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by tivert 2y ago
>> I suspect that outsourcing as much of our lives to others (i.e. the corporations and the governments they control) is exactly what they want. AI is just the next thing that happens to be extremely useful for that plan. > Who is
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> Imho, one of the most corrosive aspects of GPS has been mystifying navigation, due to over reliance on weird street connections. Versus the conceptually simply (if slightly longer) routes we used to take. This, exactly! Many years ago
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> True, although "back in the day" people used to memorize at what times during the day certain routes were busy, and they took alternative routes ("the back roads" in my area) to get around traffic that could be pred
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[originally posted to a previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696561 ] Honestly, the resulting "podcast" is kind of underwhelming as an actual artifact. It's basically "plate tectoni
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> On a tangent, I really loath Cato's hand-wavy libertarian claims pieced together with weak arguments in their writing pieces. It's propaganda. They're compelled to push libertarianism with the strongest arguments they ca
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by tivert 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696561
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> To be frank, the whole "learn to code" fiasco was pushed not by software developers. My impression was that it was pushed by parties interested in flooding the field with newcomers to push wages down. Yes, it wasn't push
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> I avoid working for startups, but the VC/startup grift indirectly benefits me, as they soak a bunch of software developers from the market at large, increasing demand and salaries across the board. I call it a grift out of sinceri
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by tivert 2y ago
Honestly, the resulting "podcast" is kind of underwhelming as an actual artifact. It's basically "plate tectonics for kids" mixed with some gobbledygook from the input paper. Sure it's kind of neat as a tech
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> ...things will be as before. > But the U.S. population has to want it rather than voting emotionally again. Why would the US population want: >> The whole VC/startup grift needs the greater fool to be either a big company
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After reading that I thought the guy who sent that email must have been crazy, and it turns out he was: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/08/09/nocais-apology/ : > I had to retire from my career do
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> Most non-technical business stakeholders don't really understand what we do. You don't see shows about awesome devs doing awesome shit, like you do for lawyers, doctors, business people, etc. All they know about us is that we
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> I also find that using an IDE means you can easily forget about how e.g. config files factor into the build process, which can make it harder to on the fly diagnose certain kinds of issues that depend on configuration. This is a fact t
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by tivert 2y ago
https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/2002_radioshack_... That cover is so late-90/early-2000s.
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> When IDEs first emerged in the world of web development, many developers proudly claimed that a simple text editor was all they needed. For them, saying "I'm using Notepad / VIM" became a badge of honor, symbolizing
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> Too fast is more than 5 posts or comments every 6 hours. I think it's a rolling window. No it isn't. Today I posted more than that (I think 9 comments in an hour or two), partially to test if that claim was true. I ran into n
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by tivert 2y ago
I don't really see how that example is "giv[ing] things back." That stone is still the property of the British government and kept continuously on British territory.
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> Also, isn't there a function to only allow approved submitters to post in a subreddit? I believe so. It would be an interesting to use spam/moderation features to protest reddit. It might put them in a bind of either allowin
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by tivert 2y ago
Or just recent activity. I think I've seen it happen to accounts that were digging in their heels and vigorously defending some wrong/incorrect/unpopular point they made upthread. Then all the sudden they're mentioning
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> To think that FB either can't, or just doesn't want to filter out this garbage. Facebook is literally paying to have it made : https://archive.is/https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-a... (
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by tivert 2y ago
> Related, a real human on HN is limited to 5 comments per 6 hours, while bad actors simply need to create hundreds of accounts to avoid this limit. I don't think that's true. I think that's an anti-abuse mode some accoun
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by tivert 2y ago
> Wins will be incremental. I think the words you're looking for are "hollow gesture, dishonestly presented," not "win."
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>> which will punish institutions that flout the law by publishing their names on a California Department of Justice website > Important to note that this is the only enforcement mechanism. You get put on a naughty list. It's
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> They haven’t committed any crime so why would they distance themselves There are bad, socially unacceptable things that are also not crimes (for instance: lying in a lot of contexts). Crimes (for the most part) are just the more extr
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>As for "smart," I assume there are some not well understood externalities to this kind of behavior, such as erosion of trust or other social ills that are hard to quantify until they reach a critical point. I think the externa
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stale memes are the best memes
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Instead of going private, could mods just setup auto-moderator to automatically delete everything?
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> Tech folks love sentiments like this because it entirely emotionally places the onus on the people getting ripped off by big tech companies for being ripped off. This, times a million. Add to that the ancient quote from Plato(?) critic
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> Marvin Minsky, Tegmark and Putnam have nothing to do with neuroscience, and have no authority to speak about the nature of consciousness. Oh come on. Computer scientists and physicists are the pinnacles of humanity, who can speak with
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> Unless I am looking for something very specific from a specific country, I found I have to avoid online recipes now. > I rarely have good results and it feels like they were done once and then "we make this recipe all the time&

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