medler

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by medler 10mo ago
No, we have no rulers but ourselves.
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by medler 10mo ago
I did some searches for “nobody should be on that platform” and found: - one hit on a Lana del Rey message board - one bluesky post from 8 months ago with no likes, reposts, or replies. If you widen the search to “should be on that platform
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by medler 10mo ago
I think the idea was that it was the sum of all historical profits. Contrast that with valuation, which at best is about the expectation of future profits.
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by medler 10mo ago
That was $100B in profits, not valuation.
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by medler 11mo ago
The new changes in C++14, 17, and 20 are really nice. It feels like the language keeps getting cleaner and easier to use well
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by medler 1y ago
They had one week to “onboard” and then were fired with no warning. The fact iscoding assistants show promise but just aren’t that helpful for most experienced engineers at this point, so installing the tool is just another time-wasting tas
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by medler 1y ago
Of course, just send me an email
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by medler 1y ago
I had this done recently, also in a Brooklyn apartment, and this article made me appreciate that my contractor was insanely good. The main reason I didn’t DIY it was because I thought it would be hard to get the condo board to agree to it,
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by medler 1y ago
> Block BEARD does not mention VPNs, but its broad definition of “service provider” could be interpreted to include them. The prospect of all VPN providers being required to block pirate sites, or being unable to operate in the US, is ve
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by medler 1y ago
I go to work to work, not to hear about other people’s sex lives. Save that kind of talk for your friends, or talk to your mom about it, but don’t involve me. I shouldn’t have to hear about it just because we both work on the same widget. B
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by medler 1y ago
The notion that this kind of politicization started in the 90s is fanciful revisionism. It wasn’t really a thing in the US until about 2017. The word it’s known by is Trumpism.
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by medler 1y ago
> “This case was subsequently eclipsed by Congress's intervention in the form of an amendment to the Copyright Act of 1909, introducing a compulsory license for the manufacture and distribution of such "mechanical" embodim
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by medler 1y ago
jj is compatible with git repos while being faster to learn and easier to use. There’s basically no reason for anyone to learn git now that this exists.
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by medler 2y ago
By law, he has no such power. Congress has made impoundment illegal.
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by medler 2y ago
Again, Congress has the power to allocate spending. If you think the president, or Elon Musk, has absolute power over the entire federal government, then, well, there’s a word for that. You think he’s a dictator.
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by medler 2y ago
It is contrary to the foundational document of our country. The president does not have that authority because he is a president, not a king.
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by medler 2y ago
It’s not Elon Musk’s place to make spending allocation decisions for the US government. The Constitution assigns that power to Congress. It is not hyperbolic to say that if Elon/Doge can arbitrarily cut spending, then Congress has effe
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by medler 2y ago
It doesn’t really. Obviously the alleged security breach is egregious and if they’re committing crimes they should be prosecuted. But given that they’re relatively young, part of me wonders if these guys are being exploited by Musk and Thie
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by medler 2y ago
I don’t know how this will shake out, but I do worry that these 19-24 year olds, some of whom are known to HN for other achievements, are putting themselves in real legal jeopardy. Edit: by the way, this post isn’t off-topic. It is about th
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The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE(wired.com)
1683 points by medler 2y ago|2991 comments
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by medler 2y ago
He took an “internship” at Twitter/X with the stated goal of removing the login wall, apparently failing to realize that the wall was a deliberate product decision, not a technical challenge. Now the X login wall is more intrusive than
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by medler 2y ago
I mean the user will do the same post on both X and bluesky and find that they get more clicks, retweets, likes, and replies on Bluesky despite having far more followers on X.
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by medler 2y ago
Many large accounts report higher engagement on Bluesky despite having much higher follower counts on X. The effect is especially profound when you’re linking to an external site. X absolutely buries external links.
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by medler 2y ago
Sounds like the Learning How To Learn course on Coursera was made for you. Good luck on your new pursuit!
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by medler 2y ago
I’m firmly in the former group and follow a lot of like-minded people on social media. I can’t think of any time anyone in that group complained about motorcycles or kei trucks. I’m not sure there’s that much overlap between the two groups.
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by medler 2y ago
They’ve been manufacturing abroad since at least the 1960s.
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by medler 2y ago
He was lucky to get a rare, slow moving form of the cancer that can be cured with surgery if caught early enough. Unfortunately he waited nine months before getting surgery.
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by medler 2y ago
> I do not use JS, nor Haskell, daily, but JS is more readable I’m guessing you do use languages that are very similar to JS. Like a Spanish speaker saying “I don’t speak Italian or Chinese but Italian is way easier.” If you wrote F# eve
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by medler 2y ago
I was in the same spot for the first few years of my career and I regret staying there as long as I did. It really is easier to learn if you have senior engineers to give you feedback. My recommendation is to find a new job. Failing that, I
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by medler 2y ago
When I worked at Intel, they only free items in the cafe were coffee and fountain drinks. But maybe they were more generous before the dot-com bust.

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