star-glider

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by star-glider 3mo ago
100% software doesn't take up space; there's always something more that can be automated or improved: https://loadhigh.jtylergriffin.com/devs-are-fine/
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by star-glider 3mo ago
It seems that a certain kind of person cannot separate the following things: 1) I dislike AI as a technology 2) I dislike the people and companies that profit from AI 3) I think AI is useless These are three completely separate positions
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by star-glider 3mo ago
I'd argue that a lot of knowledge workers in general are about to experience a similar rude awakening. To the clear benefit of society as a whole, who are spared rents, but it won't be fun for the entitled.
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by star-glider 3mo ago
Longshoremen are anti-cranes. Same thing.
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by star-glider 4mo ago
Just turn off JS
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by star-glider 6mo ago
I started my career in finance, and I used scroll lock constantly. When you're spending twelve hours a day in Excel, moving around quickly with just the keyboard starts to matter. Even today, my keyboard remap file swaps it with "
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Jeffrey Epstein spent years building ties to well-known hackers: Politico(politico.com)
9 points by star-glider 7mo ago|0 comments
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by star-glider 9mo ago
This is literally what's happening to Apple right now. Instead of focusing on innovation and research, they're just skimming their 30%. Works out great for the share price until something like LLMs come along, and oops you have no
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by star-glider 9mo ago
Just to clarify how outrageous the Mozilla CEO compensation is, consider that Tim Cook makes 0.019% of Apple's revenue in compensation ($75M on $391BN of revenue). For Sundar Pichai (Google), it's 0.003%; Samsung is 0.0001%; Nadel
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by star-glider 9mo ago
heh I really enjoyed reading this because I went on a RPI-fueld CEC deep-dive about a year ago when we put a gym in our house. I wanted a simple media center control for the TV/Receiver we had in there. An RPI sits at the center of the
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by star-glider 10mo ago
Sure, because I think that, ultimately excessive regulation stifles innovation. I mean, heck, the EU is looking to effectively dismantle GDPR because they're worried that it's going to cause them to miss out on the AI boom. My p
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by star-glider 10mo ago
Bingo.
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by star-glider 10mo ago
I'm libertarian, but I have to say watching the EU torment Apple has been delightful and one of the stronger arguments for muscular regulatory action. The USB-C thing just made everything better. It cost Apple basically nothing---maybe
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by star-glider 1y ago
They're also literally just not pushing code to AOSP anymore. QPR1 still isn't available. It probably will be, eventually, but this year it's two months late, next year it's six months late, then nine months, then "
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by star-glider 1y ago
Yeah I mean it's literally what the term "open source rugpull" means. Every business will ultimately renege on their open source promises. It's literally against their fiduciary duty to shareholders not to, once they&#x2
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by star-glider 1y ago
Taxis have a powerful local lobby; Google/Waymo doesn't.
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by star-glider 1y ago
It's honestly even dumber than this, because most of these countries are on the knife's edge of 50/50 popularity between the nominally progressive party and the nominally conservative party. So the odds that your opponents
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by star-glider 1y ago
I think it's less that HN users profit from privacy invasion as much as some of them aspire to run companies that do so. Perhaps a distinction without a difference.
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by star-glider 1y ago
Linus finally relented and changed it to "everything is a stream of bits." Still, it's a useful metaphor and way to think about interacting with bits of the OS.
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by star-glider 1y ago
Hey, if it still works. . . . Just don’t connect it to the internet.
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by star-glider 1y ago
Geez I feel like a (more subtle) version of the Ron Desantis Maneuver would be a heck of a lot less invasive.
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by star-glider 1y ago
Agree--ABP is not the most sympathetic defendant here, but I don't see how good actors like uBlock Origin wouldn't also be caught up in this. Granted, I don't know how they'd actually enforce an adblocker ban, but this
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Germany at it again: now trying to reopen the "adblockers are illegal" debate(theregister.com)
57 points by star-glider 1y ago|10 comments
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by star-glider 1y ago
About the only thing they've gotten right recently was forcing Apple to switch to USB-C.
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by star-glider 1y ago
I recently got back from Europe; rented a car. This "feature" is _insanely_ dangerous. Whatever idiot bureaucrat decided that having crappy machine vision software jerk the steering wheel around while you're driving should be
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by star-glider 1y ago
Beaches, parks, and playgrounds were routinely closed. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/us/newsom-bea
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by star-glider 1y ago
This isn't effective at a large org, but if you're running a small company/startup, just have an engineer "help out" with support every so often. We'd ask devs to run the support desk when the person was on vac
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by star-glider 1y ago
This is my favorite thing about Kagi; you can do both. If you just append a question mark, it'll run the search through a simple LLM and give you those results (with citations) right before standard search. From there, you can proceed
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by star-glider 2y ago
This analysis strongly suggests an Eastern European locale masquerading (with occasional oversights) as Chinese: https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-time...
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by star-glider 3y ago
Oh, my suggestion is simple: use words people understand and stop arguing over terminology. No goal is achieved browbeating people over terminology. Oh, and whatever you do, don't _make up words_! Talk about inaccessibility. This commu

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