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theow7384irion The coffee maker that ate my kitchen

For preparation, travel and so on.

theow7384irion Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

No, sync with Google or Mozilla server as browser would.

theow7384irion Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about

It should auto synchronize with browser as another devixe, not just import export. Sync code in Chromium and Firefox is opensource ...

theow7384irion PayPal Still fining $2500 for Promoting anything “Discriminatory”, “Intolerance”

It is horrible idea, PayPal is payment provider, not some sort of morality police!

theow7384irion LaTeX Makes Me Angry

There is nothing better? Maybe it is just a bias, since you know all the quirks.

20 years ago I did my thesis in Word 2000 with some plugin for equations. It was far better than latex. I had to insert some hard page breaks, instead of learning completely new language!

theow7384irion Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv

Sun and sea :) And also price. Greece, Croatia, Turkey etc were bloody expensive this summer. Odessa is just 3 hours by bus from Chisinau that has regular flights.

theow7384irion Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv

I was in Odessa for holiday in July. Very cheap airbnb, but there was night lockdown and pubs were closing early. Also beaches were closed (mines) but nobody cared.

theow7384irion Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv

Perhaps better source, missile landed 150m from that building.

https://asiatimes.com/2022/10/samsung-building-hit-in-russia...

theow7384irion Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court

Home is not owned by employer. So for this type of surveillance employer should get consent from all inhabitants.

theow7384irion Are hospitals overtreating patients nearing the end?

Hospital has to make money somewhere! Procedures done on corpse are financing ER and other departments!

theow7384irion AMD Ryzen 7000 Series performs better with Spectre V2 Mitigations enabled

I don't think Phoronix has time and budget for that. It is a single man, a few scripts and heavy automation. Sometimes he founds bugs and reports it, but there is no time to follow such rabbit hole!

theow7384irion Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?

Been there, employee #12 in 2016 at startup that created one of top ten cryptocurrencies. Was not crypto nut, I worked in research, friend gave me a gig. Disposed all crypto assets a few months before 2017 peak, bcos wanted simple divorce. Friends were telling me to convert everything to coins and run into Thailand LOL.