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jbeard4 commented on Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s... · Posted by u/Sgt_Apone

jbeard4 · 17 days ago

> Over the years, nearly everything on the vehicle has been replaced or repaired, and Campbell says the only original part is likely the body, and even that has had work done on it.

It’s the Tercel of Theseus: if every part has been replaced, is it still the same car?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

jbeard4 commented on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops linaro.org/blog/linux-on-... · Posted by u/MarcusE1W

danieldk · a month ago

I used to be quite cynical about these posts. I used Linux as my main desktop from 1994-2007 and switched to Mac then. I would periodically try on laptops Linux again, but there were always things broken in bad ways.

Early this year I bought a ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 AMD. In contrast to when I had a T14 Gen 1 AMD early 2020s, everything just works. All the hardware works, suspend/resume works, all the hardware comes up after a resume, etc.

Lately I have been using my ThinkPad much more than my MacBook Pro. NixOS is a superpower to me and having NixOS on a laptop is living the dream.

jbeard4 · a month ago

> NixOS is a superpower to me

Can you expand on this? Just curious what is the main value-add you are getting from NixOS in particular?

jbeard4 commented on XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation xml.com/articles/2025/07/... · Posted by u/protomolecool

jbeard4 · a month ago

I love XSLT. I wrote a SCXML-to-JavaScript compiler in it back in 2010:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/sandbox/gsoc/2010/s...

Written as a pipeline of XSLT transformations. Ran natively in the browser to execute SCXML documents to control UI logic. Good times.

jbeard4 commented on Kick delivers third-party bookmarklet to export your data from Bench old.reddit.com/r/BenchUse... · Posted by u/jbeard4

jbeard4 · 8 months ago

For context, the Bench bookkeeping SaaS suddenly collapsed and was subsequently acquired by employer.com:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061

Bench has failed to deliver on their commitments to allow users to download their data, so it's interesting that some of Bench's competitors are now starting to provide their own solution to facilitate data export.

Posted by u/jbeard4 8 months ago

Kick delivers third-party bookmarklet to export your data from Bench old.reddit.com/r/BenchUse...

jbeard4 commented on Bench reportedly mandates data sharing with Employer.com to access data download old.reddit.com/r/BenchUse... · Posted by u/jbeard4

jbeard4 · 8 months ago

For context, the Bench bookkeeping SaaS suddenly collapsed and was subsequently acquired by employer.com:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061

When users now go to login to Bench, it asks if you want to consent to share your data with employer.com; OR request a download link be emailed to you. However, the download links never came, and Bench now says they will arrive by January 15th. Additionally, Bench now reportedly says that you must consent to share your data with employer.com in order for them to prepare a download link.

Posted by u/jbeard4 8 months ago

Bench reportedly mandates data sharing with Employer.com to access data download old.reddit.com/r/BenchUse...

jbeard4 commented on You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React comfydeploy.com/blog/you-... · Posted by u/bennykokmusic

jbeard4 · 8 months ago

We use nextjs because we want to optimize the page for SEO and crawlability. If you don’t need your page to be crawlable (eg a dashboard behind a login), then there’s a good chance you don’t need nextjs, and pure React will indeed be simpler.

jbeard4 commented on Bench accounting services shutting down bench.co/... · Posted by u/knuckleheads

jbeard4 · 8 months ago

I created a subreddit in case any current/former Bench users would like to continue talking to one another and compare notes: https://www.reddit.com/r/BenchUsers

Posted by u/jbeard4 8 months ago

Show HN: Subreddit for Bench users to talk to each other and compare notes old.reddit.com/r/BenchUse...

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KarmaCake day619July 19, 2012View Original