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philo_sophia··on The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
Hate that bringing fraud to justice means paying out to the wealthiest person on the planet....
philo_sophia··on I'm returning my Framework 16
I don't find framework appealing for upgradability, but I do think it's great for repairability. Being able to extend the life of a machine easily by replacing a cracked screen or degraded battery is so much better than going to the fruit store and being upsold a new machine and spending more. Obviously you pay extra in upfront costs and sacrifice build quality for a framework.

Also I think framework will excel in the SMB market where companies may have diverse requirements for different employees. Some just need a machine for email/browser and others for dev or video editing. But they can share parts, and upgrading a dev machine might have the benefit of upgrading other employees machines with the extra parts.

philo_sophia··on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
Just ask for the refund. If they lock your account you can always make a new one (gonna be a scary day when that isn't possibl cuz they use biometrics or something.....).

But if they just close your account in response to asking for a rightful refund.... Literal thievery

philo_sophia··on Iron-sodium grid batteries just took a big step toward US rollout
Remember seeing this idea 13 years ago [1]

Glad they're finally coming online, though I think these iron-air batteries[2] will take most of the market share (room for all though!).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sddb0Khx0yA

[2] https://sustainabilitymag.com/news/the-rust-revolution-can-i...

philo_sophia··on After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline
>When you leave software developers alone for too long, they start developing software

I've gotten so bored at work lately I've been coding for fun again

philo_sophia··on Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools
I think the comments on the article are a fair critique. Notably that this single metric for educational outcome is not as important as the author is suggesting.

Also, Maine has a huge drop on that chart I'm assuming from COVID. I don't think this is southern states catching up. I think it was just them outperforming during COVID potentially. Whether or not that will last, we will see.

philo_sophia··on The Candid Naivety of Geeks
As a tech employee who has worked on software privacy controls for consumer devices at amazon I have a couple thoughts. First, let me clarify that I am still highly skeptical about any tech companies privacy promises. That being said, the privacy control I worked on for one of Amazon's devices was a pita. It was a hardware switch which completely powered down all sensors, and modifying code related to it required extensive testing to preserve customer privacy. Amazon at least emphasizes to employees earning and retaining customer trust. The real reason I actually semi trust tech companies privacy policies is the ethics of individual employees. Maybe I'm projecting my disgust at privacy infringements onto my coworkers, but I generally believe these large corps can't hire sufficient teams of devs to build privacy compromising systems without at least one person whistleblowing.

My $.02

philo_sophia··on The Candid Naivety of Geeks
Upvote. Employees are the actual enforcement of tech ethics. See Google project maven pushback
philo_sophia··on Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
Disclaimer: I generally prefer doing everything by keyboard and never touching a mouse

When you enter tmux scroll back buffer with "Ctrl-b [" you can reverse search the entire output and navigate within the buffer with standard shortcuts (same as man pages). I also added this yank plugin to copy any highlighted output to my system clipboard. Makes searching and copying output super fast

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank

philo_sophia··on Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
Tmux allows reverse search of the text on the screen and add the tmux-yank plugin to directly copy highlighted text onto your system clipboard

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-yank