left-struck

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by left-struck 5d ago
I’ve always wondered what native English speakers get wrong in this way in various other languages. Anyone got any anecdotes?
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by left-struck 6d ago
Yes I second this, HN is one of the least argumentative places I’ve encountered on the internet. Now people disagree with each other a lot, but it’s usually quite respectful compared to most of the internet.
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by left-struck 8d ago
This is not a good defence against being scammed. Like if this is part of your strategy on not getting scammed you should probably go back to the drawing board. In other words, you’re defense strategy against being scammed should survive ta
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by left-struck 11d ago
I’m not against self driving cars, but if I can’t sit in the back of the car, legally, and read a book while it drives me to work, it’s not self driving is it?
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by left-struck 11d ago
I don’t know how effective these are but it’s kinda not the point to me, the point of the clothing is a loud statement saying “I’m not okay with being surveilled all the time it’s normal and okay to to feel that way”
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by left-struck 12d ago
Nothing that CAD and engineering students would be familiar with. There are some open source options but those aren’t taught at school afaik.
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by left-struck 12d ago
This is not a conspiracy, just normal human behaviour. The loud voices are loud. People are complaining about cars that do collect data. Do you see ANY comments about any manufacturer that doesn’t do this? The only time I’ve ever seen a com
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by left-struck 14d ago
If you think about the history of abuse wrought upon the public by tech companies in regards to personal information, then the reaction really isn’t that surprising. Are you really surprised that people are suspicious? Really?
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by left-struck 17d ago
Yeah I totally get it. In this situation you could see employees burning out because of the lack of management or leadership and the chaos of the company. Like everyone cared at first and tried real hard but eventually almost formed a learn
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by left-struck 18d ago
I’m not sure tbh but it looks like he was not included in the thread after the first email
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by left-struck 18d ago
Something is really broken when a broken company produces broken products and is doing great financially. I would not call this success. I would not want to emulate this.
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by left-struck 18d ago
You forgot the part where the leader gets more and more frustrated, it’s like a game of hot potato, if you’re the last one holding the potato when Leader finally cracks, all of it lands on you! I’ve been in this situation in a small company
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by left-struck 19d ago
Why trust apple? Sent from iPhone (for now)
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by left-struck 19d ago
While our time working at home has definitely gone down, our time at work hasn’t though. The point is our employers just expect more, and the benefits of whatever new efficiency is gained, if any, are not passed onto those at the bottom or
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by left-struck 19d ago
That would be very unlikely in Japan, maybe it would happen a handful of times in your career and you could indeed put on safer boots. Anyway I’m not against paramedics wearing boots in my apartment, in an emergency very few people would ca
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by left-struck 20d ago
I think the problem is that it’s not black and white, it’s case by case. Some things are just not worth your effort/energy/opportunity cost. Like the difference you’re making by boycotting is so minuscule compared to the enormous
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by left-struck 20d ago
How does this work with time zones?
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by left-struck 20d ago
Oh wow, that’s aweful. Where I used to live this would happen with driving tests. Driving schools would book out all the tests and then re-assign them to their students. So at some point it got so bad that when you’re buying a driving lesso
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by left-struck 20d ago
I don’t disagree with you, actually I kind of feel the same about smartphone adoption. It’s basically assumed now that you have a smartphone. You can’t enter some places without a ticket on your smartphone, or can’t order at some restaurant
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by left-struck 22d ago
I think the facts are the facts. The facts I’m referring to is that this wiki was written to on an enormous scale by agents. Now if this was unintended by any human then it’s certainly more interesting and scary, but if OpenAi did this int
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by left-struck 22d ago
I’m sorry, but I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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by left-struck 23d ago
There’s a hack though, just put on your hazards and you can park wherever you like! I’m kidding of course but I see many people do this and it’s super frustrating. Also fyi, you can buy a kei car without a parking certificate
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by left-struck 23d ago
The headline is a bit misleading because it was already 30km/h on many narrow streets. Something about speed limits in Japan, almost no one follows them. I’ve seen police cars go past speeding cameras without their lights on while exce
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by left-struck 23d ago
Yeah I agree, that would be neat
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Ask HN: Would you be interested in using a VoIP system that has an operator?
2 points by left-struck 24d ago|6 comments
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by left-struck 24d ago
Which scam sorry?
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by left-struck 25d ago
Back in 2023 I sent myself an email with some predictions about the future and my thoughts on LLMs at the time, good and bad. I can’t remember when it’s supposed to arrive though…
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by left-struck 25d ago
First of all, starlink has been jammed in conflict zones. Secondly, the number of satellites doesn’t really matter, the jamming happens at the end user level not at the satellite. Finally, where are you getting that 20k number from? It’s no
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by left-struck 25d ago
I keep seeing comments like this, and having messed around and generated a few (non-public) websites myself they all looked completely different? Mind you I don’t spend a lot of time on ai generated websites or the kinds of places you might
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by left-struck 26d ago
Well maybe they learnt proper computer science after university.

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