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by tw04 2y ago
> IBM has never a company where engineers could rise to the same ranks as directors and higher with a solid IC track. Never? Maybe if you’re talking the last 15-20 years, but IBM has been around a lot longer than that… I personally know
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by tw04 2y ago
They don’t exactly have a captive audience. Besides the corvette, their competitors pretty much universally have a drop in replacement. Changing cars is a heck of a lot easier than a corporation ripping out software that they likely have a
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by tw04 2y ago
And yet they can’t do folders or nested tags, which makes it unusable for me. All those other features are useless when it can’t handle basic organization.
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by tw04 2y ago
>The problem is monopoly. Spacefaring isn’t exactly the type of work that attracts the safe and secure job for life types. Sure, but we aren't talking about hiring astronauts (who ironically do tend to spend their entire career in g
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by tw04 2y ago
If history has shown anything, it’s that humans are really good at standardizing globally. For instance, we all use the metric system… we all use Nema plugs into the wall… we all speak English… we definitely all eat beef… ok, I’m confident
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by tw04 2y ago
Except in most scenarios another human can anticipate what even a bad driver is going to do. Meanwhile FSD still slams on the brakes when it sees a tree shadow moving across the road because it can't differentiate between a shadow and
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by tw04 2y ago
>In the future, vehicles could have their FSD augmented by direct comms with each other, in a trustless way. If the entire traffic network ended up interconnected, it'd behave as a single system, approaching 100% self-awareness. We
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by tw04 2y ago
> it's obvious that humans are not good at this task and that computers will eventually make roads safer than ever. It’s obvious that SOME humans are bad at this task. It’s not at all obvious that a computer will ever be better.
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by tw04 2y ago
That’s some revisionist history if I’ve ever seen it. Hawaii had a constitutional ban on same sex marriages in 1999. The fact there were some legal challenges before that doesn’t at all reflect the fact society wasn’t accepting. https:&#x
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by tw04 2y ago
It’s almost as if social ideals change slowly. 30 years ago gay marriage was unthinkable. Now it’s common practice. To say congress hasn’t accomplished anything in your adult life is to be in denial or intentionally uneducated about accompl
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by tw04 2y ago
All of .com? Nope. But you can bet your ass we block newly registered domains and have an active list of domain reputations - your brand new .com or your axuuasck32213mczo.com malware domain isn't getting through any decent security t
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by tw04 2y ago
This isn't a link shortener - this is a tunnel so that a user sees they're connecting to cloud flare, even though on the back-end they are landing somewhere nefarious. The end-destination is completely hidden from the end-user (a
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by tw04 2y ago
Given the pool was put on top of a rugby pitch, which resulted in the shallower depth because they didn't want to destroy the pitch (a full depth pool would have weighed too much) - unlikely. The pool isn't a permanent structure,
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by tw04 2y ago
> what's the end goal of disrupting the media distribution of Olympic events? Retaliation for being banned from participating? I have no more evidence than anyone else on HN, but there’s pretty clear motive for Russia to do somethin
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by tw04 2y ago
>No, it's actually because I grew up poor, and we didn't receive any help because our family would have refused it out of weird pride. Ahh yes, the old "pulled myself up by the bootstraps". >What kills me about the
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by tw04 2y ago
No offense but that comes across about as entitled as it gets. When a kid rides a bus to and from school, and the nearest library is 10 miles away, how exactly are you suggesting they get to the library or school to get on the internet? &g
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by tw04 2y ago
You linked a 15.3TB drive which doesn't dispute his point. 10TB has never been a manufactured SSD size that I'm aware of. In the enterprise we've got approximately 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.6TB, 15.3TB, 32TB. 10 is skipped
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by tw04 2y ago
It wasn't terminated because of WWII, it was terminated because it was determined it was "no longer needed". Nobody in their right mind would have though WWII would continue in perpetuity. >Unemployment ended with war pro
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by tw04 2y ago
Don't get me started, our country makes my brain hurt. The Works program was considered so successful at eliminating unemployed folks, we killed it. Because why would we need to continue building roads and bridges, and fixing old roa
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by tw04 2y ago
I was flying home from dallas a few months back. They had a giant sign in the security line that said (maybe not verbatim) - We're trying out a new face recognition security system. This is completely optional. If you don't wan
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by tw04 2y ago
>The source-code to Ad tracking platform is useless to users. It's absolutely not useless for developers looking to build a competing project. >The supposedly "good" and "open" people like Google or OpenAI, ha
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by tw04 2y ago
>You're acting as if commoditizing one's complements is either new or reprehensible [1]. I'm acting as if calling on other companies to open source their core product, just because it's a complement for you, and actin
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by tw04 2y ago
>In the early days of high-performance computing, the major tech companies of the day each invested heavily in developing their own closed source versions of Unix. Because they sold the resultant code and systems built on it for money...
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by tw04 2y ago
Huh? What do you mean "mass adoption"? Porsche sold 75k TOTAL cars in 2023. They have never, in their entire history, been a mass producer of vehicles. Tesla sold 232k Model 3s in 2023. Porsche has absolutely no desire to co
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by tw04 2y ago
A gt3 is also the cost of 3x 5-series. Porsche isn’t exactly trying to compete with Tesla on price.
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by tw04 2y ago
Why would they? Cybersecurity insurance doesn’t cover “we had an outage” - it covers a security breach.
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by tw04 2y ago
None. There are a bunch of folks here who clearly haven’t spent a day in enterprise IT proclaiming Linux would’ve saved the day. 30 seconds of research would’ve lead them to discover crowdstrike also runs on Linux and has created similar p
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by tw04 2y ago
I browse new pretty frequently, I think what you're seeing is more nation state actors or just newbies flooding HN than any change in policy. The stuff getting flagged has always gotten flagged, there's just more of it. Any accu
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by tw04 2y ago
It's directly called out in the guidelines - I'm not entirely sure what you're curious about. Right up there at the top: >Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evi
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by tw04 2y ago
What are you taking about? A river literally started on fire because it was so polluted, which prompted the formation of the EPA. The sky absolutely “was falling” prior to 1984, it just took folks way longer than it should have to figure

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