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marto1

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About marto1

Growing software and plants.

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    Comment #44579336

    I can see it's marked "educational", but would it be also suitable for smallish embedded devices ? Assuming the bootloader part is swapped out, etc.

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    Comment #44492341

    > or is it just a neat academic toy The Internet was a neat academic toy at one point for whatever that's worth :-)

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    Ask HN: Small Repairable Phone in 2025?

    Any recommendations for a phone like that? Ideally with less than 6 inch screen, microSD slot. Replaceable battery is a big plus, but not mandatory. I was really hopeful for Fairph…

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    Comment #43364341

    And now all these tesla folks will buy the next cool thing and continue the cycle.. We got them again!

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    Comment #43345729

    Do you have any actual evidence of capital moving out of the United States? Besides opinion pieces, I mean. I'm genuinely curious.

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    Comment #43344931

    Wow, it's never too late to find a HN secret link!

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    Comment #43323238

    Isn't this way more about regulation rather than the tech? Still would be cool to see even if not allowed on the roads :-)

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    Comment #43312735

    It made a lot of really good choices in the late 90s when a lot of dot-com companies started and a lot of people around the world started getting interested in making their own web…

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    Comment #43310310

    ..and loads and loads of politicians that pretend they can solve problems above while shamelessly grifting.

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    Comment #43310279

    > had a great product > We got acquired Can I just ask about the reason for this? Was it owners wanting off the ride?

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    Comment #43308980

    > A lot of people treat economics as though damage didn't happen unless someone acknowledges it. This is what I call the TV effect. People are trained from an early age, by consumi…

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    Comment #43308954

    > But everyone knows that's not what killed them. Another addition I'd like to add here is more often then not wrong people get booted while the "dead weight" tends to stick around…

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    Comment #42066952

    > you think a government can? Browser engines are really hard to build. As opposed to CERN being easy to build!? I'd say is totally doable, but it doesn't promise filling anyone's …

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    Comment #41592837

    So ensuring privacy would mean feeding the infamous privacy predator Google? Seems like a classic case of exchanging short term gains for long term pain.

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    Comment #40581602

    > Tired of seeing 5-6 engineer levels where most people fuck around while 10% of the org carries everyone else. As long as nepotism(both direct and indirect) exists this will alway…

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    Comment #35688424

    I believe proof-by-induction is still a mathematically valid proof. Just one to be suspicious of/can be overridden by more rigid proofs.

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    Comment #35688359

    > Nearly all applications of Generative AI APIs by their very design and value proposition externalize cost to society But they promise to maximize value for the individual. Which …

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    Comment #35653824

    > How this plays out is a good question. Look into what happened to Japanese wood printers around the time of the industrial revolution over there. It was a many layer apprenticesh…

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    Comment #34861183

    > Jobs with Meaning? Really short answer: ones where you get to own the fruits of your labor at the end of the day.

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    Comment #33870481

    > Macbook hardware is great Then install Linux on the Macbook? Two setups ago I was running this config and it was pretty great.

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    Comment #33740503

    I'm glad I learned jQuery some years ago instead of jumping on whatever was on top in the js ecosystem at that time(no one remembers).

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    Comment #33707053

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the blog post is concerning a stability improvement on Windows specifically?

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    Comment #33521410

    Capillary action. Still doesn't make any sense to me.

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    Comment #32575848

    OP's post focuses on understanding, which is informative, but maybe not so helpful. Here's my drill. Small steps. First cut smartphone access. Delete all, but essential apps(e.g. w…