mrich

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by mrich 2mo ago
Could you please add a link to the Goodreads page of each book?
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I(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by mrich 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mrich 2y ago
What is breaking? FYI, you need to remove the ball from time to time and remove the dust that might be blocking the optical sensors.
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by mrich 2y ago
Tesla at a forward P/E of 80 is massively overvalued as a car company. You can get Mercedes or BMW at a P/E of 6, with a 9% yield. Sure, the EV market is still growing, but Tesla is not the only player. All brands now have EVs, th
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by mrich 2y ago
So it's ok to sell a feature to customers if you only find out later it's not possible?
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Using the mold linker for fun and 3x-8x link time speedups(productive-cpp.com)
2 points by mrich 2y ago|1 comments
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by mrich 2y ago
Can not recommend charging your phone all night wirelessly next to your head while you are sleeping.
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by mrich 3y ago
So you're saying they knew engineers would be wasting their time doing useless things, but still went ahead? (instead of mandating 75% and spending 1/100 of the wasted time to adjust the metric to filter out getter/setter)
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by mrich 3y ago
Worst experience for me was .us. I bought three, don't know if they mentioned it at checkout, but those can only be registered by US citizens, which I am not. I could buy them, but after a couple months I received an email from the reg
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by mrich 3y ago
What do you mean by extension heavy? In my experience, Firefox has the best extension ecosystem amongst all browsers. It took them quite long to get that to work on mobile, but even there you could use all extensions already on a developer
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by mrich 3y ago
Also loads instantly for me now, didn't make any changes.
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by mrich 3y ago
Ironically this did not render in Firefox on Android (just the spinner kept spinning) Worked in Chrome. That said, epubs are great for reading books on mobile. The advantage for pdfs is that they contain highlights/notes, so you can di
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by mrich 3y ago
If you don't need incremental backups (thus saving space for the signatures) and want to store to S3 Deep Glacier, take a look at https://github.com/mrichtarsky/glacier_deep_archive_backup
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by mrich 3y ago
If you are spending more than two hours per day at your desk, it is worth it. There are some cheap ones out there that are OK (200€) but even a sturdy one is not that expensive, when you consider the time you spend there and the benefits t
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One Wide Feedforward Is All You Need(machinelearning.apple.com)
1 points by mrich 3y ago|0 comments
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by mrich 3y ago
From the article: The new study found pieces of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which is what most plastic water bottles are made of, and polyamide, a type of plastic that is present in water filters. The researchers hypothesized that
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by mrich 3y ago
Just buy glass bottles, tastes better anyway (or use tap water).
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by mrich 3y ago
Notably a workers' council does not have power to negotiate compensation/raises. That's a major difference to a union.
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by mrich 3y ago
Agreed, you can use ChatGPT similarly to Google now. Except you do not have to parse and filter the results, plus there are no ads.
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by mrich 3y ago
Great book, recommended read.
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by mrich 3y ago
It's certainly not enough if you assume there can ever be an error in the backend which Google is unable to recover from.
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by mrich 3y ago
In a similar vein, Factfulness by Hans Rosling.
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by mrich 3y ago
Thanks for this, I was actually Ctrl+F'ing the page for the year number to no avail. Remembering all the MS antitrust stuff, I thought this Windows popup must be a pretty recent change, can't believe this has been going on for thr
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Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app(support.mozilla.org)
271 points by mrich 3y ago|184 comments
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by mrich 3y ago
Windows 10 warns when launching the Firefox installer, suggests using MS Edge instead.
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Ask HN: Is this legal? Windows warning when launching the Firefox installer
32 points by mrich 3y ago|7 comments
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by mrich 4y ago
Trying to get ChatGPT to solve my son's homework (third grade): Prompt: Given these numbers: 1, 9, 14, 15, 18, 21, 26, 37, 42, pick five which can be added up to 100. Print the sum of these numbers. Answer: 15, 18, 21, 26 and 40 can be
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by mrich 4y ago
I'm still looking for a way to transfer text from a remote server in VS Code to the local system. Anyone have that?
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by mrich 4y ago
Any way to make this work with passkeys?
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Buck2: Successor to Buck, Written in Rust and Remote-First(github.com)
4 points by mrich 4y ago|0 comments

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