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by haswell 2y ago
I was reacting to the very direct and unqualified statement that who a person follows strongly indicates their values. If you’re just using social media for entertainment, I don’t care who you block or how. But perpetuating the idea that “f
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by haswell 2y ago
> Who a person follows is a pretty strong signal of their values I strongly disagree, and believing this to be true is a problem for public discourse IMO. What a person posts and who they repost is a strong signal of their values. I
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by haswell 2y ago
> Is it expected that people only ever want to see content that aligns with their views in their feed? Emphatically no, and it’s one of the things that I dislike about what blocklists have become on Bluesky. The fact that many people now
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by haswell 2y ago
I’ve spent 20+ years in tech in roles ranging from IT to engineering at west coast and midwest companies and this thread is the first time I’ve heard “nuke and pave”. At the places I’ve been, systems got “wiped” or “re-imaged” most commonly
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by haswell 2y ago
That probably depends on what you do with your computer. If you regularly clone git repos and run code you didn’t write or run unsigned apps from untrusted developers, it’s probably a good idea to scrutinize the connections that code is mak
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by haswell 2y ago
Paying for an upgrade to a new major version seems entirely reasonable and is the model I strongly prefer vs. ongoing subscriptions.
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by haswell 2y ago
I think the key word in the guidelines is “generally”. Exceptions seem to be made for the deaths of major figures, massively consequential events, etc. The “hide” button was made for this situation IMO.
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by haswell 2y ago
Even decently fast glass won’t do a good job of capturing drones at night unless there’s a significant amount of ambient light. And telephoto lenses with the range you mention with fast apertures are not exactly cheap. A 600mm F/4 goes
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by haswell 2y ago
I don’t think we should anthropomorphize plants to the point where we feel guilty about eating them, but I do think society as a whole is missing a kind of fundamental respect for nature and discounts the complexity and interestingness of p
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by haswell 2y ago
> Have I told you about my neighbor who uses a leaf blower nonstop from 7am until 8pm? Well, he doesn’t actually, be he has a right to While I think it’s reasonable to split hairs about whether or not they were actually collecting the
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by haswell 2y ago
The correct thing to do is to turn on your turn signal and wait for a safe opportunity to move to the right. But in most circumstances, if you’re trying to find an opening to move right, that’s still an indication that you’ve been hanging o
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by haswell 2y ago
Ahh good point. I was thinking about “machine plays itself repeatedly until it gets good” aspect of AlphaGo Zero and my brain jumped to brute forcing, but agree that’s a misnomer.
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by haswell 2y ago
It has yet to be seen if this can truly be generalized and if such an analogy holds. Go is a game constrained by an extremely narrow set of rules. Brute forcing potential solutions and arriving at something novel within such a constrained r
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by haswell 2y ago
> the reality is that the rate of child accidental deaths has steadily decreases over the past few decades as parents (and society) became more protective While accidental deaths are down, I wouldn’t be so quick to conclude this is bec
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by haswell 2y ago
It’s visually similar to a 2230, but does not appear to actually be a 2230 if you look closely at the pins.
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by haswell 2y ago
The stock market is not an accurate reflection or proxy for the economy as a whole. All time highs don’t matter if a significant and growing percentage of the population can’t afford basic necessities of life. The HN bubble is disproportion
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by haswell 2y ago
Why not both? There are a myriad of reasons to be concerned about the military adopting this kind of tech. If it's reasonable to be upset at the military, it seems equally reasonable to be upset at entities that enable the military. I
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by haswell 2y ago
What you describe sounds more like setting healthy boundaries. But I've worked with a frustratingly large number of people who do literally half-ass everything, and clearly work hard to find the line where they can just barely get away
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by haswell 2y ago
> Should we not require any due process under law, because the officer "just knew" that it was that brown guy who stole the bread? This is a bit fallacious and a false analogy. Due process under law exists because it's d
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by haswell 2y ago
This assumes that evaluations can be neatly defined and tracked. There's another front page post right now about exactly this. The soft (often difficult to define/measure) skills required of a manager are the same skills that are
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by haswell 2y ago
> They're called juniors I’m 20 years into this, not a junior. And the people I’m talking about certainly aren’t juniors. I’m not questioning the existence of people who stop caring. I’m saying that this is a choice, and one that
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by haswell 2y ago
> None of this affects me Frankly, that’s a huge problem. > The only way to make an employee care about this kind of thing is to pay them, and treat them, well enough to care. The workforce is absolutely full of people who value t
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by haswell 2y ago
That’s completely fair, and I slightly edited my comment to include the word need, because I strongly believe what I said applies to both dynamics.
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by haswell 2y ago
Even if my employer doesn’t deserve my dedication, it’s the end-user impact and personal cost of not giving a shit that concerns me. People building software are often in a position to directly impact significant numbers of people: not givi
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by haswell 2y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022796
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by haswell 2y ago
Already under discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022796
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by haswell 2y ago
Whatever happens on Tuesday, it’s going to be extremely close. The implication being that the US isn’t a lost cause, and failing to win is a signal that more people need to get involved in politics and pushing against the tide. How do you e
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by haswell 2y ago
It seems really problematic to me to run away vs. stay and work against this ideology. The quickest way for these ideas to become a majority is for the people who don’t hold them to leave.
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by haswell 2y ago
I actually think it makes sense to advertise this way. Most people I know who bought an M1 (myself included) are still rocking the M1. People who’ve purchased M2/M3 machines are less likely to be jumping on an M4. Comparing to an M1 te
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by haswell 2y ago
There were some viral threads going around for a bit that were focused on this word. It never made sense to me - presumably an LLM that outputs the word delve does so because it learned it from the data it was trained on, meaning delve was

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