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by disqard 3y ago
Well, research on "Code Smells" is not new...
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by disqard 3y ago
Yes, it lacks veracity. However, it does have verisimilitude. IMO, that quality (of appearing to be correct) is so attractive to us humans, that all other considerations are being discarded.
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Apple Lays Off Workers(sfchronicle.com)
6 points by disqard 3y ago|0 comments
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by disqard 3y ago
Re-posting, because I'm surprised that this news did not have enough traction here on HN. I'm mildly surprised (but cynically, not altogether shocked) that Amazon is also doubling down on its real estate in Seattle, where they are
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by disqard 3y ago
Meanwhile, they're laying off hundreds of people working on AWS in Seattle... https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/amazon-layoffs-hundreds-of-j...
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Amazon is cutting jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS(npr.org)
15 points by disqard 3y ago|3 comments
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by disqard 3y ago
Huh, this got buried? That's interesting...
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by disqard 3y ago
It's a fun journey -- I hope you enjoy it! I never liked math, until I read Abrash's "Zen of Graphics Programming", and learned that graphics is chock-full of math :D
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by disqard 3y ago
Just checked it out -- I love the emphasis on the journey, not the destination. The creator of that site evinces a lot of wisdom. Thanks for the rec!
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by disqard 3y ago
Sorry about the delayed ack, but Many Thanks for sharing those pointers!
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by disqard 3y ago
Well-played!
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by disqard 3y ago
It recently passed that point for me, and I've moved my Win10 computers to Linux (Ubuntu for now).
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by disqard 3y ago
Well-stated! Once one understands The Game, one can see that playing is a choice -- sure, it goes against the grain of the hedonistic treadmill, but you can definitely craft (and play) your own game. Having a fulfilling/interesting set
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by disqard 3y ago
Thanks so much for sharing this resource! It looks like much of Eric's work remains untranslated into English -- have you read the original works in French?
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by disqard 3y ago
I'll break out one of my favorite Douglas Adams excerpts: "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them
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by disqard 3y ago
> "[...] are AI PCs ready to take AI workflows to the next level" Every single thing has to be rubber-stamped with the magic word. Part of me is sick of it, but another part of me is happy -- once it's overused enough to m
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by disqard 3y ago
I wish I could boost your comment even higher. It really captures what I felt as I started to read this PR bullshit. I fed it through an LLM to summarize it, and there was no substantive content in that summary. Lampooning aside, the soberi
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by disqard 3y ago
Unrelated-but-related -- your username is fantastically appropriate for this discussion. I'm imagining a website with the same name, filled with images of people whose headsets have permanently melted onto their faces, like a Dali pain
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by disqard 3y ago
I might have a similar perspective, and maybe these words (not mine) can help further articulate why he is an agent of a sinister force: --- i have seen many people spill their guts on-line, and i did so myself until, at last, i began to
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by disqard 3y ago
On a tangent, I find it a funny coincidence that both your handles start with "lord" -- it's like watching a debate in the House of Lords (UK's "Upper Parliament") :)
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by disqard 3y ago
"Across all experiments, individuals with high self-control were seen as more powerful, and as better suited for powerful roles, than individuals with low self-control." Part of me sees this research as "doing everything by t
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by disqard 3y ago
A prescient and pragmatic reply. I too, felt a bit miffed that they were jumping onto this hype bandwagon. However, as an early user, I've continued to support them and I think you've articulated really well why they're doi
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by disqard 3y ago
You missed "visionary". You gotta start with that.
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by disqard 3y ago
IIUC, "it is missing" was used in the sense "it is missing the forest for the trees" -- as in, the Big Picture is that search results are turning to garbage steadily, but if you shrink your perspective, hey at least you&
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by disqard 3y ago
I can confirm -- I've only seen this as a form of throttling (i.e. preventing users from sending too frequent HTTP requests).
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by disqard 3y ago
Reminded me of this (discussed recently on hn): https://juliawise.net/raising-children-on-the-eve-of-ai/
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by disqard 3y ago
Perhaps a bit of a tangent, but are there other folks on HN who still wear "dumb" watches? I personally cannot find the idea of these landfill-destined gadgets compelling enough to add yet another screen in close proximity to my e
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by disqard 3y ago
> All personal computing happens on a phone This makes me sad, and is scary, etc. However, putting emotions aside, can we extrapolate from this? Could the next "killer app" actually be an even tinier device? A smartwatch? Or ha
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by disqard 3y ago
Can you share any anecdotes, or some more details? I've been watching this "app generation", and I've read Prensky's nonsense about "digital natives", so I'm always interested in concrete examples of
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by disqard 3y ago
> People no longer like any kind of friction when it comes to interacting with other people. This is the key. We're aiming to make our lives as convenient and frictionless as possible -- and this is monotonically increasing. Technol

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