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by p1necone 4y ago
There's a lot of people out there that actually don't have the imagination to work out how what they're building could be misused. But they probably won't listen to these recommendations either.
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by p1necone 4y ago
The content of the email seems fine to me. The title, which everyone will see first with no context is horrendous though.
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by p1necone 4y ago
what a ride
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by p1necone 4y ago
uh oh here we go
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by p1necone 4y ago
I'm big fan of separating functions into validation and logic using early returns: function doSomeStuff(input) { if(someInvariantIsUnsatisfied(input)) { return Error; } if(someOtherInvariantIsUnsatisfied
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by p1necone 4y ago
I find I also often have the opposite problem. I'll encounter code that is actually poorly written and hard to understand/modify, but by the time I've put the effort into working out what's going on it's hard to p
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by p1necone 4y ago
Sounds fine by me. I get better returns investing in index funds anyway, my bank account is literally just somewhere to park my liquid money and direct my paycheck to because stuffing it under my mattress would be too unsafe. Banks should
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by p1necone 4y ago
paperclips is one of my favorite idle games because it actually ends. I get sucked into these so hard and ones that just do exponential growth for weeks while slowly giving you access to more and more features suck me in too hard without re
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by p1necone 4y ago
Schools have always been like that. There's a reason that all of those skilled trades require multi year apprenticeships. School teaches everybody to read, write and reason about things in general to a decent level. You can't teac
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by p1necone 4y ago
The example code it generated for this "new" language is almost entirely syntactically correct Typescript.
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by p1necone 4y ago
Different subject entirely - computer science graphics class is the class for the people writing the 3d modelling/rendering software, not the people using it. And yeah - the modern versions of this class would teach fairly similar thin
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by p1necone 4y ago
It is called copyright infringement. If I write a book, and there's more than a few sentences in a row of content that's verbatim/almost verbatim the same as someone elses published writing (excluding intentional quotes&#x2
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by p1necone 4y ago
Is multiple simultaneous speakers at the same volume/distance actually an important problem to solve? I already can't have a conversation if that's happening and my hearing is fine.
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by p1necone 4y ago
Efficiency improvements have never caused humans to do less work before, I'm not sure why it be any different now. If some jobs get replaced by AI I'm sure we'll invent new work to do with the now spare labor. It's going
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by p1necone 4y ago
Hard agree. Anything important needs someone on each product team , either doing it as their full time job or just aware and caring about it if it's not enough to be a full time job. Same goes for DevOps, QA, UX design, product design
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by p1necone 4y ago
It's so frustrating to me from the perspective of a consumer because all someone needs to do is ship "Netflix, but for games" and they'll fucking kill. Charge a reasonable subscription fee but make the games free, and ma
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by p1necone 4y ago
I've seen it mentioned on here a lot that promotions/career stability inside google are heavily based around launching new products, and maintaining existing ones is kind of a dead end. Seems like the outcome reflects the incent
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by p1necone 4y ago
It's a funny joke, but imo Stadia shutting down has very little to do with the viability of cloud gaming as a business and a lot more to do with how google (mis)managed it.
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by p1necone 4y ago
DRM doesn't do anything for non interactive content. It's trivial to rip video and music regardless of what DRM scheme is used because the content is useless unless it's eventually presented to the viewer/listener in a
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by p1necone 4y ago
People love to nitpick, and hypocrisy is always perceived as worse than just doing bad things even when the bad things are much worse than the thing they did that's hypocritical. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that jazz. It&#x2
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by p1necone 4y ago
Generation cost !== retail all the way to the consumer cost. The latter is always going to be higher, just like all other goods and services.
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by p1necone 4y ago
> the power network cannot transport it, you get told not to bother producing it I know I just don't understand the details but I'm always kinda confused about how hard it seems to be to dump excess power off the grid. Is it ju
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by p1necone 4y ago
Median, mean and mode are all going to be pretty misleading if you're trying to work out if people outside of densely populated areas can get decent speeds. You probably need to measure lower percentiles to get an idea of how bad it ca
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by p1necone 4y ago
Yeah - to get a decent idea you'd need to measure $/mbps as well as measuring average speed. And measure best available rather than what people have opted for personally. E.g. * Country/ISP A has 4 gigabit fiber for $100&#x
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by p1necone 4y ago
I feel like the USA is focusing on the wrong thing with net neutrality. The core problem is that individual ISPs have total monopolies on infrastructure (or at least on the better infrastructure) in a lot of areas, and so can do all the ant
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by p1necone 4y ago
10% performance difference in exchange for maybe crashing slightly more often would be huge for people who only really use their PCs for gaming. HN readers seem to have a skewed idea of how useful ECC is while pretending the downsides d
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by p1necone 4y ago
I'm not sure that death should matter (or if it did at least the copyright shouldn't end immediately on death), copyright terms should just be much shorter than they currently are. Imagine a fairly young but successful author dy
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by p1necone 4y ago
This always seems to be the case with things like this. The person who owns the intellectual property rights for the book is publishing a modified version of the book. Absolutely be mad about your already purchased copy being changed un
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by p1necone 4y ago
Not OP, but imo the game library on the DS was better (the 3ds also had plenty of great games, just not as many). You do have to sift through an unusually large amount of shovelware to find the good stuff though, similar to the Wii. Of cour
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by p1necone 4y ago
> database systems When was the last time building a database from scratch was a sane approach to building something?

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