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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
If you're working as an individual contributor, I'm sure it can matter, but usually doesn't. It's widely accepted that people have personal opinions and politics, and that it can even extend to not liking some of the d
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
Bloggers write because in their value system, the result of this effort is a net positive. LLMs show up and, as far as some bloggers are concerned, turn that net positive into a negative. Bloggers stop blogging. That's rational behavio
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I think they do. The problem is different. It used to be that if you had a blog about something like guitar maintenance or linear algebra, that was enough to show up in the results, because no one else was directly competing with you. Over
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
First, the software is available whether you buy the board or not. Second, there's no real difficulty barrier, not anymore. There are point-and-click tools, free integrated IDEs, cheap programming dongles, etc. There are more tutorial
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
It's a completely different thing. Single-board computer versus a microcontroller. It might not matter for some applications, but it's a major tradeoff. But the only value of Arduino is the community (and the compile-time layer of
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> Companies were at least forced to separate what were essential cookies from non-essential ones. The question here isn't if it cost companies money. It did. It's whether it was a good law. It wasn't, because compliance ge
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
That's just not true. Electric toothbrushes, shavers, it's also not uncommon to have a washing machine in the bathroom. Maybe the UK is doing something weird here, but bathroom outlets are very much common in the EU.
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> There's a reason for most regulations - most of them are written in blood. Sure, but it's a balancing act, right? My favorite example is that hairdryers sold in the US are required to have ground fault interrupters in the plu
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
Placebo works very well for many people too! That's precisely the thing. That's what makes these studies tricky. If you're a doctor, and if Prozac helps your patients, then it's obviously excellent. You should keep writi
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
Again, I don't think this is about doing better. This is like arguing that a Casio watch is better than Patek Philippe. Wealth buys you is access and that's what it's often used for. Personal trainer, personal banker, persona
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
You mostly don't. Household plumbing and wiring is nowhere the near of complexity of, say, a lawnmower engine. It's mostly "the p-trap is leaking", "the faucet is leaking", "the toilet's flush valve i
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I promise you that students from wealthy families will continue to get human tutors for the foreseeable future. And it will have nothing to do with whether an AI can beat a human on a test or not.
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
Uh, now is this different from "normal" university education? I'd wager that 95%+ of people who go to college do it because they were told they have to for access to better job opportunities, not because they want to stay in
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I mean, to be fair, a lot of economic activity is like that. Why pay thousands of dollar for a plumber or an electrician? Most of what they do is going to Home Depot, buying a $15 part, and replacing it. But it's one less skill for a h
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> 1. keeping Windows as small and lean as possible, and let it do the things an operating system is for, The least cynical answer is that for several decades, Microsoft had a monopoly on operating systems, but they no longer do. Many peo
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
This is a really weird post. The thrust appears to be a contrarian desire to portray the Soviet government as capable and competent, and I wonder if it's the author's naivete or some sort of an agenda. The post latches on small di
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> I was never a fan of the Maker Movement. While it did get people to tinker, there was always this massive gap between lighting up an LED and using EEPROM, JTAG debugging, interrupts, and even designing some of the more intricate circui
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> There are many languages still in use today that have all kinds of warts and ugliness, Right, but there aren't many with the kind of ugliness associated with real-world Perl code.
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
That's a strawman alternative. The problem with "helping the most people in the most effective way" is these two goals are often at odds with each other. If you donate to a local / neighborhood cause, you are helping few
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I don't want to be mean, but to be honest, your post makes me wonder if you are too distracted by the celebrity lifestyle (of others). I don't have this treasure trove of information about Bezos' life and I don't think
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> Unpopular opinion: private companies should poly people more often in hiring, it could prove more useful than other arbitrary kind of culture fit interviews. Food for thought. OK. I'll bite. I'm interviewing with you to be a
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> But would a human even suffer consequences in this case? Criminally, no. Civil liability, probably only up to the price of a cat, and that's if you can prove it wasn't the cat's or its owner's fault. But I don'
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I always assume that people who say this either don't own cats, bought one from a breeder and raised it indoors from day one, or live in an apartment building where you need to go through multiple doors to get outside. Most cats that s
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> Understanding poverty starts with empathy. Yes, but understanding the other mindset you're referring to requires some empathy too. There are three paths to poverty: by birth, by bad luck, and by some definition of choice. No one c
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
This is honestly the best thing I've seen on HN this month. It's stupid, enlightening... funny and profound and the same time. I have a strong temptation to pick some of these designs and build them in real life. I applaud you for
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
I wonder if it's because we mean different things by generalization. For text, "generalization" is still "generate text that conforms to all the usual rules of the language". For images of 13-hour clock faces, we&#x
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
No, do I need to?
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> Follow these rules exactly: "Here's the line-by-line specification of the program I need you to write. Write that program."
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
But it did. The efforts hastened the collapse of the USSR and led to good outcomes for Central Europe. The propaganda of that era wasn't supposed to be covert because it wasn't selling something objectionable. Everyone knew who&#x
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by chemotaxis 11mo ago
> before I finally convinced it that it didn't know what it was talking about Spoiler: you didn't.

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