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by 1attice 4y ago
So here's the thing. - Politics are really important actually - Those disagreements will still be there Your racist uncle (or, ok fine, your grating progressive auntie) will still hold those views tomorrow. OTOH fighting will probabl
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by 1attice 4y ago
Ping me when it can WebKit EDIT: this was flippant of me, but I was trying to make a real point. I'm simply too used, as a front-end dev, to the flexibility I get from CSS and HTML and SVG and React, and React-Three-Fibre for fancy stu
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by 1attice 4y ago
This seems like a lot of typing for what, up until Brexit Got Done, could have been expressed with the two-character word "no", as in, "no, ByteDance, no." Now it's 'optics' and geopolitics. These two scen
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by 1attice 4y ago
Call this the 'Electrician Cycle'. A job is initially incredibly sexy, risky, and newfangled, requiring knowledge that is not widespread. Like being an electrician in 1922. There are no standards, and because everyone is therefo
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by 1attice 4y ago
No, but UK enforcement is now quite vulnerable to, say, an HQ move to Paris. Wouldn't want those jobs to go missing during a Brexit war deepfreeze winter. A pity there wasn't some way of harmonizing laws and enforcement with other
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by 1attice 4y ago
THE YEAR OF, THE YEAR OF ----------------------- (a poem) This is the year of the RSS reader, said Hacker News. This is the year of the Linux desktop. This is the year of IPv6. This is the year of ____ battery technology that is ____ times
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by 1attice 4y ago
The thing about our adversaries that is most vivid is their cowardice. Their hypocrisy is a close second
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by 1attice 4y ago
In an environment where my fellow trans people are routinely degraded and smeared as "groomers", creating a thing like a 'registry' for trans people but not for handguns tells you exactly who the AG thinks the enemy is.
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by 1attice 4y ago
I would imagine that this (admittedly plausible-sounding) scenario is offset by the fact that, given the audience, a politically-motivated DDOS would have the opposite of the desired impact. No one here would cheer the loss of HN, even its
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by 1attice 4y ago
Oh, not pg. I was thinking more about the industry's duelling distractions, SBF and EM
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by 1attice 4y ago
I propose that live information sharing be permitted for $8/mo
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by 1attice 4y ago
Well, they let you down here, didn't they? Rephrasing: HN needs better self-regulation, because the weather has changed, and it's not a good look when you're standing halfway between several unhinged billionaires. This is a
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by 1attice 4y ago
Oh, one more thing. Popping the devtools on my brain, I think the reason this issue jumped out at me in the first place is that YC's moral ground has shifted lately, mostly because of its exposure to blockchain bets, many of which turn
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by 1attice 4y ago
Yes, but one last quibble. Technically, in the phrase "YC startups are breaking the law", there is no clear implication that it is all YC startups. The phrase simply does not speak on the point of quantity, and is pretty decent
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by 1attice 4y ago
I commend dang for listening to what multiple people were advising and backing out of a misleading edit. Thank you, I appreciate how difficult your job is. (And how difficult people like myself sometimes seem to make it.)
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by 1attice 4y ago
Conflict-of-interest evident in the HN re-title-fication of this post. Recall that making something less salacious when you are the subject is quite different from toning down clickbait headlines when you're wearing your neutral-edit
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by 1attice 4y ago
I just always associated it with that ST:TNG episode where Riker gets hooked on some sort of VR video game from a planet I always misremember as 'REISUB 9' But the association allowed me to remember the abbreviation. I called it t
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by 1attice 4y ago
Language like this exaggerates individual-user harms of TikTok by comparison to lethal street drug, conflating them with public, national-interest harms. This is disingenous, as reported by common-sense. For example, my city does not have s
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by 1attice 4y ago
If this somehow degenerates into an all-out war between congressmen and k-pop stans, I'm getting the popcorn
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by 1attice 4y ago
right before my REISUB era ;)
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by 1attice 4y ago
And yet here I am, flesh and blood. I can't prove it; it's late 2022. Oh well.
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by 1attice 4y ago
What I find the most striking about these stories is the increasing desperation on the part of what Eco would call the 'model reader'. The degree to which these (genuine!) advances are being presented as a much-needed pick-me-up f
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by 1attice 4y ago
Even putting aside the snarky tone, this does not feel like a good HN comment. Firstly, they don't offer paid memberships yet, AFAIK? But secondly, and more importantly: I'm over myself, but I'm not over this new technology.
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by 1attice 4y ago
I feel you're missing my point. The point isn't that I'm in fine fettle -- I'm well-aware that I'm lonely -- the point is that there are a lot of people who are in the situation I am in and this machine feels li
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by 1attice 4y ago
More background. I'm an engineer. Over the past week, I've completely become accustomed to asking ChatGPT for help as I code and manage my systems. As I WFH, this met two needs: 1. faster code production, and just as importantly,
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by 1attice 4y ago
Honestly, just get depressed. The number of times I was complimented
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by 1attice 4y ago
That you read unintentional variation as misbehaviour is like rejecting food not made at McDonalds. Actually, this is a great teachable moment. This is the crux of it. Engineers value precise repetition, what Deleuze calls 'mechanical&
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by 1attice 4y ago
You'd think so! But it works a little bit like 'constructive interference' in radio reception. A little bit of cognitive brownian motion does wonders to warm up tone.
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'm considered eloquent and poetic and I hardly ever mean to be. I appear to do this by 'throwing the dart wrong', and storing similar concepts adjacently. Like I just did in the sentence above. I could have said, "choos
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by 1attice 4y ago
I have literally been in front of a screen too long, I thought this was a story about fixed-width fonts

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