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by andirk 2y ago
And maybe the opposite where the do-everything dream app of Twitter will eventually become an MMO.
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by andirk 2y ago
We should write with *pointers.
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by andirk 2y ago
HTML semantic tags and the World Wide Web at large are very rooted in traditional academic research papers. One of the new awesome features HTML brought was the "hyperlink" to go to another document from citation. With single-page
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by andirk 2y ago
I wonder what the insider trading laws around this are. If I work for the Fed and am in charge of dumping a ton of BTC at a certain time, I can almost guarantee a price drop, and then likely a recovery some time thereafter. Short, buy, shor
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by andirk 2y ago
Before I wrote a single line of code, I championed my abilities to add/subtract individuals from photos for family and friends, first using ClarisWorks Paint! My Samsung S22 can now do this within seconds and better. I removed a TV in
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by andirk 2y ago
CEOs of medium/large companies are the face of the company which means making a couple key decisions per week (a few work hours) and meeting with current/prospective clients (leisure activities). Coupled with making far more $ tha
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by andirk 2y ago
The more features, the lamer the product. Keep HN clean!
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by andirk 2y ago
The Laissez-faire ideology is sometimes in good faith and sometimes just an angle to benefit certain groups. When the latter, it's not as much of an aboutface as it is sticking with the whole "socialism for the rich and capitalism
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by andirk 2y ago
My unpopular opinion: If someone continuously refuses services that offer a _life of decency_ (private room/bath, food, etc, not just a shelter but of comfort), then they become a ward of the state and given the rights and amenities of
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by andirk 2y ago
Good ol overloading of the + operator at work there
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by andirk 2y ago
His speech in forums and emails sounds Aussie to me. And his slight distance from American culture rules out USA. Japan because of a handful of references to Japanese culture, and others have deduced the Pacific region from his corresponden
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by andirk 2y ago
Much like one huge difference between string "42" and the number 42 is that the latter can have math done to it. If you want to avoid the arithmetic, label tasks with words like "simple", "small", "quick&q
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by andirk 2y ago
I hear you but I have had to waste countless hours and endure increased stress because someone pushed code that is way more LOC than needed, difficult to read, no docs, against best practices, on and on. I have also dealt with chunks of gar
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by andirk 2y ago
When Wright first claimed to be the creator of Bitcoin, I didn't believe him only because the creator of Bitcoin was a very elusive person(s), and Wright is loud; I didn't need to look in to it further. Welp, the courts did. My be
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by andirk 2y ago
Factually and statistically speaking, both USA major parties' presidential candidates have a very long rap sheet of pathologically lying. One of the main differences is one started nonstop lying recently whereas the other was nonstop l
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by andirk 2y ago
Interesting take that a lot of bright minds are being stolen from us due to the allure of riches via crypto malware. But I'm hard pressed to assume that they would have stayed on the virtuous side of things in the absence of crypto. Th
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by andirk 2y ago
The recommendation AI portion isn't much related to generative AI, where the former connects existing data points and the latter creates new data points. This TikTok ads team job post[0] does, however, mention "AI-powered smart vi
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by andirk 2y ago
I use dark mode on my IDEs partially to feel cool. I also use max blue-light mod like Mac's Night Shift on everything. Helps the eyes. Then again, some things I expect to NOT be dark mode.
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by andirk 2y ago
Please continue to be diligent in your PRs! Garbage code belongs in the garbage.
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Technical debt. Keep it minimal, and when needed, write a task for it to be looked in to later. Coding standards. Don't submit code that has rando extra lines and things that will slow down the next dev from looking in to the past to l
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by andirk 2y ago
I transfer it to people on the slowest method for 1st borns baby shower. I used it on furniture at Overstock.com while they allowed it. I gamble with it. I have donated with it. For me and probably many others, when expediency isn't an
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by andirk 2y ago
It's a digital currency owned by nobody/everybody, needs no middleman, finite, no trust, the main crypto that other current value-prop projects trade through. There's a worth to that. Stonks usually have a real value behind t
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by andirk 2y ago
AI is the new shiny thing and rightfully so, and incorrectly named. It's more about computing chips cranking through insanely large amounts of data, which coincidentally or not is what bitcoin and other coins use. The backbone of both
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by andirk 2y ago
HTML and CSS are pretty terrible languages. Basic things like form interaction, centering, printing a page of something, overwriting every default UI, etc. often take an odd amount of LOC to make basic things. We're collectively gettin
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by andirk 2y ago
Lots of parts to WebRTC ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API ) but none that I know that can knock out something outside of your browser. It could maybe overload RAM and get kill
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by andirk 2y ago
> You are obviously in the camp that feels entitled... Not at all. I use Brave and "shield down" websites that I like and generally keep their ad situation under control (incl. 3rd party). But your point of hosting vs 3rd party
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by andirk 2y ago
I like the strategy of using flags to say "look into this suspicious part of the code" over a hardcoded block list. And also block shitty JS via "JS AST depth, average JS identifier length" etc even if it's not an a
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by andirk 2y ago
What measures do we have to prove someone mined the bitcoin personally? Similar to how one can say they sold a bunch of copper that they dug out of the ground when really they were paid in copper by illegal sources. The block's "c
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by andirk 2y ago
I believe he said he would eat a ding dong too.
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Might have some crazy SEO implications for everyone. And is a tweet now called a "X gonna give it to you"?

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