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by da_chicken 6mo ago
No, that seems unlikely. They committed the cardinal sin of stealing from the rich.
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
I think it's important to remember that we're not perceiving some fundamental aspect of light. We're perceiving how the photosensitive portions of our retina convert light to stimulus, and how our brains construct a meaningfu
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
> I've never had to do 18 joins to extract information in my career. Really? You're not representing particularly complex entities with your data. I work on a student information system. 18 joins isn't even weird. If I wan
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
> Junction tables are how you represent M:N relationships. Yeah, the problem is that when you get to 4NF+, you're often looking at creating a new table joining through a junction table for a single multi-valued data field that may
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
I still see value in the numbering. Breaking 1NF is essentially always incorrect. You're fundamentally limiting your system, and making it so that you will struggle to perform certain queries. Only break 1NF when you're absolut
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
I really don't think the collectivist societies are that far ahead. People just invent out groups. India's castes, China's Uyghur's, Japan's castes and treatment of Korea and China, etc. Religious out groups, ethnic
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
> Where did the above commenter say “genius?” It's the transparent subtext. Like, blindingly transparent. GGP's comment is talking about how CEOs are special or different than we are. That is, that they're not just evil, b
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
Sure, because there's no reason not to, and because crypto mining is noisier than data exfiltration. That doesn't mean it's the most lucrative revenue stream.
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
No, data exfiltration is just as lucrative as crypto. We are unfortunately long past the point where viruses would frequently be merely annoying.
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
More than that, people today seem to be saturated with sarcasm. It's especially tragic with younger people who seem to have no experience with handling genuine sincerity. They laugh nervously at it, as if they're unfamiliar with h
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
> To me it's not clear what the problem is that would require a redesign. The interface is still bad. Teaching people to use git is still obnoxious because it's arcane . It's like 1e AD&D. It does everything it might
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
There are currently over 1,000 companies involved in lawsuits against the US government right now even if we restrict ourselves to just tariff lawsuits .
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
I've had three main tracks that I've used for the past 8 months or so. The first one is a 1-hour mix of "In Motion" from the soundtrack to The Social Network: https://youtu.be/bCxPmMbZjuk The second is a
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
It's not that much longer, really. LLMs draw origins from, both n-gram language models (ca. 1990s) and neural networks and deep learning (ca. 2000). So we've only had really good ones maybe 6-8 years or so, but the roots of the st
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
That's because .Net 4 has been the .Net Framework's current version since 2010. It's basically the same reason they never made Windows 9. They dropped the Core designation because they're still trying to encourage people
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
That's because they primarily sent stealth aircraft and Tomahawks over Baghdad. They also used decoys to draw out SAM missiles, and then F-4s would strike the SAM sites directly, which over time meant that the surviving SAM launchers d
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
NB: The Palantir were created by the Elves, not by Morgoth or Sauron. The problem is that it takes a lot of will to use one and not have things of importance hidden (it shows what you think is important, not what is important), and as it tu
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
Eh, almost every link on the homepage has an initialism or acronym in the title, and roughly none of them are actually defining the term they're using. Indeed, not to point fingers, your own submissions make the same mistake. Sure, yes
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by da_chicken 6mo ago
Really, you've always had to be careful with MySQL. It really was the PHP of RDBMSs. The silent "SHOW WARNINGS" system, nonsense dates like Feb 31, implicit type conversions like converting strings to 0s, non-deterministic gr
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
No, no, see this is untrustworthy: curl -L https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/jai.tar.gz | tar xzf - && cd jai && makepkg -i
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
That's true, but it might not be as important here. Spain is not a country with a Common Law legal system entirely like the US or the UK. They have a civil law system where prior court judgement does not form a strictly binding precede
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
Yeah, that's a PITA for Windows 11. It's an extra cost. $100 to $200. You can't buy it, generally, except through a volume licensing partner. You may need to have a tenant ID depending on exactly how you're getting it, t
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
> Which is what Microsoft really sells... risk-mitigation. Sure their licenses are expensive, but is it really more expensive than losing your entire IT staff? There's an old saying in IT that was pretty popular in the 70s and 80s:
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
Yes, developers used to like Microsoft. That was where all the money was, and Visual Studio was an extremely good IDE in the late 90s and early 2000s. And at the time, Microsoft's documentation was the best. C++, VB, and then .Net deve
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
Yeah, that's because Microsoft can see the writing on the wall. They don't want Windows to die, but they know the whole OS is at a point where it's probably inevitable that it will. Developers don't want to use Windows
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
No, the problem with this is that a lot of IPs aren't profitable in their initial years, and this pretty strictly encourages property-holding as a business. That's exactly the wrong kind of revenue generation that copyright is sup
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
The Betamax case that GP mentions is the same case that established that time-shifting is not copyright infringment. The law and courts were previously both mute on the subject.
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
Yeah, people forget that MS Office, and Excel and Outlook in particular, are the real foundation of Microsoft's vendor lock-in on the desktop.
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
That's still a bad UI. But at this point I think the bad UX on Hacker News has to be an intentional joke.
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by da_chicken 7mo ago
Sort of. Releasing something into the world is, in a real sense, giving it up. At some point, you don't have ownership of it anymore. You're the one that created it, but you're no longer in control of it. Copyright being as

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