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by teddyh 1y ago
You are assuming sequential processing, done by one checker.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> it doesn't show usage falling for the past year (as you had said). Note how he cleverly did not say that; he said “in recent time intervals”. And you can certainly count the time from 2023-2024 as being “recent”. He technicall
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by teddyh 1y ago
> I think junior developers shouldn't generate production code with AI. > Other AI tools are fair game ("explain this code", "generate docs", "generate tests", etc.) I disagree. Tests are produc
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by teddyh 1y ago
> in recent time intervals If you get to pick the specific time interval, you can prove anything. Why don’t you link the full graph? < https://www.verisign.com/en_US/company-information/verisign-... > (T
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by teddyh 1y ago
> Pilots lose manual flying proficiency with autopilot Eloquently explained by Warren Vanderburgh in 1997: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIusD6Z-3cU >
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by teddyh 1y ago
People adopt the communication style of others. If the “quick call?” method is common, it means that many of its users don’t want their communications logged , meaning they commonly ask for sketchy stuff. Act accordingly; i.e. always sen
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by teddyh 1y ago
By ”recommend”, I meant, “nice link to send to people who want a suitable PDF reader”. As the headline puts it, “a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer”.
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by teddyh 1y ago
I’d much rather recommend < https://pdfreaders.org/ >, so people can choose depending on their situation. Does this project belong there, too?
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by teddyh 1y ago
I grant you that it’s not clear-cut, but nowhere in the book (that I can find) is Gollum described as being pale, or even lightly colored (except his eyes). Instead, Gollum is frequently, as I showed, described as being “black” in color.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> Gollum looks wrong too for that matter. “Down the face of a precipice, sheer and almost smooth it seemed in the pale moonlight, a small black shape was moving with its thin limbs splayed out. […] The black crawling shape was now thre
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by teddyh 1y ago
Socrates told me.
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by teddyh 1y ago
All I know is that I know nothing.
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Upstart came before systemd; much of the reason for systemd’s creation was fixing what was considered fundamental design mistakes in Upstart: < http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/systemd#:~:text=On%20Upsta... >
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by teddyh 1y ago
You can say that of all cases of fraud, but that’s a survivorship bias fallacy, since we can only talk about cases we know to be fradulent, i.e. where fraud has been identified.
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by teddyh 1y ago
Users do want to find the article via a search engine, and the search engine does prefer the article to be a document, rather than an app.
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by teddyh 1y ago
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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by teddyh 1y ago
This may or may not be a real thing, but most or all the actual examples the article gives are terrible . Disagreeing over food quality, pointing out obvious PR stunts, and revealing to a friend that they were duped into overpaying for wh
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by teddyh 1y ago
Three days ago, I did post the link to an seven-year-old post of mine, which in turn contained two links to other old posts of mine (ten and seven years old, respectively), where only the second of those linked posts contained a quote from
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by teddyh 1y ago
> you have overdressed a triviality with pretentious overcomplication. Well, possibly. What is interesting and subtle to some is obvious and clichéd to others. Much like how technology is mysterious and ineffable to some, but obvious
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by teddyh 1y ago
I have no idea what you are talking about. I certainly did not bring up Alan Watts again; you did. It also takes a lot of words to convey my thoughts accurately to someone who seems bent on misunderstanding them.
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by teddyh 1y ago
Your reading comprehension seems to be lacking. Maybe you should read more books? What I meant to convey, seven years ago , when writing that comment making the analogy to Zen Buddhism (as described by Alan Watts at least) was that there
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by teddyh 1y ago
Is anything in that quote so wrong that it invalidates the larger point the quote is meant to illustrate?
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by teddyh 1y ago
I had to enable third-party JavaScript and resource loading to see a rendering of… “1.0 × 10⁻²¹”. Sometimes people use TeX math markup superfluously.
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by teddyh 1y ago
It is with the confidence of decades of experience that I can say that the problem is that you have a bad attitude about your job. (I have elaborated on this in the past: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086 &gt
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“scary devil monastery”.
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by teddyh 1y ago
> It's a thin gruel of a life. But it’s the only one they will ever know.
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by teddyh 1y ago
This would be great and all, but all parties who are in a position to choose to implement this kind of system or to keep the status quo are already motivated to keep (and expand) the existing systems, for any number of reasons. Everybody (e
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by teddyh 1y ago
> Once a dependency turns into a security vulnerability How will you know if/when that happens? Are you subscribed to the development channels of all your dependencies? Do you examine every one of their commits for security fixes
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I remember that before cookies were widely implemented in web browsers, the Spinner web server (effectively an early web server and development framework in one process) implemented what it called ”prestate”; a parenthesised portion of the
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The medium is the massage.

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