mattfields

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by mattfields 4mo ago
Yep. This is the thing that Microsoft is not mentioning in their watery response there.
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by mattfields 4mo ago
That's the thing: they do bear responsibility in allowing the situation to get to this point and are very pointedly not connecting the dots with their response. Microsoft which owns GitHub, has been washing their hands if any responsib
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by mattfields 4mo ago
This ^
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by mattfields 2y ago
Speculative guess, but it sounds like intentional collusion/coercion between government and big corporations. ie: Brazilian government demands Microsoft to grant them MITM access from Windows machines, in order for the right to do busi
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by mattfields 2y ago
This seems to fall under the category of "inflammatory political commentary", regardless of including both parties in it. IMO seems borderline on flag-worthy.
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by mattfields 2y ago
Price of four plane tickets for your family? I don't know how much these rail tickets will cost, but I find the math on that to be unlikely. 4x plane tickets, assuming rock bottom minimum $60 a head to basically anywhere, $180-240... H
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by mattfields 3y ago
This is, with no intended disespect, both absolutely false and dangerously blithely ignorant. Unfortunately most of the population (including medical doctors) also has a similarly nonchalant conception of mold; that it's something that
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by mattfields 3y ago
Gotta love you supportive people. This is what makes HN a great community.
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by mattfields 3y ago
Hey! Could you give any insights as to what would make it easier (from your perspective as an engineering manager) to work with AS employees? Social skills aren't the issue here, just inability to function in a noisy / motion-fill
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by mattfields 3y ago
This was the question I jumped on today to ask. Not aspergers/autistic, but neurodivergent, and the thought of working in an office, which my next position is likely to entail, is nauseating. I don't know if I can function in that
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by mattfields 3y ago
Does anyone else have trouble looking at these patterns? Does that mean something? When viewing these repeating patterns, I get a kind of very uncomfortable visual disorientation, almost like vertigo: hard to describe.
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by mattfields 3y ago
This
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by mattfields 3y ago
Astute comment.
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by mattfields 3y ago
Love it <3
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by mattfields 3y ago
This headline is misleading by omission, to (nearly) the point of being false. Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident tl;dr: - The primary reason for their arrest wasn't the Linux/enc
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by mattfields 3y ago
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident
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by mattfields 3y ago
Just did a quick test with task "finish laundry". Was impressed with the quality of the result. It broke it down into a list of logical and concrete smaller steps. That's extremely cool.
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by mattfields 3y ago
One (admittedly far fetched) theory: Device compromised by advanced existing spyware https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101029
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by mattfields 4y ago
Most interesting unanswered question for me: How do these companies transport the (waste heat) via heated mineral oil to the recipient? Presumably not every server farm could have it directly piped to the customer, as they're not all n
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by mattfields 4y ago
That's okay, ChatGPT probably can pass it for us.
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by mattfields 4y ago
I know this is the prominent question here, but isn't virtually all water on earth more or less the same age? I think the title here is failing to be an accurate description, unless I missed something in science class.
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by mattfields 4y ago
Might suggest learning up some on stocks and trading. Depending on your interest, aptitude, and spare income for trading/investment, you could potentially make a reasonable side income that you can maintain in parallel with your job.
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by mattfields 4y ago
congrats. That's a brave admission, and it took some hard work. Thanks for sharing :-)