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by yborg 9y ago
>where have all the billions gone? Hookers and blow, same as always. The good news is that the huge investors who were hoodwinked here will be highly incentivized to avoid the embarrassment of shareholder lawsuits. And unlike Theranos, t
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by yborg 9y ago
"Move fast and break things." This is a sad situation because a man died, but a Valley engineer being killed by the (current) Valley mindset is also kind of ironic. Tesla is getting a lot of heat here for hubris and insensitivity
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by yborg 9y ago
That would be cool, but also creepy if my blood cells can destroy cancer in my body while they're still in a lab. What if they start destroying cells in other people's bodies?
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by yborg 9y ago
I'd like Apple to make a new Mac Mini. They should just spin out what's left of their computing hardware and operating system business, this segment is as vestigial as the appendix to the company now.
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by yborg 9y ago
Old knowledge is ignorance. Ignorance is strength. Ergo, this is a strong hire.
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by yborg 9y ago
This list includes the Penryns used in most Mac laptops and the Mac Minis up to ~2010 vintage. I still use mine to host various Internet-facing utility services, which it does handily.
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by yborg 9y ago
It's refreshing reading a comment from one of the 5% on HN that doesn't believe themselves to be smarter than the market. However, listening to a technical analyst is going to be about as useful to you in figuring out where the ma
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by yborg 9y ago
That's interesting, I assumed the reaction was rapid but I didn't see it happen. It's not obvious in the pics, but 2 stacked cells in the pack swelled, so I assumed it involved an electrical issue. Related question - best way
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by yborg 9y ago
I don't know if having it off the charger will necessarily prevent issues. I had an old ~2010 Macbook Pro battery pack that stopped taking a charge, but which I decided to keep around because I thought I might see if it was possible to
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by yborg 9y ago
With the shift to the various 21st century streaming platforms, broadcast TV in its traditional form is rapidly becoming the bastion of the elderly. The average traditional broadcast news viewer is 50+[1] so very soon Sinclair will be domin
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by yborg 9y ago
About the only source of reviews I would believe isn't primarily paid advertorials is Consumer Reports, and those have to be filtered through CR's own particular set of biases. Even sites that aren't blatantly pay to play (an
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by yborg 9y ago
I'm guessing Google's resolvers are a little busier than Cloudflare's right now, because pretty much nobody not on HN right now is hitting them. Will be a more interesting comparison in 6 months.
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by yborg 9y ago
What professional developer codes full-time on a laptop keyboard and screen? The ones at work are all on dual-27" displays and external keyboard and mouse. I personally disagree with making engineering compromises on the human interfac
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by yborg 9y ago
The main determinant of the stickiness of a social network is the network size, and having to click each icon to find this out is stupid when there are oceans of space that could present this information on the main page. That said, this is
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by yborg 9y ago
This thing seems stupid to me. Am I required to disclose such a restriction from a previous employer? I say no, since it's common in the industry and a prospective employer would be expected to either ask for disclosure or know it may
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by yborg 9y ago
I like Quiver, use it every day, but it's development has kind of stalled/stopped for a couple of years, and it has some significant limitations. It's search capability is limited, and it can't do search and replace. At
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by yborg 9y ago
No idea if this is true, but could be for security. If you log in to Gmail in Des Moines and then an hour later from Moldavia, something might be up.
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by yborg 9y ago
So your argument is that Russia or any other nation state that behaves this way is an amoral entity like a crocodile? This is absurd, nations consist of human beings that can understand concepts of right or wrong and behave appropriately. I
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by yborg 9y ago
There is no way they win that if enough people do it. It's so much overhead that the small plaintiff is at a substantial cost-benefit advantage even if they send fresh grad associates by the busload to small claims courts around the co
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by yborg 9y ago
Everybody has their thing, but Tile Tabs was a killer app for me, and had no real equivalent in any other browser platform. Bug 1318532 had a patch submitted which provided a WebExtensions-compatible API which would allow the original imple
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by yborg 9y ago
The argument that "security is pointless unless it can prevent <nation-state> from obtaining the data" is a really tiresome strawman. If you force an adversary to have to keylog for data of interest you already have substant
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by yborg 9y ago
Fixing issues like this is clearly less important than implementing browser-side VR support, I don't see what Palant is on about. As a Firefox user, trading the security of any and all accounts I store passwords for in the browser is s
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by yborg 9y ago
It's become the Wal-Mart of virtual retail, with all that implies. They've driven out most of their competition, because despite the fact that their review system has been gamed to the point of uselessness, as now has their invent
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by yborg 9y ago
:raises hand:
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by yborg 9y ago
From the Nature paper: "We note that the chance probability of this discovery is of the order of 10^−6 assuming a duration of 1 h and one supernova per century per galaxy. If we consider other factors, such as the sky conditions of the
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by yborg 9y ago
>tt's really really good at it Citation needed. To my knowledge the F-22 has downed exactly zero adversary aircraft in actual air-air combat.
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by yborg 9y ago
Cryptocurrency mining scripts are primarily delivered as malware. It seems kind of incredibly tone-deaf for a journalistic site to attempt to use it as a means of monetizing even if making it opt-in.
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by yborg 9y ago
Yes, nobody - like for example Apple, to implement Time Machine. But now perhaps I better understand why Time Machine backups aren't supported on APFS.
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by yborg 9y ago
It's alive, but I don't know about 'doing well'. It survives among some special interest communities, but the usage is tiny compared to any of the major platforms now. You won't find your uncle on it.
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by yborg 9y ago
It seems to be trendy to blame Slack for all the ills of modern civilization. Is it the somewhat smug tone of all Slack's corporate communication? Maybe. Other than that, it seems to me to be more or less the same general bucket of tel

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