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alligatorplum | 3 months ago | on: Steam Machine

This is likely the push i need to fully ditch windows and go install linux on my PC. Can't wait to preorder!

alligatorplum | 3 years ago | on: Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st

Different way to tweet the tweet > After firing half of Twitters employees, the few that do remain do not fully understand the overly complex recommendation algorithm. I am hoping that we can crowdfund development work by making it open source.

As an aside, it'll be interesting to see what license he open sources it under.

alligatorplum | 3 years ago | on: Twitter Blue for $8/Month

On the Android Twitter app, I get an ad every 4 tweets on my timeline. So "half as many ads" would make it an ad every 8 tweets.

alligatorplum | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”

I am glad that a lot of people in this thread have figured out the fraud and caught the rogue employee early on. But the reason this fraud is so prevalent is because it works.

I have a friend who had someone else go through the interview process for him and ended up getting hired at one of the top 10 largest banks in US. Not only that, but because he was grossly under qualified for this job, he hired someone to teach him how to do his job. He works his normal 8-5, then he screen shares with this guy and they work together to complete his tasks. I'm a bit surprised that this worked and that they still haven't caught on, he has been working there for 8-10 months now. He has been sharing company intellectual property of a top US bank to foreigners for 8-10 months. The saddest part about this is that, he isn't a dumb, he is knowledgeable enough to get a decent job without cheating. In fact he has worked, both legally and ethically, for reputable companies.

alligatorplum | 3 years ago | on: EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices

I am still on the fence on this. On one hand this is a good pro consumer move while also being environmentally friendly but this will likely hinder innovation in the field. If a new way charger standard was found which was a fraction of the cost of USBC and double the speed, the fact that companies would be forced to still use USBC is tough.

I also found this tidbit pretty funny.

> The legislation has been under development for more than a decade, but an agreement on its scope was reached this morning following negotiations between different EU bodies.

> The EU denies this will be the case, and says it will update the legislation as new technology is developed. > “Don’t think we’re setting something in stone for the next 10 years,” said Breton at the press conference.

alligatorplum | 3 years ago | on: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

A Raspberry Pi is the perfect playground to get started with self-hosting. It is cheap and barely takes up any physical space.

Pi-Hole and bitwarden are simple enough applications that you can host both of them on a pi. Plus there are plenty of guides available online to guide you thru the process if you do get stuck.

I got started with self-hosting pi-hole on a raspberry pi myself.

alligatorplum | 3 years ago | on: California considers a shortened, 32-hour workweek for larger companies

This will just result in lowered salaries across the boards no?

The article mentions that there won't be any pay cuts, and that might be true for the current employees but for new employees the companies will just adjust (read: cut) pay to 32hr weeks.

I am also struggling to see how they plan on keeping track of this "no pay cut".

alligatorplum | 4 years ago | on: If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?

This feels like one of those things where people only notice the bad experiences, bad search results, and ignore all the times it was right, good/neutral search results.

One of google search's biggest advantages is the ability to save a click for the user. If I search for "NCAA scores" google will show me the live scores directly instead of showing me a link to the ncaa website which also shows me the score but at the expense of me having to click on the link.

IMO, the right way to dethrone google search would be to have better (or more) QOL features.

alligatorplum | 4 years ago | on: Google Domains is out of beta

+1 to Porkbun. I think cloudlfare sells domains at-cost so if you want something cheaper than they might be worth looking into.

But I have been a happy porkbun customer for a few years and they are my go to recommendation to anyone who asks.

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