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by FlyingAvatar 1mo ago
Operation Overkill
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by FlyingAvatar 2mo ago
Burning capacitor electrolyte
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by FlyingAvatar 4mo ago
From watching his videos, he's an Apple guy for his personal devices, though his server infrastructure (and also the bulk of the devices he reviews and experiments with ) are Linux machines.
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by FlyingAvatar 5mo ago
They are low earth orbit satellites. Generally, the lower the orbit, the faster they decay. You could also argue that this is a benefit in that they gain updated technology with each replacement.
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by FlyingAvatar 6mo ago
1. I would login to my favorites daily. I ran my own BBS (using the Renegade BBS software) as a teenager, so would monitor that as well. I think I landed on QModem after using Telix. 2. I knew friends who used them but we had the RIBBS li
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Ask HN: Google account on old yahoo.com email hijacked to Google Workspace
3 points by FlyingAvatar 6mo ago|1 comments
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by FlyingAvatar 9mo ago
I am a former Directory of Technology for small/medium business who has transitioned to freelance work three years ago. Open to fractional CTO (particular interest in non-profits) roles, AI/LLM process integration and web/mob
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by FlyingAvatar 10mo ago
Disclaimer: I'm not the OP, and there are certainly places where using recursive type definitions is justified. My interpretation of OP's point is that excessive complexity can be a "code smell" on its own. You want to
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by FlyingAvatar 11mo ago
I don't really buy the comparison. If you're really unlucky, you can get cancer from a "safe dose" of radiation. Low exposures of both things are statistically less likely to hurt you than large doses. We pick a line t
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
Agree that if the primary UI is voice, it will need to be the the multiple nines of success to avoid being frustrating. Even so, I still frequently use Siri now despite it being much less successful than that.
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
Talking to an audio-enabled LLM is definitely "simpler" in terms of device interaction than navigating menus and such. Also having less GUI focus would feel simpler to me. I find myself missing the experience of earlier iPhone wh
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
Yeah, the convenience of pairing and switching is something I didn't think of.
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Ask HN: Walled garden dwellers: What keeps you there?
6 points by FlyingAvatar 1y ago|9 comments
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
It's pretty difficult to imagine. Apple did a ton of work on the power efficiency of iOS on their own ARM chips for iPhone for a decade before introducing the M1. Since iOS and macOS share the same code base (even when they were on dif
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
I have wondered this as well and my best guess is so two times can be diffed without converting them to an signed type. With 64-bit especially, the extra bit isn't buying you anything useful.
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
The vast majority of internet bandwidth is people streaming video. Shaving a few megs from a webpage load would be the tiniest drop in the bucket. I am all for efficiency, but optimizing everywhere is a recipe for using up the resources to
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
I would have loved this in 1993. Not that I don't now, but I would have had a real use for it then.
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
https://github.com/stravu/crystal This is still alpha, but I have been using it to handle the multi-agent worktree paradigm.
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
Just because unintended things aren't happening right now, doesn't mean they won't happen. We are in the honeymoon phase of this technology where mass exploitation isn't yet being attempted. However, if you are familiar
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
If you have a dependency that is simple and stable, it could appear unmaintained since it doesn't have a lot of recent commits, bug reports, comment history, etc. If a library author wants to make their package "look" maintai
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
It's a cover your ass statement. In most jurisdictions, giving legal advice without a license to practice law is illegal. i.e. This is my opinion, take it as you will. If you want proper legal advice, you should be consulting a lawye
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
Bootstrapping with co-founders? I've had lawyers straight up tell me it's probably not worth hiring them to setup the LLC / operating agreement. Just DIY. Getting outside investment, signing a high value contract, receiving
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
Looks cool. I wish there was an explainer video, I was not clear how I beat the first level and I didn't realize there was a move limit until I ran out on level two. If all the numbers at the top had labels, it would help. Also would
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
I don't know if you're familiar with the company AllAdvantage but in 1999 they tried to pay people by the hour to have a banner ad displayed on their computer, up to some number of hours per week. One of their problems was that pa
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
Ridiculous Fishing
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by FlyingAvatar 1y ago
I am curious as to your experience with this. Over the years, I have administered a few dozen small to medium domains (depending on the domain 10s to 10,000s emails per month) and the only thing that has ever affected delivery is the reputa
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by FlyingAvatar 2y ago
It's been quite sometime since I have heard the term "lamer", but I remember it being a ubiquitous insult in the BBS scene in the early to mid 90s.
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by FlyingAvatar 2y ago
Yes, the Agent mode is terrible. Have you tried using the Ask mode instead?
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by FlyingAvatar 2y ago
The Sonnet 3.7 'Agent' implementation in Cursor is terrible. It takes 10x longer to produce a worse response. I don't understand if this is a cost saving measure to reduce token count, but it is really bad. Thankfully, swit
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by FlyingAvatar 2y ago
Played again this week. I think the reason I missed the counters before is that they aren't adjacent to the play field and on a wide screen device, they are "way off in the distance", so to speak.

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