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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
I agree that chat bots aren’t the proper modality for replacing search. So what? Currently, Google search results stink. ChatGPT results are way better in a number of domains. Does it need to be a chat bot? No. But Google still stinks now.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>it’s further away than anyone thought I worked full time in a computer vision company (non-automotive) for several years prior to 2018. I joined an automotive company (not Tesla) in 2018 and very intentionally steered clear of the auton
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Yeah: they’re cloud based. Your passwords get synced to all your devices automatically. That’s kinda the entire draw.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
I enjoy spitting on people that try to control my speech and my title. Misery loves company, and I will not join you in your misery. I appreciate the bridges and roads, but I will not be told what title I can have just because YOUR industry
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Crouch down and lick the hands of the mafia organization that rules over you. May your chains sit lightly upon you. Enjoy your $90k terminal-career salary, geographic lock-in, and annual dues! At least you’re grateful for the right to call
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> Plus of course, even if you do polling, if you have 5 different apps that connect every 10 minutes to their own respective services with different offsets, you have the device waking up every 2 minutes, This is now impossible with back
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>and there probably is no limit to those on Android. Not true since Android Oreo. Long running background Service execution (without a foreground notification) has been dead for a while. Most of the useful system-wide config change updat
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Sour grapes from lower paying engineering disciplines that have been hijacked by certification organizations. I’m a software engineer. I earn triple what you earn as a civil engineer, and I don’t have to pay a certification body for the tit
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
So you have to add code to debug it with #tap? I don’t care if the chain is unbroken: you have to CHANGE THE CODE YOU SHIPPED in order to properly debug it. That’s idiotic. And before you say “oh, this is just an exercise”, I can tell you f
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> How do you debug/reason about this? Debug? You don’t. You have to break your sexy chained-functional-style 1-liner into a “boring” multi-line loop to actually set meaningful breakpoints and work through any problems that may arise
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
His response seems perfectly reasonable to me: no real-time stalking. If your main critique of him is his (hypocritical) carbon usage, post a weekly or monthly summary of his emissions. Or, as he is allowing, post the flight details with a
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>Just tell her not to enable developer mode She doesn’t know what that is. She won’t remember what I said 5 minutes after I leave. She will blindly follow the instructions of any official-looking website or any scam caller that instructs
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>If you want to stay in the playpen, that's fine, but there's no reason why users who want to use the full potential of their devices shouldn't be able to in order to keep you happy. This is just flat out not true with net
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Those people are quite snooty when they block reasonable exploration, production, and transport in their own countries, while still driving cars, using A/C, and expecting affordable energy, which inevitably comes from buying petroleum
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
At this point, I don’t know how any founder on HN doesn’t make their business… 1) Multi-cloud and… 2) Multi-payment processor These stories are horrifying. These cloud and payment processors simply do not care. They print money and provide
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Unless Teams is abusing private APIs or acting in other nefarious ways, this is 1000% a problem with Android itself. It shouldn’t be possible to break emergency service call operation through normal usage (or even naive usage) of the public
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> Tom Mueller, arguably one of the key engineers behind the success of SpaceX and designer of the Merlin engines, was working at TRW in a role not related to rocket engines before he was at SpaceX. This is what Wikipedia says about Tom M
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> It’s unfortunate that what started out with altruistic motives Are you actually buying into SBF’s pathetic ideologies? Or are you more referring to Satoshi’s white paper when you refer to “altruistic motives”. I can’t understand how an
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
The entire offer is embarrassing. “Let me add useless, wasteful, and costly blockchain “tech” to your money-losing CRUD app. By the way, did you know we’re massive Democrat donors?” Like offering poop flavored ice cream with vomit sprinkles
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Not your keys, not your coins.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> It's pointless arguing with you, as you have no intention of considering alternative viewpoints. If by “alternative viewpoints” you mean unrepeatable non-science, then you’re absolutely right! Repeat your results and I’ll take you
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> That's harsh. It’s meant to be harsh. They’re mass-prescribing poorly understood psychoactive drugs based on unscientific assessments. They’re giving young children amphetamines for normal behavior (disliking school). They are koo
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Which medication(s)? SSRIs? Have you actually looked at the pre-marketing “studies” of the most common drugs prescribed by psychs? I have. By no stretch of any imagination are those studies replicable. And the diagnosis process is even wo
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>being a pseudoscience is not one of them. Replicability is the measure. You don't get to opinion your way out of this. 40% replicability = not science.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
The assessment of their psychological “problem” (often too broad to even be considered a condition) is pseudoscientific: a qualitative evaluation. The assessment of the success of CBT is also pseudoscientific: a qualitative evaluation. The
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Clinical means nothing. I can open a chiropractic clinic and create “clinical” evidence all day long. It’s still pseudo-science if the results aren’t replicable. Studies surrounding CBT (and the field of psychology as a whole) are not repli
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
I’m still shocked that they added this. It actually made the UX worse for people that only typically talk to other iPhone users. The entire existence of non-ephemeral call links / lobbies is confusing if you never have to share them an
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Yeah, a little bit. It’s not just kids that can’t get their hands on stuff. Even trained adults have to jump through regulatory and legal hoops. Schools face tons of liability. Mass market chemistry sets are lame now.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Ever hear Kary Mullis (PCR inventor / Nobel prize) talk about his childhood? He could basically buy whatever chemical he wanted. Definitely did dangerous stuff and got into trouble, but it’s hard to imagine children today having simila
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
It will never begin, and investors are starting to understand that. RIP Argo.ai. Several others will follow soon.

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