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by pibaker 29d ago
It's less about being a maintainer and more about being on the SWE job market. Making it possible for any person to appear to be a prolific open source contributor even though his contributions are net negative for the projects he cont
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by pibaker 29d ago
Judging from your username you were from a country that ended up integrated into the EU. Good for you. But in Russia you can draw a direct line between the economical collapse and drop in living standards of the 90s and the rise of Putin as
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by pibaker 29d ago
An HN post like this will gather like what, at most two dozens of anecdotes from a highly self selected user pool of maybe a million top? Is this how you base your "sheer number" on? Is this how you judge what is good or bad for y
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by pibaker 29d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil
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by pibaker 1mo ago
> https://dohmh.codify.nyc Why are you using a voice recognition box instead of just a plain old search bar? It took me a second to realize what's even going on and I backed out because I ain't giving you microphone
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Alienating every allied nation with tariffs that come out of nowhere will surely help you win wars.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
The charts in question are compiled by the Australian Recording Industry Association. It makes economical sense that they would not want something that bypasses the music industry completely on their charts.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
> Homelessness on the other hand is mostly a mental health and drug addiction problem No it's not. It's not a coincidence that homelessness only skyrocketed at the same time housing price took off to the point even professional
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by pibaker 1mo ago
"Check our Wikipedia page for our latest domain. Next stop the Central African Republic!"
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Hacker News gets mad if you deviate a little from the usual profit maximizing routine to do something a little humanistic. And then they keep upvoting articles on how corpo streamlining sucks all life out and how the modern society lost its
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Judging from the kind of content creators nebula hosts I'd imagine they do in fact have the kind of nerdy audience that notices miniature font differences.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
I suspect for many people productivity tools are more about feeling more productive than actually being productive. And then there is the kind of people who spend time on productivity tools to avoid spending time on real, hard work.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Don't forget the gas powered leaf blowers. A whole symphony of them.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
They did in fact put radioactive elements in everyday objects back when it was first discovered. Wikipedia has a whole page of "radioactive quackery." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery While
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Italy is a western country that requires bidets in all homes by law.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Do we have actual data on whether or not celebrities have more volatile relationships? My gut feeling says they may very well be. But I feel it could also just be the media being bloodthirsty towards celebrity drama skewing our perception o
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Aren't many big mastodon instances talking about blocking Threads? I don't like the mastodon culture but tbh I can't fault them for this move. Imagine if every post on r/all suddenly shows up on HN.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Whenever Meta is mentioned on HN, there will be HN users asking why people are still on Facebook or Instagram when we all know Meta hired psychology PHDs to make their products addictive yadda yadda. Usually you will just see people tell ea
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by pibaker 1mo ago
I suspect the real reason is safety. Rust isn't bulletproof but it's certainly much better than C++ when it comes to defending against memory corruption related attacks. And when you are building a decoder for untrusted data sent
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by pibaker 1mo ago
26% increase on something that is priced into the price of everything else is huge. In comparison the RAM price surge is a big deal in the consumer market but not nearly as bad as the chip shortages a few years back for industrial use. Fuel
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Colloquially the Turing test is just a stand in for "can a human mistake a computer for a person." No need to overcomplicate it.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
I don't understand why you think one single president is responsible for a class of behavior that is likely as old as human civilization. Should we blame Elizabeth Holmes on him too? What about Enron?
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Just run a boring Ubuntu or Fedora installation like a normie? Marketing an Arch based "distro" as beginner friendly is just buffoonery.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Your freedom of speech is your opponents' lawyers' wet dream. Your publicized support for a known piracy operation will not look very good in the court when you get sued by copyright holders.
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by pibaker 1mo ago
AI companies turn public data into closed commercial products. They are allowed to profit off your copyrighted data, but only they get to profit from their own models. I'd imagine the backlash to AI companies from us white collar worke
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by pibaker 1mo ago
If you see a pile of trash by the side of the road and tell yourself it is ok to dump your trash there, well, you just explained why there is a pile of trash there in the first place. You have agency over your own actions. Don't blame
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by pibaker 1mo ago
It's only famous if you follow soccer/football. How many Australians know what is the Staples Center? The Soldier Field? The Wrigley Field? How many Americans can recognize the Oval or the Melbourne Cricket Ground?
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by pibaker 1mo ago
> It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it wa
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by pibaker 1mo ago
Apologize for not engaging with the post directly but holy fuck can people stop using Twitter as a long form blogging platform. I don't want a full screen pop up telling me to sign in or a persistent bottom bar telling me to open the t

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