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by acdha 9mo ago
> No, they aren't They’re literally the words he updated his blogpost to add. > That is, again, objectively not what happened. Cool story, do you have any sources? You keep saying every period source is wrong, based on what?
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by acdha 9mo ago
GamerGate was still going strong in 2015, and did absolutely nothing to help stories like that. The people attacking journalists don’t get to take credit for their targets’ work.
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by acdha 9mo ago
This is too hot a take. Regular expressions are used in some cases where they shouldn’t be, yes, but there’s also been a ton of code which used other string operations but had bugs due to the complexity or edge-cases which would have been e
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by acdha 9mo ago
> No, he did not Those were his words, I’m not sure why you’d expect your assertion to be more credible. > nobody was claiming that Grayson reviewed Quinn's games beyond like a day or two of confusion They spent a year lying abou
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by acdha 9mo ago
GamerGate wasn’t doing that work and they distracted mightily from it. For example, the much-hated Kotaku was actually doing reporting which got them black listed so not only was GamerGate not contributing there, they were actually harming
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by acdha 9mo ago
If that was really their motive, they sure picked an odd way to express it by focusing their efforts on attacking one woman with very little power in the industry while ignoring the actual game media outlets and huge companies. It’s like cl
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by acdha 9mo ago
It all started with his post, attacking her relationship with Grayson, who never reviewed her games. Even he later admitted that the original claims were fictitious but that did nothing to stop the attacks – if you look at the threats she r
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by acdha 9mo ago
It absolutely matched the Wikipedia summary. There is a ton of evidence linked supporting each point: it was a hate mob from the moment Eron Gjoni decided his ex should be punished for breaking up with him.
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by acdha 9mo ago
GamerGate was about journalism in the same way that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was to protect the rights of ethnic Russian minorities in that country. The GamerGate people used ethics as an excuse because that sounds a lot more reasona
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by acdha 9mo ago
Far beyond Silicon Valley: for example, we used to rely on immigrants to fill medical jobs – roughly ¼ of doctors, for example: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/11/how-immigrant...
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by acdha 9mo ago
On the out of touch point, I will just note that every time we drive to West Virginia or Pennsylvania you can see when you leave the rich exurbs because it goes from $80k vanity trucks to fuel and maintenance efficient sedans, old Toyotas a
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by acdha 9mo ago
10x came from the 80s, so already fairly different in key ways (internet documentation, CI, platform and tool maturity, etc.), and the methodology is challenging because you don’t have easy comparisons between complex real projects without
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by acdha 9mo ago
You’re welcome to try to get the entire industry to stop referring to junior and senior developers, engineers, etc. but most people know that experience is a distinguishing characteristic. The other huge mistake you’re making is assuming th
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by acdha 9mo ago
That’s not how unions work negotiations work, and the younger worker getting paid less is 100% thinking that they’ll be the senior guy some day.
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by acdha 9mo ago
> If their output is as a tech lead then even a 2x can provide an overall 10x increase through second order impact via their team. This is something the 10x mythology tends to leave out: there are a vanishingly few people who are signifi
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by acdha 9mo ago
Yeah, I think those are coming from the same place: so many companies are trying to wedge LLMs into everything, especially contexts where you really need actual reasoning to accomplish a task, and it’s just such a “magic VC money fairy, pic
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by acdha 9mo ago
Exactly: the technology is useful but because the executive class is hyping it as close to AGI because their buddies are slavering for layoffs. If that “when do you get fired?” tone wasn’t behind the conversation, I think a lot of people wo
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by acdha 9mo ago
Cloudflare works fine with public relay - they and Fastly provide infrastructure for that service (one half of the blinded pair) so it’s definitely something they test.
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by acdha 10mo ago
Some, yes, but if you looked at what was common outside of C programs this was antiquated even then. A SQL developer didn’t have to apply offsets and had better primitives for date math.
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by acdha 10mo ago
> Google's founders can buy all the yachts they could possibly eat, yet Google Searches are offered for free. Google searches cost many billions of dollars: your confusion is because the customer isn’t the person searching but the a
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by acdha 10mo ago
It’s not simple, though. Simple would be something like an object wrapping YYYY-MM-DD, like a COBOL programmer in the 1950s would’ve used. Instead, people have made thousands of variations of bugs around the complexity even basic usage forc
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by acdha 10mo ago
What’s really sad is that this was obvious in 1995. If they’d taken a slightly longer time back then, millions of developers would have avoided tripping over those unnecessary quirks.
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by acdha 10mo ago
It’s conditional immunity: the Roberts court is openly an instrument of Republican power, but they knew there was a good chance that the Democrats would win an election and so the ruling was carefully crafted to allow them to pick the oppos
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by acdha 10mo ago
It’s a group of idiosyncratic people so there are not hard guidelines but there’s definitely a hierarchy of who they are more likely to describe as advance civilizations and who they question were capable of major engineering projects. This
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by acdha 10mo ago
That’s not a bad thing (user experience is important) but remember that Liquid Glass was designed by someone without a UI background. Alan Dye designed the boxes iPhones come in and was installed by Jony Ive, an industrial designer. Neither
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by acdha 10mo ago
The M4 I bought last month shipped without Tahoe and hasn’t been updated. If you can get one which isn’t already upgraded, you can leave it on the better release as long as Sequoia was ever supported on that generation.
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by acdha 10mo ago
Exactly: there was a brief moment when it looked like Republicans were willing to hold him accountable after the January 6th insurrection but that faltered and they circled ranks, especially when Roberts signaled that Trump had the support
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by acdha 10mo ago
No. The modern Republicans want you to believe that because it’s an easy path to despair and inaction, which means they win, but the magnitude and degree have varied significantly in the past. Where we are now is something living Americans
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by acdha 10mo ago
I’ve known a few people like that, and it had a darker undercurrent: they didn’t disbelieve that, say, the Greek or Roman monuments were built by those civilizations because they viewed those as predecessors of their own, but they considere
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by acdha 10mo ago
> The hoopla you are seeing here is textbook selective enforcement This is true in the same way that American gun nuts say shootings happen in other countries, hoping you won’t check absolute numbers. The fact that the large groups which

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