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by gregjor 10mo ago
why? git show can tell me all of that if I care.
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by gregjor 10mo ago
I suppose it had to come to light eventually. For many years hundreds of people -- from web designers all the way up to the highest Freemasons -- secretly conspired to thwart every attempt to implement dark mode in HN to frustrate you perso
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by gregjor 10mo ago
With all the layoffs you might want to explore the future of WeDontWork, or WeWantToWork. A place for layoff victims to gather to have AI generate resumes and apply through LinkedIn. Or to plan for how take the country back from the billion
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by gregjor 10mo ago
If I had a nickel for every claim about the "potential" of blockchain over the past almost two decades... I could almost buy one Bitcoin. If blockchain has such potential why hasn't that turned into useful implementations or
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by gregjor 10mo ago
I think you don't understand that biological evolution happens over very long spans of time. Humans short-circuited a lot of evolutionary pressures already and introduced some new pressures. I think you also overestimate the effects of
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by gregjor 10mo ago
I see. Sounds like most office buildings I have worked in, with some more amenities. I think companies frequently lease space in buildings for branch offices. Sometimes those buildings have restaurants, coffee shops, gyms, other services. U
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by gregjor 10mo ago
Yes. A DVD of "Edge of Tomorrow."
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by gregjor 10mo ago
So shifting the cost of leasing and maintaining local offices to the employees? If a company has enough people in an area to economically fill up a WeWork-type space every day, the company should open an office for their employees to work f
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by gregjor 10mo ago
AI will "ease us entirely of the fatigue of thinking." And of the chore of writing sensible questions in online forums.
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by gregjor 10mo ago
> Since then, many corporations, governments, Wall St, and central banks have begun adopting public blockchains, especially Ethereum, and stablecoins. Do you have actual examples other than companies enabling speculation or worse when th
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by gregjor 10mo ago
Why do you care? Who decides what someone else "deserves?" Does prison or detention have to include deprivation and cruelty? This doesn't seem like something to get upset about unless you plan to spend time in prison.
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by gregjor 10mo ago
In the USA at least a few problems jump out. - Poor transportation infrastructure and long travel distances outside of dense cities. Given the choice of driving 30+ minutes to a remote work center or staying home most people will probably c
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by gregjor 10mo ago
> ... we won’t work on product marketing for AI stuff, from a moral standpoint, but the vast majority of enquiries have been for exactly that I don't use AI tools in my own work (programming and system admin). I won't work for
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by gregjor 10mo ago
> If you ever use your key person risk as a way to threaten the company for a raise, even subtly, I’ll make it my life’s mission to derisk off of you totally and never put you in a position of that leverage again. The original tweet plac
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by gregjor 10mo ago
As you note, the software industry lacks meaningful definitions of "productivity." We talk about it as if we agree on what it means, but can't measure it or compare it across teams, projects, or business domains. Studies I&#x
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by gregjor 11mo ago
Obligatory post of John Taylor Gatto's article The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher : https://selfdirectededucation.neocities.org/pdf/JTG%20The%20... A former teacher of the year, Gatto became very influential in early
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by gregjor 11mo ago
> I worry this move to homeschooling and micromanaging children's social lives just creates bubbles and makes children incapable of interacting with those outside of them. We already have this problem with the population at large, o
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by gregjor 11mo ago
Homeschooling comes up fairly often on HN, usually eliciting the same kinds of comments. Commenters repeat the same old tropes, generalize from anecdotes, and project individual experiences onto other people. I raised and homeschooled three
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by gregjor 11mo ago
Yes you can. Just don't use ChatGPT.
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by gregjor 11mo ago
I read and remember. Lots of content on HN but far less useful information.
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by gregjor 11mo ago
Brain. Have not maxed out storage in 65 years.
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by gregjor 1y ago
How does this specifically help digital nomads? Do you mean freelancers who don't have bank accounts that their customers can make payments to? Every country has different laws around crypto, including partial and full bans, so nomads
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by gregjor 1y ago
"SQL database" doesn't describe anything. Variations of SQL have implementations on relational and non-relational databases. SQL and relational often get used interchangeably but given your goal you might want to use the term
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by gregjor 1y ago
Fewer, not less. Two relevant numbers that frequently get conflated: Number of children per woman , and number of children per mother . Family size (children per mother) relatively constant in developed countries for decades. If you accou
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by gregjor 1y ago
I agree with everything in the article except the implied need for an IDE-like file browser or drawer. netrw never works as I expect and seems to have too many bugs. As one of the "old school vim users" I don't try to make vi
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by gregjor 1y ago
Thank you for the civil discussion. Good luck.
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by gregjor 1y ago
I wish everyone understood that they don't know very much. At times, especially when I lived in Portland, I would wish people understood that not everyone likes dogs.
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by gregjor 1y ago
Look to Excel for guidance. Excel reigns as the most widely-deployed and used non-code/low-code tool. Multiple studies show that something like 90% of spreadsheets contain logic errors. That might come from the UI and the tool, but in
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by gregjor 1y ago
I don't have any insight into the future. Anything might happen, including AGI. I doubt I will live to see it. I doubt my children or grandchildren will either. But I only have my own opinions informed by experience and what I read. I
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by gregjor 1y ago
I have read differing definitions of "AGI" but we can start with the Wikipedia definition unless you disagree: > Artificial general intelligence (AGI)—sometimes called human‑level intelligence AI—is a type of artificial intelli

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