Jtsummers

7 ms·

151.
by Jtsummers 2mo ago
Is that the base price from Apple or with discounts to try and move the product?
152.
by Jtsummers 2mo ago
> Mars was actually discovered before Total Recall was released. No one suggested otherwise.
153.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
The regular 17 is cheaper than the Air, not more expensive. And it has a better camera and battery and a slightly worse processor (but still better than the 14 there). The next gen Air might be worth getting but the current one is an awkwar
154.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> Keeping things up to date and holding critical infrastructure to higher standards than consumer tech is not a bad idea. This is a great theory, but practice (over centuries now if not millennia) tells us that critical infrastructure is
155.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
The legal arguments against Flock are different than the legal arguments against thermal imaging by the police (without a warrant or probably cause). And the latter is closer to the hypothetical broad mind reading (science fiction, again) t
156.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
It's already been decided by SCOTUS that things like heat imaging require a warrant, and that arbitrary scanning without a warrant (or presumably also probable cause) is a violation of the 4th amendment. This technology (still science
157.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860 - huge discussion over here
158.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
It was updated and the second edition was published last year. I have not read it so have no idea what changed and what did not.
159.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> You're sacrificing end user experience for developer ergonomics. No. You may be sacrificing end user experience, but it's not guaranteed. You have to examine the system under development to determine which style is appropri
160.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
Iran has been two weeks away from getting the bomb for decades now. And last year the US supposedly set them back decades on their nuclear aims. This war was absolutely unnecessary if blocking them from nuclear weapons was the objective, or
161.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> Gas prices are up a bit. A gross understatement. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E... Zoom in on this year and you'll see it's below $3 a gallon in January and Fe
162.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
That as well, what resistance was present was reduced from what it could have been (not everyone was in on it).
163.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> But running out of missiles—which is the accusation being made above—would be a tactical and logistics failure, not a strategic one. It's absolutely a strategic failure to enter into a war without sufficient munitions or logistica
164.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> Have we already forgotten what happened to Maduro? What other country in the history of the world could pull something like that off? Venezuela was a raid, not a full on war. And it was so lopsided it was like putting Michael Jordan a
165.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> He also could have showed the if-statement version, and it wouldn't have some of the performance impacts, but there's a big chunk of the article that's independent of that. You just explained why the piece comes across (
166.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
It's a strawman because Muratori took an obvious toy example meant to illustrate a concept (using classes and methods to dispatch on operations instead of using a series of if/else's as in Martin's prior example) and foc
167.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
I've seen 10k+ SLOC functions written in C, and 20k SLOC functions written in Fortran, so it wouldn't surprise me if people created ones as big as bluGill describes. The C was almost always written by EEs who learned that function
168.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> programming in general is waaaaaay bigger than what the book covers. It's way bigger than any book covers. Clean Code has some useful things, but if anyone actually reads chapter 1 they'd see that Martin even addresses the
169.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> So is The Pedestrian... It's set in November, not August, and another 27 years further in the future (at least the version currently linked to on the front page).
170.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Professional_Air_Traffic_... That's the last time there was an ATC strike, 90% were fired and they got none of their demands. Turns out, the people of the US don't care if t
171.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> Where was the air traffic controllers' union? They could have used industrial action to address the unsafe conditions Effectively neutered 45 years ago after the strike in 1981.
172.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158144 - CNN submission earlier, people flagged it.
173.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> It's an 18 year old kid talking up their accomplishments two years ago on Twitter. 16-year-old, not 18-year-old. The original work that they disproved with GPT-5.5 was from two years ago, the posted work happened recently. GPT-5.5
174.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115506 - 112 comments from a few days ago on this same topic, different source.
175.
Why Is the U.S. Running So Low on Weapons?(theatlantic.com)
18 points by Jtsummers 3mo ago|20 comments
176.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073691 - A lot of discussion on this last week (though a substantial portion was people not reading the article and making points either made in the article itself or unrelated entirel
177.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
> Submission title is a bit misleading. It's the original title, she labeled it a rant herself. EDIT: The person I replied to has significantly edited their comment since my original reply so my comment now appears as a non sequitur
178.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
(2007) and the actual title is "Rich Programmer Food" which has been submitted in the past (under the correct title) a few times with some good discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&pref
179.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
A lot of the (publicly discussed in the news) cases about this topic trace back to X.ai and Grok and suits against them. So it kind of makes sense that, in defending the law, they'd reference the company and implementation that seem to
180.
by Jtsummers 3mo ago
Several interpretations: 1. All human, and interpreted like you suggest (out of touch company offering tokens as severance rather than something actually useful to people). 2. Human "HR" and AI workers, the tokens are a regular

More ›