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by teeray 2y ago
The coding interview looks different when you view it for what it would be called in other industries: a licensure examination. It looks particularly insane to relicense for every single job you apply to. It also looks supremely unfair to h
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by teeray 2y ago
> others become "very careful, trustworthy" OSM users who "make many worthy additions to the map" by accurately mapping out places where OSM's data is patchy or outdated. The xz debacle manifested in a different
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by teeray 2y ago
I can’t speak directly for deadprogram and the status of his projects, but I know much of his activity of late has been working in this same space, but in Go: * Gobot ( https://gobot.io/ ) * TinyGo ( https://tinygo.
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by teeray 2y ago
No, that distinction belongs solely to CB during good propagation.
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by teeray 2y ago
It’s also just not as good at the task anymore. It frequently gets lazy and gives you an outline with a bunch of vague pseudocode. Compare to when GPT-4 was slower at producing output, but all of that output was solid, detailed work. Some o
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by teeray 2y ago
Voting with your feet only works if your feet have somewhere else to go. Binding arbitration is a cancer that is everywhere and spreading. Your due diligence to choose products that have no binding arbitration are futile, because they can c
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by teeray 2y ago
It really would be nice for some legislation to restore access to the justice system.
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by teeray 2y ago
> 11-year quest to get $3000 of pay That it should take this long to decide this case is simply appalling.
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by teeray 2y ago
Corp IT is starting to ram passkeys down everyone’s throats hard, so I expect this effect will start to happen in the next year or so.
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by teeray 2y ago
Is there some way to use CDs / DVDs / Blu-Rays as an incremental backup target? It'd be nice to take something like Restic, aim it at some hot backup HDD, then when enough deltas have been written to that volume have it burn
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by teeray 2y ago
Tech Bro: "Look, I told it I had a headache and it told me to take some Ibuprofen. Pretty soon you can fire all your doctors and nurses since DocGPT will do it all!" And eventually: "Our other product, InsureGPT, has been spe
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by teeray 2y ago
Fascinating to see that this particular pattern in the south is another phenomenon influenced by ancient geology: https://geospatial.com/the-blue-swoosh-and-the-black-belt-at...
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by teeray 2y ago
> mainly geared towards pre-selecting young single people with a lot of free time Which tells you exactly how exploitive they will be with that free time. You'll onboard, it'll be good for a bit, then suddenly there will be sur
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by teeray 2y ago
It may save 24,000, but kill, say, 50,000 in new ways due to bugs.
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by teeray 2y ago
> Admittedly, I'm currently making contacts all over the world right now on Hacker News. It’s the difference between crossing the ocean in an airliner vs. in a sailboat. The end results are the same, but the methods and skills are w
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by teeray 2y ago
> Customers refusing to upgrade on-premises software After a certain period of time, that software worked just fine for those customers. Photoshop is a great example. Sure, you won’t get the flashiest features, but CS4 will still work fo
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by teeray 2y ago
My favorite anecdote I heard of from a flight instructor is that of a cargo plane taking off that had some heavy vehicle tied down in its hold. It broke free of its straps during takeoff and rolled to the back of the aircraft, which shifted
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by teeray 2y ago
Habitat ReStore turned me away multiple times with brand new light fixtures and other new materials after a remodel. Both times they were at capacity. At some point my need to be rid of the excess thing exceeds my desire to do the right thi
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by teeray 3y ago
My dream is that some day I can go into iOS and say "I want anonymous calls and texts from Government Entities, Medical Providers, and Utilities only." Everyone else needs to get into my contacts first. Everything else is moved to
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by teeray 3y ago
The live entertainment industry had an interesting solution: the standard rider. You can put whatever nonsense you want in the contract, but the standard rider spells out what is important to the buyer (and the rider is controlling). It cou
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by teeray 3y ago
> the sector is getting automated by sloppy AI What is a reckless driver? Before you answer that, consider that you only have access to the vehicle sensors to make that determination. Can you? “Oh, they routinely exceed the speed limit.”
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by teeray 3y ago
This is why I’m not interested in passkeys unless I can use it with my password manager (which I probably can at this point). It would also be nice to see the spec for these specifically address lock-in and provide anti-lock-in measures.
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by teeray 3y ago
“Introducing VoicePrint—our new way to secure your account! Speak with a representative to enable this feature today!”
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by teeray 3y ago
At that point, why not just switch to BOPIS-only? (Buy Online Pick-up In Store) You’ve already committed an employee to help every customer that needs those items. What’s the marginal cost to have them ring up the order and put it in a pick
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by teeray 3y ago
For political messages, this doesn’t work—they ignore it. It just validates that you saw the message (and rewards the behavior).
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by teeray 3y ago
> They are not considered firearms by federal agencies Despite being literally armaments of fire
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Literally fighting fire with fire
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Thereby really putting the Corp into HashiCorp.
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I really love when “endpoint security tools” feel the need to examine every object file and debugging symbol a compiler emits. It really improved the build times /s
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by teeray 3y ago
> But it won't be possible to sell a subscription for a feature when all is controlled by Apple CarPlay Good I bought the car, now get out of my life. I’m not paying hundreds of dollars for GPS map updates when I can plug in my ph

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