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hossbeast··on Ask HN: What does your mother tell people about your work or employment?
"He works in the Amazon internet department"
hossbeast··on Amazon Amp Live Radio App
True story, I am currently working on a music server project which I have tentatively been calling amps. Now I'll need to rename it.
hossbeast··on Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone
Surely consumers also care about not being stalked / their real-time location given to third parties?
hossbeast··on IP Addressing in 2021
As an ISP customer, you're the last one I would choose. I highly value ipv6 connectivity in my choice of ISP. I think I'm not alone.
hossbeast··on RFC8890 – The Internet Is for End Users
One principle elucidated here is that in such cases, the public at large can be considered the end user.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/we-fight-users

hossbeast··on Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network
Normal mainstream people don't understand TCP either. They don't need to know about ygdrassil for it to succeed.
hossbeast··on Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’
Because she, in particular, is in a position to do something about it.
hossbeast··on Djinn Split Keyboard
I don't have a problem with it. The muscle memory takes wrist orientation into account possibly?
hossbeast··on Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare
I made the same kind of countdown app when my wife was pregnant in 2006.
hossbeast··on Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
Very interesting read, and it's refreshing to read some contrary opinions on the topic.
hossbeast··on Show HN: LunarVim – An opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim
It's like asking a carpenter why he bothers to sharpen his tools.

You can't code effectively if you don't spend time optimizing your workflow, and there's no single thing as important for that as the environment you're actually typing the code into.

hossbeast··on Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)
I recently dug out my CDs and ripped them to my PC. Even bought some new ones, of music I can listen to anytime online with my subscription service.

Aside from the nostalgia, I have appreciated the ability to listen with any program I wish, and listening while offline has happened a few times. I don't know how long I'll continue buying physical media but I'm liking it for now

hossbeast··on Show HN: LunarVim – An opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim
As a 20 year VIM guy, my configs are not perfectly honed, I still regularly learn new tricks, and I still feel like there's a ton I don't know.
hossbeast··on Understanding ZFS Channel Programs
Or, why isn't it leveraging ebpf? Seems like that would be a better fit here than lua.
hossbeast··on Who should your computer take its orders from? (2002)
Why do we have to make those concessions?

There are zero apps I can't uninstall or processes I can't see on my arch Linux desktop.

hossbeast··on Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
Sounds like the slowest, most bloated way possible to design a calculator that runs on a phone.
hossbeast··on Inkscape 1.1
Are you a contributor to the project?
hossbeast··on 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
Or, 1. Tesla.com, 2. Configure, 3. Pay.
hossbeast··on Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study
Sure, but the gp said galaxy.
hossbeast··on Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study
Check out von neumann automatons. The idea is that once you started colonizing, you'd cover the entire galaxy in ~a million years, aka very quickly on a galactic timescale.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

hossbeast··on Mall department stores were struggling; the pandemic has pushed them to the edge
And before that, the arcades.
hossbeast··on Our plans for PeerTube v4
Handshake, for example.
hossbeast··on Towards the Science of Essential Decentralised Infrastructures (2020)
Each miner that leaves means more rewards for those that stay. It's a self sustaining equilibrium.
hossbeast··on On the Decline of Perl – external factors
Php is banned within many companies as too insecure of a platform to build anything on.
hossbeast··on Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency
Interesting, why is this app under /apps/testing/com.breez.client ? I also note that, searching for "breez" on the google play store yields no results. Is the app not really launched yet?
hossbeast··on In January, there were more real-estate agents than homes for sale in the U.S.
Why would it be illegal?
hossbeast··on Bitcoin Is Time
The real problem you're going to run into with this argument is that people like cars, like to drive them, and want to own them.
hossbeast··on Square buys $170M worth of bitcoins
Liquidity to facilitate taking customer payments in bitcoin?
hossbeast··on Helping to secure internet routing
Fully trustless is where we started.
hossbeast··on More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
That last sentence doesn't seem to follow. Why do you place the blame on "the society"?
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