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by caeril 3y ago
You have cause and effect completely backwards. NBA teams are NOT denying starter positions to paraplegics "because the paraplegics choose to hate basketball".
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by caeril 3y ago
I'm running a reasonably successful business just fine, thank you. But salespeople are useless intermediaries when everything you need to do is supplied perfectly fine by the platform's dashboard or API. "Call for pricing&quo
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by caeril 3y ago
All abstractions leak like a sieve. Being a developer at ANY layer of the stack without knowing what's happening underneath you is default gross incompetence and a recipe for eventual disaster. Are we cool with surgeons not knowing wha
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by caeril 3y ago
The LLVM layoffs notwithstanding, OP is still largely correct in general. Your typical developer could solder, knew how the CPU works, knew roughly how many clocks would retire a MOV, ADD, MUL, etc, was cognizant of wait states, understood
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by caeril 3y ago
For Cloudflare specifically, it makes sense. Why they even have a sales team is beyond me. Everything we need is available by dashboard and API. When we need to add a zone, or upgrade a zone, or buy more load balancers, or upgrade TLS on
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by caeril 3y ago
In the US, roughly 80% of medical costs are from chronic illness, and roughly 80% of chronic illness is caused by obesity. So it stands to reason that ~64% of those medical debt bankruptcies are nobody's fault but their own because the
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by caeril 3y ago
> Looking in from a European perspective > Bullying!? Are you kidding me? American public school perspective, here, but death threats were a normal part of the bullying equation growing up. Sure, it was mostly "we're going t
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by caeril 3y ago
Wow. I feel really sorry for these giant corporations who have wielded armies of lawyers against fanfic artists to prevent fair use, and to prevent trademarks and patents from expiring on the timelines enshrined by law. Can we all have a mo
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by caeril 3y ago
Oh it's worse than that. The NYT is positing that any neural network that is trained on their data, and can summarize or very closely approximate an article's content on request, is in violation. This reasoning would presumably ap
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by caeril 3y ago
> sudden bad performance nvim is great, and I use it as my daily driver, but bear in mind nearly everything in a modern config is controlled by Lua, which is one of the worst-performing languages on the planet today. "Sudden bad per
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by caeril 3y ago
Censoring their models was the first act of bad faith. Sounds like OP is just running tit-for-tat.
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by caeril 3y ago
> problem imposed upon you by the company No, this is an entirely self-inflicted problem by the user. It's 2023. Everybody knows about the telemetry, the unserviceable hardware, the "fuck you" style bug reporting and custo
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by caeril 3y ago
If you're a software/sass company, how exactly do you categorize developer salaries anyway? Your product is software, so that could be viewed as COGS. On the other hand, it could also be R&D.
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by caeril 3y ago
> Its a developer darling While this is undoubtedly true, I still don't comprehend why. The development workflow on linux is an order of magnitude better than on OSX. Package management is built into the distro, the directory struct
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by caeril 3y ago
The primary reason is the rule of law. You keep mentioning Brazil in your comments, but as a founder I'd rather not have to keep track of the various government officials I have to bribe in order to be compliant, and even then, not be
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by caeril 3y ago
Python is not "readable" to anyone with eyes. Using whitespace as scope definition is a war crime. (same goes for YAML)
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by caeril 3y ago
No, not since The Tweet(tm). He fell from Nerd Jesus to Nerd Satan in one day, so armchair pathologizing or insulting Musk has been highly encouraged on HN since that day.
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by caeril 3y ago
That's not what OpenAI is doing. Their entire alignment effort is focused on avoiding the following existential threats: 1. saying bad words 2. hurting feelings 3. giving legal or medical advice And even there, all they're doing i
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by caeril 3y ago
> This "cost" puts people into danger. They know this, but it's likely a precondition of not getting Joe Nacchio'ed. It's a feature, not a bug. Signal's partners* in FVEY IC/LE have given them a lot of
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by caeril 3y ago
It's possible in the US, but it's getting very difficult. I don't know anywhere you can buy or or borrow a DID with Monero anymore. Looks like they got to Telnum recently. You can still buy a SIM, a prepaid PIN, and a phone w
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by caeril 3y ago
I'd pay much more than $2 if they offered account identifiers other than phone numbers. Trying to get a burner SIM or DID while still staying anonymous is getting increasingly difficult. But I think it's pretty clear by now that t
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by caeril 3y ago
Contrasting the replies to this comment with the replies in all the "cashless society" posts are hilarious. "Oh I never use cash, cashless transactions take 0.00362 seconds less, so taking the risk that I become homeless is w
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by caeril 3y ago
> Letting parents opt out of public schools means that the most committed abusers get to sidestep this safety valve. Absolutely insane take. This is a street that goes both ways. I had parents who were caring, nurturing, and not even rem
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by caeril 3y ago
I prefer cash, and use it as much as possible, but the US is becoming increasingly cash-hostile. More and more places are refusing to accept it. You will generally only find success claiming legal tender in situations where an actual debt h
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by caeril 3y ago
> Developing crushes on people you actually know in your social scenes is more reasonable You are absolutely correct here, but the primary problem with this is that a combination of sexual harassment statutes, #metoo movements, and gener
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by caeril 3y ago
Anecdata: I've sustained many more injuries from lifting than from any other activities, combined, in my life. It's still absolutely worth it, but I'm not sure walking and lifting can be classed in the same category of "
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by caeril 3y ago
I still don't understand the issue. Does OP have an extremely imprecise or very very low DPI mouse? I don't think I'd be able to accidentally misclick the link if I washed down three percocets with a fifth of vodka.
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by caeril 3y ago
> non-embedded key value stores or DBs out in the wild yet I like how you reference the performance benefits of NVMe direct addressing, but then immediately lament that you can't access these benefits across a SEVEN LAYER STACK OF
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by caeril 3y ago
The MAD principle is predicated on conventional ballistic missiles being used as the primary delivery mechanism. First strike launch is detected, then responded to. In 2023, the options for hiding or obscuring delivery attribution are much
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by caeril 3y ago
> They basically went to war to refresh the coffers of Empire This is technically true on its face, but second-order thinking reveals why the "coffers" were low in the first place. The United States goaded them into war by inte

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