larvaetron

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by larvaetron 1y ago
> ... VHS players rapidly became throw-away items – eventually nobody really cared if they only lasted a year or two. I don't know if I'm losing my marbles, but I don't ever recall a time growing up when my family (or anyo
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by larvaetron 1y ago
> The saddest part is that both the Alexa and Apple walled gardens spent years constraining users from integrating with other ecosystems, but now they are all racing to give data to 3rd-party LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini, which
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by larvaetron 1y ago
Got it!
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by larvaetron 1y ago
> Cars unlike aircraft don’t need to move forward to maintain safety. They do if they're crossing railroad tracks.
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by larvaetron 2y ago
> the exact same pitch would have been used with “big data” in the 2010s I'm surprised I don't see this mentioned more often. The tech industry feels like a "more obvious than usual" case of déjà vu these past few ye
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by larvaetron 2y ago
> You can't have RAM sync between hosts. That's what FT is for, if the primary VM instance dies or becomes unresponsive, you failover to the mirror instance.
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by larvaetron 2y ago
I guess I just don't share the sentiment that giving every child in a classroom unfettered access to content designed to distract them while a teacher is trying to teach the class is a good thing. I'm having difficulty understandi
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by larvaetron 2y ago
I still don't understand why they were ever allowed in the first place. I went to public school in the 00s and if you got caught with your phone out in class, it would be confiscated until the end of the day. Repeat offenders would nee
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by larvaetron 2y ago
> As of this moment 100% of comments have to do with “I guess other people have a lot of money”. Very weird thing to be concerned about. This has to be the most out of touch statement I've seen on HN in a long time.
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by larvaetron 3y ago
Can HN get rid of the light gray text on light background please? It is annoying and user-hostile. I shouldn't have to squint to read a comment just because I arrived here later than those who think they deserve a better reading experi
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> Buy Brother printers. Brother is going down the same path, sadly. They started pushing their EZ-Print subscription in a software update a few months ago.
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> didn't allow How would he even enforce this?
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> STIR/SHAKEN is already required for VOIP providers I'm not convinced that STIR/SHAKEN even works properly. Recently, I migrated a DID from one VOIP provider to another. I set the outbound caller ID on the new provider, a
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by larvaetron 3y ago
That was my first thought, it sounds similar to what happened with Klarna[1] a few years ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27301219
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> Text-only BIOS setup was the norm for a long time I've had a GUI BIOS setup on almost every PC I've owned since the first 486 I built back in 1993.
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by larvaetron 3y ago
I don't see anything "kinda weird" about that.
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> bro what's the big deal bro just write the paper exactly the way we want you to bro
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> There is no physical or mental disability preventing people using modern technology. Judging by the amount of insufferable "Got it! Got it! Got it!" modals, pop ups and other bullshit in "modern" technology, the app
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by larvaetron 3y ago
SPO: Subsequent Public Offering
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> do better Can we keep the kindergarten-teacher-scolding tier comments to reddit, please?
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by larvaetron 3y ago
Heaven forbid someone should type out a comment to voice their disinterest about something.
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> It's really odd seeing comments on HN upvoted like: Not really. The HN user base has been taken over by big-corporation/big-government shills for years now.
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by larvaetron 3y ago
"While being instructed to"
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by larvaetron 3y ago
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by larvaetron 3y ago
If the Reddit admins don't want mods to have the ability to set a subreddit to private, then why did they even give them the option in the first place? Couldn't they just disable the "private" flag for all subs and be do
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by larvaetron 3y ago
I feel like I'm the only person who isn't a fan of Teenage Engineering's design. It's all a bit too uncanny valley for me.
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by larvaetron 3y ago
> That doesn't quite work How exactly does the fundamental difference between knowledge and intelligence "not work"? Humans have the ability to learn algorithms, therefore the algorithm being used by an AI (i.e. its intell
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by larvaetron 3y ago
The article has a fundamental flaw, much like those who confuse copyright and trademark: intelligence is the algorithm; knowledge is the data set.
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by larvaetron 4y ago
> HN's userbase is that scared of poking at the edges/inconsistencies of authority, even in jest It wasn't always like this, even just 5 years ago. I don't know where all the weirdos came from but they've fundame
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Ask HN: Is there a way to search by Newest on Twitter anymore?
3 points by larvaetron 4y ago|2 comments

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