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by rukuu001 1y ago
From a recent submission[1]: > The term itself [stupidity], he said, wasn’t a description of intellectual acuity, but of social responsibility 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112265
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by rukuu001 1y ago
Re put up or shut up - this is a decent example from the front page today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166
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by rukuu001 1y ago
Some interesting points: > Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous. > The impression one gains is not so much that stupidity is a congenital defect, but that, under certain
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by rukuu001 1y ago
It was great / depressing to mention Clippy at a recent meetup and see the generational divide between those who groaned and everyone who looked confused.
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by rukuu001 1y ago
I think this is challenging because there’s a lot of tacit knowledge involved, and feedback loops are long and measurement of success ambiguous. It’s a very rubbery, human oriented activity. I’m sure this will be solved, but it won’t be sol
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by rukuu001 1y ago
Your phone yes, but I believe there's still issues with peripheral BT devices
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by rukuu001 1y ago
Re the supermarkets - I understand this happens in a limited way already with bluetooth scanning :/
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by rukuu001 1y ago
Hey this is cool! I met people here in Australia doing similar work to spot whales during offshore gas exploration. It was basically a revolving IR camera looking for whale spouts
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by rukuu001 2y ago
What’s really interesting about this is the broad support Google has drummed up among platforms. So it’s actually looks like a strategic focus, rather than just announcement for interest, relevance or whatever
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Same, I enjoyed that book beginning to end.
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by rukuu001 2y ago
I think your second point is the most revealing: government can’t get away with externalising the costs of unemployment the way a private company can.
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by rukuu001 2y ago
I’d draw the line at publishers. Are you a publisher (ie responsible for every single thing that appears on your platform)? You can show advertising. Otherwise no. I know this isn’t in the spirit of the article, but I like the idea of a ad-
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Once again they proceed far beyond the reach of satirists
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Have we learnt nothing? 100% utilisation of practically any resource will result in problems with either quality or schedules. What, as an industry, do we need to do to learn this lesson?
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by rukuu001 2y ago
A good discussion. I've personally thought of political adherence similar to football teams. Fans are fans. That's it. Escaping that tribalism or fandom is important, but you need to hold fast to your own sense of morality along t
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by rukuu001 2y ago
I think it’s good to differentiate between ‘practice that makes a difference’ and ‘noodling about,’ in the words of my old teacher, which is practice that doesn’t concentrate on improving anything specific. Is there a different word you’d c
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by rukuu001 2y ago
I like things like this not because I'm going to use it as a bible, but because it provides good coverage of responsibilities & concerns. Unless you've got some great advisers or you worked under someone really great, no one&#
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Some people like videos, some like text. Both are an investment in effort and payoff. Gen AI makes it easy to do both now.
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Thank you very much, I'll check that out
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Thats a very handy link, thanks. The whole 'sociotechnical' part is gaping black hole for most new devs I meet, because it's not taught, and I don't know that schools know how to teach it. Anyone have any internal proces
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by rukuu001 2y ago
It’s a battle royale. Whoever lasts longest gets to profit at leisure
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by rukuu001 2y ago
I know a guy (Australia) who does this regularly. If a drone flys over his back yard he activates his jammer and the thing makes a controlled vertical descent to his lawn. 100% of the time its neighbourhood kids trying out their toy, and th
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by rukuu001 2y ago
At the right level of abstraction, yes.
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by rukuu001 2y ago
My version: This is just to say - quit fucking with that poem
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by rukuu001 2y ago
I know it's like screaming into the void when there's a 1000+ comments but... You remember the end of Gatsby where Nick turns up at the mansion and some sinister characters have the run of the place and you-know-who is floating in
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by rukuu001 2y ago
I have checklists like this for packing for the office, going to the gym etc. Too easy to forget small but critical items.
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Yes I agree with that. I’m just talking about what they say rather than reality. I’d have edited for clarity but I missed the window.
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Oh I very much agree the cons are bad at money. Just talking about what they say.
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by rukuu001 2y ago
Ha! That's great. The opposite of that play is: Voted-in Conservatives: we are the party of fiscal responsibility. We shall reduce govt spending by running services into the ground. Voted-in Libs: We were voted in to undo all this f*ke
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by rukuu001 2y ago
This is the frustrating part. No one thinks about the new system, new precedents and new norms being created right now, and what the next leader can do with it. Can no supporter of this approach imagine what happens the next time their poli

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