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by Sebb767 4y ago
> 10x exist in most fields. In academia there are definitely people who are heads and shoulders above others, for example. I think this depends a bit on your viewpoint. When most people think of 10x developers, they think of ten times th
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> I really like this quote, but I can't find any reference to Adam Savage saying it. Maybe, instead of attributing the quote to someone who said it, they attributed the quote to someone who they'd think would've said it.
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> Doesn't keeping the seed remove the whole point of one time passwords? You need to keep the seeds anyway to generate OTP codes. They are just keeping them in their vault in addition to keeping them in their OTP app. As long as t
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Maybe I should have steelmanned your position a bit more. That being said, the grand³parent said: > This whole thing makes OpenAI seem evil if you ask me. Just another company exploiting people who are already being exploited. In that co
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> My belief: When you have a legitimate choice of your place of employment, and all of the opportunities will let you live your definition of a comfortable life, that's when it's no longer exploitative. By that argument, paying
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While there is no good way to do a mass-layoff, I don't particularly like the way this was communicated. There's a lot of flowery language and the fact that there will be massive layoffs is only said in passing in the third paragr
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ATX is just a formfactor, there's nothing preventing apple from releasing an ATX board with soldered-on memory - this is actually not even that unusual in the µATX formfactor.
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> Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. Not that it matters much, but lying in wait until prey wanders by is behavior I'd associate with hunters, not gatherers.
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And that outage was the first of its kind in a long time and made a lot of news. It's not like this is usual in any way.
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> But why? How many web sites are you going to open at once? You in 2010 about 10 Mbit/s, probably. Okay, with less snark, having the capacity just opens up so much more opportunities. Imagine live streaming VR, hosting a video conf
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Crypto people and big company people are not distinct groups. You can find people that worked in large and small companies that never touched crypto, but also find people who worked in large crypto. Coinbase is a great example, as with thei
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> Eating cooked chicken bones is very dangerous Why is that?
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> But it's crazy, right? Using a license designed by a direct business competitor? Microsoft also publishes software under open-source licenses [0]. The license is short and well-understood, it's not like a large piece of softw
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> DnD is a platform now. That's really cool for them, and long term will benefit them a ton, even if they aren't able to "optimize" their revenue right now. Assuming they don't tank their platform, which it very
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> The issue with the revocation of the OGL 1.0a license is that it affects all of those games. How so, if they're not using WotC IP? Honest question, it seems absurd to me that the can cancel a license and have it affect people who
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> Why did Paizo use a license not designed by them? Why would they when there's a well-known and (before recent events) fully trusted license already established within the community?
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It's a sidenote, but part ("Act") 1 has a strange structure. They start off with Tether doing dodgy business and most likely being insolvent (a very good and sound point), but then end with > Tether’s most public executive
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> You'd also save a ton of less operations and engineering staff. You absolutely would not. The cost of having developers put out extremely optimized code (due to the scaling limits) and cuddle that single server to never, ever fail
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> With a second OS partition, the server can alternate between the working copy and a copy that is updated in a VM. For a free service, customers cannot complain even if there is a reboot every day and the service is down for a couple of
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The list might be ordered, but it's not sorted, at least not by a criteria that would be obvious to me or the author.
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> How did we let Europe do this to us? Blaming the EU for this feels pretty disingenuous. GDPR is definitely well-intentioned and in the interest of the consumers, the horribly annoying popups you get everywhere are just a form of malici
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> Like artwork that was clearly derivative or low quality was top billing for the day, and amazing work was ignored. With all Reddit-like forums, there are big secondary factors to what bubbles to the top. Just as an example, the timing
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It's just a sidenote, but HN is not a single person and doesn't hold a singular opinion. We have both sides argued for in both threads. Not that I disagree that there might also be some bias going on ("our" vs. "the
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This would probably make the situation worse. You'd remove the incentive for people who moderate for the good of their own community, leaving only those who do so for the power they get (which are probably worse mods, though I don&#x
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SOs answer quality was never perfect, but there are still a few differences: - Humans actually try to answer the question at hand, whereas ChatGPT is only auto-completing text. This might lead to similar results in a lot of cases, but the g
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> An answer on SO is either helpful or not. Who cares how it was written? "Who cares if the diagnosis is done by a medical expert or someone pulling out random drugs they tried before? As long as I feel better immediately after taki
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HN is really lucky to have dang. Although he is a payed mod, so it's not 100% comparable.
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I'm not dismissing everyone, but those people the post referred to are all in this category. People with money to put behind an idea will either open with "I'm looking to hire an ML engineer with experience for a startup idea
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> If they are actually going to pay for your time, why just don't take the job? You probably never received such am offer. It's always in the form of "I bring the idea, you do all the work and, instead of money, you&#x27
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