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by wffurr 3y ago
It seems so weird to me to want to use Linux on the desktop. This is not The Year. I decided at the very start of my career, before Google, to use a laptop at the primary interface and only use workstation / dev environment / etc
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by wffurr 3y ago
Better would have been to claim "renewable resources" which dinosaur oil is not, at least not on human timescales.
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by wffurr 3y ago
All the coverage on this memo has missed this point. I guess they can’t imagine a company giving its employees two computers! You can BYO ChromeOS devices too which make great thin terminals to a remote workstation or cloud VM. I have a
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by wffurr 3y ago
NPR at most leans left. It’s hardly a socialist newsletter. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/npr-media-bias
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by wffurr 3y ago
It's a dark forest out there for keywords.
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by wffurr 3y ago
I can’t use vim at all without at least vim-surround. Too much muscle memory for the bindings for that one. I was absolutely thrilled to find that VSCode’s vim emulation included vim-surround! I guess someone out there has the same proble
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by wffurr 3y ago
I tried to post a money emoji in response, but HN strips emoji from comments.
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by wffurr 3y ago
There was a project to address this but it’s been slow going: https://www.gitclear.com/blog/linux_touchpad_update_january_...
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by wffurr 3y ago
Amazing that the right-wing institute here is pushing higher fuel efficiency standards in place of EV mandates after decades of the American right gutting fuel efficiency standards. "advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the r
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by wffurr 3y ago
C is the table saw of programming. C++ is the band saw.
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by wffurr 3y ago
How much further could you take this analogy? Cargo bikes don't get stuck in traffic; functional programmers don't like getting stuck debugging. Cargo bikes are easy to park; functional programs are easy to run in a REPL. ...and s
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by wffurr 3y ago
Velcro does wear out. The loops wear down and the hooks will get packed with whatever crud they pick up: grass, hair, fuzz, etc. You can’t do much about worn out loops, but you can painstakingly clear the hooks with a sewing needle. Contr
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by wffurr 3y ago
Isn’t that called PyPy? Or is the problem that Meta has a lot of CPython extensions Also Carbon is still very much an experiment and not used for much. Google has a lot more Rust in production now, especially in Android and Chrome.
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by wffurr 3y ago
I am definitely not paying off my low interest rate mortgage faster than I have to. I did however prioritize paying down 7% interest student loans over saving.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Why would it need countering? So long as the apps are available on the platform, that helps Google’s reach with the play store. Another comment mentioned that WSA is quite technical to set up, and this is a simpler alternative.
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by wffurr 3y ago
>> Intel being the most obvious benefactor there. No need to assume malice when incompetence is sufficient. At a guess, the SDK engineers likely had Intel workstations and didn’t test on other systems. In the course of doing low lev
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by wffurr 3y ago
Huh, my comment got flagged off. I guess I missed the clue train!
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by wffurr 3y ago
I particularly like the job they did with forward visibility on these. Much like USPS trucks; minimizing blind spots was an explicit goal. I wish all trucks and SUVs and such in my city were like that, with either low front ends or cab-ov
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Amazon’s electric Rivian vans have delivered 150M packages(arstechnica.com)
112 points by wffurr 3y ago|118 comments
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by wffurr 3y ago
By burning a lot of coal and relying on older nuclear and hydro generation. Hopefully their politicians’ reflexive dislike of “green” things doesn’t cause their utilities to ignore the cheapest sources of power: solar and wind.
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by wffurr 3y ago
With a remote workstation to actually build and run software on, an iPad / Android tablet almost works great as a thin client for a terminal. The biggest thing I missed on it were browser developer tools. The mobile browsers just d
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by wffurr 3y ago
And then you no longer have control over the fonts you are using, and it’s worse if you want to write cross platform code. Web and iOS (as far as I can tell), don’t have any way of querying which fonts actually end up getting used to lay o
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by wffurr 3y ago
>> because often you have control over the fonts you use Good luck with that if you want to support non-Latin scripts. Now you're shipping 100s of MBs of fonts with your app.
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by wffurr 3y ago
The hidden help browser features in some FRP bypass methods on some older versions of Android. I used it to rescue test devices left by former colleagues.
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by wffurr 3y ago
An RV driving 50 doesn’t seem like a big problem to drive behind. I guess I expect people to be reasonable, but comments in HN should have taught me better by now.
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by wffurr 3y ago
There's a difference between "being alone" and "loneliness". Being alone in the city or the forest can be great. Being lonely, less so.
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by wffurr 3y ago
I don't know why anyone would expect a vehicle to pull off onto one of those just to let people pass.... So weird. I'd expect that to only be for someone who actually wants to stop and take a rest or something.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Former CEO has a big rant on why it's impossible to do things at Google: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-did-i-leave-google-stay-s... Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by wffurr 3y ago
Are those terribly paved slow vehicle lanes a California thing? In New England they are the exact same quality as the other lane. I have never once had to navigate a drop to let faster traffic pass.
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by wffurr 3y ago
Now we just need a search engine replacement for Google with site:reddit.com ...

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