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by teiferer 1y ago
Are you opining from the outside or did you live here during the pandemic? If you entered a bus or any public space during that time, most people were wearing masks. And bus schedules were heavily adjusted to decrease density of people. Soc
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by teiferer 1y ago
Implicit or explicit, you need a hypothesis to be able to start probing. Many issues can surely be found with an oscilloscope. Many others can't and an oscilloscope does not help in any way. It's experience that tells you which sy
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by teiferer 1y ago
Title improvement anybody? This is about kids TV in form of cartoons in Saturday mornings and how that has changed in the recent decade or two. Only relevant for a particular demographic and culture. Not an insignificant one, but the title
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by teiferer 1y ago
Thanks for this take. It perfectly illustrates the productivity illusion. Mostly blindly approving PRs mainly because they now contain some form of equally AI-generated tests is exactly the producticity fallacy that's the issue here.
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by teiferer 1y ago
> "i'm 10x more productive, source trust me bro" Yet HN has what feels like one blog post or article to that effect every day. Some senior person describing their workflow, arguing that this makes them 10x of before. It&#x
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by teiferer 1y ago
Nit upfront: Python is typed, just not statically typed. What dynamically typed languages lack in compile-time safety, the programmer must make up using (automated) testing. With adequate tests, a python program doesn't break more th
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by teiferer 1y ago
If you try to impress a technical interviewer then they will be more interested in the smart idea you had and how you implemented it rather than how much money it made.
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by teiferer 1y ago
What kind of maintenance do you mean? A design can evolve over time, but a design document's objective is to document what was going to be built at that time . If something changes, make a new design document. (Similar to blog posts o
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by teiferer 1y ago
This should grow from within yourself. Read a lot of design docs and blog posts and articles and books. Which ones did you like? Which were confusing? And why was that? Was it the language complexity? Length of explanations? Diagrams? Too m
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by teiferer 1y ago
> this is the best way to get the boys used to engines and driving. Because that Y chromosome makes all the difference. /s
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by teiferer 1y ago
A major reason for the substantial difference in life expectancy at birth between the genders. It becomes more even above 30-40.
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by teiferer 1y ago
> If we lose pedantry, we lose the spirit of HN. Haha true! Though if the pedantry gets in the way of the big picture then it's counter productive, one may argue. > I think there's also a lot to unpack in "support for t
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by teiferer 1y ago
This sounds too much tinfoil hat to be taken seriously in a debate, thus the downvotes, but there is more truth to it than folks on HN would be comfortable with if they were honest with themselves.
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Israel is probably the “strongest” nation in figuring out propaganda and mass disinformation campaigns. Then you are vastly underestimating what CIA and FSB are capable of. Or Meta, but they don't count as a state actor (yet).
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by teiferer 1y ago
So, clearly about half the vote went to Trump. Stop splitting hairs please, there was enormous support for this. Whether there was an epsilon above or below some arbitrary 50% threshold is insubstantial to this discussion.
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by teiferer 1y ago
Not voting is willingly accepting whichever outcome is achieved by those who did vote. Therefore, a majority of the country either actively chose or willingly accepted the current regime. Don't marginalize the responsibility of the peo
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by teiferer 1y ago
Excellent observation. Either side can (and does) easily accuse their opponents of this. Some don't like anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-climate rethoric. Others don't like trans-rights, anti-hate-speech, anti-christianity rethoric
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by teiferer 1y ago
Please take a moment and consider what exactly you responded to and how. I'm pointing you out specifically since you seem to be familiar with the concepts of good faith vs bad faith arguments. The post you responded to asked about a sp
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by teiferer 1y ago
What do you mean?
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by teiferer 1y ago
Hm interesting. You seem to assume that cutting funding by 20% will cut exactly the fraudulent parts. That naïve world view is quite impressive tbh. >> Must be really easy to get a research position there if every idiot fraud is able
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by teiferer 1y ago
Sounds like somebody who disliked implementing QuickSort as a student because what's the point, there is a library for it, you'll never need to do that kind of thing "in the real world". Maybe someday an LLM will be able
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by teiferer 1y ago
And you are saying that those misuses of money were happening at Harvard? Must be really easy to get a research position there if every idiot fraud is able to.
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by teiferer 1y ago
> So: is it bad over the long term? Meh, who knows? It's not trivial to answer, right? There are two statements here: 1. Your "who knows if medical research funding being severely reduced will lead to a worse outcome in terms o
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by teiferer 1y ago
Does it? The point was that stopping calorie intake leads to death. That's not a controversial statement. Stopping funding is similar, it ends the thing it used to fund. Expansion of human knowledge, in this case. Unclear what that wou
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Learning something online 5 years ago often involved trawling incorrect, outdated or hostile content and attempting to piece together mental models without the chance to receive immediate feedback on intuition or ask follow up question
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by teiferer 1y ago
> Who is to say that funding cuts in academia won’t have short and long-term benefits for society and also result in a net increase in happiness and productivity Who is to say that if I stop eating I won't see long-term benefits and
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by teiferer 1y ago
I read GP comment as "there is no evidence that everything having a brain is conscious (and vice versa)", not as "the place where the individual's consciousness operates is the brain". The former could be applied to
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by teiferer 1y ago
How come you are assuming that there is an "end goal"? Humans believing that they are special is as old as human history goes. Special as a species, but many groups also consider themselves special, and individuals as well. Seems
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by teiferer 1y ago
Are you thus postulating that the rock next to me is as conscious as I am? That's a weird use of the term. Doesn't match how I would define it, but you do you.
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by teiferer 1y ago
My expectation is that in a few years from now, the raw photo taken by the mobile camera will merely serve as an input to some AI image generator which will then produce a top-quality pro photographer grade image at whatever resolution you

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