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by mekoka 3y ago
You need to finish that story. Those people were released after it was made clear that they were not working for Thai companies. It was not about them working in Thailand while on a tourist visa. It was about not taking local jobs.
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Roomba left to clean up huge mess after Amazon deal falls through The pun holds even better.
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Hardline materialism is indeed dying and the presumption that all matter possesses a degree of consciousness currently has two major undercurrents: panpsychism and idealism. Most scientists that operate under the assumption that consciousne
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When someone says that skepticism in human-level AGI probably lies in religious beliefs, it tells me that the person likely believes that they have an idea what science and philosophy are saying on the matter. But I strongly suspect that th
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It's not that you're unable to hear the difference, you have to pay closer attention to what you're really hearing. I'm a native french speaker and when first learning english, I was made to carefully notice the subtle d
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This comment right there is why I will always believe that people will trade convenience over freedom the first chance they get. I've somewhat made my peace with it, because I don't even know if it really matters anymore. If you,
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I think the title is pushing it a bit. When I see "life-sparking energy source", I think of an inextricable property. Get that and you can spark life. But we have and we couldn't. They're merely ingredients, building blo
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> Not to get reductionist but [...] Then let's just avoid the pedantry altogether. When we're quizzed on DS, it's understood that we're not talking about simple IPC. It's not about your garden variety backend app
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> Every non-trivial production system is a distributed system. And now you have to define non-trivial . Just thrown like this it does not invalidate the suggestion to avoid needless complexity, since it's really what it's abou
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Nice article and good points, but perhaps the author wasn't aware that "tacit knowledge" is a term already used for something else. https://commoncog.com/the-tacit-knowledge-series/ Tacit knowledge is un
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> Any interviewer who didn't roll with that was a sign to him that there probably wasn't an engineering maturity culture fit and helped eliminate a lot of companies. Different problems test for different skills. Perhaps that co
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People buy into ideas and once they've paid the price, they dislike when that investment is challenged with new information. The resistance that I see in these thread to the idea that going back to HTML might be enough, to me looks ver
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> But in the end, convincing people to just not buy stuff would be the best thing to do. Companies that are trying to play both sides are suspect to me. I sort of agreed with you, but only up to your conclusion. Imo, this kind of all or
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Hey Beej, do you have a guide on how you write a guide? I've been amazed by your output, both in quantity and quality.
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Your reply clued me in into what was meant by one should reserve a degree of skepticism for skepticism . Couldn't understand what was meant from the previous argument. I agree with the sentiment that some sane skepticism should be the
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> In short, one should reserve a degree of skepticism for skepticism. What does that mean?
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> Managing permissions using the hierarchy of a URL is silly at best, dangerous at worst. Or perhaps what you call silly is just you being unaware of what you don't know. There are valid cases to handle permissions using the structu
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As someone who just yesterday also went through the exercise of (finally) understanding how to package with pyproject.toml, I empathize with the author and agree with a few painpoints he mentioned. Namely the confusion caused when opening s
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You obviously don't travel. Lose your phone while abroad. Good luck!
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Tell HN: Bring back the email confirmation link
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Falsifiability, controllability. Most hard sciences study and explain phenomena in an isolated and controlled system. You have well defined input parameters, some starting context, and you observe the output over time. You change your input
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> What other indicators could we look at to get a better picture? Depends how you look at that picture. Let me ask this, if 100 people buy bitcoins and 100 people buy the equivalent dollar value, what proportion of each group will genera
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Joel published that post the same year that Microsoft announced their .NET framework. I've said this in a different threads, but I think it's worth repeating here. I've seen many successful projects that started out as revers
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> I think you're too quick to point fingers and too desperate to throw people under the bus to pass yourself as saviour. Thanks for the free armchair psych analysis, but that's not why I came today. I'm here to compare p
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Our experience may have not been the same, but I beg to differ. If the old solution is so problematic that nothing can be salvaged from it and the best solution is a full rewrite, instead of some refactoring or modifications, then your prob
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Obviously satire, but in real life, there are reasons why a full rewrite becomes appealing. Perhaps the solution even. One is overwhelming technical debt. Code where the project manager didn't believe in encapsulation, or refactoring
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Discord is a trade-off . Don't apply on the wrong problem. Some pros, I'll pick three. (1) I think the appeal for something like Discord becomes more obvious when documentation feels like a moving target. For example, as a long t
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If Gmail was launched today would you bother?
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Entirely agree. DRYing is compression. It serves similar purpose. Like a mathematical equation, it's terse, light, elegant, easy to carry in one's pocket, yet loaded with meaning. It's not, however, zero cost. At maintenance
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I'm an age-of-AI optimist. Not in the sense that AI will solve all problems, but rather in the opposite. The allure in the promise of so much power, so much profit, will be irresistible to those organizations that are already too big

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