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by nikanj 4mo ago
Take an average 22-year old. Tell them they just won the lottery, and never have to worry about money ever again. Do you think they'll be interested in starting a family?
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Really good read, thanks!
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Claude used to be good with CTFs, but they added tons of guard rails lately and now it just says "Sorry, I can't help with anything to do with that"
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by nikanj 4mo ago
Not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and companies generally want to hire mid-level players too - they’re just somehow unable to even email them back
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by nikanj 4mo ago
The circle one would have gotten me. "There's a neat algo for this. The name starts with B, and you just get an oracle that tells you if next y ==current y or y-1. And then you loop x, and you have to mirror that to do all octants
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by nikanj 5mo ago
How do you build a tourism business when anyone can walk into the woods for free?
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Last time an iMessage-for-everyone startup (Beeper Mini) made the news, they had gotten funding from Samsung. Might be something similar here
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by nikanj 5mo ago
The biggest takeaway from this thread: Wow, nerds really don't know the difference between trademark and copyright
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Patents and trademarks would not cover it, but fortunately this case was about copyright.
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Yes. However, they are not suing based on a trademark, they are suing based on having copyright on the shape of the body.
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by nikanj 5mo ago
They have no right to sue, because their contract includes mandatory binding arbitration clauses.
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Never could. Google might block your entire company because one of your workers did something nasty on their personal account, and their ban hammer is mighty and blocks all related accounts to the Nth degree
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by nikanj 5mo ago
The agricultural output of Finland is dismal, with the low-quality soil, short summer and frequent cold snaps. Still doing pretty good on GDP
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Now you can hit the Windows key, type Visual Studio and open a Bing search for Visual Studio, instead of actually opening VS. It’s great - if your KPI is bing DAU
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Customers give us heat for not shipping the latest vulpine-lz4. Their AI-based heuristic antivirus total defence solution automatically flags all software not running latest versions of everything Kindly advice
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by nikanj 5mo ago
For the ~500 million people of the EU, moving to Frankfurt means taking a train there, moving to London is a whole headache of visas, permits and permissions. Founder visas are generally suffering from a chicken-and-egg problem, where only
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by nikanj 5mo ago
The internets tell you women expect that, but observed reality doesn't really line up with that. Visit any Safeway and you see plenty of regular normal everyday couples where the man is not a billionaire, and the lady is not a 15-years
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Young men believe, thanks to social media constantly repeating them the same message, that the only way out of a sad wage cuck existence is hypergambling. This text opened my eyes to it https://oldcoinbad.com/p/long-deg
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by nikanj 5mo ago
The real moop map is the absolute mountain of unsorted garbage that gets dumped at the first rest stop / dumpster / trash can. Yeah cool you did not leave your plastic trinkets in the desert, but you did leave all of it next to th
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by nikanj 5mo ago
There is clearly a demand for sports cars being sold for under $10k, so it was ok for me to steal your car and sell it cheap
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by nikanj 5mo ago
My Citroen does the same if window wiper fluid is low.
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Because mortages need paid, and when you’re working as a programmer, you deliver what the top brass wants
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by nikanj 5mo ago
China can build ten reactors for the cost of Germany running the appeals, environmental studies and neighborhood consultations for one
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by nikanj 5mo ago
Any material that is still radioactive after a hundred years wasn’t that deadly to begin with. There is a strong link between ”hotness” and short half-lifes, fast-decaying extra spicy isotopes are..fast-decaying
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by nikanj 5mo ago
I wonder if there will one say be an autobiography that reveals the russian hand behind the naive EU fossilsmaxxing.
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by nikanj 6mo ago
The metric for perfect is -Does it drive more people to the app -Does it maximize time spent on the site -etc Your idea of perfect is very different than the one LinkedIn is using
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by nikanj 6mo ago
HN is the only real support channel in tech. First level customer service is AI, second level is outsourced idiots who blindly follow a script, the third level is ”Issue has been closed”
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by nikanj 6mo ago
Every day Claude resembles human programmers more and more
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by nikanj 6mo ago
Anything that even vaguely smells like security research, reverse engineering or similar "dual-use" application hits the guardrails hard and fast. "Hey codex, here is our codebase, help us find exploitable issues" gives
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by nikanj 6mo ago
I feel like this is a very common attitude amongst people who actually have delivered software as a day job for a few years. The raging sports-fan-esque Linux vs Windows fanboy battles are mostly fought by unemployed kids who still have tim

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