JohnFen

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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> why is "tech workers' opinion" more important than other workers opinion? In this case, it's because those tech workers are the ones whose work is being used to advance these horrific outcomes.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> tech workers complain loud and often but they're still there everyday implementing and optimizing the same "nightmare" they complain about. Of all the hypocrisies that are common in our industry, it's this one that
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> Natural doesn't mean good, artificial doesn't mean bad. Indeed. Arsenic is natural.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
What happens if Google ceases to exist before the bonds mature? Do they become worthless?
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
As you know, being an LLC gives you some legal protections. It's also not terribly complex or expensive. Odds are, you're better off doing it than not. You should talk to a business attorney, though, about all the pros and cons fo
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> At some point, you may have been faced with the decision yourself: should I continue to use this service if I have to verify my age? My personal answer is easy: no. I honestly can't imagine an online service so necessary that I&#x
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> ICE took a break during the Obama and Biden years for some reason. This is simply not true.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I was genuinely surprised at how much outright dishonesty was in this editorial.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> Ads are why we have nice things. Ads make nice things crappy. Not just because of the ads and spying that comes along with them, but also because when a product or service is ad-driven, then it becomes optimized to increase ad revenue
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Honestly, I've long been wondering the same thing. I haven't written much boilerplate code in decades, and am curious as to why others seem to write so much of it.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> automation has made clothing both better and cheaper. Cheaper, yes. Better, most definitely not. We have traded quality for price.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
lol! What a bizarre reaction. I didn't see that one coming.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Discard what? My opinion?
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> how Obamacare became a common name Just a reminder, "Obamacare" isn't the name of that program. It's the "Affordable Care Act". His administration didn't name it after him in any way. "Obamacare&
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Infinitesimally close to zero.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> "assume every system on earth can/will be breached" This. I've spent years working in network security and one of the core principles is "if a thing can be accessed legitimately, it can be accessed illegitimate
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> how do you stay informed about what software is problematic? It's a loose heuristic. Primarily, I base it on word-of-mouth, whether or not the publisher/dev is known to have used tracking/telemetry in their other product
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Just from the devs I've known personally (so hardly representative of the whole dev population), there appears to be a bit of a correlation with people not having degrees being more likely to be happy with their line of work. This is e
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I avoid software that I know to be problematic. Also, I firewall off all outgoing network traffic by default, and whitelist very sparingly. For my smartphone, I run a bare minimum of apps and refuse to install new ones without an extremely
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> What can HN (and other forums) do to detect/prevent this? No clue. But if it becomes actually true that I can't distinguish between real and AI comments, then my personal solution is to stop bothering to read comments entirel
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> I see a world were the people you're calling "devs" today will do the business jobs tomorrow. In other words, there will be no more devs so everyone should retrain as, effectively, MBAs and managers? That's very bad
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I don't think it's so weird, really. All these people are pathological egotists who think they should be able to do anything they want with impunity. Other people are merely resources to be mined and have no value or importance be
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
My intention wasn't to be negative, it was to point out a real issue. If we're talking about a standard kind of age verification, then it's a problem. At least for me, I couldn't use such a system. Since, with this syste
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
The method the article is describing requires a system with a secure enclave. That means it does indeed suck for people using machines that lack such a thing.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Just to give the article's answer to the clickbaity title: The evidence (and the question) is not clear, but they have an opinion.
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I have seen many websites that detect if you've entered something into a field or touched some control and then try to switch away from the page. They then pop up a dialog box saying something like "you have unsaved changes, are y
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That's just what Trump does: he says the abhorrent thing that he wants done, then lies about what he "meant" when the wrong people get upset because of what he wants done.
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OOOHHH! Thank you!
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Isn't it interesting how the US government is all hot and bothered about "racing with China" when it comes to anything except for those things that help to increase the safety of citizens?
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Definitely possible. Only about half of the people I've worked with have degrees in the field.

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