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571.
by padjo 2y ago
He likes Russian representatives. They speak his language and have a similar outlook. Allying with them will personally enrich him and his family. That’s about it really, which is kinda pathetic with how small it is.
572.
by padjo 2y ago
Russia is not going to use nukes.
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by padjo 2y ago
And how
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by padjo 2y ago
He’s failed at being a likeable human.
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by padjo 2y ago
Watch the birdie
576.
by padjo 2y ago
Was reading about the Wright brothers recently. It still blows my mind how rapidly we went from the invention of powered flight to powered flight on another plant
577.
by padjo 2y ago
Hah, thanks for confirming my suspicions with professional experience.
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by padjo 2y ago
Urban wind turbines seem like a terrible way of producing energy. Low wind speeds, lots of people to disturb with noise and flicker, turbulent flows due to buildings. Hard to see how a bunch of these could ever compete with a single giganti
579.
by padjo 2y ago
Looks like it has a bug, the inset parameter is unused
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by padjo 2y ago
If your clients are happy to pay a day rate of course that’s what you charge. Way less risk on you. Many clients don’t want that though, they have a budget and need the project done for that amount and are paying you to take that risk on.
581.
by padjo 2y ago
Uber made a 1.1 billion profit last year.
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by padjo 2y ago
I suppose by greatest I mean: increasingly important as we scale.
583.
by padjo 2y ago
Yeah pretty much. If an extinction level asteroid pops up tomorrow it’s not going to be rugged individualism and entrepreneurial spirit that saves the day, it’s going to be the ability to efficiently coordinate millions of people to achieve
584.
by padjo 2y ago
The greatest technology humans have invented and the one that currently needs most investment is bureaucratic collective action.
585.
by padjo 2y ago
I’ve worked for several multi billion dollar software companies. None of them had a dedicated QA function by design. Everything is about moving fast. That culture is ok if you’re making entertainment software or low criticality business sof
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by padjo 2y ago
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by padjo 2y ago
Complaining that loose monetary policy is responsible for inflation is a pretty common theme from Musk/Trump fanboy type CEOs. They’re also starting to question universal suffrage in public now. Good times.
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by padjo 2y ago
Who said anything about inherent limitations?
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by padjo 2y ago
Ok, you do realise people commit crimes using computers yes?
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by padjo 2y ago
What? I’m delighted to live in a world where people disagree with me. It would be tremendously dull otherwise. We design the world around what large majorities of “reasonable” people want all the time. I don’t understand what point you’re t
591.
by padjo 2y ago
Yep cryptography solves trust, that’s why we don’t need CAs.
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by padjo 2y ago
Do you really think you want live in a world where people can do whatever they want on their computers?
593.
by padjo 2y ago
The article claims these are just AI hallucinations and not actual rules. It will rephrase them and change the rules if you ask it different ways. You’d know that if you even glanced at the article.
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by padjo 2y ago
Well that’s one way to solve the replication crisis
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by padjo 2y ago
I mean centralized control of devices is great for the far more common occurrence of Bob from accounting leaving his laptop on the train with his password on post-it note stuck to the screen.
596.
by padjo 2y ago
Is there a need? Maybe, possibly, depends on circumstances. Is this what people are paying CS for? Absolutely.
597.
by padjo 2y ago
Every company I’ve ever worked at has wound up having to install antivirus software to pass audits. The software only ever caused problems and never caught anything. But hey, we passed the audit so we’re good right?
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by padjo 2y ago
Wow this is psychotic even for a HN comment.
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by padjo 2y ago
> The structure of your application state ends up being shaped by the UI, when it should be the other way around I don’t understand this premise at all. Are you saying your UI should be shaped by your application state? That doesn’t make
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by padjo 2y ago
If they didn’t tell us it was built in Rust how would we ever know how smart the developers are?

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