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wetpaws··on Ask HN: I miss the internet of the 90s/00s. What should I do?
Create your own community.
wetpaws··on Intel Honesty
7nm means nothing, it's an arbitrary marketing number
wetpaws··on Moments in Chromecast's history
Hangouts was a shadow of the Google Talk
wetpaws··on Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair
We use sonar at work and this resonates so much with me.
wetpaws··on Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
Krita
wetpaws··on Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
>What do you think comes next?

Public transport, hopefully.

wetpaws··on What good are whizzy new drugs if the world can't afford them?
It didn't in the most of the world. It did only in the USA cause america can't into free market
wetpaws··on Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative
see also: byobu

https://www.byobu.org/

wetpaws··on How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
Or you can just switch to Kagi
wetpaws··on A forged Apple employee badge
They did not cause their "invoice" was also fake
wetpaws··on I'm giving up on open source
>Same goes for companies. Nobody cares about you as long as everything is working smoothly, but as soon as they encounter a problem, guess who comes knocking on my door?

Companies do not use libraries, devs do. Dev ability to pay for the libs is essentially zero, and even if you try to escalate it to management and purchase the license, this can easily take a year of few to approve.

wetpaws··on Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay
https://web.archive.org/web/20240412115205/https://fortune.c...
wetpaws··on I Lost Faith in Kagi
Why do you care about a viewpoint of CEO if the product is good?
wetpaws··on The rise and fall of D&D in Japan
Ultima has a much higher cultural influence than DnD.

Entire JRPG genre, dark souls, homebrew rpg books are all either directly based or influenced by it

wetpaws··on The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss
The final boss always will be Nintendo
wetpaws··on Ask HN: Why do companies pay new hires more than long time employees?
Cause they can
wetpaws··on Ask HN: Who are your most treasured live coders?
Carmack
wetpaws··on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse
Kagi is miles better than bing, google or ddg
wetpaws··on OpenAI Engineers Earning $800k a Year Turn Rare Skillset into Leverage
800k will be around 400k post tax. Nowhere near a life changing sum in bay area.
wetpaws··on Does employer have to tell if they're spying on you through your work computer?
It's corporate device, not corporate os.
wetpaws··on Things I just don't like about Git
"git is made from papercuts"

This pretty much summarises my experience with git.

wetpaws··on San Francisco Shoplifting: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2022)
Anecdotally I stopped driving to SF cause my car got broken into two times.
wetpaws··on The worst programmer I know
Fortune100 eng here, yes it is a thing.
wetpaws··on Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
Web alternatives are so horrible right now, I would not be surprised more folks are migrating back
wetpaws··on I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
Or you could use other platforms, you know.
wetpaws··on Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
KDE apps are not included in the plasma by default. Plasma itself is very lightweight.
wetpaws··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
Nobody knows tbh.
wetpaws··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
Internal differences do not necessary translate to conceptual differences. Combustion engine and electric engine do the same job despite operating on completely different internal principles. (Yes, it might not be a perfect an analogy, but it illustrates the point.)
wetpaws··on The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird
https://jfrog.com/help/r/jfrog-artifactory-documentation/npm...
wetpaws··on Visual Studio UI Refresh
Now try running it on 13 inch laptop.
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