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Anecdotally my kobo aura is almost a decade old with 0 issues whatsoever, and it has a removable sd card which made sideloading software and files a breeze. I wish they continued making them that way.

If a tree falls and HN doesn't post it, did it ever happen?

I was not on HN prior to covid. The early news I read was likely the plague scare[0], but I definitely read the reuters article[1] when it came out which prompted me to talk to my coworkers about it. I was not sounding any alarms though, more like "check this out..." in the lunchroom.

[0]https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-ou...

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/ch...

Yeah iirc i was reading about a suspected outbreak of a new disease in China late 2019, I told my coworkers about it too and wondered how it hadn't garnered more attention, or if I had just watched too many bio-horror flicks, or fallen for clickbait-y fear mongering. I never suspected it's impact would have the scale it did, especially after the Ebola containment went so smooth.

Also if you're not spending your time, money, and energy on gas, a car payment, insurance, registration, smog, or stressful traffic, you have time, money, and energy for other things. Let alone the huge costs to society incurred by the myriad ways the car-based hellscape destroys lives, limbs, and property.

On top of that, iirc even if you never have an accident or use a car, living next to a busy road has also been correlated with lower life expectancy regardless of socio-economic indicators.

Tbh unless you seriously need your duds to be totally closed breathable and waterproof, silpoly with pit zips etc is a cheaper / more eco alternative that is lighter / stronger and does the same job in most scenarios.

I switched to linux a long time ago so now i use plocate, but on windows everything was a must! Also directory opus was a nice file manager, not sure if there's a new/better foss alternative yet.

Another chapter in the corporate hellscape of the US. Now your job search includes research on corporate factions and their relations, any outting you attend is preceded by research of corporate ownership and faction relations or security measures in place in order to know if you can attend or attempt to bypass said measures.

Yeah also on Android you can get extensions on firefox, such as bypass paywalls, which makes android nice for paywalled news.

IIRC it should be noted that newpipe is more resistant to getting taken down because they're utilizing public api data and not altering youtube's app. Not sure if the new revanced is still a modded youtube apk.

Yeah same here, it was sort of satisfying watching all my nvidia/windows buddies whine about bugs while it seemed to run buttery smooth on my amd/linux machine after they all shilled windows/nvidia "ok man good luck gaming on that setup, i hope it works out". It did lol, i gained frames!

Been using arch as my first and only *nix for about 4 years now, most of the pain points have been smoothed out, usually you can find answers by searching whatever errors you see or checking dmesg. If you're a CS person, it really isn't hard to solve most issues and reason about, it's just normal debugging / docs / forums. In the event that you're doing something weird and niche, or you really cant find your info, you might reach out to the community and it's likely some linux wizard will solve your issue, like this post.

I was much more frustrated on windows when i ran into issues and your best bet was some incompetent support, and watching blue screens til you come to the conclusion that your system is scrapped, who knows why, and you need to reinstall and start over from scratch.

On arch you can save your dotfiles, make snapshots, chroot to fix things, and so on, there's tons of safeguards you can put in place, and tons of options for remediation. You really just need to RTM.

On top of that if you have a gripe about some software not working how you think it should, you can usually hack it or replace it. If you have an idea for some new functionality you want you can usually find/install some existing software for your needs in like 2 seconds, or you can find the repo of your software and submit an issue or PR.

Alternatively you can also just string together existing tools in a script in order to fulfill your needs. I did this recently to create an OCR screenshot to clipboard tool using tesseract and flameshot, something I wouldn't have even considered possible on windows.

I had a cousin who spent years in solitary for a wrongful conviction that was later overturned. She had a hard time re-assimilating and was overwhelmed by almost all social contact for a while. She was freed during covid so we did a drive by "welcome home" type thing, probably for the best because even then she was visibly overwhelmed with anxiety. To see a person freed from that scenario and still mentally and emotionally scarred, unable to enjoy seeing their loved ones, it's incredibly sad, horrifying to know this is happening to so many people right now. To think of how often it's happening for wrongful convictions is even sadder. The state of "justice" in the US is despicable.

At least you got a PHD lol. I only found out I had ADHD recently, years after I dropped out and learned to code on my own. All throughout my life I had been ahead of my classes because I love learning, but I hated pointless exercises. I'd ace every test and then fail to turn in busy-work. I was ashamed of turning in unfinished stuff, or just plain didn't touch it.

I really used to beat myself up over the whole "wasted potential" feeling I'd get. Especially so after my teachers were fifty-fifty "you have great potential, apply yourself" and "you're a jackass, you won't amount to anything".

I always wonder how things could have been different. If I might've got into some irl engineering instead of software, or just advanced in my career faster, etc.

My biggest hope is that my sporadic deep dives into different subjects will eventually lead to a good idea to invest in, or some oss i can get sponsored to save me from the despair of competing/comparing against my neurotypical peers with degrees.

Typical internet contrarian: "The trend is wrong! I knew it! Read this!" points at anecdote + straw man confidently

The parent comment might be refering to github copilot or chatGPT, both are fairly decent at removing a lot of google-fu for typical fullstack problems and helping newer programmers get up to speed or closer to a viable solution quickly.

That's an app store issue, but to follow up bitwarden is opensource, so you could verify the checksums and compile it yourself if you really wanted to be dead sure.

I'm not well versed in this but IIUC the less context/data that exists, the less it should afford the creation of a succinct response, right? This would make sense for the gap between "frontend js api" responses, and "aerospace thesis" responses.

Would it be safe to assume the limiting factor with this or any algo of this type might always be availability of context/data, and these niche questions might always be an edge case?

Are there alglrithms that can reliably extrapolate "new" data/context that does not exist yet and is accurate IRL?

Sorry if my terminology or understanding is way off, I don't know much about this field.

I hope this is a Ratatouille reference

Here's a good video you may be interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWL4nU-vtWs

Yeah considering it's still kind of the early days for these sort of "applied" mycology projects, and there are already so many novel ideas and incredible capabilities being shown, I wonder what the real life application's will look like 50 years from now.

Amy word on AMD support?

What advantage does ipfs hold over tor or i2p? it seems like ipfs is a poor fit for this use case, but I'm not very familiar with these things.

It's kind of sad cause ideally the company using a portion of the money they made on the product, to study adverse effects from the product, is the responsible and transparent thing to do. I wonder what options there are for ensuring/verifying that this kind of research is not swayed or influenced by the sponsors.

Add to that the fact that the pixel 6 left audiophiles SOL for almost a year with no 3.5mm jack and broken USB-C DAC compatibility. Ontop of that Display Port Alt Mode is still disabled on every pixel for no good reason, despite many pixel owners reaching out to them, leaving us SOL for an alternative to samsung dex, or compaitibility with devices like the Nreal Air AR glasses.

Google's hardware support IME is a shit show. They need to stop spending all their time playing with ML tricks that nobody uses outside of ads and keynotes (aside from normal camera stuff), and start listening to customers and addressing bugs and missing features that even the mid-tier chinese phones have rolled out.

I'm buying a oneplus next time around and never looking back, idc if google's new chip gives me 2x battery life at the same price, it's not worth the frustration.

I played with mdn-cli which was a neat cli that queries duckduckgo for the first mdn result and parses it to markdown. I then passed that through a parser to make it pretty, and then integrated it with my editor for getting fast documentation without too much context switching.

My biggest gripe was the lag to request ddg and then mdn and then parse it and pipe it. I wanted something simpler like `man` for mdn. Now i imagine having the documentation already in md and keeping it local, i'm a step closer and it'll be more powerful with tools like fzf, ripgrep, and mdcat.

Gotta check if there's already a search tool for MD that weighs heading levels, or code blocks, bold text, etc

An easy place to see this is reddit.com/r/ar_mr_xr it used to be a lot of people in the field with great info in the comment sections, but now it's a bunch of vrchat kids who fanboy zuck like some kind of messiah.

You could probably open a PR to accept filepaths on stdin, or maybe use xargs.

The worst issue with pixels for me is the missing HDMI alt mode... in 2022 pixel's still lack the ability to connect a monitor to the phone. Even worse, samsung has samsung dex, and now there is great tech like the nreal air that we're missing out on for no good reason. I've heard rumors that google likely disables hdmi alt mode to protect chromebook sales. I also wasn't able to use the $100 USBC DAC I got for the phone for like 8 months after I first got it. It's a very simple concept to make sure you support an alternative before you deprecate a feature but lo and behold.

Next phone I get will definitely not be a pixel. Hopefully the next fairphone will be a tad more competitive, and hopefully by then linux on the fairphone will be more polished. A boy can dream...

Wow this sheds some new light on an anecdotal experience if mine:

I once watched a climber free climb a moderate 30 meter route me and my friends had just completed with ropes, and he mentioned his LSD hallucination was peaking as he saw us at the top.

I considered that maybe climbers like him have exceptionally higher risk tolerance or a habituated comfort with psychedelics and climbing. However, as someone with a reasonable amount of exposure to both of those (separately), it still baffled me. This feels like a more palatable explanation in tandem with higher risk tolerances and habituation.

Far ahead in what exactly?