jnovek

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by jnovek 5mo ago
You’re making a value statement in a discussion about factual information. Regardless of whether you think avoiding children for economic reasons is good or bad, it’s the leading reason cited by people who choose to delay having children.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
Now sure how things are in Europe where there is a bigger social safety net, but in the US, 36% of adults under 50 describe putting off having kids due to financial reasons. https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/0
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by jnovek 5mo ago
I keep my browser zoomed in substantially to compensate for uncorrectable vision issues. I’d say perhaps once per day I’ll encounter a website that has never had zoom in/out (ctl +/-) tested because if you zoom up even one level f
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by jnovek 5mo ago
> How can you reason about code you don't fully understand? We all do, though. It takes months for a human to really get to know a project and, unless you’re working at a small startup, you’ll probably never know most of the code ou
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by jnovek 5mo ago
Mullvad has explicitly given their reasoning. That's the evidence. Now the burden of evidence is on you to show that these things are connected since you are the one challenging Mullvad's claim.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
I mostly agree with you, but I’ve come to appreciate that there was a period of time in the Middle Ages where the Catholic Church held the fabric of society together in their corner of the world. I think much more knowledge from antiquity
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by jnovek 5mo ago
_why’s disappearance from the scene was 17 years ago at this point. I don’t think the Ruby community you’re talking about exists anymore.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
The last one I remember was after the 2011 tsunami. I think things are worse these days because memory isn’t just a chip that you toss on a board anymore, it’s now frequently delivered in the same package as the CPU.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
When you say “terminal first”, are you terminal-first enough that I could use vim buffers for editing?
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by jnovek 5mo ago
He put up a substantial number of articles for free during the 2024 election, it felt less paywalled than much of the MSM these days.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
Storing a bunch of passwords in a plain-text list that an individual can access violates zero-trust AND least-privilege which I think a red team might have some opinions on.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
I’m not buying hosting from a password manager, I’m buying security. I don’t have complete confidence that I can secure a self-hosted password manager and it’s not an area where I want to take risks.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
I don’t wait for companies to enshittify anymore. When they start making decisions that look like they’re heading in that direction, I start looking for alternatives.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
I just sent them a message along these lines. I’m happy to pay for good services, but M&A means cost-cutting measures to make the company look good for acquisition and that makes me uncomfortable with letting them store secure data for
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by jnovek 5mo ago
> This is very much a "you're holding it wrong" response This isn’t actually an argument for or against anything, I don’t know why people say this. It is entirely possible that people are using this brand new, historically
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by jnovek 5mo ago
> most orgs are horribly inefficient Considering that that’s been a running complaint for like 50 years, it doesn’t seem like project management is going to get better on its own at this point. So, yes, an LLM does represent a productivi
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by jnovek 5mo ago
Requiring them to write it in longhand at least removes the instant gratification. I think that will work for some students.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
AI interviews are a hard “no”. If I’m going to invest my time in an interview, the company must as well.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
It’s not just cutting food support. Hundreds of thousands of people have died because we cut USAID. https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts
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by jnovek 5mo ago
It doesn’t matter to me that some of their products have longevity. I don’t know which they will keep and which they will discontinue and there are many vendors out there who have a better track record.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
We all outsourced our spending to “robots” (via targeted ads) a decade and a half ago.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
"Frigate has arrived" is permanently burned into my brain. I've never met anyone in real life that has the same nostalgia for this game as I do, it's nice to see that HN has my back.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
As an alum from the ancient days I take issue with many of the companies that YC funds these days. Flock? 9 Mothers? This shit is dystopian and I hate that I’m somehow even tangentially associated with it.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
Here’s a cool fact: in America only 35% of DV survivors retain full custody of their children and only 45% retain primary custody. If you flee domestic violence you are more likely than not to lose custody of your children to your abuser.
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by jnovek 5mo ago
Regardless of whether the metaphor stands up, this is a horrible thing to say. Abuse victims are not responsible for the abuse they receive.
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by jnovek 6mo ago
The AI can't really describe its reasoning, though. It can only look at its context history and find a justification (which it will then present as reasoning). In my experience asking the model "why did you do that" carries s
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by jnovek 6mo ago
I think people who aren’t or haven’t been poor often don’t realize that moving to another state — or even away from your hometown — is a privilege that is cost prohibitive for many Americans.
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by jnovek 6mo ago
This reminds me — I’ve been talking to Claude about ARPG builds recently and I’ve noticed that it code switches when discussing gaming. It will start to speak in a gaming vernacular — less formal, swears a bit, uses gaming slang. It feels s
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by jnovek 6mo ago
“You're already being recorded everywhere you go in public by the authorities” You are the frog being boiled.
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by jnovek 6mo ago
It is. How could anyone take “progress to digital future bridging to the electronic divide” seriously?

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