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by dave4420 2y ago
My employer pays GitHub ~£10/month for me to use GitHub’s copilot. This is tiny compared to what they pay me. It unlocks a small amount of extra productivity, but not that much. Yet still enough to be worth it. My position is that they
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by dave4420 2y ago
Of course not, I don’t devote my whole life to furthering my career, that would be crazy.
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It’s the opportunity cost. Why would I learn to touch type when I can instead learn something with a greater payoff?
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Even if that was true… how much more productive do you think learning to touch type would make me? And why?
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It would take a time investment I’m not particularly interested in making, and I don’t think it would make me noticeably better at my job. Why do you think being able to type faster is a better win than being able to type better code, or be
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by dave4420 2y ago
Not really. But I am still productive enough without being able to touch type. And it’s not at all obvious to me that touch typing is the most important thing I could learn. Improving my knowledge of CSS and learning Elixir feel like they w
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by dave4420 2y ago
I can’t touch type. I spend more time thinking than I do typing. (Plus, I am usually also thinking while I type.) Why do you say it is difficult to imagine being productive without this skill?
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There were absolutely ads on the internet in the 90s. It’s why today’s web browsers come with pop-up blockers built in. I think you are wearing rose-tinted glasses. You can still fire up a shell today if you want to. You can even run dos in
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by dave4420 2y ago
Because it’s both impersonal and creepy. To write and deliver a good best man’s speech, you don’t just need to know about the groom, you also need to know about the groom’s relationships with half the room. So when you say “your computer”,
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by dave4420 2y ago
Comparing top-tier athletes and top-tier musicians against average knowledge workers will lead to this sort of result. I suspect that top-tier athletes at least are not spending 40 hours a week on training and performing. Writers, too. Musi
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by dave4420 2y ago
I got made redundant from a remote role last year, and I miss the people there as much as I miss not having to spend time, money and energy commuting. I wish people wouldn’t generalise so much from their personal experience. In office is go
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by dave4420 2y ago
I wouldn’t go assuming that they’re redundantly stored. Do you have a particular government in mind?
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by dave4420 2y ago
If Cloudflare was proxying or hosting Twitter and refused to block Twitter in Brazil, then… couldn’t Brazil block Cloudflare?
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by dave4420 2y ago
If teaching paid as well as being an accountant, or whatever expert occupation you have in mind, I think you’d find that many more experts would be open to teaching.
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What, force them to work for free? If not, what do you mean by “require”?
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Why not pay the money to get excellent teachers with a good command of the subject matter?
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by dave4420 2y ago
You can make clear before you die — e.g. in your will — that you don’t want your brain scanned like this, and certainly don’t want to pay for it. So you take the choice out of their hands. Why should we want to pay for our brains to be scan
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by dave4420 2y ago
(After my first comment was downvoted) No, seriously, probably even you do not believe in unfettered freedom of expression: I doubt you would welcome paedophiles posting child porn to your service, for example. So: what are your boundaries?
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by dave4420 2y ago
And yet we still have a pensions crisis.
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We learned that freedom of speech is not an absolute right that trumps all others, but a right to be balanced against other rights.
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by dave4420 2y ago
If you happen to know the address of a computer on their customer network (perhaps a router) you could check connectivity to that?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Putin could go very quickly from President to under arrest as a scapegoat, if enough insiders decide that’s the way forward. It doesn’t require any opposition politicians. More prosaically, the less popular the government, the more the peop
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by dave4420 2y ago
Is it just blocking trademarks?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Their coverage map looks odd. They claim higher coverage towards the North Pole and lower coverage towards the South Pole. What orbit could deliver that? My first thought was “this will fuck up so many circadian rhythms”. But maybe they’ll
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by dave4420 2y ago
Maybe they have deliverability issues with protonmail?
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by dave4420 2y ago
If you had already decided to buy one, why did you want to test one before buying?
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People love Schadenfreude about banks. Sounds like Musk got a brilliant deal.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Then it’s probably to force Ask HNs to be brief.
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(March)
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by dave4420 2y ago
It’s to discourage text posts. They’d rather you posted it to Medium or your blog or something, and then post a link to that here.

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