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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
What if they use someone else's device though? Or circumvent the filter? Come on, this is Hacker News, "we" circumvent guardrails because we can and because we know no security is perfect, often from a young age. I love how a
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
To add a more local hurdle as well, the Dutch power grid is at capacity and its managing company is now telling companies that planned to build a datacenter that they can't be connected to the grid until 2030, even though said companie
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I suspect if you live there you can get a parking permit to park relatively cheaply. Where I used to live they introduced paid parking on my street, because people were going out the city center to park in residential areas instead of pay f
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
This is where legislation can come in - when I bought my house, one provision was that I can't change the front to a garden, it has to remain usable as a parking space for a car. Even if I don't have a car. There's limited
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Exactly that. I wouldn't be surprised if supporting a dark colour scheme becomes a WCAG thing, which if it does, it becomes a legal requirement under European digital accessibility laws. Anecdotally, I just find dark mode more comforta
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Just like computers in schools nowadays, I will concede that part of the education should be about learning how to use AI - but they should also learn how to do research and accomplish things without the help of AI.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Some people spend ages writing a cheat sheet with the intent of cheating on the test but realise that because they wrote it down and / or tried to summarise it they actually learned the materials.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I also think assignments and projects work best, but only for the percentage of students that are self-motivated, curious, interested, etc. Unfortunately a lot aren't, they feel like they have to be there or these courses are the only
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Yeah none of the problems with AI in education are new; some schools (or news articles) are just panicking because they gave their students laptops (and/or made them a mandatory part) and now the genie is out of the bottle. But there w
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Probably (armchair HN reader, not a game developer here) due to dealing with multiplayer latency and / or performance / multithreading / scalability.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Look no further to be honest; look at older generation programming languages like COBOL and how sought-after good developers for that language are. But I'm also afraid / certain that LLMs are able to figure out legacy code (as lon
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
That'll be (part of) the big market correction, but also speaking broadly; as investor money dries up and said investors want to see results, many new businesses or products will realise they're not financially viable. On a small
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
The challenge with Playdate games is that it's a relatively niche market; the number of consoles sold is... probably more than 100K at this point but less than a million ( https://x.com/playdate/status/17574785
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
There are plenty of free or cheaper alternatives, although platforms like pico-8 are (intentionally) hard to work with, especially as a first introduction to building games and / or coding.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
The Playdate is... limited though; it's very small, much smaller than e.g. the gameboy or DS, so it's not particularly ergonomic. Fine for playing around with on occasion, but it's not a platform for spending long hours with.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Bit of both I think; spend time writing code on your own, use coding tools at work if they encourage / pay for it. I think we'll settle into a new norm over the next few years, but the role of software engineer will change though.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
That's when you should stop your work, make a new branch from main, do the refactoring and offer it separately; it's about (self) discipline in the end. You can probably also do something creative with cherry-pick and the like.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
These are various reasons why I also opted to not use it when it was finally time to retire vBulletin 3. We never did adopt vB 4 or 5, because while I'm sure the code was "better" from a software engineering perspective (usin
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
But there's other research that, at least when it comes to weight loss, there is no measurable difference between intermittent fasting and reduced calorie intake.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
TBH they have accessibility to keep in mind - visual contrast, screen reader support, etc. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive, but I've yet to find a great example of something that is both accessible and full of charact
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Cloning isn't even sci-fi or imaginary, just morally questionable and... variably legal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning#Legal_status_of_... ). Same goes for gene editing / designer babies / e
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
But the moral conundrum here is that they can't choose untill well after they're born, meaning the parents are the ones that need to make the decision.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
To be pedantic, you mean a standard like IEEE 1003 aka POSIX? ( https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/m... )
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
That's the neat part of agile / scrum / whatever at larger companies, they don't actually change priorities much from one sprint to the next unless there's a major external factor like an outage. Larger companies li
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Yeah we work agile, just look at this diagram, it's super agile. https://framework.scaledagile.com/safe-6-0-configurations/ It's got loops and infinity markers, AND iconography representing humans!
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
That's it, "excellent teams" are a needle in a haystack; the mythical 10x developer, if you will. But at one point you need not one team, but a hundred.
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
I can't help but wonder why security reviews aren't standard practice. Surely enterprises would be willing to pay for that? You get the default releases as they are today, then a second line that get a "security reviewed&quot
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
This is good wisdom, and I think this is a strong reason why language and runtime developers should ensure their standard library is (over)complete. Go does this well, to the point where a lot of people in the community say "you don&#x
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
Define "large"; I've never ran into serious performance issues during the ~15 years I've used Git, which either means the projects I've worked in aren't actually large large, or Git is fast enough for most us
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by Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
This is the truth of the matter, ultimately nobody wins except the bookie, who profits either way.

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