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pluc··on Microsoft Teams is a red flag
What I conclude from an organization using Teams is that they're running Microsoft stack, which affects my opinion far more negatively. Microsoft sales are powerful. If you use Teams, there's a chance that:

- You use Windows for OS

- You use Sharepoint for documentation

- You use Outlook for Mail

- You use OneDrive for storage

- You use Azure for hosting

- You use Copilot for LLM

- You use GitHub for scm

- etc

all of those are things I actively want to avoid. they're all sub-par, they're all managed by button-clicking pseudo-sysadmins, they're all red flags.

pluc··on Ask HN: How did you learn a (natural) language?
Translating lyrics from songs I wanted to understand, reading books once in each language, tv shows with subtitles on, student work exchange and extensive stay immersed in given language/culture.
pluc··on New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot
We have mounted police (that's the MP in RCMP) along with their stable (barrack?) that I think they organize group things with (to get the horses in training used to crowds maybe?), for a time the stable where the carriage horses used to stay were turned into a zoo type of thing where you could hang with the horses until they figured out where to go, and then most of them went to refuges outside the city. Admittedly horses are a rarer sight in the city now, but they also don't belong there at all.
pluc··on Musk Considers Creating Amazon Rival After Grok Bot Gets Blocked
call it xmxzxn
pluc··on Ask HN:When we will see Roadster on streets?
As soon as we build an above-the-road driving infrastructure, new air-road laws, equip police cars with thrusters and elaborate new safety rules above, around and below - and made all of the above an international agreement.

So no, we're not going to see this flying marketing stunt anytime soon.

pluc··on New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot
We didn't ban horses, we banned touristic carriage rides specifically because the few companies that operated treated their animals questionably. You can still see horses, just not ones that are getting abused.

And for what it's worth, even if you provided your animals with the greatest care (which they didn't), just putting them to work for 12 hours a day on a hot paved street was largely seen as abusive.

It might not have happened often that a horse fainted or died on the job, but when it did it caused enough of an uproar to pressure the people in charge to do something. As someone who has witnessed it, you really only want to see that once.

pluc··on Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
I too would be confused with blurry genitals
pluc··on New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot
Good. We (Montreal) did that some years ago and nobody misses it - tourists, operator, citizen and very likely the horses too. You think it's a staple until it's gone, then you realize it was just animal abuse for profit.

Also, it is a lot better for tourists than having horses faint or die on the pavement in front of your kids - which is bound to happen more frequently with the weather becoming warmer.

pluc··on Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
So did Canada, and succeeded but were exiled from Facebook.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-news-act-meta-facebo...

pluc··on Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
And Canada since they're still blocking Canadian news content?
pluc··on A.I. Companies Say They Aren't Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products
https://archive.is/L6e8n
pluc··on Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
A smart person makes their own opinion
pluc··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
besides haven't you heard? AI will cure cancer
pluc··on Netflix is laying off roughly 6% of its workforce
https://archive.is/7Nb2z
pluc··on Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrounded_by_Idiots for the case that people generally aren't stupid, they're just different - personality, upbringing, culture, etc. Being smart is knowing how to spot those fundamental differences, interpreting them for what they are and adapting your behaviour.

But there are also proper idiots.

pluc··on Getty Images plans bankruptcy filing, to go private
Bold move to claim ownership of your lunch while it's getting eaten by AI
pluc··on Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
There was no AI to tell us what to expect
pluc··on Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
If only we could have seen it coming
pluc··on Show HN: Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript
Why does it start at Chapter 2? Is it one of those JavaScript integer quirks?
pluc··on Show HN: OraStage – turn two photos into a Hotel Lobby rap video
...there is a monthly plan? What use case would I ever need to buy this for?

Generating it once for novelty - ok.. but who would want to pay $10/mo to generate 10 exactly similar videos?

pluc··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
I have bad news for you
pluc··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
Most US companies. The rest of the world happily doesn't care - and increasingly doesn't do so solely to avoid looking like United Statesmen.
pluc··on Ask HN: Why does Windows Update overrite the Linux boot record?
It doesn't overwrite - it writes. That there's something in it already that you want to keep is entirely your fault. If it was another Windows, you'd want it overwritten so they're actually doing you a favour. It doesn't matter that it isn't.
pluc··on Thunderbird for iOS
So by "anything" then you mean "anything under a domain I have a catch-all configured", which makes sense since you've proven you own that.
pluc··on Thunderbird for iOS
If by "input box" you mean "drop down list" and by "anything" you mean "any of my account's configured email addresses" then yes.. but FastMail doesn't just let you put anything in the From field - on the web or Android as far as what my subscription shows me.
pluc··on Show HN: Reduce sensetive info before a screenshot
Except you can't view the source unless you install it which kind of defeats the purpose
pluc··on Show HN: Reduce sensetive info before a screenshot
Where's the source?
pluc··on Looking for feedback on my tennis app
Try "Show HN" (and a better headline/description) or ProductHunt
pluc··on Is there anyone to promote my extension? It has 17 useful features
Try ProductHunt or "Show HN" on here. With a headline like this one, you're not going to attract any curious users.
pluc··on Cursor: Introducing The X Subscription
What’s included:

    Grok: chat, voice, and image and video generation.
    Grok Bot: AI teammates that get work done.
    Cursor: leading local and cloud coding agents.
    X: a checkmark, creator tools, and fewer ads, with higher tiers removing ads from the timeline entirely.

Where's the free car, space flight and ISP subscription?
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