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Well, inflation can always solve affordability if prices stagnate. This is what made the 90s a great time to buy, right? We're pretty far behind the ball though, I think it'd be li…

This niche is pretty well served by some of the portable gaming PC companies that have added business netbooks to their lines. GDP has the mini 8" transformer which isn't bad. The …

I've just started running windows 11 on a transformer tablet I couldn't get Linux to fully support. I was dreading it and expected to find it so annoying that I would sell the devi…

Interesting study! Far too early in the adoption lifecycle for any conclusions I think, especially given that the data is from Denmark which tends to be have a far less hype-driven…

> I don't think those who are helping OP feel imposed upon, but that doesn't mean that they aren't imposed upon. So I think what you're saying here that even if the request is not …

Oh yeah that's a sweeping generalization of course. My point was that the heavy reliance on paid services that usually comes with a white-collar lifestyle reduces participation in …

I agree that availing yourself of other people's charity for the sake of gaining a novel experience is gross if they have no way to decline or you're misrepresenting your circumsta…

One theme that pops out to me here is the reliance on other people being a positive experience for the author. In the software field, we tend to live pretty high up the economic va…

I've been doing something similar for the past couple years for several different modes of working: 1) In my campervan with Starlink internet so I don't need to set up additional s…

I think this idea applies beyond VIM and to text-based highly configurable tooling in general. I'm a vim/tmux guy, and have been enamored with the new workflows possible with LLMs.…

I'm confused, are you saying the TikTok ban is detrimental to US-based big tech? Seems like a forced sale is beneficial to them. I was also under the impression we're also entering…

I've spent 400+ hours working with a Nreal glasses, Android running Termux in Samsung Dex, and a Twiddler single handed chorded keyboard which is similar to the bubby. The future i…

We ban e-bikes on many trails in Colorado, and I'm really glad we do: 1) MTB trails are high-maintenance. People riding more miles on heavier bikes means more wear and tear. 2) The…

The features here seem to be fairly standard with most the WireGuard based VPNs these days. For example, I use Nord for my use-case which is very similar to the author's. This allo…

I'm really fortunate to be in a very outdoors and offline community that values our personal ties above most things. We spend a lot time playing music around campfires, backpacking…

I can't find a less snarky way to say this, but why are you here then? I figure there's enough signal in the noise to make it worth it.

Anyone here seen an LLM actually produce a really novel thought that hasn't already been written about ad nauseam? The well of new ideas, or re-formulation of existing ideas with p…

I'm on both sides of this right now, hiring senior engineers for companies I consult for, while considering getting back to full time technical focus in a staff/principal role. Whe…

I don't think one needs to go so far as Leibniz's definition of optimism to maintain a happy and healthy mindset through today's media maelstrom. The state of the world is rapidly …

Those are actually difficult hires to make. Huge number of low-quality applicants, but the standards for park employees are actually quite high, and admin tries to hire for passion…

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I built this thing to scratch my itch for a simpler alternative to Ansible and similar for basic jobs like setting up a dev env, building containers, and provisioning small fleets …

Yeah the tmux / vim combo is so hard for me to beat with other editors still. I used Zed exclusively last month thinking the LLM integrations would be a compelling enough reason to…

> did these same scientists bring up similar concerns in any previous elections? The stated cause of their warning is that the obscurity of the source code has been recently compro…