AndrewUnmuted

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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
I am running 108.0.1 on nixOS and it played great.
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Nix and NixOS have had a similar sort of effect on me as Gentoo and FreeBSD have in the past. They have helped to expand my consciousness in the realm of systems administration and have helped me achieve new heights with my low latency audi
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Nashville's parking situation went from "annoying" to "impossible" thanks to this garbage.
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
I do media engineering related stuff, things related to media codecs, DSP, and p2p networking. The work I do during my day job is often somehow relevant to my music work. For example, I used to work in VR, which enabled me to begin explorin
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
> there's a never-ending stream of passionate people happy to produce said content altruistically out there This is the concept that is most frequently left out of otherwise thoughtful analyses on the topic at hand. Although I would
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
I'm worried about how this reality is leading to the formation of a modern slavery system. That might seem hyperbolic but I can assure all who read this, it is not. In the US especially, it cannot be forgotten why people from Central
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
This was a great read. Thanks for posting it here! I found this line to be especially intriguing: > Hellbanning everybody except for other big email providers is lazy and conveniently dishonest. It uses spam as a scapegoat to nerf delive
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Your low-effort posts can barely even be called legible sentences, let alone all the misspellings. I'll stop criticizing your posts if you stop criticizing mine. You are obviously following me around the site, there's no other way
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
It's easier to talk somebody down from an insane point of view that is meaningless, than one that fits within the index card of allowable opinion yet is nonetheless very dangerous.
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Hello there. I just want you to know, I have upvoted every comment I've read from you so far. Keep up the good work, you're doing the reading, thinking for yourself, and questioning the lies so many people here spew uncontrollably
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
It feels many people responding to you are misunderstanding your point - and it's a very good one. The medium is the message. Everybody should read McLuhan if they work in the technology space. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
I was with you until the very end. Democracy as a whole is a poor system for doing just about anything. For example, free & open source software is not a democracy and it would never work if it was. We got here today explicitly via hier
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
You began your engagement with me by saying that if I resigned from my current position, it would be best for the company and for the team of direct reports I manage. Is this a good example to follow if I want to be civil on Hacker News? Or
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
That's how Apple's encryption in iCloud works. There are plenty of modern encryption standards that are not broken by a random user merely entering a random passphrase string.
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
If the backup password to these encrypted files is known, it can be rather trivial to access the data within. Recently, a certain head of state's son had 100s of GB of iCloud backups thrown onto a torrent, and within a day rogue manchi
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
It's fascinating how whenever I bring up how actually terrible for the world this SaaS shit is, people get very defensive about it and end up resorting to personal attacks. It's as if people had never before considered that what
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
There are annoying things about all aspects to life. Your solution is to add more and more annoying things unnecessarily in an effort to side-step the problem. I think there should be an examination of the root causes and more post-mortems
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Please, if you are going to reply to people here, please do so thoughtfully. Phones have had ring mute features on them since they went cordless back in the 1980s.
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
False. - Italy [0] - Germany [1] - Ireland [2] - Spain [3] I could go on and on but everyone who managed to travel globally during 2021 knows this is completely untrue. [0] https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-unveil
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
If I had to use either of these things as part of running my team of 12 engineers, I'd resign immediately. I feel so sorry for those who continue operating in such soulless, life-sucking work environments that they're down to choo
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
I disagree with this basic premise. Privacy is not a baseline philosophical module that gives way to two separate concepts; privacy is simply a thing that can be achieved upon exercising one's property rights. We want privacy because w
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Yes, let's just pretend these things are not intrinsically linked by the hip. I suppose it's helpful to know how easy it is to run away from your assailant isn't it? In a less walkable neighborhood that attacker might be able
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Go look up the walkability score for any crime-heavy Brooklyn neighborhood [0] and you will see quite plainly that you are wrong. You are a lot more likely to be sucker-punched by a homeless psychopath on that block than you are to have any
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Whether or not a city is "walkable," is not necessarily an improvement upon livability. In areas of Chicago and Baltimore, for example, the streets are "walkable," however the frequent violent & property crimes that
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
What is long covid, then?
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
> If you had no chronic illness symptoms you were aware of, and then get covid, and then have chronic illness symptoms - that's long covid. Why even have a study if you refuse to be more scientific than this?
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
You're a loser.
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
What is "Long COVID" and how was it proved that all participants in the study "have" it?
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
Television has gone through something of a redefinition in recent decades. Today, TV can be seen as more of an atmospheric decoration - it's "always on" in the same sense as when broadband internet was introduced to the publi
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by AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
We are also hard-wired to seek out salt, not to mention the energy boost and the hand occupation offered by cigarettes.

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