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wholesomepotato··on Review: Framework Laptop finally gets an AMD Ryzen config–and it’s pretty good
Something's wrong with it. Mine is fine.

Swap the ports and see if the problems moved with the module, or stay fixed with a port location. Try on a LiveCD with Linux to rule out the OS. If nothing else - probably MB.

wholesomepotato··on Driver hits woman in SF, then Cruise driverless car runs her over
It's rational to trust yourself over corporations that want to make money, governments that sit in their pockets and their naive enthusiasts.
wholesomepotato··on Driver hits woman in SF, then Cruise driverless car runs her over
It's fault of the person who didn't have enough room to stop. Full stop.

It doesn't change the fact though that human drivers don't slam the brakes out of the blue because their "AI" got confused about nothing in particular, and that it is dangerous.

wholesomepotato··on Satya Nadella Says Copilot Will Be as Significant as the PC
I found it a perfect avatar already: https://microsofters.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Clippy-e... .
wholesomepotato··on Subsidies Awarded to Tesla Inc: at least $2,829,855,494 and Counting
Oh yeah. Because most of the tax revenue comes from rural areas, and is only then funneled to support these unproductive city dwellers wasting it on all this pointless infrastructure.
wholesomepotato··on Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
Top corporate leadership nowadays is paid ridiculous money while 90% of the time being out of touch clowns. It's just a clique riding on easy money and general societal incompetence period, circle of connections self-justifying their salaries. Notably: lots of exceptions, usually ones that built the company themselves or worked there for decades.
wholesomepotato··on Twitter / X is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it
It will collapse within a week without all the fired engineers!!1 Or on Thanks Giving. Or World Cup. Or New Year. Or... anytime now. Sooo buggy!

Predictable haters took a bite and there's a flood of self reassuring comments on how Mastodon is great.

wholesomepotato··on Choose Postgres queue technology
md5? blake3 is both faster and cryptographically secure, and not a novelty at this point.
wholesomepotato··on Ask HN: Is “Distributed CI” Possible?
Sure it could be done but it's going to be slower and more unreliable than a centralized solution, and you'll need run it redundantly so you can be sure no one is malicious.

There's also problem of incentive. Why would anyone want to run your builds? So you can run theirs? In that case why you won't run yours and their theirs and save the overhead?

wholesomepotato··on What It’s Like to Be a 13-Year-Old Girl Today
Would be nice if I could block this domain on HN
wholesomepotato··on Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers
> The alternative to ads isn't no ads, it's paywalls and subscriptions.

Great. An alternative is an honest way to conduct business. We'll take it.

We could get rid of all that click-bait AI-generate crap and not waste everyone's time, among tons of other benefits.

wholesomepotato··on So let’s talk about this Wayland thing
As Microsoft lost the grip on Desktop, and Desktop became less important, and they moved more and more into cloud and services biz, etc. you can expect Windows to atrophy even more.
wholesomepotato··on Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong?
It's good, don't touch it. If you need AWS you'll know.

A low complexity org with low complexity tech stack (both good things) can serve a ton users, and don't have much benefit from huge scale, elasticity and features of AWS.

In particular network transfer fees on AWS are ridiculous, IMO.

wholesomepotato··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
If we all lived in tents, cost of living would go down.

It's silly. If you can afford not having to worry only about the price, congratulate yourself and enjoy it.

wholesomepotato··on The Rules of Margin Collapse
Someone was watching "The Horror Of Margins In CSS" on YT...
wholesomepotato··on You're barely managing
A SWE team first-most needs leader. Most senior and competent members of the team to focus on the bigger picture, dive into most important details, making commitments, having a decisive say on technical details and taking responsibility for the overall technical results, but not doing the "HR stuff".

Then, in larger teams, there's some room for HR-like stuff - salary negotiation, personal conflicts, carrier growth opportunities, "how are you feeling" kind of stuff.

The managers should only do the later, but most of the time they completely take over the former, becoming clueless jira ticker shufflers, that multiply like rabbits, because they always think "we need more Managers, because I can't keep up with all the jira shuffling and meetings overheads I created".

wholesomepotato··on The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine.
This is only 7 * 4 bits. That's really nothing.
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