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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
> nothing but mutable objects of indeterminable state getting caught in infinite-loops or unbound recursion due to INotifyPropertyChanged Rant on brother/sister. I'm a year into building a large WPF (because reasons) app for my
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The Price of Happiness (2024)(happiness-science.org)
90 points by andyjohnson0 3mo ago|49 comments
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
The system in my car (2018 Ford Fiesta) will play mp3s from a usb stick but, as with your experience, it has only a basic understanding of ID3. It completely ignores the "position in media set" tag, for example, meaning that it pl
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
Welcome to HN. This isn't a place for hosting your blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link? Thats how HN works.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
1. Don't restrict yourself to two options. 2. Don't chase perceived prestige. In a few years nobody will care 3. I don't know, but I'm assuming you're young. If you already have a BSc or similar and have been accept
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Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work(sciencedirect.com)
7 points by andyjohnson0 3mo ago|2 comments
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
People quibbling about whether TFA was written by an AI and why the chart is at the end of the article and what a standard deviation. Meanwhile the planet is simmering.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
The smell of the Magic Smoke from burning electronics.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
> I chose a work device because I do not want any cross-contamination. This is a wise choice. For me, nothing personal goes onto my work phone or laptop. And nothing work-related goes onto personal devices. Life is just easier that way.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
I was surprised recently to read that the centre-point of the orbits of the starlink satellites doesn't actually correspond to the earth's physical centre. Instead, they orbit around the centre of Elon Musk's ego. As he moves
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
I managed to cancel a (non-edu) Adobe subscription a few years ago, despite being a few days past the cut-off date for cancellation. What worked for me was to phone them and insist on cancelling. The person I spoke to insisted right back th
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
Disappointingly this is merely about the accuracy or otherwise of The Economist's predictions, not the rightness or otherwise of their world-view.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
The quote originated with George Bernard Shaw back in 1903, not Nassim Taleb. And it has always been a lazy take. Some people just prefer to write (or teach).
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
> What does it mean to you? For this European: that Independence is increasingly illusory and maladaptive on our crowded, overheating planet - and that we all need to be thinking more about our mutual Interdependence and shared humanit
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
Please don't post rants on Ask HN.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
Ask HN isnt really the place for hosting blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link?
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/tm1pg
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
Thank you. Initially the former, and maybe later the latter.
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
I've seen recommendations for Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning by David E Goldberg as a classic/foundation text. However its 35+ years old. Is it still worth reading?
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Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms
15 points by andyjohnson0 3mo ago|9 comments
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
Ask HN isnt really the place for hosting blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link?
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
> No idea where vacuum tubes were invented but I'm sure the BBC could find someone to make them. The BBC has just cut its budget by £500 million, in an apparent attempt to limit the damage from the latest charter renewal process - w
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Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI(arxiv.org)
4 points by andyjohnson0 3mo ago|1 comments
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
Full title: Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability
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by andyjohnson0 3mo ago
I never met or knew him but, like many here, I've been following his blog for a decade or so. By impression and reputation he was a kind, thoughtful, and creative soul who did good by the world - and I'm saddened that he has gone.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> Building their own AI models second: building the infrastructure data centres, talent pipelines third: chips Most countries lack the capacity to build these capabilities in a way that provides any return on investment. Rather than ever
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> The whole attitude and process around this and the other topics gives me very little faith that Java can be steered in a sensible direction here. I agree. The stewardship of Java seems rather lacking - particularly when compared to tha
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
Switch to Firefox. And/or Kagi. Google is unlikely to be your friend.
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by andyjohnson0 4mo ago
> I’m currently at 2.5 YOE at big tech making 250k 250k is good money. I'd stay, accrue experience and contacts, bank some money. The startup probably won't work out anyway - they usually don't. And even if it does, 3% equ

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