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by prewett 5mo ago
In a republic, where you vote for people to represent you, not to implement your wishes, voting for a candidate you believe will make "good" decisions (even if you disagree with some of them), is actually how the system was suppos
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by prewett 5mo ago
Based on that description, we still have no idea what they are looking for, since it the only meaningful words in the first sentence are "design", "build", and "AI-powered agents". "Operationalize" is
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by prewett 5mo ago
That's an ad hominem argument, though. And all science these days is sponsored these days, given the shortage of self-funding landed gentry. And there's no guarantee that landed gentry won't be pushing an agenda, either.
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by prewett 5mo ago
Right, we're Americans; the median salary should be "I'm rich", just like all our kids should be above average.
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by prewett 5mo ago
> Holy orders? Haha, but, I'm going to say Holy Orders! Generally male, known for being single? [1] Spends of his time inside a building? Must master large quantities of esoteric knowledge? Not a path most people want to go? The rol
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by prewett 5mo ago
This sounds like a bit of romance for the past, and if any software developers are thinking about "grinding misery", it wasn't any better in the past. My salary as a junior developer in the early 2000s was about $60k, on aver
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by prewett 5mo ago
> this is about as good of a layoff email as he could have sent. Except for that tone-deaf part at the end, where right after he talks to the people who "will be leaving" (that is, the people getting kicked out), he says that C
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by prewett 5mo ago
Humans hallucinate, in the LLM sense, all the time. Did that sign really say that? Nope, I just extrapolated from the first three letters. In the Cambrian Explosion article on HN this morning, I thought the first line said that the earth wa
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by prewett 5mo ago
Technically, we only know that the marginal non-shareholder is 5% more positive about the idea, since the price represents what the marginal buyer and seller are willing to transact at. The only shareholders involved in the increase are act
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by prewett 5mo ago
The best quarter on record by 17% and they raise the dividend by a paltry 4%... sigh
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by prewett 6mo ago
It's also pronounced r-ow (ow, as in I hurt myself) in this context, instead of r-oh, in case that helps the OP
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by prewett 6mo ago
I like it. It would be nice to know why the other answers are wrong, if you get a question wrong. Maybe something like a short explanation under the wrong answers in a small font? I got the Hundred Years' War wrong, saying 1320. I had
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by prewett 6mo ago
If the author is on, I'm curious why he chose wxWidgets instead of Qt; I'd be surprised if it is that much lighter weight than Qt. (I even wrote my own cross-platform toolkit with "more lightweight" as one of the reasons
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by prewett 6mo ago
I think "huge part ... is from desperation" needs a citation. Gambling has been known to be a vice for millenia. There was an article on here not long ago where a reporter did sports gambling for a year for a story; he started off
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by prewett 6mo ago
I think this is misleading unless you at least include the price after inflation. "OMG, transportation is out of control. The original Model T only cost $850!!" Well, $850 in 1908 was about $28,000 in 2025 [1], which not unreasona
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by prewett 6mo ago
There was something on here a year or two ago about how increasing emissions standards made it infeasible to continue manufacturing small cars. Big cars had more lenient standards. Also I think Honda quit making the Fit during the pandemic,
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by prewett 6mo ago
I'm curious, what is a professional smoker?
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by prewett 6mo ago
My dad always said "pedestrians have the right of way" every time one crossed the street, but wouldn't let us cross the street when the pedestrian light came on until the cars stopped. When I repeated his rule back to him, he
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by prewett 6mo ago
The company isn't necessarily crap; American manufacturing has to pay higher labor costs due to higher cost of living. A completely free market allows low cost of living companies to essentially arbitrage cost of living, with the resul
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by prewett 6mo ago
This seems like diworsification to me. Cursor has nothing to do with rocket launching, so it will be a distraction for management.
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by prewett 6mo ago
"and supply chain issues" is what Apple didn't have. Well, I'm sure they had them, but they were able to navigate them. The Mac M1 came out on practically the same day as the PS5, so I think it is a great example. The M1
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by prewett 6mo ago
A car is a terrible idea for Apple. Apple doesn't make mechanical things, and it's a business with high capital costs and low margins.
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by prewett 6mo ago
You should have been able to Cmd-Tab to a different app; if that wasn't working, something more serious was going on. Also, if you have Spaces enabled, you can three-finger swipe, since a full screen app gets its own Space.
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by prewett 6mo ago
My rule is, "if you have to say, it isn't". If the tofu were really yummy and tasty, you wouldn't need to say so on the package. (Some years ago, when Americans' idea of uses for tofu was mostly as a salad topping,
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by prewett 6mo ago
If "make $500k+/year" means $200k in cash and the rest in options, their cash flow situation might be more strained than their paper net worth suggests. Also, high income does not necessarily correlate with frugality. Or they
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by prewett 6mo ago
I figure it must be a cultural problem. ATI was known for buggy graphics drivers back in The Day, if I remember correctly. I certainly remember not buying their cards for that reason. Apparently after AMD bought them, they have been unable
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by prewett 6mo ago
In the same way that Cassini was a derivative of Galileo, but around Saturn and with a working antenna. Or Perseverence is a derivative of Curiosity, which is a derivative of Opportunity. Or philosophy is just footnotes on Plato. Or classic
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by prewett 6mo ago
Spaces is what used to known in Linux as virtual desktops (maybe it still is), and that is how I think of it. Or as virtual monitors. Right now I have desktop one for local system iTerm2 and Firefox, desktop two for client 1 (terminals, Int
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by prewett 6mo ago
If the "launching soon" on tleilaxu.com is to be believed (unlikely), you might find yourself in that world. It'd certainly be a compelling name for a biotech company, although I'd find a company with that name a very tr
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by prewett 6mo ago
Wow, that's the rare kind of thing where I might consider quitting on the spot.

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