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by noduerme 6mo ago
Here's an anomaly: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/business/facebook-content-mod...
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by noduerme 6mo ago
Can we agree that there's a difference between banning things and making things difficult to access? I'm an extremely liberal-libertarian free speech and free information advocate. I grew up in a world where as a 12 year old, on I
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by noduerme 6mo ago
I don't think that's quite true, either. Parent poster said it was amazing they were still sane. Other people might not be sane, depending on what they were exposed to at an early age. And watching something on video is different
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by noduerme 6mo ago
And the only places you can change a €500 note are outside of Europe.
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When I was in high school, before rotten.com, one of my best friends worked in a "fringe" video store. They had a series called "Faces of Death". Eventually, my friend discovered an even more horrifying series called &qu
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by noduerme 6mo ago
Basically coding, explaining, and owning the whole stack from the DB schema to the CSS. In 2005 that meant a client wanted a website but it needed to be driven with live data from a database, with a custom back-end they would use to update
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Very interesting. It's probably because fewer people take the time to counterfeit $50s, $10s or $2s than anything else. What about $100 bills? In Argentina, if you have an older $100 bill, no one will take it. And apparently there&#x27
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by noduerme 6mo ago
I'm talking about the vague implications the parent poster was making - the purposes of which weren't very clear, but which I interpreted as: "A) Money is worth less than it was, (so printing fake money is justified) B) But o
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Most of the sites that still use GET queries around here are the tax collection sites run by local governments, which pass those variables around after you login the way your mom... uh, it's HN, skip the mom joke. I actually get a lot
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by noduerme 6mo ago
Sometime around when wordpress came out, or at least 2005 or so, I started positioning myself as a bespoke web designer, then app developer. Whereas anyone could get a site done, I turned myself to doing things that hadn't been done be
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by noduerme 6mo ago
Would owning his apartment disqualify him from being a folk hero? If he was a renter, does he deserve to be a hero? Just wondering. If he'd gotten rich from printing fake currency and become a right wing dictator would you think the sa
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by noduerme 6mo ago
The author is talking about two orthogonal problems. 1. "Thinkism": As described, over-engineering before writing code for a complex system and seeing where it takes you. Maybe decision by committee, or just overthinking. But its
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>> Your ability to synthesize knowledge out of thin air As someone who graduated high school, I'd hope my more accomplished peers would know the difference between hypothesis, theory and proof. It is entirely possible, and useful
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by noduerme 6mo ago
What do you mean when you say AI code is better? I am looking at AI code all day and it's just garbage that happens to work for whatever feature was requested... in no way is it better code. Any human who was so careless as an AI to co
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Maybe it's just that any investigation that takes 10 years is by definition one of the more expensive ones.
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What a dismissive comment. Now that anyone can have an LLM write code for them, the only people who have value to bring to a project are the ones who can improve upon the LLM's output. That is, the ones who have a deep enough understan
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by noduerme 6mo ago
Am I old or remembering this wrong... didn't Zuck write the first iteration of Facebook in PHP, and then spend millions to hire people to write something that converted the code to C++?
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The billions of burgers served by fast food franchises with long histories of poisoning people would argue that delicious convenience overrides the hygiene instinct. Which is to say: Hiding the sausage-making is a core aspect of what makes
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There are a lot of libs you really can't justify implementing from scratch. Mathjs and node-mysql jump to mind. Poisoned chains build up from small dependencies, and clearly staying on top of your dependency chain should be a full ti
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>> The entire software development lifecycle was, it turns out, designed around the idea that it takes a day to produce a few hundred lines of code. Yeah. I'm not sure how other people work, but I almost never need to write forma
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Companies that don't fall under that rubric are established and have actual money on the line if their software shits the bed. Software that handles actual logistics and transactions can't be treated to lots of LLM updates without
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That's true for most things where you don't need users to share or collaborate on updated data. But if you need so much as a highscore board for your casual javascript game, you need some kind of backend. The parent's assumpt
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Yeah, someone made the point in a popular post here recently that all the firings are reducing institutional knowledge. IMHO, replacing that knowledge with LLM-written documentation is even more potentially catastrophic. Just from organizat
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Well it's also just that you have a list of 20 features to add, and if it works, you want to ship it, and someone might even get mad if you spend a day dawdling on best practices and documentation and so on. Corporate cultures generall
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Stingy people are indeed not nice to work with, which is why I raised my prices as a freelance coder through the roof about 20 years ago, usually pacing about triple the going market rate. But filtering out stingy people isn't the main
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For free? No, but if you built a native app that needed a backend, you'd still need to host the backend somewhere too. I host my own web apps from a cheap mini pc at home and access them over tailscale for personal use.
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Or add underfloor heating to the bathroom. My girlfriend might actually be happy that I'm gaming.
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by noduerme 6mo ago
Something's wrong with xkcd's data if Portland doesn't rate a red dot on the furry porn map.
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What's the big deal with having a whole liquid cooled workstation, and why is it important information for me to know what this dude's hardware is? And seriously, is there something about the rig that is necessary to chew through
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Being around anyone who's disrespecting your own preferences sucks. There are two useful things to do and one antisocial thing to do in that scenario. Useful: Don't go there, or ask someone near you to be considerate. Antisocial:

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