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   by gryfft 2y ago

   When I saw the headline I thought this was going to be a joke article referring to the Bioshock games or the like. And oh, brother. It's Business Insider and it's real.
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   by gryfft 2y ago

   Neat looking site, clean login/signup flow. As submission titles go, you could probably make this a Show HN. Also, the question mark doesn't inspire confidence for those familiar with Betteridge's law [0]. 0. https:/&#x
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   by gryfft 2y ago

   Since it appears you have chosen to incompletely quote the problem statement from the abstract as your submission statement, and since by accident or design the full title was not included in your submission: This paper describes FaCT, a DS
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   by gryfft 2y ago

   Well, that's me completely done with modern design, then. Honestly, the opening quotes from this guy make my skin crawl. Buttons are simple, responsive, snappy, provide instant haptic feedback, and they're dirt cheap. But no. Let&
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   by gryfft 2y ago

   > The obvious argument for the existence of a creator is that we have no other explanations for how things come into being other than that they were created by someone or something. Since we have no other explanations for things coming i
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   by gryfft 2y ago

   If you really solved factorization you wouldn't be fucking around on ebay, you would just mint yourself as much crypto as you want. Flagging obvious scam :)
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   by gryfft 2y ago

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke
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   by gryfft 2y ago

   > Amateur math prodigy? Bored puzzle enthusiast? Aspiring Troll? Who knows. Who knows, indeed. > will that have the effect of increasing or decreasing government/big tech ability to control and manipulate people? I'm so conf
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   by gryfft 2y ago

   Maybe hold off on posting more about this until you have a proof of concept. Or a whitepaper. Or anything. (Because what you're describing just sounds like... networked computers. We have those.) Edit: after reading your post history I
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    > “Leadership is a lot less fulfilling and a lot less fun when you’re doing it remotely,” Bock said. There's also this, which makes a great deal of sense to me even as it angers me from the other end of the power gradient. Managemen
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    [2018]
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    GP did specify least evil hostile SI.
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    [2014]
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    If you continue reading, the reasoning is given in the next sentence: > Weird as it might be, it's not a great mystery why that is: it's easier to spin up a Wordpress blog than it is to figure out by yourself all the intermedia
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    Legitimately, what are you trying to do?
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    Doctor Asimov*.
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    This reads like a two graf article somebody asked ChatGPT to turn into a dialogue between a boomer and zoomer.
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    This article details some past legal actions taken in different countries about it: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/16/ibm_dinobabies_case_s... edit: heh, replied concurrently with others pointing the sam
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    Appears to be broken, there are no rooms and the 'create' functionality leads to a 404.
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    It's a magic comment, a feature from Ruby 2.3+ [0]. Not sure what set dhh (David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails web framework) off about this, but I'm guessing it improves performance and was a concession after a
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    [2023] Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064971
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    Depends on the molecule. Cannabis can be produced by any teenager in a closet with a grow light. Quaaludes on the other hand are now impossible to come by.
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    Only available in 6 cities in the UK, and at a glance these are fairly common mainstream experiences. As in, pops up on Google for "things to do in <X>" kind of experiences.
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    > Apparently, I stepped (through time and space) right into one of the most fiery subjects on SO (a site not known for calm and respectable discourse at the best of times): > Are C and C++ two completely different languages? > And,
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    Thanks for this. Pretty terrible news site.
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    > That’s the thing with these pushes to regulate noise out of cities: they often are enforced with such ruthlessness that they end up backfiring. In this case, an automated system is making the call about issuing citations. There’s no po
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    > The venture, in which billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries will have majority stake Wait, Disney Entertainment's getting bought ? I'm really confused and curious how the structure works and what the relations
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    Resulting in web elements bouncing around and changing wholesale as the site loads? Hitting the wrong button as some UI element loads late is already a painful UX stubbed toe as it is.
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    Google Cache used to be so useful. But they've left that all to the Internet Archive now. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-...
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    by gryfft 2y ago

    [2018] Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16065880