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by pibaker 5mo ago
How far would you push this argument? Is it mind rape to hold up a political sign in a public square, because they are forcing their opinions into other people who happen to be there?
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Can't upvote this enough. People have very selective memory of how the 2000s web worked. Every other website requires Flash just to show you a carousel of images. "Serious" business websites implemented in slow, buggy Java ap
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> i'm going broke working for AWS. I don't want to pretend gas isn't getting expensive but let's be real, Amazon pays almost 200k for entry level positions in Seattle. If you earn that much and still feel you are goin
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> In England, ca. 1500s common law established the legal precedent that if your cattle broke loose of its pen, wandered into your neighbor's field and trampled their garden, you were liable for the damage your cattle caused. Ok. &gt
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by pibaker 5mo ago
What is the alternative to imported fossil fuel product for a country like Japan?
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> The Takaichi administration attempted to pressure Calbee into reversing this decision. Do you have a citation for this? This sounds insane. I can't even think of any good faith motivation for doing this, other than to cover up the
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by pibaker 5mo ago
What is irrational in pointing out that this particular law, as it is written, gives the game developers a perverse incentive to further embrace more exploitive revenue models such as free to play and subscription based services? The techni
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> But electronic door mechanisms like these have also proven to be unreliable, and possibly dangerous. "Possibly dangerous" is a vast understatement. There is an ongoing lawsuit claiming that a cybertruck's door stopped wo
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by pibaker 5mo ago
If by subscription you mean World of Warcraft style continuous subscription then yes, it doesn't work for most games. But I'd argue the modern battle pass model is just another flavor of subscription. And according to the article,
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by pibaker 5mo ago
It's less about accuracy and more about who gets the blame when mistakes happen. And computers are excellent scapegoats for this kind of situations because when mistakes happen, you can just throw your hands up and say, well, the compu
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by pibaker 5mo ago
California and meaningless feel good legislation with massive loopholes? A match made in heaven! If this is how the bill ends up being enacted, it will only push more big game developers into making their titles subscription only. A win for
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by pibaker 5mo ago
GP calls out concurrency as a weakness of SQLite. Most of the examples here don't experience the same load even a moderately sized web service experience day to day. And no, being a part of the python standard library doesn't mean
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by pibaker 5mo ago
/active is like showdead. Use it for five minutes and you'll realize why the guardrails exist in the first place.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> you are turning plain text into an executable Doesn't this describe all computer programs? They all take some kind of input data and turn it into action. Take the many malicious VSCode extensions as an example. Should they not be
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Do you browse HN only with https://news.ycombinator.com/newest ? Or is the HN algorithm kosher in a way other algorithms aren't?
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I have never seen it used in this way before around 2021, but it has become popular since then among the Twitter and YouTube tech influencer circle. Maybe that's where OP picked it up.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I think it is fascinating that HN thinks it is bad for workers in other professions to protest against things that take away their earning abilities, and then proceed to protest against things that take away the earning abilities of tech wo
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I am increasingly of the opinion that you can either be eligible to vote, or collect pension, but not both at the same time. By the time you start collecting pension, you have effectively ousted yourself from economic production. And unlike
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by pibaker 5mo ago
The median family did not have a computer in the 1980s. I can't find good data but the ones a quick google search returned suggests by 1990 computer ownership was around 20%. Computers also became ridiculously cheap in real dollars ove
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by pibaker 5mo ago
There is a shortage of places for your kid to sleep at night though, as reflected in housing prices. It is especially bad for families because new apartments are often studios or one bedrooms.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I don't see why "inertia" or adoption should be excluded when deciding what library to use for the job. If you are manufacturing a physical product you will need to consider how easy it is to source any component before addin
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I mean, that means someone at your work liked React enough to choose it over the alternatives. I see a lot of personal projects, solo founder applications etc running made in React. I respect your opinion but other people definitely do choo
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Disagreed. In everyday speech "going back" means going to where you came from. If I'm at a friend's place at 123 Main Street and I tell him I'm going back, what I'm saying is I'm heading back to my home, n
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by pibaker 5mo ago
It's a classic case of regulatory capture. Only the biggest players can get away with fully implementing age verification — if Microsoft requires age verification to use its OS, most people will oblige. If HN starts doing that most peo
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Of course people do. No one is forced to use React or any other web framework unlike how they are practically forced to use JavaScript, and yet React wins. This should be enough evidence that people like it enough, at least more than most o
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Many restaurants around me have started advertising that they cook everything with beef tallow, as opposed to seed oil. Ironically, most of them also happen to serve deep fried stuffs which are unhealthy no matter what oil you fry it with.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Just because I placed a couple of buckets under the leaks on my roof doesn't mean my roof is not leaking.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
What I find weird is that they idolize Japan but not South Korea. South Korean is as much a western ally as Japan and share many of the same social ills as Japan, but the typical western perspective on it is a lot more negative.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I have noticed that when Japanese megacorps get brought up on the internet, people will admire how cool it is for a company to make so many things. But when a Korean megacorp who makes the same variety of stuffs get brought up, it's al
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I think you are underestimating how anal the entire job and rental application process has become. You won't have the chance of talking to anyone. An automated system runs your name against a database before any human is involved in th

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