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by klyrs 3y ago
> A large part of becoming a decent engineer [2] for me was learning to stop trusting what professors taught me in college When I was taught about performance, it was all about benchmarking and profiling. I never needed to trust what my
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by klyrs 3y ago
I thought the same until the time they saved me $50 because I was charged for three of something I only bought two of. That the person noticed this in the span of about 5 seconds on a receipt of about 30 items and a fairly full cart was qu
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by klyrs 3y ago
Fascinating. An individual pirate is a business slouch; a team of pirates is a business savant?
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by klyrs 3y ago
The Harlem housing projects.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Fundamental right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. If you're going to insist that every person must have a roof over their head, and there aren't enough roofs to go around, it doesn't take away that most fundament
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by klyrs 3y ago
Last I heard, they were selling hammers; I bet you could smoke Elon out and convince him to add a hinge or chain.
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by klyrs 3y ago
No, I'm afraid that is the future of text. I've been complaining about this phenomenon for several years and it's only getting more popular.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Bain Capital disagrees!
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by klyrs 3y ago
Sincerely: you don't sound very business-savvy, if you think five executives are just gonna eat a 20% pay cut like that.
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by klyrs 3y ago
> So maybe my first attempts at marijuana weren't a "glass of beer" but a "bottle of vodka" as an allegory. Uh, whoah there. I'm just gonna say, you're describing a general lack of impulse control and
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by klyrs 3y ago
> Men are just inherently more interested in "things" while women are inherently more interested in "people", Why do men keep saying this? If it were true, wouldn't women be more qualified to comment, what with
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by klyrs 3y ago
> If they felt inclined to just shut down rather than try to make ends meet, that's their prerogative. You do understand that the alternative is asking people to work for below-market rates, right? At a non-profit where there will
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by klyrs 3y ago
Electric cars are cool and all but they really aren't that big a deal in terms of the environment. The environmentalists I know hate personalized transportation, full stop. Tesla wants to pave the earth just like any other car compan
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by klyrs 3y ago
Yeah, that's how capitalism works. Any compensation is too much compensation if you're in the red. You can't sustain a business if revenues won't sustain hiring at market rates. So they shut it down. Duh, capitalis
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by klyrs 3y ago
Maybe it's just my tech reality distortion field but the CEO making less than $200k/y sounds, if anything, abnormally low. Edit: Savage-Rabbit over on /. said it best: why do you hate capitalism?
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by klyrs 3y ago
Yeah, you've got the right idea. Kinda like practicing making out with your hand... only instead of your hand, it's a drug dealer.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Your phrase "engineers actively monitoring private conversations" has some quantifiers that need examining. Is every conversation monitored? Nope. Is every engineer sitting around monitoring conversations all day? Nope. Could an
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by klyrs 3y ago
Yeah, no, I can make all sorts of shit up. I make a habit of it. Until recently, the ability to produce plausible-sounding bullshit was considered an honest signal of intelligence. The specific point of incredulity was what I took issue w
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by klyrs 3y ago
You don't think it's plausible that an engineer would try to delete shit that makes then look bad?
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by klyrs 3y ago
Really? For me, it was "and I will NEVER speak to you." As if I can go five minutes without cussing at an inanimate object. We can't establish precedent that they're allowed to speak when spoken to....
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by klyrs 3y ago
As a parent, I'm with you. But parenthood sucks. From day one, that person you're "responsible for" is actually a separate entity with its own thoughts and bodily autonomy. And here they are, growing up with this techn
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by klyrs 3y ago
> As a rule, old folks aren't going to take their pensions to Fast Freddy's strip club backroom poker nights Trivially so. People with gambling addictions don't wind up as old folks with pensions.
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by klyrs 3y ago
It's the most patriotic thing a person can do in Washington DC, but just try it in a small town.
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by klyrs 3y ago
> For a truck, stainless might turn out to be a pretty good choice. Fingerprints will always be problematic, though. I dunno, I've never been much of a gearhead but the few times I've owned a truck I didn't really care if
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by klyrs 3y ago
This... actually makes sense. But I think the stakes are higher with brushed steel. And when it comes to lampooning bad decisions in car design, Cybertruck is in good company with DeLorean which had similar issues and enjoyed a similar co
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by klyrs 3y ago
It is! It always was! But how does the AI decide when to launch the car wash detector app?
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by klyrs 3y ago
Bullets: no worries Squirt gun: oh shit, hide the jewels! Weirdest goddamn timeline
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by klyrs 3y ago
> yay oil lobby funding anti-EV right wing media posted on HN But we must blame the left whenever the right eats itself! Or maybe we live in a multipolar world? ....nah
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by klyrs 3y ago
My dad spent a few years in the pokey, I experienced relief on learning this australiaism.
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by klyrs 3y ago
>>> you would be fighting for Hamas to issue uniforms >> How exactly does one fight for that? > [you can't] Good to see you acknowledge that your original appeal was not in good faith.

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