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The U.S. Education Department fired workers. Now, it's on a hiring spree

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3 points·by williadc·2 mesi fa·0 comments

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williadc
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I do it the opposite way, disable my kids' devices at night, but I suspect your desired method would also be supported using native features. I have found LLMs to be very helpful in providing the right settings.

There is a plugin marketplace that provides more features, like ad-blocking. I haven't played with those yet, so I cannot vouch for them.
williadc
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I switched from a Google Wifi to this and found it to be just as stable, but with better range/signal strength, and easier to apply the parental controls I want.
williadc
·5 giorni fa·discuss
Maybe not: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/qualcomms-t...
williadc
·5 giorni fa·discuss
I had an Epson Ecotank for a couple of years. The printer heads got clogged all the time. We bought a series of cleaning products to address it, they often solved the problem for only a few prints. We finally gave up and bought a Brother laser printer.

This project seems like it's trying to address a similar market to the Ecotank. What assurances can the project team provide that OpenPrinter will have better reliability?
williadc
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Does WinCo Foods count? https://www.wincofoods.com/employee-owned
williadc
·9 giorni fa·discuss
It's what CDs use, so it would make sense for mp3 encoders to follow suit.
williadc
·20 giorni fa·discuss
The "99 Bottles of OOP" book mentioned at the bottom was an excellent introduction to refactoring. I highly recommend it if you struggle with finding the right data models for the problems you work on.
williadc
·26 giorni fa·discuss
ArchLinux
williadc
·28 giorni fa·discuss
I also experience this on Firefox 151.0.3 on Linux
williadc
·mese scorso·discuss
His manager deserves the thank you. If someone started exhibiting the issues described in this post at any of my employers past and present, I suspect they would figure out how to get rid of them.
williadc
·mese scorso·discuss
The biggest blocker to this vision is the lack of libre EDA tools for "modern" process nodes. As things scale down, new types of analysis are required. The OpenRoad project has some great stuff, but there's a long way to go if we want to build a compelling open IP ecosystem.
williadc
·mese scorso·discuss
I suspect this revelation is why his start-up didn't succeed. The economics in silicon are brutal.
williadc
·mese scorso·discuss
I bought a Chuwi Lapbook[0] for my wife a few years ago. It was great at first, but got unusably slow running Windows within ~1.5 years. I got her a new laptop and put Linux on the Chuwi. It worked fine for checking email and light browsing. The touchpad had strange sensitivity and seemed to be hard-coded so that scroll worked the opposite of my preference. It was tolerable until the keys stopped responding to my typing. I found that if I pushed really hard in the center of the key, it would sometimes register, but required firmer pressing. Ctrl and Shift stopped working altogether after awhile. The problem crept up from the bottom-right side of the keyboard, and I eventually gave up on it at the end of last year.

[0]: https://techtablets.com/chuwi-lapbook-14-1/review/
williadc
·2 mesi fa·discuss
From the article you linked:

> With the new Panther Lake mobile processors, Intel has managed to successfully combine the two previous generations, Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, as the performance is even better than with Arrow Lake, while efficiency has been improved at the same time. Even with low power limits, the performance is very competitive, and Intel (in conjunction with the new GPUs) is therefore the better choice for slim laptops.
williadc
·2 mesi fa·discuss
For the same reason that Yahoo should have bought Google after the dot-com bust. AI is useful and will eventually change the world. Many companies won't be able to provide sufficient returns, but will still have useful assets that Apple could buy at a discount.
williadc
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Apple does make the product described in this article, aside from the fantasy price. It's called the iPad.
williadc
·4 mesi fa·discuss
This is a really well-thought out comment, and I agree with just about everything in it. One comment I'd like to call out for additional consideration is the comment on retirees being priced out due to rising property taxes.

In my experience, most retirees have more rooms/land than they can make productive use of. I feel that there should be some pressure for them to sell that property to families who can use it more productively. That's the stick, but I feel there needs to be a carrot, where builders are constructing homes that these retirees will be drawn to. There are retirement communities in the southern US like "The Villages" https://www.thevillages.com/, but as the population here ages, we need to build these everywhere so retirees can move into the communities that meet their needs without being forced to leave their cities.
williadc
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I've been thinking about this problem for quite awhile, and recently coded up something that allows for easy conversion between today's written English, and a phonetic spelling convention.

https://git.sr.ht/~dcw/iNgliS

I've created a Firefox Add-on for it as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inglis/
williadc
·5 mesi fa·discuss
The idea is that you don't want to check-in any builds.
williadc
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Is it your fault when someone puts a bad file on the Internet that the LLM reads and acts on?