LarryDarrell

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by LarryDarrell 9d ago
When economic reforms are off the table, and austerity has run out of things to be austere about... yeah, anti-immigrant political parties are going to feast. Here in the US, there's a dumber revival of the Red Scare. The scare mongeri
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by LarryDarrell 27d ago
For discovering new music, I listen to my old college radio station. About once a month they play something good that makes me do a deep dive. I use Pianobar while I work, and creating a station based on a new (to me) artist tends to give m
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by LarryDarrell 27d ago
I've been a subscriber to Kagi for a few years and just started using the AI assistant. On the one hand, it's made me a believer in AI as it relates to web searching. On the other hand, the only reason I need AI to search the web
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by LarryDarrell 29d ago
I knew it would be their higher end devices but I really wish they would have put it on their lower end as well. I have a Moto G running LineageOS and it's my favorite phone ever. The ability to have my 800GB of music synced to a sdcar
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by LarryDarrell 4mo ago
They were so busy trying to create modern that they forgot what made things classic.
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by LarryDarrell 11mo ago
"This isn't technology related." says the HN poster as he's lined up against a wall.
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by LarryDarrell 1y ago
I'm saying our tenuous attempts towards reestablishing the most basic of anti-trust was dead regardless of who won the election[1]. I think this decision would have been the same regardless of who won. As for the next few years... Harr
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by LarryDarrell 1y ago
The writing was on the wall when Kamala Harris wouldn't commit to keeping Lina Khan at the FTC. We had some soft Anti-Trust action for the first time in decades, and the Trusts responded. If we get the chance to try again, we should be
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by LarryDarrell 1y ago
Windows users have no negotiating power. Windows will continued to be monetized in user-hostile ways. Call it enshittification, call it the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, call it what ever you want. It won't reach a breaking p
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by LarryDarrell 1y ago
Unlocked. It was a 2023 model I bought in 2024. There are some screaming good deals if you don't mind buying one model older at the right time. I cannot stress enough how much I don't care about OS updates as long as my apps conti
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by LarryDarrell 1y ago
I recently bought my wife a Pixel 8 ($500) and myself a Moto G Stylus ($175). The Pixel has a better camera, but that seems to be about it. Something I like about my Moto is that it has a sdcard slot. That means I can sync up my entire musi
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
This is truly the Century of American Hubris. From financial deregulation to spreading democracy in the middle east to carbon fiber submarines, we seem determined to ignore complexity, refuse to acknowledge our biases, and throw out every L
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
>>"A technology that cuts down on boring tasks is fine; one that threatens your sense of identity is not." The shareholder class sees no distinction between the two. This is a good reminder not to make your labor your identi
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
I've been using Post-Its along the bottom of my monitor for 25 years. Works fairly well as they are always right there in front of your face, and if one loses it's stick, well, you know that's the one to focus on or move it t
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
I have a 38" curved wide screen with 1600 vertical pixels. It represents the peak of all the monitors I have bought over the last 25 years. Me in the year 2000 with a 1024x768 17" CRT would be flabbergasted at the amount of wasted
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
My neighborhood and for miles around me is lower to middle-middle class. All people that wouldn't be able to afford to 1) move and leave their equity behind 2) afford the rents in the denser part of town. You are painting with too broa
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
At some point one has to consider costs, scale and political expediency. WFH and H-WFH would be broadly popular among the electorate and could probably take off with just some changes to the tax code. Presuming everyone does want to live in
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
Perhaps tires can be made less toxic, but over all, we need to prioritize driving less. WFH means I put barely 3000 miles per year on my car. It's absurd we are not aggressively promoting WFH or hybrid WFH at the national level. It&#x2
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
I agree completely that wealth plays a critical role, if not the most critical role, in all of this. Especially at the higher end with Balaji and all the other would be tech John Galts. I have just observed that the threshold is low enough
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
From the article: >"described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations’: outdated and obsolescent.” “The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
I don't disagree. My two examples were people who not only did not collaborate, but actively resented the knowledge offered from experts different fields. I do think that past successful collaboration can lead to a bias though. As a pr
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by LarryDarrell 2y ago
I call it "Engineer Brain" after watching a talented relative descend into madness trying learn virology during the pandemic. It was further crystalized after the Titan submersible incident and reading about the terminal hubris of
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" was never going to be compatible with our economic system. Thus, our new slogan. "Buy Green!"
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
To a certain extent, yes. I'm mostly daydreaming about if you magically remade my little Volvo with modern materials and one of those low-displacement turbo engines they put in cars today. It would be 500 pounds lighter with 3 times as
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
We've been regulating the wrong things when it comes to vehicles. Instead of being obsessed with MPG, we should have been obsessed with weight and size. There's no reason for a sedan to be heavier than 3000 lbs. There's no re
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
They skipped right over getting a dumbphone or a crippled Android device. I drive a 30 year old car through the southwest US. I'm resourceful, but I'm not careless. I'll continue to carry a phone in case of breakdowns. A few
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
This is very much true in NM where I live. Agriculture accounts for 79% of yearly water use. We're known for our chile (63,000 tons) but that's dwarfed by alfalfa (784,000 tons). I'm not sure what the answer is. The farmers h
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
Make sure to take the Rail Runner down to Albuquerque. Our buses are free, and we have new Rapid Transit buses that go down the length of Central Ave.
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
Those late 80s and 90s Cherokees lasted a long time, I still see them around town. Most of the survivors have that great inline 6 that was a carryover from the AMC days.
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by LarryDarrell 3y ago
The 80s were a weird decade. GM didn't want to give up vacuum lines, Ford had electronic fuel injection and little else, and Chrysler had those K-Cars that broke a lot, but they were at least cheap to fix. Toyotas, Hondas and Volvos of

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