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by Uehreka 2y ago
I’m guessing either you’re not American or you don’t actually do this and are just trying out an argument to see what happens. Like sure, you might make it through the interview with your fifth rotated name and deepfaked voice, but then som
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by Uehreka 2y ago
> For any product, users should be free to use it for any (legal) use they see fit. None of these companies ever agreed to be bound by that value, and aren’t under any obligation to adhere to the tenets of Hacker culture. Hackers as a gr
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by Uehreka 2y ago
My understanding (as a layperson) is that if the fine structure constant changes even a little bit, you basically don’t have atoms or molecules as we understand them. So the game would be something like: a=1/1: Nothingness as far as th
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by Uehreka 2y ago
I feel like it’s pretty easy to disprove. I mentioned Humane AI in another comment, so here I’ll use a different and more flamboyant example: the 2019 movie Cats. After putting $85-110M into the production of the movie, Universal released a
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by Uehreka 2y ago
My issue is that people take the idea that “bad PR” can actually be good for a company (which is common knowledge these days) and just stop there. They don’t go a step further and contemplate where the phrase applies, where it doesn’t, and
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by Uehreka 2y ago
I have a lot of Apple products, but my recent work projects on Android have brought me around a bit on the Pixel line; if I had to switch to Pixel I wouldn’t be mad (though I don’t intend on doing that any time soon). With that being said,
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by Uehreka 2y ago
Since my argument is “there is such a thing as bad publicity and I will die on this hill”, I’m going to shift from this sloppy ad rollout to an example that I think proves my case (that bad publicity is a thing that exists) pretty definitiv
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by Uehreka 2y ago
There definitely is such a thing as bad publicity, I wish people would stop using that phrase to make dumb things sound smart. Of all the companies out there, Apple definitely doesn’t want to trade on negative sentiment, it clashes with the
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by Uehreka 2y ago
One thing I always think about with these kinds of codes: what would they have said if the snow conditions were actually bad and they had to abandon their base?
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by Uehreka 2y ago
So he’s switched to endorsing… Twitter?
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by Uehreka 2y ago
It’s both. The fact that one happened recently does not preclude the other.
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by Uehreka 2y ago
What are you talking about? We have tons of professional certifications. We also still have all of these problems.
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by Uehreka 2y ago
This feels kind of like saying “why do I need to learn how to budget? The calculator will just do it for me.”
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by Uehreka 2y ago
Because you don’t know that it will. If it’s been out for less than a year perhaps no one has been harmed by it yet.
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by Uehreka 2y ago
Windows 11 comes installed on most people’s computers, and among people on this site I’m pretty sure most of us have either had to update for some reason or just auto-updated one day. I don’t know anyone who is skipping Windows 11, given th
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by Uehreka 2y ago
I just never use the word, and tell others not to use it as well. There are synonyms for whatever you’re trying to say, just use those.
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by Uehreka 2y ago
It’s one of those “X and Y problem” things people on StackOverflow talk about. The Y is “we want to achieve the same or higher productivity while reducing payroll” and they’ve heard that AI is a way to do that (an X).
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by Uehreka 3y ago
When I talk to folks like GP, they often assert that the non-CEO people who are advocating for AI safety are essentially non-factors, that really the only people whose policy agendas will be enacted are those who already have power, and the
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by Uehreka 3y ago
Nah, they don’t get points for not censoring criticism of themselves. It would just be negative points if they did.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
If you put it in Glacier Deep Archive it’s closer to $1.3M per year, just to set a lower bound.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I looked and he’s one of those people who submit 2 posts per hour. And like, I wouldn’t want to do that, but if you’re a news junkie who feeds articles into HN soon after they come out and gives us stuff to talk about, it makes sense that y
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> the colours gracefully degrade based on the hardware, so using p3 in a supported browser is not going to look terrible on hardware without p3 support. I feel like it makes it difficult for a brand to decide to rebrand themselves using
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by Uehreka 3y ago
When coming up with a name for something, the significance of the name should be the first thing that comes to mind, not the opposite thing or a thing that requires explanation. When people say the name of your tool, you won’t always be the
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I’ve worked on medical device stuff too, and it’s not like anything else. I’ll never forget the first time I found out that code I’d written had saved someone’s life. I’d done plenty of awesome things, and in that moment they all felt small
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> It sounds fake I don’t think so. I definitely know tech people who get a particular idea in their head and will debug it to hell and back before taking a step back and realizing the obvious thing they missed. I’ve definitely done it be
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by Uehreka 3y ago
> To some degree elementary school has always been a large part daycare and small part teaching. This was definitely a fashionable thing to say last decade. But in a post-Covid world where we’ve seen meaningful deficits in skills as a re
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by Uehreka 3y ago
Why wait? You can already try and publish malware to package registries using misspellings of names of popular packages. Of course in practice, the maintainers of the registries have a vested interest in preventing this kind of behavior and
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by Uehreka 3y ago
Which bank has these mythical 5% interest savings accounts? I’m pretty sure that for most middle-class people, savings interest isn’t a real thing and can be safely disregarded when making decisions.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I wish the auto-close bot could be considered a red flag for the exact reasons you stated, but unfortunately it’s in effect on tons of actually good projects, so it’s not useful as a signal.
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by Uehreka 3y ago
I was gonna make a jokey comment, but I’m seriously at a loss for words. This is the most overtorqued ridiculous take I’ve read all week. Who cares who else is using the free libraries that you’re using?

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