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by warner25 4y ago
I've seen this come up a few different ways over the past year, and I think I've also read that Intel contributes more to kernel development than any other company. One thing I'm wondering is: how dependent on Intel have desk
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, but things I wonder: Do people learn surprising things about themselves from their own Wikipedia page, like a connection to some event or other person that they previously weren't aware of? Do they find their pages laughably inco
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by warner25 4y ago
I'd love to hear the perspective on this from some people (there must be dozens reading Hacker News) who actually have a Wikipedia page about themselves.
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, this is interesting, and it's close to my experience. Just by working through the questions in the official SAT practice booklet a couple weeks prior to the test (which I think was "free" upon signing up), and learning
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by warner25 4y ago
I think I'm mostly surprised to see how many of the "White" scores are so low, and so far behind "Asians," after years of hearing that the test is biased towards white / Anglo / native-English speakers rai
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by warner25 4y ago
I read this kind of sentiment often and I wonder the same thing. I mean, I'm much more tired (physically and emotionally stressed) than I was in 2013 or 2003, but I'm also 10-20 years older with 10-20 years of accumulated baggage
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by warner25 4y ago
Yep, we've bought every season of Blue's Clues and Daniel Tiger on Amazon because they started out as included / free content on some service and then became "buy or rent" after our kids were hooked. I'm happy
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by warner25 4y ago
I've only been through Silicon Valley a handful of times, and the signage was one of the most striking things for me too. It's just an immediately visible indicator that the place is an outlier. I think, "wow, the density of
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by warner25 4y ago
Yes, but it wasn't to save lives for the sake of saving lives, to preserve combat power or because troops' lives are inherently valuable. The senior officer wanted operations to continue and wanted to prevent the American public f
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by warner25 4y ago
I'd like to share a memory as a currently serving US military officer: At the height of our operations in Iraq, around 2006-2007, the main killer of our troops was of course "roadside bombs." In a candid talk with my class of
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm wondering if anyone here has real insight into the economics of his situation at this point. On one hand it seems like his life has been ruined by the state after spending 20+ years in prison, costing his family everything in legal
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by warner25 4y ago
The Framework forum is dominated by Linux users. It makes sense that the forum would skew towards enthusiasts who like to tinker, but I wonder what the actual numbers are. I've speculated that the Framework DIY edition has created more
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by warner25 4y ago
This is an interesting explanation of things. So it's not just that Facebook was better in 20XX-20YY, it's the stage of life a person was in. I started college in the fall of 2004 (in Boston back when "TheFacebook" was l
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by warner25 4y ago
It's a fair question, and I don't have a good answer. My best guess is the effects of heat while the discs were in moving boxes for several cross-country and overseas moves. Some of our discs looked like they were delaminated.
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by warner25 4y ago
Nobody can take them away, but the problem that I've found with with physical DVDs (I can't comment so much on CDs) is that they deteriorate after just a few years. For a while in 2010, my wife and I routinely borrowed DVDs from a
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by warner25 4y ago
I was thinking the same as your first point. I'm a career military officer and know a lot of military families[1]. My observation is that the spouses who are doctors and nurses are the only ones who can reliably find middle-class emplo
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by warner25 4y ago
Odd comment about the Army there. The culture of Army officership is all about leading from the front, carrying your own rucksack and cleaning your own rifle, eating last, and taking care of people (literally inspecting feet for injuries in
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, it was a bit snarky, but still an honest question. In some domains, like astronomy or geology or climate change, I guess it seems reasonable to make predictions 100 or 1,000 years in the future based on available data rather than expe
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by warner25 4y ago
Can someone with only 6 years of experience make credible predictions about things 20 years in the future? I'm around 15 years of experience, and my appreciation for my own lack of knowledge and ability to make predictions still grows
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by warner25 4y ago
I see it mostly with very small businesses and government offices, especially in small towns or rural areas. Years ago, they might have employed someone part-time to maintain their domain name, server or hosting service, website, etc. Then
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by warner25 4y ago
If Facebook started charging $1,000/hour to use, all these entities (including government offices... for me, it's not about my family at all) that have de facto chosen to conduct all their public-facing business on Facebook over t
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by warner25 5y ago
Yeah, I think it's just "moving the goalposts" or the "hedonistic treadmill" or "comparison is the thief of joy." When I turned 34, I made a list of (fairly attainable but significant) things that I wanted
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by warner25 5y ago
It seems to be specifically talking on the phone. Having a face-to-face, in-person conversation with another adult triggers a similar but more mild response. Just looking at a phone or typing doesn't trigger it, maybe because they&#x
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by warner25 5y ago
> even if I try to get coffee them they usually end up having to bail in 20 minutes I'm guilty of being that guy. I have four kids; two in diapers and one still trying to master the potty. Having "literally negative amount of f
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by warner25 5y ago
Upon further reflection: What you wrote is actually central to the idea that I'm trying to express. When I was younger, I thought that I'd always make different choices and live my life "better" than older people I knew
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by warner25 5y ago
It's more that my kids watch too much, because my wife and I need breaks to get other things done or rest. Not way too much, and it's carefully curated content, but it's still one of those things that I thought, before having
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by warner25 5y ago
True, and I wouldn't limit this to only be about my own parents, but more broadly about all kinds of people like teachers, coaches, aunts and uncles, older co-workers, people in the news... even slightly older siblings who had kids a f
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by warner25 5y ago
The root of it, for me, is that most of my choices as I grow older are compromises for the sake of ease, or from of a sense of obligation to my wife and kids. Like I recognize that different, harder choices could make me richer, or leaner,
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by warner25 5y ago
I've often thought the same thing about becoming an adult, especially a parent, in general. There are so many choices that I harshly judged older people for making (how to allocate their time and money, where to live, what to allow or
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by warner25 5y ago
To be fair, ten years ago in Afghanistan I observed a lot of difficulty with encrypted radios on the US side too. The SATCOM radios on our very expensive aircraft seemed to work only a bit more than half the time. Actual military radios are

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