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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Tech debt isn't always a bad thing if it is managed properly. Developing for the short term can help a company to succeed in the market until a better solution can be produced, where more careful work may have prevented the survival of
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Sure, but for companies that fail their code ceases to be run by them. If their code is used by other groups then they will have to deal with maintenance themselves, if that's even possible. This risk is somewhat mitigated by demanding
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Have good logging and virtual machines that can replay those logs offline?
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Well I agree if a delusion doesn't map to reality it would lead you astray. It seems some groups even encourage such delusions to persist for millenia in order to serve their purposes. But also, delusions can be an extreme form of anal
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
My take away from this is that people are still far too blasé about introducing hard dependencies and complexity, even after the left-pad incident as a warning. OpenSSH is a massive wall of code. Such complex systems are inherently untrustw
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Perhaps. If people's mindsets are constrained in one way their frustrations will be borne out in another. The more constraints, the more unusual the alternative will be. Somewhat like steam escaping from a pressure vessel.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Delusions as described in the post are a form of fantasy. I'm not talking about the much more narrow sense of stories involving orcs and elves.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
When times are tough our fantasies become more vivid. They are a tool to help us analyse our difficulties from a novel perspective and thus to overcome them.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Yeah. It's great
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
The root cause of a lot of problems is that Excel's CSV import is garbage. Someone should write a simple utility modelled on LibreOffice's CSV import dialog that reads in a CSV file and outputs its content as an XLSX file with all
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
"Being anonymous online can inspire the worst in people." That's certainly true. Some people have no self control and rely on authority figures to keep them in line. My view is that it's a temporary phenomenon until memb
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Interesting. So like electrically actuated micro valves right? Cool idea
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
How about dual layer chaise lounge chairs with minature elevators to get to your seat?
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Interesting video. Thanks. During the video the presenter mentions the loops need to be a similar diameter. If the loops were arranged in a drum formation rather than a disc you could have as many loops as you want. Also, I wonder if this w
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Yeah those ones are etched to be parallel to the surface. I was thinking of tiny circularly rotated (lathed?) ones oriented to the normal of the surface. So sticking straight through it. Then you could have a surface that substances can per
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Could you make a surface with an embedded array of tiny tesla valves with this technology?
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
For PR reasons I wouldn't call it mold. Call it fungi instead. People love things like truffles.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Why? It's not great today and needs improvement, but I think it's better in principal.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
The wonders of mass centralisation of systems. yay ;P
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Vested interest skews your opinions more than if you don't care either way. Who knew?
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Is the timber they produce good quality for building with? I might like to invest in sequoia farms for carbon capture credits then timber later on.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I'm talking about the solutions we tend to produce, not our internal workings. You contradicted yourself in that last paragraph. I don't know what else to say to you about that.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
What day to day problems do people have that require parallel processing to solve anyway? Sure graphics and neural networks, but is having a neural network the end problem that needs solving? Maybe I'm just a grumpy old programmer but
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
There are limits to how much programs can be parallelized, see Amdahl's law. Even if Moore's law technically continues, the extra capacity isn't adding the same amount of extra value to the workflow of end users that it once
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I think for atheists 'spirituality' is expressed as awe of existence and compassion for everyone the same as for yourself, as no-one is really separate. Therefore compassion for others is identical to compassion and forgiveness fo
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I think we haven't yet fulfilled the vision of personal inter-relations from mutual self responsibility. People were still too hung up on wanting to play the victim.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I for one appreciate the bias has been acknowledged and the vow has been made to improve the system. As bias of some kind is inevitable I'm interested to see what Google comes up with. Historical accuracy would be a good start I think.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
So by using ChatGPT at all you can be considered as hacking at OpenAI's discretion? You can't make this kind of absurdity up. Were OpenAI hacking when they scraped the whole internet?
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I would imagine that's why the GPL requires the release of derivative works under the same licence. At present that doesn't extend to hosting on the cloud. But then again developers of peer to peer file sharing software like Kazaa
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Come now. HN is not the place for obscenities.

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