Firmwarrior

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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Your argument is literally exactly the same argument Facebook uses to justify all its spying. It's not a solid ideological base to build upon. I don't want ANYONE spying on ANYTHING that I'm doing, even if they think it&#x2
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Man, I saw this article, and I was like "Huh, that's impossible.. but it's on HN, surely it's not complete BS" turns out I just got in a little too soon.. ugh
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
I'm looking forward to the test coming out, and a perfect score being posted 5 seconds later
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
> If I had the choice between a Caltech grad who had all A's and no experience or a student from some random state school who had interned every summer and contributed to open source, I'd pick the latter. I really wish someone
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Anecdatally, loading into the Dwarf starting zone in 2005 was one of the most mind-blowingly immersive experiences of my gaming career One second I was sitting at my computer watching a loading bar, and the next I was standing in a vast win
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Last time I went to Goodwill, they had a bunch of 20 year old gamepads with the joysticks chewed off for $60 each I guess they decided to err on the side of not selling things rather than risk giving away a good deal
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Yeah, man, I was a kid in high school at the time, and saved a lot of money to get this game. It was running at 4 FPS, but even worse was that the characters went from beautifully-drawn sprites in FF6 to hideous sets of cubes and pyramids
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Haha, yeah, I got kinda bitter after learning the hard way that Dilbert wasn't a parody You make good points, about that 90% figure and that I shouldn't imply salaried life as exploitation. There's a reasonably healthy free
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Man, that's a really screwed up outlook I got piped out of Microsoft and Amazon, both cases after years of excellence on my part because my VP lost a fight with another VP. In my case, I knew that I was a five star engineer in a 3 star
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Man, that's a great idea Hire a bunch of PIs to follow and publicly report on all the movements and actions of every exec you can manage at Google, Facebook, and smaller/shadier ad companies
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Quick excerpt: "The first species to emerge from a Noah’s Ark egg will be warm-blooded plants designed to collect energy from sunlight and keep themselves warm in a cold environment. “Plants could be engineered to grow greenhouses the
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
When are you going to have a VC fork over $10,000,000 and start your empire?? I use your crazy search engine all the time, and it's fucking great. Last time I checked, though, you're getting like $30 a month from Patreon and that
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Well, if it makes you lads feel any better, we're not the only ones who feel this way Paul Graham has been pushing for someone to disrupt web search on and off for at least the last 10 years: http://paulgraham.com/ambit
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Unless there's a critical mass of shills, and then anyone who speaks out against them will get banned and/or downvoted to oblivion..
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Yeah, a lot of subreddits are clogged with the same bad info that's gotten all over Google's front page. The stickied "list of recommendations" on an enthusiast sub is just the same as you'd get from clicking the t
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Big picture, I think all this pushing to make everything perfect for every person on the entire planet Earth before expanding to space is a TERRIBLE strategy Imagine a StarCraft/Factorio player who hides out in his starting base, build
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
I've been on the fence about Satisfactory, but I just checked Notch's twitter and the dude is STILL sitting there playing it all day The man's rich enough to be swimming with whales or partying in space and he's sitting
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Hanging out on WallStreetBets? Yes Paying for lunch? No
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Someone was saying they could have moved to South America and laundered $1000 at a time, but you'd think that the US government could've easily tracked that down as well.. "Hmm, it appears someone is living off this stolen 3
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
yeah, I wish the answer to "concern trolling" were to link an FAQ that debunks all the common concern troll tactics, rather than to immediately and permanently ban that person from whatever "private space" they're c
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Where does it stop, though? At this rate, another 20 years down the line someone is going to be digging up our social media posts and canceling us for saying "the N word" directly instead of more indirectly saying "vicious r
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Self-hosted ads COULD be a dramatic improvement, if the companies start vetting these ads in some way My guess is it'll result in backend web modules that make it easy to automatically dynamically re-host the same virus- and tracker-in
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
I did that at Amazon, and it didn't help me too much, since basically my entire org got burned to the ground after our VP lost a fight with another VP. Proving I did my job for the year I got a bad performance review didn't reall
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Holey moley, that is insane. It's pretty wild that a good test engineer can either eat dirt at a big company or help himself to millions of internet dollars by robbing poorly-secured startups Your argument about security is as old as
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
I never really gave much thought to how dangerous this stuff was until a year or so ago, Eric Engstrom (one of the creators of DirectX and a personal hero of mine) accidentally overdosed and died from it: > He died at a hospital in Seatt
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
yeah, the other day I ran afoul of that practice The top post in the relevant enthusiast sub recommending stuff to buy had no actual information, but it was stuffed with Amazon affiliate links. It was basically a "Top 5 X 2022" p
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
Why would he beat the batter for 15 minutes? Did flour back then not have as much gluten? This is all the info I could manage to find about this on my own: (mangled the link since the site is jam-packed with ads and trackers) www.realsimpl
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
+1 to this My friends and I all bought fake Bose headphones from a shady dealer in China (in person), and the $50 knockoffs sounded exactly as good as the real $600 ones. The only way to tell there was anything wrong was by the fact that t
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by Firmwarrior 5y ago
The only way AI is going to replace doctors is if medical technology advances to the point where you can repair a human as well as you can repair a machine (or someone invents AGI, I guess) There are just too many unknowns and fiddly things