JohnFen

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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> I think there is a real market for modding news cars to have physical buttons again. I sure hope so. I can avoid this whole touchscreen madness by only buying older cars, but there's a chance that I'll outlive the availabilit
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> I can trust won't sell my data. And when you're capturing images of people without their informed consent, it's not even "your data". You're just a conduit through which these companies spy on unconsenting
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> Debugging a messy system is the worst part of a programmer's job. How true this is depends on the programmer. I find debugging such systems to be fun. I also don't watch medical TV shows.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I'm genuinely surprised at that.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
True, but my point is that what's being reported is a continuation of a solid trend that has been going on before any Trump people were anywhere near. The FBI is certainly not trustworthy, but in this case what they're saying is i
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
If we need a way to prove online personhood, then we've already lost. It means that the internet is no longer a place for humans and is, in fact, hostile to us. I'm not saying that the personhood assertion is incorrect, only that
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
In this case, it's the continuation of a trend that has been happening since well before Trump was ever president, so seeing record lows is exactly what was expected. Also, murder is primarily a state-level charge, not federal, so it&#
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
This is ghoulish.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I don't consider HN or YouTube to be social media. But if they count, then they're the only social media I use. I've been weaning myself off of YouTube, though, and use of HN has dropped significantly of its own accord.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
True. But asking schools to conserve electricity while encouraging data centers to waste it is perverse.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Regular people use keyboard covers?? I don't think I've ever seen that. I have only seen them on machines that are ruggedized for harsh environments or keyboards that are in public areas for public use.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Sometimes there's a straightforward, single workaraound that could be usefully distributed, but often there's not. The exact workaround that a user would need can vary depending on how the user is using the software and what they&
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Damn. I procrastinated a bit too long. Now the need to find a better place for my money than my 401k, or a better 401k, is very urgent.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I agree, pizza wheels are terrible. I switched to just using a big knife a long time ago. Fast, much better accuracy, and without muss or fuss. I prefer it over scissors.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I'm not sure that "Do what I demand or I'll hurt US citizens even more" is quite the threat Trump thinks it is.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I will only make an account if I don't need to supply more personal information than is absolutely necessary and if I'm certain that doing so is necessary to get something that I actually need.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I suppose that I should have added "in my state" to my comment about comparable wages. I can't speak to any other regions.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
The problem is that you still have to trust something you don't control and can't verify that the technological solutions are correctly implemented and applied.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
That's one reason, sure, but it's very far from being the only one. Another reason that I hear with increasing frequency is that the most visible effects of genAI is that it's making things worse. It makes things more difficu
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> You don't see "older nurses are tapping out early" because financially they can't. In the US, anyway, you do see that. Experienced nurses make money comparable to what experienced devs make, and as the doctor and nu
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
Most of the older devs I know aren't in the industry primarily for the money. Their wealth level may not be a large factor in their decision about whether or not to leave early. The ones I know who are leaving (including myself) are do
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
If your concern is how to prepare yourself financially in the near-medium term, then "is genAI a bubble" is exactly the right question. If it is, then we need to be prepared for the shock when it pops. The question of whether or n
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I think this is the deep flaw this whole thing sits on: it's relying on photos. Photos do a very poor job of relaying how attractive people are, because most of what makes a person attractive is not their static appearance, but how the
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
The fact that Flock operates a service that undermines and endangers society as well as innocent individuals is a thing they might want to distance themselves from, but they can't. Flock (and similar services) presents a real threat to
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
They were introduced in 1997, although I personally didn't start seeing them until a couple of years later.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
I simply don't trust such systems to be accurate, reliable, or complete enough to use for that sort of task.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
How dare you think or talk about your new god without complete adoration.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
You might be even more shocked to learn that the author's experience isn't rare.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
If you click on the little [-] next to a comment, it will collapse that comment and all the replies to it. Then you don't have to scroll past them.
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by JohnFen 4mo ago
> Every day I feel a little more disgusted that this is the field I dedicated my career to. Oh, man, am I sympathetic to that. But I try to remind myself that the problem isn't the field itself, it's the industry. Those are two

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