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by ern 3y ago
There are certainly benefits from doing things in new ways, but a lot of the time things swing too far in the opposite direction, and become of a form of “IQ signalling” for smart developers. It isn’t only front-end developers who are prone
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by ern 3y ago
I could have sworn I posted the Internet Archive link. Maybe it was stripped off.
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Year Usenet Timeline (2001)(google.com)
1 points by ern 3y ago|2 comments
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by ern 3y ago
They bought Dejanews, but then some people donated their archives dating back to the 80's and they were integrated into Google News. https://web.archive.org/web/20011212191924/https://www.googl...
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by ern 4y ago
What car do you have?
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by ern 4y ago
Sorry to hear about that. It’s terrible. You say you have a 26 year work history: maybe reach out to a former employer to see what they can offer you?
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by ern 4y ago
I just got into it, and when I ask it about its limitations (like the reason for the 15 message limit) it ends the conversation. Seems to be a lot of censorship.
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by ern 4y ago
From the article: a legacy of distrust about biological research among Aboriginal groups means that genetic studies are viewed suspiciously and samples are hard to come by
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Ask HN: Are FAANG layoffs having an effect on high-profile open source projects?
29 points by ern 4y ago|19 comments
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by ern 4y ago
It's unlikely for years, or decades. The entire concept has been entirely and deliberately conflated with Trumpism, and any suggestion of a lab origin is met with a combination of outrage, gaslighting and deflection.
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by ern 4y ago
It confused me as well. This post is mistitled. The original Tweet is: A 1-meter meteoroid (small #asteroid) has been detected and is expected to safely strike Earth's atmosphere over northern France between 3:50-4:03 CET.
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by ern 4y ago
The education system is moribund. During Covid, I thought we'd see the flipped classroom shine, and a revolution in education. Instead we got children chained to Zoom or Teams and attempts to replicate traditional classrooms remotely.
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by ern 4y ago
I think the policy is fine, but since I left my former employer more than a year ago, the policy should have been lifted on my personal account automatically (assuming that my former employer deactivated the work account, which I expect tha
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by ern 4y ago
Fair enough. It was a support request, and IIRC they disabled it remotely.
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by ern 4y ago
This is quite interesting. A couple of weeks ago, I received an extortion phishing email, but it was directed to a secondary email address that hasn’t been previously compromised. It made it past Gmail’s spam and phishing filters into my in
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by ern 4y ago
You are starting to run into No True Scotsman fallacy territory at this point. Everyone from the Surgeon General of the United States to random GPs on Twitter were vilifying masks.
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by ern 4y ago
A lot of doctors jumped on the anti-mask bandwagon. It wasn’t just pundits and media figures.
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by ern 4y ago
I fully understand that the science wasn’t settled. It was a new disease, and guidance was going to change. What I didn’t expect was the overconfidence and then reversals, without missing a beat, and without acknowledging “hey, we were wron
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by ern 4y ago
It was pretty clear that vaccines had been oversold early on. The opposite happened with masks, where the experts pooh-poohed them, then backtracked. It was quite eye-opening how fast the mainstream narratives were rewritten. (I have had 4
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Ask HN: Does allowing downvoting encourage groupthink?
12 points by ern 4y ago|21 comments
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Ask HN: What effect will lower big tech valuations have on open-source projects?
2 points by ern 4y ago|1 comments
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by ern 4y ago
No less a jurist than Antonin Scalia (one of the most conservative and intellectually formidable Supreme Court justices, whatever your opinion of his positions) thought that the US Constitution was too hard to amend: "Scalia said fewer
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Ask HN: What are some counter-productive security practices?
7 points by ern 4y ago|6 comments
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by ern 5y ago
There is deep psychological damage to kids who sat alone, by themselves for the past year. My kids and their friends repurposed their remote learning tools (MS Teams) and have had more creative interaction with their peers than they would
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by ern 5y ago
Kids have had long holidays as long as the school system has existed, and they never regressed enough for the general public to raise the alarm. My own children just repurposed the tools used for remote learning, and now interact more wit
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by ern 5y ago
Most professional programmers (software developers) I’ve worked with avoid writing comments in favour of self-documenting code. I wonder if this Tweet illustrates a divergence in style between scientists and others who code as part of their
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Remember: Commenting your code is an act of self-care for your future self(twitter.com)
1 points by ern 5y ago|1 comments
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Hidden In Plain Sight (migrant worker exploitation in Australia)(abc.net.au)
1 points by ern 5y ago|0 comments
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by ern 5y ago
The article specifically excludes outsourced development from its definition of consulting: I’m not talking about becoming one of those contractors who are billed out by their companies as “consultants” but are really just serial hired han
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The Framework Myth (2011)(red-gate.com)
1 points by ern 5y ago|0 comments

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