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by Terr_ 5d ago
"It even registered a new HN account today to impersonate a human and post this ad!"
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by Terr_ 5d ago
I sometimes look around at people proposing technical solutions for these political/legal/economic problems, and think: "Was I that naive X decades ago, or were things really different then?"
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by Terr_ 5d ago
They will absolutely put something in to prevent you from doing that, too much of their profit relies on the experience you hate.
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by Terr_ 5d ago
Yeah, whatever happened to the personal computer, a kind of capital equipment available to the masses, something you own and can direct towards your goals and wellbeing? Instead it's like we're sharecropping on a device comp
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by Terr_ 5d ago
> Pets can't speak [...] Current AI's can. It's a very bad example. You've misunderstood the comparison analogy. It's showing two situations where implicit timeframes are important when people talk about what is
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by Terr_ 5d ago
Nah, it "betrays" an awareness of something implicitly obvious: All the software/machines we might discuss are ones from ~2026, rather than ones from ~2226. Similarly, "pets can't do my taxes" is a reasonable s
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by Terr_ 5d ago
Whenever a human writes/improvises a fictional character, it is typically to communicate some concept or goal to other people. The fictional character--even a simplified author-insert speaking "directly"--is part of how the m
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by Terr_ 5d ago
"You're trying to parse HTML with a linear regex. That algorithmic approach is too limited to do what we want with the problem-space." "Why can't you just admit that you think only tree-parsers have souls!?"
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by Terr_ 5d ago
> The first was a traditional interview problem where we give the candidate a codebase and a docker image to run against Is that also on a company provided computer? There are a lot more scams these days where a job-seeker compromises th
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by Terr_ 5d ago
I feel like this is a bit too-optimistically describing an outcome which is unlikely, given how consumers have been slowly losing the same war for decades already. The elephant in the room and the really "tricky part" involves p
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by Terr_ 5d ago
I think this video is more about planned-obsolescence, rather than enshittification. Enshittification involves things like leverage and bargaining power. The company gets big by offering a great thing to consumers or producers (sometimes al
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by Terr_ 6d ago
I'm probably not the only one now remembering Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) and/or the 1982 animated movie. My initial reaction is that this is less worrying than a transgenic approach. https://en.wikipedia.
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by Terr_ 6d ago
> monetize it at the expense of Right, and I'd also like to preempt any apologetics trying to cloak it as socially-beneficial "information discovery." Many of these betting/insider-trading scenarios are structured so
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by Terr_ 6d ago
For me, the use-case of commit messages is to help a human discover when some kind of thing might have changed, as distinct from the commits before and after it. Importantly, the human is doing a subjective scan for something that sounds re
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by Terr_ 6d ago
Just trying some napkin math... Some very surface-level searching shows someone claiming a total societal cost of ~$7k per deer collision. Supposing it's a $15m construction and could last 30 years without major maintenance, then it
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by Terr_ 6d ago
> SNAP is funded. Disregarding the weird roadkill thing: "Funded" isn't necessarily a meaningful determination, since Congress providing 100% funding for $5 that zero people are eligible to receive would also be "full
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by Terr_ 7d ago
> don't even include proofs in their mental concept of what math involves Technically, the largest majority are the people who go: "What are proofs?" :P
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by Terr_ 7d ago
How does that matter? Parent-poster asked about sincerity of thought, not originality. If the spouses-to-be at a marriage ceremony say "I do", would you leap up from the audience to denounce them as frauds because obviously
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by Terr_ 7d ago
Sometimes minimal information is better than extrapolated information, especially when the extrapolation mentally painful to read and has decent probability of being wrong with inaccuracies that waste people's time. Also: 1. It's
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by Terr_ 7d ago
P.S.: Migrating decades of local messages was a huge problem. It's been so long that many import/export tools are defunct. I was even loading up extremely old versions of Thunderbird to see if I could import to that and then upgra
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by Terr_ 7d ago
But surely the reasons for that change are not "the invention of a free army of unpaid minterns." Ex: Much-more furniture being sold are duplicates from a factory process; There are better tools—which do not substitute for exe
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by Terr_ 8d ago
It makes sense to me, if you consider that a "damaged rope" is a bit more elastic, so it stretches more, and allows the anvil to come to rest at a marginally lower position above your head. But only marginally. In other words, i
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by Terr_ 8d ago
Yeah, many do not even allow you to enter in a custom question , which would be marginally better--at least for users who care about security. Then you'd have the option to craft a question which is (A) personally memorable (B) spec
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by Terr_ 8d ago
No, it's usually an instinctive power-saving mechanism, and it happens incredibly frequently. For example, the average driving commuter is not "zoning out" because of some bad experience with roads or cars, but because the
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by Terr_ 8d ago
Like so: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/blame
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by Terr_ 8d ago
While we're at it, the insanity of those "recovery questions", made even worse when many companies demand the same ones .
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by Terr_ 8d ago
A while ago I helped an elderly relative migrate off off a copy of Eudora that they'd been using for many years. (To Thunderbird.) Originally it was about difficulty migrating to a new laptop with a different version of Windows, but I
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by Terr_ 8d ago
Sometimes "reporting" / "monitoring" is how someone does an end-run around normal product and engineering, and we skip adding what ought to be a feature or domain concept. For example, suppose someone wants specia
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by Terr_ 8d ago
I figured that with the crafting, piping in fresh water, and magic incantations, Enki would be the most data-center-adjacent of the deities. :P
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by Terr_ 8d ago
I think this boils down to how it can be tough to tell the difference between: 1. I speak about it as if it were a person because I have embedded some beliefs and expectations which are wrong. 2. I speak about it as if it were a person just

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