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Same on anything resembling a mobile device

The app that could’ve been a blog post

In my opinion, it’s good to make these mistakes earlier rather than later on. You got the scars early enough to think there must be a better way, as opposed to starting with the “old school way” and then thinking that AWS/GCP would make it easier.

For the file system, the OS could do something similar to what iOS is doing when you want to share a picture - giving the user control over which pictures the app has access to. Yeah, for a gallery app it could render the app quite useless because of the UX, but it would solve the issue itself IMO.

Not a startup founder nor do I really have much knowledge in dealing with equity, but assuming that 51% of the equity remains with OP, couldn’t they give the spouse “equity without executive power”? I know I’ve heard of that concept somewhere but can’t remember exactly where from.

At least for linux, I would assume that it hugely comes down to how much of a personal statement the OS is to developers.

I use Arch btw.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Those that feel the same will follow, and even moreso if they see they’re not alone.

Might “Theone” perhaps be a better one to use? Still stays somewhat true to the pronunciation of Devin, but with an emphasis on being The One that might actually work /s

I would think that there’s definitely VC money in making your customers happy. What makes them happy might be different, but I believe the sentiment still remains

Wouldn’t that incentivize more intricate methods for large corporations to pay larger income? I understand what he’s going for, but I personally think that such a tax law might cause unintended consequences and perverse incentives

Today I learned. I always thought it was some “electricity magic thing” like additional heat generated within the power strips causing issues between the connected devices, but this makes a lot more sense than whatever I was thinking of.

Although I do think I might have mixed some things up between regular power strips and those outdoors/industrial ones with a long (double/triple digit meter) rollable cable which my dad was a big user of back when he used to work in construction. Basically back when I was little he used to tell me never to plug power tools into a rolled-up “power wheel”, and I think that when I was later heard you shouldn’t daisy chain power strips I must have made that (wrong) connection.

And now we live in a world where “powerpoint presentations as dating profiles” are basically the norm

I would actually think that monorepos suck with Github and others like that. Looking at the Linux kernel for example, that seems to me like a well executed monorepo outside of Github. From what I’ve heard and read, they specifically use Git and mailing lists instead of Github or others because Github wouldn’t work for what Linux is (aside from as a mirror).

There might very well be some context I’m missing, but that’s what I understand from that side at least.

I guess their security practices had gotten a bit rusty

Is it just me that think that’s a huge catch-22? The project isn’t eligible for grants because it gets money on the free market, but is then limited by who it can come from or in what amount

Obligatory “if you don’t know who it is, it’s you”

Once SMS itself becomes a more modern way of communicating. Currently every 160 (IIRC) characters costs, sending images (and god forbid videos) is barely worth it, not to mention the lack of security. Comparing to food, I would say this is as good as saying “Why not just buy a bag of chips instead of cooking a meal”

Why does the headline read like an Onion article

Hey, at least they didn’t use lemons

Windows uses some weird install process where it needs two partitions for the install media. Basically the whole installation is too big for FAT32 so IIRC the way to have it work is to split the ISO in two having the bootable part on one partition and a lot of the installation content on another.

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB

“The human body” is the single I/O mechanism. Everything deeper than that is an implementation detail

Money rarely follows those that have good intentions. The intentions are rarely even part of the equation there. And as Tinder has already showed us, there’s a lot of money in keeping people lonely, giving them just enough but not too much. Something tells me that the large majority of those building AI companion bots do not have good intentions in mind. Of course, only time will tell, but considering the track record of such topics so far I doubt this is the way to go.

I just imagined the file being part of the mob, and somebody coming to ask if it was there. The body guard just responding with a “who’s asking?”

Question for the masses - is “Clean Code” still something worth reading nowadays? I have so far only heard good things about it (but that might also just be survivorship bias, I would assume books that aren’t good wouldn’t really be talked about as much), but have yet to grab a copy

Ooh, the video of a cow doing circles around a chicken until puking? Those really were the golden ages of the internet.

waits patiently

The way I see it (admittedly, as a 24 year old working in tech for the past 7 years), manual labour is okay, but definitely not something I’d do as a means to get by. My dad worked in construction for most of his life (mainly motivated due to debts incurred while he was locked up and taken up by my “mother”) and it has had an immense toll on his body, mostly back injuries and other non-reversable issues it has caused. But there were still many occasions where I went along with him to Finland, Sweden, and Norway as a “helper”, which have all taught me the value of hard work and dedication, pushing through whatever hardships you might have, and have generally been great for father-son bonding. Now that he however has exited that fieid (to work as a trucker which he loves because it’s basically “getting paid to travel long distances” which he loves), although I value the work done by tradies and have an immense respect for them (or at least the ones working as hard as my dad did), I still don’t see myself ever wanting to do that as a “job”. Since my dad has those skills, he still puts then to good use for personal needs (remodelling the house, fixing the roof, building a gazebo in his yard, etc), I still love going there to help him with all that, but much more as a father-son activity than as work.

Although he’s out of line, he’s also right. Pornography has, does, and keeps on making it even harder for people to create meaningful connections, be fulfilled with “regular” sexual ideas, and messes with our body’s production of dopamine which in the end results in even more severe loneliness due to the inability to be more realistic in terms of sex as well as highten the chances of depression caused by the former. It is a disease, and the longer we try to destigmatise the situation, the worse effects it will cause for people and society as a whole

Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37209309

The article, although doesn’t mention the shift caused by TZ, does mention that the main difference between the two are that they’re a “point in time” vs “a photo of a calendar and clock”. A (local) event’s time does sound like a photo rather than a point