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by acuozzo 1y ago
> What is the actual rationale behind some companies literally shoving AI down people’s throats? It's propping up the US economy and businesses mostly look at B2B signals. Keeping "demand" for AI high at e.g., Microsoft, k
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> It sincerely appears to me that you are throwing your life away. ... or need to provide for dependents and have few other options?
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Wouldn't it be refreshing to have the bullshit laid bare for once?
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By selling the game?
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Grab a VPS and use SOCKS5 tunneling via SSH.
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> The laws are written in a way where the responsibility for enforcement falls on the operator of the business. Excluding "identity theft".
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> The official Android "emulator" supplied by Google is qemu Nitpick: It's a fork of QEMU. There are quite a few Google-exclusive changes bundled-in.
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> Python simply operates on arrays of codepoints But most programmers think in arrays of grapheme clusters, whether they know it or not.
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> There's some specific timesheet software used for Gov Contractors that's hands-down, the worst web "application" I've ever used. Deltek. Yuck.
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> starting with using it for CVs to discourage it being edited by middlemen Isn't the motivation to convey that you care enough about your CV to care about its typesetting? I've seen .docx CVs get so trashed (metadata loss?) th
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> no one deserves anything https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/03/udhr.pdf
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It's a popular meme in education just like the idea of barter being some pre-currency "natural state" of exchange which also falls apart under scrutiny.
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I grew up in Freehold, NJ. Would this make any Freehold software I write Freehold2x?
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Knowing your way around the ecosystem of one programming language does not build up the intuition necessary for identifying O(n²) (or worse!) algorithms and choosing/writing O(log(n)) (or better!) ones instead. Computer Science has lit
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by acuozzo 1y ago
I'm not defending Go here, but simplicity can also be used to describe not having to incur the cost of (often leaky) abstractions when things go wrong under the hood or when you need to do something different from the intended use-case
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> but could you afford to build it? And, if not, could you really afford to live there?
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My first HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110883 "A picture of Mel Kaye (the Real Programmer) [pdf]"
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> Wasn’t delamination/corrosion (LaserRot) a not-uncommon problem for LD? It comes down to the glue (and distribution of said glue) used to bond the sides at the pressing plant.
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1. You can exchange privacy for 20% off. 2. Many franchises have a crummy PA system, so you can avoid this if you plan on using the drive-through. 3. Customization. It's very tedious for all involved to repeatedly request "no chee
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> What compels one to be tripping over their neighbour, but at the same time not wanting to engage in a community with them? Children, among other things. Let's make this concrete. I live ~40 minutes from Washington DC and ~30 minut
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> And since the land provides income itself Hardly. Agriculture is hard work and not at all profitable unless the operation is at scale.
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FWIW, I grew up in Brooklyn, NY. I know about both urban and suburban living. I now live in Columbia, MD: a suburb from the late '60s planned with high ideals. My three children each have their own room. They can ride their bicycles on
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OP is trying to say it'll only be a partial replacement.
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> the amount of times I've reached for a notebook pales in comparison What kind of code do you work on? I find notebooks useful all the time, but I write in C for embedded systems, so a lot of what I do involves setting up data stru
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> but in normal colloquial language Therein lies the propaganda.
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> The economy is just an emergent phenomenon. It’s a natural result of unrestricted freedom of exchange. I have a bridge to sell you if you're interested. Let me know.
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Executive function assistance. I'll set alerts, an alarm, write on my hand, etc. and still forget that e.g. my kids have a half-day tomorrow… even when medicated. I'd love to have a little voice in my head periodically reminding m
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Unabomber
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> how to cut someone to size This, thankfully, only works when the recipient of the cut-down lacks self-assuredness. If Mr. New-Money Castle Owner wears pride in knowledge & expertise on his sleeve, then no amount of snobbery will ha
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I don't condone what he did, but... 1. His intention wasn't to destroy in order to build resilience. 2. His targets weren't random.

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