kbrannigan

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by kbrannigan 11mo ago
The timeline spans "3000 BC" to now, but BC/CE itself is a European framework. The Han Dynasty, Maya, and Kingdom of Kush all had their own calendars and ways of marking significant time. Yet this "world" history us
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by kbrannigan 11mo ago
The issue is that the timeline is built in a Eurocentric way. Europe (and the Near East) are shown as the starting point of history, while Africa, Asia, and the Americas only appear when Europeans make contact with them. This hides thousand
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by kbrannigan 1y ago
Any more info regarding that. What does that mean?
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by kbrannigan 1y ago
How do you manage the html where you can't even see the tags anymore and it's a spaghetti of utilities in the template for example:  <div class="px-4 py-2 bg-blue-500 text-white rounded shadow-md hov
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by kbrannigan 1y ago
We've moved past worrying about purchase data or location history. The real issue is the silent, constant ingestion of ambient data like License Plate Readers, Facial recognition and other biometrics voice, fingerprints . Even when you
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by kbrannigan 1y ago
I just realized that we went from Knob turning -> Channel Flipping -> Infinite Scroll. It just that with a limited set of channels, we just watch whatever was most interesting. With Infinite scrolling you're always hoping for so
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by kbrannigan 1y ago
LLMs as compilers
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by kbrannigan 1y ago
Are LMM compilers that are generating computer understandable instructions. I think of back in the day people use to chisel assembly code by hand. then came a system that all people to code more in english-like commands(prompts).
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by kbrannigan 2y ago
What if the literature of God Created men(mankind) in his image came to differentiate Homo sapiens from others. Or the history really began once the other Humans were no more ? Just passing thoughts
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by kbrannigan 2y ago
Can someone explain Gemma vs Gemini for me please?
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by kbrannigan 2y ago
What if the writings were English only would that be a sin? I think English speakers have this innate expectation for the world adapt to them. They Speak their native language and expect signage, menus, conversations, to be in English. But
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by kbrannigan 2y ago
are you saying that white people are inherently more qualified than anybody else .
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by kbrannigan 2y ago
For Many people on Hacker News, DEI has become synonymous with unqualification, implying that if a non‑white person works at a company, they're only there because of these programs, and are taking opportunities away from more qualifi
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by kbrannigan 2y ago
PHP, Yii2 Framework, Nginx. Productive out of the box, comes with bootstrap 5, jQuery( yeah i know). It's has amazing documentation easy to learn. It uses PHP for templating, so you can prototype very quickly. Collection of wisdom: - A
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Ask HN: Debug only positions, is there a market?
2 points by kbrannigan 3y ago|3 comments
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
-Click on black bar -Show: -------------------------------------- In memoriam: John Hacker. April 1845 - May 2024 -------------------------------------- Simple HN style
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
Do you use any framework for PHP?
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
Laravel is Nice I wish it's documentation was a full as Symfony's. My personal pet peeve, too much docker.
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
PHP tooling is top tier and very mature. The syntax of php is a little awkward and setting up debugging can be hard. But the frameworks are solid: Symfony, Yii are really nice and modern. My ideal framework would be, the syntax, typing and
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
What is so shuddery about windows? I run windows + WSL as my main for years, and it's just as stable as my mac.
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
Exactly! Easy to access, won't lose charge, doesn't need a password. It's is a 1 - 1 interface
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
Paper might outlast most modern storage systems. That's my controversial opinion. Or like a stone tablet,
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
I would be happy with 5 deletion credits, that renew by karma or time.
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
Exactly We are human beings not productivity machines. Props to those who can work 100 hours a week
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
Why do we have to "grind" again? Why can't we show up, do oour job and go home to live life again? When did life become only about excessive work, sleep deprivation, and selling my soul to an employer again? Or was it always
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
best employment advice I got was: "Think of your job as a glorified fast-food gig". Standup meetings are the shift meetings before we start Manager 1-on-1, shift manager pulling you aside to tell you how to wield your spatula.
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
I've seen, routing boilerplate, js to make the api requests, js to modify state(redux), unit tests, interfaces, until you get to the actual table.
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
Let us reframe the question: Is it possible to land a job at Burger Emperor after getting fired from the well-known MC Daniels ?
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
What do people like torturing themselves by duplicating code. Wouldn't it be easier to just use node all the way. Writing hundreds of lines of JS to display a Table list, instead of HTML sprinkled with some JS
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by kbrannigan 3y ago
I still use JQuery because of all the syntactic sugar and shortcuts.

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