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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Software engineering is far bigger than your niche.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I wonder if this could be done intentionally. It's cheaper to make a view popular with a niche, disliked group than to make the opposite view popular with a large voting bloc
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
No
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
If learning new pronouns was really that difficult, none of your peers would speak more than one language. This is just the way society deals with issues that are personal or to do with respect: you don't ask people why they use Ms., y
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
You've not linked any of the stories. Do they actually use the term 'racist'? People loathe being called racist, to the point that if you point out someone is accidentally doing something unhelpful or discriminatory - not cal
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
These are weasel words
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Hoping for a job with El Reg?
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
The switch is 3 years old and - as the other comments have noted - this technique is much older. Yet, on a website for self-styled hackers, so many are learning about it for the first time. Did people really care that much? If the device de
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Then they can already brick your device by replacing the firmware. This is the reason for threat models. Don't waste your time worrying about theoretical but redundant attacks.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I've expanded on this in another comment but I do think that YC gain a real but indirect financial benefit from operating this website. >Back in the day forums were used for anonymous discussions when you would not trust strangers o
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I don't think what you have said here is wrong. I do think that judgements about social media are made from the point of view of people who hear about the evils of big (fast food) websites mostly second-hand while wrongly believing the
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Beyond ads, everything I interact with on social media is through choice. I'm aware of how targeted advertising works: it reminds me of seeing toy adverts between children's TV shows. Thank you for the life coaching.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
In this analogy the parent poster would not be seeking to improve society, they'd be seeking to end it.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
This website has rapid interaction from other users and visible upvotes that add up over time to create a personal score that nets you extra benefits. If I worked for Facebook, I'd like stronger evidence than amateur psychology for me
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Then it seems the poster does find some value in social media. I'm saying that HN is social media - descended from Reddit, in fact - to point out that the popular stance of Facebook being inherently evil seems to forgive this website f
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
If that is a notable categorisation then what is the difference that makes forums better?
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
You're on social media
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Perhaps they didn't work for the department of depression induction.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
If you were a UK citizen you might have better awareness of Hong Kong's history.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
As with most poetry jokes, you've worked backwards from the meter to find a line that fits the style but has nothing to do with the rest of the poem.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
I make a lot of HN accounts because of this. Every reply includes more information that can't be deleted but can be used to tie it to my real-life identity. I don't want to have to precede every reply by pointing out it's my
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
>You draw a penis, not an urethra after all. Typically a penis and testicles, going by this thread. But the title still says penis. A medical definition does not overrule a colloquial one.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
They've shown a reluctance to do that with adblockers that work by blacklisting IPs, an easier fix.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
The linked road isn't one where cyclists die from running a stop sign, they have right-of-way.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
tmux has been around for as long as I've been using a CLI daily and both tmux and screen have the same overhead for installing from a package manager. I'm not using tmux over screen: I'm just using tmux.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
In British English, "The waiter will be with you momentarily" means the waiter will be with you and then leave very quickly afterwards.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
>Powershell is very command-line friendly, with easy tab-completion of commands I really couldn't agree less. Title-Case with hyphens and verbose command names make it horrible just to type. The only reason I see for doing that is
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
>Meanwhile, by the 1970s, the phrase entitlement programs is being used in its modern sense (defined benefits paid by the federal government) Right, but that's not the modern sense for the 1.2 billion English speakers who are not in
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Exactly. So now using the old definition can be ambiguous and has to be replaced by something 'wordier'. I can't do anything about it but I do think it's a shame.
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by kiplkipl 6y ago
Although the new definition of entitlement - that means exactly the opposite of the old definition - is.

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