hobs

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by hobs 8mo ago
Ah yes, lick the boot even harder and then maybe you will get some respite. This version of events you present has no connection with reality.
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by hobs 8mo ago
Fox News seems to be going strong, so I don't think this holds - we see the rise of the right wing shady and sloppy news dominating the market because its cheap, fast, and appeals to the public's basal natures. No tug of war there
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by hobs 8mo ago
You say socially approved catch phrases and yet people are being shot in my city by federal agents, and I carry a passport knowing that it will do me no good if they decide to crack my head in. When do words have meanings that connect to re
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by hobs 8mo ago
There's no one in 2026 honestly saying "But what crimes has he committed???" its just concern trolls, sealions, bots, and some nazis.
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by hobs 8mo ago
A lot less because they'd be dead from easily preventable diseases in their water supply?
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by hobs 8mo ago
There's a reason that one of the big corporate skills books is Strength Finder - because fundamentally playing to your weaknesses isn't a good play, its that you need to consistently challenge yourself to keep building whatever mu
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by hobs 8mo ago
None of the systems you describe are the 90% of businesses - grocery, airlines, banking, stock markets, dns, they are all modeling huge systems with very active logistics compared to most businesses, I still don't agree with you at all
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by hobs 8mo ago
I would say quite the opposite - most business have little need for eventual consistency and at a small scale its not even a requirement for any database you would reasonably used, way more than 90% of companies don't need eventual con
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by hobs 8mo ago
Depends on when you stop calculating, and how you exactly value the work By 1900 the united states had 215 thousand miles of railroads https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-histor... Depend on you value
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by hobs 8mo ago
Don't forget - layer 0 - how you stored the data was wrong. layer -1 - your understanding of modeling the behavior was wrong before you ever created a table. layer -2 - your fundamental business process was wrong and all your informati
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by hobs 8mo ago
Sure, but he was cruel for no reason to many people who did not deserve it, I don't even care about his tech problems. Nobody should park in the handicap stalls without a license plate because he keeps leasing new cars.
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by hobs 8mo ago
Jobs fucked over a lot of people and respected the machines. Woz dealt with the machines and respected the people.
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by hobs 8mo ago
No, the ones on broadcast television news where they go scene by scene breaking down any claims of Alex being at fault being bogus lies that you are now repeating.
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by hobs 8mo ago
Many people on hacker news have a reason to care about the united states government's position on signal and their evolving efforts relating to civil rights.
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by hobs 9mo ago
https://www.wpr.org/health/health-experts-officials-slam-ron... Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence instead of just posting bs on rumble.
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by hobs 9mo ago
You mean people like this - The COVID vaccine “has been proven to have negative efficacy.” https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jun/07/ron-johnso... This is called disinformation that will get you
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by hobs 9mo ago
Wrong https://www.americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/ameri... There has been many ways to stop you from voting, contesting your vote, calling your registration into account, imitating tests that are imposs
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by hobs 9mo ago
To be clear, no, it is not, because of the opportunity cost of all the other slop. That's what this is all about.
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by hobs 9mo ago
It's interesting to see cognitive blindness in action!
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by hobs 9mo ago
The idea that hackers are non political is very silly and very unbacked up by evidence.
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by hobs 9mo ago
Its a tired trope, but you are wrong. The haves and the have nots define everything about our society and Not Addressing The Situation is a very active choice, thus politics.
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by hobs 9mo ago
In some ways some people are literally blinded to the problems they cause because as you say, they do not and some say cannot see the problem. A good discussion on the topic is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooEsmOOm2k t
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by hobs 9mo ago
Right, but this is still a hygiene issue, if you are skipping washing your hands after using the bathroom because its unlikely that the bathroom attendants didn't clean it up you are going to have a bad time.
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by hobs 9mo ago
Putting your secrets in any logs is how you get those secrets accidentally or purposefully read by someone you do not want to read it, it doesn't have to be the initial corp, they just need to have bad security or data management for i
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by hobs 9mo ago
Sure they would, because it's fucking stupid. There's no need to entertain such fucking stupid thoughts, just say no to how stupid it is and move on.
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by hobs 9mo ago
This is my favorite high powered individual at a company trope. Hey you, yeah you with no power to change or order people around, yeah, you go ahead and do my job with no new tools or authority. I have had so many CTOs tell me that I should
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by hobs 9mo ago
Yes, Palantir folks have self selected for the first two over and over - anyone working there for many years now is completely blacklisted from anything I touch, when someone advertises ex-Palantir folks in the job description I know I can
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by hobs 9mo ago
If you want to do that why not just do an EVA pattern or something else that can translate rows to columns?
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by hobs 10mo ago
Agree, as engineers we should be making the car easier to operate instead of making everyone a mechanic. Focus on the simple iteration loop of "why is it so hard to understand things about our product?" maybe you cant fix it all t
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by hobs 10mo ago
How about comparing wage theft vs shrink - how much is everyone stealing from each other - almost 1 in 5 workers experience wage theft.

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