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by jacknews 3y ago
I mean something like this: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6e7f6707a2532cca1a5bf4ffb... Unless using log scales, you might need some way to adjust the scales so that everything fits - maybe click on a 'column'
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by jacknews 3y ago
The design is aesthetic and all, but it does not convey the information well. Instead, just show an isometric graph with dates moving right-down, and each type, right-up, if that makes sense. Then, a single static 3d-ish image would show th
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by jacknews 3y ago
lol, yes I don't know why they are asking this on HN, they should ask their AI what to do.
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by jacknews 3y ago
This makes no sense. AI is much better suited to writing tests and all the other busywork around preparing software for release. And let's say something doesn't work correctly - who's going to go in and wade through AI's
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by jacknews 3y ago
Sure, 'investment' I'm a western expat in a developing nation, which probably doesn't help, but if I could see some, any kind of, results from proposals I make with free credits, I might accept the argument. As it is, th
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by jacknews 3y ago
I would say more than 12% of job postings are fake or suspect in one way or another. Either just trawling, or they're some college kid posting their idea from previous drunken night, or someone overemployed outsourcing their jobs, etc.
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by jacknews 3y ago
"I’d accidentally create the hybrid Apple computer of my dreams." And of other people's nightmares. A macbook and an ipad frankensteined together into an actual laptop? Sorry, it's a good hack and all, but definitely n
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by jacknews 3y ago
"The answer is chasing—" the answer is not chasing.
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by jacknews 3y ago
Game over for Roblox in my household. Had enough with futzing around to get Windows working on the occasions they want to play it. Not to mention the 'Download and install Roblox' doom loop when you try and start a game (oh, you h
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by jacknews 3y ago
Exactly, so why are you posting a link to scramjets, in relation to supersonic combustion? I don't think a turbine engine can handle hypersonic speeds, and so this will only work in the first phase of flight, as a booster. Or if it&#x2
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by jacknews 3y ago
I don't think scramjets have turbines?
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by jacknews 3y ago
The labor 'market' is totally asymetric, since workers are forced to work ... or starve, whereas companies can and do stop hiring, and even fire people, sometimes in a cynical move to suppress wages (witness the current tech scene
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Haven't watched the others, Foundation put me off doing so.
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"The key insight is to use electric motors to drive a compressor." Is this for the air intake? There must be a speed limit to this surely, and then you have to close intake and switch to rocket mode or something? And then there&#x
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by jacknews 3y ago
There's a danger of becoming the old man yelling at clouds. OTOH, the OMYAC often has a point, that the yoof can't quite see.
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by jacknews 3y ago
So it's basically running Linux, as far as developer 'UI' goes? And desktops always outperform laptops, currently. It's a shame Windows and Microsoft is so insufferable for everything else. And Macos hasn't really i
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by jacknews 3y ago
Sure, I'm just saying in other markets these places are already at mid-tier prices, and the US market looks like it's heading that way too.
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by jacknews 3y ago
I don't know about special, but it's not just the price, especially in emerging markets, where these places are often priced more toward the luxury or at least mid-range. There's possibly a niche opening up for actually-cheap
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by jacknews 3y ago
Why do we need to maintain the population? The UK is quite crowded already. It seems to me the environment would be much better-off with fewer people. And also people would be better off with fewer people, with more resources to invest in e
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by jacknews 3y ago
"To-day, the inventions of the scenario-writer go out from Los Angeles across the whole world. Countless audiences soak passively in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit
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by jacknews 3y ago
The opening rant in the video is familiar, I've been inspired to colorful language on many occasions too. I use linux and, reluctantly, macos (and will switch as soon as feasible). But my kids still use windows sometimes though, to pla
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by jacknews 3y ago
Yes, as they say 90% is just turning up. Being smart and working hard might pay the bills but are not enough for 'success'. As above, it seems many if not most successful people seem to have caught a break; been in the right place
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by jacknews 3y ago
So TSMC are getting paid by the Japanese government to build the fab, some local big tech-related companies have also invested and partnered, and Japanese workers are less 'truculent' aka more easily coerced, than Americans. I mea
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Too few humans for the infrastructure we've built, perhaps
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by jacknews 3y ago
Yes, also still struggling, after some decades. But I wonder what the metric is, when other people comment that 'it's a breeze'? Sure it's too easy to lay down any old crap. But the trick is addressing all the aspects an
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by jacknews 3y ago
"The false myth of a research-related accident being at the root of the COVID-19 pandemic has become endemic in society." Hmmm. Has this been translated from Chinese? All I'm getting is there was a debate, and the judges (who
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by jacknews 3y ago
Exactly, I didn't see any fines for the US over this. But of course, it was Russia blowing up their own pipelines, of course it was. Cui Bono?
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by jacknews 3y ago
Indeed, the flipper-zero ban is obviously ridiculous, especially in light of the complete lack of even a hope of a ban on certain other tools that are often used for much more serious crimes; personal crimes rather than property crimes.
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by jacknews 3y ago
There are probably arguments either way, some things are quite obviously better remote, and some things in person. Managing people is maybe easier in person. It's certainly easier if you're a 'controlling boss', as you c
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by jacknews 3y ago
Indeed, the root of the problem is financialization.

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