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by gambler 5y ago
A lot of these examples have nothing to do with political ideology. Some that do point in the direction of the problem I was talking about. 2014: Sharyl Attkisson worked for CBS for two decades, heavily criticized Obama administration and y
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by gambler 5y ago
I provided examples of high-level resignations with detailed explanations as to their reasons. A famed founder of the paper leaves it because he's stopped from publishing a major election story. A decidedly left-wing opinion writer is
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by gambler 5y ago
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int... https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter And not directly related, but relevant overall: https://odysee.com/@AlisonMo
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by gambler 5y ago
Most people don't understand what editors do. Or what they used to do. These days editors in major publications seem to be preoccupied mostly with ideology enforcement. But when editors do their job properly, they are part quality cont
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by gambler 5y ago
>The concept known as "worse is better" holds that in software making (and perhaps in other arenas as well) it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed. It's a horrible moniker for the concept and
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by gambler 5y ago
Just because you stand out doesn't mean you stand out in a positive way. The idea that every piece of writing or open-source code you produce in public will be seen as a positive by everyone out there is patently absurd. Yes, you can
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by gambler 5y ago
If your customized experience on a website is drastically different from experience of many other people on that same website, you by definition operate in a filter bubble, regardless of whether it has anything to do with politics. You cann
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by gambler 5y ago
You're literally describing living in a filter bubble. Given how often this community talks about things like privilege and bias, it's highly ironic (or maybe telling) that a comment like that rises to the top here. It would be on
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The Details Disclosure Element(developer.mozilla.org)
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by gambler 5y ago
Form factor and build quality are not something AMD can control by making a better CPU architecture.
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by gambler 6y ago
>Seems incredible now the University of Pennsylvania told the inventor mRNA that their contributions weren't worthwhile and let them go. Incredible from common sense perspective, but totally expected if you know how American acade
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by gambler 6y ago
>I went on HN Who's Hiring And that's exactly why your experience was the way it was. HN is a self-selected crowd with a very specific mentality. Unsolicited advice: try a traditional job search website and look for companies
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by gambler 6y ago
If you want to write pages by hand you might look into Cured HTML: https://technology.reclamation.institute/pages/cured-html It's a way of styling markup so that you don't have to manually enter P/BR tag
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by gambler 6y ago
[][x' > x]_x TLA+ seems like an incredibly useful tool, but damn it could do with a better syntax. Math notation is designed to be written on paper and to handle extreme repetitiveness when you do proofs or calculations. B
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by gambler 6y ago
Finding good applications, especially for Android, is way harder than it should be. Seems like this is a problem worth solving as well.
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by gambler 6y ago
Does it allow to call phones and send SMS? This seems like a silly question, but I know that some version of Librem didn't and nobody mentioned it in their reviews.
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by gambler 6y ago
Very few tools designed today have any features that facilitate learning. Developers don't understand how learning works and don't really care. Operating systems mostly washed their hands of this issue as well. It's a mess.
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by gambler 6y ago
>Verizon pressured Blackberry to rush the release of their first touchscreen device It's hilarious how higher-level managers always pretend that they do hyper-intelligent long-term planning, but in reality this is usually what the
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by gambler 6y ago
"But, whether through side projects, blogging, or building a portfolio, I do think that finding a way to publish your learnings is valuable. The nice thing about publishing and shipping smaller things on the side is that you do end up
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by gambler 6y ago
>I think a problem is that modern newspapers cater to an audience that’s expected to be very plugged in to the cultural and political topic of the day, or at least fake it. Spot on. The point of this style of writing isn't to prov
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by gambler 6y ago
>Why does the industry seem to love testing? Because testing coverage is a typical way modern software engineers and managers show off an otherwise mediocre codebase. >because we are better than all of you. Well, at least they hav
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by gambler 6y ago
>Government regulation is needed. Hopefully not the kind of regulation that puts a breaking burden on companies like Brave, while letting big tech do whatever they want after a token fine.
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by gambler 6y ago
Google's push to participate in AI ethics discussions has always been about controlling the narrative. The fact that it took them firing two people for ACM to notice is rather hilarious. Just read the papers they promote. The meta-narr
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by gambler 6y ago
I was aiming for sub-100 lines of code implementation. IMO, a full-fledged library would be much better off if they just supported EBNF or McKeeman Form.
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by gambler 6y ago
I've recently played with making simple JS-based parsers without reading anything about the theory. My conclusion was that making a parser by itself is a relatively easy task. The hard part is making grammars easy to read and write, as
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by gambler 6y ago
>If you write your config in a "full-blown" programming language, then your configs are full-blown programs in that programming language. Yes, which means we have well-documented functionality and tooling of that language to
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by gambler 6y ago
ASCII has a built-in markup language and a processing control protocol that most people aren't even aware of and most tools out there don't support. This is significant. Look at the parts that are used and parts that aren't.
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by gambler 6y ago
>however most of that is hidden behind the already established tooling ...and so everyone without Google-level funding is stuck with this tooling. Thus, control over the protocol that millions of people could use to communicate with on
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by gambler 6y ago
It's worse than that. Getting used to something doesn't make it free. It simply makes you unaware of the cost you're constantly paying. Having convoluted abstractions really screws up your thinking. I've seen this first
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by gambler 6y ago
Once you start thinking about it, it's mind boggling that we have thousands of languages and yet most of them don't have built-in facilities to construct and parse grammars (at least context-free ones). Every single designer seems

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