GuB-42

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by GuB-42 8mo ago
Kind of like this: https://xkcd.com/1368/ And it is the kind of things a (cautious) human would say. For example, that could be my reasoning: It sounds like a stupid question, but the guy looked serious, so maybe there
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by GuB-42 8mo ago
Microsoft also gets millions of dollars from both hospitals, probably. There is a good chance hospitals have computers running Windows and MS-Office. Microsoft also works closely with the Pentagon and whatever "evil" organizations
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I came to realize that logs don't matter. O(log(n)) and O(1) are effectively the same thing. The reason is that real computers have memory, accessing memory takes time, and bigger n needs more memory, simply to store the bits that repr
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
The magic mouse have been there, almost unchanged, since 2009. That is a lot for a tech product, and retiring a product after 16 years is not admitting to a mistake. For example, the Logitech G5 mouse and its direct evolutions were among th
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
It can be some technical detail. For example: imagine you have 2 windows, the lower right corner of one window almost touching the upper right corner of the other, so that the bounding rectangles overlap but the graphics don't. With th
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I would rather avoid having the government decide what I should run on my devices, private companies are already bad enough.
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
When Tesla debuted, the cost of batteries made electric cars more like an expensive novelty. The Tesla roadster certainly was fun, but it wasn't a practical car for day-to-day use. Of course, things have changed. Had Tesla gone all-in
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I don't think they can win over large company, they are just a small nonprofit organization, large companies want to work with other large companies. Where they can make a difference is for fellow organizations and maybe small companie
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
On this topic, I think it is worth mentioning Framasoft [1] It is a French organization that offers plenty of alternatives to Google and other big tech products. A lot of them are just rebranded and hosted open source software, but they als
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
One tradeoff is that one of the tradeoffs graphics programmers do is about security. They typically work with raw pointers, using custom memory allocation strategies, memory safety comes after performance. There is not much in terms of sand
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
An interesting example, because your body is literally something you have to hide. That is, it is illegal not to. Personally, I hide it because that's what society is telling me, especially if children are around, and I have no real
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Information asymmetry has always been a thing, wars have been though over this. But I think that in our age, information asymmetry is particularly low, at least in western countries. Each one of us has access to a tremendous amount of data,
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I think that "nothing to hide" is a strawman. No one really says that in an absolute sense, it is always in context, what it usually means is "I trust a particular institution with the data they collect", not "I wil
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Like everyone else, I am very skeptical that it is somehow related, for several reasons. - He is just a small time streamer, I didn't watch his videos but it looks like typical clickbait content playing on people's paranoia. Why w
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
> in just one generation user manuals went from showing you how to tune your carburetor to warning you not to drink the battery acid The truth is just that we don't have actual user manuals anymore. Either the things that went into
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Optimizing things that people do even think about optimizing and showing off the "better way" is completely in the spirit of Hacker News. That's the reason I am here ;)
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I a big company I worked with, they had a special program for future top managers, they have them do grunt work in several departments for several years before they get the position they are hired for. We had one of these guys working with
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
The industry doesn't want to make software crack proof, they just want to make money. Typically, in the case of games, is is about "when", not "if", they know it will be cracked eventually, but they want to hold lon
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Also: do you want a promotion or just a raise? A promotion means you are getting a different job, typically leadership, which means working with people more with machines. If you are better with machines than you are with people, do you rea
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
> Yes, I know scouts learn knot-tying in general, but a lot of kids don't even get to do scouting But do knot scouts learn to tie their shoes correctly? I never did scouting but I have done sailing, and was interested in knot tying
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
A PC with an Apple sticker on it is not an Apple-branded system, it is a PC with an Apple sticker on it. If you actually were to consider it an Apple-branded system, then it would be a trademark violation, which feels worse to me.
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Having to put a physical device on your parallel port at the back of the computer is kind of annoying, especially if every software you use has one. More common for games was to use the media itself for copy protection, using a variety of t
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Politics is a bit biased, not only because many of these people don't write their own speeches, but also because the complexity of what they say is not neutral. Simpler speech conveys the idea of being no-nonsense and close to the peop
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
That the Cybertruck would fail wasn't common sense. It failed because it sucked. I was supposed to be tough but it crumbled apart, and it didn't meet the European safety standards. Its design while controversial, had personality,
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
The difference is that if you are honest and pragmatic and someone asked you how you added two numbers, you would only say you did long addition if that's what you actually did. If you had no idea what you actually did, you would proba
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
> WD-40 themselves have come out with improved "Specialist" formulations that mostly just copy other, superior products. We all know that there is something better for the job than WD-40, its value comes from its convenience, a
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
It had been shown that LLMs don't know how they work. They asked a LLM to perform computations, and explain how they got to the result. The LLM explanation is typical of how we do it: add number digit by digit, with carry, etc... But b
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
The lack of QA isn't felt right away. They are accumulating tech debt, which mean problems are becoming more frequent and harder to solve over time until they fix the fundamentals, and it doesn't feel like they intend to.
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I wasn't referring to the absolute cheapest, more of a representative price. If you want to go cheap, the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G, a perfectly fine, recent phone is $200, which is still a 1:3 price ratio to the $600 iPhone. And you can g
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
The biggest differentiator is price. An entry level Android phone is about $300 while an iPhone is in the $1000 range. And to be honest, anything more than an entry level Android is luxury these days. I say that because that's what I h

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