Dave's Interesting People email list was a TRUE highlight of the early Internet.
It was amazing
Readit Newsambarp2 commented on Dave Farber has died lists.nanog.org/archives/... · Posted by u/vitplister
ambarp2 commented on How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/mariuz
Windows was tolerable up until they introduced their extremely intrusive service that will monitor if the user has disabled Windows updates and then undo the user's settings quietly and without notification, again allowing the updates to occur.
This single feature is almost certain to kill off the use of Windows for any important use cases, like kiosk-type softwares in non-trivial environments. It's impossible to control software updates deterministically.
You forgot about how they have confusing setup screens for each major Windows update. Every one of my and my family’s machines have been swapped from Chrome to Edge. They can’t find their bookmarks, don’t know how things work, and call me to fix it.
ambarp2 commented on FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics engadget.com/big-tech/fcc... · Posted by u/mikhael
Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, Poco, OnePlus, Honor, Realme all taking notes. Good guy FCC looking out for global competition.
Check out the book “Apple in China”. Most of these Chinese competitors exist because they learned how to make phones by learning from Apple directly.
I understand the criticisms presented here.
But seeing a beautiful, whimsical image of my baby daughter in the Ghibli style was pure joy and brought tears to my eyes.
I have no idea how I could have done this otherwise, and I hope it brings happiness to Miyazaki to know that it brought joy to someone.
Mexico City is safe and a wonderful place to visit - if, like me, you like big cities.
I moved to Mexico City from San Francisco. CDMX is cleaners and safer than Mission Bay in SF!
ambarp2 commented on Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening seven39.com... · Posted by u/mklyons
Yeah I have thought about websites having "business hours" also. So support staff don't have to worry about getting a call or text message at 0200 that something isn't working... just fix it in the morning.
I literally can’t place Costco Mexico orders and perform other tasks on Sundays because payment gateways are down (?). It’s quite frustrating. If it fails every weekend, they should in fact just shut down.
ambarp2 commented on Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers? theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
One of my earliest memories is not of an actual event/place but of a nightmare I had. Given the tendency to forget dreams very quickly I've always wondered how common retaining memories of dreams from early childhood is - eg I've never heard anyone else mention this when talking about early memories.
I have memories of my first dream or an early dream. Everything was white and bright, and I was just there, naked, with my younger sister. I’m guessing I was 2 or 3 yrs old.
I woke up and was very scared by what I had experienced.
ambarp2 commented on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com/2025/02/08... · Posted by u/NaOH
The title let me down; I was hoping this would be an article about a trebuchet. [edit: I see the post title has changed, the original one was something like "park ranger uses extraordinary methods to remove homeless from SF parks"]
I lived next to the park for several years and grew to loathe the dynamic where the lives of people sleeping rough in Golden Gate Park or Civic Center merit months of one-on-on outreach, while the lives of all of those who can't walk through the park in safety, can't send their kids there to play, and can't sit on the grass for fear of stepping on a used needle or a pile of human excrement, don't seem to matter.
I would like to see the city adopt a compassionate approach that doesn't at the same time enable years of lawbreaking by people who make nominally public spaces off-limits to the law-abiding. I'd like to see a San Francisco where there can be at least one clean, safe, working public toilet.
My solution to this was to sell my home and leave San Francisco after living there 19 years. The moment I had a baby on the way, it no longer became tenable for me to deal with the lack of cleanliness or safety on the streets.
The irony is that I moved to Mexico City. It’s a far safer place than San Francisco.