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Gee101··on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
This is a very important point. Staring down on a laptop screen strains neck muscles but it feels like you are getting headaches from your eyes.

Make sure your posture is correct when sitting in front of a screen before attempting anything else.

Gee101··on China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America
They might get a job offer they can't refuse.
Gee101··on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
Where you paying Terraform for anything at the time?

My doubt in the value of the company was that I've been using Terraform for years in Enterprise settings and never needed to pay the company for anything.

Gee101··on Elon Musk's DOGE team may need a crash course in COBOL
Musk runs companies where software mistakes can kill people. I would give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to software.
Gee101··on Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update
My Pixel 4a battery started swelling up recently. I assume it's a Note 7 problem they are trying to avoid. Google did pay me $50 for my phone which is not too bad.
Gee101··on The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job
No point in dying on every hill. Sometimes letting people get their way today (even if you don't agree) could be long term win for you.
Gee101··on No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4
While technically true I think with Nat enabled it disables access from the Internet by default even if a firewall is misconfigured.
Gee101··on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
I'm sure there will be kits to swap the ice engine to eletricfor most popular cars eventually. Then you will have more control about what features is added.
Gee101··on Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
The other bonus is most opensource software support a Kubernetes deployment. This means I can find software and have it deployed pretty quickly.
Gee101··on Huawei launches first phones capable of running HarmonyOS NEXT
It's seems that when you place sanctions on a country they develop those skills in house. Does this produce the outcome the sanctions intended?
Gee101··on Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT)
Does this mean flying over populated land to attempt the catch?
Gee101··on Hackers Steal MLB Star Kris Bryant's $200K Lamborghini by Rerouting Delivery
Well played sir :)
Gee101··on SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing
Rocketlab seems to be able to recover their boosters intact after a sea landing.
Gee101··on Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk
Or it's just interesting information that the person creating the tracking account can make some money off.
Gee101··on Meta's open AI hardware vision
Zuckerberg and Facebook gets a lot of hate but at least they invest a lot into engineering and open source.
Gee101··on The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise
I think historically Telsa stock always falls after their events.
Gee101··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
What is musculation?
Gee101··on You're holding your AI wrong
A very thought provoking statement.
Gee101··on OpenAI Nearly Doubles Valuation to $157B in Funding Round
OpenAI definitely has some value. I work as a DevOps engineer and I use it quite a few times a day.

It's replacing a lot of my Google searches. I also see OpenAI used by people around me in the office.

So they definitely have first mover advantage and if they can keep up with competitors they can take a big chunk of the market.

Gee101··on Quake runs in just 276 kB RAM on the Arduino Nano Matter board
Maybe it's running on an Arduino Nano Matter.
Gee101··on [dead]
Any suggestions for a VPN?
Gee101··on Google Cloud files complaint due to Microsoft's anti-competitive licensing
I think they only started embracing open source when they could directly benefit from it with people running it on Azure.
Gee101··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
I'm wondering if the opposite might happen, that there will be more need for software engineers.

1. AI will suck up a bunch of engineers to run, maintain and build on its own.

2. Ai will open new fields that is not yet dominated by software. Ie. Driving ect.

3. Ai tools will lower the bar for creating software meaning industries that weren't financially viable will now become viable for software automation.

Gee101··on Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, etc.
Could it be that they have the info of the holiday from your colleague. They then track the proximity between the two of you and then display you ads on things he is interested in.

You only notice these ads when it matches what you spoke about.

Gee101··on Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive
A bit of topic but great post title.
Gee101··on Tesla’s new car-building process could be an industrial breakthrough
I think the giant casting could improve repairability, if they can be cheaply manufactured.

You can buy the entire section and it gets welded at the same place as the original. Then just swap the working parts across.

It can dramatically lower the labour costs.

Gee101··on Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
Even thou I watched that movie 20 years ago. I will never forget that scene.
Gee101··on Ask HN: I'd like to learn how to tell stories better to friends
Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks is a great book. He goes into detail about where to get material for a story in your life and then also how to construct a story.

Watching him tell stories is also really inspring.

Gee101··on Windows product stickers as an insight into the past
Must have done like 20 or 30 of these when they came out. Also did a lot of migrations from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 and later to SBS 2011.

It was a nightmare with everything on one Box as its had this automated type migration that migrated from say SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. So you had to migrate Exchange, Domain Controller, Sharepoint etc. all in one go. Then it keeps getting stuck and you had to restart the migration.

The technicians that worked on the SBS servers were always from the lowest cost IT Support companies that these smalls business could afford. So after a few years these server would have so many hacks and miss configuration on them it would take hours (on a Friday evening) to get Exchange and the DC in a state that would allow the migration to go through.

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