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dleink··on Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch
I don't know. Austin isn't the city I fell in love with in the 90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Texans.
dleink··on We have proof automation now
You still want to write/review/refine the types yourself.
dleink··on ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief
The trends in NYC are kinda pro-meat but if you're a day-to-day vegetarian or looking for it, there's plenty. I can definitely see showing up at a NY restaurant and everything on the menu having beef tallow in it somehow.
dleink··on The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority
You hit on something there, I could type faster than my 2400 baud connection but barring a bad connection those connections were pretty reliable.
dleink··on The Deathbed Fallacy (2018)
> in a sense we all are, and just don’t realize it yet.

one of the luckiest breaks you can catch in life is to live through something that forces you to realize this.

dleink··on fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
nah, eff all that. Roll back the snapshot.
dleink··on 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
If anyone needs a test case, I consider myself a reasonably intelligent human who is absolutely too stupid to use modern technology and would be glad to proclaim that to a court. (executive function, working memory issues. latency is a killer for me.)
dleink··on Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making
Baseball lent itself to advanced analytics even before player tracking became a thing, since the sport consists of a series of discrete one-on-one matchups with limited possible outcomes.
dleink··on Perplexity Deep Research
I'd love to read something on how Perplexity+R1 integrates sources into the reasoning part.
dleink··on The Anthropic Economic Index
If you were on the early internet talking to someone about music or woodworking or whatever, you could reasonably assume they were a tech person because it was not simple to get online. It took a minute for it to spread.
dleink··on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Google is a special case because they specifically removed the "Don't Be Evil" clause, therefore, I can only assume they are in fact fundamentally "evil"
dleink··on Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year
Disinclined, but I would like to publicly thank my parents for a CD Budget that was far too high for a teenager. I was probably averaging 1-3 CDs/month in the 90s, that's a ton of money!
dleink··on Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year
We're talking about a likely inconsequential amount of money for a thing that might be of high importance to a member of the household. What are you talking about?
dleink··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
Unfortunately, whatever ideal you hold of conservative doesn't exist. Trumpism is conservatism's current expression in America and Trump is its thought leader. If conservatives were ok tying their cart to a populist demagogue, then they're going to have to go along for the authoritarian ride.
dleink··on Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online
stay safe, much love.
dleink··on My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
I'm not sure we can use such definitive language about the definitions of new words.
dleink··on Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
Not sure what it proves to say, "People who own expensive homes have high incomes". higher prices filter out potential buyers with lower incomes.
dleink··on Dutch Align with US Export Controls on Some ASML Chip Tools
UK Trident missiles are leased from the US. Also, Much of the technology in the UK program is from the US, and the french tech was developed independently.
dleink··on The Origins of Wokeness
No, but see, it's called the _Democratic_ People's Republic of Korea. It's right there in the name.
dleink··on Fidget
Happy! You work in a field where you can both make your own tools and use tools others have created. Maybe you can steal some of his ideas and use them, or use his stuff and contribute to the project. either way, rad.
dleink··on Fidget
I've been yearning for updated winamp/eggdrop style music visualizations... this is very far outside my domain knowledge but feels like it could be used somehow..
dleink··on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker
One of the gaps is accessibility, rideshares are useful for people who have trouble getting around.
dleink··on My Favorite Book on AI
I would have done worse, but I am a bad businessman. Being good at business doesn't also make you a revolutionary thinker in technology, let alone the broader themes that are discussed here.

I would be interested in hearing his thoughts on philanthropy and how he's working to convince other billionaires to follow his lead.

dleink··on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker
how do you reconcile this theory with the existence of the Mets?
dleink··on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker
Any examples of cities that have done a good job on this?
dleink··on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker
I have a flexible commute that sometimes involves driving a car into the zone and if I see snow in the forecast I'll be less likely to be in the city with a car that day.

I love congestion pricing, I will gladly pay $9 if it lowers traffic during peak hours. I also try to plan trips in the offpeak hours anyway. If you leave at 11pm you can get from shea stadium to Philly in an hour forty-five.

dleink··on Perplexity got ads
"discernment beats advertising" is a dangerous idea.
dleink··on Perplexity got ads
Wouldn't you want to be loyal to the productions themselves rather than whatever streaming service is exhibiting them? Do you have that much faith in the creative talent at the streaming services?
dleink··on The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)
In both finance and sportsbetting I assume anyone giving out information is part of a long con.
dleink··on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
Snapcast is nice because if you have an existing setup it can just use stdin as the audio source.
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