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by hnbad 1y ago
The ship has sailed on this one. Arguing that UFO means "unidentified" (i.e. probably not aliens) is like arguing whether the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic or a republic, or arguing that the Nazis were s
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by hnbad 1y ago
Considering the "Ancient Alien" stuff mostly exists because people find it more plausible space aliens did something than brown people in the past that we find complicated to explain nowadays, I'd say you're not too far
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by hnbad 1y ago
Wow, that took me by surprise. I can't say I've followed his exact involvements closely but his name was definitely one I'd come across a lot, especially in the early years of Node.js. I even met him at a conference once, onl
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by hnbad 1y ago
If "the government" were to run Google Search, it would be bad because nobody cares about making it good because profit is the only motivating force for organizations. Because Google runs Google Search, it's instead only bad
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by hnbad 1y ago
Because real libraries are not for-profit enterprises and have a negative (or at least extremely unimpressive) ARR. Incidentally their leadership positions also don't provide anywhere near the levels of compensation you'd expect f
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by hnbad 1y ago
Or for a more concerning example, GitHub is owned by Microsoft who want to sell cloud services so it stands to reason it would be in their interest to have GitHub Copilot steer developers towards building applications using architectural pa
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by hnbad 1y ago
> “False color” was popular for a while but has fallen out of favor because it implies fakery. I think that's getting the priorities wrong. The people who think those images are "fake" and fraudulent don't think that
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by hnbad 1y ago
`Temporal` has three main types for this: - `Temporal.Instant` is a timestamp, the equivalent of a millisecond epoch timestamp or a UTC ISO string. - `Temporal.PlainDateTime` (and `Temporal.PlainTime`, `Temporal.PlainDate`, `Temporal.PlainY
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by hnbad 1y ago
It's a good talk but it's an even better talk if you actually like JS and understand not only why those things are the way they are but also that you wouldn't ever do them in normal code.
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by hnbad 1y ago
Wait, I thought Americans use M/D/Y not Y/D/M?
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by hnbad 1y ago
It's documented undefined behavior, really. Implementations are allowed to accept other input than ISO strings and interpret them how they like. The real "bug" in the example is 2025/05/28 being May 28th because the
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by hnbad 1y ago
I guess some people just want to see the world burn.
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by hnbad 1y ago
Because the alternative would have been VBScript (if Microsoft had won at the time). JS was a compromise. It had to be sent out the door quick, it needed to look sufficiently like Java to not upset Sun who were trying to establish Java as t
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by hnbad 1y ago
This is a general problem. These things worked before those platforms became successful enough to warrant a cottage industry around them. Nowadays there are "reputation management" companies specializing in getting bad reviews del
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by hnbad 1y ago
Anecdotally, we introduced a 25 hours (5 days, 5 hours per day) work week at full pay in our company (digital services, creative) and maintained it for several years and observed a reduction of productivity (in terms of output) of 10-20% co
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by hnbad 1y ago
I used to dual boot with Windows before WSL was a thing and I agree that back then I'd see GRUB on a daily basis.
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by hnbad 1y ago
You're describing direct democracy. For an alternative with fewer downsides consider liquid democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy If you like the general idea behind this and would like to see
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by hnbad 1y ago
I'm not saying we won't possibly land someone on Mars eventually. I just don't think that's going to happen in a reasonable near future. The resources involved are too much for one person willing to go on a suicide missi
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by hnbad 1y ago
Soft deletes can be done in a GDPR-compliant way. But transparency is key. The problem of course is that soft deletes are hard. As soon as you take sub-resources and relations into considerations, especially with shared ownership, things ge
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by hnbad 1y ago
Remember that the quote is coming from the same guy who has been promising FSD for years and hasn't come any closer to delivering it because it turns out that the devil is in the details. Elon Musk allegedly has a photographic memory t
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by hnbad 1y ago
A rover is expendable, a human much less so. The PR cost of having a human smash into the surface of Mars the way it happened with a rover would easily outweigh the PR boost of having a human successfully land on Mars. And even if we manage
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by hnbad 1y ago
Except that the Americas were already inhabited prior to 1490 because they were in fact relatively easily reachable at an earlier point in history and extremely habitable. Mars by contrast is an environment that is actively hostile to life.
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by hnbad 1y ago
Colonizing Mars isn't a problem. Colonizing Mars is a goal. Making that happen requires addressing a ridiculous number of problems and sub-problems. If history teaches us anything, the biggest problem is supply chains - and supply chai
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by hnbad 1y ago
> They would require regular shipments of food and water from Earth That's one of the core challenges techno-optimists like Musk constantly handwave and ignore when grandstanding about humanity becoming a "multi-planetary speci
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by hnbad 2y ago
Corporations like Google certainly encourage a focus on in-group relationships between employees to reduce churn (i.e. increase stakes for disgruntled employees who might consider quitting). The entire idea of having scheduled leisure activ
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by hnbad 2y ago
> Through the entirety of human history you'd keep working for the same employer for your entire life Just looking at the Western world that breaks down during industrialization and falls apart if you go further back then that, jour
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by hnbad 2y ago
> we're now entering some kind of abstract space that cares not for the stated intentions of humans But that's the thing about systems: they may involve humans but they don't necessarily reflect the intentions of the indiv
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by hnbad 2y ago
"Believing in the mission" requires a suspension of disbelief that can reduce the impact of various factors that would otherwise decrease morale (e.g. lower cash compensation, fewer benefits, unfair working conditions, longer hour
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by hnbad 2y ago
> The primary reason why the gap between the wealthy and and everyone is increasing is that employees started preferring cash compensation over equity. You're making it sound like equity turns companies into co-ops when in reality m
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by hnbad 2y ago
To be fair, that threat of violence is also the only thing enforcing your claims of property ownership. In its absence you'd have to rely on your community's consent. I guess that alternative scenario sounds more dystopian the mor

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