jahewson

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by jahewson 2y ago
> 1-on-1 every week That’s just normal to me.
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by jahewson 2y ago
bun?
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Should the community continue to invest significant resources into making closed systems more open, or should efforts be redirected toward promoting more open hardware standards? False dichotomy. Do both!
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by jahewson 2y ago
No, this was a failing business and the employees fled.
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Why not just make everyone working there an incredible offer at the same time? Under civil law this is regarded as tortious interference. Businesses have a contract with their employees and if you interfere with it to harm the employer
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by jahewson 2y ago
Your points are good but I wonder if you’re wishing for an ideal that has never existed: > actually surfacing the content people want to see, not what intermediaries want them to see Requires two assumptions, 1) the content people want t
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by jahewson 2y ago
Reddit is astroturfed pretty hard too nowadays. It just takes more work to spot it.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Tesseract was originally created by HP, open-sourced, and later developed by Google. It's based on techniques from the 1980s and is pretty underwhelming. But at least it's free!
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by jahewson 2y ago
Are there hundreds of applications for every engineering role? Yes. But most of those applications don’t meet the minimum requirements. A senior position requiring 4yrs experience will see > 90% of its applications coming from new grads
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by jahewson 2y ago
I guess your printer driver is free to emulate an LPT if it wants to.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Nah, the stakes are too high.
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by jahewson 2y ago
There’s a big difference between a culture that mostly ceased to exist in the past 200 years, because of the USA, and one that ceased to exist 3500 years ago.
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Immigration/tourism requirements are always the strictest against the very countries who were plundered during colonial times Trivially false. The UK has strict requirements for Russia, a former imperial power. The USA was formerl
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by jahewson 2y ago
Such as? I don’t see a single missing artifact on this list that was taken by Europeans and lost in WWI or WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_treasures Plenty lost in other parts of the world though!
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by jahewson 2y ago
That’s amazing. I’d heard of mummies being used for paint [1] but fertilizer is a new one. To be fair it’s not “plundering” because they purchased them from an Egyptian farmer who discovered them on his land. Very much a two party activity.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Logs.
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by jahewson 2y ago
> 10% increases are quite large! You have to ask yourself, 10% of what? I don’t usually mind throwing 10% more compute or memory at a problem but I do mind if its 10x more. I’ve shipped 100x perf improvements in the past where 1.5x would
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Add another aspect here that LaTeX is a bit outdated in 2024 (I know that’s controversial! Sorry) I met Leslie Lamport seven or eight years ago and asked him what a completely modern LaTeX might look like. He replied “well, we won’t b
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by jahewson 2y ago
What people say is one thing but one should draw conclusions instead from what they do. Too often the GPL is used to enforce a two-tier system in which everyone is free but some are more free than others. The original creators of a work ret
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Is it that the US ship builders aren't competent Yes, they are woefully uncompetitive. They produce single-digit numbers of commercial oceangoing ships annually, at 2-4x the cost of elsewhere. It’s an industry on life support.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Technological knowhow is one thing, but the real problem is that we can’t build any kind of ship anymore, neither commercial nor naval: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41456073
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by jahewson 2y ago
Diagrams can certainly be helpful but do be aware that “visual learners” is a myth that has been debunked for 15 years now: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth...
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by jahewson 2y ago
That was pretty much the situation with reality TV twenty years ago. Everyone was aghast that some random person could appear on a show and instead of being cast aside for our amusement at the end, they were able to build a personal brand a
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by jahewson 2y ago
> Just because a study doesn't replicate, doesn't make it false. But it also doesn’t make it not false. It makes the null hypothesis more likely to be true.
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by jahewson 2y ago
I don’t think MVPs are the problem here. Most projects were like this before MVPs were conceived of. Usually the failure is that the project isn’t minimal at all. It’s usually the maximum complexity that a given team can handle.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Sadly true, but Firestore has a security rules emulator and encourages you to write unit tests for it! There's just so many levels of "ignored all reasonable practices" here. Where's the code review? Where's the sec
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by jahewson 2y ago
Everything you say above can be said of global warming too. Yet there’s good reason to be cautious.
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by jahewson 2y ago
Yup. Battery life too.
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by jahewson 2y ago
It’s shocking. I’ve had a non-Tesla electric car for about 5 years and the public chargers have always been garbage. The new ones are garbage too. If they do finally work, they charge at 1/4 the quoted speed. I had free charging for a
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by jahewson 2y ago
The sane thing is to sign bytes, as you suggest. But OP is right that it needs to preclude adding signatures to a document.

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