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by uticus 3y ago
me: wonder if there's a problem? i'll find a status site me 2 seconds later: nah, i'll check HN me 5 seconds later: ahh, there it is
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by uticus 3y ago
what are stats for Facebook uptime? i can't remember last time large parts of it went down like this.
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> not in the same performance class...it's fine if it meets your needs...the apple is also a better machine all responses here have been along the lines of 'i have x many tabs open no problem. i develop y no problem. i use z co
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by uticus 3y ago
Dell Latitude 5400, i5-8265U [0], 14" matte screen. Bought refurbished, self-upgraded to 32GB and 1TB M2 PCI SSD with about 10 mins worth of work. Currently running Firefox (14 tabs), LibreOffice Calc (spreadsheet), LibreOffice Writer
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by uticus 3y ago
> Most seem to have 25-30 (Mako, Retro, Jones, Stoneknife) Know of any good sources that catalogue these? If it's all in your noggin I respect that, but had to ask.
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by uticus 3y ago
> And don’t get me started on the terrible foray into the ethics of suicide that came out of nowhere. More correct term would not be suicide, but euthanasia as it is 'assisted suicide' [0]. The Roman Catholic church (and iirc t
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by uticus 3y ago
Read last year, loved it yet still can't decide if the ending is brilliant or bonkers.
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by uticus 3y ago
What language typically returns the `Either<Error,Success>` you refer to here? I get (and love) the idea but have never seen it in official documentation (sure I could go off the beaten path and implement in my language of choice). Al
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by uticus 3y ago
Well, that's my point though, it is already pointed out in the section I quoted: > Access to ANE computation is only available through CoreML and related features in macOS. Even there, developers are given limited options... The art
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by uticus 3y ago
I stand corrected re my comment about making a compositor. At first, I was going to point out that wlroots itself says it abstracts the job of a compositor: 'about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway.' [0] Would se
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by uticus 3y ago
> The Apple Neural Engine (ANE) is a separate unit in M-series chips, and isn’t directly accessible to third parties. As a result, knowledge of it is limited...Access to ANE computation is only available through CoreML and related featur
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by uticus 3y ago
Used Enlightenment as daily driver for about 3 years. Overall it was nice, but I eventually gave up on it after trying to configure things outside the typical GUI-based options. The config documentation [0] takes too much time to understand
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by uticus 3y ago
Meh, I want a window manager, not a full desktop environment. I want key-combo switching between apps and allowing the apps to be moved and sized. And that's it. No need for special 'start/run' features, for DE-bundled a
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by uticus 3y ago
> Just about everything that set out to be big and professional, failed. GNU HURD. Microsoft OS/2. Apple Copland. IBM Workplace OS. Apple and IBM's Taligent. Whereas CP/M and DOS and Windows, even Unix itself, all started
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by uticus 3y ago
torn between a vote pro or against the delorean for this, almost worth it to see my neighbor's reaction when i'm washing the car
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by uticus 3y ago
> it’s just not exposed to the same level of wear and tear as a car is it because the kitchenware is washed more regularly than a car would be? also, to add anecdotal evidence, I have some stainless, non-coated hardware on my deck, direc
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by uticus 3y ago
still confused, what could possibly be in rainwater or coastal humidity that isn't in dirty dishwater? i get the focus is on salty water on the coastline, but i can guarantee the dish sink has been exposed to extremely concentrated sal
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by uticus 3y ago
i don't get it. my kitchen sink is stainless, as are various cookware, and they are regularly exposed to water with no problems. what's the difference?
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by uticus 3y ago
I can imagine first epoch engineers doing this, they are the ones who are in most need of giving their wrists a rest and less keystrokes.
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by uticus 3y ago
> the fantasy...seems like a nonstarter i see what you mean. but I wonder if this is because we have difficulty imagining a totally possible thing. i mean, surely at one point it must have seemed like less machine code engineers, and m
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by uticus 3y ago
#2 has seemed an obvious waypoint for a while. A waypoint, not an end goal, because surely someone will derive sellable business value from combining things in a world where AI is the near-universal front layer.
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by uticus 3y ago
What was the one with rotating windmill-like propeller geometric shapes? Or maybe that is a screensaver I'm thinking of...
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by uticus 3y ago
I used to think this about email also.
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by uticus 3y ago
> AI startups trying to create AI customer support bots or political reachouts with consent from the parties involved to clone those voices. This is where lawyers get to have fun. What is the line between a message in the public sphere
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by uticus 3y ago
> tracking complaints...and taking them to court, generally Incredibly prejudiced judicial procedure, given the power, size, globalization, and ease of automated calling systems vs the normal people they most affect. Multiplied by an alr
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by uticus 3y ago
> "State Attorneys General will now have new tools to crack down on these scams..." - FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel ...How? How can this be enforced? What are the new tools? Based on the news release and documentation, fia
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by uticus 3y ago
Is an additive or something used to help with lubrication?
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Ask HN: Meeting remote team in person, what are good things to ask?
8 points by uticus 3y ago|6 comments
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by uticus 3y ago
Again bringing up post from NIH from 2022-2023 concerning this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36912594
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by uticus 3y ago
the law of unintended consequences strikes again

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