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I managed to eke out 5 years on an XPS15 I was issued, but with no Windows 11 support (9570) its lifespan was limited.

I ran Ubuntu for a while, but 23.10 broke LUKS and graphics support on my Nvidia GPU was limited.

I’ve just bought a 2.5 MacBook Pro 16” refurbished, and my iPhone is 3 years old and counting with no plans to upgrade.

I think getting as long as we can out of our devices is crucial, but the big wheel keeps on turning with technologies like Windows 11 and even Chrome.

It’s an honourable endeavour but certainly disincentivised by big tech.
from the 37c3 the new accessory to have
https://youtu.be/3KYmAYG829I?t=1101
The ring-finger ring
You'd think that but the Toledo fondue flood of 1973 says otherwise.

I can't find the wiki link, but Ronald O'Sullivan, who'd just taken over his father's cheese shop, was attempting to make a single block of swiss after a long week of selling the first 80% of several blocks to different restaurants. He took those cheese tails and stacked them up, not realizing the dangers he was putting everyone else in. It was later found that there were several other contributing factors; he hadn't used a properly certified cheese cutting blade (baloney!) and had reused the wax liner to store the off-cuts prior to reassembling the cheese that ultimately failed.

Some say you can still smell the swiss on hot august days.
I always hated the idea to have an Apple Watch. I told everyone, so no one would ever gift one to me. Then - at first to my disdain - my wife gave one to me, because she feared I could not get help if something happened on my long runs through lonely woods.

Then I found: the thing is my solution to my Smartphone addiction. It has music, podcasts, a phone, I can fine tune notifications so I only get interrupted when I wish and I can have all my cards on it, just like the iPhone. But: no social media. No quick browsing. No reading. So now, I spend a lot of time just with the watch, especially when we go out.
Realistically I don't think anyone is truly paying for this code base though.
Mars tourism makes no sense, as there will be nothing whatsoever on Mars that you could even see for the next hundred years or more. An actual colony on Mars is way beyond our current technology, despite what some "futurologists" claim.

And even IF a colony on Mars is ever created, the amount of tourism it could ever imaginably sustain would be tiny compared to, say, New York or Tokyo or Paris - and neither of those, nor even all three together, are 1/8 of global tourism. Not to mention, a colony on Mars would just be tunnels in a desert (except it's a very very cold and highly radioactive dessert). Only a tiny handful of people would even be conceivably interested in spending months on a cramped rocket to visit it.
Just How Healthy Is Salmon?
I think the article is complaining about journalists much more than scientists.
Serial murders
I'm finding software bloat to be the biggest prohibiting factor.
I'm continually astonished by how much worse each update brings.
Even Linux will not stop bloating.

It used to be that one could surf the Internet with a graphical user-interface using a 100 mhz cpu with 16 megabytes (not gigabytes) of memory.

That same machine would be fairly snappy for checking email, writing documents and programming. It would even run 3D games, and with an accelerator card at 24 mhz, it would run them fairly smoothly too.

For everyday use, I think the most retro I'm having some limited success using is not very retro, it's an imac running osx 10.6.8, a very capable machine, but still, no match for the bloat of modern websites. (HN excluded, that, and many of the articles it links too work well enouhg).
I think a great caution should be used with modern physics and chemistry - it may be a way to get yourself killed for sorcery.

But if you want to say alive then I'll recommend including few books about creating modern medicine from scratch - like creating aspirin from willow bark and penicillin from molded bread.
A good heat pump water heater will have an insulated storage tank and backup resistance heat. Ours has plenty of water for a long shower but if you drain it faster than it can pull heat out of the ambient environment, the resistive heat kicks in (you can disable this if wanted) and you’ll continuously get warm water. We generally only notice that with guests in the winter - in the summer, it’s basically free since we’d be using the main heat pump to cool the house anyway.
>I’d expect that if the maker undertook a thorough and well-documented search for the rights holder; then just made it anyway, they’d legally be covered

In a sane, rational world that would probably be the case. Too bad we don't live on one!
Similar effect can happen the other way around and in fact I have seen that more often (albeit mostly 10 years ago):

- create DOCX with change tracking in Word

- edit that in LibreOffice and save multiple times

- open it in Word modify something and save

- Word cannot load that file. Loading and saving in LibreOffice fixes that.

All cases I have seen involved change tracking, which is probably not that surprising as the internal representation of change tracking in DOCX is totally brain damaged (even more than the rest of that "dump RTF and random crap as XML" format).
I just bought a 5 year old rugged Dell laptop on eBay for $50. Why would I pay a premium price for the top of the line laptop nowadays unless I was a game developer or my work is buying me a new laptop?
Hah, I did consider sticking a microphone on these and making them steadily tick down as people talk to you but I decided that might come across as being a bit passive aggressive... (although I have been told that pressing the button to reduce the level mid-conversation is a very effective way of getting people to leave you alone!)
I don't think that's quite accurate. The sticking point is whether people have the right to own or exclude others from private property (again as separate from personal property), to what degree it is legitimate for individuals to profit from private property, and whether that private property was legitimately acquired.

If individuals don't have the right to own or exclude others from private property, then other people using it isn't theft.

If the bounty that comes from natural resources on private property should benefit society as a whole (because no individual created them). Then it is unjust for their extraction to be monopolized by someone who claims to own them.

If land was unjustly acquired such as through enclosure of common land or colonialism, then it is the owners who are the thieves.

It's important to recognize that different branches of socialism are going to see the specifics of these sorts of issues differently.
I tried using a Game Boy Advance SP with my son. It has no internet connection and he gets to play some fun stuff. It worked really well!

But when it comes to reducing my tech footprint, the only issue I found with going down this path were bank apps. It is basically a requirement to have either an iOS or Android modern device to do anything.
Not downsizing exactly, but I 'm still on my iPhone 12 mini.

Partly because I prefer the smaller screen but also because its still very fast and reliable. I had previous had a Gen 1 iPhone SE which I only gave up on due to accidental damage.

I don't normally wear a watch, but when I do I have a LED watch from the 1970's from Texas Instruments. Its a real battery hog but still fun.

https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/tir/id...

My Roku TV has wifi disabled and I rely on an older Apple TV for subscriptions (Netflix, PBS, Disney+). The main use-case for AppleTV though is the Infuse Pro app which I use to manage and play my media collection (backup of DVDs etc) from my NAS.

https://firecore.com/infuse
Displaying hit points of a game character would be the bomb (alternatively: health points would be sick).
I also have the picture book and it's even meaner there. A whole page of the mom looking directly at you! It's hard to read for bed-time :)
It's so easy to tell when Europe is voting on a post versus the US. Fines against these companies are predominantly rent seeking. You should be extra suspicious when the fines are coming from countries where they don't have offices.

FTA:

> Big Tech companies can further water down the potential sting of these fines by delaying payment for years(new window). They’ve done this by filing appeals, counter-suing, or simply refusing to pay. Some notable examples include:

Sorry, but I give the companies the benefit of the doubt here: they have good legal teams and don't generally fight things when they can't win. Fighting these fines isn't evidence that big tech is evil and refuses to follow the low, it's evidence that these countries are rent seeking by charging them bogus fines, which their world-class legal teams (rightly) contest.
Of people buying gadgets, my contribution to deceleration :D
It also serves as deterrent for smaller companies, and as regulatory capture occurs pulls the ladder up behind the big tech companies.
I think you are replying to the wrong thread? I never argued that they would never work, I am a big proponent of heat pumps. Just taking a stab at why the OP thinks they are not good for UK. Retrofitting older UK homes probably takes more steps than what the government grants are providing.

Thanks for the information though.
I think this ancient project is from before Node.js and npm was a major thing

I predates webpack, uglifyjs etc by years

And is an ancient artifact that has no place in current day JS
Most of the synths and drum machines I own are from the 1980s, if that counts? ;)

When I bought a Raspberry Pi 5 recently (to run as a always-on local web-server) it did cross my mind that it was probably plenty powerful enough for 95% of what I do.

I’ll stick with my 64 core threadripper for now though :D

Phone: just gone from iPhone 12 to 15 Pro. Not noticed much difference, will stick for a while I reckon.

TV: recently did my once every ten years upgrade to a Sony A95, which was a mind blowing improvement.

iPad: mostly been buying reconditioned models, as they’re all plenty powerful enough.

So other than the iPads, not really downsizing yet, but it feels like most average tech is actually super powerful these days, so I can see myself doing more in the future.
I always cheap out on my desktop setup (somewhat) but it's currently an old i5-4000 series in an old Lenovo M73 Tiny running Windows 10 stripped barebones.

The CPU in the weird cellular base station product I'm reverse engineering is significantly more powerful than my desktop PC, but c'est la vie...

As for my phone: I use an iPhone. At the end of the day it's a system I don't have to care and feed. It just works and does what I want it to and I don't need anything else.
I don't have a position on that, and there's not one implied by my comment, which is why I am unsure why the commenter assumes one.
Is that explanation better? https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/blob/master/Mistral/Mistral...

Same Mistral Instruct 0.2 model, different implementation.
Principles: (1) asset allocation (2) diversification (3) rebalancing

Investments: no-load index mutual funds/etfs (1) total US stock market index (2) total US bond market index (3) total world stock market index, excluding US

Prime resource: Bogleheads.org – Investing advice inspired by John Bogle (1) www.bogleheads.org (2) www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
Probably not related but wasn't sure how you defined 'consumerism'

> I watch stuff with friends, go out with friends

To me this is consumption too.

You are defining it as consuming physical things (that are not food ) ?
I believe BigForth was absorbed into what is now GForth (still maintained). See the GForth “pedigree”: https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Ori...
Error messages can still leak proprietary info, or bits of confidential information inadvertently.
“Still on”. I bought this a year ago, because the bigger XR was hurting my hands
This has always been my policy. Use your machines/phones until they die/become unusable and only then buy something new. All my desktops/laptops/tablets are over 10 years old (core duo/core 2 duo/core i7) and my phone 6 years (Pixel 2). Only this year have i bought a new Macbook Pro (M3 Max) since my old mid-2010 27-inch iMac died (which i will get repaired soon with others).
The problem with society is that we live in a world where everyone demands answers NOW and people in positions that need to provide answers MUST give answers. So regardless if a politician or authority figure knows the answer or not, everyone is unwilling (for whatever reasons) to say “I don’t know.”

When I worked at Apple retail, we were trained that if we were asked a question that we didn’t know the answer to was to say, “I don’t know, let’s find out together” and you either did some research on Apple’s site or asked someone who may know with the customer.

Because nobody wants to say that they don’t know the answer…yet (and that’s key) they take the current working theory and say there’s no evidence to the contrary.
Post-mortem: 1h30 downtime on a Saturday morning
If the tutorials aren't structured and translated by natives, there's no point paying for Duolingo, might as well cut the middleman and ask ChatGPT directly.
Wonder what would happen if you simply say “i have no profiles” and when presented with one with your image simply say “bot, not me.”

Probably denied entry just the same.
> You can talk to a politician if you bother to call or email their office. Stop being obtuse.

Obviously you have more money than me. They don't answer my emails, ever. I tried.

> You want individuals to bid directly for government contracts?

There should be constructs to represent businesses which are not limited liability.
I was on my iPhone 7 until last year when it couldn't open banking apps anymore. Literally the best phone format ever. If only battery lasted a few more hours.
Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before
Couldn't you still run 16-bit apps in Windows 10 32-bit or did they drop it entirely by then?
Define “politician”.
I still have a 2018 MBP. As much as I like new things, I can't yet justify upgrading. iPad has aged into obscurity and likely won't be replaced. Moved from an Apple Watch to a Garmin Instinct 2 (wanted muuuch longer battery + GPS for backcountry camping/canoeing). I can read notifications but not respond from the watch, and this seems optimal distraction-wise.
https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

What ever he is doing works

edit: Also duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38904433
> Although Sales and Marketing would have us believe that we should upgrade our devices on a regular basis

Who would actually even believe that in the first place? Maybe it's an American thing, but with our French spending power, I know of absolutely no one in my family or friend group who has a set schedule for upgrading their devices. It's either "use until it breaks, then replace" or "use until I absolutely need a replacement because it's too slow", the latter of which usually being after 3 years or so.

As for downsizing, once again everyone I know isn't really "downsizing", but buying refurbished devices a few generations old, as the price for brand new devices, even refurbished ones, has gotten pretty crazy.
Profit is an easier number to manipulate than revenue through expenses and liability. E.g., by increasing expenses to executive salaries and by investing huge sums in growth projects or new strategies.

For large companies, particularly those where investors prioritize growth, cash flow is often more interesting than profit.
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38909220
I have zero TVs, IoT devices, home automatons, etc. I generally dislike anything that beeps and anything with LEDs. Though I built my own house, I don't even own a microwave. The stove is gas. I like candles. In winter we heat with firewood. Though I have ornamental gardens (that I am expanding to a garden of 100 roses), and an orchard, I have no watering lines timers. I water everything by walking around and pointing at it with the hose.

for what are called computers:

1 desktop - a 2021 box that I built (this replaced a 2013 box)

1 laptop, 1 phone (a pixel 7), 1 camera (Leica Q2) (well and a Praktica MTL5 made in East Germany)

And one kindle. And an iPad, for work testing.

I'm a web developer. I love technology. I think what you have should be as good as you can make it for yourself. But it has to feel and serve very human purposes to be worthwhile. I don't think many gadgets do that. Many devices, especially modern ones, take the liberty of interrupting you often. I do not wish to be interrupted.
In college. I struggle a lot with ADHD. Some days I'm a machine, pulling Sam Altman levels of work hrs. Some days I cannot do the laundry. I'm still working on wrangling my symptoms & building better habits. So instead of an iPhone I use the CAT smart fliphone. Way better, and built-in w/ an instant pickup line too ("can I get your myspace" lol).

iPhone's apps are designed for addiction. the OS does things I don't want. My dumb brick has youtube music & a touchscreen when I need it
Hanlon's razor would lead to the acquittal of almost every criminal defendant if applied consistently. Somehow, it only gets applied consistently to politicians, especially those the person invoking it tends to agree with.
I like the Thinkpad T-Series. I own a T430 (equipped with a i5 quad-core processor and Full-HD IPS display), T450s, T480s, and T14. I can confirm that even a decade-old T430, after some upgrades, is still sufficient for using firefox + terminal + tmux + nvim, programming, running containers, and managing k8s clusters with kubectl and k9s.

If someone is actively looking for a second-hand device on eBay, I recommend the T480 as it has a very good price/performance ratio. Pick one with a i5/i7 quad-core, 32 GB Ram, FHD or WQHD IPS display and you will be fine.
What other sort are there? Imaginary components? Metaphorical components?
I don't know if this counts, but I haven't bought any brand new device for maybe 10 years. I do buy refurbished stuff once in a while, though.
Houston Becomes Hotspot for Clean Tech Startups
I don't think so. HTMX is a JavaScript library that abstracts the JavaScript part away from the user
Why not higher fines? % of profit that increases each time?
For me there is a difference, I am not continuously looking forward to the latest beer, I am looking forward to an experience, I could also go out and have a chat with a friend on a bench, without consuming anything, I have been talking with a friend on a bench in a park until 4 AM in the morning few weeks back, and we didn't consume anything, but even if we have a beer, I am paying for the experience of spending time with someone, not the beer itself
Was this an accredited school? I think you should name it.
I use NetNewsWire to read and Feedly as my sync service.
How to Get into Developer Heaven
> The optimal amount of radioactive material in food is non-zero.

But this is true! Everything except lead is radioactive in some capacity. Pretty sure us humans cannot live on lead alone.
Do banking via their website?
This article gets extremely doomerish about half way through.

Good policy helped to create the cheap BYD vehicles. Good policy will help get to mass EV adoption

Good policy will help avoid the Mad Max future he predicts.
There are two ways to do a delivery on demand (like quick commerce or food delivery):
1. Take responsibility for the delivery. Here is a customer orders and a Restaurant accepts and prepares the food, you take the responsibility to find a rider and get it delivered. If there are no riders, it is not simple to cancel the order, as the restaurant has prepared the food. In this case, you have to take the hit on the delivery fee (surge price it) and pay out of your pocket.
2. Don't take responsibility of the delivery. Here when a customer orders and there is no delivery guy, the restaurant takes the customers money as they have prepared the food. The customer is pissed and the app will slowly die.
i think the opposite. ita shocking people do consider it genocide.
israels target is not civilians. if it wanted to, the death toll would be 100x.
even more, you don't get a breakdown of civilians to hamas casualties so everyone thinks they are all civilians.

on the other hand, you did see hamas kill, rape, mutilate and kidnap (still didn't release the majority) and state they want to kill all jews. that... sounds like genocide.
Establishing a free Palestine is less about fighting Israel / empowering Palestinians, and more about getting foreign influence in the middle-east to want peace. At Camp David, the reason Arafat gave for rejecting the peace deal was that other Arab countries did not want to share Jerusalem with Israel. The majority of Palestinians supported the peace deal.
A phone, like my other digital devices, is a tool - I try to upgrade my tools only when I can't feasibly fix them anymore, or they by nature can't do what I need them to do.

I don't really use my phone much, and go out of my way not to install apps. Though that means I get into some sticky situations, it also means that when I need a new device, I can typically buy last year's flagship at half price. My current phone (2021) is more than enough to meet my needs. Frankly, my phone before that (2016) also was, but sadly none of the corner "fix your battery!" shops wanted to open up an HTC phone.

My laptop is a ThinkPad T460p (2016 model, acquired 2019), which replaced a ThinkPad T500 (2009 model, acquired 2012) when said ThinkPad struggled with rendering 1080p video, which replaced an HP nx6325 (2006 model, acquired 2006) when said HP proved itself unable to do video calls at more than a few frames per second.

I wouldn't call these things "retro" by any means - those honors go to some other systems in my life. I have a 100-milliwatt FM transmitter, some radios, and Kodi Media Center, in place of a Sonos system. Ditto the Casio calculator watch, instead of a smartwatch - the calculator and other functions actually do get used multiple times per week.
I think that's an odd way to determine needs for oneself.
Agreed. The litmus test for me is "would HN would be a fun place to visit if front page was filled with similar post to this (posts advertising their app idea and trying to gather an mail list)" - and the answer is nope.

Best of luck OP, but I think you should post again once your idea has more substance.
I reread Eric this weekend, somewhat on a whim. Real pleasure. I also had totally forgotten he came up with the premise of the Good Place. He had such so many ideas.
You haven't given any information on what your program actually does, just some vague unsupported claims. This is borderline spam.

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For anyone that's reading this and looking for actual advice on learning French, here's my advice, having done something somewhat similar. I didn't know much French prior to living in Paris for 6 months (which was broken up into two 3 month periods over the course of a year) but a French friend later told me my accent was "perfect" although I used the word franchement too often, which made me sound like an old-fashioned farmer.

- Focus on memory and vocabulary. It's a lot easier to have conversations when you know what to say, even if your pronunciation isn't perfect.

- Drill the grammar for the most essential verbs (to have, to be, etc.) and skip most of the rest for now.

- Listen to native speakers and imitate them. Try to get over the feeling that you're playing a character or doing an goofy French accent impression. You will have better pronounciation if you try to do an accurate French impression.

- Try to spend some time in France or as a second choice, Québec. It's a million times better than reading a book or using some app.