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I’m at least happy they know…

It just seems somewhat more efficient to take all the computing storage, memory processes, processors, or at least all the money that go into it… the in one spot.

If you’re running a big task or small, everything scales to the appropriate size, regardless of the hardware sitting on your lap or under your desk.

At least that’s how I think of it.

I’ve wanted the idea of a home server or even home “mainframe” and some terminals for me and family forever but the idea never takes off….

I don’t blame them, even if you cut a deal the president sees something on social media and comes back for more tariffs.

It’s not common as far as overall jobs go. The weird exceptions and stories get more attention online, make them seem more frequent than they are.

I’ve never worked anywhere or been interviewed at a place that asked this absurd schedule of their employees.

Is $8m …. a lot to make something big happen here?

I’m unsure how many devs and how much gets done with $8m.

It makes no sense that front line patrol officers would have access to those cameras. They're not detectives, and that much access should have flagged him to high heaven.

I certainly sympathize that folks love the hardware but more often as I work I want to simplify and just avoid accessories that require anything like this.

Having said that very cool project / nice of those folks to do it.

I feel like smartphones are just evolutionary items now, there will be ups and downs in terms of upgrades and that's it.

With google the added question though is, are they losing interest again?

I'm not convinced that people who want to work from home are magically motivated differently by work and to do work than others... They're human, better and worse, like everyone else.

Yeah it is not a remote good / office bad thing.

I work remote when and how I want, it's great.

But there's days and even weeks where "I just want to go in" and that's helpful with meetings, work, socialization.

Different people like different modes and even at different times.

My government is just dumb as a box of rocks.

It's like they heard of the ICC from a facebook meme and develop policy around that.

It is interesting how much clout Israel had, they put a lot of work into developing that, and they seemed to have just expended it all as far as US public opinion goes.

It feels like there's some legit bad practices that some folks have been hit with and legit complaints.

But yes online there's a populist panic about it that seems disconnected and completely driving itself without basis in reality... Locally there's folks terribly angry about fairly small data centers and they don't realize how many are around them and they never notice. But they don't want to hear it, if anyone is anything but fervently anti data center then you're Elon's friend or something.

The panic reminds me of how the Great Fear in the French revolution was described folks believed everything was an indicator they were right, and denying it meant you were the bad guy ... and thus more evidence that their fear is true...

Some data centers in my area I would love to live near because on the property they have big green space and wetlands surrounding them.

How many phones have a standard audio jack now?

I figured that had largely vanished for a while now.

For us the uptime issues have been annoying but not consequential enough to justify the work / risk of moving.

I suspect even poor uptime for many services is a cosmetic problem for most users.

Not for me. Unicorn error.

And like Twitter most people will keep using it anyway?

I wish I could get a confidence number. Like 98%.

Or when it comes back with 50% I know, let's talk about this a bit more maybe I add more context and such.

Granted I don't think LLM word math does anything but mostly just output the numbers that make the word salad so maybe that doesn't exist.

Dwindling of news outsets / local news outlets has been pretty widely covered, as are the results:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31976955

I'm not sure Youtube doing fine while local news sources go under and such a is a positive.

Yeah this is a pain. Good people who do good work and aren't responsible for figuring out some micropayments ecosystem for the rest of us are reliant on advertising.

> It may not yet be available to all users.

Not me, bummer.

But there’s not and the end result is the same.

If they pay you 3k to install a battery, what’s the cost of the battery overall?

I’ve been laid off via remote meeting. The folks doing it were unhelpful (couldn’t answer typical questions) / they were some third party company hired to fire people. I didn’t like it… but not much would have made it “better”.

The CEO actually doing it himself is surprising. Lots of executives wouldn’t put themselves out there like that.

I’ve found a disturbing pattern of “I’m being harassed” (without explanation of what exactly that means) as a sort of blanket statement to discount any kind of questions or scrutiny.

The idea of someone having to explain what harassment is occurring is of course unpleasant, but that’s also what makes it an effective method of trying to distract from the topic.

If he was being harassed that’s wrong, but it doesn’t make him immune from questions about other things.

Amen.

And hey if social media is bad for everyone ... put that on social media companies. Not everyone else.

Stupid cookie banners is my favorite example. I don't need to make a legal agreement with every website... if they wanted websites to not do a bad thing, make them, or a mechanism in browsers or something.

Cookie banners are a great example of regulation gone wrong.

Me having to make a legal agreement with every website is absurd and totally predictable.