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more_corn··on New report calls for end to child marriage in the US
Wait we haven’t yet ended child marriage in the US? What year is this?
more_corn··on Tell HN: Cursor charged 19 subscriptions, won't refund
I’m curious how this happened.

Are you running cursor on 19 different machines?

Every chargeback costs the merchant significantly. The person you spoke to is poorly trained or not thinking this through.

more_corn··on McMaster Carr – The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard Of (2022)
Stop telling me what I have or haven’t heard. There’s no better way to irritate someone right off the bat.
more_corn··on Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign
No need for a meteorologist, I can tell you $96M bill is sus.
more_corn··on Top MAGA Influencers on X/Twitter Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
Huh, who knew? (Hint, it was everyone but MAGA believers)
more_corn··on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
This opinion is what’s holding Linux back. Having a clean and pleasant user experience on top of a stable Debian based distributed is the goal.
more_corn··on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
Microsoft is forcing win 11 updates with a bunch of AI features nobody asks for or wants.

The new features render millions of windows machines unable to run the new version leaving them ripe for for an upgrade to Linux.

more_corn··on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
I’m used to Linux having a user experience that looks like a wiki or a professor’s website.

At this point Linux is stable and works and is reliable. It just usually looks jankey.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the zorin desktop experience reminded me of a professional OS.

more_corn··on Happiness Is a Skill You Can Build
Happiness is fleeting and empty emotional calories. I recommend abandoning it as a goal entirely.

Satisfaction is the North Star. Difficult things don’t bring happiness but doing them well brings satisfaction. Climbing a mountain, completing a hard bike ride. Finishing a project.

In this way the optimal path through a difficult situation brings satisfaction making the whole experience worthwhile.

Satisfaction is lasting, deep and meaningful. It grants meaning even to suffering and unhappiness.

Being sore doesn’t bring happiness, but it’s a reminder of work done well. Unpleasant circumstances don’t bring happiness, but handling them well creates that other emotion.

Building something is satisfying, loving and being dependable are satisfying, being professional and doing good work… You get the idea.

You can keep your happiness. I’m taking the next level.

more_corn··on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
“Demand” nobody asked for or wants 90% of googles ai features. That stupid clippy crap in Google Docs? Yeah I fucking hate it and I’m not allowed to turn it off.
more_corn··on A Non-Obvious Answer to Why the AI Bubble Will Burst
Reading that article was a waste of precious minutes of my life.

Let me save you a click “the AI business model relies on reducing social connections between human beings, it is not sustainable”

Two statements, both untrue.

more_corn··on The Algorithm That Detected a $610B Fraud
This is a clickbait headline and it doesn’t really resemble the facts (the article isn’t really about the algorithm it’s about the analysis of irregularities and the author’s conclusion.

I’m not sure there’s enough in this nothing burger to scream fraud. There are some irregularities with accounts due and inventory.

Are there reasonable explanations such as “big client requested 45d instead of the regular 30? Big customer requested 20M units and we have them on hand while we fulfill the orders in tranches.”

A declaration of fraud is going to need a lot more evidence.

I’d rewrite this headline along the lines of “irregularities in nvidia earnings report cause a big sell-of in some circles”

more_corn··on Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Everyone here can actually fix that by never buying Samsung anything for your data centers.

They put ads in the refrigerators. Never buy Samsung anything ever again.

That includes everyone who works in supply chain at big tech. Permanent total boycott.

more_corn··on Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different?
Ok, so if that prediction is true what actions did you take?

Identify the therefore part of the prediction and enumerate the three highest priority steps.

Have you determined that the stock market will crash and bought positions accordingly? Have you sold all your nvidia stock? What are the implications in the broader economy and what steps have you taken?

more_corn··on [dead]
When challenged grok should say “if it’s not true sue me for defamation and prove it in court”

(Which Elon famously said to a hero rescue worker who he defamed, and then proceeded to hide behind his lawyers and claim he wasn’t liable because he didn’t use the guys name)

more_corn··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
Or one of the 200M people in the blast radius.
more_corn··on The Most Joyless Tech Revolution Ever: AI Is Making Us Rich and Unhappy
It’s not making us rich. It’s making us unemployed while the stock market races to unreasonable heights.

Somewhat unrelated question. Do y’all actually subscribe to wsj, do you comment without reading the article, or are people so trained in using archive that it just passes without comment?

https://archive.ph/iJTkr

more_corn··on Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
Someone should make a bounty market for hunting and destroying ransomware organizations.
more_corn··on Why Samsung Phones Are Failing Emergency Calls in Australia
Nobody should have a Samsung phone now or in the future due to the mandatory, total, and permanent Samsung boycott over putting ads on their damned refrigerators.
more_corn··on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
My buddy gave me a computer because it wouldn’t run 11. I put Zorin Linux on it. I’m quite pleased.

Not once in initial setup or first week of use did it use dark patterns to try to trick or force me into something I don’t want to do.

more_corn··on He built underground maze of light-filled earth homes in CA Sierras [video]
Neat!
more_corn··on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike
Mysterious. DDOS attack on a DDOS protection service. Traffic is “mysterious”
more_corn··on Why one of the nation's most prosperous industries is shedding jobs
Does the article really say why?
more_corn··on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
Clearly there is plenty of DDOS capacity out there so your argument is invalid. One ten millionth of the current traffic would be enough to bring a small blog or service down.

Also if you aren’t practiced at diagnosing a DDOS or if your monitoring is not tuned for it, diagnosing it can be supremely difficult. Answering as someone who has successfully diagnosed ddos at 11pm on a Sunday night without access to the logs or monitors (mostly because the necessary monitoring did not exist)

And I could only do that because I had a decade of experience and I had the clarity of emotional distance (not my site, not my server, not my fault).

more_corn··on Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha”
This happens to people when they’re stoned or delusional. They have a false aha moment and false, but deep certainty of their own brilliance.

It is quite literally the source of one of our most dangerous failure modes.

more_corn··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
God no
more_corn··on Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears
Pretty sure he said exactly that. If you think the quote is taken out of context feel free to add that here.
more_corn··on AWS deprecates two dozen services (most of which you've never heard of)
Elastic beanstalk or GTFO
more_corn··on I Work for an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I'm a Good Person
I think the point of it also represents you.
more_corn··on Guests ejected mid-stay from bankrupt hotel chain Sonder
I’ve received a dozen offers to buy my way into a feature in Forbes. Seems like a good way to ensure that every single person on there is unethical and committing fraud.
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