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dustyventure··on Consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies (2024)
It's funny that people were once proud of the pragmatic origin story and now apparently ashamed.
dustyventure··on Consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies (2024)
I think the original Broadcom chips were overstock in the normal market because they were somewhat a nuisance of unnecessary checkboxes that would reward you with further testing/diagnostic complications in return for paying too much..
dustyventure··on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
You may want to check what the conditions are on transferring credit from other schools.. In some schools you only need a limited portion of credit from your own school and a sign off from an appropriate professor for equivalences.
dustyventure··on Federal Reserve Bank of NY "Doomsday Book" 2022 via FOIA [pdf]
So the other 8 types of exemptions must exempt virtually every agency with a meaningful role, but wait, no, they don't. Agencies are expected to judge every request against these exemptions.
dustyventure··on Federal Reserve Bank of NY "Doomsday Book" 2022 via FOIA [pdf]
All agencies have process for handling FOIA requests for issues that are often of a more serious nature than some data possibly arriving fresh enough for front running..
dustyventure··on Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)
I think the Olympics in particular are mostly supposed to be a less violent outlet for nationalism, but I think we learned from the Anger Management craze that safe outlets lead to a normalization and more of the original problem.
dustyventure··on I automated my job application process
If you are dumb enough not to hire someone who is able to integrate ChatGPT from analbeads into a conversation while looking natural then that is on you.
dustyventure··on Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
You've just explained to me how Samsung can maintain a good reputation in a way that Apple cannot using what I referred to as dumping..

I don't really understand how everyone on this thread can explain the nuances that should be what is interesting while claiming everything is the same.

Either technology/politics has changed and organizational structures we claimed in the 1980s to be both unethical and inefficient are now only unethical, or they have not changed and we are in the same cycle with these organizations as before but somehow elongated..

But no, what is interesting to HN is that there's a lot of fine detail in the physical market, but somehow when searching for any interpretation, a widget is a widget and Apple is WD and nothing interesting will ever happen again.

dustyventure··on 87.4% of population experienced a decline in freedom from 2020 to 2022
> All these investments are only worth anything if someone buys them from you at a higher value.

The index fund may be over priced but much of the market has actual productivity that leads to dividends eventually, so whether someone will buy that off you is not about the next sucker or betting on an increase in wealth among suckers.

dustyventure··on 87.4% of population experienced a decline in freedom from 2020 to 2022
By alternatives, I suppose you mean pyramid schemes that have no underlying investment that could beat inflation?
dustyventure··on Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
In the long term, Apple was on a cycle of market failure and then rejuvenation attempt because they either can't make high volumes of questionable components or they ruin their whole brand selling them. They have no dumping capability like a PC brand, I.e. I didn't even know what compromise Samsung's non-Pro models made vs EVO and they are obfuscated in searches by the PRO models. Great for dumping garbage for scale and testing out cost cutting tricks..

Intel leaving the SSD market probably has more relation to Apple than WD or Samsung.

I'm not asserting that Apple succeeds in making high quality, I'm saying their hardware trust makes them uncompetitive with the entire PC market where some brands will deliver high enough quality and all brands have access to low quality dumping to reach scale, etc.

dustyventure··on Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
So I'm wrong that Samsung is a possible example of what Apple could be that doesn't make WD a realistic example. Apple would have no more experience designing and selling trash than a UNIX vendor would have had with IDE and that makes it harder to sell top end that uses cheap performance hacks some of the time.
dustyventure··on Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
Still, it's confusing to use WD as an example of high end. They have dramless which is like the winmodem of SSDs, and even in this case no encryption. Clearly they are a budget manufacturer that happened to have something that worked out for some people.

Samsung is a much better example of a manufacturer that Apple would be emulating, investing in their own controllers, etc, and certainly not leaving out security features with no plan.

dustyventure··on How to lose a fortune with one bad click
If there is only one time they would honor their fair market obligations and not raise their own rankings, it would be on a cost center like free tech support to consumers.
dustyventure··on Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now.
This is a great approach if an encyclopedia represents a very large proof about the world, but is that what it is?
dustyventure··on Java in the Small
A lot of people learn to program from declarative languages like spread sheets. We should all be happy we have access to defective versions of assembly at too high a level but be angry that we had to use too low level an editor?
dustyventure··on TSMC founder says Intel has neither a strategy nor a CEO
But where is TSMC going? As far as I can understand it, they would need to rely on geopolitical argument to take customers away from TSMC and I think that's either ultra low volume or a frigid global environment where global trade is winding down.
dustyventure··on I taught rats to drive a car, and it may help us lead happier lives
That's what the original experiment was about the first time it made it to the mill, but the article is all about conclusions from the experimenter about rich environments. If you taught your dog a trick I hadn't seen before would you expect me to have a heightened belief that you knew the science of mammal emotions? I would just assume that you had a good treat and had or developed an understanding of some of their more direct physical/cognitive limits.
dustyventure··on I taught rats to drive a car, and it may help us lead happier lives
Would two environments both with no refined adictive additive create a similat conclusion about interesting vs boring environments similar to what the authors claim? I have no idea, so I just read a poor summary of a typical rat addiction study.
dustyventure··on The Rise of Bluesky
Where are the 400 million left leaning party members from to make up for the US?
dustyventure··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
> The next government might decide to turn him over to the ICC

The next person to win a fight for a most exclusive position may decide it should be of substantially less value.. But usually only as a tactic to get the position.

dustyventure··on A Case Against the Placebo Effect
I'm not sure what is supposed to be true and what we are supposed to all incorrectly believe.

We clearly double blind instead of single blind because we are all as concerned about researcher bias as the writer of the article. Their beliefs about our beliefs on where the errors are introduced in single blind studies seem at best presumptuous.

dustyventure··on Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
There's no premium financing proper adversarial regulatory agency there. If the IRS is not taking its special ~30% of 300+ workers salaries there's a best effort by a regulatory body that's viewed as a waste of tax payer money if it just checks a few technicalities.
dustyventure··on Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
> Seems like the requirement of proving "there are or aren’t any residents or citizens that can fill the job" is going to be near impossible for the government to enforce

It's extremely easy to enforce with taxes that ensure the company is paying at least 1X0% of the highest market rate for the position. If they don't find an alternative to paying it is a necessary hire.

dustyventure··on Gitlab makes more money than you think
I thought github was the most brazen attempt to consume the wealth created by an open source tool with a thin low quality veneer until I looked at gitlab's code and realized more tasteless is a poor imitation of a cheap veneer.
dustyventure··on License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
Since the beginning of time you could tell your neighborhood your mediocre opinions and not put rattle suppression on your bedroom windows.. But totally absurd that our fathers didn't expect a spy satellite with a 2 meter accuracy, a CIA agent who couldn't pass the international language test and a typist to record a precise biography of them.
dustyventure··on Buy payphones and retire
If a very expensive hobby is a lot of work are you working or retired?
dustyventure··on Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
Google can take various actions to put pressure but it ultimately doesn't control how the entire world treats archived text.

A google rank at zero and lots of 2 hop routes to your site that google can either penalize for being an accurate historical record or not is better than a rank of zero and a domain that has never been in historical artifacts.

dustyventure··on Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
A system gets reset, what happens in obscure places like old HN content?
dustyventure··on Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
Using a domain every second year in that environment would get it a gradually raising rank where it isn't penalized/sanitized (by accident, on principle, etc) so every restart after a $30 pause year would be much more effective than a new domain.
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