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fooqux··on Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see much wrong with any of the options above. Most of my assets aren't liquid either, yet I'm still taxed at a much much higher rate (when compared to total assets) than the top. I have to make decisions like "how much will I need good health care coverage next year?", which I shouldn't have to say isn't "ideal" either.
fooqux··on Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers
All one can do is try and stack the odds. I prefer to say that rather than "making your own luck".

You can equip rings of +1 to dice rolls but most of us don't get weighted dice.

Playing the odds is fine in poker if your pile of chips is big enough to ride out the bad dice rolls, but this doesn't always work in life. There are too many decisions where you're forced to go all in.

I do still largely agree with you, that our decisions influence our future options. But I feel many people who just say "we make our own luck" fail to realize just how much luck played a role in their lives. Survivorship bias and all that.

fooqux··on Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
Given what just happened with PHP a few days so, it's not surprising to me that they're holding their cards close to their chest. People will already be doing their damnedest to reverse engineer the exploit with this meager info.
fooqux··on Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
From the sounds of what info they felt was safe to provide, this wouldn't have impacted you anyway.
fooqux··on In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real
Introspection isn't a requirement to write an autobiography, and certainly not a biography. Just because someone can't stop talking about themselves and their accomplishments doesn't necessarily mean they analyze their inner thoughts and feelings for deeper meaning.
fooqux··on In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real
> How do they think we know the thoughts of these so called great men?

Many have biographies and autobiographies. Is not hard to spot.

fooqux··on The EPA Is Quietly Killing Its Web Archive
You've obviously never worked in government before. The technology is likely not the issue; the bureaucracy is.
fooqux··on Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera
Hell it doesn't even have IBIS. I suppose they have to cut corners somewhere for the size constraint.
fooqux··on US designates helium as a critical material
It's only funny when clowns do it, obviously.
fooqux··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
This shouldn't surprise anyone as soon as they remember the purpose of the parent site.
fooqux··on Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI
Aw, they took the video down. I was curious to see how egregious the AI usage was.
fooqux··on Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended
> I can develop security exploits myself just fine without the use of AI.

Are you seriously claiming that the untrained masses can start developing exploits on their devices?

fooqux··on Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
> but major retailers stopped providing that in email to limit how much info google could observe.

What makes you believe that was their motivation?

fooqux··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
That's like recommending amputation to fix a bad knee. IOS is categorically worse in this department.
fooqux··on Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry
I don't understand your point. A published CVE is already public and thus there's nothing really to disclose?
fooqux··on Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened
Well, now that this story is coming to light, I'm guessing getting a decent lawyer will be pretty easy.
fooqux··on Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test
Did they though? Syndrome had a volcano base for sure, but I don't remember them ever showing a powerplant. The guy was harnessing zero point energy somehow; doesn't seem like mere lava would interest him as a power source.
fooqux··on It's still ok to enjoy programming
Yup, that's what I've been moving towards. But that also means I'm doing less programming. Maybe it's for the best.

But something still doesn't feel quite right.

fooqux··on Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects
I haven't seen the book yet, but judging by the promotional pics in the article it's neat how many of the objects they chose to be photographed with are things they do rather than just things are currently infatuated with. I like this a lot.
fooqux··on It's still ok to enjoy programming
> It doesn't bother me that Claude could one-shot it, because that's not the point.

What do you say to someone that is bothered though? I don't know why it effects my enjoyment so, but it does.

fooqux··on AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
Normal? Sadly yes.

Correct? I suppose that depends on your definition. From a corporate perspective, perhaps. But from a consumer's perspective it's most certainly not the desired outcome.

fooqux··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
The market for home inference is still tiny compared to the burgeoning datacenter market. Of course it's not for individuals.
fooqux··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
I can't even imagine what George would say today. I know things weren't great in the 80s, but this seems to be a whole new level of stupid.
fooqux··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
It's all unchecked, aside from capitalism itself. Obviously a Target isn't going to open in a bad location. But that wasn't the point I was trying to make.

I suppose I should have said "a desire for unchecked growth." Listening to the politicians, every single one would happily invite every fortune 500 company, every datacenter, every mall, every everything to set up shop in their town/state and are happy to entice with tax breaks to get them there.

I'm fine with what we already have. I disagree with the premise that if you're not growing, you're dying.

fooqux··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
Personally I feel we need more of this. Turns out that unchecked growth isn't all its cracked up to be.
fooqux··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
There are great clients for both phones and windows machines.
fooqux··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
I use tags. For example, anything with a server tag can accept ingress ssh connections but not egress.
fooqux··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
What do you use for you self-hosted calendar and contracts? I'm mostly de-googled but contacts especially have been problematic.

Also, what inference hardware are you using that's so efficient you can do it solar powered?

fooqux··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
I hate blueray. At least for having physical copies. Too many times I've tried watching something I own only to have it fail due to my player not having current decryption keys. Perhaps it's more of a player issue and less of a disc issue, but it's still a problem with the overall format.
fooqux··on Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs
Why limit yourself to just words? I'm hoping to get one of the single-letter domains on the new abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz TLD if I can afford it.
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