Spoom · HackerLangs

FWIW HDR works fine in Linux. Steam Deck (which runs it) has HDR support, both for its interface and for games. Bit confused by your comment, honestly.

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24일 전discuss

Your bank sucks. The few times I've done a chargeback, it's been totally pain free. I do advise trying to get a refund informally first as that is expected by the CC networks.

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Usually it's the Phillipines or an African country or something, but so very many times.

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> Nope. Look at the flight track. They went all the way back.

Good point, I was thinking they were over the ocean and that was naturally the closest airport, but it looks like they could have landed in e.g. Nova Scotia in a shorter time period.

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Isn't that what they did?

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2개월 전discuss

I thought the same thing but it's still not a good look. The big tech companies offering this sort of thing should probably find ways to give better guarantees about data isolation, even if that requires e.g. clients paying additional fees.

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Heya Tom, it's Bob, from the office down the hall

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As of right now, it says Pro includes Code and Cowork. (At least, for me. There could always be A/B testing going on.)

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While this is true, very often that is the impact of a third party vote in a federal election. See the election of one George W. Bush and the impact of Mr. Nader.

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The product isn't Facebook, Quest, or Instagram. The product isn't advertising. The product isn't even people.

The product is the stock price.

Viewed through that lens, keeping the hype going at all costs makes sense.

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Realistically, if it in fact did take 5 minutes to do the cleanroom reimplementation, you could just process updates from the OSS source in realtime.

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I love that this was ostensibly written by Vint Cerf.

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Good lord, I can only imagine the wasted electricity.

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  Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Not likely, but would consider remote positions in Canada (I am a dual citizen) and USA and hybrid positions in Pittsburgh
  Technologies: Java, Typescript, Angular, SQL, NoSQL, PHP, Python, CSS, HTML
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19-JBiTUOvajWGmigGGf3BKkf_I4x5SnWS6JWEqRkLxg/edit?usp=sharing
  Email: my first name at my first name my last name dot com

Evaluating options after a reorg at Google, where I have been an Engineering Manager for about five years, and a full stack web app developer before that. Prior to Google, I worked at various sizes of startups from 4 to 200 employees, and have freelanced as well. Would consider Engineering Manager, TL, and Senior / Staff+ Eng positions.

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> Everybody will slowly move to "web only" as 30% would kill their ability to compete with anybody else.

Frankly, yes, please. I mean, I'm biased as my whole career is in web app development, but there are so many things these days that do not need a whole native app. They're just communicating with a server backend somewhere, using none of the unique native functionality of the phone (much of which is available in browser APIs these days anyway). I can block ads in a web app much more easily. It's much harder to do customer-hostile things like block screenshots in a web app.

Native apps definitely have a place, but I think they're very overused, mostly for reasons that benefit the business at the expense of the customer.

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> AI doesn't need to drive a tractor. It needs to orchestrate the systems and people who do.

I've been rather expecting AI to start acting as a manager with people as its arms in the real world. It reminds me of the Manna short story[1], where it acts as a people manager with perfect intelligence at all times, interconnected not only with every system but also with other instances in other companies (e.g. for competitive wage data to minimize opex / pay).

1. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

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Big companies would outsource this position within a year, I guarantee it. It's highly measurable which means it can be "optimized".

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It's not that simple. I'll point you at this Harvard Law Review article[1] to start but shareholder value is not the only consideration for executives and doesn't even need to override.

1. https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-137/will-the-real-sha...

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I dread the day that Logitech kills the servers for Harmony. If they don't release the IR code database, they're going to have a lot of people (myself included) pretty annoyed.

(To be clear, they still work today if you can get a second hand remote / hub.)

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8개월 전discuss

> Heck, we could just snatch people off the street and declare they cannot prove they are a citizen therefore they have no Constitutional protections.

I'm not sure if you intended this as a joke, but this is happening now, even if you do have proof of citizenship on you[1]:

> Congressman Bennie Thompson, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, reported that “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a “definitive” determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate” when the app says a person is undocumented.

1. https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-face-recogn...

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