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michael_michael··on Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors
We’ll actually have AI Anthony Bourdain doing it.
michael_michael··on Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors
They vibe-coded an asset class using the same chips they’re leasing back to themselves. This is the new dogfooding.
michael_michael··on Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors
Did you notice anything about their quant?
michael_michael··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
Near my house I saw two large blocky buildings being constructed on a main thoroughfare. Different construction companies, but within about 100 yards of each other.

"Fantastic!", I thought. New apartment buildings. That means new restaurants, stores, and other conveniences. Not to mention desperately-needed housing.

I'll never forget my despair upon learning that they were BOTH going to be large multi-level self-storage facilities.

michael_michael··on 25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA
I don't recall signing up to live in a Neal Stephenson novel.
michael_michael··on The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023)
To quote David Graeber by way of "Can't Get You Out of My Head": The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

If the elite class decides they are going to checkmate all others, winner take all, the smartest play is probably to flip the table.

michael_michael··on What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
Consider the lilies of the goddamn field.

- O Brother, Where Art Thou?

michael_michael··on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
Those stupid effing TurboTax ads are the only time I’ve ever been motivated to actually write feedback to apple about a feature. So aggravating and user-hostile.

The first few times the App Store opened to TurboTax while scrolling past, I assumed it was my fault and I was somehow misclicking. Then I slowed down and confirmed, no, this is the intended behavior. It’s meant to pop up and disturb your reading.

What slimy behavior. And the fact that it’s TurboTax of all companies they’re doing it for is just salt on the wound.

michael_michael··on A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash
I use µ for microns or micrometers µm. Option + m.

Also if you need ad-hoc bullets, just reach for option + 8.

• Like this.

The difficulty in accessing symbols like these is one of my (I'm sure correctable) hang-ups when using Linux — Arch, btw.

michael_michael··on Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows
Assuming we take the statement "more free market equals more efficient outcome" as always and absolutely true, it raises the question: Are the healthcare-related needs of a society aligned with the most efficient outcome that a free market can deliver? I don't think they necessarily are.
michael_michael··on GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
Are there any alternatives to Github that offer similar bang for the buck? Particularly for very small teams or solo devs that need private repos? The author here specifically mentions Codeberg, which seems like it's just for FOSS projects.
michael_michael··on Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment
Silenced by whom?
michael_michael··on Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride
A.k.a. Propecia.
michael_michael··on The Onion buys Infowars
Dead Kaczynski
michael_michael··on Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)
Under $100: Not really a purchase, but a habit that involved several purchases. Making L. Reuteri "Yogurt" using half & half, biogaia tablets, mason jars, and a sous vide. Helped with gut issues.

Under $1000: An Ooni pizza oven. It's a relatively low-stakes investment and you can produce some pretty phenomenal pizzas after you get over your first few "catastrophe calzones". Just a nice weekend dad hobby.

michael_michael··on Reasons I still love the fish shell
I think that's why Fish's tagline is "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s".
michael_michael··on Okay, I Like WezTerm
Yeah. I wish subtle design cues didn't turn folks off from useful software. That said, when I was test driving terminals a few months ago, I saw WezTerm and just skipped it because the main image shows the opacity-enabled terminal with a Cyberpunk image in the background, and that just seemed…amateurish? Dunno.

This article is convincing me to give it a second look.

michael_michael··on Medieval
Taking retro to its logical conclusion.
michael_michael··on Moving to Java 17 or how I learned to stop worrying and love NoSuchMethodError
There are a few blog title/conference talk title cliches that I would love to toss in a volcano and never hear again:

X, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Y

X for fun and profit

A tale of two X

X considered harmful

michael_michael··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
Our team already uses cap.ly. How does this compare to that, or, say haberdash.er? Congrats on the launch.
michael_michael··on The Making of Django Reinhardt
Something similar happened to me. An artist I liked effusively praised Django Reinhardt in their CD liner notes. For a sheltered suburbanite, the words "Django Reinhardt" were more or less gobbledygook, so I had to figure out exactly who or what it meant and why it prompted one of my favorite guitarists to pen an ode of praise. All this sent me on a months-long quest to track down albums and information in a pre-search-engine flyover state about an obscure gypsy guitarist.

It wasn't till I was a year or so into knowing about Django Reinhardt that I learned he did it all with just two fingers on his left hand. It blew my mind.

I wonder if we've gained or lost something culturally by having the detailed discography and life story of every artist in our pockets.

michael_michael··on Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation
Legal counsel isn't allowed in small claims courts. It's just a question of whether it's worth your time.

edit: Ha! Here is a guide on how to sue Ticketmaster: https://fairshake.com/ticketmaster/how-to-sue/

michael_michael··on Chechnya is banning music that's too fast or slow.
Some of those tempos at the bottom seem way off. Hotel California is 147 bpm?
michael_michael··on Home Lab Beginners guide
I started a few months ago. Reddit's /r/homelab has lots of great resources, and you can get some good deals through /r/homelabsales, though the best deals usually go quickly.

Like with learning a programming language, having a specific goal helps a lot.

Reading other people's posts about their hardware, how they use it, and what problems they solved with their homelab can be a source of inspiration that sets you on the right path.

Like others on this thread have said, while it's tempting to immediately dive into racks, patch cables and network diagrams, you can achieve A LOT with something simple like a small NAS or a NUC. Even a spare laptop that you can repurpose might be more than sufficient.

Unless you're trying to simulate managing enterprise hardware (and I mean physically managing it), the greatest value lies in learning the software side of thing, IMHO.

michael_michael··on Ask HN: How do you learn and research every day?
GTD, BASB, bullet journals, org-mode, todoist…

What do we do? There are infinite methods, tools, apps, and only so many hours in a day. Do you just keep trying tools/methodologies till one clicks with you?

michael_michael··on Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
His code was a lot better when he was pairing with Matt Sharp.
michael_michael··on Turing Complete is a game about computer science
They're both worth getting. I haven't finished either game, so I can't talk about end-game value for either, but it certainly feels to me like Turing Complete is an educational game with puzzle components, while Shenzhen I/O is a straight puzzle game.

Both are a lot of fun, and very well-made.

Shenzhen I/O (like most Zachtronics games) has some nice worldbuilding touches like the printable datasheets for the made-up electrical components, and a barely-there programming language manual.

michael_michael··on Uniqlo's Automated Self-Checkout
My local library system has had this for years. I’ve always wondered why it’s not more ubiquitous. You put your stack of books on the counter, and the titles appear on a confirmation screen almost instantaneously. Scan your library card and away you go.
michael_michael··on Could Cruise Be the Theranos of AI?
The point of the article is that there is no such thing as self driving cars. Cruise cars operate with regular, routine human intervention — albeit remote. You don’t need to cut them any slack.
michael_michael··on Synology MFA Fails if Internet is down
MFA for my Synology failed recently because (I suspect) I let the drive go unused for a while and it lost sync with the time server. So all one time passwords my password manager generated were "wrong". Off in time by some unknown amount. No way to fix it, since I would need MFA to log in and fix it anyway.

I had to reset the administrative UI and lose my user settings/admin preferences, but it did hang on to the data on the drives, luckily.

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