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valianteffort··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
That wouldn't be very comfortable at all
valianteffort··on Unemployed Americans Are Being Forgotten in a Strong Job Market
Totally agree on all your points and have witnessed the same. The market is fucked, I know a couple new CS grads who have been looking for over a year for anything even remotely tech related and unable to even secure a rejection email let alone OA. These are smart guys too, near 4.0GPA, strong math and CS skills, plus went to a top university with pedigree.
valianteffort··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
I think the camera bumps kind of prevent this without turning the phone into a literal brick. Would have to be more like a clamshell/folio type case like with the iPads.

That said the keyboard in OP looks so unbelievably fucking stupid and impractical I can't understand how it made it to production.

valianteffort··on Woman pregnant in each of her two uteruses gives birth to twins
Wow, what a beast of a woman. This is not technically a twin birth then is it? The kids would be as related as sibilings.
valianteffort··on Probe says Hans Niemann didn't cheat against Magnus Carlsen
>probe

Heh, wonder if the author realized this.

valianteffort··on Stop the same song from autoplaying every time you plug your phone into a car
Then this would be an easy fix for Apple. If no music is playing and it gets a "play" signal over the cable, ignore it. For the record it happens to me and it is annoying
valianteffort··on US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
It's clear the government has been actively attacking Musk and his companies for any and all reasons it can find. During the past couple years of this administration the following has happened and it's just what I can recall:

1. Tesla gets no invite to whitehouse EV summit despite being the sole reason for the current EV movement

2. Tesla model 3/Y initially barred from new EV subsidies

3. SpaceX being investigated by justice department for not hiring foreigners (literally illegal due to ITAR)

4. NASA awards blue origin more than it awarded SpaceX for lunar lander despite them having zero orbital rocket experience or even a proper roadmap to orbit

5. FAA drags heels on approving starlink tests preventing progress on the requirements they say were failed to have been met today

6. Today's news about FCC revoking subsidy for the only company that actually cares to provide highspeed internet to rural Americans, which congress has appropriated funding for several times in the past two decades, and rewarded companies have failed to deliver on

It's safe to say any kind of bullshit can be justified (with even more bullshit reasons), so it's hard to believe actions like this are made good faith. I'm not just going to trust criminals because they're robbing someone I don't like.

valianteffort··on TSMC demos its first 2nm chips to Apple, mass production slated for 2025
How much of moore's law has simply been foundries just choosing to make smaller steps to secure a nice roadmap of product offerings? Have any significant changes been made to EUVL that prevented them from making 2nm chips a decade ago? Or were the learnings along the way what got them here.
valianteffort··on Is Austin losing its luster?
Lots of jaded, unemployed SWE with free time here now
valianteffort··on Neonatal circumcision associated with altered adult socio-affective processing
Religion aside I think a majority of American men and a significant portion of South Korean men are circumcised. These are the two largest populations last I checked. Neither do so for religious reasons but more likely by doctors pushing junk science and peer pressure. The foreskin I believe are sold in many hospitals to pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies, so there is perverse incentive.
valianteffort··on The pro-Israel information war
The term "anti-semetic" is in and of itself "anti-semetic". It obfuscates the fact that palestinians are true semites by conflating itself with any anti-jewish sentiment or criticism.

The modern israeli's are not semites. Those that settled after WW2 were eastern european converts, khazars, with no genetic ties to the middle east. Those that are not ashkenazi are migrants from the surrounding countries, who largely did not move to the area until after the occupation of palestine.

The term "anti-semite" was invented to reinforce the lie that the ruling class of israel have some ancestral claim to the land. Using it is playing into that propaganda.

valianteffort··on Hanukkah of Data: Practice your data skills with 8 free data puzzles
>The Hebrew calendar is a marvel of historical engineering and complexity

I haven't seen glazing this hard at a cinnabun.

valianteffort··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
Would like to try it out but the developer decided to force sign-in with google and I have removed that from my AOSP build.
valianteffort··on Why would Elon Musk want to deliberately destroy X?
Gotta love when people who don't know a thing about Musk beyond his eccentric public persona call him dumb.

Where is your rocket startup btw? Have you built anything of value? Employed cities worth of people?

Or were you an emerald mine and few government handouts short of wild success? Give me a break.

valianteffort··on Why would Elon Musk want to deliberately destroy X?
The Musk hit pieces are as lowbrow and low-effort as the Trump ones.

Just because you have a hardon for Musk doesn't mean every midwit that writes an article about why they're so much smarter than him is saying something profound.

valianteffort··on Why would Elon Musk want to deliberately destroy X?
Can we avoid sharing sophomoric pieces from dilettante writers. It's uninsightful, unoriginal, and more tuned for the reddit audience.
valianteffort··on Nvidia H100 GPU Shipments by Customer
Likewise Tesla are at the bottom of the list but already have a significant investment towards their in-house silicon.

Buying H100's is almost necessary if only to assure you're not compute starved.

valianteffort··on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep
I'd love to problem solve while I'm asleep, or do anything really. Don't see how I could write useful code though since I have no way of compiling it or transmitting it outside of the dream.
valianteffort··on Elon Musk to advertisers who are trying to 'blackmail' him: 'Go f–- yourself'
Mean to say "the second time" so your pedantic post is not worth more than skimming.
valianteffort··on Senator calls for the public release of AT&T 'Hemisphere' surveillance records
Senator Paul, God bless him, is seemingly the only patriot in Washington. I always know the exact position he will take on any issue, and it's identical to me. A true, small government conservative, no lobbyist bullshit.
valianteffort··on Elon Musk to advertisers who are trying to 'blackmail' him: 'Go f–- yourself'
He could just buy the company at an even greater discount a second time, with no partners even.
valianteffort··on Elon Musk to advertisers who are trying to 'blackmail' him: 'Go f–- yourself'
Building a business around online ads is a race to the bottom as the younger generation does not buy what they're advertised but instead what's advertised by people they follow. Ad revenue was never enough for twitter, and people acting like they were doing any better under previous management are uninformed at best.

The userbase will exist (growing or otherwise) so long as the platform does. They don't care whether its profitable or not. If he wants to turn X into another wechat/wepay for US or a Line competitor for Japan, then ad revenue is a low priority.

valianteffort··on Ask HN: Do you have a high level of energy throughout the day?
Also possible you weren't doing as much to manage recovery and protein synthesis as you could. I would be too sedentary if I didn't workout.
valianteffort··on Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease
>Everybody knows that being sedentary and overweight is bad for your health.

No there is a growing segment of the population that has no idea being sedentary leads to weight gain, as well as a segment that thinks being overweight is ok or healthy. Perhaps you're not as in-touch with the rhetoric of the younger generation.

valianteffort··on Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease
>Do you really think people have a whole transition just to be able to sneak into the women's bathroom?

Yes, there are plenty of men who do this.

Misgendering? This isn't reddit the people on HN are not likely to kowtow to your lunatic revisionism, no matter how much anyone gets downvoted.

valianteffort··on Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease
Criticizing the actions of overweight or unhealthy people is as socially tabboo as that of trans, israel or jews. It doesn't matter how sound your argument is, these socially "protected" classes are infallible apparently.

I think after several generations that experience mortality at younger ages because of obesity, there might be an honest discussion of how bad being sedentary and overweight is for your health. Until then you have liberal rhetoric equating any acknowledgement of this reality to an accusation that someone is a bad person for being fat.

valianteffort··on Sweden could be a new nightmare for Elon Musk
Right but if the workers themselves are content and it didn't take a union to get them there, why the hell are the unions hurting the lives of Tesla workers with this in the meantime?

It seems more like unions are bloated organizations wherever they are, and they want to maintain/increase their own power even when it is not necessarily to the benefit of workers.

valianteffort··on Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
One of my favorite conspiracies is that reddit is mostly just LLM's and paid agents talking to eachother. Employed by various intel agencies, governments, and reddit themselves trying to astroturf and sway conversation in one direction or another.
valianteffort··on Sweden could be a new nightmare for Elon Musk
I've heard that the people striking don't even work at Tesla. They are striking on behalf of the workers.

Also that Tesla employees are being paid better than the unioned employees.

valianteffort··on Sweden could be a new nightmare for Elon Musk
Is this another Musk witch hunt?
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