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Is it a secret you can't share with us? I see this transition as more like what would happen to livestock if they banned eating meat.

This is a really horrible policy and I personally know a fair few people and families that are going to have their lives upended by this. On the other hand I've always wondered if …

nice! Thanks! I had no idea USB4 and Thunderbolt were equivalent.

I'm struggling to understand if this supports usb-c based thunderbolt

One of the best reasons to use Golang is that it removes a huge amount of software supply chain risk. It's the only big language that has an end-to-end integrity story where you ca…

"You can't be a functional member of society without them." could you elaborate on why this is true? I can't think of any.

Iran and North Korea are evidence that with modern technology, and a ruthless enough autocracy, there is possibly no way out from under it. Technological progress only makes this p…

Another way of looking at it, is that when you put the responsibility of protecting a child from harmful content on the parent, you're deciding to only protect the children with th…

I'm not sure reCAPTCHA is really trying to detect automated vs human interaction with a browser. The primary use-case is to detect abusive use. The distinction here is if I automat…

You could not watch Netflix on Linux until Chrome came along. You also didn't have very good security from browser exploits until Chrome. Chrome also made the web significantly fas…

I don't see how a Google breakup can be operationalized. There's just no way the company's stack can support it without decades of work. It'd be like dismembering a person and expe…

It could be the drink's affect on your stomach. I believe there's lots of evidence that anxiety can be caused by what's going on in the digestive track as much as what's happening …

They placed farms right in front of my house on a pristine part of bantry bay. Nobody wanted them and now the water on the shore is covered in orange scum. I don't dare swim anymor…

Yeah agreed to both of you. I had the same thought.

I recently left a long career in FANG to roll the dice on an early startup. I was pretty surprised by the uneven terms between founders and early employees. From what I could tell …

I really just want a dumb kids watch with very long battery life that is trackable using the Apple and Google find my device network.

Does anybody wonder if these attacks aren't performing a public good in the long run by hardening our tech infrastructure in the West? It seems like hostilities with Russia, China,…

My daughter stopped reading when her school forced an ipad on us with no way for us to administer our own screen time controls. Now I never know if she's doing homework or trapped …

The hardware is so great but mac os is so far from my liking. It's such a shame that the OS options are so limited on these machines. (I'm aware of asahi)

Bingo.

This has been pretty obvious for a while. Whenever I do product searches on Amazon the prime eligible results are more expensive by exactly the shipping costs of the non prime vend…

Sorry I didn't know about /s. I don't judge one way or another. Subject hallucinating the material world, or object hallucinating a subjective experience. I love you all.

Bahaha! I always suspected hackernews was all bots and this comment thread confirms it. Just because you don't have a subjective experience doesn't mean us real humans don't! my ch…

It's possible there was something wrong with my flake config as it was a cargo culted hack job. I tried updating using unstable and it made no difference. I looked at nixpkgs head …

I really like nixos. I didn't get fluent with it, but I was learning and declarative environments is just so incredibly satisfying. I never had to do anything twice. I had to reins…