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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Correct.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
People are opting out. I redirected my career away from a tech mega-corp for precisely the reason that eventually I'd have to relocate to the bay area to continue advancing. There's absolutely no way I'm doing that to my fami
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
This is utterly barbaric. I don't know what else to say. Collective punishment is illegal under international law.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
It looks like people are down-voting this comment based upon a difference of opinion, rather than it being a low-quality comment, which it isn't.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Thankfully, it doesn't appear that you're in the position to gate-keep this. The American education system is no measure of a person's worth. I've already built and sold one startup somehow despite your sneering, and I d
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
I personally find the presentation of corporate missions in quasi-religious terminology extremely off-putting. The company might be doing great things, but there ought to be cultural space left for things much more important than companies.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
It's remarkable how many people replied to this comment with an argument against age verification. I am fully in favor of preserving the (semblance of) anonymity we enjoy on the internet, and even improving upon it. I'll say again
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
As someone whose first job was at an early parental controls company which focused on the first generation of social networks and IM services, I question the use of scare quotes in this title. I will be the first to defend the open internet
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Ah, I thought the Japanese word was just "jira". My mistake.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
> Shouldn’t the AI be keeping the concept of God, Almighty Creator and Lord of the Universe, separate from God- This seems wrong. God-zilla is using the concept of God as a superlative modifier. I would expect a neuron involved in the co
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
When we've dealt with the oil companies, the chemical manufacturers dumping PFAS into our kids, and the industrial war machine, maybe then we can start complaining about the guy biting off more than he can chew trying to be constructiv
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
You left out a tier, and that's the embittered one with an axe to grind. It's the "nothing ever happens" crowd, and they want to destroy anyone who stands as a counterexample.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Reusable rockets, electric cars, solar panels... What would you say grants you the standing to opine here?
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Yep, I'm still able to contort prompts to achieve something usable; however, I didn't have to do that at the beginning, and I'd rather pay $100/mo to not have to do so now.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Earlier in the year I had ChatGPT 4 write a large, complicated C program. It did so remarkably well, and most of the code worked without further tweaking. Today I have the same experience. The thing fills in placeholder comments to skip ove
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Burn the state to the ground and salt the earth where it stood.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
If it's better for them, how will that change your perspective if at all?
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
You're kidding, surely. Argentina was long ago wrecked by Peronism. What exactly is left to wreck? I hope he succeeds where others failed.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
"Why did you create the panopticon hive-mind when you could've stopped at any point?" "Oh... I was going for promo."
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
In that case, CC the engineering boss while discussing with the IC; otherwise what's really going on is the nontechnical is trying to hide their impact on the IC's workload from their boss. This leaves aside for the moment that I
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
I wouldn't have been able to build the startup I did starting in 2010 without AWS. Prior to that I had experience in data-centers, and hats off to the people who commoditized them.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
The idea that people use "the cloud" because they're lemmings is absurd, childish ranting. I'm supposed to what, go rack servers the next time I ship a webapp to qualify for this person's standard of free-thought?
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
This is a pretty embittered post with not much to say. I'll leave it at that.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
You're right about PCIe, fair enough!
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
It appears the argument here is "because things written for X11 don't work on it".
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Someone will need to explain to me why I need a networking stack between me and my GPU. And before anyone points out that direct rendering is the primary way X11 is used today, that's exactly my point.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
I left early and left a lot of money on the table. If they carved out a space for people to get weird and creative, I'd come back, but otherwise I'll spend the rest of my life in the chaotic fun of startups. Some people are built
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
While you folks are obediently trying to suppress this fact, take note of my actual position on COVID-19, vaccination, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38018664 I liked the old left much better than the new left. Y
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Yeah, they're not going to outlaw them. The well-worn path is to make the regulatory burden insurmountable for small companies; that will be enough. Disobey.
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by s1gnp0st 3y ago
Settings you can't access from the UI of your car can often be changed by purchasing an OBD2 cable and using the config software for your car brand. One of the first things I do with a new Toyota is pop open Techstream. Just don't

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