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by vdnkh 17d ago
So it still works as a generic ereader via Calibre? That seems like a pretty fine outcome. I don't think Amazon (or any company) should be on the hook supporting a device for 16 years. I can't think of any company which does. Drop
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by vdnkh 5mo ago
This email was 100% AI generated. I just edited a similar sentence from a claude code doc I'm writing - "we're not just X, we're fundamentally Y" is an obvious tell. I guess he's putting his money where his mou
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by vdnkh 6mo ago
I ship a very visible product which, when it breaks, generates a lot of social media angst (it's in the gaming adjacent space). So we try not to break things to the best of our ability. We have very few QA people and have whittled down
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by vdnkh 10mo ago
> But for some reason, democratic socialists refuse to engage with the book earnestly. You're not as informed as you think you are, probably because you're not an NYC resident and have no actual stake in this election. We succe
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by vdnkh 1y ago
I work for another large streaming site where people like to use adblockers. These adblockers also cause similar performance issues that are entirely caused by awful code in these blockers. I've studied the code for all of these blocke
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by vdnkh 2y ago
Steam in NYC is also used for cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system
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by vdnkh 2y ago
This is incredibly petty of me but why do people keep spelling "ads" as "ADs" lately? It's an abbreviation not an initialism
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by vdnkh 2y ago
Works for me on FF dev edition. I bet WebGPU support is required (mainline FF does not support this).
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by vdnkh 2y ago
This comparison has never made sense to me. If I get a free beer, I can do whatever I want with it. Drink it, dump it, whatever. Same thing with pretzels. Am I missing something?
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by vdnkh 2y ago
Yeah I wonder what people do, and have done, around the world in walkable communities predating the car. Perhaps people in these communities are on average more mobile into old age because they frequently walked?
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by vdnkh 2y ago
Twitch has been stitching ads for years.
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by vdnkh 3y ago
Bell Labs in Holmdel (ala Severance HQ) is now "Bell Works", a combination of offices, restaurants, stores, and community space, including the public library. It's free to get in and you don't need to spend money to use
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by vdnkh 3y ago
According to AAA, the average cost of owning a new car is $12k per year [0], and that's just for one car. So New Yorkers can put that extra $1000 per month towards housing. As a New Yorker, $4000 is pretty high. You'd typically se
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by vdnkh 3y ago
dooooooo dooo dooooo, doooooooo doooo doooooooo doooo
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by vdnkh 3y ago
Peak HN moment
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by vdnkh 3y ago
> Goes to time square > The whole city seems like a money laundering operation Classic
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by vdnkh 3y ago
Seriously? Just google it, there's plenty of articles. And unless the OP is lying (they're not), they're literally providing you with info from a firsthand source. Whats with HN and sealioning in every freaking comment lately
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by vdnkh 3y ago
Any topic on HN which is tangentially related to the Culture Wars (progressive cities/DAs among them) typically has several comments bashing the "woke".
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by vdnkh 3y ago
You are now a tech-journalist revered "ex-googler", enjoy your newfound credibility!
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Conservative HN never misses an opportunity to punch air about "wokeness"
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Yes, but what about conservative bias in AI????????? /s
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by vdnkh 4y ago
It's not a dumpster fire, its 5d chess!
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Do you live under a rock? This place has always been libertarian, and since Trump has turned into an echo chamber of alt-right grievances in tech. The initial burst of cheering from this forum over Elon initially buying twitter to "des
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by vdnkh 4y ago
You're being downvoted because HN is a lolbertarian paradise, but this is correct. He wants the Parler audience.
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by vdnkh 4y ago
> I'm not the biggest Musk fan but I believe he has a very effective process and he is a product person What a weird thing to say after he killed twitter with his "process". Perhaps this dumpster fire is the best view yet
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by vdnkh 4y ago
The post that killed HN
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by vdnkh 4y ago
The hilarious part too is that the same contingent also ignores the screenshots showing that the "Libs of Tiktok" account had special rules around moderating it. So much for "silencing conservative thought" (if you can c
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by vdnkh 4y ago
The Trump admin and Republicans rolled back a ton of clean air regulations: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-envir... "The bulk of the rollbacks identified by the Times were carried
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by vdnkh 4y ago
The fact that this comment isn't flagged and downvoted shows the absolute state of HN.
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by vdnkh 4y ago
Not to mention that the person who attacked Pelosi's husband with a hammer was also posting transphobic crap (along with a lot of other right-wing garbage). Hate online definitely has real world impact.

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