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by jghn 5mo ago
> but it comes with significant risks But fewer risks than people make it out to be. When people publish the lists of riskiest occupations based on health data, on the job injury data, etc police officers generally wind up around #20 +&#
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by jghn 5mo ago
People don't realize how well paid cops are. In a lot of municipalities the highest paid officials will be dominated by police.
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by jghn 5mo ago
At a high level, that. And of course that requires a certain ratio of predator vs prey. And there were way too many would be predators. Both groups self-identify as wanting a "real" experience in a sandbox that lets them "do
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by jghn 5mo ago
Yep. After I stopped UO I took a break for a few years and picked up WoW after it had already settled in for a bit. I was surprised how on rails it was. Get a quest? Well my UI plugin tells me exactly what to go. Add *any* sort of mystery o
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by jghn 5mo ago
> somehow all the 3d MMOs seemed to downgrade a lot of the interesting Unfortunately two things turned out to be true: 1) Most people don't want any of this and prefer to be on rails 2) The two groups of people most attracted to a g
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by jghn 5mo ago
What about giraffe lengths per second?
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by jghn 5mo ago
The one thing about that era that has always seemed unique is that for people who lived it, a few years was a very big deal. Even now that I'm much older, talking to people in my age range it still blows my mind how different people&#x
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by jghn 5mo ago
It's funny, being someone who was terminally online then and now, back then I had immediate access to orders of magnitude more information than I did a few years prior as well as a normal person. These days the amount of information I
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by jghn 6mo ago
Purely anecdata but I know many people who have had their work funded through CZI. And no, this wasn't drunken parties.
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by jghn 6mo ago
There is no reasonable metric by which one can claim US software devs are hard up I think is the point being made. Everyone would like to make more but I was interpreting this thread as suggesting a us dev whining that as a field they’re be
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by jghn 6mo ago
They already donate a lot of useful money via the Chan Zuckerberg Institute so there’s a good track record at least
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by jghn 6mo ago
It scales beyond the needs that most people have in most situations. The constant problem is that "big scale" always means "larger than I've seen", so on any project larger than a person has encountered, they assume
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by jghn 6mo ago
Or Comstar in the original setting of Battletech
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by jghn 6mo ago
It’s supposed to do this, but I’ve found it doesn’t always do it
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by jghn 6mo ago
I'm not saying this is a great state of affairs. But I'm saying that it's so pervasive in daily life that yes, at least part of the blame lies on users for not taking this into account. As a developer it's important to a
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by jghn 6mo ago
Fellow Rancho Gordo bean clubber and I saw the same thing. If I really go hard, like eating them with every meal for most of a week I'll notice it building up but otherwise not really.
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by jghn 6mo ago
I’m not. Why would anyone believe marketing speak for any product? One should always assume that at best they’re fluffing their product up and more likely that they’re telling straight up lies
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by jghn 6mo ago
My point is the opposite. I don't think my observation was smart, and I'm surprised to so many people here, a venue with a lot of people who use this stuff far more than I do, think it wasn't an easy to grok thing.
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by jghn 6mo ago
Ok, insofar as saying "tape archive archive" out loud doesn't sound odd to you, keep doing it I suppose.
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by jghn 6mo ago
Isn't "archive" embedded in "tar" already? In other words, is this like saying one went to the "ATM machine"?
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by jghn 6mo ago
> Have you ever talked with users? I believe if one were to read my post it'd have been clear that I *am* a user. This *is* "hacker" news after all. I think it's a safe assumption that people sitting here discussing C
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by jghn 6mo ago
This oversells how obfuscated it is. I'm far from a power user, and the opposite of a vibe coder. Yet I noticed the effect on my own just from general usage. If I can do it, anyone can do it.
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by jghn 6mo ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Trump's insiders own't be investigated
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by jghn 6mo ago
To some extent I'd say it is indeed reasonable. I had observed the effect for a while: if I walked away from a session I noticed that my next prompt would chew up a bunch of context. And that led me to do some digging, at which point I
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by jghn 6mo ago
This comment reminded me of the early days of Ultima Online. I was on a high speed campus connection with a ping time of ~5ms to my server. Given most players were on a 28.8/56k modem with ping times ~300ms, it was an amazing speed dif
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by jghn 6mo ago
> The Department of Defense is the Department of War No, it is not, at least not technically. That would require an act of Congress, which hasn't happened. Despite what the idiots "in charge" seem to believe.
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by jghn 6mo ago
As others have stated, the lack of visible effect is not the same thing as there never having been a land mine in the first place. I can tell you anecdotally that on 12/31/2000 I was hanging with some friends. At 12PM UTC we turne
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by jghn 6mo ago
GNAT has existed since at least the mid-90s, and in that time period plenty of companies used non-OSS compilers. In that era, the largest blocker for Ada was it ws viewed as having a lot of overhead for things that weren't generally se
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by jghn 6mo ago
lol took me a second. an amusing autocorrect!
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by jghn 6mo ago
Over time I’ve developed a philosophy of starting roughly around 3NF and adjusting as the project evolves. Usually this means some parts of the db get demoralize and some get further normalized

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