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by callc 1y ago
“Think different” Joking aside, “design” clearly supplanting ease of use
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by callc 1y ago
Semi-related, parking your company name on widely used words in the dictionary like “Apple” and “Meta” really irks me. Let’s just start some companies with the names: - Let’s - Just - Start You get the idea…
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by callc 1y ago
Source? A quick googling shows from https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/fatal-car-a... deaths per 100k pop in 2022: - Mississippi 23.9 (highest) - Texas 14.7 - CA 11.3 - Rhode Island and DC 4.8 (lowest) An
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by callc 1y ago
Oh yeah, I didn’t even notice. Much worse than I thought! Imagine explaining these rules to a beginner learning programming.
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by callc 1y ago
I find both the golang uppercase lowercase naming scheme and python underscores for private (and __ for *extra* private) to be terrible design choices. They are hidden functionality, a set of rules which must be remembered. “Make sure to do
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by callc 1y ago
It’s amazing how small text and images, even compressed video, can get compared to uncompressed video. Caring a little bit will help save a bunch of space.
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by callc 1y ago
That sounds more like a case against a highly ossified waterfall development process than anything. I would argue it’s a good thing to replace the actual brainless activities.
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by callc 1y ago
True. It would benefit society to come up with a new framework of thinking about widespread forces on society enabled by tech. It’s not something we’ve needed to deal with in the past. And it’s clear that so much harm can be done.
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by callc 1y ago
Zuckerberg profits by replacing normal human social interaction with ad-infested parasitic addictive pseudo-socialization that drives a sobering % of the population to worse mental states
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by callc 1y ago
It seems like the underlying issue is trust.competent programmer - even a junior - and trust them to finish the task correctly. It might take multiple tries, and they may ask for clarification, but since they’re human, we trust they are int
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by callc 1y ago
We should adopt the term “tabular programmers” or “tabular engineers”!
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by callc 1y ago
> It's education now, but it will be lawyers and judges next It already is this. Their attack on the judicial branch is the most frightening IMO, since it is directly attacking checks and balances.
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by callc 1y ago
Thanks very much ziofill. Is this the same thing as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? Or is there something else similar for time and energy?
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by callc 1y ago
I might regret asking, but could you explain this? (At a physics 101 level)
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by callc 1y ago
> “I'm not sure why people on HN (of all places) are so divided regarding the perception of AI/ML.” Everyone is a rational actor from their individual perspective. The people hyping AI, and the people dismissing the hype both h
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by callc 1y ago
After using Go for large and medium projects, with hundreds and < 10 people respectively, I’m left with a desire for a better language. I enjoy the simplicity of Go, but the tradeoff of Go’s imposed limitations (concurrency model, no sub
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by callc 1y ago
I’ve been running on Wayland with nvidia drivers for around a year. No issues for development work. Haven’t tried gaming.
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by callc 1y ago
Turtles all the way down. Can you trust your compiler? https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
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by callc 1y ago
I’m curious, what has made Uber feel safe for you in terms of racism? And also did you have a problem with AirBnB based on skin color?
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by callc 1y ago
They should be punished, the same as every other company that does this.
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by callc 1y ago
Chaebol?
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by callc 1y ago
I might not have explained my position adequately. I am not commenting on how Google became immensely successful, but just looking at it today in its current state. It seems like the end result of unchecked capitalism is monopolistic practi
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by callc 1y ago
You certainly have a point. Places like google and bell labs have pushed innovation, apparently enabled by monopolies. I would rather we don’t allow monopolies since they are so bad for society, regardless of some benefits. Government funde
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by callc 1y ago
Yes, it is reasonable to require older folks to pass a driving test that measures alertness, vision, etc. If no pass then take away license. Heck I was in a parking lot yesterday and almost got hit by a truck, driver is a very old man. In t
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by callc 1y ago
If you buy enough equipment then the act of carrying the equipment inside will get you in shape. Just like my bogo sort. It’ll get there eventually.
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by callc 1y ago
Definitely. Since human lives are at stake, it is fair to have an extremely high bar for safety.
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by callc 1y ago
This and the recent Apple App Store fees have justified my decision to only distribute via the web. Thank Tim Berners-Lee for this open ecosystem, and for everyone contributing. Thanks Tim Sweeney for fighting to open these closed feudal sy
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by callc 1y ago
If you use Firefox, try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom... Works great.
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by callc 1y ago
> The normal technology frame is about the relationship between technology and society. There is a huge differentiating factor for LLMs that makes it not normal: the blatant disregard for the ownership rights of everyone in the world. Wh
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by callc 1y ago
> But when the Kentucky AG’s office was preparing to post their brief against TikTok, whoever was in charge of doing the redaction simply covered the relevant text with black rectangles. Even though you can’t see the text while reading t

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