jammygit | 6 years ago | on: 95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
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jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?
There is some advice in meditation books to practice gratitude and empathy that is supposed to help.
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Boeing identifies new software problem on grounded 737 Max
When proving its correct, isn’t there always the possibility that the proof abstracted away some real world nuance into an assumption, and that assumption could be wrong?
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
It’s always relevant because the world has a good idea how the Australia treats data privacy and security. Their elected officials are shooting their tech sector in the gut
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
Our Plex AppleTV app has begun aggressively pushing its own content lately. It’s a nuisance to navigate to where our personal content is now
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strangers in November
Fastmail is good but I bet the Australian government is vacuuming up everything you send/receive. I’m considering ProtonMail again now that there is calendar
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
I never used twitter until last year when I made an account. They flagged me for following 5 people and liking some posts, locked me out, and notified me that any attempts to send support a request would be ignored. I can’t even log in or contact anyone to delete the account.
I guess the future is to be given the middle finger so eagerly by bad ai all the time
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: U.S. immigration policy has been a boon for the tech industry in Canada
The really important thing would be if more Canadian founders were able to create massive companies successfully. The jobs are certainly welcome but I want to hear about more successful companies owned by Canadians
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: New Intel Microcodes for Windows 10 Released to Fix CPU Bugs
...AMD seems hurt a lot less than intel by these exploits so far, and are also releasing some really cool hardware. It might be good to buy some stock and see how the next few years go?
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World
The best part of startup culture is the idea of being able to create something that can grow big while starting as a small player. The rest is just marketing and envy over ceo bonuses.
My town doesn’t really have that culture, but we have a decent small business culture at least.
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Amazon has 150M Prime members
Amazon makes it really easy to accidentally resubscribe to prime, as well as accidentally subscribe to random products that have a subscription option. The dark patterns are such a turnoff.
I try to buy locally but sometimes I still need to use amazon, eg, a Self published book will only be available through them
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Amazon has 150M Prime members
Re: the surge protector- did it stop transferring power, or did it fail to protect your equipment?
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Lenovo now shipping Ubuntu on high end workstations in the US
> Is that the ONLY reason why you dis Lenovo?
They installed spyware. That is more than enough reason to lose trust. IIRC, they did it more than once too[1].
If that isn’t cause enough, what is? Would it take pre-installed ransomware to lose trust?
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html?m...
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)
What cloud advocates always say is that the $50k monthly will save you money from not needing to hire a team to manage it for you, and that over the course of 10+ years you will be ahead.
Is that true in anyone's experience? Every once in a while somebody posts about their competing bare-metal system and it looks like a lot of people have managed to cut their server costs by 99% (based on the numbers they post) by avoiding the cloud as a service
Honestly curious
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
Why do they begin justifying by talking about 70% of buyers using mobile? Completely off topic
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
I can’t stand push notifications, I disable them all except for a couple (like signal). They are usually only part of the app to manipulate you into using it constantly
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data
Anything named an antivirus should be possibly to sue for this sort of thing, right? It could not possibly be more misleading
It’s like a locksmith company monetizing by sneaking people into your home when you’re asleep
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more than two and a half years
Imagine the near future when governments become more technically adept and those holes get plugged. These stories are scariest because they utterly prove how eager governments are to control access to information and communications.
Same thing with DRM - its scariest because one day it will work
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?
Its not industrial, but I recommend At the Mountains of Madness by lovecraft for an example of this sort of question being asked in fiction
jammygit | 6 years ago | on: Am I Unique?
What terrible browser design to send all that data. I would never have imagined my computer was sending all that off 10 years ago
It felt like the 80-85th group (diamond) is where people actually start knowing how to play properly. Lots of mechanics to practice before then though - you only get to that point by automating the lower level skills