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by rfrey 7mo ago
The idea that test coverage equates to well-tested software is one of the unfortunate consequences of MBAs killing QA departments.
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by rfrey 7mo ago
Engineering like the guy in the booth at a show is a sound engineer. Talented: check; challenging work: check; valuable: check; creative: check. "Engineering" like designing a building, bridge, or power line? Nope. It's not a
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by rfrey 7mo ago
Real engineering disciplines also have dedicated QA and test engineers.
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by rfrey 7mo ago
What kind of reply is that? Nevermind the questionable style of making up a sentence and putting it in quotation marks, what about the comment you're replying to suggests giving up any principles?
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by rfrey 7mo ago
People loved the iPod. Users loved Dropbox. Nobody loves windows.
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by rfrey 7mo ago
Now what about the change in the number of earners per household? Houses don't earn wages, people do.
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by rfrey 7mo ago
In many places, traffic would not function if drivers did not e.g. make space for other drivers to change lanes. It's an extraordinary claim to say such behaviour is bad practice (or even illegal??)
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by rfrey 7mo ago
If OAI folded, there would also be a sudden tsunami of recent Nvidia hardware on the used market.
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by rfrey 8mo ago
A lot of discussion on the labels. I agree friend/foe is counter to what most of us would like HN to be about. How about align/diverge or similar, suggesting whether a commenters position usually reinforces or challenges your view
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by rfrey 8mo ago
If the thread was deleted by a mod or flagged in the time between starting a comment and hitting "reply", you'd see a message that "you're not allowed to post a comment here" or similar language. Nothing to do
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by rfrey 8mo ago
It's really remarkable to me how a certain subset of American ideologues can look out at the rest of the democratic nations - all of them - and call them authoritarian regimes where the citizens have "dust" for brains. It&#x2
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by rfrey 9mo ago
Yes, Canadian investigators should have gone to India to investigate and build a case against the Indian government. That would have worked well. Several countries examined Canada's evidence and found it satisfactory. Your government c
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by rfrey 9mo ago
It's pure pedantry to distinguish between "user pay" and "progressive fees" based on usage. You're advocating for private payments on public infrastructure, it doesn't make it socialism just because it&#x2
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by rfrey 9mo ago
User pay formerly-public-infrastructure is what I identified as libertarian. Would you also advocate for residents of high crime areas to pay more taxes for police coverage?
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by rfrey 9mo ago
Fabricated citations seem to be a popular and non ambiguous way for AI to sabotage science.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
People accuse communists of being unrealistic idealists, but they have nothing on the libertarians.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
Should cyclists be charged a special tax for bike lane construction and maintenance? What about sidewalks, should you need a pedestrian pass?
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by rfrey 9mo ago
Oil and gas subsidies in Canada dwarf whatever pittance is tossed out to renewable energy. People getting an interest free loan for rooftop solar may be well off (they own houses), but I guarantee the CEO of TC Energy is doing even better.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
There's a lot of good arguments in this thread about incentives: extremely convincing about why current incentives lead to exactly this behaviour, and also why creating better incentives is a very hard problem. If we grant that good ca
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by rfrey 9mo ago
Do you feel like there have been any significant changes to the political landscape in the 8 years since?
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by rfrey 9mo ago
If it's such an insignificant movement, it's curious why India saw fit to assassinate a Canadian on Canadian soil. A claim that as near as I can tell only India and its surrogates (such as yourself, it seems) dispute.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
That's certainly Trump's claim, along with the Norway/Denmark joint government issuing Nobel prizes.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
Are you saying a "Canadian Terrorist" murdered Nijjar? The article you link says nothing about any country (except India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) disputing Canada's claim.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
Lack of elections hasn't seemed to save your supreme court from becoming a pure partisan body.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
But what do you do when the most vocal proponents of an armed populace support the tyrant?
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by rfrey 9mo ago
Tell him what? Why don't you start?
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by rfrey 9mo ago
"Make something VCs wished people want"
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by rfrey 9mo ago
I thought his loyalists were expressly against protecting foreigners from oppression, e.g. Ukraine? America first etc.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
I think what was meant was moderate ideologically and religiously. Still extreme in their disregard for human life and their determination to maintain power.
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by rfrey 9mo ago
I simply don't believe your university program had a 99% failure rate. Such a university should be shut down and sold for parts.

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