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by nikanj 4y ago
There is clearly a need: adding AI gets your company funding, looks great on your CV and lets you brag to the board that your AI strategy is moving along
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by nikanj 4y ago
The default list is created at the marketing department, not the usability lab. Actually it does follow the faux usability trend where ”options confuse user”, and the perfect UI is just an uniform off-white screen with no controls
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by nikanj 4y ago
How?? How can one achieve this power?
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by nikanj 4y ago
The amount of light exposure you get is incredible, with the crisp air and the all-white world reflecting the sunshine. So good against seasonal depression
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by nikanj 4y ago
They will happily stamp your passport if you ask them
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by nikanj 4y ago
I plug my laptop to the same 2 screens every morning. Every couple of days, the laptop is just unable to deal 4k resolution to the main screen. Rebooting sometimes helps, actually shutting down and then starting up again fixes it every time
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by nikanj 4y ago
They must have had at least some discussion on price per unit. Maybe not about the total, but how was this not caught when they sent the first invoice? At six bags per case, either they sent 1/6 of the ordered amount of coffee, or they
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by nikanj 4y ago
In an Apple laptop, the real killer is being able to work for more than 5 minutes without thermal throttling. The i9 in a Macbook pro is plenty fast for 2 minutes, then slows to a crawl because the laptop was designed to be slim, not fast
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by nikanj 4y ago
Not all of it, just enough of it to move the bottleneck somewhere else. A factory is always bottlenecked by something, sales if nothing else
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by nikanj 4y ago
Did the economy benefit over $10B from allowing voip calls to spoof numbers? I feel like dropping that ability would be a net win - would be much harder to spoof the elderly with a scam coming from a clearly foreign number
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by nikanj 4y ago
30 years of cumulative complexity in the existing stack, with endless edge-cases and special exceptions
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by nikanj 4y ago
Congratulations, you have reached the (only) Google customer service: the HN front page. Expect a swift fix to your issue
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by nikanj 4y ago
The stock marget rewards profits, not happy customers. It’s not about the margins, it’s about maximizing the bottom line
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by nikanj 4y ago
At least bitcoins are absolutely useless, so a bitcoin shortage doesn’t affect anything
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by nikanj 4y ago
Heat has a well-defined kills-you-automatically limit of ~35 celsius wet bulb temperature. There isn’t a similar limit for cold.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Soldiers aren’t any more weatherproof than normal humans. Working in those temperatures is equally deadly for them and civilians
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by nikanj 4y ago
About as wild as any given day in Node.js land
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by nikanj 4y ago
The test is "who can afford more lawyers"
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by nikanj 4y ago
And describe tasks to the compiler, instead of assigning registers manually
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by nikanj 4y ago
I love how the HN front page is the only way to reach a human at Google. No amount of money can get you a support ticket opened with an actual person in a situation like this
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by nikanj 4y ago
I grabbed my (sleeping, lid closed) macbook from my desk this morning. When I pulled the charger to put it into my bag, I started hearing the faint audio of the youtube video I was playing when I closed the lid last night. Macs today sleep
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by nikanj 4y ago
There’s usually some variant of ”You have two weeks to react”, and it’s a good bet most people won’t be reacting to emails too fast around christmas holidays
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by nikanj 4y ago
Are you linting the whole codebase, or just files changed in the commit?
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by nikanj 4y ago
Coders have been using "AI" for ages. You used to write assembly by hand, then got a compiler that you could just instruct to generate the code for you. I don't worry about my job, even though a single prompt to REPL can now
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by nikanj 4y ago
This could’ve been written by ChatGPT
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by nikanj 4y ago
The python build/install/distribute situation is so bad, XKCD made fun of it years ago https://xkcd.com/1987/
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by nikanj 4y ago
These same legislators are absolutely furious when the EU fines Facebook. I think Meta respects EU laws about as much as TikTok respects US laws
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by nikanj 4y ago
Isn't this just a "Protect Meta from competition" bill?
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by nikanj 4y ago
The various players in crypto space have written a ton of EULA mumbo-jumbo explaining that the coins are not securities (as they want the freedom to pump&dump/front run orders/etc). If they admitted the cryptos are securities,
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by nikanj 4y ago
Which model of i5 would that be and when was it released? Intel has been releasing processors under the i5 moniker since 2009, obviously not all of them are supported.

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