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by nikanj 4y ago
The worst software engineering? Have you met Teams? The flagship chat application from the world’s biggest software company, which is often unable to send chat messages
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by nikanj 4y ago
Not sure about ChatGPT, but Midjourney et al have definitely transformed many markets already. Why would I get any illustrations from fiverr.com, when I can get better turnaround times for $0 from Midjourney?
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by nikanj 4y ago
Our company has had EV-signed binaries flagged as malware by products from Symantec, F-Secure and Avast. Probably others too, those three I can remember off the top of my head.
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by nikanj 4y ago
"AI powered heuristics" are so frustrating in AV. "This program runs on the CPU. Malware often runs on the CPU! It must be malware!" They advertise high detection rates, but the secret is just flagging everything as malw
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by nikanj 4y ago
I’m old enough to remember the self-driving cars and service robots that UMTS (=3g) was supposed to deliver
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by nikanj 4y ago
VoIP won, at the cost of making mostly everyone just ignore all calls now. The calls are incredibly cheap, so 99.997% of calls the average person gets are VoIP spam.
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by nikanj 4y ago
The police are worthless when it comes to all petty crime.
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by nikanj 4y ago
LAMP because I'd like to focus on building features, not wrestling with the build tooling to get the dependencies of my dependencies dependencies compiling.
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by nikanj 4y ago
In my previous life, I built a SFFPC that packed workstation-level punch into a carry-on sized case. Then had a set of monitors+keyboard+mouse at each location I worked at. I was really sceptical when I built it, but it worked beautifully f
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by nikanj 4y ago
I wonder how often they do the opposite, and spend $100M because nobody had the flash of insight needed to turn it into a five-buck problem
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by nikanj 4y ago
What you are supposed to do in this situation? Post on HN / Reddit
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by nikanj 4y ago
Amazon is the new Wish.com
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by nikanj 4y ago
Apps always ask for the premium class ultra performance QoS, because every developer strongly believes your computer exists solely to run their app
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by nikanj 4y ago
What the OS needs is a way to tell CPU-hungry applications no. One misbehaving app (looking at you, Teams) is enough to pull the CPU to max power consumption and wreck the battery life. Just keeping the clocks low and letting banner ads rot
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by nikanj 4y ago
I wonder what desktop Linux would look like today if Qt licensing issues in the 1990s didn’t stop KDE from getting widespread support from Debian.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Fortunately the competition is busy scoring an own goal with Windows 11
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by nikanj 4y ago
Who’s ”we”? The poor people don’t have any power, and the rich people don’t want to stop buying large subsidies with small campaign donations
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by nikanj 4y ago
The biggest mindset adjustment I ever had to make was moving from C++ to Node.js. You can usually trust that select() is not broken, but select.js is deprecated, select-kitchensink.js is not compatible with your toolchain and unicyclect.ts
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by nikanj 4y ago
v) It’s been well over a year, and IntelliJ Idea still requires me to go to the settings page to enable an experimental feature to be able to run a simple helloworld.ts. Not sure whose domain this falls in, but the situation is a coal mine
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by nikanj 4y ago
Nepotism
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by nikanj 4y ago
And every year or so Microsoft wrecks all links to his blog, so linking to old articles never works properly. It’s highly ironic that the blog talking about backwards compatibility moves urls constantly
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by nikanj 4y ago
1990s Slashdot wants their jokes back
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by nikanj 4y ago
How do you avoid scurvy on that diet? Or does she just flat out deny that vitamins are vitally important?
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by nikanj 4y ago
The assembly line gives the company the Tech Aura which gets them funded.
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by nikanj 4y ago
If you can suggest a better way to reach an actual human at Stripe / Google / etc, I’m all ears. Sometimes you get lucky and reach a helpdesk droid, but they’re not permitted to deviate from script. Posting to HN can put you in co
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by nikanj 4y ago
The bit about the anti-malware is sad. Does anyone remember a true positive from their AV? I can recall countless incidents caused by false positives, but can’t remember a single true positive. The latest was Crowdstrike Falcon (AI POWERED!
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by nikanj 4y ago
I’ve got the 49” ultrawide that clocks in at 5120x1440. Massive real estate but 100% UI scale so no weird issues - aside from the occasional software that pulls the resolution instead of the DPI and then insists on a 200% UI zoom
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by nikanj 4y ago
Making the post is not enough, you also have to get it to the front page of Reddit or HN
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by nikanj 4y ago
We solved it by dehumanizing the homeless.
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by nikanj 4y ago
He was a dick. And there was a strong trend around 2010-2015ish that essentially said "Jobs was a dick and a genius. Therefore I must act like a dick, to prove that I'm a genius". So many startup CEOs acting like assholes to

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