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echlebek··on Amazon bought iRobot to see inside your home
I have one, it doesn't require internet access... I'm not sure if it even has wifi
echlebek··on Ask HN: How to learn mathematical proofs from scratch?
I found proof by induction useful to learn, because it translates to solving problems recursively theoretically and in programming languages.
echlebek··on Engineers enhance cannabis strain with 20% more THC
The higher the concentration of THC, the less raw plant material you need to smoke for the same effects. It's beneficial to health for it to be as potent as possible, if you must smoke.
echlebek··on It's done in hardware so it's cheap (2012)
The people arguing in the comments that indirection is free, or very cheap, made me chuckle. The thing about indirection is that it tends to compound. You're never just chasing pointers one level deep.
echlebek··on We’re discontinuing the Stablegains service
lol. Even beanie babies were a longer-term investment vehicle than this. I just hope these recent very public and very embarrassing failures are enough to discourage the average person from wasting their money on these scams. I also hope the people behind this get investigated for fraud.
echlebek··on HP Preparing an AMD-Powered Linux Laptop Powered by Pop _OS
If there's one thing that developers love, it's "up to 16 GB of RAM". Can't say I'll be ordering one.
echlebek··on On Aging Alone (2021)
Wise words, Gigachad.
echlebek··on Engineer turns plastic into bricks that are reportedly stronger than concrete
I thought this was pretty cool, but then 50% of the recommended posts are about NFTs, which are a known scam. They are also by the same author as this post. So this tells me the author isn't necessarily looking at things with the most critical eye.
echlebek··on Ask HN: Hiring managers why don't you post salary range in your job postings?
They should. Sometimes people ask me if I know anyone they could hire for a role. I ask them what the salary is. If they don't have a straight answer, I don't help them advertise. Seems fair.
echlebek··on Cartels might shorten LED bulb life, increasing emissions
I just had two LED bulbs fail after a year, around the same time. I absolutely believe this story. There is no reason they should have failed so quickly, even if I was running them 100% of the time, they should have lasted far longer. The only conclusion I could come up with is that they were designed to fail early.
echlebek··on ‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software is watching you
I've been doing it for years and my boss is very happy with my output. I provision my own software and hardware and access company resources through an Okta portal. If my company mandated that I be monitored I would quit.
echlebek··on Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value
That's one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it is that the NFT still fetched $280 more than its real vaue, $0.
echlebek··on Police shut ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’, 3 arrested for copyright infringement
Damn right. This is cowardly bullying. It's morally repugnant. These people should be free to make their online penguin game without fear of police violence at the behest of a mega-conglomerate. That ain't freedom.
echlebek··on AMD’s Ryzen 5800X3D is too flawed for consumer use
This is an awfully flamey article. The reason the chip is locked is because AMD is stupid? OK then.
echlebek··on Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid
Canada isn't immune from this, just look at these moronic displays. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22926134/canada-truc...

This idiocy was all organized on social media. The convoys are overwhelmingly unpopular among larger Canadian society, but social media allowed them to organize in an echo chamber.

No comment on Germany, but I would be betting on things being similar there, not different.

My personal theory is that before social media, a lot of the people involved in this would have been bullied or shamed into not doing this by their peer group. But social media lets you set your peer group without geographical restrictions.

echlebek··on Ask HN: What made the 80s so pleasant?
Stranger Things is not a documentary. Life sucked in the 80s and things are better now.

Source: I was born in the 80s

echlebek··on The hunt for Nigerians who can change into cats
Unless your fan has a gas motor, it's not going to produce any CO2. The tiny Korean room, which I'm betting is not any smaller than your average New York City bedroom, would have to be pretty poorly ventilated indeed for you to not survive the night.
echlebek··on Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)
It's hilarious to get super technical about the way you cut your bagel, and also use a bamboo cutting board, which is sure to dull your knife much faster than other kinds of cutting boards.
echlebek··on Go’s major versioning sucks – From a fanboy
Not when it comes to Go's compiler, which is a binary acceptance function.
echlebek··on You have no freedoms without freedom to transact
So freedom just means power. Got it.
echlebek··on The Banning of “Maus.” It’s Dumber Than You Think
I read the article and it was exactly as dumb as I would have thought. I pity the children growing up there.
echlebek··on Embeddable, replicated and fault tolerant SQL engine based on Sqlite
The docs page nags you to accept cookies. How offensive.
echlebek··on Tell HN: Recovering 2FA accounts is difficult if your phone is stolen
Get a yubikey, and never use SMS for MFA.
echlebek··on ‘Virtual reality is genuine reality’ so embrace it, says US philosopher
This attitude reminds me of the people following Timothy Leary, that Hunter S. Thompson alludes to in his writing. The "grim, meat-hook realities" will always be lying in wait for us, once the acid wears off.
echlebek··on Another FAANG interview request. Thanks, but no thanks
Yeah, they pondered it, decided it wasn't worth it, and went and got a job somewhere else.
echlebek··on The burden of an Open Source maintainer
No there isn't. The software is provided as is, without warranty, express or implied. This is critical to understand.
echlebek··on Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose
Your personal anecdotes, no matter how significant or varied, don't meaningfully contradict this research. This research happened in a controlled environment. Your friends doing mushrooms and likely other drugs in a recreational setting is different. Science can measure the changes you're talking about, but your friends weren't doing science.
echlebek··on Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'
The only difference is that you are expected to tag differently. For instance if you had reporoot/hello/go.mod, you would create tags like hello/v1.2.3
echlebek··on Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule
Maybe it sounds fine to you, but to me, a night owl, it sounds absolutely insane. I would go insane if I had to do this and I don't know if I would ever recover.
echlebek··on You can't download this image
I don't understand what this website is supposed to be demonstrating. Some sort of genius version of disabling right click I suppose. But I did download the image, because its contents were transferred to my computer's memory and displayed on my screen. I can see it clear as day.

If Web 3 is just willfully misunderstanding how computers work, I don't see a very bright future for it.

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