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c22on Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)

I think it's possible to be a fast learner and not have ADHD.

I guess if I am one of the landlords, or if rents are very reasonable and competitive I prefer the former. However, if it becomes the case that I am having all of my productivity extracted by rent seekers and I no longer have agency over my own life then the benefits of stability get downgraded and I'm much more willing to roll the dice.

c22on Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer

This could be great if the rest of the chassis was filled with batteries.

c22on Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

Huh, I've always been suspicious of folks claiming the opposite.

For the downvoters, have you ever tried to explicitly map your externalities?

c22on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

If you try to time the market and you sell at the exact peak you still have to time the market again and buy back at the correct bottom. If you miss either of these you're likely leaving long term performance on the table.

c22on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

In Linux changing the MAC address can be done simply on the command line, so I'd probably just write this functionality into a bash script that I'd call before ifup.

c22on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard

When my first-born was six I walked around with her to all of the neighbor's houses and we introduced ourselves. We informed them that my daughter would likely be moving around the neighborhood independently, perhaps on occasion with her younger brother. I gave them my phone number and told them to call any time.

In addition to having no problems with Karens or the CPS we were able to identify the other houses that had kids in them and a band of independent neighborhood kids playing with and looking out for eachother quickly became the norm in our community.

c22on Childhood Computing

> ...an unusually open minded computer teacher.

I've heard this story several times before and I, myself, had an unusually open minded computer teacher as a youth. I'm beginning to suspect this attribute is is not so unusual amongst computer teachers as has been assumed.

c22on The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

How do you perform automated enforcement of missing or fake tags?

c22on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

That's because I vouched for it.

c22on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

Fyi, you appear to be shadowbanned and it's not clear why. You might consider sending an email to admin to work that out?

c22on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room

And unlike cigarette butts, they stick to the parking lot. Lovely!

c22on NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)

So who decides the threshold of public risk that is appropriate?

c22on A HN post with negative points – how?

I surf with showdead on and often find myself upvoting grey comments that don't seem factually incorrect or rude, perhaps just espousing an unpopular opinion. But man, a lot of grey comments are correctly moderated. I'd leave the most downvoted ones alone for sure.

c22on A HN post with negative points – how?

Are you able to downvote stories?

c22on Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Bento-Unuseless-Japanese-Inventio...

https://www.amazon.com/99-More-Unuseless-Japanese-Inventions...

c22on The One Dollar Counterfeiter

It's not illegal to own fake currency. It's only illegal to possess with intent to defraud: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/472

c22on The One Dollar Counterfeiter

Probably, but if you want to make a second one you'll have all the stuff right there still.

c22on Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster

I dunno, you could build a "smart playmat" that keeps track of your board state and helps a bit with the math.

c22on Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

If moving to Saudi Arabia to teach English is an option in your life then you are already in the top 10% by wealth.

c22on Talking to strangers at the gym

This is like when you're working retail and the scanner glitches or the barcode isn't registered and the customer says "I guess that one's free then!" and you have to say "ha ha, very droll sir" as if you didn't hear that same joke yesterday.

c22on Talking to strangers at the gym

I haven't read the book but I always try to incorporate people's names into many sentences when they are a new acquaintance as it forces me to remember their name.

c22on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

Actual pawn shops already do this, though.

c22on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

Who should take out the loan if not the new company? The old company? What would be the difference?

c22on Apocalypse Early Warning System

I dunno, this guy's setup looks pretty decent: https://youtu.be/2IsR06zf8nQ

c22on Japan is building cardboard suicide drones

You can flatpack the cardboard frame.

c22on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

The vast majority of it was stored underground as petrochemicals. A fact made immediately apparent by looking at like any chart. Is this a serious conversation?

c22on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

Wealth is not created, it's stripped from the natural commons and it is, despite being massive, obviously finite. What you're referring to is "value creation"--the transformation of this natural wealth into a form that some other humans find valuable at a point in time. This value creation is rewarded via capitalism by the accumulation of monetary instruments which very much represent an appropriation of this wealth. If this system wasn't zero sum then we wouldn't have inflation?

c22on The RAM shortage could last years

Apparently...

> OpenAI’s rapid growth, fueled by the success of ChatGPT and other AI products, led to a landmark agreement in October to purchase 900,000 DRAM wafers per month from Samsung and SK Hynix—amounting to roughly 40% of global supply. This surge in demand, coupled with limited manufacturing capacity, sent prices for memory kits skyrocketing. [0]

[0]: https://peq42.com/blog/openai-canceling-many-large-purchase-...