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by tristor 8mo ago
> Plenty of folks here on HN and elsewhere legitimately believe that it's possible to do good with tech. But a billion dollar behemoth with great PR isn't that. To expand on that a bit, many of us (myself included) fully believ
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by tristor 8mo ago
I like the concept, I cannot donate today but I intend to do so in the future. I would definitely like to understand more about the distribution model, however.
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by tristor 8mo ago
I keep using Claude over other models (through Cursor) because the answers it gives and the plans it creates align with how I would personally approach the same problem if I were doing it myself. The other models /might/ produce
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by tristor 8mo ago
Weirdly, I learned that it was important to use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation due to getting repeatedly dunked on in IRC long before the dawn of LLMs. I have no intent of changing, and people thought I was an "old" wh
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by tristor 8mo ago
Great, that means its working. I hope every single country in the world builds competent IT infrastructure. Having more competition will help us to develop more and better technology and have more alternatives, and overall increase the qu
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by tristor 8mo ago
> I just wanted to upload photos. You can absolutely still do this. I'm still a Flickr Pro subscriber since 2015, and I still regularly upload photos to Flickr. I don't think there was a set of changes that reduced Flickr to
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by tristor 8mo ago
Of course they are, taste is a social conversation to align for a window of time on a set of guidelines. Taste is a social construct, being a social construct (or "made up") does not make it any less real or valuable.
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by tristor 8mo ago
> The most of this mythical "taste", at least as hinted by the article, can be acquired rather easily—by looking into what's already out there before jumping to creating. Yes, you should do discovery, but that alone is not
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by tristor 8mo ago
This blog post is on point, but it's somewhat interesting to see developers realizing that taste matters. That's fundamentally the idea behind product management as a role within a company, to be an arbiter of taste and to unders
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by tristor 8mo ago
French courts /love/ to do blocking orders. Of all the Western European nations, they have the most expansive use of DNS blocking, and other technical orders from courts. Sometimes related to the mundane things you might imagine
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by tristor 8mo ago
Revealed preference vs stated preference answers the question of why women's clothing generally lacks pockets. Women prioritize aesthetics over utility when shopping. Clothing follows trends more than most things, though, which is wh
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by tristor 8mo ago
Incredible, I didn't know about Watsi, but I am glad that I do now. Direct support for something as important as healthcare seems to be one of the best ways to deploy donations to positively impact the world. Thank you for creating t
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by tristor 8mo ago
Yeah that quote fundamentally misunderstands what it meant to make depositors whole. That's not bailing out the bank, it's bailing out the depositors, which is exactly what the FDIC is for. In the case of SVB most of the deposit
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by tristor 8mo ago
The answer to "why?" is fairly straightforward, in a way, but hard to see the causality of directly without seeing through all the steps to get there. This is a consequence of two economic factors: globalism and wealth inequality
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by tristor 8mo ago
Not hype. Opus 4.5 is actually useful to one-shot things from detailed prompts for documentation creation, it's actually functional for generating code in a meaningful way. Unfortunately it's been nerfed, and Opus 4.6 is clearly
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by tristor 8mo ago
It actually still is true. I drive on all-season touring tires on my current vehicle because I drive across varied climates, but never in real winter conditions, that said true summer tires have much better stopping distance, better rain&#
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by tristor 8mo ago
> At this point, what am I supposed to do other than uninstall Windows completely? Uninstall Windows completely 4 years ago when Windows 11 was released heralding in a new era of absolutely insane, self-destructive, unnecessary and unwan
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by tristor 8mo ago
Welcome to the reality of most of the "information security" business, which is mostly just compliance by checkbox. A significant proportion of encrypted Internet traffic that is transiting government agencies or major enterprise
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by tristor 8mo ago
As someone who is often late replying to emails and feels compelled to put in an apology, it's because my experience is that most of the folks emailing me (that aren't cold emails, e.g. things related to actual work/activitie
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by tristor 9mo ago
Thank you to Discord for making it easy to cancel my Nitro subscription from the mobile app. I've had Discord Nitro since it started being offered, buh-bye.
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by tristor 9mo ago
People act erratically all of the time on the road because they're on their phones while driving instead of paying attention.
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by tristor 9mo ago
There are only two conditions under which I have had to hard brake in more than 30 years of driving: 1. I'm on a race track or back road enjoying curves 2. Some asshole did something stupid in front of me. I agree that hard braking is
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by tristor 9mo ago
> Apple's contract likely puts verification on Taboola's plate The biggest problem started when Apple accepted Taboola as an advertising partner. Taboola is the master of the chumbox/chumvertising, and it's unsurpris
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by tristor 9mo ago
I have one, the reproduction of the model F104, and it's great. However I no longer use it daily as I've since built a custom ergonomic mechanical keyboard to do the same duty. I did not opt for the solenoid. The F keyboards us
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by tristor 9mo ago
I remember flying before the TSA, it was pretty great in part because you could do things like go to the gate to meet arriving family, or walk your child to the gate before they departed as an unaccompanied minor, with the expectation someo
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by tristor 9mo ago
> Cars, and in particular, parking, kills cities. Parking is sponge that sucks all the life out of places. Yes, and. If you start charging for parking to try to fight against this without also improving public transportation, it just ki
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by tristor 9mo ago
For folks who are actually going to go down this rabbit hole, yes the 3M 6800 series and the GVS respirators are great, and work with very similar cartridge-style filters. That said, a mask alone is not sufficient, and I really recommend y
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by tristor 9mo ago
It's relevant, because border patrol on the Southern border is heavily staffed by Hispanic officers, in part because they need officers that are bilingual as most immigration happening on the Southern border is from Spanish-speaking co
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by tristor 9mo ago
Intimidation, retaliation, and sowing chaos.
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by tristor 9mo ago
This is the most accurate comment in response to this article. I pretty much have discovered exactly the same thing over a more than 20 year career across multiple startups that had successful exits. The absolutely most important traits a

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