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by znpy 3mo ago
> The default wifi in almost all of the laptops and netbooks of the time sucked. It wasn't unique to netbooks. Not really. Proper laptops had intel centrino wifi which worked decently well with binary blobs and atheros cards needed
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by znpy 3mo ago
> Even if the pleasantries/signature were edited out of your question, is that so bad? Yes. Erasing the personal touch out of someone’s writings is erasing them. Ironically, erasing that kind of stuff is likely very good good for tr
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by znpy 3mo ago
> but exclusive to the newbie participants who found themselves blocked for asking questions. They slowly killed the site in this manner. i got stung by exactly this. i saw some of my early questions rewritten because some idiot mod that
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by znpy 3mo ago
My thoughts is that we should not underestimate Oracle ‘s lawyers.
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by znpy 3mo ago
> They were already painfully slow when they were new Mostly, yes. I had an acer aspire one d250 (similar specs to that in the article) and i worked mostly okay under linux for light development work, meaning i was in high school doing j
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by znpy 3mo ago
Is AWS in their "move fast and break things" era ?
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by znpy 3mo ago
Cool! I used Versant at work between 2016 and 2019!
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by znpy 3mo ago
Object databases routinely go away and routinely come back. Ten years ago I worked with a database called Versant OODBMS (from Actian). I was a junior sysadmin so i was essentially administering it at a very surface level but skimming the d
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by znpy 3mo ago
there is another like that reaches similar deviation, but negative (~ -3.5 degree celsius). it doesn't say what year is that though.
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by znpy 3mo ago
Yeah it’s one way to look at it for sure…
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by znpy 3mo ago
> there is even a debian variant using a BSD kernel. it's dead as of july 2023: https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ : > The development of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has officially terminated as o
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by znpy 3mo ago
> BSD was sort of an equal target under KDE, but GNOME prioritized Linux pretty hard and had a lot of fans. oh boy its' much worse than that: KDE/GNOME were already largely precarious before that. The whole Xorg thing was reall
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by znpy 3mo ago
I go back to take a look at the BSDs every now and then and frankly it really looks like that mindset has stayed, somehow. Generally speaking the BSDs seems really fork-a-phobic and it kinda shows given how little dynamism is there in the d
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by znpy 3mo ago
I think de Raadt and OpenBSD are hugely overrated and some takes are as dumb as the one in the post. OpenBSD is only secure because because it does pretty much nothing and does it very slowly (its firewall just recently broke the 4gbps fire
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by znpy 3mo ago
Social media mostly polarise people (both women and men, in different ways) and generally speaking what you post will be used against you at some point. So yeah, no wonder that social media is dying. People are just catching up to the fact
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by znpy 3mo ago
Lay down roots, be part of a community, have meaningful connections. My parents live in southern Italy, in the same small town my mother is from and the small town my father is from is like 5-6 km far. Every time there is some kind of event
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by znpy 3mo ago
Most religions do. For example I don’t think islam has a much better view of unmarried and kidless people.
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by znpy 3mo ago
> Heck, there's a whole semantic parsing engine buried within (CEDET), which nowadays is pretty much unused In fairness that used to be common to have in most IDEs. I don’t know if it’s still the case but i remember that the first j
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by znpy 3mo ago
Back in the day when i had a windows laptop for work you could just download the windows binary distribution of emacs and run that, has something changed?
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by znpy 3mo ago
> I'm hesitant to leave Claude Code behind for something new. Codex and Claude Code are not mutually exclusive, you can use both.
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by znpy 3mo ago
My guess is that with non-left political movements on the rise better surveillance tools were needed to prevent them from winning the elections around europe. I really don’t but any other reason, as other tools (legal and technological) are
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by znpy 3mo ago
Is this another llm-driven rewrite? I wonder how many "unsafe" blocks are in there...
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by znpy 3mo ago
> Would love to hear your feedback! I'm currently on the 20 $/mo subscription and using codex meaningfully, and i'm loving this. I am considering bumping my subscription to the 100 $/month and this might be the reason
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by znpy 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26700664 > The reason why the Economist articles all read the same is that they go through a process called "subbing" or sub-editing by the same small group of editors who o
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by znpy 3mo ago
and yet...
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by znpy 3mo ago
> No company can plan based on the tariffs. There is zero guarantee that then next government won't revoked them or that the current one won't flip-flop. Local manufacturing doesn't swing on a 2-4 (or 6 or 8) year timescal
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by znpy 3mo ago
where can i buy one ?
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by znpy 3mo ago
Anybody knows when will it be possible to buy the newer 192gb part?
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by znpy 3mo ago
> I understand why it wouldn’t be feasible for a human to do this, but I’m quite sceptical about an AI assessing how accurate predictions turned out to be/how contrarian they were at the time. Quite the contrary actually. The econom
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by znpy 3mo ago
Nah. Those people are skilled enough to go work somewhere else and make a very good living. They willingly chose the fatter paycheque.

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