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by ericmcer 10mo ago
I am dubious of all the claims that say something designed to kill organic life is safe because it just means "safe at X dose". Like there isn't a pesticide made where I could drink a tablespoon of it and be fine. It just doe
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
I actually got punked during a demo because I wrote some terminal commands and stored them in the macOS notepad and didnt notice it had changed -- to —. When I copy and pasted them in it failed obviously so... yeah. If you have terminal com
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
It's crazy how many security vulnerabilities are just people pinging http endpoints in ways they didn't expect. You would think in order to "hack" a system in 2025 you would need to be doing some crazy computer science w
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Only good reason would be for bulk log searching, but a lot of cloud providers will already capture and aggregate and let you query logs, or there are good third party services that do this. Pretty handy to search a debug_request_id or some
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Yeah good call out, if your code is functional it will end up like this naturally.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
This seems cool if all you need is: call service -> Get response from service -> do something with response. How do you structure this for long running tasks when you need to alert multiple services upon their completion? Like what do
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
What does that mean, I have been on hiring committees before but don't even know what it would mean to "blacklist" someone. If you just mean not hire them at your company in the future I think the candidate will be fine with
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
What nation? All the "democratic" western nations are moving in this direction.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
It's probably even more effective than other industries. Most industries you have good/bad workers but in software there is a few engineers where you cannot lose them. Who cares about scabs/replacements/etc. like literal
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Oh man, I already spend way too much time stressing about size & weight. This is enough toggles to let you really spend hours trying to get it perfect!
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
We had a pretty huge "fake meat" funding craze in 2021. Beyond meat traded at >$200 for a bit, now it is $1. Not sure why it all burned out and disappeared.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Seriously, I love software but a geneticist/biologist would have been a fascinating career. DNA, evolution, etc. is insanely powerful and you are kind of reverse-engineering and tweaking it to get different outcomes, but like you point
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
I mean your being a bit obtuse if you don't think there was a stigma around criticizing the vaccine in 2021/22. Writing a LinkedIn/Facebook post about how the vaccine causes heart problems might result in you losing your job
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Totally valid if you are just doing like the PCT in sections for fun, but for a sponsored grand adventure that you write books about I don't think section hiking is valid.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
I was gonna say the same, it sounds like he did 17k miles in his first 8 years. That sounds tremendously far but it works out to ~5 miles a day. So either he was only walking for 2-3 hours a day or he was only walking every couple days. Aft
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Yeah that is nuts, whenever I think about doing a huge hike/bike adventure I always stop becuase... I can't abandon my dog for 4 months haha. This dude abandoned his son forever?
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Ah that sucks. I would also guess that an attractive 28 year on a global walking adventure might have left a few kids in his wake. He should probably avoid 23andMe.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
My dream is huge drones that get dispatched and harpoon dangerous drivers cars and fly away with them. "Oh a lifted truck with a modified exhaust just swerved onto the shoulder to pass me at 85mph, and there it goes"
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
They have done automated enforcement a few times and it always sucks because the systems don't use discretion. Someone going 40 in a 30 and swerving around other cars gets treated the same as someone going 40 when the road is empty. So
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Exactly, if you visualize software as a bunch separate "states" (UI state, app state, DB state) then our job is to mutate states and synchronize those mutations across the system. LLMs are good at mutating a specific state in a sp
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Interesting. It is a shame that you can't really experience art correctly unless you have the context of living in that time & place. I will never experience Anime, Russian literature, early English literature, etc. fully because m
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
> "the tragedy isn’t just that war is bad, but that institutional logic and personal desire are fundamentally incompatible" Pretty good quote from the article and a succinct way to sum up the human dilemma of existing in a soci
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Thats always my justification for not caring about football at all. I don't know any of the characters and I missed the first 20 episodes.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
What do you mean "come up with the requirements"? Like if self-driving cars got so good that they didn't just drive you somewhere but decided where you should go?
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Thats what I thought when I read this too, I feel like they have been around forever. Guess a lot has happened in 10 years.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
My parents never bought me the full game so I probably played those demo levels 100s of times. Thanks for the memory trigger haha.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Of course it wasnt the first time someone watched people playing video games against eachother. The Korean Brood war scene was an entirely different level from anything that came before it though. The idea of announcers and gamers getting r
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
All the RTS games are underplayed nowadays. Starcraft 2 is maybe the most active still and has been all but abandoned by Blizzard. A good RTS has an extremely harsh learning curve and is not super monetizable. Someone would have to rethink
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
Are you using to for speech-to-text/text-to-speech? I have been using SpeechRecognizer & SpeechSynthesizer and they have been pretty underwhelming.
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by ericmcer 10mo ago
definitely reads like it... what is the point lol? Can you sell HN accounts or something?

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