I have not used windows in a while but thinking of building a PC. Is there a way to install way older version of windows 10 without Microsoft's AI nonsense and the online account requirement?
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mulakosag commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model book.sv... · Posted by u/costco
Echoing what everyone else has said here - awesome site, love how fast it was.
I did notice that when I put in a single book in a series (in my case Going Postal, Discworld #33) that tended to dominate the rest of the selection. That does make sense, but I don't want recommendations for a series I'm already well into.
Also noticed that a few books (Spycraft by Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman, Tribalism is Dumb by Andrew Heaton) that I know are in goodreads and reviewed didn't show up in the search. I tried both author's name and the title of the book. Maybe they aren't in the dataset.
It did stumble with some books more niche books (The Complete Yes Minister). Trying the "Similar" button gave me more books that were _technically_ similar because they were novelizations of British comedy shows, but not what I was looking for.
For more common books though it lined up very well with books already on my wishlist!
Going Postal is awesome. The flood of the mails and the test to be the post master where you would have a slide mail into the hole where a vicious dog is barking.
So… what's changing? Profiles have been there for decade(s), is it just an alternative UI for folks who were unable to run firefox -p, or is there anything more substantial?
What a shocker right?
I guess everyday normal people do dot use a command prompt much less open a terminal to open a browser profile.
They like to click and icon and create/switch profile. Chrome, edge and many other browsers had this feature for ever. Not having ability to easily switch profiles is only reason I did not switch to Firefox full time even though I quite like the multi containers extension in Firefox for managing bazillion AWS accounts.
mulakosag commented on Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue quasa.io/media/the-strang... · Posted by u/jerlam
Haven't read the article but sounds like the Cory doktrow's radicalized where a lady cannot go to work because her toaster is not working because the cloud provider used by the toaster company went bankrupt.
I use Android over iphone precisely because I'm free to install whatever apps I want.
With this planned change my reasons to ditch Android and go to Apple increase dramatically. Why would i want half assed google walled garden when I could get the Apple one?
Sucks for the people who can't afford an Apple device and honestly sucks for all of us who enjoyed installing all kinds of apps on our devices.
I am out of the loop with the entire thing. I used to an android dev back then. Google's shenanigans is the reason why I left mobile dev. Does this mean I cannot even compile and install apps on my phone from android studio?
mulakosag commented on 14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal tribuneindia.com/news/wor... · Posted by u/whatsupdog
The corruption is simply incredible. About fifteen years ago I found myself in Kathmandu after getting altitude sickness. The team's fixer brought me to lunch with some government officials. The topic of discussion? How to steal from a hydroelectric project. One of his guests outright asked, "should we be talking about this in front of this guy?" The fixer shrugged it off saying "he's a Westerner, what is he going to do about it?" And, well, he was right. It wasn't like I could go report it to the police.
Years later the fixer was finally jailed for gold smuggling. https://english.khabarhub.com/2022/16/232667/
Edit: add link
You don't know how incredible the corruption is. It goes from all levels. From president and prime minster to all the way down to a lowly clerk in your local government office. Nothing works without bribes. The big heads are raking out millions. I left the country only a few years ago. It is the sole reason I never want to be back there.
The desperation from the youth is so heart breaking when there is no jobs creation, no industry. Depending on their ability they go and work in middle east doing all those dangerous work in the desert heat. The country is empty of youth. If you go to the airport you will see thousands leaving the country each day. Coffins of workers who died in middle east.
The political parties? They are profiting for everything. In the last 10-15 years there were basically 3 guys who would become the prime minister in round robin always blame opposition when in government and always blame government when in opposition. Its like 1984 but without the surveillience but that also caught up with the ban of social media.
mulakosag commented on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? blog.mozilla.org/netpolic... · Posted by u/Vinnl
Say what you say but EU/Europeans are overregulating everything with UK trying to end privacy. Regulations like USB C on all electronics is nice but these are not.
mulakosag commented on Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) blog.yaakov.online/replac... · Posted by u/birdculture
> Kubernetes is simply too resource-intensive to run on a $10/month VPS with just 1 shared vCPU and 2GB of RAM
I hate sounding like an Oracle shill, but Oracle Cloud's Free Tier is hands-down the most generous. It can support running quite a bit, including a small k8s cluster[1]. Their k8s backplane service is also free.
They'll give you 4 x ARM64 cores and 24GB of ram for free. You can split this into 1-4 nodes, depending on what you want.
I recenlty wrote a guide on how to create a free 3 node cluster in Oracle cloud : https://macgain.net/posts/free-k8-cluster .
This guide currently uses kubeadm to create 3 node (1 control plane, 2 worker nodes) cluster.
mulakosag commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
mulakosag commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
How do you sleep at night knowing corporations use your advice to import scab labor that displaces the existing population?
When have corporations cared for population? They exist to make money and they will try to abuse the outdated system as much as possible.