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by ileonichwiesz 8mo ago
That’s exactly what we do at the Fortune 500 company where I work, and it’s surreal. In my first year I didn’t know any better, so I tried to set myself some actual objectives (learn to use XYZ, improve test coverage by X%, measurable stuff
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by ileonichwiesz 8mo ago
I’m not denying this has been the case for some people. I myself have switched to pretty much exclusively wearing trousers from my favourite tiny brand that cuts and sews them <100km from where I live, and I’m privileged enough to always
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by ileonichwiesz 8mo ago
Just like the tide of fast fashion caused people to seek out local-sewn clothes made from high-quality materials, right? Right? Quality isn’t a differentiator if the market is saturated with indistinguishable garbage. Everything is made in
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by ileonichwiesz 8mo ago
> How well do LLMs handle handwriting recognition? Pretty well for neat modern handwriting, but much worse for cursive or messier writing. They also really struggle if the text is at an angle. I have some recent experience with a projec
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by ileonichwiesz 9mo ago
The thing is that taking an interest in baking a cake doesn’t actually feed anyone. If you’re not going to spend your time baking (i.e. actually get involved in politics, to drop the metaphor), then what’s the point?
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by ileonichwiesz 9mo ago
My wife is a biologist, and as I understand biology on an academic level is just near-constant arguments about seemingly basic terms and concepts. Life, species, gene, organism - we don’t actually have consistent definitions of what those a
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by ileonichwiesz 9mo ago
This is the problem with all of those „gadget but repairable” companies. It sounds great on paper, but the low adoption rate means that parts are hard to come by, the products get discontinued all the time, and your local electronics repair
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by ileonichwiesz 9mo ago
The army of faceless delivery gig workers can’t exactly pick and choose. They deliver the food or they get banned from the platform and replaced by the next guy.
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
I remember reading that early systems could be defeated entirely by putting a pebble in your shoe, but I’m sure they’ve improved a lot since.
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
Very true! As I remember, Google+ was a step towards figuring out this issue - instead of a general Facebook-style „Friends” that includes all sorts of different people you know (or once knew), the idea was that you’d have multiple „circles
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
I think some of this is caused by the non-obvious mechanisms of how interactions on these platforms work. When you replied to a thread on a phpbb forum (or when you reply to this HN thread), your reply „lived” in that thread, on that forum,
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
> And it's not even worth it... none of those kids will be a professional sportis/musician, it's just wasted time... I can’t agree there. The point of extracurricular activities is to teach the kid new things and expand th
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
> Your peers are now way more aware of child abuse, kidnappings, murders, than your parents were. They’re technically more aware of those risks, sure, but any of those crimes are less likely than ever before. This increase in awareness
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
I’ve been getting back into movies this year and my 2018 laptop has reached the stage where it’s no longer useful as an everyday tool, so I’m turning it into a home media server. I’m only a couple days in, and I’ve already learned so much a
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
At that point you just open up the back of the TV and drive a screwdriver into the WiFi chip.
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
The people you mentioned are also wealthy and have access to a level of healthcare far beyond the average person.
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
Agreed. If immortality was discovered tomorrow (or at least some sort of anti-aging treatment), there’s no way it would become available to a regular person. All of us would still age and die, but we’d be ruled forever by ageless ghouls.
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
> Plus it raises all these difficult questions about the philosophy of mind and theory of personal identity - is the backup actually you? Or do you die, and you are survived by someone else who isn’t you but thinks they are? You don’t ne
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by ileonichwiesz 10mo ago
A lot of institutions, even crucial ones that we all depend on to manage important aspects of society, have barely started adapting to this newfangled fad called the internet. Maybe they’ll figure out what to do about generative AI somewher
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by ileonichwiesz 11mo ago
If you’re going to get into forgery of historical memorabilia there’s probably easier targets than Superman comic books, no?
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by ileonichwiesz 11mo ago
In that episode a bored Mr. Burns hires Homer as his „prank monkey”, paying him with loose cash to play cruel pranks on others and humiliate himself. Homer eventually regains his dignity after refusing to ruin the Thanksgiving day parade, e
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
I think “using technology” is just too broad, and a distinction needs to be made. Screen addiction doesn’t just mean using a screen. You’re right that it’d be pretty much impossible to refuse to engage with any modern technology these days
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
> Urges of all kinds (never wanted to slap someone and didn’t?) can be overcome with an only a little discipline. Okay, but where do you think that discipline comes from? Is it an inherent quality that a person is born with? I’d argue th
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
> Sure, maybe some people really do have thyroid problems; but this idea that overweight people are somehow not responsible for their own condition is ridiculous and dangerous. You’re not wrong, but I think you’re missing the bigger pict
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
Smoking used to be an unavoidably pushed part of life, too. It was linked to strength, manliness (or femininity actually, depending on the target market), independence, etc. Tobacco company mascots loomed over us from billboards, and told u
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
> taking it out has different social implications It definitely does, but in my experience a standalone camera is usually better received than a phone. I think it’s got to do with the implication of easy shareability. Pointing a phone at
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
> You don't become addicted because of luxury. The definition of a luxury is “Something that is not essential but provides pleasure and comfort.” I’d actually argue that you can only get addicted to luxuries. You wouldn’t say yo
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
I guess it’s time to pop it open and do one of those classic “how I rewired this thing to work how I want” HN posts.
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
> Consider: this is the worst they will ever be. This is probably what people in the 18th century thought when they saw that digesting duck automaton [1]. Technological progress isn’t a magical linear thing that always leads to things g
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by ileonichwiesz 1y ago
Helpers may be expensive, but space is at a premium too. Imagine this thing trying to navigate a cramped studio apartment.

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