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by troyvit 2y ago
That's a really good point. My kids have tablets but they barely carry books. They could probably get 90% of the same stuff done if they were given an eReader instead of a tablet. It would have several benefits now I think about it. *
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Man I hear that so much on HN. I'd never been to Europe until 2021, and I met so many happy, beautiful, productive people who enjoyed healthy food, great booze, love, and just LIFE compared to the U.S. Here on the Colorado front range
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by troyvit 2y ago
I'm re-reading The Expanse series, which started in 2011. I was talking about it with some friends, and they basically said, "Oh cool my MFA friends really like that series because it has so many non-binary relationships and stuff
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by troyvit 2y ago
I totally agree. Many assignments are on the ipad, and they come via shitty sass products that regularly crash, taking their homework with them. Additionally for stuff like math you need to show your work, which is impossible for higher lev
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by troyvit 2y ago
My daughter's school gives all the kids ipads and she got a new one this year. The IT guy gave it to her before locking it down so she installed all the dumb apps she wanted on it before handing it back over. The point, aside from how
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by troyvit 2y ago
One metric for investigative journalism, in my opinion, is to look at how many journalists are in jail: https://www.statista.com/chart/16414/jailed-journalists-time... This is only one data point and doesn't
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by troyvit 2y ago
My opinion is about as strong as my knowledge is weak buuuut here's my take. There's no editorial control over blogs or social media or chat. That opens them up to everything from typos to honest mistakes to outright disinformatio
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by troyvit 2y ago
> I read the New York Times for national news, but regional news (which is the majority of newspapers) consistently don't appeal to me. Why would I pay to read about a carjacking in a far off neighborhood? It's messed up, but v
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by troyvit 2y ago
Radio and podcasts actually. Politico does this, and cpr.org (my employer) does it too. They'll have a blurb about the topic, a link to the podcast, and then a printed, edited version of the interview. I love it.
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by troyvit 2y ago
LikeC4 looks really cool. I spent a little time with the documentation and it seems like it requires that it runs its own server to render the diagram. In other words no export to html or svg. Do you know if that's the case?
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Hurting those owners, who didn't have any say in the bad decisions, is probably not what we want. It's definitely not what we want in the short term, but thinking longer term, it's index funds and such that need to remo
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by troyvit 2y ago
Of the three AI tools the author talked about, two of them (OpenAI and Sumo) are facing lawsuits for copyright stuff[1]. That by no means invalidates what he's done, but more speaks to the interesting times we live in. These tools both
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Apache has probably more unofficial modules, but that's irrelevant to the core developpers. In a way it's irrelevant, but in a way not. The myth was that they called it Apache because it's "A patchy" web server
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by troyvit 2y ago
I think an (insane and unstable) economist would say that technology is indeed making everything cheaper, and as a result the average person's buying power is increased. Since buying power has increased, demand has gone up for all good
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by troyvit 2y ago
For me it is worth it to host a password manager for me and my family, although I just did a one-click install on Digital Ocean (using Bitwarden, not Vaultwarden ... so far). To me (and I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff), the bigges
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by troyvit 2y ago
Normal people need ad blockers about the same way they need clean water. I wish advertising was a viable revenue model for publishers, but it has been abused by large actors for so many years that large US government entities like the FBI r
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by troyvit 2y ago
> when a platform ends up in late stage capitalism and goes off extracting value from users at the cost of their experience. That's Boeing's mission statement in general I think, but specifically here I think there's a str
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by troyvit 2y ago
> If someone does something stupid and knocks you down, it's perfectly reasonable to distrust the help they offer, especially if that help requires giving them even more trust than what they've already burned. Yeah it smacks of
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by troyvit 2y ago
They site this Ars Technica article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-likely-to-signifi... > Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board S
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I think we're witnessing the enshittification of space.
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I think there was a sub-plot like this in "Children of Time", by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Only it was people on a generation ship that was forced to operate well beyond its limits. I don't want to give too much away but it definit
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by troyvit 2y ago
At first I was going to say something like "Well with that attitude we'll never get the 'year of the Linux desktop.' But actually, what you say describes exactly what the Linux desktop is. It isn't about hegemony bu
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I'll believe it when I all the sudden remember that they said it in 2018.
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What apps would you recommend?
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The notes on self-hosting[1], from somebody making $14k/month relying on Maddy, says it pretty realistically. The author goes into a fair amount of detail covering what he did and it sounds pretty simple compared to what it was ten yea
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by troyvit 2y ago
The Vox article refers to an Algorithmic Justice League[1] article which footnotes the TSA article that says you can opt out [2]. I have to fly next week and if I have the guts to try this I'll definitely have the TSA article handy, no
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by troyvit 2y ago
Kagi lets you configure the search engine to deprioritize or even fully eliminate search results. They ride on the back of Google's indexing so -- if you ever change your mind -- you could bring reddit searches back.
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by troyvit 2y ago
If I was under pressure from so many different stakeholders with different requirements I'd probably ask to be broken up.
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There's a constitutional requirement that the candidate must be at least 35[1], which seems arbitrary to me. That was decided in 1787. I wonder what age they would have picked as a maximum age back then. I say that because (at least th
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I have two questions about this. First, what does the first entry look like? Most people don't have ADR started, so these decisions will come on top of an existing infrastructure. What's the first doc look like that holds that inf

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