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by pch00 4mo ago
> Time to start learning Mandarin Mandarin has been on the curriculum at my son's school for the past few years. Prescient planning imho.
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by pch00 4mo ago
Absolutely hate numberpads on laptops - if you're sitting with the laptop directly in front of you it means your arms and hands are slightly offset to the left for normal typing.
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by pch00 5mo ago
Anthropic built the Torment Nexus - calling it now.
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by pch00 5mo ago
I'm unconvinced but I'll ensure I do my homework before grammar-policing again :)
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by pch00 5mo ago
That M-W entry literally says they're different words with different meanings: > They are in fact different words, but with sufficient overlap in meaning and form as to create uncertainty as to which should be used when. > We def
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by pch00 5mo ago
> The New Yorker prefers insure to ensure. They have a unique house style. That's not a stylistic choice, it's just incorrect use of English.
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by pch00 6mo ago
Britain has the 8th-most expensive electricity in the world[1], seems prudent that a Brit would try to be more self-sufficient in terms of generation? [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-e...
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by pch00 6mo ago
> Anyone else into what my high school biology teacher loved referring to as "pseudo-arachnomorphic diagrams" (Mind Maps[1] / Spider Diagrams)? Yes! Nearly all my notes are mind-map-ish. I’m a visual thinker/planner w
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by pch00 6mo ago
Can't view the pricing page without logging in (/app/pricing immediately redirects to a login box). Not going to get invested in a product until I know how much it'll cost in the long term.
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by pch00 6mo ago
Came here to say the same thing, what a wonderful post.
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by pch00 7mo ago
I really don't want to be too much of a downer, but is this really just an HN post about someone putting something on a shelf?
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by pch00 7mo ago
> I don't agree about containers, they are a really handy tool to produce stable(-ish) deployments. Agreed - at least so long as we're living with the current OS paradigms that have been around since the 70s. Redhat: bring us
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by pch00 8mo ago
> Good example because Liquid Glass is obviously preparing for the next paradigm shift in computing which will actually require/open up a lot of innovation on the UI front again. Bruh, I just want to be able to read the text on my p
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by pch00 9mo ago
Microsoft’s early/rushed attempt at AI (the various things called “Copilot”) does start to feel like how they lost the mobile wars. They had a tech fairly early (Windows Mobile) but utterly failed to execute on it and ultimately, allow
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Mike Monteiro – How to draw an orange [video](youtube.com)
1 points by pch00 11mo ago|1 comments
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by pch00 11mo ago
Mike Monteiro's recent AI talk at Y Oslo.
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by pch00 1y ago
> Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year. Microsoft do already have their own Notion ripoff/inspired product (Loop) though. It is a bit half-assed and the development pace is glacial so perhaps
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by pch00 1y ago
Slightly ironically, I stopped reading the Guardian a few years ago for this very reason!
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by pch00 1y ago
> In the days before Slack and being constantly plugged in people were a lot more conscious about interrupting others and we had less interrupts. The reason we have more interrupts today is that it's just too easy to interrupt peopl
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Thrashing(exple.tive.org)
103 points by pch00 1y ago|19 comments
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by pch00 1y ago
> If it an electrical contact in the door handle, it would be very difficult for anyone to monitor or inject other signals. You could even take it a step further for extra safety: the door handle could have a slot that requires a specifi
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by pch00 1y ago
> Their corporate support is a joke. SUSE also really like their "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!"-style random subscription audits too.
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by pch00 2y ago
Led By Donkeys' exposure of the Truss mini-budget and the Adam Smith Institute involvement is enlightening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRDLIOME47c
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by pch00 2y ago
Sounds familiar... https://www.laptopmag.com/software/windows-11s-ai-recall-fea...
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by pch00 2y ago
> if you drink coffee and then sleep immediately Alas, being of a certain age means that any kind of liquid before bed will result in an early-hours wakeup to relieve the bladder - negating any potential sleep benefits :(
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by pch00 2y ago
> It's a bad use of capital. At the end of the day, Infra is a cost center. It's something used to keep the lights on, but doesn't expand your TAM. Indeed it is and while CFOs may not completely understand the technology t
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by pch00 2y ago
> The software support for iPads have been excellent imo, especially compared to competition. Yes, excellent in comparison to the other "black rectangle" devices, phones, tablets, etc but compared to a regular PC still awful.
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by pch00 2y ago
> Basically, this customer was using BOTH Nutanix and VMWare internally (I am VERY surprised how the previous CFO did not get fired for something like that), and because they already had the Nutanix knowhow and licenses, migrated fully t
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by pch00 2y ago
Imho the TPM 2.0 requirement killed Windows 11. There's still huge fleets of incompatible, yet still perfectly useful, PCs out there - especially in large corp environments.
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by pch00 2y ago
Written in 2018 before Puppet was bought by Perforce - would be interesting to read a new update to see if any of Luke's ideas or practices managed to survive the buyout.

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