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Why not make housing cost less instead?
Re:YouTube Is Down on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:31PM (#47055882)
Directly navigating to a channel works fine.
Re:I rebooted my social life on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:20AM (#46454772)
Why?
Re:MySafeSpace – Whitehouse.gov on Sunday November 02, 2025 @09:08AM (#45790471)
It's highly irregular to have a .gov domain with this sort of content.
When someone is reaching for an app like this it's a bad habit.
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:16PM (#45204760)
Don't do anything drastic.
Re:U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel on Friday August 22, 2025 @05:39PM (#44990150)
Achieving that doesn't need to take the form of a 10% stake in a flailing company.
Limited liability needs to priced to reflect the enforcement costs. Sole props are "free".
Re:Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @06:17AM (#43903440)
I've had a really great experience with docker compose and systemd units. I use a generic systemd unit and it's just as easy as setting up users then `systemctl enable --now docker-compose@service-name`.
Why do retailers put up with Honey? They're clearly not providing value with the attribution theft. Why give them money?
"Dignity for minimum wage" may be a more realistic tagline. It's not particularly good faith to say it's a detached house in Toronto.

We're sliding towards workhouses of the 1800s. Policy should lean towards a one bedroom apartment being achievable for all of the working class.

Re:Wall Street Investors Enter Single Family Rentals on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @08:01AM (#42051160)
It's bizarre that we've prioritized increasing shelter costs for all of those who haven't hedged it. It's costing the next generation and is just unsustainable.

It wouldn't even be a bad thing if rent was low. But it can't be, as that would probably imply a lower cost of ownership.

Re:Wall Street Investors Enter Single Family Rentals on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @07:57AM (#42051134)
That only work when supply isn't constrained.
The only games I can't play on Linux are mega-modded Skyrim and League of Legends.
Re:Restic: Backups done right on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:04AM (#41838212)
It's on my TODO list to add Restic support to BorgTUI[0]. It supports Rustic but the beta nature and iffy performance leaves something to be desired.

[0] https://github.com/dpbriggs/borgtui

Re:Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:31PM (#41801791)
There is an extension which automatically redirects you from Fandom to the new wiki. While that's convenient it probably helps Fandom stay near the top.
Re:AI solves IMO problems at silver medal level on Thursday July 25, 2024 @01:33PM (#41071211)
This is more analogous to programmers working with copilot. There's an exciting possibility here of mathematicians feeding these systems subproblems to assist in proving larger theorums.
If it's any good it's an unfair advantage to the cheaters using it, putting those with integrity at a disadvantage.
Googling stuff and wrangling AI codegen soup doesn't scale past a certain point. I get "fake it till you make it" but there's a point to knowledge and mastery of a subject.
What's the point of interviewing candidates when they're parroting whatever an AI tells them?

It was hard to get signal before, and with tools like this it'll be even harder. If these systems are any good (big if) it'll be neigh impossible.

There's a point to having skill in an AI (and search engine) world.

Re:How to Start Google on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:04PM (#39761235)
In the zero interest rate environment it was easier to get good advice and orders of magnitude more more money. A lot of those companies are crap.

Google had good timing but importantly, a good product and market fit. Prior search engines sucked in comparison with obnoxious monetization.

Re:Google's SRE Book on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:47AM (#39589316)
Layoffs and a change in the performance management system (moving away from perf).
Re:Google's SRE Book on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:09PM (#39586397)
I can't read tea leaves but I'm fairly confident they're not shutting down SRE. They want to get back to sublinear scaling and move away from the "devs create crap, bribe SRE (headcount) to babysit it in production". It was a major anti-pattern for the role.
Re:Google's SRE Book on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:05PM (#39586377)
Not really, the company is massive and until recently very motivated (promo) to launch new things. SREs probably helped get things across the finish line but likely didn't start those projects.
Re:Google's SRE Book on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:02PM (#39586364)
In my experience it's fun to do that but only worth it when SLOs are on the line (so a significant number of bad machines).
Re:Google's SRE Book on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:00PM (#39586353)
SREs are not support agents. That said greater signalling from that area over to us would be a good thing.
Re:Show HN: GPU Prices on eBay on Friday February 23, 2024 @07:51AM (#39479914)
What did you buy?
I disagree. They're pretty good at auto-fixing minor issues and suggesting best practices.
I can do that without manager approval. I'm an SRE in Canada and accrue quite a bit of time off in lieu on my oncall shifts.
Re:Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to? on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:12AM (#38114636)
The only one I listen to consistently is the Rational Reminder podcast.

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