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nealstephenson.substack.com
63 points·by roomey·6 maanden geleden·8 comments

Proton Mail Outage

status.proton.me
3 points·by roomey·8 maanden geleden·4 comments

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roomey
·vorige maand·discuss
Hi Simon, nice article. The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price.

Also, to just color in the picture here, as I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere, there is a very large Saas company at the moment who has given everyone unlimited tokens on Claude. And they have a dashboard showing who spends the most. So the "budget" went from about USD500 per per person (split between Claude and cursor) in Jan to... Well a soft limit of USD100k... Per month... Per person.

People can still see the top line sticker price on their spend, but honestly I can't believe that the Saas is paying that full price when the invoice comes in.

That said, there are some finance reports which are probably dropping soon where we will find out!
roomey
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Your gonna get flagged and all for this comment..... But I agree.

Is there a HN frontend that filters out mentions of AI, it would make a nice change... Maybe I should AI code it /just joking
roomey
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Check your mouse focus settings in your desktop environment (gnome/KDE/whatever).

There may be an option called mouse stealing prevention or something, but if you have a look you should hopefully see it. On xfce it's in its own tab in the mouse menu
roomey
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
What do you mean by copied? Ireland was colonised by the English for many years, and was part of their common law system during that period.

When it became independent, all laws weren't suddenly repealed, some were just ammended over time (as any common law system does). It's my understanding that Irish Courts can still refer to court cases from other common law countries in terms of precidence, even now
roomey
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Ah sure, lookit
roomey
·5 maanden geleden·discuss
Genuine question, when people talk about apple silicon being fast, is the comparison to windows intel laptops, or Mac intel architecture?

Because, when running a Linux intel laptop, even with crowd strike and a LOT of corporate ware, there is no slowness.

When blogs talk about "fast" like this I always assumed it was for heavy lifting, such as video editing or AI stuff, not just day to day regular stuff.

I'm confused, is there a speed difference in day to day corporate work between new Macs and new Linux laptops?

Thank you
roomey
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
A feed of the posts from the global feed
roomey
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Is there a feed of your global feed? A meta feed? If I download an opml it will just go out of date right?
roomey
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Is there an RSS version of the weekly newsletter about Wikipedia articles?
roomey
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I have to agree. In fairness I am biased in that I have used xubuntu (xfce Ubuntu distro) for many years, but the one "feature" is that now I find it hard to use any other OS because of "perceived latency".

I see a top comment here speaking about an inefficient architecture.. that may be the case under the hood, but if you use it for a while, the "click lag" is very noticeable when you move off it.

Maybe it's not a good thing! /s. When I started a new role, I had to use a mac for a week until IT did a Linux swap out, and I found it so frustrating. Mostly the inability to set shortcuts that were muscle memory, but also the lag.

I have noticed lag more on a brand new iPhone (the pro one) then on my face... Which is something
roomey
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I assumed it was because windows 10 went out of support a few months ago
roomey
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
You forgot the "and off by one errors"
roomey
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Seems to be recovering now
roomey
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
Bridge doesn't seem to be working either, webapp will not load
roomey
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm not sure if this takes into account para-virtualized networks on VMs, ie. VMware vm's with "virtual" hardware access

It's been a few years for me tho, so perhaps it's covered with the VM section.

Lovely diagram, thanks for sharing it!
roomey
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
You can also buy a cheap cd player and some CDs from a second hand store
roomey
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
You have hit the nail on the head there! The point in the book was that depending on your editor, you were essentially living in different realities.

There was the east and west coasts, and then there was Ameristan (or something I can't remember exactly) in between, which was fundamentalist
roomey
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
Fall, or Dodge in hell, by Neil Stephenson has a take on this.

The internet is flooded with slop and rage-bait on purpose. So filled as to be unusable, like a firehose of shit. So in there comes a role if "editor" whose job it is (you pay them) to only give you, well not even what's "true", rather what reflects your world view. So which editor you have becomes a factor in how you live, where your educated, your status.

It will be interesting to see if something as explicit as editors arise.

I will say this, if you stay off Facebook and some of the other big social sites for a while, it is like a madhouse when you glance back
roomey
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Absolutely, after using xfce for years I find windows very frustrating to use, to the point I can see my colleagues using it and I can see the lag they just think is normal.

Imagine if you work on computers for hours everyday what the cumulative impact is
roomey
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
This is hard to understand, windows is slow, and you are complaining that windows is what, slower than it used to be?

Why not use something faster? I get no lag with xfce