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robbintt··on Linux devs discover that Intel Arc GPU firmware updates need an Intel CPU
Companies do actually measure return metrics
robbintt··on Ask HN: Are there recorded instances of people being framed through hacking?
Check out "We Own This City" on HBO now, a more modern view of "The Wire". Unfortunately the story is still wrapped in people getting caught and justice being served, but it's a start.
robbintt··on Ask HN: When did you stop using a printer and why?
I also have a brother laser printer. I bought it used in 2011. Brother laser printers from that era are alright. It got used this morning.
robbintt··on Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere?
I'm just sitting here learning c++.
robbintt··on 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting
What is meant by intense exercise? For example, vigorous cardio (age dependent but about hr 150 bpm) is one familiar benchmark, but is this considered intense exercise?
robbintt··on 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting
Is there a place I can read about exercise metabolism like this?
robbintt··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
This isn't actually true, even for tiny customers. In a personal project, I used a single host of a single instance type several times per day and had to code up a fallback.
robbintt··on When to use Bazel?
Do you have anything OSS that I could try to graft?
robbintt··on AirPods Pro Service Program for Sound Issues
I had the same blips -- not sure if it is why, but Apple just replaced them under this program. I bought them in 2020.
robbintt··on Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
Where is that dev kit $5? I think I paid $50?
robbintt··on Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us?
It is faster to use the bookmarklet
robbintt··on Show HN: Match(it): A C++17 pattern-matching library with lots of good stuffs
The Define problem seems like low hanging fruit for a linter/formatter.
robbintt··on 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
Can you expand on the flywheel analogy?
robbintt··on What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
He may not have been lazy; he may not believe in the system.
robbintt··on Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
They are still ICs, not people managers.
robbintt··on Ask HN: Have You Left Kubernetes?
Do you know of some writeups for this? I am like halfway there but just mess with podman+systemd on the weekend.
robbintt··on Google Timer is gone
I agree that it hurts them tremendously.

One one hand, sucking the life out of the web ecosystem and then killing their vampire implementation is really bad.

On the other hand, the alternative to shipping a DOOMED implementation is Google not shipping these in the first place, which people also don't want.

The least the company could do to not destroy the ecosystem would be to open source or at least write up these implementations for someone to rebuild black-box.

Realistically, any developer could write a blog with black-box reimplementations.

An alternative is to keep a team explicitly for life support of these projects.

robbintt··on AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
Additionally, folding doesn't focus on what matters. Generally you want to understand the active site, you already know the context (globular, membrane, embedded, conjugated) of the protein. It is interesting whether the folding could help identify active sites for further analysis. But -- I don't think alphago is identifying new active sites or improving our understanding of their nuances.
robbintt··on Unboxing a $100 Chromebook
No, do you have a link to that? I can track back to my other sources and maybe do a better job.
robbintt··on Unboxing a $100 Chromebook
I used mrchromebox with a 2018 pixelbook and compiling a kernel has been a serious pain, and I'm just copying others' hard work.
robbintt··on Love the smell of old books? This bookseller would like you to leave
On the surface, I agree. Books have taken us far, so lets not assume we've totally cracked why they work, though.
robbintt··on Love the smell of old books? This bookseller would like you to leave
There was something like this in Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio, in the aughts.
robbintt··on Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous
If it makes you feel better (or worse), signal "fingerprinting" is used in laboratory science to verify things like purity and identity. Detecting a lack of divergence from a known chess bot seems like a good fingerprint to me.
robbintt··on New MacBook Air with M2
I use these with few or no problems. The heat dissipation is pretty much solved by charging on the right side. My life is full of usability hacks, I don't mind one more.

The biggest frustration for me with a mac now is that it's becoming a toy OS like windows. It becomes more and more cumbersome to run programs that aren't in the app store. As a result I've been cultivating an ubuntu/plasma(kde) practice on a gaming desktop outside of working hours.

robbintt··on Watching an acquirer ruin your company
Do you know where I can read more about the structure of "earn outs"? They seem like just another trap, to be clear.
robbintt··on Goodbye Zachtronics
Getting within 6 months seems good to me.
robbintt··on Small actions make great leaders
I agree with this, especially the part about working to build inner authenticity first. An abrupt remark isn't relevant to the success you may need help to produce. Being a jerk also isn't acceptable, though. There may have been a better followup story where the guy recognized he was being unconstructively critical. Maybe it got cut.

If your mind understood this story, the same narrative style is used in the classic book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.

robbintt··on Small actions make great leaders
I'll subscribe to HBR with that endorsement.
robbintt··on Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon
I am not sure where the boundary is, but it should be required to not encryption lock your devices from custom firmware/data.
robbintt··on Datasette Lite: a server-side Python web application running in a browser
It seems like either sqlite file format is already optimized for read or write at the cost of size, or there is an opportunity there.
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