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by jkestner 2y ago
Humans have been writing this kind of thing for a long time before LLMs got good at it. Sure hasn't helped the training data.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Agreed. By next year they’ll be able to outsource the puppetry to a nearby developing country.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Less lazy than a dancer in a skin tight robot suit. Progress!
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by jkestner 2y ago
What other $100K products do you throw out after five years? I suppose if the insurance is on the hook, they might require repairability.
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by jkestner 2y ago
As for needing to provide parts into the future, a friend's company does aftermarket service for many expensive pieces of government equipment. Presumably they're able to make what's needed because the government requires it
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by jkestner 2y ago
That’d be a hell of a magnet program.
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by jkestner 2y ago
I was actually thinking of scaling to a site first, and then expand horizontally to all ceiling-mounted products. Because what's the point if I can't monetize my decision-making system?
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by jkestner 2y ago
You're telling me some people out there don't create spreadsheets and a scoring system to compare 10 different ceiling fans before purchase?
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by jkestner 2y ago
The statement is about school libraries. Those alternative sources are not very accessible to children.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Taco Bell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Bell
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by jkestner 2y ago
I automatically bought Nova (cue fainting) when it came out because Panic has provided me with a lot of value over the years (yes, I paid for an FTP client, too). I still use VS Code the most, but I don't enjoy tinkering with endlessly
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by jkestner 2y ago
Thanks to AI I don't need to read all those 300,000 words now, right?
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by jkestner 2y ago
Core77 ( https://www.core77.com ) is by far the most nuts-and-bolts industrial design blog, though still not enough process articles for my taste. https://www.dezeen.com https://www.designboom.com/ ht
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by jkestner 2y ago
Harrison Bergeron but for AI
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by jkestner 2y ago
True, your social security number would make more sense as the primary key.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Narcan nasal spray was approved for over the counter last March. The chart’s peak is one month after.
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by jkestner 2y ago
U-Haul Australia is not associated with the American company at all. They just were able to register the trademark first, even using the original’s brand assets.
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by jkestner 2y ago
What problem? Not fraud, if there's no statistically significant amount of fraud happening. [1] The only people who want to argue about it are doing it to sow doubt in a remarkably robust system. The problem they're trying to solv
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by jkestner 2y ago
That's not the same kind of problem. Photo ID requirements restrict voting access, voting holiday expands it.
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by jkestner 2y ago
"Bring work to your whole self."
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by jkestner 2y ago
Everything’s transparent on some wavelength.
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by jkestner 2y ago
We don't write just to communicate things we know, but to learn what we think. Especially in a school setting. https://herbertlui.net/dont-think-to-write-write-to-think/ I remember this every time I solve a proble
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by jkestner 2y ago
Ideas are fragile, etc. There's a point at which you want feedback, but not before you've built enough for people to see the vision. Depending on your audience, you may need to build more or less to get to that point. Still, they&
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by jkestner 2y ago
They originated in large part from slave patrols. Enforcing a certain social order is in their DNA.
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by jkestner 2y ago
The IIc+ was such a refined form of the II. Motorized 3.5" floppy, integrated power supply for maximum portability (I'd take it to do basketball stats for the high school team), platinum color that carried through to Macs until th
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by jkestner 2y ago
Early on in my career, at a large company, I encountered someone who took “codebase” a little too literally. At the time every department had their own developers, sometimes just employees who had an aptitude for computers. This one guy est
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by jkestner 2y ago
More or less agree. Other comments talking about how we used to be able read source. My old school behavior is that I’ve built up my own CSS framework that I start any new site with. Nothing ambitious, just reflecting the way I want my site
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by jkestner 2y ago
Cool strawman. I got no problems denying mfgs their ad revenue by using an Apple TV. But I’ll complain on behalf of the non-HNers who should have an ad-free choice by default. The ads are coming for all of us. Apple is starting to insert th
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by jkestner 2y ago
With a screen that looks the same on or off, I'm looking forward to always-on ads.
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by jkestner 2y ago
It's true, the party machine continues to churn out party candidates, and the voters are not given much choice. I left that first item blank in the primary. But we all have this idea that our candidate will win in a perfect situation t

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