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by parpfish 7mo ago
The inability to get feedback and course-correct is my biggest peeve with take homes. Is this one of the tests where I just need to throw together a five minute quickie to get over your “can you program” filter? or do you need me to put tog
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by parpfish 7mo ago
The three Lab values don’t map onto the three different wavelengths captured in the retina. It’s more like the L is an intensity/brightness factor, and then the a and b values corresponding to the two dimensions of opponent color that
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by parpfish 7mo ago
The dynamics are different when the demand for the product dies off and there’s no money to pay salaries vs worker productivity increasing and you need fewer workers. Replacing workers will be used to increase profit margins rather than low
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by parpfish 7mo ago
Well, it’s all probably a moot point now because devs have lost leverage. But the union contracts can help bring some order to the layoff process - which employees get laid off and severance for the others.
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by parpfish 7mo ago
i've been advocating for developers to unionize for years, and there'd always be a big group saying "we don't need a union". AI-based job displacement will do wonders for raising class consciousness when it's t
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by parpfish 7mo ago
> I think the devs who were only here for the paycheck and would not reasonably pick software if it didn't pay so much, will probably be happy to retrain into something else but be disappointed by the paycut. this could be one of th
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by parpfish 8mo ago
Im curious if the mounting points for the letters had 180deg rotational symmetry. If they didn’t (such as a mount point on the crossbar in the H), that’d go a long way to explaining “correctness”.
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by parpfish 8mo ago
It doesn’t need to be as high stakes as assassination. Any public figure could have a free-money loophole with all the stupid bets on things like whether a certain word would appear in a speech. If I were famous I could start a pool betting
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by parpfish 8mo ago
and you can't really claim that they 'stole' books. they bought millions of physical book copies to scan and ingest rather than just scrape pirated pdfs
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by parpfish 8mo ago
i recently joined a new company. using ai coding assistants has allowed me to onboard faster because i can take a new ticket and ask the agent to help orient me in the codebase about where to start looking. BUT the downside is that i'm
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by parpfish 8mo ago
agreed, this just seems like a tool to make people more effective at sea-lioning[0]. i'd prefer if the trolls in my life retained the superficial appearance of trolls to make them easier to spot. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by parpfish 8mo ago
one conspiracy theory i have been stewing on for years is that the luxuriousness of modern colleges was an intentional move to neuter the political power of the youth following the student unrest of the 60s and 70s. somebody made a consciou
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by parpfish 8mo ago
i think the only people that realize this are people that are actively doing research in academia. not even the undergrads at the school realize that teaching undergrads is at best a side-hustle for the institution. i've seen so many &
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by parpfish 8mo ago
“Thanks to AI (and new immigration policies), there are tons of exciting new opportunities for Americans that want to pursue careers in: harvesting crops, installing roofs, or home health care”
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by parpfish 8mo ago
It’s in the garden?
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by parpfish 8mo ago
Most of the people that complain about ticket prices are going to ticketmaster venues to see elaborate productions built by the biggest artists in the world. When I tell people that I used to go to at least one show every week on my grad st
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by parpfish 8mo ago
In the music space, piracy won. After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything. Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and
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by parpfish 8mo ago
The only thing that comes close is trying to stop the fuel pump on a nice round dollar amount.
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by parpfish 8mo ago
> It’s about staring blankly at the buzzing white box, waiting for the four dreadful beeps that give you permission to eat. I thought it was near universal that everybody staring at the microwave was engaged in a game of chicken where yo
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by parpfish 8mo ago
If I meet somebody that immediately skips the progressive self-disclosure small talk and jumps right in to a big discussion… I’m going to withdraw. Even if I agree with everything you’re saying, it comes off as aggressive. like youre trying
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by parpfish 8mo ago
If you thought clickbait headlines were annoying when people were competing for ad impressions, just wait until they’re competing for micropayments.
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by parpfish 8mo ago
The free experience on the site for every small town newspaper or tv station is horrific. Genuinely among the worst, least usable websites on the internet. The problem is that the horrendousness doesn’t drive people to pay, it drives them t
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by parpfish 8mo ago
i think a lot of people that use AI to help them write want it specifically BECAUSE it makes them boring and generic. and that's because people have a weird sort of stylistic cargo-culting that they use to evaluate their writing rather
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by parpfish 8mo ago
i think that there are a few distinct usecases for ShowHN that lead to conflicting visions: * some people want to show off a fun project/toy/product that they built because it's a business they're trying to start and the
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by parpfish 8mo ago
on problem here is that I don't want to share my ShowHN projects with my HN account because it'll connect my real identity to my pseudonymous HN identity. so, in the past, i've created throwaway HN accounts for sharing things
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by parpfish 8mo ago
i really want to see the silly little side projects that everybody is making! not because i think i'll actually use any of them, but because they could inspire me to do something different in my silly little side projects the goal is
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by parpfish 8mo ago
in the age of LLM-built side projects... what's the right venue for sharing these things with other people? i feel like the expectations for a "Show HN" project are too high for a passing around a silly little toy that I had
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by parpfish 8mo ago
i haven't had a landline for a loong time, so i'm curious -- do long distance phone plans even exist anymore? there were so many TV ads and telemarketers pushing those plans that "the last long distance phone plan closed toda
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by parpfish 8mo ago
if i sent an email to my ceo and they replied with typos and bad grammar, i wouldn't think "wow, they are flexing their privilege to be able to do that". i would be excited that i'm being treated as a member of the inner
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by parpfish 8mo ago
this is tough because we've spent years building everything in education to be mediated by computers and technology, and now we're realizing that maybe we went a little overboard and over-fit to "lets do everything on compute

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