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571.
by psyc 5y ago
The problem remains that Google no longer delivers the most compelling and relevant of what is still on the web.
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by psyc 5y ago
That's right. But they are able to have what we call a shared experience, which is a little different. However it isn't relevant here, because the shared experience of all the employees of a corporation is not the basis for the le
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by psyc 5y ago
I have no knowledge or evidence, but this has indeed become my mental model for whatever Google actually does these days. I do wonder what they actually do. All those engineers, for 20 years. Surely they haven't just been scaling up Ba
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by psyc 5y ago
I began to notice some time ago that Google basically disregards my query, and fixates on the lowest common denominator. So, recently I was trying to search for a particular event or quote or something related to some famous person. But no
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by psyc 5y ago
Fentanyl has been around for 60 years. Why did it take off so hard in the 2010s? Did somebody popularize it? Historical accident?
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by psyc 5y ago
You've stated a fact. Why does this fact make Twitter the speaker whose free speech rights take precedence?
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by psyc 5y ago
Twitter is not a conscious being, and cannot experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed. I support maximal liberty for humans, and appropriate protection of those humans from corporations as well as the government. Corporations ma
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by psyc 5y ago
Why is Twitter the speaker when MTG tweets, but Verizon is not the speaker when I call my mom?
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by psyc 5y ago
I’ve always wondered how Australians manage to turn two-letter, monosyllabic “no” into “nairyoo”.
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by psyc 5y ago
Contract to hire. Easier initial interview. I still had to do a full FTE interview afterwards, but I had the extreme advantage that everyone on the team had already made up their mind. So some of them lobbed softballs, especially the manage
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by psyc 5y ago
Speak for yourself, please.
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by psyc 5y ago
Not exactly. It just went away on its own. I’m far more solitary now than at any other period of time. But whereas I used to feel loneliness quite painfully, I no longer feel it at all. I have no other explanation except the passage of time
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by psyc 5y ago
I wondered the same thing. He’s still alive and working. Not even mentioned in the acknowledgment section. Besides, it’s a terribly ambitious name for a real-time GI solution. It’d make some sense for an unbiased path tracer.
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by psyc 5y ago
Fortunately it’s an idempotent operation. I think.
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by psyc 5y ago
Get rich quick schemes are often characterized by a lot of overly positive energy.
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by psyc 5y ago
Neophilia? Otherwise, none.
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by psyc 5y ago
You’re not the only one. It’s already my favorite. It’s like the first, but taken a little more seriously. More conventionally dramatic. Less comic booky. The way I wanted the Matrix movies to be treated all along.
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by psyc 5y ago
Y'know, it actually slipped my mind that Microsoft transformed into a much more open-source friendly company. That makes some sense now.
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by psyc 5y ago
As someone on the spectrum myself (in a family that produced 2 others, as well) I still don't really understand what rationally makes all of it "autism". The OP has a section on what we have in common, but it didn't answ
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by psyc 5y ago
Ok. I worked at MS from 2005-2015. As I recall, there was this huge formal legal process and due diligence around including a single line of open source code. Is that not still the case? Am I remembering it wrong?
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by psyc 5y ago
I hope this is wry humor and not more 10x denialism.
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by psyc 5y ago
Games. Minecraft: 1 cent per hour, 10+ years of free content updates. Satisfactory: 1.4 cents per hour. Factorio: 1.8 cents per hour. Elder Scrolls Online: 10 cents per hour. Bannerlord: 8 cents per hour. Shenzhen IO: 15 cents per hour. All
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by psyc 5y ago
I think I have a general policy of withholding judgement until I've researched a thing, with as little prejudice as I can manage. But if I spend a lot of time researching a thing, and still reach the conclusion that it's stupid,
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by psyc 5y ago
Clearly people believe it's something more than what you're saying, for some reason. I have no problem with the concept of collectibles and collectors. But "collectibles, but on a blockchain" doesn't warrant the cur
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by psyc 5y ago
Here is the Wikipedia article. The answer is in the very short intro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption You're very active in this thread and making quite strongly opinionated statements. Probabl
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by psyc 5y ago
The tech world functions by selling products that are unfinished, and promising to keep working on them after you buy them. These days, almost everything is de facto early access.
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by psyc 5y ago
I was working at a big serious game company when this debuted. One day I looked around and every dev on our serious game engine team was alt-tabbing to it while they worked. They were pretending to play it ironically, and I thought it was t
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by psyc 5y ago
It’s submissions like this that keep me coming back to HN 3 times per day, in order to see such a submission 3 times per quarter.
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by psyc 5y ago
I first heard mods on a PC speaker. A bit noisy, but having only ever heard mono tones before, it was like black magic hearing some software vibrate that clunky thing to such effect.
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by psyc 5y ago
I’ve never lied about it. I work to understand the user-facing and technical requirements, and I turn in a satisfactory implementation, usually on time. Once in a while this entails working late, or on a Saturday. The vast majority of the t

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