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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I'm not sure I'd even call "local debt" technical debt in ordinary circumstances - realistically there's always going to be mess somewhere, and encapsulating it away where it can't hurt anyone is normal. If it
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I've done the same, and my experiences also match those in the article. Using a LLM as an autocomplete (typescript, kotlin) I found it'd be right about 10% of the time, very obviously wrong ~30% of the time, but mostly (~60%) *pla
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
From what I can gather, Fry's main (only?) published concern about that existing inhumanity is that it may lead to an increase in antisemitism.
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I agree with this entirely, and have griped about it to people (and here) before. But I would never, under any but the most egregious circumstances, complain directly to a colleague who does it or (especially) send them this link. People ar
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I hit some sound issues in the Linux version, for anyone else with the same problem telling Steam to use Proton to run the Windows version instead is a workaround. My only minor peeve with the sequel so far is that the logistics of moving s
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I'm not sure if this approach can really work. What I definitely would like to see is a requirement to preserve a working VM containing source code, assets and build tools, set up to compile everything without an internet connection. I
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Alternatively, it's just entertainment and movie DRM is at worst annoying and counterproductive. In X years time when humanity is struggling to rebuild civilisation in a radioactive wasteland I don't think the main problem will be
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I always found the DVD experience to be pretty horrible, with all the region-locking, menu garbage and unskippable nonsense. I never felt like a DVD was something I completely owned. At least I could (thanks to DeCSS etc) rip the content of
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
The vacuum is not necessary here, something this simple is achievable with sand casting (search for "Delft Clay") and a bit of practice. Ensure the sprue is wide enough and air channels are plentiful, make sure the metal is as hot
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
The "very HN" thing for me is assuming a "winning strategy" has to be mass adoption. There's room for a smaller web full of nerds and geeks, we had that before and maybe we can have it again.
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I ctrl-F'd "critical mass" and it turns out the point has already been made! I had a similar idea years ago (and never got around to doing anything) and concluded I'd do the same as you, focus heavily on getting enough p
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I just want an option in Slack that automatically rejects any message like "Are you busy?" or "Hi, I have a question" without notifying the recipient.
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Anything other than "I am responsive to all communication at all times and happy to switch focus to whatever you need me to do at a moment's notice, boss" is going to come back and bite you in the ass, isn't it. The way
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I'm the opposite. As a user I'm not realistically going to audit every new line of code in a piece of software with every update (if I even can) and I do not at all like the current model where we have to trust software creators
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
This is Microsoft building an automated AI corporate panopticon. Its presence on every PC will enable and normalise hitherto unseen levels of surveillance and control over employees. It ain't a good thing.
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Just in case you have "difficult" employees you want to intrusively monitor who insist on using Linux instead of Windows, of course!
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Although I haven't gone through all the source material in detail, and am certainly not qualified to give an opinion, hey, it's the internet: My instinct is that surely nearly every violent campaign is preceded by an unsuccessful
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Oh, absolutely - sorry if I implied that, I sensed the suggestion of it in the parent comment and clumsily followed on from your response to that part. I completely agree with making sure things work as much as possible and look OK when stu
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I also block this stuff, personally - but I'm not sure I completely buy the argument that it's OK to work on something because technically competent people can circumvent it. For example I wouldn't work on China's Great
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I'd have done the same, and have done before when I've found myself on client projects related to online gambling (the business model is to milk addicts for everything they have and more, don't listen to anyone who says other
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Off topic, yet weirdly also on-topic because it's in Lemire's piece: The Cochrane Review has issued a statement about inaccurate and misleading interpretations of the paper linked in the article: https://www.cochrane.or
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
If anything's the "new IE", it's Chrome! Dominant market position, >50% of people using it, (arguable?) abuse of a platform monopoly (search this time) to drive popularity. It also supports stuff other browsers don&#x
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
One thing they can do is incentivise women to rejoin the workforce after having kids, another is raise the retirement age to 70+. I think we'll see both in the next 5-10 years. Maybe they can kill two birds with one stone and have OAPs
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
> > I couldn't get that button to do anything in the demo > See how the button changes the comment box (but yes, need to improve it) Oh, I see, all the way down there! I really expected some sort of modal dialog or similar, bu
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Yeah, pretty much my thoughts too. There needs to be some good (not 20 people for 2 weeks) studies which compare the effects of "ultraprocessed food" vs "really tasty food", keeping total kcals constantly high. My guess
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I imagine example.com is either set up to be robust enough to withstand that, or they don't care if it goes down: https://www.iana.org/help/example-domains Oh interesting, I pasted a URL in plain text and a bit of
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I quite like the "conclude thread" concept (though I couldn't get that button to do anything in the demo), and I'm one of those strange people who would like infinitely nested threads in Slack too... But the issue with t
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Not to the day, but you can estimate a range based on experience. After that deployment issue you may add "release could be delayed by up to a week" to future estimates until you're sure it's fixed. I've written TV
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Sounds annoying, but seems like you found a bug in the upgrading system that could have struck anyone during any change? The time/work to investigate and fix it probably wasn't considered (or shouldn't have been, at least) pa
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I think you've linked to a study of "expert project managers", and we might see similar results in a study of whether "expert project managers" can succeed in tying their own shoelaces. If you're working with a

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