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When we upgraded our appliances, the "smart" or "wifi-enabled" ones were specifically avoided like the plague. "Dumb" appliances - especially fridges, for some reason - are becomin…

This has nothing to do with the companies you mentioned, and everything to do with the emergence and acceptance of DevOps/SRE best-practices over the last decade or so, which can h…

that's a weird criterion. market cap has little to nothing to do with it. I don't think it's reasonable to be mad at anyone in this particular situation - we all knew that 32-bit w…

the story also goes that, since he was only given milk and bread while in solitary confinement, he would make inkwells out of bread, in order to write with said milk. I can't remem…

this was meant as a reply to yardie's comment, but my HN client won't let me edit or delete it.

I'm not sure it's possible to "give" inaccurate information to Equifax.

I agree. I don't know Kotlin and am reasonably well versed in Python, yet I immediately grasp the Kotlin example as more readable, while having to squint at the Python one for a fe…

yes, i have the yellow one. it looks awesome, but i'm really longing for some post-apocalyptic touches (think Metro rather than Fallout). don't have an airbrush though, nor do I kn…

they also wear all black, and use at least two keyboards simultaneously to hack twice as fast.

that must be why the 'x' key is worn out?

true! I'm very tempted to finish mine with custom airbrushed patina á la "abandoned soviet cold war bunker" :)

you can use any old phone cable by the way!

I have one (sans modules, obviously, for now), and I use it daily with great satisfaction. Not sure yet if it improves my RSI symptoms, but it's not making them worse. It does take…

^ does not contribute

I think such arrogance is uncalled for, but also it would be interesting to hear your experiences that led you to this conclusion.

Training AIs. I strongly believe this will be an occupation class in the future.

Admittedly, my understanding of the problems you describe is superficial at best. But it sounds like you are citing a rather narrow set of requirements (memory safety in network co…

This sounds like someone (your friend?) had a quota to fill by any means necessary, as opposed to actually enforcing consumer standards. Rather shameful, IMO.

> It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. I know the source says that, but wouldn't mind seeing some elaboration on why that is the case. If the `newsguidelines` made a poi…

I don't want to sound like a snob (but will go ahead and do so anyway) - there has been a noticeable Redditification of HN over the past year. More so in comments than the submissi…

except this isn't Reddit.

is there a more appropriate verbiage the author should be using?

I know what you mean. but I'm also not sure what innovation can be expected from something as utilitarian as an OS. Do you have any ideas of what you'd want to see?

a friend and I were recording a song one day. I wondered why he wouldn't build himself a vocal booth. His reply was: "I'd like to record a song. If I were to start building a vocal…

fortunately, some of the folks hanging out on HN are capable of building just the terrifying thing you speak of.