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by medler 3y ago
NYC metro cards are reportedly a form of stored-value card. When you swipe, it reads the value, writes the new value, and checks that the correct value was written. Transactions are later synced to a database to catch fraud and so forth. h
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by medler 3y ago
This is shocking for me to hear because it is the exact opposite of my experience/memory. I recall Microsoft briefly being the cool place for geniuses to work before it quickly became the big bad evil monopolist. Maybe this perception
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by medler 3y ago
I think he’s sort of being humble and also admitting that he’s not a true expert. It’s clear he has more than a passing familiarity with APL.
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by medler 3y ago
> whenever something APL related comes up on Hacker News, it's always in the form of arcana you'll laugh at rather than fascinating work being being done by very smart people. I find that offensive, but I'm not going to pu
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by medler 3y ago
> your reaction is fair. and rare. He read something he didn’t like and then attacked the person who said it by basically calling them an unthinking robot. It’s not fair and it’s incredibly common.
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by medler 3y ago
I didn’t say it wasn’t useful to some people, I just said it hadn’t revolutionized anything. Also, the Gartner hype cycle ends with the “Plateau of Productivity,” in which the technology is proven to be useful over the long term, so it is s
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by medler 3y ago
It feels like we are well on our way toward the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner hype cycle for ChatGPT. It’s losing users daily. People are saying that it’s gotten worse since launch (don’t know if this is true but it’s what I’m he
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by medler 3y ago
Ping was originally named after sonar pings. Then later some guy came up with a weird acronym for a thing he did not invent. We don’t have to acknowledge it as a legitimate acronym. And as far as I can tell, the backronym is not a part of p
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by medler 3y ago
“We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the erro
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by medler 3y ago
One thing that’s impossible to ignore is that Twitter now forces you to read bad replies. Before, it would rank the most popular replies near the top, but now you have to scroll past lots of low-quality replies from people who are boosted j
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by medler 3y ago
Ok but if you look over the past 5 years or so, Linux has had 10x as many CVEs per year, including far more with high CVE scores.
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by medler 3y ago
He doesn’t say it’s good. He says that’s not what’s happening. If you think he’s wrong, please explain why. I genuinely would love to hear a well-reasoned critique of his analysis.
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by medler 3y ago
Pretty much any other Unix-like operating system. FreeBSD for example
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by medler 3y ago
> Yes, I have seen that and this is completely utterly nonsense. I have absolutely no idea how you came to the conclusion that this would work. I’m shocked someone would talk like this publicly from their company email. AMD doesn’t seem
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by medler 3y ago
> If the original Twitter crew had been about 30% less overtly willing to censor news, language, people, or ideas they didn’t like, Musk probably wouldn’t have bought the company, and the blues would still be in control of Twitter The au
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by medler 3y ago
I’m mainly a backend programmer, so I know just a little typescript, but I don’t really understand what they’re asking for here. It sounds like they want to serialize and deserialize typescript types automatically? If so, that sounds like a
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by medler 3y ago
The next sentence is “With that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta’s copycat Threads app.” This sentence doesn’t follow logically unless it was Meta who had the knowledge in the pre
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by medler 3y ago
I use LLM-based autocomplete in my IDE, and it’s not taking away my job unless/until it improves by multiple orders of magnitude. It’s good at filling in boilerplate, but even for that I have to carefully check its output because it ca
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by medler 3y ago
I think someday reality will set in and Tesla stock will plummet, but I would be crazy to short it. I guarantee Tesla fans can stay irrational way longer than I can stay solvent.
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by medler 3y ago
Really hard to make a recommendation without knowing what you know, where you’re at in your computer science education, what you’ve already read and liked, etc.
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by medler 3y ago
I tried to do this several months ago and Twitter immediately shut down my account, demanding a phone number if I wanted to proceed.
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by medler 3y ago
Doesn’t work for me
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by medler 3y ago
It’s naive to say that this is the inevitable result of wider forces. If Elon had never offered to buy Twitter, or had managed to weasel out of it, you can bet the API would still be a thing and the login wall would be much as it was a year
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by medler 3y ago
Twitter is in search results, though I guess that might go away if it stays closed
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by medler 3y ago
You own the copyright to your own tweets. When you tweet you give Twitter a license to display the tweet, but you still own it. This is all spelled out in the Twitter terms of service.
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by medler 3y ago
I guess I knew this was coming eventually, but it looks like Twitter is blocking Nitter from showing tweets, as part of not showing tweets to any not-signed-in users.
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Twitter Feeds Are Empty(github.com)
8 points by medler 3y ago|1 comments
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by medler 3y ago
Does Storygraph have a better moderation story? Or does it just have fewer trolls because it’s smaller?
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by medler 3y ago
It’s the word “sensitive” actually. In 2023 it would be really weird to tell someone that they are “sensitive” about being the race that they are. Usually when you say someone is sensitive about something, you’re implying the thing they’re
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by medler 3y ago
The question definitely seems odd by today’s standards but it’s worth noting that the interviewer is Alex Haley, who was himself Black.

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