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New comment by notadev in "VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO"

notadev — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:21:12 +0000

Been running Fedora on Dell XPS 13 for a couple years with zero problems.

New comment by notadev in "Matt's Script Archive (1995)"

notadev — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:49:16 +0000

WWWBoard is such a nostalgia hit. My local music venue's forum was where my early internet persona originated. Sometimes I nostalgic and use Wayback machine to see what all my fellow teenagers were talking about 25 years ago.

New comment by notadev in "Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice"

notadev — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:07:59 +0000

I tried both models. I could easily tell Maya was AI, but Miles sounded so lifelike that I felt that initial apprehension like hopping on a conference line with strangers. I even chuckled at one of his side remarks. It was strange knowing it wasn’t a real person, but it was very hard not to feel like it was.

New comment by notadev in "What is 'AI washing' and why is it a problem?"

notadev — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:37:45 +0000

Then I suppose AI laundering is where you slightly modify, or manually reproduce, the results of AI chatbots so there’s no trace that AI was used.

New comment by notadev in "The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows"

notadev — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:28:11 +0000

What would you hope to gain from a “more reliable” source when the DailyCaller article links to the sources of its claims? Do you not even bother to read something if it’s from a source you don’t frequently read?

New comment by notadev in "Vertical farming company raised $500M, and then it all but disappeared"

notadev — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:11:05 +0000

If not vertical farming, weed killing lasers, an ze bugs, where is innovation needed in AgTech?

New comment by notadev in "'Greedflation' study finds many companies were lying to you about inflation"

notadev — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 01:32:29 +0000

It would only take a few of the 17 companies that own nearly everything to affect hundreds of millions of products worldwide.

https://buildremote.co/companies/own-everything/

Ask HN: Has anyone hacked the Hydrow rowing machine?

notadev — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:49:26 +0000

I purchased a Hydrow rowing machine for $2500 during the pandemic. It comes with a built in monitor that streams rowing sessions but it requires a subscription. Using it without the subscription is so limited it’s pointless. It seems just restrictive enough that it would have piqued the interest of someone with way more reverse engineering ability than myself.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571079

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by notadev in "White House warns it might break patents of high-priced drugs"

notadev — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:24:21 +0000

Couldn’t you just say not enough Democrats support it without somewhere interweaving blame on Republicans?

New comment by notadev in "AN/PSQ-42"

notadev — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:03:14 +0000

How many people tried to intentionally make themselves vomit once they heard the rumor?

New comment by notadev in "Who makes the most reliable new cars?"

notadev — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:07:03 +0000

I love my Toyota and will always recommend them as a reliable brand. Their replacement parts are relatively cheap and they’re easy to maintain.

New comment by notadev in "U.S. Naval Institute Fleet Tracker"

notadev — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:58:04 +0000

We also have a number of pre-positioned ships, forward-deployed supply ships just chilling in the Pacific, waiting for something to pop off.

New comment by notadev in "Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke"

notadev — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 23:08:00 +0000

Just want to add to the positive voices wishing for Woz’s speedy recovery.

New comment by notadev in "Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context"

notadev — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:20:37 +0000

I use Phind daily, including the VSCode extension, and I love it. Much better than anything ChatGPT is able to come up and the code it generates requires little-to-no modification to work properly. Very big fan!

New comment by notadev in "[dead]"

notadev — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 03:37:29 +0000

I think similar when I read stories like “police investigating use of slurs in local high school” or “police are investigating racial flyers” or some such…when did any of this become illegal? It’s not illegal in the US to have unpopular and or bigoted views.

New comment by notadev in "This Japanese Town Sorts Their Waste into These 45 Categories"

notadev — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 23:12:47 +0000

Used to live in Japan and separating trash is no joke. If I didn’t use the right bag, or didn’t separate things properly, the trash bag would end up back on my porch with a big old yellow sticker. It was effective as I was really diligent with sorting my trash afterward.

New comment by notadev in "Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in a future release"

notadev — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:41:02 +0000

VBScript helped me out of so many jams when I would have been otherwise hindered by government/military IT policies. Thanks for the memories.

New comment by notadev in "Netflix is planning to raise prices again"

notadev — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 02:30:34 +0000

Both Hulu and Peacock recently increased their prices by a dollar or something. Then Spotify did it. They’re just squeezing the last little bit of revenue they can before we’re all completely broke.

New comment by notadev in "Target to close 9 stores across four states because of theft and organized crime"

notadev — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:18:16 +0000

They weren’t previously misdemeanors, which is part of the problem. They made a felony on par with jaywalking.

Ask HN: Anyone Using the Epson EcoTank or HP Smart Tank Printers?

notadev — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:36:56 +0000

Are they the solution to the current printer ink scam or just more of the same?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37582236

Points: 9

# Comments: 9