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by finnthehuman 2y ago
I've been in a spot kinda like this. I've maintained C++ with python interfaces. In my case I wrote both. I know how interlocked the changes were. If I touched code that was exposed to the python, I updated the python interfac
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>They're not "forced to use Rust". They are maybe forced to work with Rust developers of whichever subsystem needs to be updated So if the maintainer of subsystem X can be forced to work with the rust developers of their o
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Gumption was branded "cowboy coding," then dragged out back and shot. I like where you're coming from, but micromanagement is still the flavor of the times.
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shrug maybe "won't" is a false positive, maybe a true positive, I dunno man, not my vibe check.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
I always thought it was a pretty blatant "vibe check" to filter out people who are so uncomfortable with software that they can't customize their environment to create an email workflow that works for them.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
I think you'll find that censorship is actually quite popular. The censors and censorship-hungry know the connotations of the word "censorship." Nobody will say it with their chest they believe censorship is a societal good
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
>supposedly grants kids access to "personality". You have it backwards. The shirt is neither necessary nor sufficient. sporkydistance was dogging on poseurs. deadfread was explaining why a t-shirt was ever an indicator (and e
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
I don't see why it would be mutually exclusive. It can be the case that a subculture was commoditized AND people still enjoy doing the stuff the subculture formed around.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
The DIY-spirited software scenes were so thoroughly commercialized that appealing to their aesthetics is now in the past. FFS, the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" is based on a venture capitalist co-opting a rebellious term to
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> Am I putting up a fake identity then? When you did it manually you were putting up a fake identify. ofc using an AI to fake you being fake for work would be fake. The idea that our work personas aren't at least a little fake is to
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Maciej wrote "Dabblers and Blowhards" in 2005 (that was an eyeopening date to go check). Hackers and Painters was always for the fresh and easily impressionable to feel a sense of specialness.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> Everyone is so negative, cynical, and bitter on HN now Our profession got hollowed out over the years. Of course the vibes at the bar next to the plant will be down. > it's really sad to me There's a thing I've seen
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Any unfaltering language a company uses is always one bizdev meeting away from "lol just update the contract of adhesion."
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> never met a security engineer that was eager to do that Of course not. We do the fun parts, and write tickets to make the dev team do the boring parts that we will later complain are not implemented to the quality standard we would ha
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TIL all essays ever written are published in one of 4 outlets.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> starting to emerge here on hackernews It's not getting worse, you're getting better. HN has for a long time been where I go for whatever you call the tech equivalent of watching stoners think they're having a deep conver
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>Ya know, like leaders worth following. I hear ya and all, but what does anyone expect from TikTok? It's not a product worth building, why would it have leaders worth following? You go there to get in, make some money, and get out.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
It's interesting how quickly we've gone from discussing an interesting failure mode of autonomous robots that travel in public spaces, and switched to calling it PEBKAC. This is a unironically a great signal society is willing to
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Would you rather they be ashamed of it?
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> Isn't this just the FPTP system? I mean what point is there in voting R in California or so. The problem is that it's also "what point is there in voting D in California?" All this great shit the D's talk about
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
The ipod was a very welcome step in the portable music player tech evolution at the time, but it also coincided with a bunch of people that were suddenly Very Into Music for a few years. I don't fault anyone for thinking the previous
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
A number of OnlyFangs are primarily GTA RP streamers. Part of whats made onlyfangs so good is the burnt-out GTA community excited to do something new.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> I'm pretty surprised that so many YouTube creators pushed Honey without questioning how they were making money off giving away discounts. The only thing you can know for sure about an actor, is that their profession is pretending
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>I also don't follow why you haven't stated whether you've personally tried volunteering and whether it's "worked" for you, particularly when you seem dismissive of it and seem to looking for personal reason
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> Hey author if you are reading this, try doing something positive like help people. Volunteer. Everything you have tried so far has been self-centered. It's a common enough idea to tell someone rudderless to volunteer, but I feel l
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>Online, it was undermined by troll farms Meh, the conversation had already been undermined by that point. People discussing politics already ceded the conversation to people who liked fiery arguments. The posting farms were just conve
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It’s been a foregone conclusion for 10+ years. Piracy is a holdout, not the beginning. Very few people will go to the ends of technical and legal means to stay online.
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normies on consumer software: they take quality seriously, right? software dev on field they haven't worked in yet: they actually take quality seriously, right?
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> So to the devs who don't use these tools, how do you do it? This is the kind of question where you can easily go get a much better and more comprehensive answer on your own by experiencing it yourself.
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> A New York Times columnist says it’s “much too slangy, regional or what you might even call ethnic to ever gain universal acceptance.” We couldn’t disagree more. NYT columnist is the definition of “yankee with a stick up their ass.” I

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