MrPatan

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by MrPatan 3y ago
Precisely the exact opposite is true. There are countless software projects that have never seen the light of day because the developers spent all the time polishing the back of the cabinet (and the product managers designing the door handl
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by MrPatan 3y ago
The actual market's choice is hard to fake. It's people voting with their dollars. Don't like it, don't watch it. Don't care, watch it. Disney are not the market, and neither are they "the market". They
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by MrPatan 3y ago
What's the problem with low quality and low effort? Let the market decide if they like it or not.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
What's wrong with using generative AI?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
He's a (successful) politician. I wouldn't expect him to say that of course he's self-made and his listeners (whose votes he may or may not need) are a bunch of not-self-made losers. That sentence doesn't give me a lot
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by MrPatan 3y ago
"Processing" is not the issue. Food seeing the inside of a factory is not what will make you sick. It's what gets put in it. It's the sugar. I'm pretty sure at this point that the word "processed food"
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> YAML is good for human readable configuration Not for me it's not.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I don't find YAML undertandable. I find JSON very understandable. I think it's another example of the different ways people understand (I don't want to call it "reading") code: "textually" or "visuall
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Is "processed" the problem? What's the process that makes you fat and sick? Is it boiling? Stirring? Heating? Freezing? Or is it the added sugar? It's the sugar
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I can't parse it.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
No, it's the syntax. It's bad.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
A code smell means you should look into it, not that it's wrong. Some things are genuinely 2kloc-complex. Maybe not that many. Do check! But some are.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I don't read that title the same way other people read that title
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Then no one can pay for college anyway
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Yes. And if the university thinks underwater basket weaving is really important and should definitely be studied, they should fund it themselves, not the taxpayer, to align incentives. "It's important if I don't have to pay
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by MrPatan 3y ago
My point exactly
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by MrPatan 3y ago
What if it's not about missing perspectives, but exposure to infohazards?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Is it possible to find out how much sugar does a restaurant put in the food? https://youtu.be/YUeEknfATJ0?t=42
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by MrPatan 3y ago
How can you tell? American economy is the biggest in the world and growing, unlike Europe. Do you claim it'd be even bigger with European style cities? I can agree on quality of life grounds, but "damage to the US economy" se
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I can, the moment I realized it's not about any technical problem, about energy or about the environment. It's about sin, penitence, redemption, guilt, shame, lack of self-awareness and too much free time. There's always bee
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by MrPatan 3y ago
I don't think this applies to bigger apps like an excel or Photoshop. I don't think HN is very "appy", to be honest.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
If they can't make anything else, they make noise.
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by MrPatan 3y ago
You're playing with words to win an argument when the game is already over. You want to claim no censorship happened because the TLAs with the monopoly on violence "only asked"? Ok. Cool. Still, after their shenanigans-which-
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Ok, and what do we do with the apps that are huge because of the reason I think?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Once again, the "write once lots of small websites" people and the "maintain huge web apps" people, will be talking past each other. We share a base layer in HTML, CSS, JS, but the incentives, requirements, job environme
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Still can't see it. Once you do components CSS gets much simpler, what's the point of a layer on top?
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> I know your opinion is that you'd have accused China right then and there. You don't know that. "Don't lie" and "don't censor your own citizens calling you out on your lies" mean exactly what it
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> nor can you place blame or reduce your trust across all scientists and scientific institutions. And yet I did, and so did millions more. Now what? You think we're irrational? Ok, that doesn't fix it. That is what "destr
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by MrPatan 3y ago
Why is lying and censoring dissenting views a bad way to sell something? Because it destroys all trust we have in that institution, and now every time they try to push something again we have to wonder "What lies and censorship are the
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by MrPatan 3y ago
> You say: "don't lie", ok, where did you see lies? Who did you see lying? Who censored what? The most obvious one, which you already admitted to in your original post, is the lab leak theory. They knew it was a very like

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