phendrenad2

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by phendrenad2 5d ago
I think this is true. Positions beyond senior, if a company is large and technical enough to have them at all (Google, Netflix, etc.) are mostly about paying you more and putting more pressure on you to churn out more code, and more polishe
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by phendrenad2 5d ago
Good domain name. Few things: When you detect someone's location, switch to Miles if they're in a region that uses them, not KM. Have a physical mailing address (even if it's just a lawyer's office). Your logo is a &quot
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by phendrenad2 5d ago
"When you get the message, hang up the phone" - Alan Watts I think that everyone read the headlines, internalized it into their worldview, and moved on. Nobody was particularly interested in the sordid details of how the governmen
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by phendrenad2 6d ago
I think that with the right shared context, analogies work quite well. I think in general, people will know what I meant with the one I used here.
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by phendrenad2 7d ago
I'd like to gear more about this theory that analogies are unconvincing. First time I'm hearing something like this.
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by phendrenad2 8d ago
Well all Democracy is relative. In the US we have a representative republic or something, which doesn't put every military action to a vote, and sometimes our leaders have more information than us (I.E., are you sure it's a genoci
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by phendrenad2 8d ago
No, I think hammers are fine. I think I could find a lot wrong with them if I tried, though. I could miss the nail and mash my fingers. I could misplace them and not have one ready when I need to build something. The hammer might be too hea
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by phendrenad2 9d ago
I don't like hammers, either. But I wouldn't try to build a house without one, now that they've been invented.
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by phendrenad2 9d ago
This seems like a perfectly valid post. I'm being 100% honest when I say I don't see why it's flagged. Is potential to cause a flame war enough to get something flagged, regardless of if it's intended to inflame? That wo
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by phendrenad2 9d ago
Probably a small set of tweaks. You really can't relistically go beyond that, because structural changes quickly become a never-ending job of fixing merge conflicts.
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by phendrenad2 9d ago
Uh. Uh-oh. It's not clear from their messaging if multiple availability zones were severely damaged, or if the damage to one availability zone was simply more than they planned for. If it's the latter, that's a big uh-oh. The
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by phendrenad2 10d ago
That's for hyperinflation. In a crash, you actually do want money (if you can find a job).
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by phendrenad2 10d ago
"Global depression imminent, here's what it means for this poor American political party"
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by phendrenad2 10d ago
And every content creator on tiktok isn't going to move over to YouTube and start posting shorts, and every tiktok user isn't going to move over to Youtube and start viewing them? I guess there IS a theory that the tiktok algorith
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by phendrenad2 10d ago
Plenty of threads saying it works, too.
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by phendrenad2 12d ago
Is YouTube or Twitch really better? I don't think people are going to go "Oh well, TikTok is gone now, guess I'll finally go read through my backlog of academic papers on quantum theory"
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by phendrenad2 12d ago
How long do you think you'll have #1 and #2 before someone in government realizes they can dox people they don't like?
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by phendrenad2 12d ago
The open internet isn't safe for adults, either. There is some serious misinformation out there, and it's high time we restrict the internet to only high-IQ people. (/sarc)
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by phendrenad2 12d ago
Will you ever cease to be baffled, I wonder? All the crazy things people do, and all the crazy stories on the news every single day, your life must be absolute kaleidoscopic madness of noncomprehension.
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by phendrenad2 12d ago
It's possible to distribute more than one format.........
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by phendrenad2 13d ago
Isn't Palantir a webapp? Full of maps and lists of stuff? Seems like a recipe for "chrome has stopped responding..."
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by phendrenad2 13d ago
Right, I'm confused about why at the first clash with the board the CEO didn't reform the company as a boardless LLC.
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by phendrenad2 13d ago
Actually, I'd expect someone like Carmack to be the least productive with AI. Carmack focused his career on high-performance 3d graphics tricks. Those are free now. What isn't free is knowing how to use them. In other words, the
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by phendrenad2 13d ago
I don't get why a big company like Zoom, with presumably lots of users who are on Linux, only gives us a .rpm/.deb instead of a Snap/Flatpak. Seems like doing the minimum.
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by phendrenad2 13d ago
Prediction: Much like Y2K people will think we were all incredibly backwards and uneducated because we thought a bunch of potato computers were going to break the world.
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by phendrenad2 13d ago
"The futurists promised us catgirls. We got 140 characters" - Tim Burners-Lee, or someone
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by phendrenad2 14d ago
Right, real democracy has never been tried! I should have known.
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by phendrenad2 14d ago
Has that paper been replicated?
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by phendrenad2 14d ago
So. HN is pretty much in agreement that this is regulatory capture. And I'll add that this has the potential to create massive wealth inequalities, as those who work at major corporations or have connections are allowed to use the good
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by phendrenad2 14d ago
It's really strange that a company with such a volatile owner would even have a board. But I guess minority shareholders demand it.

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