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by nix0n 3mo ago
> that server is almost certainly going to be a VM and not bare metal I understand that this is normal but I've never understood it. If all the containers are running the same company's applications (so they don't care abo
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by nix0n 3mo ago
> Remember how when google bought youtube for 1.65 billions people thought they are crazy? Or when facebook bought instagram. I think these are good examples: in both of those cases the buyer had a plan to monetize. If you are a user of
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by nix0n 4mo ago
There are many trainfuls of people who still write code using traditional syntax-based IDE completion.
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by nix0n 4mo ago
I think this comment got attached to the wrong article somehow. Not relevant here but probably relevant to "Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO"[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179029
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by nix0n 5mo ago
This is partly due to having a safety factor: i.e. using twice as much steel as you think you need. Understanding means knowing the limits of your own understanding, and building in safeguards.
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by nix0n 5mo ago
General Motors contributed significantly to the decline of passenger rail in the USA. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
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by nix0n 5mo ago
Linux is a global project, and open source more broadly is also of course global. Linux Mint (the distro I use) was started and is led by French developer Clement Lefebvre. QEMU and FFmpeg are among the notable projects started by French de
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by nix0n 6mo ago
Driver support seems to me like it could be an advantage over Linux. Does anyone here know the current state of installing a browser on ReactOS?
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USA FCC Prohibits All New Models of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers(docs.fcc.gov)
4 points by nix0n 6mo ago|2 comments
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by nix0n 6mo ago
Original title: "FACT SHEET: FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers, Prohibiting Approval of New Models"
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by nix0n 6mo ago
It kind of makes sense for it to be a partnership with Back Market, which also sells used hardware. That way, the ChromeOS USB key can be an add on to the purchase of some old laptop that can barely run Windows anymore.
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by nix0n 7mo ago
> Unless you're paranoid about an OEM backdoor Lenovo does have a history with installing a very obvious spyware rootkit on their consumer PCs[0]. [0] https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/p
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by nix0n 7mo ago
> people who have never used the product and don't think like or accurately represent our users I agree completely that these are the important qualifications to be setting direction for a product. > Find your most socially compe
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by nix0n 7mo ago
I think a URL and screenshot would be way more useful than a bunch of text for that use case.
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by nix0n 8mo ago
> How is the Rocket Chat mobile app? I thought it was fine, but I can't compare to the Mattermost app since I've never tried to use that.
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by nix0n 8mo ago
If you are looking for another self-hostable alternative to Slack, Rocket chat[0] is also worth looking at. I wasn't involved in any of the Dev Ops aspect when my former employer used them, but the search function actually worked which
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by nix0n 8mo ago
This exists, it is called the NexDock[0]. I have never tried it. [0] https://nexdock.com/explore-nexdock/
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by nix0n 8mo ago
I like the retro theme. Could you expand on why you describe Hyprland and XFCE4 as "a cursed combination"? Might provide some insight as to why the official XFCE project decided to create their own compositor.
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by nix0n 8mo ago
Enshittification puts the focus on the users of the product as the product gets worse. Ensheetification puts the focus on what's happening within the business to cause this.
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by nix0n 8mo ago
Since they claim to be a Swedish company, it might be worth filing a report with the Swedish consumer agency[0]. I am not a lawyer, and especially not a Swedish lawyer, so I can't say how illegal this is in Sweden or what if anything w
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by nix0n 8mo ago
Sure, just look at the famous question about how to parse HTML with Regex[0]. Since this question has received so much attention, even the bottom answer has a positive score. Otherwise the pattern looks typical. [0] https://stack
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by nix0n 8mo ago
The average answer writer on SO is not actually that toxic: really it's the voters. The top answer will almost always be an explanation of why the asker is wrong to want to do the thing they want to do. But that's not most answer
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by nix0n 9mo ago
There are QOL mods[0] available for that version to get the camera (and controller in general, and other stuff) working better. Can't speak to the Deck HW or Steam OS specifically, but the SilentPatch and GInput mods have been working
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by nix0n 9mo ago
> Support for System V service scripts is deprecated and will be removed in v260 All the services you forgot you were running for ten whole years, will fail to launch someday soon.
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by nix0n 9mo ago
There's an API[0] that takes a prefix of a hash. I don't know how to verify what the website does, but I think that in a few minutes I'll be able to put together a CURL call that does what we're hoping the website does.
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by nix0n 9mo ago
> We used to have 12-16+ hour workdays, no days off, etc. None of that is true anymore - the great battles have been fought and won, and nobody is going back. The 8 hour workday is not guaranteed to office workers anymore. See HN discuss
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by nix0n 10mo ago
First, AI took all the hype. Now, AI is taking all the RAM. Soon, AI will be taking all the electricity.
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by nix0n 11mo ago
> It carries all of the biases us humans have and worse the biases that are present in the information we chose to explicitly share online This is going to be a huge problem. Most people assume computers are unbiased and rational, and i
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by nix0n 11mo ago
> This is not illegal Depends on what they're doing from your connection.
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by nix0n 11mo ago
> the person / team who would go on to actually crack brain-like AI would be remembered closer to Hitler than to Einstein I completely agree. I think that the people who are funding AI research are essentially attempting to create

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