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by hinkley 9mo ago
How do you make a small fortune in XXXX? First start with a large fortune.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
If it weren’t they wouldn’t be borrowing another $30bil The question is how are they going to extract $60bil from their customers to earn that money back?
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I haven’t done much with Claude code yet but I’ve watched some rather recent videos of other people leverage it to get work done and I couldn’t help thinking, are we going to end up with a similar UI but with fully deterministic “agents” at
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Also every myth about djinn, genies, leprechauns, half of faeries, the devil…
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by hinkley 9mo ago
One of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026 so far .
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by hinkley 9mo ago
My horse did not stomp :(
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’m trying to think of what use I’d make of infinite scroll that would specifically not be for addictive purposes. Maybe ticket backlogs?
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by hinkley 9mo ago
My quick look at Swedish exports shows that the largest export is finished equipment at 14%, fuel exports at 7.1, 4.8% wood and paper, 3.6% iron and steel, of which I'm sure a lot of that equipment is made. 3.4% plastics, which is just
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Unfortunately people of intermediate standing try all the time and get told to go back to their day job and stop dabbling in political action. Also some of these people would have voted for Reagan so... you know. A person is smart, people a
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by hinkley 9mo ago
A less generous response is one thing. Getting defensive about it and saying nobody is entitled to shit is something else entirely. And that's where the antisocial people of HN usually go.
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I still like the idea of clawing back mineral and water rights and paying for basic services out of the money payed by industry for the right to dirty our air and water. As a citizen you're entitled to compensation for the smoke you&#x
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by hinkley 9mo ago
If you don't want your github work to be considered social, MAKE YOUR REPOSITORIES PRIVATE. 80% of my shit on github is private. And I have taken my licks on mistakes I made on the rest. I had to redo a whole release roadmap because pe
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by hinkley 9mo ago
> Accepting a gift without an intention to reciprocate is an admission of social inferiority. I wish I'd read your response more thoroughly before responding from my phone in a parking lot. You do not understand gift economies at al
614.
by hinkley 9mo ago
That's so edgy. I just said that?
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Graph Theory and AI have been forever linked because it turns out the human brain is ridiculously good at finding a path through a graph that is somewhere in the neighborhood of 97% optimal, and we can do it in minutes while a computer woul
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by hinkley 9mo ago
> If making my project reduces my power on the project, why would I ever open source anything? For me, especially when I'm increasing the bus number of something I worked on at work, it's down to two things. Either I'm hop
617.
by hinkley 9mo ago
There's a project where almost all the merged PRs since the last release are mine and I'm practically vibrating with trying not making a big deal out of it. It's not unlike how the game I gave someone as a birthday present on
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by hinkley 9mo ago
When I was 25, I, like a lot of developers, wanted to write my own programming language. I realized that I should not create my own programming language around the same time that I realized that neither should most of the rest of us. Your
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I find code I wrote that violates advice I've given other people all the time. I've made release cycle mistakes on projects I maintain that I would have bet money a few years ago that you'd never catch me making. The siren so
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by hinkley 9mo ago
> Counterpoints: > - You are entitled to human decency. Maintainers don't get to be rude just because they run a project. This is a common thing in a lot of projects; maintainers have power, and this allows them to be rude withou
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I sing in the shower all the time. I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out one at a time and the video sold to psychopaths than go to an open mic night or participate in a talent show. I know what I am and I know the degree to which
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by hinkley 9mo ago
Anything you in a public space, will be made social by someone eventually. If you (GP) don't like it then tough shit. That's a You Problem, not an Us Problem. And you can make github repositories that others can see but not the re
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’ve never been the popular kid for more than a few minutes. It felt weird when it happened, both due to impostor syndrome and the unfortunate situations where it most often happened. Like an altercation where I found I was seen more than I
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by hinkley 9mo ago
No, emphatically not. We are surrounded by them and people behave as if they are without acknowledging it. Saying it isn’t so doesn’t change the fact that we give more attention to people who [give] us free shit. It’s baked into our little
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’m not disagreeing that people get entitled about the gifts they think they’re bringing to someone else’s party. Yeah it’s frustrating and sometimes it’s bonkers. Don’t bring “lutefisk” to someone else’s party and expect to be celebrated a
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I can’t think of a single time I’ve needed a sorted list of only numbers. It’s always numbers and something else, like names or dates. Maybe for median calculations, but I don’t even use those that much either. Especially in telemetry, wher
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I’m a long term AAPL shareholder and even I see a bit of the hegemonic vibes. Little people can’t get the attention of large organizations without literally setting themselves on fire. Voting with your feet isn’t going to affect a trillion
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by hinkley 9mo ago
I don’t disagree with Rich Hickey a lot but this one grinds my gears: > All social impositions associated with it, including the idea of 'community-driven-development' are part of a recently-invented mythology with little basis
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by hinkley 9mo ago
People are always going to neg you in order to try to get more out of you. During the 00’s I worked for a place that had to pivot because they had a good tool but it wasn’t a daily driver and so the customers didn’t want to pay. They kept i
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by hinkley 9mo ago
There is not space in the collective consciousness for an infinite number of solutions to the same problem. I usually get downvoted for pointing this out but it explains why people shit on you when you start getting defensive about people

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