, and my love for it has grown as
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by tristor 6mo ago
The idea that I could do the things I do regularly on a Chromebook is laughable in the extreme, and I'm not even that much of a crazy power user. No thanks.
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by tristor 6mo ago
This is so obviously a "modernization" effort that means they swapped out the existing UI engine with a UI engine built on web frameworks under the hood and tried to match things as closely as possible visually with some designer-
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by tristor 6mo ago
As a hobbyist photographer that still likes using a nice phone camera, the thing that is most important to me is that the phone camera accurately reflects skin tones in photos of people. The only things I'm really photographing with m
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by tristor 6mo ago
It's not that the average CS grad can't expect to make 100k, it's that when that was the case 100k was a meaningful amount, now the same purchasing power requires 235k and almost nobody is making 235k in any job role, career
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by tristor 6mo ago
> I liked Spirit because it was more akin to riding the bus This is exactly why I would never be caught dead on Spirit. Sartre got it right, "Hell is other people." My issue with Spirit and other budget airlines as a frequent
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by tristor 6mo ago
> Unless this initiative will turn into a credit card company (which nobody likes or wants to do) it won't go anywhere There's another more fundamental problem with airlines like Spirit, which is they can't effectively mak
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by tristor 6mo ago
> He probably didn't know it was trademarked The fact it's trademarked provides the original project more legal protections, but regardless of whether or not a trademark is registered it's clearly unethical to use another
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by tristor 6mo ago
Using SFP+ modules for 10GbE is interesting, I deployed a full 10GbE network in my home connected by 5Gbit/s symmetric fiber from AT&T and a 1Gbit/s x 100mbit/s DOCSIS 3.1 connection from Spectrum as backup, I did this ar
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by tristor 6mo ago
Oh, I fully agree with you that the Boomers completely fucked the world to advantage themselves and then pulled the ladder up for their kids and grandkids. But I don't think it's fair or reasonable to reply to a single individual
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by tristor 6mo ago
That is not what the GP said at all. I am definitely not a Boomer, and I fully agree with them. They are lamenting the loss of control over your own general purpose computing system, and how our capitalistic society run by oligarchs is en
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by tristor 6mo ago
> I know parents who have no problem with their kids seeing porn. I don't agree with showing actual children porn, but I also totally expect teenagers to find some way to get access to it in the age of the Internet. Part of the chal
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by tristor 6mo ago
Correct. But the golden question is, do what? The authorities don't care. Rules and laws are rarely enforced, and when they are enforced they're done so unevenly. If you decide to take matters into your own hands, it's mu
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by tristor 6mo ago
Unfortunately IP assignment agreements are very common, even in non-creative roles and fields. Many many many companies have overly-broad employment agreements in the US, mostly because they know few people will challenge it and that the l
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by tristor 6mo ago
I see a lot of people in the comments wanting to use iOS on a laptop, or connecting a mouse and keyboard to an iPad/iPhone. I don't know what the point would be. For anything that is not purely content consumption, a regular lap
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by tristor 6mo ago
I was once targeted for recruitment by Palantir. I looked into it, I decided not to apply. This was circa 2018. I think it'd be really difficult to justify to myself joining Palantir then, I can't even imagine doing it in 2026.
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by tristor 6mo ago
> I'd like to see a spending breakdown. Because I live in a low cost-of-living city, locally I'm well within the top 1% of income earners here and within the top 5% nationally. My day-to-day life is not significantly different
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by tristor 6mo ago
I'm kind of disappointed that this is about social media presence and not the physical world. I am a big proponent of working with your garage door up, quite literally, and I make it a point to do projects in my garage or my driveway,
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by tristor 6mo ago
This is very cool, if a bit glitchy right now (probably thanks to HN popularity). I used to this to generate infographics of the rear subframe, diff carrier, and rear suspension of my car and to get detailed specifications on the bushings,
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by tristor 6mo ago
Interesting, I've always preferenced ibuprofen because I was concerned with long-term liver effects from acetaminophen as a casual drinker and someone who is a bit overweight (both things negatively impact the liver). I think one thin
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by tristor 6mo ago
Realistically, that list of components are mostly things that have not been used in modern computing devices for over a decade. Nothing prevents someone from providing a module from out of the kernel tree to ship these drivers or deliverin
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by tristor 6mo ago
> You kind of put yourself in a trap thinking AI will behave as smart as possible if it's looking at manipulating people. Not at all. You're missing my point. Intelligence (even super intelligence) is not enough, because we a
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by tristor 6mo ago
The fundamental problem is that nobody actually wants to listen to geniuses. The people leading our societies and companies are, by and large, NOT geniuses, and by and large want to surround themselves with people that agree with them, rat
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by tristor 6mo ago
What you're talking about is a property called "forward secrecy". There are new techniques which have better quantum resistance for handling key exchange, but I think the point of the person you're responding to is that
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by tristor 6mo ago
This is very interesting, I have been playing with local models and haven't really run into any use cases where I needed an "uncensored" model, but I saw it as a possible value prop for local models. To see that the training
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by tristor 6mo ago
I've had so many problems with ereaders that I've just gone back to using paper books, they have a better UX and none of the issues. I love my reMarkable tablet, but I definitely do NOT use it as an ereader and have no interest i
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by tristor 6mo ago
> I think there's another problem with AI doomerism, which is the belief that superhuman intelligence (even if such a thing could be defined and realised) results in godlike powers. I agree with this. The main piece of evidence to
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by tristor 6mo ago
It choked on my M5 Max MBP w/ 128GB of Unified Memory connected via a TB5 dock over 10GbE directly to my router, which is backed by 5Gbit symmetric fiber. My measured average latency to nasaforce.gov was under 13ms. So, yeah.
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by tristor 6mo ago
Worse, they're actively working to allow malicious activity. Meta made 10% of it's revenue, around $16B from known scams: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...
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by tristor 6mo ago
I'm totally fine with that, frankly. I'm blessed with 128GB of Unified Memory to run local models, but that's still tiny in comparison the larger frontier models. I'd much rather get a full array of small and medium si

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