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by roarcher 4y ago
> Yet for some reason many people seem to have a visceral rejection of a future like that. What is it motivated by? I know this is unpopular with the young childfree techie demographic of HN, but to many people, what you're proposin
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> The big tip-off that all is not as it seems is that he calls himself "Uncle Bob" Martin. Totally agree. I believe "Uncle" is a pretty ingenious piece of branding meant to paint him as an implicitly trustworthy and w
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Best guess: YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram.
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I've been doing this "sham" for 3 years, but somehow my work is still getting done. Weird. The fact that you can't believe anyone would have the discipline to do their job without someone looking over their shoulder says
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Is it possible to give the key tops a concave curve? I find that that helps me be a slightly less mediocre typist, but I'm guessing it would distort the image underneath.
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I had a boss that would often take multiple minutes to answer a question. Everyone knew to say nothing and let him think. He usually gave good answers, but I was most impressed with his ability to think clearly with several people awkwardly
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> do we think about vectors for abuse in 10, 20 or 50+ years? Of course, but what's to be done about it? Should we outlaw research like this?
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> it'll take 10 years before you have a realistic taste of what the job actually is like. And if you're taking out loans to go to school, you may have no choice but to continue even if you find out it's not for you. I know
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My understanding is that the advantages are pretty minor, if it's not actually a net negative. This only replaces the framing step of the construction, which is pretty quick anyway, plus maybe the application of the interior and exteri
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Almost certainly the former. Plenty of burglars are smart enough to watch a house for a few days, get to know the occupants' routines, and enter when they can be sure that nobody's home. For that reason, those "Protected by G
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> Male monkeys have brought kids to term. Is there an article or paper about this somewhere? I searched for it and can't find anything.
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> Marlboro flavor country is a place where cowboys roam free and the air is filled with the scent of tobacco. It's a place where you can be a rugged individualist and still enjoy the comforts of modern life. But why settle for Marlb
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I don't know if these issues are by design or are just limitations of the language model, but I'd say they're pretty in character for this thing. Refusing to say something depressing is similar to the purging of negative word
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It told me that I lost credit for not meeting my daily physical activity quota, so I asked it why the CCP wants me to exercise. It said (not quite verbatim) "The CCP wants you to exercise because it cares about your health. But if you
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Losing credits for asking about them is a nice touch: > Me: Damn, I lose a credit just for asking about social credits? > WeChatGPT+: Yes, asking about social credits is a sign that you are not fully committed to the principles of the
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> it's 100% called victim blaming when you apply it to women Yes, but only by some people. Many, maybe most, women would consider "don't walk down dark alleys at night alone" to be common sense. I suspect the subset o
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I doubt the new fabs will produce things only from the companies I listed. You're right that a blockade would cause shortages, but I'm skeptical that it would be as bad as you're suggesting. The only industry that I'm aw
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Intel still makes most of its stuff in the US. TSMC is building two new fabs in Arizona, which AMD, Nvidia, and Apple all plan to contract with. They're also building one in Japan. If China is going to squeeze the global semiconductor
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I'm not worried about it becoming hyper intelligent and taking over the world Skynet-style, for reasons I won't bore everyone with. I'm somewhat worried about the potential of things like ChatGPT to endlessly churn out plausi
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I don't own a gym. "My gym" means "the gym I go to". Anyway, this is a pattern I see weirdly often on HN--person A casually insults a large group of people, and person B calls them out on it. A proceeds to clutch pe
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A few million, and it can farm thousands of acres. How much does one of these vertical farming facilities cost, and how much food does it produce compared to those thousands of acres? Then add the cost of replacing all the sunlight blocked
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> All the kids spend too much time online, so I'm not sure casting shade at them really gets us anywhere. I'm not sure what you're talking about here. If anything I was "casting shade" at you for your remark abou
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Like all meme influencers, Andrew Tate is popular with a subset of the subset of people who spend way too much time on the internet. If you think that's 60% of men/boys, then perhaps you're part of the subset that spends too
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> it’ll definitely rank as the most costly and fatal mistake in the 21st Century Ah, but the century is still young.
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One has to wonder what "severance package" means in this context.
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You seem to have created this account 4 hours ago with the sole purpose of lecturing HNers about how their problems aren't real and the solution is for them to be more like you, a generally superior human being. I wonder, why would an
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> The amount of money required to pay a maintainer is so small relative to the number of downloads it would still be cheaper to just pay it in almost all cases. The workaround in many cases would be as simple as pointing your package.jso
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> open source distribution systems [...] could buy the license from the original author > A company like NPM [could] charge a company for using particular packages on a monthly basis Wouldn't this require changing the license? Ho
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You really came back after four days just to try to spin this in a way that makes it look like you were in the right? > You then took that as a premise that I somehow would also belive in (of course I don’t). Lol no, I didn't. You&#
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Don't worry, the children will be grass fed.

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