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m-j-fox··on Dell XPS 13, one year later
Hey buddy. I got one yesterday. Such an adventure. Coming from the MacBook experience, I will say it's glitchy AF. But I still haven't linuxed it. Doubt that will help.

I will say it's fast.

My complaint is the Thunderbolt 3. It is a lie. First you need an adapter because of course you do and the only one at the store is Apple's. I have a bunch of Macs and displays and peripherals and zero success talking to any of them.

I don't know if I'll even complain. I have an Intel desktop mobo that after several years learned to drive a display over Thunderbolt iff it's connected on boot and that's all. So I'm not expecting much.

m-j-fox··on Redesigning the smartphone dial pad
Ok Goggle, call someone who uses the dial pad ever.
m-j-fox··on Why kernel development still uses email (2016)
What I want to know is: which of Tower, GitKraken, GitHub Desktop or Stash do the kernel developers prefer?
m-j-fox··on Man convicted after preventing counter-terrorism police search
Oh that gives me an idea. Let's make it so the blob can be decrypted 2 ways. One shows your tax receipts and spec indie-horror script, the other is your real shit.
m-j-fox··on Street View of 80s NYC
If anything, there's more dogs.
m-j-fox··on Supporting Hypothesis
Sure but it's a lot of hype for porting QuickCheck to Python. So glad the rest of you caught on 10 years later.
m-j-fox··on JuNest: Arch Linux-based distro that runs on any Linux OS, without root access
This is the only one of the bunch that I've been able to install some packages on RHEL5 and RHEL3 that I'm stuck with. (And even then, only with too much effort bootstrapping.)
m-j-fox··on Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
I like it. Really turns everything on its head. You're logged out. You can't post or comment. Lurking will be good for me.
m-j-fox··on Show/Ask HN: Anonymous Global Product Manager Salary List
Not Mr. BuzzFeed.
m-j-fox··on Draw.io releases open source desktop versions
I remember XULrunner was fine like 15 years ago on a Pentium II. A lot less features and performance tho.
m-j-fox··on Show HN: SQLCheck – Automatically identify anti-patterns in SQL queries
If you know any devs at Tableau, please forward this to them.
m-j-fox··on Amazon opens 'Instant Pickup' points in US brick-and-mortar push
Don't forget wandering aisles looking for the Chromecast Fry's helpfully stocks in the back corner of the car radio department.
m-j-fox··on Amazon recalls eclipse glasses
I love how you spell $#!+.
m-j-fox··on Amazon recalls eclipse glasses
I buy everything from Amazon, including all my food. You make me wonder what I've been eating. Still, I can't see going back to fighting crowds at Safeway.
m-j-fox··on Amazon recalls eclipse glasses
Isn't it somewhat on the sellers who are willing to blind people for a buck? That's not ok even in China.
m-j-fox··on Ad blocking is under attack
> penumbric emanation

Vocabulary much? I'll bet there's a blip on Google Trends today.

m-j-fox··on Show HN: Short-term rental estimate for sites like Airbnb
It seems like I could get more for my rental on bbro, if it was 100% occupied. It would be helpful to know occupancy stats and average length of stay to estimate turn-around costs.
m-j-fox··on Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
My pet theory is that it's not that we don't want to hire women, it's that they don't want to work here. I've seen one woman's resume and dozens of men's. We hired her. And she is miserable. But so is everyone. But she seems to think that things could be better while lots of men seem to just accept it sucks and don't mind making things worse. Is there a biological reason for the difference? Who cares?
m-j-fox··on Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
That didn't even seem like the main point. The main point was that people are psychologically oppressed: you can't even talk about the possibility of different gender behavior being rooted in biology without fear of retribution.

He was right about one thing.

m-j-fox··on “Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work
Blame autocorrect. But you get my point: doesn't have to be the HBS class; could be the HBS professors; or 100 bankers with 20-years experience each. Point being, there's got to be a better explanation for CEO pay than ROI on their services.
m-j-fox··on “Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work
I've wondered this about CEOs. For the price of one Jamie Diamond you could hire the entire graduating class of Harvard Business School. Surely, between them, they could perform his duties, no?
m-j-fox··on Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing
Thumbs up for driving more nails into C's coffin. What any pretender to the throne needs most is C interoperability because we're stick with legacy code. You need to be able to just code in C when necessary including the datatype zoo, the unsafety and the ugly macros. If it takes even 5 minutes to wrap a C function for your new language, that's years of work for some codebases.
m-j-fox··on Show HN: Neutron Academy, Google Assistant Powered Learning
Very cool way to explore the limits of voice interaction. Had to "Skype" a lot of hard questions. Turns out "Anthropologie" isn't a branch of science.
m-j-fox··on P&G Cuts More Than $100M in ‘Largely Ineffective’ Digital Ads
Do what you gotta do, dang, according to you're taste. According to my taste, flagging on a polite and irrefutable comment is what's uncivil and/or unsusbstantive. There's no recourse other than to say something so that's what I gotta do. Thanks.

The controversial statement that started this was:

> Perhaps rather anecdotal, but this is why I joined Uber, and did not take my Facebook or Google offers. It feels nice to work on tech that directly impacts lives and how a persons day flows. As opposed to, as you correctly put it, optimizing click bait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14879917

m-j-fox··on ZeppelinOS: tools for smart contract applications
Also Zeppelin.

https://zeppelin.apache.org/

m-j-fox··on How Chrome OS, Termux, YubiKey and Duo Mobile make for great usable security
Cool. Question: what are your editor options? Any gui-based emacs or atom? If not, do you at-least have text-based emacs in termux?
m-j-fox··on Soft U2F: A software-based U2F authenticator for macOS
But notice the software is only for Mac. So it's for people who are too cheap to spring for a $10 key but drop $1k on a laptop. Go figure.
m-j-fox··on How Wi-Fi Works
I know. And not a word on forward-error correction, trellis codes, automatic gain control, beam steering or MU-MIMO. Is this for babies? They don't even touch on low-noise amplifiers. Much less DAC and ADC performance. Where's the link a primer on FFT?
m-j-fox··on How Wi-Fi Works
It wouldn't be a good system if they could. You have to worry more about wired Ethernet which can also be encrypted but rarely is.
m-j-fox··on Status update from the Reproducible Builds project
Does path-independent mean what I think it means? One thing I hate about Linux is having to set prefix at build time. You can't tar up a software and move to your home directory on another machine. That and the lack of compatibility between base libraries/kernels means you can't hope to upgrade chrome for yourself easily like anyone on Windows or Mac can trivially do.
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