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by rectang 11mo ago
Yes, "don't look at wealth inequality" boils down to an argument for shifting political power to the wealthy — which I'm sure its proponents genuinely believe is for the best.
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by rectang 11mo ago
Eventually huge wealth inequality impacts quality of life because quality of life is not measured exclusively in cheap toasters. For starters, look at the proportion of income that goes to rent: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/
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by rectang 11mo ago
From the article: > Being poor is you already did all those things. You cancelled all your streaming services years ago. You make all your food from scratch all the time. You never go to fucking Starbucks. You fix everything yourself. Y
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by rectang 11mo ago
I think the ambiguity is leading to a better discussion. Many commenters are struggling mightily with the urge to dismiss the author as a lazy moral failure, which would allow them to ignore his arguments as originating from an unreliable
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by rectang 11mo ago
For me the common element is in how people trusted authority when that authority issued instructions which seemed reasonable but turned out to be deadly. The character of the MV Sewol's captain isn't material.
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by rectang 11mo ago
This story reminds me of how the high schoolers on the Korean ferry MV Sewol obeyed the instructions to stay in their rooms.
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by rectang 11mo ago
I'm thinking more about a systemic approach rather than a one-off — in other words, surveying all units to identify potential targets rather than evaluating the risk for a single target. Recently we have seen a rise in criminal orga
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by rectang 11mo ago
Can you hack into "smart" fridges like this one to see when they are going unused, implying when the residents are away and the home is a good target for burglary?
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by rectang 11mo ago
I find that if I describe an esoteric bug to a high powered LLM, I often get to my answer more quickly than if I trawl through endless search results. The synthesis itself is a valuable addition. Frequently I cannot even find source documen
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by rectang 11mo ago
Haha, I suppose the problem is that LLM outputs are unreliable yet presented as authoritative (disclaimers do little to counteract the boffo confidence with which LLMs bullshit) — not that they are unreliable in unpredictable ways.
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by rectang 11mo ago
There are many serious ethical and practical problems posed by the rise of LLMs, and I agree that this is one. My hope is that AI helps to fine tune inquiries and helps users discover websites that would otherwise not have been uncovered by
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by rectang 11mo ago
I recently bought a DDG subscription because of their duck.ai service. For $10/month it’s great to have someone whose incentives are aligned with my own managing my relationships with AI companies I’d otherwise have to monitor constan
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by rectang 11mo ago
At least part of the Mozilla antagonism on HN comes from highly motivated culture war participants. The Brendan Eich situation was a seminal event, but the underlying reasons for it are why the grudge endures.
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by rectang 11mo ago
Considering how many of your posts are focused on purported overwhelming discrimination against men, I’m pretty sure that no matter what I say you will continue to see a workplace not dominated by men in only negative terms.
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by rectang 11mo ago
One of the reasons I don't like a policy of "every commit must pass CI" is that I prefer to perform verbatim file moves in a dedicated commit (which inevitably breaks CI) with no logical changes at all, then modify code as ne
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by rectang 11mo ago
+1, I have `git merge --no-ff` and `git pull --ff-only` set in my global gitconfig[1]. [1] https://github.com/rectang/dotfiles/blob/master/gitextra#L11...
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by rectang 11mo ago
You're in luck! For you, there is `git diff`. (And for me as well — both the individual commits and the PR-level summary are useful.) So, those of us who prefer commit-sized chunking don't have to do anything special to accommoda
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by rectang 11mo ago
I wish this was easier. I have a workflow that I use to create stacked PRs which involves changing the target branch of the next PR to `main` after merging its predecessor, but it is too fragile to institute as a policy. However, this is a
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by rectang 11mo ago
Crafting a PR as an easily-consumed, logical sequence of commits is particularly useful in open source. 1. It makes review much easier, which is both important because core maintainer effort is the most precious resource in open source, and
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by rectang 11mo ago
It sucks to be called out by name in a document that’s been referenced continuously for decades. I would be surprised if whatever he said to piss off Poul Henning Kamp warrants that level of retribution.
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by rectang 1y ago
(Not gp but...) I believe it because diversity is not a zero sum game, where every gain for a demographic other than mine means a loss to my demographic which must be fought tooth and nail. First, we are all enriched by having a variety of
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The Bambu Lab P2S is the best 3D Printer you can't have(tomshardware.com)
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by rectang 1y ago
I agree that humans discriminate inherently, although I would argue that what differentiates us is whether we struggle against that impulse. On some level, the idea that we all discriminate has the potential to help us move beyond the &quot
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by rectang 1y ago
Anti-DEI forces, once in power, turn out not to favor putative “diversity of opinion” after all.
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by rectang 1y ago
> Teams don't have normal text channels like Slack or Discord, they're forums If you can get notifications sorted out and allow notification on creation of a topic but not on messages within a topic, I really like this choice
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by rectang 1y ago
Does the product live up to its name? By which I mean, how often will chickens get squished (or more likely, maimed) because they fail to get out of the way of the door as it closes? Power windows in cars often come with automatic reversal
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by rectang 1y ago
I hate fridge noise, any kind. I’d like to prioritize quiet running when buying, but for the last two purchases I haven’t had confidence in the research I did. In the end, one was decent and the other was fair. However, in preparation for
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by rectang 1y ago
The article author got it right, it's just the HN submitter who got it wrong. Original title: "Waxing Asymptotic in Career Velocity"
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by rectang 1y ago
Hmm, I’ve had a highly successful career in software despite getting derailed and starting late, so maybe not the best example haha. I agree that resilience is important, but in my experience it emerges from a complex mix of temperament, en
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by rectang 1y ago
When I was in Jr. High, we had an Atari 400. Mostly I used it to play Missile Command and Star Raiders, but it also came with a BASIC cartridge. In the back of the manual were four BASIC programs. The first three were very simple, stuff l

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